Cheryl Beckham

All most all of the houses on my street have some sort of vegetable garden growing in their side and back yards, I do believe that I am the only one that doesn’t have much of anything growing in my yard, besides some crab grass and a few trees and some bushes here and there. I’ve never been one to get into the landscaping aspect of my land, but I do enjoy seeing all of the nice landscaping jobs that people have been piling a lot of their time and money on, all across the neighborhoods.

This afternoon, I answered the backdoor, to find a neighborhood kid with a basket of home grown vegetables that his parents had asked him to deliver to me. It seems that they have an over abundance of their produce and are nice enough to bring over to share with me. I like neighbors like that, not really used to being friendly with neighbors, never stayed any where long enough to get to know anybody and the ones that seem to approach me, in most cases, are the whacked out, messed up, druggie kind of neighbor, the kind that you would want to avoid, not get friendly with, that is for sure.

This was a tough July for me, I have felt like crap almost every single day due to my allergies.  I even called my doctor and had him switch prescriptions to see if it would bring me any relief, but I have seen no improvement and I called once again and left his office a message late Friday asking for another brand of allergy medicine can be prescribed once again, I’m feeling rather desperate at this point.

We have had a hot and humid summer, with the month of July not having much rainfall to wash all the nasty pollens out of the air that often helps with allergy suffering folks like myself. We started the spring and summer with tons of rain, but all that ended right after the 4th of July festivities were all over and done with.

So I have spent most of this summer inside the house with the air conditioner and air cleaners going full blast, my summer hasn’t turned out quite the way that I planned it to. Although I am getting a lot of things done around the house that have been begging for my attention and getting a good amount of reading done that I always seem to enjoy and don’t ever seem to have enough time to really get into.

I hope the doctor calls me on Monday in a timely fashion and maybe he will come up with another brand of medicine that will so me some good. And I pray that August will be not as difficult on my well being.