It's official!

I am officially old and I admit it and own it. Last night during sleep, I got a cramp in my leg...not unusual...happens all the time. I always hop out of bed quickly and start trying to relieve the pain and anguish. Last night as I started to hop out of bed, I fell and hit my head on the solid wood nightstand...also got scraped up on both arms. I couldn't dwell on that because I still had the cramp to cope with, but it was constantly in the back of my head about that actress who fell on the bunny slope and hit her head. As soon as I could, I put an ice pack on it and watched to make sure it was making a knot on the outside of my head instead of the inside. ( I learned that on TV after that woman fell). Today, I am pretty sore and have a sore head, but not a headache. Old age sucks!

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Just got these in by email and had to share! He was my weekend visitor!

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For some reason, I didn't go to church today. I don't even know why. My lazy butt just didn't get up and go. I hate when that happens! The rest of the day, however, has not been lazy because I went to Bossier City and bought more plants and visited Lowes. After my obligatory Sunday nap, I got in gear and and got all the plants back in their appropriate places after having to bring them in to protect them from wind, hail and frost! Also, got the yard edged and everything blown off so it looks pretty. I am just way too anal about my yard. My caladiums were supposed to be shipped today, so I am ready to get them in the ground.

 

There's lots of work to be done in the vegetable garden, but it may be a few days before it dries out enough to run the tiller and plant more stuff. My potatoes and corn are up, but they need to be hoed around to get rid of the weeds.

 

I had guests on Friday night that included a beautiful 4 month old boy. He was a real sweetie pie.

 

 

Ringa-dingy-dingy....hello!

As I was dragging my lazy ass out of bed at 8:30 this morning, my phone was ringing. WTH! It's my neighbor checking to see if I am alright....why, yes, I am! Why? Seems my driveway was full of police cars! Turns out they made some car turn in my driveway and they arrested both the occupants. I have no idea why. Good thing I didn't have somewhere to go because I could not get out!

Everything is so refreshed today after a much needed rain yesterday. We are still lagging behind in rainfall, but this will surely help the yards and flowers get a better start. Rain is just better than watering the yard. Now I need to go to my dad's and check on the garden.

Cleaning or sleeping?

Today is one of those days not conducive to doing the outside things I like to do. It is very dark and dreary, so for some unknown reason,  I was up earlier than usual. It's always a crapshoot trying to figure out when the garbage guys are going to collect, but today at 7:30 they had already been through my neighborhood. One would think they have a regular route and would arrive somewhere near the same time each week....but NO...who knows when they will show up? Since I was up and pissed already, I made a breakfast casserole and had a nice breakfast. Since it is so dark and the rains are on the way, I should be sleeping, but have been cleaning instead. I guess that's a good thing! I like having things clean all the time, but cleaning....not so much!

More onions!

I don't know why my dad thinks we need to keep planting more and more onions, but he bought more at Wal-Mart the other day because some man in there told him they would grow as big as apples...OK, whatever! He doesn't even know the name of them because due to his macular degeneration, he could not read the name on the crate he took them from. Anyway, I planted them this morning...another day of crawling on the ground and digging in the dirt. We are due for rain the rest of the week, so I wanted to get everything done before the rains come. I also got a few watermelons planted that he had bought as well. Of course, before anything can be planted the ground has to be cleared of weeds and fertilized and composted. I had to do all this for the watermelons. Thank goodness I already had the onion row prepared with the tiller. It wasn't my plan to put more onions there, but they are there now! I could work full time at the old home place and never get finished, but I have my own place that must be kept pristine because that's how I roll.....gotta be perfect! 

After I got home, Mom called and told me she saw her first hummingbird. Now I have their food preparing so I can hang my feeders back up. I love watching my hummers. They are so mean to each other!

Note to self..quit yer whining!

Today I have been moving rather slowly and feeling the effects of being on my hands and knees digging in the dirt yesterday. There is no other way to plant little plants without just getting on the ground with them...at least, at my age there isn't. Then I think to myself..."You moron..your 87 year old dad who has lung cancer was on the ground planting his 9 little tomato plants...just STFU"! Of course, I was only whining to myself...thank goodness I had the good sense to keep it to myself!

Beautiful day in the neighborhood...

Well, except that I wasn't in my neighborhood today...I was in my dad's. By 9 I was at his house ready to go to work in the garden, but he was ready for me to take him to the garden shop. We went and bought some tomatoes, cabbage, onions, squash, cucumbers and watermelons. He got the few little tomato plants in the ground and I got the rest in the ground.

My brother was on the tractor, but it died. Come to find out the rodents (rats) had chewed on the wires on the tractor so the fuel gauge was showing full, but it was actually empty. He discovered that lots of other wires were chewed on as well. When I left, he was still working on splicing wires back together. Next step will be to try to rid the barn area of the varmits! I also saw deer tracks in the garden. That's not good. They will eat everything! Both of these species are hard to co-exist with. Someone call PETA because I will be poisoning the rats!

New bumper stickers...

Top o' the day to ya!

Today was oncologist day, which means labs and chest x-ray. There was a little shadow on the upper right lung, but the doctor was really not sure if it was anything or not. He was not real worried about it, but we will go back in 6 weeks to take another look. Dad is not having any trouble breathing and his labs were all good.

The luck o' the Irish seems to be with me as well. Finally, my blood glucose has been back down where it should be. I hope the Actos is the reason. This morning it was 119 and that makes me happy. Anything below 120 in the morning is a good start for me. I didn't eat at all today until I got back from taking Dad to the doc. Then I cooked pork chops, cabbage, corn bread and squash. I also ate Girl Scout cookies and I still got a good reading 2 hours after eating, so things are looking up!!!

Unsolved mysteries...

Lab results showed no abnormalities that would cause any fever, but I got an antibiotic anyway because I still had fever at night until last night. Doc has no clue what is causing it. The last night I had fever, it was not as bad and last night I had none. Who knows!!!

The blood sugar mystery is still a mystery as well. My HbA1C numbers went up another 2 points. This number was 7.4 which equals an average blood sugar of 160 over the last 3 months. National Diabetes Association wants it to stay under 7.0. Doc said I am his first patient that the Januvia did not improve blood sugars. Mine got worse, so he is trying Actos now. We will see how that works. I just don't want to take insulin shots yet!!!

WTH!

We have had rain for a good 24 hours now and we are all grateful for it. Drought has been the norm here ever since I moved here, so we are very glad to have this slow, cold rain. Now maybe my potatoes and corn will come up next week when it warms back up.


Strange things happening with me. For the last two days about the middle of the afternoon, I have gotten a fever that causes bad aches and chills. All I can do is take aspirins, which don't help much. Sometime during the night my fever breaks and I wake up all wet with sweat. What's up with that? I had a regularly scheduled appointment with my GP today for all the 3 month labs. He did a nose swab and checked for flu, but it was negative. We'll see what happens today. He wants to know if it goes above 101.


Holy CRAP! There goes my rain gutters I was going to put on the front of the house. I don't know why because we don't get enough rain to warrant them. The dentist got my rain gutters yesterday with a grand total of $700 for a crown. When it does rain, my front door becomes useless because the pitch of the roof causes the rain to dump right at the front door. No one can come in without getting soaked. It's a design flaw, but fixable with some gutters.

My luck ran out!

On Thursday, while eating an animal cracker, I broke a tooth. A big chunk of tooth and filling fell out and, as in most places in the USA, my dentist doesn't work on Friday. I guess I still have a little luck because it is a back tooth and it doesn't hurt. Couldn't get an appointment until Wednesday! It certainly is my luck that I got a refund deposited in my checking account from the IRS the same day. It never fails that when I get a little chunk of change, something happens requiring large sums of money. I'm sure this tooth thing will require a crown....not cheap!  

The same day I finally gave in and bought a new gallon of $35 touch up paint because I could not find what was left here after they painted the interior. I knew I had used it before, but I could not find it. Yes, of course, I found it yesterday in the attic. Yes, the paint is non-refundable.

Today, I got my farming clothes on and went to Dad's to work in the garden. Of course, I could not start the tiller. Brother came and started it with one pull!!! GRRR! I got everything tilled and looking good and planted 3 rows of corn. My poor daddy just can't do anything. He could not even push the little planting gizmo down the prepared row because he couldn't see the row. His eyesight just continues to deteriorate and there is not a thing that can be done for his particular type of macular degeneration. It's so sad to see him that way.

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This was my dinner last night. These carrots and brussel sprouts were in the ground yesterday morning. My friend, who brought compost to my dad's yesterday, also brought lots of fresh vegies including broccoli, celery, beets, onions. She grows everything.

Fruitful day!

Everyone knows I am totally anal about my yard. I don't like even one leaf in the yard or the flower beds. I removed every last leaf last week and then we had big winds which brought more leaves from somebody else's yard. So today I took on the task yet again. I even mowed the dead grass. I'm apparently not crazy because my neighbor across the street was on his lawn mower, too. Of course, he has a huge yard and 2 riding lawn mowers. My next door neighbor, however, stopped by and told me I WAS crazy! Easy for her to say since she hires someone to do her yard!

Tomorrow I will be at Dad's all day. My friend from high school is bringing him a truck load of compost for the garden and she has built him some raised beds that she intends to fix for him. Mom is cooking and we are working in the garden. My back still hurts, but I can't dwell on that. I work 5 minutes and rest 10, but I get it done!!

Oh! Hellstotheno!

I'm jus' sayin'!

These new cheerios are scrumptious....but, then again, it doesn't take much to make me happy!

I can't hear it!

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People with dogs say the dogs can hear it, but I can't. Don't have teenagers or dogs here, so who knows if there is any sound at all!!!