I haven't updated for a log time. I've been exhausted. My mom got her carotid catheter out, which is good from a standpoint of less risk of infection but means she will be on needles from now on. Her numbers are good but she keeps saying (just as we are leaving) that she doesn't want to go to dialysis. She knows she'll die if she doesn't. I told her if she tells me she doesn't want to go the day before and the day of dialysis I won't take her, but that this is not a decision to be made lightly because even if she changes her mind and wants to go after a missed day or two, her body will be affected and she's pretty fragile. I told her I understand that she says she's ready to die but that right now she feels pretty normal and her mind is still there and I am thinking the process of dying will not be very pleasant. So far, she's been agreeing to go to dialysis.

She was supposed to get her hair done today and have a shower (I pay Clark, our big, kind neighbor to shower her) $60 a pop which he didn't ask for but which seemed fair to me given that the CNA services would charge $35 for a bedbath. I can do a bedbath. It is not nearly as satisfying as a shower. But Clark didn't get back to me today, s another day it will be. Kim asked to change her hair to Friday (she's going to have blue hair, not the usual little old lady blue hair, but kind of punk. I hope she likes it when it gets done.

The house still isn't finished. But it's coming along. Garage door and opener ordered, estimate for gates accepted and scheduled. I found a lady who will tole paint our front door. I'm excited about that.


My grandma's dishes. Vernon Ware Gingham. My mom bought them for her in maybe the 1950s? I have good memories of these dishes. I think of expanding the collection. It makes me think of more gracious times

Thinking of having built ins added for the trash and recycling where all those vacuums are now...

I remember folding napkins for the senorita's skirt

The front room. This is my taste. I wanted it to look like a cabin. I guess I am desert chalet boho

Tokens from friends are all over this room

I love the lamps. They are made of natural materials, the leaves are real and the lighting is perfect for evening tv watching

This is the Sunroom. I told Bruce he could decorate it with the caveat that it had to remain a usable dining room. It's not finished (no room is) He's going to make a puzzle wall of his art. The woodburning stove (which I didn't take a picture of) need to be painted black and the hearth fixed. We are on blue clay up here and we've had to have extensive repairs to foundation cracks. The tile took forever and it was way more expensive than we thought it would be. The hearth has a big crack that needs to be fixed. Also the chimney on the stove is only single thick and it has to be triple thick 

Bruce spray painted his filing cabinet. I think it looks cool

Vertebrae chairs. Stiff, but stylsh