Rain, Rain, Come to Stay

This is where I worked most of the morning after seeing Mom off on the van. This photo is from this spring, and in just a couple months some weeds have gone hog wild! Timing was great since we're expecting rains for the next five days or so.


Boy, my appreciation of rain in the summer, particularly in August, sure has changed over the past ten years! I know there are swimmers, boaters and other sportsfolks who wish rains weren't in the forecast, but I'm hoping they'll remember last summer when sun was much more plentiful, and we had to carry and pipe water out to these gardens...



I weeded and moved a number of clumps of: shasta daisy, volunteer marigolds, and a blue flowering groundcover that we carried from our former home. Found two (of some twenty-four) of the pink vinca that we planted along the edges last year. Since this is the first we've seen, maybe some of the others will take and provide us with some fall color.

Moved some chrysanthemums from the Strip Garden into the Anniversary Bed in the photograph. The mums are from our anniversary gathering last year. Only about a third of them lived, so I filled the bed in with others in the yard. Also moved some groundcover onto the edges of the bed. The shrubs behind the bed are the rhododendrons that are supposed to get tall enough to hide the large white telephone company box in the backgound.

Yesterday we checked in at the Radiation Clinic. A technician came out and told us that she needed to tell me what to expect, but that since no one was allowed in the radiation area, if we both wanted to hear the information, she'd have to talk to us in the large waiting room...right by the coffee station. It's not like there weren't empty rooms... *blinks*

All they did was to check and realign the target marks on my sides and chest. We also had questions for the nurse we met with last week regarding soaps and oils, etc. She, of course, was not there so we met with her counterpart who didn't have any idea about what creams or oils might be detrimental in the radiation room... So, she sent in Dr. B. He was professional and answered our questions, but he seemed ...irritated that he had to meet with us.

I found the whole tenor of the clinic to be the exact opposite of what it was when I was a candidate for the Study. Kevin thinks it has to do with students (ergo staff) being gone for the summer... *shrugs*

Yesterday was Billiards Day. Kevin's streak was broken. *frowns*

Also Massage Day. Got to try some new techniques that I think are going to be quite healing!

This afternoon we go to radiation. We understand that Kevin can tour the small-gym-size room that the machine is in. He's thinking photos, but...

I wish I could say I wasn't nervous...