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ing away i ve also spent an average of two days a week on that task for the first month or so it was mostly focusing on john s things but now it s as much about my own stuff i ve accumulated last week i took a break from it it was just too much today riding high on the knowledge that i d finished the last paperwork task i cleaned out a whole section of the car trunk and then came indoors to clear more stuff out of the music room study i have to empty john s dresser of the remaining things here this week because jd is coming up at the end of the week and i want him to take the dresser home with him since it is a piece his great grandfather hand made i am by no means finished with stuff but the paperwork side of things weighed terribly heavy on me i knew it was important to attend to it all in as timely a manner as i could admittedly it was in my mind the mess my brother and i had to deal with in clearing up three estates a loose term not because anyone owned much of anything but all the channels had to be clear to get things released to the two of us at once with deaths that occurred over a period of four years and not one of the legatees did anything toward the estates they were meant to it was tedious and we had to begin at the start and work through each person in order of death date it took nearly two years to finish off so yes i was especially keen to get it done now if anything should happen to me it s clear for my kids to sort out my goal was that they wouldn t have the burden of trying to go through two estates at once my will is in place signed and everything which we didn t quite manage with john s since he died the day before we were to go sign it that will further decrease the things they must do as well i have promised myself a reward for the day when i finished this end of things off i m now in the process of planning what my reward shall be thursday june 18 well i never meant to have such a short post this week but short it shall be on monday afternoon i took isaac to see michael as he s a huge fan of the music and choreography of michael jackson i d carefully examined all the reviews to be sure it was clean enough for a child i will admit that the shock at the register was very real i d no idea that a movie cost that much these days worth every bit of it though isaac didn t take his eyes off the screen not once in the nearly 3 hours the movie ran tuesday i was relieved to just be at home and do homey sorts of things i filled the bookshelves in the study i have a whole shelf over that i will fill soon with a set of books i am sorting through all of john s precious music stuff is put away for now eventually that too will be dealt with but for now it s protected from little fingers that want to turn and twist knobs and click switches the bulk of the study is cleared out save a stack of bins filled with john s toys and coffee mugs and such i thought the children might want to go through those but i don t know just yet i ve also packed up all of the stuff i had sitting on the chifforobe that i no longer wanted it s boxed for donation as is the china set from my first marriage and a lot of other glassware i d collected and then hidden behind buffet cabinet doors and the christmas candles then i packed up all the stuff i d removed from the kitchen cabinets three boxes of things are ready to be loaded into my car and hauled away i ve been saving any sizeable cardboard boxes to pack things from the shed into yes i am determined to clean out that area as well i ve also started stacking furniture to one side that will definitely be leaving the house and have a good idea of what else will be leaving it s all a slow progress sort of thing but i feel better for what i ve set free from my grasp i ve made up my mind that one of my first little day trips will be to travel about the central southwest georgia area collecting mural passports that s hardly even a day trip truly but i thought it would be a great training ground for beginning to get out and about on my own and yes i shall likely be traveling in my own vehicles for these excursions i can t just toss in the towel and stay home after all neither car has let me down because of lack of care on my part just once last week due to a hasty mechanic trying to finish prior to closing yesterday i had to have labs drawn to determine if indeed i needed thyroid medication my levels were well within normal range and it appears that it was completely unnecessary to be on any medication at all i ll see what the doctor has to say he does tend to follow up on labs with patients individually however i came near not having lab work done yesterday apparently i d had an appointment time though i was under the impression i could walk in just any time to get the blood draw done so when i got up yesterday i went outdoors to empty compost and then began weeding and pruning the overgrown border along the back porch it was awfully heavy and hot work due in part to the thick humidity it took a bit of recovery before i could even think to get showered and ready to go anywhere imagine my surprise to arrive and discover i was three hours late well never mind they offered to fit me in after lunch i wasn t about to go back home so i drove over to zenith mill to get peaches at the peach shed a very sweet man offered me his military discount when i was asked if i was a veteran i replied a veteran s widow and the man said give her a discount yes indeed she qualifies i thought it quite nice of him i came out of the door just in time for the rain to start pouring i was soaked to the skin before i could walk the 250 feet to the car i looked a lot like a drowned puppy and i was mighty unhappy you see i m struggling with my hair i ve been trying for months now to let it grow out with varying degrees of tolerance on my part i ve had a few trims just to keep it halfway in shape but i ve not gone back to full on pixie yet i m afraid that i won t last out the time until my next appointment which is 4 weeks away and then to get drenched made me triply unhappy with myself overall hair being the top of the list i stopped at the local grocery to get bread milk eggs and found a nice rump roast marked down to the price of hamburger which as we know is not cheap but roast generally is far above hamburger prices i made it back to have the blood drawn no easy task there the first stick was a miss and painful as everything that made all my nerve endings super sensitive to the second stick successful but i whimpered like a child at both embarrassed myself terribly after that i sort of limped literally since my legs and hip ached from the morning s yard work back home today i ve been out in the yard trimming more and cleaning up the messes i left behind yesterday i ve pampered myself thoroughly with a spa morning shower afterwards then i drove up to sam s to deliver birthday cookies and card and to borrow cat food which i forgot yesterday when i was out and about i ve got the house pretty much squared away my eldest son and his family should be here any time now he jokingly told me sorry i seem to be bringing the rain along nope i replied it got here long before you it s his plan to stay all weekend long sunday june 21 technically i ought to start the next week s bit but since i ve yet to edit this or find a picture that suits it or titled it i thought i d just run through the last 3 days jd and the children hardly children being 17 and 14 arrived thursday afternoon it was raining so i d popped a chuck roast into the slow cooker and kept the sides simple they are not accustomed to gourmet foods at least not from their dad the kids weren t talkative but they weren t hostile in their silence they are just quiet overall when i asked if they d like to see michael i had no intention of paying at the theatre i d discovered it was available for rent on prime for 20 and thought it would be worthwhile to help them pass time well only zach was interested but i rented it and had a ton of accumulated points which brought the price down to something like 5 you know i rolled my eyes over what i d spent to take isaac to the theatre compared to that but never mind he d been over the moon after seeing the movie and it was worth the price as for zach he and i enjoyed the movie together too though we had to tolerate jd talking in over the top as he was prone to look up facts mentioned in the movie on friday daniel went to visit a friend in warner robins for the day jd had determined he d put in the light fixtures john and i bought three years ago so he picked up supplies to do that and heaven knows what all else he thought he might do he left a bag full of things here that i m to return at any rate he got started on putting in lights and we had only one small hiccup i d wanted a pendant hanging over the kitchen sink but it was larger than i d thought and came far too close to the vinyl blinds the idea of hot light that close to them was unnerving we tried hanging the pendant higher but it looked ridiculous so that is now a hall light and i have an inexpensive led type light above the sink which is inconspicuous enough i don t mind it they spent the afternoon and evening at katie s i had the evening here to myself and went off to bed early i found it a little bit exhausting to have people in the house no offense to the family on saturday things went well enough jd hung the two lights in the master bath which elevated and finished off that room to a perfect t katie and sam came in later and gasped at the amount of light in that room and how lovely it all looked the grown up children and sam s children stayed for quite a while visiting with their siblings and cousins katie had come by after taking taylor to meet her dad and caleb and henry were home with cody i missed them and bella but i seldom have all of my family at once it was rather nice to have the grown up kids in the house and we had many a laugh over things john had said or done over the years i think one of the loveliest things about john is that it s so easy to recall his humor and joy and to laugh as though he were still here entertaining us more rain came later in the day rain rain rain the grass and trees are gloriously green the deer and rabbits are quite happy with their grazing grounds this morning sam s dog sheldon came over to visit with rufus he s not been here in ages as he s gotten increasingly deaf and blind he was wandering about in the front yard in the sunshine i texted sam to let him know about a half hour later i looked at and dear sheldon was wandering around still i realized that he was lost i went out to the yard and got near enough he could smell me which made him come near and the two of us walked across the back yard and over the path to sam s backyard sam had decided to come look for sheldon thinking he d gotten lost and walked me back home and visited a few minutes with jd today was packing up and going home day jd took the dresser his grandfather had built and zach acquired the desk chair that i was getting rid of the children amused me greatly because when they discovered i was going to take the things to donate they insisted jd should take them home since he apparently has no chairs when he refused zach put in his bid to have it for his desk i confess i was mighty nervous about the family being here as our last visit had been such a disappointment i m not counting in the day we spread john s ashes because i was so overwhelmed with everything from shock to grief to company that i don t really know how that time went along but the visit this time was fine however i was glad to see everyone go home again that doesn t sound very hospitable of me but there you are i like company i like when company goes home this next week i ve another family birthday katie s but we won t celebrate until next saturday sam s belated birthday will be celebrated tomorrow i had company come in the day of his birthday he s asked to be taken out to eat i need to get the last birthday card into the mail take off a double load of trash hope to fill a few more boxes for donation and to get the boxes delivered to the thrift store and somewhere in the week there s a fun day out planned with a friend another busy week of june ahead at june 22 2026 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest oil spills and grown up pants tuesday july 9 let s go back to yesterday when i took millie out for the day the boys have gone to camp and we went together to do an errand eat lunch do a little shopping and come back here the day went too quickly but i personally found my day out with her a delight first she confessed to me her worry that her papa pat was dead i told her he was not dead but he s old yes and one day he will die but he knows jesus as his savior he ll be in heaven with grampa and one day you will be there too perhaps only a southern child finds this line of thought logical and reassuring i don t know not ever having dealt with any but southern children however millie chatted happily after that and made me laugh out loud with several funny observations continue at june 13 2026 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest lady bugs and sunshine monday june 1 as a reminder that indeed june is still spring the weather today was very mild there was a little breeze that carried a surprising coolness i ve no idea from whence it came but there it was and since i spent midday doing an onerous task washing the siding on the front of the house i am here to say that it wasn t unpleasant to be outdoors at noon on the first day of june at all and the front of the house looks rather nice if i do say so the only sad thing was that the tree frogs hiding about got sprayed too i was terribly sorry but not able to do a thing to help them they seemed to recover well and i did rinse them off with a spray of plain water best i could they all climbed back up the wall again so there we are i shall have to continue swinging open the screen door and waiting for the frog to drop before i step out i saw just lots of true ladybugs and was so pleased about that i hadn t noticed any at all in years past but i found true ones on the porch about my plants sam told me they are all in his lovely garden as well since cody had recently uncovered and discovered a huge concrete pad in the backyard of their home the family have set up a pool and plan to put up a pergola and patio furniture i struck while the iron was hot and asked katie once more if she d like the iron patio table she said yes it has a hole for an umbrella i threw in all four chairs and though two chairs and the table need scrubbing and a coat of paint i think it will make a nice addition to their space and it frees up my narrow patio from the oversized table at last it also means that i am now in the market for more chairs but oh well i ll find some when it 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