August 9, 2016
Since my last post, Charming
and I have both suffered (and I do mean suffered) with a bout of some kind of
flu virus…or, as we have come to call it, “The Crud”. I’m blaming this virus on Wal-Mart as that
seems to have been the likely place that I picked it up. While we were at the farm, Charming needed to
make a thunder run to Lowe’s to buy more lumber and, since Wal-Mart was in the
same shopping center, I ran in Wal-Mart to pick up a few food items that we
needed. Because we no other contact with
any other humans in the six days we were at the farm, I’m assuming someone with
this bugaboo passed it on to me and hundreds of other unsuspecting folks. I will never again laugh at my sister (who
just happens to be a nurse) for her fixation with wiping shopping carts with Clorox
wipes.
I laid around for about a
week moaning and whining about how sick/tired/awful I felt. As I started to feel a bit better, Charming
started the same moaning and whining about how sick/tired/awful he felt. Luckily, I could walk him through all the
stages of the virus like on the second day after he realized he was sick…”Don’t
plan anything for tomorrow because all you’re going to be able to do is sprawl
your poor self on the couch.” And on the
third day, “You need to take some Ibuprofen right now to head off the
inflammation that’s going to clog up your head.” Then on the fourth, fifth, and sixth days, “Be
sure to sleep with the cough drops on your nightstand because you’re going to need
them during the night.” I must say that
I was right in every instance and Charming was dutifully amazed at how well I
walked him through the illness. I just
love being the bossy wife!
Due to the Crud, we haven’t
gotten much done at the farm. Charming
got two more trusses put on the shed and he got the field mowed with the
tractor. I managed to dig potatoes in
between bouts of residual coughing.
(Luckily, though, the exercise of digging the potatoes made my nose run
so it actually helped to clear my head congestion.)
We are both steadily getting
better so I hope to have more pictures for my next post.
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| End trusses & two inside trussed, plus two sheets of T1-11 siding in place. |
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| Not a bad haul considering how few potatoes we planted. |
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