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Garden Master
Broke Down Ranch really got me thinking about this by talking about her mother collecting rainwater in that rain barrel thread . . . Gardening with the Old Folks.
Some of you know that I have multiple gardens, including one in the backyard of my 91 year old father.
The last year, that became a very difficult arrangement.
I'm not really in the "sandwich generation" anymore - gotta be too old for that. My youngest child will graduate from college in the spring. She has lived off on her own for a few years and she's worked since she was a high school junior. So, my child-rearing responsibilities aren't great. Still, I'm rather exhausted from my relationship with Dad.
I'm wondering whether others would like to say something about changing relationships with the old folks and, sometimes, living arrangements that probably should change but don't. Or, that do change and either work out or don't work out as expected.
Steve
Some of you know that I have multiple gardens, including one in the backyard of my 91 year old father.
The last year, that became a very difficult arrangement.
I'm not really in the "sandwich generation" anymore - gotta be too old for that. My youngest child will graduate from college in the spring. She has lived off on her own for a few years and she's worked since she was a high school junior. So, my child-rearing responsibilities aren't great. Still, I'm rather exhausted from my relationship with Dad.
I'm wondering whether others would like to say something about changing relationships with the old folks and, sometimes, living arrangements that probably should change but don't. Or, that do change and either work out or don't work out as expected.
Steve