Saturday, May 06, 2006

Sometimes Life Sucks

I've got a buddy and neighbor that is an old retired Air Force Zoomie.. His wife past-on about 3 months ago and he has really been havin a hard time dealin with it..

When she died he had a bad case of the flu and was sick for WEEKS afterwards, and took forever to start gettin his strength back and really feelin like doin somethin..

I picked at him to get back to keepin hisself busy so he wouldnt be thankin bout her all the time and drivin hisself crazy.. I finally pestered him enuff that he went to his farm and plowed his garden up and even planted a few rows of greens and peas..

Bout the time he got to feelin good and actually enjoy goin to the garden and workin, he had a faintin spell and bruised some ribs.. It scared him bad enuff that he started to come by and have me ride with him when he was gonna go somewhere and some company for the ride wouldnt be such a bad thang..

3 weeks ago, I rode with him to a garden center a ways away and he got some tamater, onion, and pepper plants to go in the garden.. That nite, his kids in Oklahoma called and wanted him to come up to see his grandkid that was gonna have a kidney operation.. He went up there and the kid didnt have to have the operation after all, but when he was at the hospital he got another damn flu bug.. After a week and half with the flu AGAIN, he is feelin a little bit better and thanks a little fresh air might make him feel better now.. He stopped by and dropped off his garden hoe that he had broken the handle out of the last time he worked his garden.. He dont have a shop and I do so I offered to fix the hoehandle for him and I did today..

Its been almost a month since he has worked his garden tho and we have had some hot, wet weather to bring out the grass and weeds, so this next week we are gonna go to his farm and crank the old tractor and re-break it and chop some weeds out and pull some grass, and drank a few coldbeers.. Come to thank of it, the fresh air is probably gonna be good for BOTH of us !!

Yeah, sometimes life sucks, but if ya hang in there it will get better..

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