The good and the bad, update from last weekend

We did some serious gardening last weekend with my mom visiting. So much so, that I have few pictures of the busy-ness. Jasmine, who one year ago, would not let me do anything in the yard without being underfoot, is completely content as our little helper. This girl can water! And truth be told, it IS helpful. I am stunned that I can actually ask a not-quite-three year old to do things for me and she does them well.

Here she is watering potato plants.

The gardening clothes are kind of a nuisance on such a hot day...

so much of the day is spent out of them.
Unfortunately at the end of our day on Sunday, my mother had an accident and fell and hurt her back very badly. We thought maybe she had even fractured her hip, she was in so much pain. We ended up in the ER for xrays that evening and my poor mom couldn't not get off our sofa Monday morning. Flat on her back. Thankfully nothing was broken!

It was an adventure figuring out how to get her home. We all know that convalescing in someone else's home is not much fun so I drove her home home Monday night (remember it's 3 hours away) as she laid in the back of her car. She collapsed on her sofa at 2 AM, and the next morning I caught Amtrak back home. My brother took over from there since he works and lives in the Bay area close by.

Fortunately, after a week convalescing at home, mom is doing much, much better and seems to be on the road to recovery.