What did you have time for today, friends?

Brain cancer is...

 ....taking time for deep yard work.

Dear Skunks, 
You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
--Darrell

Can you see the brown spots in Darrell's lawn, above?  They are holes made by largish critters.  Skunks we think.  Maybe opossums.  The Predator Pee really worked to keep them away, but we're out.  So you see Darrell is trying a new solution.  Stay tuned.

One thing that Darrell continues to teach me, post diagnosis, is to treat every day like a gift, a present to unwrap when we wake up each day.  It impresses me that those words, "treat every day like a gift," aren't just a trite saying for him, and that he's still living them in Year Five.

So today what we learned from our  Home Stay is that we have (is it possible?) more of the gift of time.  Today we set the timer for 60 minutes, and we each did our own exploratory yard work.  Not our typical mowing, edging, and weeding, but deep, deep yard work.  For instance, I spent my 60 minutes yanking out dead strands from one butterfly iris bush.  

What we found out from those 60 minutes is...we need 60 more minutes!  Good thing our Monday schedule is relatively open.

What did you have time for today, Team D?

Today's Bloom

Calla lilies at the Welshons