Many.
Still grieving the loss of our friend, Mike, aka hobbitt. It's been a rough week, but we're getting by.
I was friends with Cathy and Mike for over 30 years, and you may recall that Cathy introduced me and Dave.
I've been in touch with Cathy's sisters, so that's been good. Sadly, it seems that both Cathy and Mike elected not to have any kind of memorial or service.
Anyway, it's been like spring here again, with warm weather and sunny skies. We got in our hot tub last night, which was really nice.
The other day, we got started on preparing for new gardening boxes. The first thing we needed to do was dismantle the rotting whiskey barrel planters, and we got that mostly done. The rotting wooden staves and iron rings will be put out at the curb this coming week for "bulky trash day."
A friend has recommended raised cedar planting boxes, and I'd like to get a couple of those, so we had to make room, and the barrels needed to go anyway,
My lowered chemo dose seems to be helping to decrease the diarrhea, and the skin peeling off of my fingers. I have my new prescriptions now too, if things get really bad again.
I am in the middle of my week off, and it has gone SO much better than previous cycles. The diarrhea seems to be at its worst during the week off, and this time, it's been much more manageable.
It's taking a while for my fingers to heal, but the slits have all closed, and the skin feels a bit less like dried out leather.
Today is Dave's birthday, and he wanted to go out for brunch, so we headed out this morning (which is why I have not posted my blog yet).
The place he chose is a favorite, but it was SOOOO busy! We waited about a half hour for seats at the counter, and then it took almost an hour for our food to come out.
Needless to say, it was a MUCH longer outing that we anticipated!
We also had a friend come over this afternoon, so it's kind of been non stop. I did manage to get a load of towels put through the wash, though.
The grocery chain, Aldi, which is based in Chicagoland, had Italian Beef sandwich kits in the freezer section that are made by Buona Beef! SO that's Dave's birthday dinner! I sure hope it's as good as the real thing!
Sadly, we can't get the exact kind of sandwich rolls here, but hopefully, what we got will suffice. I already have a jar of giardiniera in the pantry that I brought back in September.
The kit comes with pepper and onions, as well as the meat and au jus/gravy,
I saw my dentist last week, and it went fine, but he wants to put a crown on one of my teeth to keep it from becoming a problem later, so I will go back to the dentist on Thursday.
Nothing much else to report. The spring like weather is supposed to continue for a while, so that the daffodils and irises will start to come up, and then get frozen when winter comes back....which is will.
Have a good week!
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