We Kind of Have a Garden

Dave got part of the garden in yesterday. It is still pretty muddy. He did the trellises different this year and I like how they look. He had a supervisor part of the time. She could have helped but he didn't want her in the muck. Now we just have to finish and hope for the best.

Audrie

Here are a couple of new pictures of Audrie. She likes to play with Mittens. Mittens seems to not mind her. Mittens is the only cat who will willingly be around Audrie when she is awake.

It Wasn't Hard

Myk and I have been playing this same song and dance over and over and over. He is an addict and I am co-dependent. So we dance. I've been following him down a bad road and knew at some point I would need to get off the road. Well he crossed a line that I could not accept and that put my mom and I at the police station. The police wished to arrest him immediately and wanted me to bring him to the station. That was not going to happen. Myk would run as soon as he figured out what I was doing. So we worked up a couple of scenarios that I was sure wouldn't work, but agreed to do it anyway. On my way to picking him, Cassie and Audrie up, the cop called me and changed the plan into a traffic stop. That might work. The whole drive to the mall I was so nervous. Not for doing it or for what would happen to Myk once arrested. I was nervous that he would figure out what I was up to because he is so attuned to me that it is hard for me to get things past him. I pulled it off and was pulled over once I hit the BG city limits. Myk immediately asked if I did this and I asked him if he did something wrong. He said he did. I suggested that he not run because they had the dog Haulf with them and he said he wasn't. So he was arrested and now faces the consequences of his actions. He is going to go through withdrawals cold-turkey and I have no sympathy for that. He could have chose to make the methadone clinic work, but I think he was just making us work.

Upheaval

Oh the upheaval in my life the past few weeks. Dave is back in treatment. Myk, Cassie and Audrie moved back in. Myk finally started a treatment program. It was a condition of moving back in. Work is starting to pick up. And my mom has slipped another cog or two. Sometimes it is hard to tell how many. Heather got married again and that feels like a loss.
I feel myself pulling back into my nice little ball and I need to not do that.

Music

Dave, Audrie and I went to Old Town Battle Grounds again and listened to music. Audrie and I got to listen to Ian Bristow with his instrumental guitar. Then Dave joined us in time to listen to Lucas Holmgren for awhile. We stayed until Audrie got fussy. She seems to be able to handle about an hour of containment before she gets bored. Lucas is a friend of Myk and Cassies' and he plays pretty nicely on his guitar.

Thursday

Elizabeth and I ventured over to the Pearl District again this afternoon. We ended up back at the kitchen store to get Dave a new tea infuser. Then we worked our way down to the tea store to get Dave some loose leaf tea. We stopped in a few stores but didn't see anything that just called to us. We visited with Fez at the Studio before heading back across the river to Thai Lotus. There we met Dave, David, Emma and Fez. Had a nice little dinner and visit with David. Fez was too stressed out with the goings on in the restaurant to visit too much.

Saturday Market

Mom and I went to Portland on Saturday to the Saturday Market down under the Burnside bridge. Well it isn't really under the bridge anymore...more in the park across the street with the fountain. We had a great time looking at all the artists' wares. We usually go to the Home and Garden Show and buy our birthday presents there, but this year we decided to do this instead. So Mom got a beautiful stained glass to hang in her window. It is brilliantly red. I got a basket from Africa to haul my produce up from the garden. Supposedly this can be sprayed with the hose and be just fine. We ate mediocre food. She had a flavorless gyro and I had Americanized pad thai. We watched the people and met dogs. We watched some street performers and I contributed to their hat.

After that we went and visited my friend Brendan at Fez Studio to brighten his day. We showed him all our goodies and then mom bought something from him. It was a very nice day.