Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

So, yeah, it's been a few months.  Interesting developments, only to me, but enough to keep me on edge, and not in a good way. 

It is disconcerting coming face-to-face with the reality that one's parent is no longer at her peak.  That she is aging; that things that used to be so easy for her are now frustrating.  Frustration that becomes anger, that lashes out at whomever is handy, namely, me.  Frustration that sometimes emerges as this attempt to control everything and everyone, even things that are in no way controllable.  So frustration piled on frustration.

And the job.

And the house and yard.

Yeah, deep in the woods.