Still Here

Not that anyone reads this...    and not that I'm being self deprocating...   Still, I've gotten one comment since I started this and then...  I pretty much dropped off the face of this cyber-earth.

But I am still here, believe it or not, and I've still been working...   though not as much as I'd hoped.

Things have been difficult, though, as many of you know.  The love of my life has gone...  and it is tearing me open.  This isn't entiredly bad, though.  I am learning, growing...  I am becoming more my own.

I have been creaing a gorgeous garden in Stacy's back yard.  It has already given me so much!  It is only May, and no fruits will come until the end of June or later...   but the sprouts and herbs and flowers are glorious and I can't get enough time with them.

Talula is happily engaged in much squirrel patrolling, too.  What a joyful little creature she is!  I swear, some days I only get up because she urges me!  That tiny dog has been more than a pet...  more than a companion.  She is an angel...   wiser than any human at times, and at least twice as loving.

I will be heading to KCMO next week...   staying at least two weeks, possibly a full month.  I'm so grateful to have a "job," something on which to focus other than myself and my grief.  As they say, helping others is often the best way to help yourself.

Now, to find someone who will water the garden while I am gone.