Almost forgot to blog

Ooops. Well, now I have!

Sorry if I'm absent from my blog and commenting on yours, but it's been a very busy and emotional couple of days for me. With Jon getting worse and trying to "do" the fair...I'm just reeling with things to do and on an emotional roller coaster of highs and lows. We just got home from picking up our flowers from the flower show today and we spent the afternoon with Jon. I took him some food he requested. He wasn't up for company for too long today, but we were there 2 or 3 hours...less than yesterday, but we had a good visit. To top everything off, I didn't sleep one wink last night, I kept thinking of all I had to do in the early morning to get ready for the fair and it's very horrible every time I think I'm having a bad dream that my son is dying of cancer, only to realize that it's not a bad dream...it's true. It really messes with my head in the wee hours of the night. I did manage a short nap between taking flowers to the fair early today then cooking some Portabella Stroganoff for Jon (he's off red meat for now) and making some glaze for the bread pudding I made for him last night. I took it all over to him this afternoon and he loved it but was having a hard time swallowing. His mouth is so dry from the morphine.

Anyway, forgive me if I'm not here much and if I don't have time to read and post on your blogs. I'll catch up first change I get...who knows, if I don't sleep tonight, I may do it in the wee hours of the morning!

Re: the fair...I got some pretty good ribbons today at the flower show. I only had 3 roses to take and they were sort of crappy. I did surprisingly win a blue with an Abe Darby bloom and a second with a Love and Peace...neither of which I thought would do anything against the lady who usually sweeps all the rose categories. Andy said she burps her roses and changes their diapers! He gets a kick out of me beating her in any given rose category (like I did today) because I just take mine in and they win or lose on their own merits, not because I put q-tips between the petals, bring them in celluloid cones and talk to them like you would a dog. Oh, and just to keep myself humble... My mini rose didn't do anything. I also took one huge stem of Golden Stardust lily...it must have a dozen blooms or more on it. It got a blue in the lily division with it and also won Best of Show for Perennials. I was tickled with that. I got 5 blues, 5 reds(seconds) and 2 whites (thirds) and one Best of Show. I was happy to sweep the daylily competition by winning first, second and third over a ton of entries!! I was very happy with that too.

I'll post photos soon, I'm just too freaking tired to do anything else tonight. I can barely type! I'm taking Jon some German food from a favorite bar/restaurant of his tomorrow. So I won't be cooking and will have a pretty laid back day. I'll go over to see him in the afternoon since he sleeps late in the morning. That will give me time to just chill out on the deck in the morning, read the paper and just enjoy the day a bit.

This is more than I had intended to post...so I'm outta here until next time. I never know what the day is going to bring. It is what it is.