Back on the Farm

Even though we thoroughly enjoyed our early beach vacation, it has been good to be back on the farm.  I told Lee this morning, I was enjoying the view from my kitchen window better than the view from the beach kitchen window.  The beach window looked out into the backyard of neighbors and the farm view looks out into a large backyard with Lee's fruit orchard, grapevines, blackberries, and blue berry bushes behind the gazebo.  The beauty is there and all around us.  The beach is great too! It was wonderful to sit on the front deck in the swing for our morning coffee, knowing the ocean was only a few minutes walk away.  Lee was able to go on the beach Sunday and Monday.  We sat under the tent and watched the boys play in the sand.  I enjoyed some long walks on the beach with our grandsons, Chase and Carson.  I have to say that we have the best of both worlds.

I have been busy today with the many errands one finds necessary after a vacation.  In addition, I have been busily preparing to celebrate the birthdays of Lee (again), daughter Julia, and daughter-in-law, Cathy.  They will be over Friday evening for a Summer cook-out.  Today I picked up my two grand-daughters after school and Lillie, the 13 year-old gave me a short fashion show in regards to her FIRST formal dance next Friday evening.  This is a special event for all the eighth graders at her middle school.  I suppose, in a way, it is a "right of passage" since they are finishing middle school and preparing for high school next Fall.  Anyway, she was lovely in her lavender/sequined dress, sparkling dangling earrings and necklace, and the high-heeled silver shoes.  I'm hoping she will tone down the eye make-up a tad!  (She and all her friends have had a bit of the racoon eyes this year!)  All, just a part of growing up!

Lee has had a wonderful day today.  As we were having supper, he told me all the things he had done.  This morning he went for labs, had breakfast with some friends at Bo- Jangles, then on to rehab in Hickory.  After a quick lunch on his own, he and a friend went to the hardware store where he found the perfect hat to protect him from the sun.  It is well vented and has a protective wide brim, with ties to keep the hat on when windy days are here.  All this in the camaflouge design!

As if that were not enough, he put on his industrial mask and plowed some rows in the garden.  After that, he thinned the pair tree in the back yard, inspected the orchard and the blackberry bushes.  All this and he still found time to visit some of his neighbor farmer friends in the late afternoon.  What a joy to see him feeling better and having all the energy today.  This is the best day he has had in two-and-one-half years!  He looks so good, and now when I listen to his lung, it sounds very clear.  All I hear is air moving quietly in and out!  His cough has almost completely gone away.......just a little cough in the early mornings.  He thinks that is just a post-nasal drainage, and I believe he is right.

We give many grateful prayers these days!  We feel so blessed to have been given these extra years together. Each day as  I listen to Lee pray, his prayers begin with thankfulness for "Yet, Another Day".


Until Yet, Another Day.......................................Brenda