Hooray for sunshine!!!

Spoke to Mom on the phone briefly today. She said that yesterday she and Dad planted the three evergreen trees she's had in pots for over a year! The man who helps Mom with mowing the lawn, etc, Joaquin, dug the holes for her! Thank goodness...or she'd have probably done that herself too! She said that they were pretty hard to get out of the pots, but she did it! What a woman! I'm sure Dad was a great supervisor! There's nothing more Mom loves to do than work outside, so I guess it was good for her?! No doubt the sunshine was good for both of them!

This morning she loaded all their recyclables and took them into Marble Falls to the recycling center. Dad likes to ride with her to go run that kind of errand...anything to get out of the house! Mom is the ultimate recycler, if you didn't know that! She won't throw away anything that can be recycled! In fact, I think she was the nation's first recycler! Like the country-western song, "I was cowboy when cowboy wasn't cool." Well, Mom was a recycler years before everyone else decided to save the Earth!!! The Marble Falls center doesn't take glass, but Mom is harboring bottles and jars in their garage until they do!!! Needless to say, she has quite a collection!!! I try to bring some back to Austin from time to time because our recycling does take glass and I don't want her garage to overflow!!! She's awesome!!!

Mom let me know that the speech therapist is no longer coming to the house. She said that Dad wasn't making enough improvement to continue her care. That made my blood boil! It is pretty infuriating that one person can make a decision like that, one that could affect Dad from now on. She indicated that Mom can drive Dad to a speech therapist in Marble Falls and that Medicare would cover it. Next week I will try to make some phone calls to the home health center and see if we can get someone else to go out to their house or if this woman's decision keeps any speech therapist from making house calls. On one of my previous visits, the speech therapist was there working with Dad. I have to admit that he was being pretty uncooperative with her. I don't know if he disliked her or the therapy she was doing, but it wasn't going well. It very well may be that Dad has made the decision that he doesn't want speech therapy any more and so he just wasn't doing what she wanted him to do! Sometimes I wonder if he just wants to be left alone! I'll try to talk to him about that.

March is a crazy-busy month for Ollie and me...one of our biggest antique shows, Round Top/Warrenton, is March 24 - April 3, plus the set up and then packing at the end. We'll also be out of town March 15 - 19 to spend Spring Break with Ollie's two sisters and their husbands in Monterrey CA. So, if I don't blog much for the next few weeks, that's why. I'll try to keep everyone as updated as possible! Thank you for your loving following, support and prayers!

Now please allow a little plug for our business!!! If you enjoy shopping for antiques, rare books and documents, interesting artwork, etc, come see us at Cole's in Warrenton (3/24 -4/3)! Cole's, the largest indoor venue in the area, is at the corner of Hwy 237 and FM 954. The parking is free, the food vendors in our parking lot are great and there's no admittance fee! We're inside on "Waco Drive" in booths 128 and 129! We'd love to see you there!

God's blessings!!!