That Cough Has Got to Go

               Neither Richard nor I slept well last night

        I don’t think he’s slept well for the last two months

        I’ve had some regular sleeps

off and on

We both take cold medicine

cough medicine

sleep medicine

and so forth

        We’re driving down to Ashland tomorrow

to get Jaime and bring her home

for a month

        I want Richard to be well

        I want for both of us to sleep again.

Fowl Sounds and Other Noises

 Backup to Memorial weekend and the following week

          It doesn’t appear that most of us have slept well.  I sleep too well perhaps;  I have been drinking Energy Shots every morning as I am constantly tired – tired to the point of mushy mind and absolute lame company.

          Carrie and Randy, of course, are not used to the chickens cackling or the roosters going off at random hours.  Randy thinks the youngest rooster sounds like a helium balloon that is slowly loosing air at the lip.  I have been so out of it that I no longer hear the fowl.  I do hear Jenna talking when she’s on her phone and I hear the blare of the television. 

          It has been a long while since I heard the screaming or crying from a one-year-old child.  My gosh, that kid has lungs.  Overall he has been happy but there have been times when it is so obvious that he is tired but seems to fight it.  It has drowned out Bonnie’s snoring.