Hitler Invades Poland (or, the Cucumber Debacle)

It's a wondrous thing. I highly recommend it. We have a lot of salad. Everything did really well.

BUT!!!

some things are really doing much too well. You all know what I'm talking about, I know you do. You can't really see them (they are so wily) - on the far right, behind the Mussolini Zucchini (also, grr) are the Hitlerite cucumbers that I promised myself, I would only plant 3 seeds of. But! - there were all these seeds, right? and people are starving in China! (this is how I was raised) - (does China need cucumbers?) I have their problem solved. Can we find a way to run cars on cucumber fuel? Cool! Are cucumbers native to North America - is that why they do so well? Where do they originate? My cucumber knowledge is sadly lacking. What, exactly, is a cucumber?

Anyway - they have invaded the beans, the peppers, and the radishes (we'll call those "Poland") - there are a million baby pickles spawning.

I'm becoming a little afraid of the lettuce, too. No matter how much I cut it it just GROWS BACK. My Dear God.

Surgery Today

All is well. Bob had what is known as "Turp", or Terp or Trp or something. This was to remove prostate or some of it, to free up the bladder to release urine, because if not he will have kidney infections (and he had, last week). Prostate is mucked up with cancer.

He did not know if he could be sedated for the surgery because of his other heart problems, but they did, and he lived. This is good. But he said he woke up screaming, because this is also kinda painful.

Surgery scheduled for 8:30 - "be there at 7:00" - ok we were. He went into surgery at 10:07. Got us again, didn't they?

Julie was there with us when they sent him into the "short term" room that he is in. I had to laugh, for while we were talking to his nurse Julie had gone to the other side of his bed and was carefully examining his catheter line, inch by inch, holding it up so she could see it, etc.. so I thought I should tell his nurse "she's behaving like this because she's a nurse!" (and not because she's always into mischief as you might think), Not to worry. The nurse had already gathered this information from other clues. Are all you nurses like this when family members are hospitalized? (this is a good thing in my opinion)

Julie had been at the hospital since midnight the night before when she got off work, because her father-in-law (Jim) is 2 floors down from Bob, with liver failure, my God. all to do with his service in Vietnam (agent orange, maybe?). I think he may be going on the transplant list(!), but he is very sick, so Bob is actually the lucky one today. Every grandpa that Alex and Drew have was in jeopardy today and it makes you think how you would go about explaining THAT, if things went wrong. How horrible. and Jim is just a big, happy guy who does not deserve this, at all.

What the heck is going on? All us poor dumb hillbillies need to know.