gingin's blog: August 2013 already

<p>It occured to me today as I gave the dogs their heartworm prevention that it's just 20 short days since Bill was diagnosed with cancer a year ago. Some days/weeks have gone by so slowly, and yet here it is almost a year already ! I suspect that over the next weeks and months I'll be re-reading my blog to see just where we were on his (our) journey to November 7, 2012....the highs, the lows, the smiles and the tears. I'm thinking that once the bills are paid, I'd like to treat myself to something special to enjoy as I reflect. Perhaps a new hummingbird feeder or two...Bill enjoyed watching them almost as much as I do....a windchime. Not the the light tinkling ones, but a deep pitched resonating one. Hearing a windchime always brings a smile to my face. A new spinner ?? They are so cool...first time I saw one I was visiting my daughter. We had gone to the mall where they had some on display.She saw the smile on my face and sent me one for Christmas (or was it birthday?)....purple with a hummer in the middle. :-)))) An area in the yard, perhaps, just for the wildflowers/weeds that pop up and bloom just in time to get mowed, but I sold the mantis. While Bill was sick, the yard chores didn't get done....grass got high, but that was OK as I enjoyed seeing the wildflowers that in another time I did not get to enjoy. My sanity, when I could take a break, was being able to take photos, get IDs and add to the DB when the "beast" didn't show me "the blue screen of death". Funny...that somehow seems appropriate now. I'll figure it out. Hopefully, additions to my blog after November 7, 2013 and February 8, 2014, when D*O*G died will be happy ones. As always...one day at a time and always looking for that silver lining. Today it's all ya'll, who, with love and understanding let me reflect and send cyber hugs my way. (((())))</p>

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