Busy even on a slower day.

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I had to go slower today.  I am too stiff and sore to do more.  Tomorrow will be the same.  Perhaps Tuesday I can get back to a bit more.  Even on a slow day I am doing more than usual(tm).  My mother?  She gets on a task and pretty much stays on it.  I will help when and how I can, even picking up on a few things she didn't direct me to do, if doing other things a little slower than she would like.  I can only have so much going on at one time, in real life.  Still, I think she has been happy enough with my help and the muscle I can throw at things.  I think she has gotten a bit tired herself, so slowed down today.  I am hoping she takes it easy on herself tomorrow as well.  She and I are similar, in that when we do start some things, we simply don't stop until it is done or we crash hard.

She is 70, has had a hip and both knees replaced, plus two major back surgeries (the last one quite successful), and many foot surgeries.  She just doesn't have a "slow" button.  She can stop, when things are set up to her standards, but not really until then.

I think, once set back up, I can coast well until she returns in the spring.  I am hoping just to work on a small garden with her when she returns.  She suggests, if I want to try to grow tomatoes from seed, that I will actually need to begin those in January-February.  Well, okay.  I think I can do that.  Maybe a dozen plants to begin, hoping half of those make it?  Perhaps a few other plants, say peppers?  In any case, the hope is that when she returns it will just be about plants and a garden.  Oh, we will see.

Food has been great.  She has enjoyed having food on tap, staples in store, and good pots, pans, baking pans, and the rest, of good quality and in plenty.  I doubt if even the best restaurants she has worked in have been this well set... at least compared to demands.  I don't know how she works to exhaustion, though, then takes a break to make a huge meal, clean up (I have been drying dishes (when I realize she is even washing and get out there before she just "does them")).  And I have cooked or otherwise prepared a few meals myself.  We both love good home-cooked food.

Just an update.  Be well.  Good night.