Wednesday

It has stormed all night and rained almost all day today. I know we need the rain but it makes for a long night for me! Gracie bless you is terrified of storms and it seemed like I would get her calmed down and us both back in bed and then it would storm again and thunder and the lightening. I am not sure which one scares her more.............so between the storms and my pain and gracie not much sleep at all last night. i was going to try to take a nap but gracie still is kind of in a still scared mood it seems....hiding under furniture but then when i call for her she comes right away guess still kind of spooked because of it. she is laying in the hallway with our door open and watching the birds and such so she must be a bit better. i kept thinking last night that andrew would love these storms..
my crooked rose bush is blooming and looks pretty even though it tends to just be having roses on one side. i did not prune it when i should have so that is why i think that it is like that. i am not a person who does well with plants which bums me since i like them just cannot grow them plus my patio most of it is not in the sun so that does not help at all either......................yep the dog is spooked still...a child started crying in the parking lot and she hurried inside here and is under the desk,,,,i sure love her so it is hard for me to watch her being this way. i think too she gets a bit of a panic with my cane because i dropped it a few times not on her or even near here she just is i guess trying to cope after last night. they were bad storms...then she woke me up a few times because she was out of her water and food so i gave her more water which of course she had some but drank it all and then i fed her again during the storms thinking that might help towards the end of the storms she ate and that seemed to make her a bit more calm.
tonight i am going over to my moms to eat looking foward to her home cooking. she is cooking for a meal to take to a family we have been friends with even before i was born and paul the father is dying and he is wanting some home made cooking things he has not been able to eat in years so to help out mom is making dinner and then making lemon squares which he loves...they are yummy. it is so hard for the family to know these are his last days and for him too of course. he is a strong believer in God and i know that is helping him and his family and all of their friends to cope also.
what else................oh some people are volunteering to come help me with the condo which is much needed....and when it is interesting so that now my shower head does not work so something else that needs fixed. they are going to come a week from saturday so for that weekend i will not be near the computer since i plan since i trust them and in my small space think i would just be in the way so not sure what i will do..might go to the library and read for a few hours and things like that. i think mom and i will go out to eat once or twice during that friday and saturday....the bathroom is getting some new tiles...the oven is hopefully going to get fixed and some painting done. gracie gets to go to for paws which she does really well there so that is a relief.i will be praying for no storms that weekend because where the crates are they can see the window depending on if they are crated in the big room with all the windoes or the smaller one. i guess i should have titled this life with gracie.................................so some lj's are that i get to go over to mom's for dinner....listening to the radio....my computer is working fine even though the today the electric blinked on and off a few times....gracie is napping now which she really needs...gosh i talk about her like she is a kid but in lots of way she is my "kid" and we are so close she can tell the feelings i have when i want her to let me pet her and vice versa i can tell what she is feeling and such....guess that is it for now....................hope everyone has a good day full of lj's.......................