Next Sunday is Easter. The family will be at our house. We have successfully kept the weeds in check this Spring thanks to Roy and weed killer. We both have spent quite a bit of time mowing, trimming, and weeding. The roses are about to burst with major flowers. I hope they wait until Wednesday so they look great on Sunday. And most of all, I hope it doesn't rain. My house is small and it's a tight fit - plus I have water guns and cascarones. These are not good indoor amusements if you ask me.
Sy requested the Easter basket from H-E-B. I have placed the order with the Easter Bunny and Santa just to be sure we have our bases covered.
Right now, he is sick again. I took him to the Pediatrician because in addition to the 101.3 fever, he was complaining of a sore throat. No puking, just sore throat. Usually he pukes and tells me nothing hurts. Well, just to be sure he didn't have strep brewing in there, I took him in this afternoon and lo and behold our diagnosis is what is always is - Fever of Unknown Origin. Ugh. While I'm glad that it's not something horrible, it's hard to know you have 5-7 days of this and you can't speed up the process with an antibiotic. Not sure how long he will be out of school since the fever hit yesterday afternoon. He fell asleep in the car on the way home and is still asleep. I hope that means he's sleeping it off. He didn't eat his lunch on Wed, Thurs, or Friday last week and complained about not feeling well but with no fever. So maybe we will get lucky and this will be over with tomorrow. At the very least, he's home tomorrow with Daddy and then Wednesday he can go back if he has not had a fever.
The Pediatrician usually gives me a lecture about his weight and making sure we teach him about eating the right things and exercising to maintain a healthy weight. Today, Sy was with Nana and Tata while I was at work. They took him to McDonald's for a happy meal and I picked him up from there. He took his toy (Green Lantern) into the Dr's office. He told the Pediatrician that he got it in his happy meal. I explained that he was with his Grandma and he asked her to please take him and I wasn't about to say no. Well, our Pediatrician became a Grandpa last summer and he didn't give us a hard time about the happy meal. He said I couldn't come between a Grandma and her grandson and that's just how it is. I laughed because he is now in the position where he gets to spoil a little one. It's really hard saying no and the Grannies and Grandpy's are going to spoil them whether you say yes or no so you just might as well say yes.
We went to look at pvc pipe my boss has on his ranch down by Dilley. It's way out on a county road. Roy was scared I opened the wrong gate because it's a cattle road for a while before you see the house and any people. Just cows. He was sure some crazy radicals were going to come at us on ATVs with guns. I think he watches to much TV. The thing that got me was something got caught in the wheel well of the driver's front tire when we crossed over the cattle guard and it sounded horrible. I was so scared the car was going to need work done and we wouldn't be able to drive it home. Luckily when we left, Roy had to turn hard to get the car straightened out and whatever was stuck fell out. Phew.
The PVC pipe. He has a ton of it. We are going to have to rent a trailer and bring it up to our property that way. It's free minus the rental and our sweat equity so you really can't beat that. Roy worked on killing the weeds/grass growing in the orchard by the green house last year. Our plan was to put down turffalo (an updated buffalo grass that is used as lawn) as it's more drought tolerant after it's established than other grass options available to us, and it doesn't get too tall. Anyway, we are now thinking that we will create borders with the pipe around each of the trees and fill the area around the trees with mulch so they stay moist in the heat. We lost a few trees to the drought and we are hoping the mulch will help them tolerate the dry heat better. The turffalo will still go in that area but we will need less of it since we won't put it up against the trees but just to the borders.
The gathering of the pipe and creating these borders won't happen until after Easter. It will probably be the April/May project. If we can get the orchard to be less maintenance intensive, it should allow us more time to focus on other areas.
Time and money, folks. Time and money.
I hope your Easter and Spring cleaning activities are coming along nicely. I know ours are and that is good thing.
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