No Particular Place to Go

This past week has been fairly busy around the house.  Tim has come over to the house on a weekly basis to work on the greenhouses at our house and Betty's.  He's gotten a lot of it done.  I don't have a construction bone in my body, and I'm happy that he's able to do it.  Jean has been cleaning up in the greenhouse and in the cemetery next to it where Grandpa is buried.

I've been digging a ditch through the yard nearby where I will eventually put an Internet cable.  It's a long project because I have to dig through 125 feet of the yard through tree roots and the like.  We have bought a cable that can be buried.  I'll thread the cable through a plastic conduit which I will bury in the ditch I'm making.

Today Jean and I had a care conference for Betty in Livingston at Evergreen Livingston Health and Rehabilitation Center.  Betty is doing alright and it looks like she'll live forever!  I'm glad that she has a good quality of life there.  When I initially put her in a nursing home, it was one of the most difficult decisions Grandma and I have made because we were concerned about the consequences.  In the end, it was the best decision we could have made for Betty.  Now that she's away from her home, she's much happier than she was when she was home not understanding why she wasn't independent.  A test was recently done on Betty's vocal chords and it was determined that some of them are paralyzed for an unknown reason.

Grandma's situation right now is unchanged except that they are working with her on swallowing nectar-thickened water.

Afterward, I took a couple Colombian girls to the Social Security Office in Bozeman.  They shopped for clothes and we ate at Applebee's.  Now I'm at home and I'm going to watch TV with Jean.  It's been a big day.

I still have a pile of unopened mail, but at least the pile isn't as big as it was.  Next week promises to be really busy too.