Busy, but Not Crazy

 The last couple of months have been busy. Now, if I could only remember with what.

This past weekend, we celebrated my father-in-law Leo's 90th birthday. Ward did a lamb roast for his father per his request. Ward had never done one before, so much research was needed. He learned a lot from the experience but probably won't do it again.

My FIL's 1st dog. His mother went on
to raise collies for the next 50 years.

As I have mentioned here before, I put together a "This is Your Life" type book for my FIL. I spent a lot of time on it over the past couple of months, but it turned out well. Leo (and others) are thrilled with it. It was fun to watch him see a picture and launch into a story. He's a good storyteller. So now, all that's left is to organize the hundreds of photographs and papers I didn't use into some kind of order and return them to my FIL. Let me explain a bit about that. When Leo's mother died, he inherited all of her pictures and papers. Somehow, I got roped into going through them, which was not easy since I didn't know many of the people or things I was looking at. And there were very few labels on items. Anyway, I have gone through 3 big tubs of things so far that I returned and had another at our house to sort through. That's where I got some of the material that went into the book. The rest is strewn about in a mess. My goal is to work a little on it each day, so I can return it to Leo sooner rather than later.

And speaking of stories from the past, sometime I will get back to my Storyworth book. I have a hard copy, but it is in sore need of editing for typos before anything else happens with it. But that's not happening anytime soon.

One of the things I kept from my parent's boxes.
My idea is to plant herbs in it for the kitchen.
We shall see if that happens.

But back to recent activities. My nephew got married in May, so we were privileged to attend the happy occasion. My sister from Maine was in town, so it was nice to have all four sisters together again. There was more looking to the past when we spent a couple of days going through boxes in my garage from my parent's house. We put them there several years ago when we cleaned out their house. They were full of things we weren't ready to get rid of but not sure what to do with. Now, most things have been decided on, and I have a few follow-through things to do to complete the job. I have one of those ready for today- a package of mementos to mail to my cousin.

Annie

And as you know, we are down to one cat now because Leo died last month. Now, we're trying to figure out Annie, our only remaining cat. She and Leo were littermates and had never been separated. I wouldn't say that she seems lost without him. However, we are finding places around the house where she is now peeing. Whether that is coming from old age (19 1/2 years) or a reaction to being alone, we don't know. But it's a problem. We've moved litterboxes around to hopefully help. In the meantime, Ward has had to take the Roomba apart twice to try to get the pee out.

And this time of year, there's plenty to do outside. We don't have everything done that needs to be done, but we are making progress. Slow and steady wins the race, right?

Until next time...

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