Schedule change, shop work, planting time

Mama and I were all ready to go to the hospital this morning but before we left she called the doctor’s office to get information on a call she received on Thursday evening last week. She had called back on Friday but it was after the office had already closed for the day: at noon. What the receptionist could not tell her in a voice mail was that her surgery had been cancelled for today and rescheduled for Wednesday. It sure changed our plans for the day.

Mama was all geared up for the day and it was a little exasperating to her to have her entire day thrown into disarray on such short notice. Grandma and she were discussing the non-merits of the “patient privacy” law that has worked pretty much backward from its design from the time the government implemented it. That was what was cited by the receptionist as her reason for not leaving the reschedule information in the message left for her on Thursday. It definitely would have allowed us to plan differently.

Anyway, I came on to work. There is never a shortage of things to get done here and I needed the break after the work Grandpa and I did over the weekend. Grandpa brought a garage door back from West Virginia and even though it was a foot smaller that the opening I had made in the shop we retrofit the opening to make the door fit. Not only did we get the garage door installed but we sealed up the opening on the other end of the shop so we could eliminate the tarps before the winter winds begin to howl. We were both dragging by the end of the day.

We still have a lot of work to do to get the garage door functional but it will all be inside from this point on. I hope to have it done during the week but knowing Grandpa it will wait until this coming weekend. Either way we should have a working garage door so Mama can park the car out of the elements this winter. Providing we are still at the farm for the winter.

Today Grandpa is going to scatter the winter wheat seed we bought last week on the portions of the large meadow he prepped for the seed. We did not do the whole thing, only the parts that had been taken over by the weeds that multiplied during the drought. It is our hope that the wheat will hold the ground against the weeds until we can get the coastal grass to take root. We will see if that plan works or not.

With Mama’s surgery and the delay in getting the realtor to the farm to give us an estimate on the worth of the farm we are pretty much on hold as far as looking at properties for sale in the area, but that has not stopped Mama and Victoria from combing the web for listings. I think they have five or six prospects lined up for us to view as soon as we determine that we are moving forward with marketing the farm.

I really do want to get Mama closer to the church.