For Today ... Jan 20, 2014

 

For Today ... Jan 20, 2014

 

Howdy.... and good morning. I woke up extra early this morning and just couldn't get back to sleep. I'm afraid that I may have woke Jerry up early, as well. He had to decide if he felt well enough to go in to work. He finally decided he would go in, with a promise that, if he felt like he had to come home, he would go to the Urgent Care Clinic.  He didn't what sausage for breakfast, but did eat 2 eggs and the Remein soup he has every morning.  I did offer him a banana but he turned that down, as well.  Saturday, he said if this Is the Flu, then our having the shots last month made a difference.  if it's not Flu, he just wants to feel better.
It's getting cloudy outside and our high for today is to be in the upper 50's.  We have a chance of snow tomorrow, about an inch or so. I'm going to let the dogs play outside this afternoon longer than usual, if possible. And we have another chance of snow on Thursday, when I have two appointments to keep.  It's a good thing Jerry doesn't have any trouble with driving in snow.

 

Right now, Macon and Rocky are asleep on my bed and Barney is asleep in one of the kennels.  Two of the cats are sleeping close to me, and the other is on Jerry's bed. They are waiting for when it's time for me to feed them their canned cat food. and let the dogs outside for morning potty. 

 

From the kitchen...  Salad, Cheesy Beefy Hashbrown Dinner, Peas, and Chocolate covered small pretzels for dessert. 

 

Cheesy Beefy Hashbrown Dinner
1/2 a bag of hashbrown potatoes
1 lb of Ground meat (beef or pork)
1/3 to 1/2 jar Cheese Whiz or shredded Velvetta cheese
Spray crockpot with none stick spray.
Place 1/2 a bag of hashbrown potatoes in a hot large skillet and brown, turn over.
Season and brown ground meat,
place 1/3rd of the potatoes in the crockpot, cover with 1/3 of the browned meat, the a large dollop of the cheese. repeat 2 more times.. ended with the Cheese on top. Put on a lid cook for a couple of hours, to melt the cheese and let it soak into the dish.

 

I am hearing... NCIS on USA.  The heater in the living room. And the water dripping in the sink.

 

I am wearing...

 

I am reading...  Brown Sweat pants, my dark blue and my Wild Horses T-Shirt.

 

I am thankful that... Jerry felt good enough to at least try to go in to work.

 

I am hoping... Jerry feels better soon.

 

I am creating...  I am using my Cricut  to cut out lots of things for Christmas cards.  I have a box to put them in, as soon as we drink all the flavored water we picked up this week.

 

One of my favorite things...  Watching Barney playing on ice. He loves to slip and slide around on the stuff.

 

A few plans for today... Sort dirty clothes, make the beds, make dessert, cut some paper

 

A few plans for the rest of the week... cut more paper, keep appointments. Stay happy.

Billie C.



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Good Afternoon...

Good Afternoon...

I'm slow getting sta

rted today. It's not a good eye day but it's not totally bad either.  I could see well enough to take the trash to the trash bin earlier.  I had to go slow, but that's okay because I was able to keep warm. I had on a hoodie and my coat and a scarf. I had knit gloves under my leather gloves. Driving with just knit gloves is like driving without any gloves at all.  

Our water is Ugly today.  When I went to flush the Toilet earlier the water came out of the faucet Brown. Not a light brown but a dark brown. It's lighter in color now but it's still not clear.  I called the office, no one there of course, and left a message about the water. I'll call again about 2 pm, when someone "should" be in there.  While I was out, I checked the water at the office in the ladies room and it was just as ugly.

We had lots of rain over night, but now it's dry and sunny which is great considering how cold it's going to get tonight. Danville is suppose to be only 5 overnight and that is going to break the all time record for here.  I do know that the Kansas City Kansas schools are not open today. Mary, Jerry's twin drives for the City and was called late afternoon and told No School due to the cold. 

 

I put extra blankets on the beds when I made them this morning. I have an Electric blanket and I put a wool blanket on top of that, Jerry's Electric blanket doesn't work, so I put two extra blankets on his bed. It's nights like this that I really don't like how our beds are set up. 

 

I had a strange dream last night. Jerry and I were in a boat that floated in the air as well as on the water, and somehow I lost him and was looking for him. then ended up at a dinner table with strangers and the man at the table was trying to get me to drink something I know I won't drink, He even tried to spike my drink but I saw him do it and told him off. The alarm went off at that time and so I don't know how the rest of the dream was going to go.  Usually dreams like that, that make no sense, happen when something I don't expect is going to happen.  Any one else having strange dream's like this?

Once I had the dogs out this morning, I brought in all the leads so I could untangle them.  They were a mess. I had to do a lot of yard cleaning while I was out there, as well.  Jerry will take the dogs out but he refuses to use the pooper scooper to pick it up and toss it into the woods.  So on good eye days, I try to find as much as I can and give it a good toss into the woods or over the edge of the cliff. 

I need to take the dogs out again, back in a bit to write more....

 

There, The dogs have been out three times today. At least two more times to go... late afternoon before the sun goes down and then after 8 pm for the night.  The later the better so they can "last" until daylight tomorrow.  I'm sure all three cats will go out with the dogs, then cry to come back in not long after that.  They like to curl up around my feet and I can't stand that. They make my feet so hot. I end up kicking them off and then they move over to Jerry's feet.

 

 

 

 

 

Billie C.

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Up date on Me..

Up date on Me..

 

I had three appointments yesterday. The morning appointment was with an eye doctor. He can just examin and then recommend that you go to someone else.  I'll be going to Duke Medical in Jan for a consult on my eyes but it looks like I will have to have surgury on my right eye. I don't know anything about my left eye. I can't see much out of it and when I was doing to eye chart, I couldn't even tell that the largest letter was an E until she held a chart much closer to my face. All I could see was a white blur.  Jerry got to the eye doctors about 1 pm and my next appointment wasn't until 1 45.  That one was a dye contrast CAT Scan on my kidneys.  Because of the dye, I'm to not take my Metformin until I see the doctor again. From there was a quick trip down a different hall and the ultrasound on my thyroid gland was done. Of course, those giving the tests can't tell you any thing at all. ;I see the two doctors Monday afternoon. In the mean time, I am trying to not worry about what I may hear.

 

On top of all that, I have a head cold. constant cough. and when I cough, I wee, just a little bit... and with the Kidney stones, I'm to drink lots of water.. the dye needs to be washed out of my system as well, so more water.  Yikes. I'm beginning to think I slosh when I walk.  The head cold finally "broke" this morning and the post nasel drip has stopped.   I'm not sure what is safe to take and what is not. I did take a decongestant last night, it didn't help much.  I've taken a couple of naproxen sodium.  I have percaset and Oxie codon (spelling?) for the pain in the kidneys but I don't want to take any thing that strong unless I really need to.

 

I've lost some weight.  yesterday, I stepped on the scale and I'm down to 286.  I have met my goal of ending the year weighing less than I started the year. 

 

Billie C.



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Howdy.... Good Afternoon.

Howdy....  Good Afternoon. I hope this note finds you doing well.  I am at the office, doing laundry and there isn't any Wi-fi.  I came up here to also download my email and send a few things while I wait for the machines do their work.  Ah well. it is what it is. I'm just surprised that no one is here at the office yet.  I'll go look around the corner in a few minutes and find out if the office hours have changed again.  Today is a nice day. Saturday was gray and foggy all day long. If it wasn't foggy then it was smoke in the air from some forest fires that  are way away from her but the air stream was bringing the smoke up this way. We could smell the smoke every where we went. Yesterday wasn't as bad. it stayed cloudy but it was warmer.  While Jerry took a nap in the afternoon, I came up to the office to download my mail from the weekend and found Deb was soaking some of her Hubby's clothes in the sink. I knew she would be here soon, so I also down loaded a couple of book for the kindle reader on my PC.
Yesterday I got a pleasant surprise, I got two dollar coins in change. I could have asked him to take them back, but I collect them to spend at special events and if I find I'm getting more than a few then I know I have a good chance of going to an event.... I hope so.

 

Outside my door ...  We have a good breeze going, it's close to 70 and I don't have to wear a jacket even to drive the gold cart to do my laundry or take the trash to the trash bin. It's Sunny. The last three or four days have been cloudy and just plain out dreary. We had rain over night but it all blew out before the sun come up this morning.

 

The Dogs ... have been enjoying the cooler weather and I have given them more room on their leads to run and play with each other. The brown drive along has left and so there are only 5 campers up in our section. One has someone come in one day each week for a few hours, besides ours, two are being lived in full time and the other one is parked but not being lived it.  The other two full timers are hardly ever home during the week days so I can give the dogs a bit more lee way when it comes to barking and rough housing with each other in the afternoons.
 Rocky has become more playful with the cooler days and will even start a game with Barney. Macon is always ready for a good romp with Barney, as well.  We have finally taken the dogs for a ride in the cab of the truck. Two rides really. The first time was around the country block. The second was not nearly so far, it was to the trash bin and back home.

 

The Cats ... have discovered that I have an electric blanket and I turn it on at night. They all three want to cuddle up around my feet. I didn't have to turn it on last night, and two of the cats stayed outside last night. The third one slept with Jerry last night. They will come in around 7 PM. Stripes will try to lay on Jerry, if he's not on the couch then he tries to lay on my shoulder. Fuzzy tries to find a place on Jerry's lap. Tupelo goes straight back to the beds and is content to find a corner to stay in.

 

From the kitchen...
 Salad, Pasta with ground pork in the pasta sauce, Pudding for dessert. I think I better make cinnamon popcorn today after I finish up doing laundry because I need a fairly dry day to make it in and tomorrow looks like it may be rainy a bit. much cooler at least.

 

I am hearing...  The three dryers going. A jet went over head a bit ago. I hear the dry leaves tapping along the sidewalk because I have the door open.  The laundry room gets a heavy smell to it from time to time and needs aired out badly. 

 

I am wearing... brown sweat pants and a black shirt that has horses on it.

 

I am reading... Dragon Girl, and just started Amish White Christmas.

 

I am creating... some Santa Christmas ornaments. I printed out some Santa's last week . I found some frozen juice lids I had saved and used one to draw a circle around so I could cut out the Santa's to fit inside each. Painted each lid with white spray paint. Sprayed each Santa with Clear Paint (sealant) and used my Xyron to put glue on the backs of the pictures and set them in each lid. Now I'm debating on wether to pour some resin in each or just cover the rims with ribbon and put a magnet on the back of each.

 

I painted my finger nails with a brown I found at Wal mart that looks like it may be for a dark person to use for French Nails, then put a brass sparkle on top of that. I found a yellow sparkly polish at Dollar General and put that on one thumb to see how that looks over the brass and I like it. I need to figure out a way to make a card that tells me what polish I used and have it look like what is on my fingers.

 

One of my favorite things... watching the wild life around here. They have so much fun.

 

A few plans for the rest of today...
Put away the clean laundry
wash the spare kennel
make dinner, including pudding for our dessert
clear off the table so I can start sewing a dress I have cut out for Bailey

 

A few plans for the rest of the week...  Some baking, some cleaning. some packing, some organizing, Turn a yellow sweat shirt into a light jacket for a friend. I need to cut it, turn the edges and sew them down, then crocheted around the edges with some yarn.

 

Billie C.