Author: Connie

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Pretty Themes

When I set up my blog I picked a theme from a small list and thought it was something I did not have to deal with anymore. But then I found a nice theme that “felt” more like the real me, so I downloaded the other theme and changed it out. Now my girlfriend Sherri has found a new theme for her blog and I am so jealous! I really like the bright colors and happy vibe. So maybe I’ll be theme shopping again tonight and find a new “look” for myself, too.

Here we are, heading into fall with everything in nature turning color and changing to prepare for winter. I think I’ll take my clue from Mother Nature and change my colors. I hope this Autumn is beautiful, and I am going to make a serious effort to get outdoors and appreciate it.

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Slow week

It seems like this week is just dragging by. Not that I really have anything special to do this weekend, but something might come up and for some reason, it just seems like it is taking it’s time getting  here. I did play out in my back gardens this morning and my pumpkins are all starting to get their color.  They aren’t very big this year, but they still look nice. I think I just might go out and do some digging and cut some flowers for some arrangements. Guess I’m just bored.

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A busy week ahead

I don’t know what woke me up so early, but here I am at 5:00 wide awake and have been for awhile. I’ve got lots to do this week, including working in town and then lots of errands and appointments. I dropped my favorite camera and now have to have it repaired, if it can be. I don’t go anywhere without this camera and I’m hoping that it can be fixed. There is only one repair shop even remotely close to this area and this is NOT a digital camera, so I’m wondering if it indeed can be fixed. So between a lot of appointments and working my butt off, it’s going to be a busy week.

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News depresses me

I listen to the noon news on television while I’m working, and the more I listen to what is happening in this world, the more bummed out I get. I’m sure a lot of people feel this way. I actually miss the 70’s when life seemed so simple and even though there was a lot going on in the media, there wasn’t so many terrible things happening. Between the economy now and the war, children being abducted and internet stalking…bullying, and all the bad news, I’d just rather not even listen anymore. I feel like going to live in the mountains, grow and raise my own food and ride a horse for transportation if needed. It’s like making it all sort of go away. (deep sigh) I’m off my rant…for now, anyway.

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Watching the stars

I love to lay out in the back yard and look at the stars. Lately there have been a whole lot of meteor showers. I always thought they generally happened in later September or in early October, but apparently this is not the case. There simply can’t be that many shooting and falling stars. Or can there be, considering how much stuff they have shot up into the air for so long, that actually don’t belong up there.

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An unexpected plant

I’ve just about given up on my garden. It looks terrible as we haven’t had rain and with the water bill as it is, due to filling the pool and the kids taking cold showers, plus laundry and just in general using lots of water this summer, I really can’t afford to water the gardens like they should be. I did however walk out into the back yard, and we have bales of straw back there to be burned when we get some rain and the fields, trees and grass aren’t so dry. I had looked out the window and saw orange “somethings” way out back, so when I walked out there to see what they were, they turned out to be flowers which are HUGH and beautiful, and a very large pumpkin plant! There is a little pumpkin growing on it also. My blogging buddy told me about her bale gardening, and her grandson’s pumpkins along with her other plants, and I thought it was a strange way of doing things, but had told my son about it. Now I’m wondering if my son had stuck a seed in that bale of straw just to see if it would grow. I might do this next year!

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Broken bones

My oldest daughter was at her in laws house, that is on the lake and from what she said everything was going well, they were having a great time, but had to warn the kids to be really careful going up and down the deck steps while they were wet, since they were slippery. What did she do? Went up the steps, slid in water that was on the deck and tumbled down. She broke her arm from above the elbow to just under her arm pit. I feel so sorry for her since we’ve had pure record breaking heat, her arm is in a cast from under arm to wrist and of course she is in a great deal of pain. Besides, oldest child or not, she is still my “Baby”. She goes to the surgeon again in three days to see how it’s doing. So far it’s not healing normally and we are so worried she’ll have to have surgery, as he has suggested.

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Misery

I never thought that I would admit this, considering my love for the summer and warm weather. It’s too hot. Terribly hot and all day I have felt sick to my stomach. I’ve been drinking a large amount of Powerade to replenish electrolytes and it has the sodium I need also. I’m to get lab work done tomorrow to make sure my sodium levels are not dropping, or I’ll end up in the hospital with an IV drip. The dogs are miserable and so is everyone else. We need rain badly, and even though storms where in the forecast, there isn’t a could in the sky and even the breeze we do have, feels like an oven being opened after it’s preheated. My husband took two of the kids swimming at my friends. She had called and asked if I wanted to come over earlier, but I felt so sick and puky I didn’t go. From what I’ve seen on the news it’s like this all over. I wish it would rain. It sure would be welcomed.

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Darn dentist

My son went to the dentist last week and came home complaining about his jaw hurting very badly. He had gotten a filling, but the way his mouth, jaw and even his lips were puffed up, didn’t make sense that getting a filling would cause that reaction. All of a sudden it stopped hurting. Come to find out, it is his wisdom tooth in the back left coming in. The dentist neglected to tell my son or husband who had taken him in, about the wisdom tooth, though the gum was obviously red and swollen. The poor kid is going to have to have them removed. I feel so badly for him. At least for now it’s not hurting him like it was.

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Dr. Appointment and results

I went to the doctor today because the fibromyalgia I have is hurting more than usual. He asked what was happening in my life and actually, I’m a bit stressed about some things, but I didn’t realize that it was enough to cause a bigger flair up than normal. In a nut shell, I have to try and avoid stress. LOL! Hmmm… maybe I need a vacation!