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I spent last night sandwiched between a heavily-pregnant dog and a kitten with a stomach upset. Nights like this are good for me. They remind me why I could never have kids.

Wow deb and keith are back tomorrow. Weird. Leon has been really sick with chemo - he just about died on Wednesday, I came back at lunchtime and he'd just called an ambulance. They said he was 90% dead and if he'd waited another couple of hours he wouldn't have made it.

I talked to him about it on Thursday and he said to me that if it had been up to him, he would have just died then, in his bed with his dog at his side. But he decided that he couldn't do that to his parents or his son, so he called the hospital. I didn't know what to say, except that I respected his courage and that I could understand the temptation to just lie down and give in. But man, it was a hard conversation.

I have made great progress in the garden while they were gone.

• Fixed the lock on the dog cage


• Moved the brick pile out of the dog cage


• Built a retaining wall out of old bricks


• Laid a path out of old bricks


• Bought a new water trough/food dish for outdoor conditions


• Trimmed the hedges


• Pruned all the trees (so. many. trees.)


• Filled in the holes in the lawn


• Built four hinged fences


• Rearranged the laundry so the dogs have outside access


• Put a new bolt on the laundry door


• Raked the leaves


• Moved the woodpile into the woodshed


• Cleared a passage down the side of the house so I can get the wheelbarrow through there.


• Picked up all the bones, litter, garden rubbish and destroyed dog toys (two sacks full!)


• Trimmed back the rose bushes

It's a good ten day's work when I write it all down like that :) Now today and tomorrow will be spent doing housework because I haven't done any since they left! lol :) I hope they'll be pleased. It's always a bit nerve-wracking because I worry that they'll take it as a criticism of them... it's really not though, it's just stuff that needed to be done that they never get time to do.