It's been a difficult week.
Two visits to hospital emergency rooms in less than 6 days does make for a difficult week. One on the road (see previous post) and again saturday night. Patti has been battling infections that perhaps a few of our women readers can relate to. (I guess we men can contract some version of the said malady as well but for some reason we mostly don't.) Medication while traveling was some sulphur based prescription which worked for a while but in the end didn't do the trick. The infection resumed it's nastiness. The second emergency room visit on saturday night provided us with some other pharmaceutical concoction which hopefully will work but in the meantime is making her sick to the tummy. No fun.
In often used 20-20 hindsight, we should have turned tail after the first night and hustled our hind ends back to DC, rather than forging on down the road... but who knew what was coming? Even the first attending ER physician said we should continue west.
But still, life on the farm is more difficult than life in our atmospherically controlled 9th floor apartment. It's still cold and very windy here and our only heat is from a wood stove.. first too hot, then too cold, sometimes a little smokey.
For the time being we're maintaining, fingers crossed that the new meds will work this time. But the side effects are not pleasant.
The plan was/is to be here for 2 months, to returen in mid-july.. but if our Pioneer Princess can't shake the blue-meanies we probably will return to DC sooner rather than later.
"We shall see" said the blind old fogeys.
In the meantime and aside from tending to our "pioneer patient", I am also out and about the yard doing such yardly things as mowing and raking and picking up lots of fallen branches and splitting wood for the stove. The picture above I took today with the intention of showing all of you how fast corn grows over the next 2 months. If Patti gets better soon we will stay and I will post a new picture of CORN every few days. Scintillating journalism to be sure. (yawn)
Also to let all of our subscribers know.. the Bloglet subscription service that you signed on for is dead. The folks running it seem to have vanished from the scene and so you won't be getting anymore billandpatti update notices from Bloglet.
In as much as Patti and I have everyone's email address who had subscribed, we've decided to occasionally send out a simple email notice en masse when we post some of our larger and more picturesque entries. On lesser entries we won't be sending notices and instead invite you to bookmark us and check back from time to time for any new stuff we may have posted. Again, we appreciate your accompanying us on our little journey.
