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Sorry, watched "A Few Good Men" last week and I just really like Nicholson's line about The Truth. And I had to twist it around when I was requested this past week to keep my blog more current...


Okay - what did we do this past weekend? Well, as you may remember I got a grape vine cutting from GrandDaddy's back yard after I heard an inspirational Sunday School lesson by Barry Miller about cutting back the slow-growing sprouts in early spring. This is to be done so that only the strong shoots live for the next season. My first vines had no problems on cutting back in that they did that ever so naturally - in only two weeks all growth had been cut back and everything was dead. So I started over with two really healthy vines one for Julie and Reggie, and one for us. I have been nurturing this vine through the hot summer with frequent watering and fertilizer, and it continues to live in a too-small pot.


This past weekend, Mom had her rehearsal and performance in Charlotte and I had some project time. So I started planning/buying/building a trellis for the grape vine. Everything went well with buying and cutting. When I began the temporary assembly to sort of get it in place, one of the very large boards fell and hit me in the back of the head. Only a little bit of pain until our new next door neighbor warned me to have my head looked at because blood was pouring down my neck. Then the pain really started, and everything was a blur. Mom finally got the blood stopped but it was messy for a while. I have the beginnings of a really nice trellis - which Mom has continously said that we do not need. What I do not need is the new headache. The trellis only looks crooked in the photo. I must have been standing on the side of a hill.


I also planted more grass seed this weekend on that small strip of dead grass between our natural area and the new "Becker's "driveway. I am convinced that with constant care, water, and fertilizer that I can develop an area that will need cutting every 3-4 days. What is wrong with this news?


As mentioned, Mom had her rehearsal and then performance in Charlotte this past weekend while I was working and Julie/Reggie/Davis/Kevin/Pam/Michael/Clint/Kathleen were pushing UNC to a hoped-for victory over USC. (It was a great game even though our Carolina did lose...) Mom knew that she would also be going to Gaffney, SC (Just past the Big Peach on I-85) on Tuesday night for a second concert. Good for the money but not for the schedule. So I agreed to go down with her as the dummy passenger in the car so she could go at break neck speed in the Odyssey. Unknowingly, she changed the route after my agreement so she no longer needed an auto dummy (after I had practiced this role for two days.) So we went Winston-Salem ->Hickory->Gastonia->Gaffney and got there in about 3 hours. Listened to concert # 4067, and was really pleased to hear the back-row talk about the small lady playing the violin with the straight-back, front-of-the-chair posture. I thought I knew who they were talking about - the one in black. Got home in about 2 hours - go figure. Mom got to do seating charts, rehearsal schedules, lesson plans, key words, etc. I got to practice my dummy driver role. More later after I get my head re-checked and calibrated.