I'm slowly adding some photos of what is blooming in my yard right now. I want you to see what makes me so happy.

Back to school this morning, it took us a while to get cranking but we "got er done" and then I was off to play in the yard. I dug up another wheelbarrow load of irises and replanted them along one of my walking trails. I tilled up a new flower bed in the back yard and transplanted some spider lilies back there that needed to be moved. I'm not sure what else I will put in that bed.
Then Mark came home with more flowers for me to plant. Oh, he knows what makes me happy :) He brought me a huge pot of purple petunias (pictures to come) and 4 red and yellow dahlias. I've never had dahlias before.. they are so pretty. Got those all planted. Now, tonight there is a soft rain falling on all my newly planted flowers. Perfect.

Levi came in tonight in the mood to work outside, he weed-whacked everything for me.

My older brother will be here this weekend. They are going to stay a couple of weeks to get Mother's affairs in order then they will be taking her home with them. I don't really know what he has in mind but I think he is planning on putting her in a nursing home. I guess it is time. I really, really hate that but she just gets worse every day it seems. Today, she didn't know who I was again, she doesn't really even know who she is. I asked her what her name was and she told me her maiden name. I asked her if she had ever been married and she can't remember my Dad anymore - the love of her life. The man she grieved over for more than 30 years, now she doesn't even remember his name. I've told the boys that when she leaves with John that this may very well be the last time we ever see her. I've noticed a softening in Levi. He has been going up to her house every once in a while to help her with something and tonight he ran the weed eater all around her house, too. He told me later that it would kill him if I forgot who he was.

It would kill me, too, Levi.