Tuesday April 19th

the signage outside

Today was a busy day for certain, between a major opening with all the media, Mayor, Councilors, Chairman of the Board et al ats... plus the regular day. Toucan Ridge is a project that I designed the plantings and my staff and I installed, representative of a Neo-Tropic (Costa Rican in this case) rain forest. This is the habitat for a number of species of Toucans, Ibis, a fat Capybara, Ocelots, Monkeys and a great list of others. The affair was exceptionally well received by the media, making all the networks as well as both papers. I missed my interview, as I forgot to ask which network as I dashed out to make our next medical appointment.



view from the top of the waterfall in Toucan Ridge



Deb was tired today, but managed to wait rather patiently for me to arrive home, switch vehicles mid stride and accompany her to radiology and thereafter to meet with our doctors and team. The meeting was very good and satisfied a number of questions that were causing much anxiousness for Deb. Her radiation treatments have been increased a bit from the original number based on findings from the PET scan. A couple of lymph nodes are affected and must be treated as well her internals start next week. She was very concerned as the holiday weekend has thrown a wrench into chemo therefore in a domino affect everything else is skewed. In particular the anti nausea meds for the day of her anaesthetic. Solved, as she will be given an IV of very potent meds to combat as we don't want her nauseous at all, in particular when she is under.

Deb is looking forward to some time away from treatment over the Easter break, but I suspect the road ahead is much tougher that we can imagine. Four internal treatments are booked and we schedule the entire morning from 07:00 for the procedure. Thereafter, I will spend the day at home with her to ensure there are no side effects from the anaesthetic.

our cool new signage, hard to read for you but it is great!

our beautiful Easter Basket  arrived



one of the quiet pools in Toucan Ridge, Bromeliads everywhere



Work for me is ramping up at viscous speed with most of the seasonal employees arriving the Tuesday after Easter, the remainder the following week. So, new supervisors are to be trained, initiated as it were with cruel and unusual time restraints ahead. Rather a baptism by fire for them unfortunately, but most are up to the challenge.

We are both looking forward to an early night, a sound sleep and as well hearing from all of you as you can.