Hi there everyone. Are you having a good week? Can you believe it's almost June now?! This year is really flying by! Thank you all for your kind comments on my post about Duncan. We're taking good care of him and giving him lots of love.
Hello everyone. I apologize for the fact that I have not visited your blogs and commented recently. I will definitely do better in the coming days, if nothing else goes wrong. We found out two and a half weeks ago that Duncan has cancer and he's going to die. We were so shocked -- it was very hard to process. He's only seven years old. I mentioned a while ago that we were taking him to a specialist because he wasn't using his left rear leg when walking. Based on what our regular vet had told us, we thought we were going to be scheduling orthopedic surgery with the specialist. Instead we were told that Duncan has a malignant tumor in his hip and spine -- something called nerve sheath cancer, which I had never heard of before. It's aggressive, and we basically had three treatment options. The first was to treat with medications (steroids and pain medicine). The second option was to have his back leg amputated, and his prognosis was six months to live. The third choice was to have the surgery and do radiation treatments, which might give him a year to a year and a half. These last two would be very expensive, by the way.
Did you think I meant a facelift for me? 😎 LOL! I could probably use one, but that's not really on my to-do list anytime soon (or probably not in this lifetime). Anyway -- what will be getting a facelift is our house. Yay!! We've been saving our money and holding out until we could pay for this with cash, so our house will get a new roof, all our exterior trim work will get re-painted (and any repairs needed will be done). Our four front-porch columns will be replaced, as some damage from rot has occurred. We'll also get new shutters (probably the two panel style) and either a new front door, or at the very least, the existing door will be repainted. We've gotten quotes over the last couple of weeks, and made our decisions, so I'm ready for the work to commence!!
Hello -- I'm glad to see you! :) Come inside and have a cup of tea. Hasn't this been a beautiful spring so far? Even though we had a couple of late freezes (not unexpected) the blooms still keep coming. Don't you love the way everything blooms in sequence, so it's not all gone at once? First the daffodils, the tulip magnolias, and the Japanese cherry trees, and they were prettier than ever this year. Then came the crabapple trees, the redbuds, and the dogwoods. It seems like they've all been spectacular this spring, although the dogwood blooms are still in the process of opening up. On the ground, it's time for tulips and iris, but we don't have any of those. However, I picked some flowers that have self-seeded in the wooded area next to our driveway.
Hi folks! Today I'm sharing a little tablescape fun and joining in for Susan's "Tablescape Thursday" party at Between Naps on the Porch. I got my Easter table put together end of last week, but I've just now had a chance to write the post.
"No, there is no death, thought Philip, only a perpetual readjustment of the garment of life....And how lovely, and how endlessly various, is this garment." ~Elizabeth Goudge
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was reading Towers In The Mist, by Elizabeth Goudge. I finished this around the end of March, and wanted to share my thoughts here. This book is part of a series, The Cathedral Trilogy, and I've previously read the other two books. Towers In the Mist and The Dean's Watch were my favorites.
He is risen! May you all have a Blessed and Happy Easter tomorrow. Home Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
