FORGET ME NOT

 

I think I am losing my mind.  I'm losing many things so I'm pretty sure my mind is next.

My luxury room is filled with baskets.  (They do need to be re-sorted but no one looks through them except me).  I hide little gifts underneath nighties, or sox, or other boring items but now I have to write them down because I FORGET where I hid them.  I always have a treat box but once the boys see it, I have to use another basket to keep them from helping themselves.

I am loving my computer glasses! Except I take them off and on so much, I'm usually offering a twenty five cent reward to whichever grandson can find them.  Then I started hanging them on the front of my shirt so I could always have them with me.  Until I bent over and lost them in a basket of warm clean towels.  Since I was lazy and didn't fold them, they were missing for two days before I decided to fold.  (Now I have the lanyard things to hang around my neck)

A week or two later, I lost one of my prescriptions.  Of course, I waited a day or two but it is a drug that should be tapered off, so I had to call my Dr.'s office.  His nurse laughed at my self berating and said I wouldn't believe how many calls they get.  Yes, an hour after I got a 30 day supply, I found the bottle in the pillow case of a pillow I don't sleep on.

The new bright yellow pillow reads "my happy place"

If I don't put my credit card back in the EXACT same slot, I go into a panic.  Lately, people can just wait while I get myself settled before I leave self checkout.

Is this just me?

TOO LAZY FOR WORDS

 

One of the many perks of living with my kidlet!  Pedicures!!  

The 7 year old joined in and proclaimed he wants one every time.

Another perk is a chocolate on my freshly made bed 

Wow Gramma!  You've got a lot of bling!

My baby turned 35 yesterday!

Yes, they STILL get dressed to play army

My view from the chair on my patio ... 

can barely tell it's a parking lot on the other side.

A MISH MASH OF THIS AND THAT

Sorry I didn't post last week.  I was not feeling well, mostly intestinal trouble with headache and extreme fatigue.  No appetite (that never happens).  Thank goodness for Google.  I’m pretty sure I have pancreatic cancer, appendicitis, ruptured spleen, cirrhosis of the liver and a brain aneurysm ... on my way to dementia.  I'll need to update my medic alert bracelet.

I just got this from Etsy ... the flat wider bracelet says "severe shellfish allergy  no sulfa drugs  type 2 diabetes". The little tags are my In Case of Emergency and Fake Knees.  Just in case my phone is crushed after being hit by a fire truck.

Luckily, they family went camping for four nights so I could stay grumpy and napping.

They went to southwest Oregon on the McKenzie River and they all hiked 5 miles to the famous blue Tamolitch Pool ... 

It's 38 degrees year round, as is the McKenzie River .... and yes they all went in!

Walking the plank!

Kate chose this location for the difference in flora and fauna.  They tried to go last year when the wildfires forced them to evacuate.  They all agreed it was worth waiting for!

Butterfly

MAY DAY

 I'm officially 69 as of May 1.  May is a great month for me ... Mother's Day, Kate's birthday, Tahlia and Audree's birthdays, Farmers Market opens (although Oregon just shut down again on Friday) and all the late spring flowers.  Kate's native plant collection are hitting their stride!

The two leaders of our Property Management company and our local Landscape chair popped over on Weds to say they are getting complaints (still) about our "encroachment" onto common space.  This time (first time for the main manager to visit in person), the tone was so much more kind.  We had not added any additional pots since the last cantankerous visit (although Kate has "dropped" some seeds here and there around rocks). Kate does have starts in tiny containers on trays that she carries outside on sunny days.  

We actually got a lot of compliments from them on how the native plants look now that winter is over.  He ended up apologizing for leaving the front area just mud for so long and the next day, a tiny patch of sod was installed.

Clean and serene ... 6x6

Two or three neighbors have asked Kate to design some pots with native plants.  She is so excited!

A tiny basket, in the tree, filled with native succulents

We've almost disguised the utility boxes!

The fountain with room to perch and wait your turn