this is a tough one.....

Exactly two weeks to the day after mom's passing we lost my Dad.

Things were rough for a few days ...but...we've pulled ourselves together.

We decided that neither one of them would have wanted us to dwell on their deaths and to go on with what was necessary.

So

CityBoy has been named Executor of the wills.

 

I've been talking with 4 different insurance companies about each of them.....ugh....talk about red tape.

My brother has been doing all the little repairs needed to put their house on the market.  Plus, looking for a new home for him and his wife.

 

We've made many...many trips to Salvation Army, Good Will, and the Homeless Shelter, after sorting through 63 years of stuff......stuff.....you never have enough stuff...!! 

The house went on the market yesterday. 

Things are slowly coming together.

Changing of Seasons

To everything there is a Season...

On May 11th and May 12th, both my parents were diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.

Mom went immediately to Hospice care and passed on May 16th.

She is now with our family in Heaven, telling them stories about her children, grandchildren and her adventures in the mountains.

 

Dad is now in a long term care facility and getting weaker everyday.

CityBoy and I are dealing with the aftermath, as my brother is having a hard time dealing with both at the same time. 

My time of grieving will come.

Life moves on....

To Work or Not To Work.....

Yes!

I put up a picture of SNOW!!

We are expecting 2-3 inches in the high country over the next few days...

Are we skipping Spring this year?

I'm still teleworking from home

But

Checking my emails everyday for a going back to the "real" office date.

It has changed several times.

My new slogan for life is....

"Have laptop and portable scanner will work from anywhere."

Stay Safe.....

Preparing for What's to Come....

We have spent the last few weeks preparing for future events that you never want to think about...

Things like:

 

Living Wills

Wills

Doctors Appointments (many)

VA

Home Health Care 

 

I'm dealing with my mom's issues and CityBoy is dealing with the VA for Dad.

There was too much for one person.

Both the parental units are still mobile and shape as tacks....

But they are slowing down.

 

Home Health Care starts Monday and we've worked out a schedule for the doctors.

Lawyers are writing up the legal things we need.

Glad to have it under control.....

CAUSE!!

I get to go back to my real office tomorrow!!

Teleworking was not bad but I'm ready to be back in my park high up on the mountain.....

 

Spring is Here.....Maybe?

Mikey and I squeezed in a walk up the gravel road, pass the cemetery into the little Christmas trees yesterday

And

Look what we found...

A patch of wild violets !

Hopefully the Hummers will show up soon....

In a nut shell....

Actually I think it's been more than 15 days

but

I've lost count!!

Monday  the female parent unit was taken to the ER with a "small brain fart" as the doctor called it. 

He also said she will have no lasting effects from it and we hope to get her home this afternoon.

Learned yesterday that I will be teleworking thru the month of April and maybe longer.

So I washed a load of PJs, now I have clean clothes to wear to work......

And of course the "Dogs are still barking!" I think there is a deer in the yard somewhere.....

maybe Key West!

Crazy Time....Crazy Weather...

These are cherry blossoms on the tree at the bottom of the driveway.

What you can't see are the tiny, diamond bright, snow flakes swirling around.

I wish Mother Nature would make up her mind..... 

Day 19 of quarantine and teleworking for me....

Small things are beginning to excite me!

Curve Service

Yesterday was the little dogs yearly Vet check-up...

so I made a special mask using paw print material....

Guess What?!!

 

Curve Service...!

 

I never made it out of my truck..

A vet tech took my babies into the office and then brought them back to me..

The office girl came out with a portable scanner for my debit card....

And then the Vet called me on the phone to talk about what he had done and any concerns he or I had...

Done 15 minutes....!!

Easy...Peasy...

How I spent my weekend......

I knew all those scraps and fat quarters would come in handy someday....

I was busy making mask this weekend.

I made 8 on Saturday....

CityBoy grabbed one of the John Deere tractor ones....

Gave one to the FedEX delivery lady..she was delighted ....

And the other 6 went up the hill to the parental units, Brother  & SNL.

Parents are in their late eighty's...Brother works at a retirement village and SNL has early dementia.

My brother is really the only one who goes out of the house...but caution is the name of the game at this time.

I made 6 more on Sunday...2 more for our house, 2 for my teacher friend that has a multitude of health issues and 2 for my BFF since elementary school that is on a transplant list.

Hopefully, I'll make more this afternnon after the vet appointment....

Now to decide what to wear with my orange flowered mask?

Nada.....Not a one...

So far we have no cases of the virus in my little corner of the high country..!

Must be the clean air or the laid back relaxed way of life.

I''ll keep saying those prayers and keep my finger and toes crossed....

 

Teleworking - Day 9

Things are on the slow side up here in the high country.

I was just thinking about my rangers, still out there on the job....

"Stay Safe Out There"

That's what I've said to them each time one has left the office for the last 6 years....

Never knew how profound that saying from "Hill Street Blues" could be....

Another Day of Telework

Once again I passed no one on my commute to work.

Wait....

Do the dogs count?

They're never far from me now....

it's like being with 3 toddlers all the time!!

Attention....attention they want it constantly...

I keep telling them...."Daddy is in his chair sleeping...go bother him."

Maybe they'll miss me when I go back to work at the mountain.  For now....this teleworking's not so bad.

Bless the mother's of triplets!!!

New Game in Town

Well Windows 10 did it to me again!

Had to create a new blog.....

the old Blue Ridge Boomer is no more.

I named this blog "Dogs Always Barking"

cause that is the status of my house most of the time.

In fact one of the little hairy house flies is behind me right now barking....!!

I'll be dragging out the old computer...the one with my beloved Windows 7 this afternoon in hopes of sending out a final message from "Boomer."

Welcome to my new world.....