It's Bean Awhile

This has been a very rough month. My last chemo treatment was on the 15th and that night I starting throwing up. The rest of the month has been a blur of side effects and grieving. A coworker passed away during the month. He was loved by all and had been working there for the past 30+ years. Nothing will make you relieved to only be in pain than the notion of death.

 On another note, our garden has seen some success. We harvested enough green beans to enjoy with a meal. We have bell peppers, banana peppers and pepperoncini growing well. Our heirloom tomato plants are not liking the high heat we have been experiencing, but we still have some tomatoes growing. The sweet potato slips are very happy. In fact, we have so many slips growing, we are going to start another container for them. All of our herbs had to be moved because of the heat. Last Saturday we went to a farm market and got some pickling cucumbers and Monday I started them to fermenting using some of the herbs we are growing.

I did make a few video blogs.
I just realized that I posted them out of order. the last one goes first, since it shows back when I still had hair.

Oh well. I have another ct scan scheduled for June and a follow up appointment with my doctor. I am hoping to hear that we are all done and I can start getting back to doing more. We are planning a camping trip for this fall. We might go on one before then, but with the weather already so hot, I'm not counting on it.

Peace to you for reading.

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