I got off to a slow start today after the big shopping day yesterday. I washed sheets and they are now back on the bed. It's been raining off and on, so I used the dryer. Only other project is I got down on hands and knees and used a yard stick to "clean" under the fridge and stove then vacuumed up the resulting mess. Also moved everything out of the corner next to the fridge and swept that area. I should have scrubbed while I had everything out, but energy/back said NO. It's supposed to be very windy again tomorrow and cloudy most of the week. I have no interest in getting out into the garden for another month. My dd's boyfriend loves to run my tiller so as soon as I give him the word, he'll be right here. At least he has for the last 10 years so hopefully again this year. He'd moved away but recently came back to help his mother as she's blind.
My maternal grandmother lived to 92. She often complained that she'd lost all her family even though at the time her children were all living. Her father died when she was 7 which was a major trauma for her and I think it haunted her all her life. My mother lived to 100 and refused to go to any more funerals after a summer where we lost two family members to accidents.
On the other hand, my dh's grandmother never complained but when doing genealogy, I discovered she'd lost her first child at one month, her first husband in a mine accident leaving her with two toddlers, one of those two died at 12 and the other at 21 in accidents. The only comment I recall her making was when her son (my f-i-l) was very ill, she said I just can't bury another child. On Find a Grave website, I spend a good bit of time linking dh's grandparents to family. Each had a first marriage with spouse passing, each had a son and daughter from their first marriage, then they married and had three children. It took forever to link because each change has to be approved before you can make another, but I did get everyone linked. Out of respect for the first spouses, I linked them to their children.
