Ready!!!!!

I went to town and did all our shopping. Licenses.... √ Cigarettes...√ Groceries....√ Pop...√ Dog food....√ Propane.....√ Gas....√ I really hope I didn't forget anything. He has shells...............
While I was shopping Tom shot his rifle. "Good thing!" he said..."It was off by a good foot! But she's dead on now." We walked out together and looked at his target. " OH MY! " I said silently to myself. I looked for the hole on his target that was so far off. Wasn't there. I was so impressed with his cluster.

Yesterday we got all the fine details done on the stand. washed windows, vacuumed flies, weather striped the door, set up the propane heater.........
yep...I think we are ready! There hasn't been a lot of deer activity. They are around, but this time of year they start coming in and "play" around in the yard....Right before rut.

Last night they started. I know Tom was getting nervous as they usually are doing this by now, or so it seems. It's so fun to watch. Does, fawns and small bucks come in. Every body is running around silly, fawns tease the bucks and run fast, in and out of the woods they run and chase and back in the yard.

There were six here last night and Tom thought there were like 15. I would try to explain they were in and out of the woods. The same deer, not new ones each time. He didn't get it and I let it go. Didn't matter. He was so excited.

One fawn was intrigued with my flower bed right in front of the house. He also had himself some peanuts that were on the ground by the bird feeder. Lilly watched him out the window and than looked at me..." MOM..he's in your flower bed..Aren't you going to yell at him? Gee Whiz ...I always get yelled at."

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The past two years Tom has been all over the board when sighting his gun. He'd get so frustrated that I dreaded that time of year. And he always wanted me there to walk back and forth to the targets? He'd go through a box of shells easy. He never could shoot a cluster like this. He said he used six this time.

Once again he is in a better place within himself, now that we know what's wrong, he has accepted it, instead of just blowing up and getting mad and frustrated, he slows down, reflects and does his best. It doesn't always work like this but lately it's been more times than not. He knows he's not who he was and accepts who he is TODAY.....and he knows it changes day to day. His abilities is what I mean. Today he can do that but one of these tomorrows that ability will be gone. That's why we live one day at a time.

I have to admit that sometimes he gets mad at me, because it's my fault that he's all mixed up. This is common with Alzheimer. And because I know that, I have to chuckle behind his back and tell him later when he says he's sorry, that I thought it was funny because it's ridiculous. Than he laughs at me.

Yesterday when we were doing finishing touches on the stand...I said." Your choice but if I were you I would drill a hole in the bottom of the stand and run your electric cord through there instead of under the door and hang the electric box on the wall instead of it sitting on the floor.

He said "good idea" Than he couldn't find the drill bit he used to drill the hole for the gas line. ?????? This time he couldn't say I hid it because this time he knew he had it last.

So the rest of the day I heard.....You always have to start. Everything is fine and than you have to start in. Can't just leave things alone. Now while he is saying this he drills a hole and reams it out so the cord will fit through and mounted the box.... Still looking for every chance to recite those words to me. (Typical AD symptom)

Later he said..." I can't figure out what I did with those drill bits." I had a light bulb moment and said...are they in the case with the other drill? He said "why didn't you tell me before they were in there?" I replied with "I just thought of it."

Than he was fine. He was just messed up over not knowing where those bits were. He checked and sure enough that's where they were. : )