It's A Day For Positive Thoughts and Future Crops

I'm sending all positive thoughts south to Chickie Mama who is undergoing what should be a relatively small, exploratory surgery today. Except ... apparently her doctors at Mayo had a hissy fit because she should have been scheduled months ago. Apparently she has cancer (news to me) and it is a very aggressive type of cancer. The fact that she slipped through the cracks and was given an appointment six months out when she phoned the Clinic to get scheduled was unacceptable to her Mayo team. That's very understandable, and I'm really hoping that extended delay didn't end up harming her beyond their capabilities of healing. We'll see. The surgery is first thing this morning. 

I think ChickieMama is scheduled for laproscopic 
surgery this morning. But I'm not super clear on exactly 
what is going to be done, so I'm just sending general 
"heal quickly" thoughts towards Claire. 

It's hot and humid here, so my run was a sweat-fest and now, more than half-an-hour after my shower, I'm still overheated. At least I'm in the basement computer room, so that's one of the cooler rooms of the house in the summer months. I'll cool down shortly, I'm sure. 

My bean plants have blossoms now, so I'm anxiously 
waiting for my first bean pods to start growing. My peas 
also have blossoms, so snap peas are also in my future. 
Yummy! 

I've got flowers on my beans and flowers on my peas, my tomato plants are arrayed with lots of green tomatoes ready to ripen, and my raspberries are starting to bear. The only disappointment are my strawberries, which we've been trying to establish for years now and which never bear much. I think I'll probably scrap the strawberries next year, they're not worth the time and trouble. 

My raspberry patch is starting to bear fruit again. I love this 
patch. We've had it for years and years, and it doesn't bear 
large fruit, but they are very flavorful. At peak, it gives us quite 
a lot of wonderful fruit, and leaves plenty to share with the 
birds and bunnies. 

Yesterday was a very busy day at the shop, I was hopping all day. That's great, though. I like to be busy, and there was only one time when I was super swamped. My customers were patient, though, so all was well. DH has been working on rewiring the ballasts in our fluorescent fixtures, and he was downstairs working on the wiring so I couldn't call him up for assistance. That was OK. Our landlord will be over today to consult with DH about one wiring question he has, and we'll come over on Sunday to deal with two of the fixtures on the sales floor. With ceilings 12 feet high, we need to set up the big ladder, and we can't chance any customer needing to pass through that area while we're high up. 

I've worked hard at being a positive person over the 
years, and it hasn't always been easy. In the main, I 
think I succeed, but it's really easy to fall back into 
negative thoughts. I vastly prefer positive ones, though. 

So, that's about it for today. All things told, I think it's going to be a good Friday; I'm thinking lots of positive thoughts, at any rate. Have an excellent day and I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.