Don't you just wish life was easier?

The last few days have been rather rough around our household. Life keeps on going no matter what but when things like bipolar takes over our lives, one wants to give up on life. I'm not talking suicide or taking ones life, I'm just saying that those days makes you wonder where God is. Those days you want to ask Adam and Eve where their heads were for bringing this upon everyone. Oh well, life does go on and so will we.

I recently recieved some new pictures from my daughter Bridgette, and then some of her dog, my"gran'dog" Jake.





















We fell in love with Jakes Picture and have an 8x10 of it on our "Grandkids" wall. Of course this picture of Brie and another is also up on the "family" wall in the livingroom also.

Family is very important to us and we try to support the kids as much as we can. Currently Rusty my son and his friend Brenda are staying with us and have both gotten jobs here in Boonville and are just waiting for their first pay checks to get their own place to live. Here is a recent Picture of Rusty and Brenda.

Hello to all

Been awhile since I perched here......been out flying kites when the weather was right for one thing.



We have really enjoyed flying the kites this year so far. I wish I could stay at it longer but the arthur and fibro just keep interfering with my having fun.......but I just have to keep trying and not allowing it all to get me down. Unfortunetly, the days we haven't been able to get out has usually been because of the weather or no wind that day is another big problem with trying to accomplish the art of kite flying.


Flying a kite is an art you may laughingly say? Well it can be, you see kites are not all in the diamond shape we all had when we were children and the "tails" you put on your kites these days are not old rags that mom just had laying around.


We have kites that are made of ripstop nylon and out "tails" are made out of polyethelyne plastic ribbon; we have also picked up some ribbon at good ole Wally's World and put that on a couple of the smaller kites. We also have several different sizes and shapes to the things that hold the different strings in which we send our kites up on. We now have a couple places where we go to fly the kites, one is on the property of the old Kemper Military School.....which now is a city park and then last Sunday afternoon we went out to the football field at the high school and flew some of our kites there for a couple hours.

Here's 2 kite companies to look at to see different types and sizes kites can be.
http://www.gombergkites.com/index.html
and
http://www.intothewind.com/
There's a lot of kite places on the internet, in quite a few countries.

I have to watch how long I stay with the action of flying the kites due to the pain in my body. If I'm not careful I will have spasms all night in my legs and arms. I also am back to having a lot of pain in my heel again where the achilles tendon and the calcium deposits that accumilate in my heel seem to keep rubbing so bad. Having already had 3 surgeries on that foot/heel to have the deposits removed, I'm doubting it will do much good to have it done again. I am suppose to see a foot dr next month and I will talk to them about all of it again and see what this one might suggest. ONE DAY AT A TIME ......my life motto!!

Well, I an just 7lbs shy of having lost 100 lbs since surgery July25th,'07........had a couple weeks of a stand still as my body shifted the weight around some. This month when I got paid I went and bought myself womens size 24 capri pants and boy was I PLEASED!! I was still in 26 just a week before that when I had bought a pair of capri pants and they are so big I will need to put a couple tucks in them so I can continue to wear them.

Well, need to close tonight and go on to bed, listened to a talk show last night that was interesting and had helpful information on it, so only got about 4 hours of sleep last night and the slept for about an hour this afternoon. Anyway meds are kicking in and need some sleep.......NIGHT ALL!

More pics to share

Well, here is a more recent pic of me.....actually taken this last Friday, Feb. 29,2008. The shirt is an early birthday present from my hubby with Tinkerbelle on the front and the jeans are my first ones i have bought myself since loosing weight. It is really nice to be able to go to Walmart and buy them off the rack and get them to fit. Not sure if I have said this recently but i am almost to having lost 100 lbs since July25th.

GO ME!!!!!

The thing on my arm and hand is because of Arthur, fibromyalgia and carpel tunnel all hitting at the same time.....which is also why I am up at this time of night/morning. We have a storm front just south of us and it is hurting me so bad tonight. I just took more pain meds so hopefully it will kick in here soon or I will need to go find both of my wrist/thumb things to put on. Can't do much for the lower half of the body that hurts but wait for the meds to kick in....amazing what you can do with one hand and using the hunt and peck system!!
These pics are of some of the thousands of geese we have seen this year flying overhead. It is very cool listening to them of a morning as they seem to head South for the day and then of an evening when the head back North for the night. There have been some flocks that you couldn't see in the sky until the sun hit them just right as they were all snow geese. This group were all trying to land in a small area just in front of a house here in the outskirts of town, there was a small pond in front of the house.




We are pretty sure that back in January we saw
eagle overhead soaring. One of our friends here in the building said he'd seen it too and was really sure that was what it was. It stayed around for about a week but it has been too cold to watch for it most of last month. It could still be around but we wouldn't know it.

Saturday, Sunday and Monday while the weather was so nice, we listened to several songbirds while we had the windows open. However, today we froze and wore extra clothes and heavy coats. I prefer the warmer weather!!


Okay, meds are kicking in.....back to trying to sleep again. Night!

Can't believe it has been so long......

Hello to all, hope this finds you all doing good and either having not had the flu or over it!! So far we have been blessed and haven't had the flu but the Fibromyalgia has been almost as bad as having it. Scott and i both have this but we are at different points in how we are affected by it. Of course it has my left side just throbbing most of the time.....my left side is the side to have something happen to it before any other part of my body.

Right now Scott is telling me what the weather is saying it will be doing tonight and tomorrow.....I liked it better today when we could sit out in the patio area and enjoy the out doors. Rain and possible snow........way to go March.....true to form! At least we were able to open the windows the last couple days and air out the house.......of course tomorrow I need to go thru and water all of the plants now since the wind dried everything out. After i finish this I will be making another entry to add some pics that we have taken of my Christmas Cactus still blooming their heads off. Ahhh let me just add them now.......

If ya look good at at least one of them you will see my ceramic toad peeking out from under the plant......he just looks so normal in there. I do have a smaller cactus plant that is blooming it's head off too but it is the same color as this one. I do have some other pics I will add over the next few days that we have taken but right now I am so hot I have to go find a cooler room. This happens after i have had some protein drink.

Jerrica's Birthday pics

Well, I discovered I for got to put up the 2 pics I have of Jerrica's birthday in October so better late than not at all.

These are ones Aunt Brie took when she took Jerrica out for her birthday, I think they went to the Zoo. It is hard to believe Jerrica will be going to school next year.

Roosting Robin

On this group, http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/ we are working on "Roosting Robins" like a round Robin but we keep our own and add things to them as they come up....if i understand it all correctly. Well, here are some pics of mine.....it helps that we got a new camera for Christmas.


















I love how it all came out, may cut down the center piece a bit so it doesn't get so big......but otherwise I'm lovin it!!

Pictures of Buildings

The bottom 2 are the original pictures of the cannery and packing House that are HO, my trains size. Then above that are some pics of Scott's buildings of the same thing, with my buildings beside them to show how much bigger His are.

Happy New Year

Can't believe it has been so long since i last wrote on here. I've thought about it several times but just can't bring myself to sit that long seems like on some days. Tried to work on Christmas things over the last month or so, got some things done but not really what I'd like to have accomplished. Have to blame some of it on the weird sleeping habits I seem to have. Since I can't sleep laying down due to the hip hurting have been sleeping in the recliner, and due to fibro I fall asleep a lot when I have the pain and problems from there. So far dear sweet hubby hasn't had to do as much sleeping so hopefully he is not having as much fibro as i am right now. Carpal tunnel in left hand is really screaming at me today so hopefully haven't made to many mistakes on this blog entry.

I am trying to work on a quilt thing we are doing thru http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scratchingpost/?yguid=198049275
or this is her public site.......
http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/

Sindy has so many good patterns and thru her group we do a few other things together. She even fixed me a Lady Bug I requested http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/2008_special_requests.htm
I have a granddaughter we call Julie Bug and she loves Lady Bugs also.
Check out her site!

My husband has been working on LARGE buildings lately. He took one of my HO buildings and created ones in the sizes he needs for His size Rail Road. They are coming along very good, just have no clue where we are suppose to put them once he get them done.....well, anyone who does RR knows that things never get completely done, you are always changing things. I have a few buildings i want to work on also so will have to find a balance between the many projects i have to do.

Sooooo.....that said guess i will go find the card table and try to get my chickens together for the Roosting Robin thru Sindy's group.
L8r