May, 2022

 

Jonathan roofed our house a year ago but for the porch roof, which did not show! But it bothered him and he came over and finished that little job this month.  

Upper left, Mom's beautiful peach colored iris.  Glad if I have only succeeded in saving a couple of her iris, this was one of them!  

Mother's day was blessed!  I accidentally placed Mindy's family's photo from Daniel's 8th grade graduation in this collage, but have ended this post with a photo of her and her boys on Mother's day.  

I decorated my folks' grave for Memorial day.  I always like the reflection of the oak tree in the center of their stone--and I feel sure those are oak trees on either side of our family name.  

Our Daniel graduated from 8th grade in May.  He is about four inches taller than me and still growing!  

Hard to believe I've been out of high school for 50 years!!  Even 68 year old ladies are concerned about their appearance at a class reunion and try out several different outfits ahead of time...well..at least this 68 year old gal did!  Out of 21 original class members, 4 are deceased. We had 13 people present for the gathering, an excellent attendance percentage.  

 And here is our beautiful daughter with her three boys in the photo snapped on Mother's Day.   

On the 1st I made baked cube steaks for Bri & Mel.  Nicole, Bekah and Jonathan stopped in after laying Addy the beloved corgi to rest on their land, then they headed to Topeka.  

We had a wonderful Mother's day on the 8th with a roast beef dinner for lunch and a carry out pizza for supper. 

 I planted an herb garden and zinnias.  We attended Daniel's 8th grade graduation on the 14th and a nice gathering for him at Bri and Mel's.  

On the 12th the film over my right eye was bothersome and the eye and right side of face ached.  I saw Joan Grother (Nurse practitioner) on May 16th, and Esther Rettig (Ophthalmologist) on the 18th.  I returned to her on the 24th and she inserted a punctal plug in my right eye, thinking the blurriness might be from dry eye.  (I'm recording this after the fact--at this time she hadn't yet diagnosed the partial vitreous detachment that we decided was responsible for increased floaters.  The pain in the right eye was never explained, and gradually abated.  By February of 2023 the pain is mostly gone, though the film remains).  

On the 21st Jonathan, Brian, and a friend of Jon's finished roofing our porch and deck windows. Melinda watched Bekah and I fed lunch to the roofers and family members that were here (10).  

John got all the corn sprayed on the 22nd.  

I had a migraine with aura on May 28th and felt concern over ongoing chronic migraine-like pain since my last rosacea attack.  I suffered migraine or eye pain constantly for months.  It was made worse by exercise.  (At this writing, February 2023, the constant pain is mostly gone but the film, light sensitivity, and increased numbers of floaters remain).