I can't believe that it has been since September since I last posted.  I was going to try and at least post something once a month.  What is that saying about good intentions??

If you have been following my facebook postings, you know that there have been many changes in my life in the past few month.  First of all my work for hospice has slowed down considerably.  I have mostly just been working at night doing our after hours calls.  So that makes money a little tight, like turning blue in the face.  Second, this spring my Mom and her 2 dogs moved in.  What is really amazing about that fact, is that my husband is letting the dogs live inside and has been cool with it the entire time they have been here.  My husband has always said we couldn't get a dog and definitely not an indoor dog.  He had a bad experience with a dog living in his home before we met.  I may even be able to talk him into getting our own dog soon.  Of course, it would help if I was working more.  Oh well!

Since Mom has moved in, a lot has changed.  It has been a great help having her around.  She motivates me to get stuff done around the house that I have been meaning to get too but just keep putting off.  One of these things are taking care of my front garden.  We have Bermuda Grass that has invaded my entire yard, especially my front garden.  Now over the years I have tried to keep up with it, tried planting different plants and bulbs in it, weeding it, killing it.  Nothing has helped.  Last year, I was going to dig it all up.  I went out one day and started it, and proceeded to get heat exhaustion.  Then I hurt my back, so that plan went down the drain.  Now that Mom is here, she is like an animal with my garden.  In two weeks we have dug it all up down4-8inches.  We have repeatedly killed off anything growing in there, and I mean repeatedly killed.  That dame Bermuda Grass won't die, no matter what we put on it.  We have started building a small retaining wall and will fill it all in with river rock.  She has decided the only way to get anything to grow in it, without the bermuda grass, is to grow it in pots.

So that is where we are right now.  We are sore, hurting hot and sweaty.  But we are making progress.  Slow but steady progress.  Now if we could only get the weather to cooperate we could get done faster.  Here in the south, we don't really get a spring.  It goes from cold to blistering hot with high humidity.  On a positive note, I am finally getting a tan!!  Yipee!