I'm back on track again.

Chelsea woke me up at about 4:00AM again. So I took her out and went back to bed until 6AM. That little girl is coughing more and more these days. Some days better than others. She no longer jumps up on the bed and if I lift her up she is afraid to jump down alone. But when we go for out walk, she is like a young puppy. She runs and pulls me. Of course, sometimes she sits down for a bit to get her breath. As long as she is happy dog and not in pain she can just keep on being our little friend.

Will Rogers said, "If there are no dogs in heaven, I want to go where they went."

I cleaned the bathrooms today before we had to go to Plymouth Care for therapy. The shoe is back. Andrea did her adjustments and pronounced it ready for use. Now, for the next week or two, he will wear it only AT therapy sessions until they are sure that it is all settled in and that there are no hot spots. If anything shows up, Andrea will come and fix them. Next week, Tim, the prosthesis guy, will come to make sure that both legs are the same length. That is important too.

We got home in time that I could fix lunch and eat it at my leisure before going to take Mother to her eye doctor. She has felt that there was a change in her vision so we don't mess around with that as she only has one good eye now. As it turns out, there is a slight change but it is not correctable and Dr. Lavey says it is part of the aging process. But this usually does not progress very fast and should not be much of a problem.

I got a fish dinner from St. John's for Dick's dinner. Nancy picked me up at about 5PM so we could go to Rhine for the bust up party. A good dinner of chicken, potatoes and cookies and cake. It was fun and I won a split the pot raffle and came home with $20 more than I started out with. Not a bad night at all.

The weekend is looking very quiet. Tomorrow I will pick up some prescriptions and go to Mass and on Sunday I should be able to stay home all day. Such a deal. I hope to get caught up on a bit of rest. I will have to do the kitchen floor tomorrow. It is really a mess and there was no time today.

Today was the first day of spring starting at 6:40AM. It was cold - not windy but cold anyway. But the birds were singing and Mother even has some of her bulbs showing above ground. So spring must be here. As Ellis Peters said in the Cadfael book Dead Man's Ransom "A time for all manner of births and beginnings, and for putting death out of mind."

Have a lovely spring starting with tomorrow.

Mary