In the June post I told of the 1 hour seizure Dad had. It may not have been clear… since November 2019 he was living at The Wellington in Conroe. The picture of him in the June blog is through the window at the Wellington, where he was when this seizure happened. He was hospitalized, and for a while we didn’t think he would pull through. But he did improve, and with the help of my sister Ronda, was able to come back to Pecan Grove (on hospice) for several days. Then he had to go back to The Wellington where he is still on hospice. One of his caregivers at The Wellington is Tinnette, who came to visit him at PG (1st picture). Most of the family was able to spend some time with him… Karla and her 4 children (2nd picture), Karin, her 2 children, Kenny, Salena, Kathy and myself (3rd). Mimi gave him a much needed haircut (4th). He was able to be in a few morning bible studies, at a family dinner, and in 2 meetings. The 5th is a meal with distancing while Dad and Ronda were at PG. Then Ronda, Brent, Ann, Kathy and I took him back to The Wellington (6th). Tinnette and the other caregivers take good care of him there and make sure he can hear the gospel meetings by phone. Since he’s on hospice, they allow us to visit him once in a while through an open doorway in his room.
The residents at PG are all doing about the same, frustrated by not being able to get out or to have visitors, but glad for the fellowship and meetings we do have.
July was a difficult month for the Milles. Dominique had a hip replacement, which went very well, but requires time to heal. Then Mimi’s brother in France was killed in an accident… and they can’t travel. Then Mimi fell and hurt her back… so she’s healing also. They’re both improving nicely.
The workers switched around July 1. Lyle and Dale left this north Houston field and Rachel and Brenda came. The residents liked Salena’s July 4th costume.
Our 2 fig trees produced a nice crop of figs in July (1st pic). John doesn’t use his golf cart much anymore, except when the figs are in… he makes sure we don’t get them all! We’re working with about half the pecan trees this year as a hobby. The high humidity we have here causes a fungus called scab. The scab on the leaves doesn’t really hurt anything, but the scab on the pecan husks keeps them from fully developing. The 2nd picture shows pecans with scab and the 3rd picture shows some without scab. We’ve sprayed fungicide 5 times already and will need to spray a few more times before the September/October harvest, and hopefully we’ll have some good pecans.
Ken