Rain, Rain Go Away and Come again another day!

It has been raining now, for 2 days and I am tired of the gray skies and the high humidity. Today is the grey skies and really high humidity. The kind that makes you feel like you are having a hard time breathing. It makes me feel like there is an elephant sitting on my chest and I hate to have to go outside. We smoke in the garage, since Dad had his heart surgery, and sometimes it is all I can do to sit out there and smoke, I know that I should quit but I don't want to and that is half the battle of quitting. Dad quit cold turkey after he had the Heart Cath that caused him to have a heart attack, but after he had his heart surgery, he still smoked but not like he did before. He would come out in the garage and take the butts that we had and light it and take a drag and put it out, or he would take a whole one and take a few drags and put it out and save it for later and he would tell the doctor that he was not smoking but he was. He would do really good for a few days and not smoke at all and other days he was out there as much as we were. But since Feb. He has not had but 1 smoke and I am really proud of him and he says that it still bothers him after dinner but he has not had any since the day that he got out of the hospital. Mom has tried to quit before and she had stopped for 3 months and Dad still smoked and he did it in the house and would not go outside for her so she started again and said that she is not going to stop again unless she really wanted to and it was her decision to quit. So anyway, it has rained since Friday and the total amount according to our rain gauge we got about 3 inches. We needed it greatly but now I am tired of it and want to see some sunshine in the Sunshine State. We finally got someone to come do our lawn since Dad can't and won't do it anymore. The guy, Oscar, came by on Friday afternoon and looked at the yard to give us a quote and told Dad and I that the yard needed a lot of cleanup on it and he would start the cleanup on Saturday. And he quoted us for the cleanup $140 and to do the weekly stuff was going to be $25 and to me that was not a bad price and Dad ok it and told him to start whenever he wanted and do what he needed to do. So he gets here about 9 am yesterday and it is raining and he and his helper start working and they left about 3pm and they did so much work that I can't believe what they did and how much better it looks. They cut the hedges and weedeated everything and even cut the tree in the front that was out of control and he cut it way back and it is so much better than before. Needless to say they worked so hard and they did a fablous job. Oscar hauled away everything that he cut down and cleaned up after themselves and it looks like he was not here and did anything. I went to get the mail and when I opened the door I saw them on their hands and knees under the hedge pulling weeds that the weedeater missed and when they finished you could see the grass and under it. We have a night blooming Jasmine on the fence that was going wild and he cut that back and pulled the weeds in the flower bed under it. I am really impressed by Oscar and the work that he did. He still has to do the backyard yet, but if he does the job he did in the front then our yard is going to look like it used to be when Dad took pride in it. The back yard is worse than the front was and it will take him longer to do. Boots is the only one that uses the back but she needs to have a nice place to go out and go do her duty and walk around in. The people that live behind us will be pleased that we are getting it cleaned up and it is going to stay that way. I am anixous to see what it will look like when it is all done. I am going to take pictures of the front and will post them in the morning when it stops raining.
Mom has been sick with the flu and a kidney stone and she has been down since Wednesday and finally she is feeling better today. She has slept in my room for the last 2 nights, Friday night was a really rough night. She moaned all night and about 2 in the morning she slapped me and woke me up and scared me because I'm not used to anyone sleeping in my bed, but she didn't know what she was doing and I didn't let it bother me. She slept on and off all day yesterday, so she was up all night and kept me up too and this morning I am a little cranky and short with people, I am trying not to bite heads off but sometimes I can't help it but I am trying
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