Gators and Gardens

Yesterday was a very busy day! It started out with working at Azalon until around 1 then mom and I headed out to perkins to my oldest sister Mandy's for her baby shower for the precious amelia. Then we shopped around stillwater for a bit then off to the most amazing place EVER the farm. Now let me start by saying the farm to me is the place I feel all emotions  flow through me. It has my childhood memories of spending "our" week with mamaw and papaw, having a shopping day and lunch with mamaw and a friend and another day would be with just papaw. Mamaw days were always great and always looked forward to those days. But papaw days were something I will never forget. The morning would start with biscuits and gravy! We would do the dishes me and mam would make the bed then she would head to work. Me and papaw would go to the garden and I would "help" which basically meant I played with the kitties while he worked, we would then head in and clean up and get ready to go. You see mamaw works at the sale barn and we would go watch the cows papaw would buy a few and then we would have lunch with mamaw in the diner at the sale barn. These are the memories I will always treasure and tell my children about. The farm also has my teenage years of normalcy it was the one place I could go and have no worries.  Just letting the wind blow in my hair while I cruised around on the gator, helping pick the veggies and fruits in the garden (tomatoes were my favorite to pick), and simply just being with mamaw and papaw.  Yesterday after we got to the farm papaw and I hopped on the gator and headed out to the garden. I got a little emotional the more time I spent with him. Seeing him getting tired at the simplest task or just with every step him physically being in pain. We hopped back in the gator and we sat there and talked for a bit, I asked him how he's been feeling and his reply was not so well.  He said that he knows that he has gotten to an older age than all of the brothers and sisters and even parents that have passed away by a couple years and he knows that he just has to keep moving and taking every thing day by day. As much as it hurt to hear that its true...Life is a precious gift and no matter the struggles or the hurts we have to just keep moving and taking it day by day. I will always treasure my gator rides and garden time that I have had at the farm and will never forget the outstanding example my mamaw and papaw have set for me.

Let the wind blow in your hair today.