Thoughts From The Garden

who is 95 and in the troughs Alzheimer's at this time. I am going to endeavor to craft a few select and best selling soaps and salves as I create them for my own use as well. The past 10 months have been a veritable rollercoaster with mom's Alzheimer's disease. You basically "loose" the parent you knew and just when you grieve for this loss they can spring back for an hour, a day or even a month as my own mom did in March. Then disaster hits again and you dive from your plateau of normalcy, happiness and relaxation once again into the abyss of confusion, violence and this stranger you have to accept. It truly makes one question many things.

My husband and son built me a raised bed garden system in my backyard so I have tried to spend time each day when possible getting my "free therapy". It is basically an eating garden and only enough produce for the summer but oh so wonderful as I was depressed thinking I would not have one at all this summer. Many weeds in the herb gardens and the "old" 1/4 acre veggie garden looks like post apocalypse but may one day resume it's larger crops, but, I kind of enjoy the convenience of stepping out of my back door to pick my dinner. Perhaps if I can sneak some more of Bob's lawn I will simply increase it's size next year...he won't have to mow it!