How are you doing? What’s new with you? Signs of a spring thaw on any horizons?
Kinda feels like everybody skipped town and didn’t say where they were going.
Keep on rockin
Hello Rock
Spring is slowly creeping up. The temperature today was a wonderful -5C. I sat on the deck with the dogs, played fetch and repaired the dog lead. I’ve got my daughter’s puppy for a few weeks while she finds a new place and gets moved in. The puppy is full of energy and gets herself tangled around everything. Lol. She ended up wearing/breaking the cable on a sharp corner of the dog’s play structure.
She is visiting her “cousins” who live in the 120x40 4 foot height enclosure. I can trust my dogs to know their yard and place of living, my daughter’s hound could easily jump out and get herself lost. So she is on a 30 foot lead inside the pen.
Last weekend we had a birthday celebration for my Dad, eldest son, and DIL. What a fun couple of days. The whole family was over, nine of us all together.
Had another snow storm and then two days of wind which filled in some big drifts. Had the tractor out in the milder weather and after blowing away the bulk of the snow, I scraped the road down a bit where the snow has thickened over the winter. Hopeful it will melt and drain nicer now when spring does actually get here. Just preparing. Still two months away I’m guessing.
With the kids all here, they went and saw Mom for a birthday visit (son’s and DIL’s). They told me some details of the visit. XW is still lost. She told the kids - her own kids - about the troubles she was having with her son. “Her son” being OM’s lad.
OM’s son doesn’t like her, nor listens to her or his Dad. He is in trouble with the law. He moved out and living in a different province, like 800 miles away. He wrecked four cars. Is in legal trouble with the government for Covid fraud, both receiving supplement income payments when he didn’t even qualify and lying about his vaccination status to his then employer. He owes all kinds of money and fines and legal expenses. He is working in this other province and drinking/partying away his entire checks. His driver’s license was suspended, but he still drives. Just another of the legal entanglements he has got himself into. That lad is a train wreck at the moment.
And all this bemoaning of “her son” was said to her four children and their spouses/GFs. The kids told me “she’s not Mom”. Of course, this is all old hat for us at this point.
It six and half years since BD. Six and a half years. So much has happened since then. So much XW has not been part of, and is not a part of. She’s such a lost soul.
Anyhow, life is going great! And the kids are doing awesome! My daughter just bought a house (it’s why I have her dog for a few weeks, while she is living with her brother). My son and DIL are doing excellent in their careers, and looking at building a house. My other son is doing really well in his Architect studies. And my other son has been accepted by a professor for his upcoming master studies.
For those reading along, who feel lost and unsure, and are worried about your kids - it only takes one strong and stable parent. Sure it’d be nice to have two parents. However, one can do just fine.
D
Feelings are fleeting. Be better, not bitter. Love the person, forgive the sin.
