Cancer Battle

We visited my BIL the day after Father's day. We were suppose to visit him on Father's Day but his wife told us that he was so sick due to the last chemo that he received.  His battle with cancer is  still not done because even if the big amount of it was removed from his lungs, there still some that spreading  in his liver.  Since they can't do an operation, the doctors are just hoping that  it will be cured through chemotherapy treatment.  

These photos were taken when  he  has still a long hair, after  a couple of chemo, his hair started to fall off so his wife decided to just shaved it off.  He is now bald.

My kids are very fond of Dave because just like my husband, he is also very good in dealing with children.

I hope and pray that the chemo treatment will cure the remaining cancer  in his body.  

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Frugal Gardening

Here's what keeps the frugal gardener busy.  Transferring my plants from  our  front walkway to our backyard.  I am done with it now so we are just waiting for the contractor to start with the porch renovation.  Oh, I still have to transfer my roses but I'll wait for the  construction to start, maybe they could help me dig out my thorny roses with their  equipment hehehe.

Here's our vegetable garden looks like now.  The lettuces and the beans are  getting thick and the tomatoes are catching up too.  We put the wire fence around it  to  hinder our  dog from getting inside and tearing up the plants.

New addition to  our backyard.  I dressed up the mailbox we put  there for  the bird and planted  some flowers around it.  I also connected it to the Lilac bush that we planted   there three years ago.

I used  the rocks I found  at the  flower bed in front instead of buying bricks.  Thanks to my SIL for  giving the kids those concrete  car and star molds a couple of years ago.

The only thing I bought on this flower bed is a bag of mulch.  There you go friends, it might not be as fancy as your garden but I am trying to beautify my backyard without spending  too much. I am trying to save some moolah for Tuscany Holidays, opps... you know that I am just kidding right?  What I am not kidding is that, I am  saving for our upcoming getaway next month.

Wrinkled Knuckles

I seldom paint my nails but for mother's day sake, I painted both my nails and my daughter's. It was a special little bonding  between me and my little lady,..

Ms. Burrito said "We should do this more often Mom."  LOL!

My wrinkled knuckles is my contribution to ABC's W.  I grew up planting rice in the field with my bare hands and my hands was so rough because of calluses before.  Glad the calluses went away but not the ones in my feet, very unattractive .. sigh.

Happy Father's Day Dads!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads in the world!

We just came home and it's a perfect time too because it is now raining.  We attended mass at noon then went to  my FIL's home and cooked dinner.

After we ate and bonded with Dad, we took my husband to the mall for a little shopping spree as  our Father's Day gift.  He did not find  the one that he wanted which is   a pair of  new running shoes but we bought him a pair of Levi's  pants and four.  We will find him a  shoes next time.  

How about you folks, did you have a good Father's Day celebration?

Paper Roses

I posted some photos of this flower at my other blog and I named her Powder Puff because I don't know the name. Three commenters identified it as three layered poppies. Maybe this belong to poppy family because the way the  bud hang down, it resembles  how the poppy looks like when it's getting ready to pop the flower.

Whenever I see the full bloom of this, it reminds me of the song Paper Roses because it looks like a crepe paper made  flowers hehehe.

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