BYGTWSO!-Day 22

Today was Garden Day. After being gone for two weeks, we had a little work to do. The garden is actually flourishing, much to our surprise. Things are growing well enough to count on some vegetables soon! We'll let you know if and when the day actually comes. It was hot, hard work, but we kept each other going.

After the garden, we headed for Walgreen's to order prints of some of our Glacier photos. Then we went to the post office to resume delivery!

After the post office, we hit the grocery store and stocked up on fresh produce and a few other items. Back at home, we fixed and ate lunch and then washed dishes and got dinner going in the crockpot. After this, we sat down to work on finances: balanced last month's statement, recorded all of our trip receipts, etc., etc., etc. All the while, the washing machine and dryer were doing their duty, so we stopped at times to fold and hang clothing.

Dinner was so good (baby back pork ribs)! Dishes again...not so good! A little more laundry, a little Family Home Evening, and a little more trip planning (I know. We are ridiculous!). After our calendar/Rand McNally Road Atlas party, things are winding down for the evening. Just wish the temperature outside would wind down a tad as well.

By the by, I had the opportunity to drive someone to the Emergency Room last night. We were there for about three and a half hours. She's doing fine, but boy, the other people walking into that place had stories! Bless those ER workers! Especially the gal who welcomes and processes everyone--smile on her face no matter what.

One of my favorite moments was when we were almost leaving. It was 10:30 p.m. and in walks an older woman holding a towel to her head with blood spilled down the front of her shirt. Okay, I get it, a bleeding head wound. Another woman was with her, probably her daughter. With them was an older boy, maybe 10-12 pushing a stroller with a younger boy, maybe 2 years old. To enter, you have to go through these automatic double doors, so as Mom was escorting Grandma in, she called to the older boy behind her, "Stay right here!" The obedient fellow stopped on a dime. Right there between the double doors.

Immediately, Mom and Grandma disappeared further inside where the kids couldn't see them. I wanted to invite them through the second automatic door to the waiting room where the rest of us were, but decided to not interfere. When Mom says "stay right here" in THAT tone of voice, well, of course, you would stay right there, no questions asked. Soon after, Dad arrives along with four more children, all aged between the older boy and the kid in the stroller! This is cracking me up that they brought the whole fam damily to the ER for Grandma's bleeding head wound. I mean, it's 10:30 p.m. and I know it's summer vacation, but shouldn't someone be thinking about putting some of these children to bed? Maybe they were out somewhere with only one vehicle. I understand.

So anyway, Dad and all the kids also stop between the double automatic doors and I heard the dad ask, "Why are you waiting here?" The kid responded with the best, most uncontested excuse anyone in the universe could ask for, "Mom told me to." Dad did not take one step further, because, you know, when MOM SAYS, and she says it in THAT tone of voice, nobody, and I mean NOBODY dares to defy! Especially when Grandma is bleeding.

So then Mom comes back to the double doors because she needs Grandma's purse. However, the automatic doors are confused because there are now SEVEN people standing between the two sets of doors and the sensors forgot how to open. Mom is saying, "I need Grandma's purse!" Dad is waving his hands up high in the air to get the doors to open. Mom says more loudly, "Give me Grandma's purse!" The doors still don't open. It was just comical, but I wasn't laughing out loud. Finally, the doors open, Mom got Grandma's purse, and that's when we made our exit--you know, while the doors were still open.