Communist Take Over & This & That

   I don't do politics but I am stunned with all of the communist wins. What are "they" teaching our students?  Whom ever the President is - they usually lose congress in the mid-terms-a historical fact. Bit this opens the door now to a communist president-scary stuff.

  The weather is till pretty warm here in Missouri  considering we are in November now- we do still have a few warm days before the next big temperature drop-which comes this Friday. So I will need to bundle up as we are spreading  my husband's ashes in the lake off of a boat then  A small gathering of close friends and his sister and family. She lives in northern Illinois and is coming in today to help me with some things. This has been a difficult week so far. I am making myself eat so  not to lose any more weight. Stress and sadness s very rough on the body. It must eat up one's body weight. I am making myself eat more food then just breakfast and a main meal around 2 pm.

  How is your weather? Enjoy autumn we are finally getting some colors in the leaves now.

Found this photo online, looks close to what I have here

  

Good Morning Tuesday

   I am still seeing a hummingbird or two at the feeder and we are still warm here this week-high 80's and into the 90's all week, but we do have fall temperatures at night which I am liking-and then wake up to thick fog-so autumn is partially here in the Ozarks.

  Last night was my first full night of sleep in a very long time-so hoping that continues. I was looking into possibly changing hospice care.  One of the staff came out yesterday. Only thing that was really different is they had two doctors on staff. The one we have now has no doctors just one nurse practitioner-which I have always avoided using. Leaving the decision up to Larry. 

We are having issues with the new bed I purchased-one that lowers the front and back, and even has a massage feature, lights under the bed. Working on fixing a couple issues with it.

  Yesterday morning I started marking out some lines on my patriotic scroll. I don't have to think that much when stitching this-and I enjoyed stitching on the first one. I have been too tired to work on finishing Viola's slow stitch bag.

  So much to do in the flower bed areas-lots of weeds to pull-but we have had no rain-so waiting for that-otherwise I don't get the roots out. I really want to clean up these areas before winter.

 I am going to call our courthouse this morning and check if they have early voting starting this week. I filled out a mail in ballot for Larry, and I would rather go in early in October while the weather is still nice to drive in. Sometimes early November is not so nice.

  I have been wanting to bake some cookies-been putting it off as I need a new stove-along with other appliances. Lowes refused to deliver my order a few months ago do to my hill and steps-so will try Home Depot next time.

  Enjoy your Tuesday

  

Cool Down Has Arrived-& Catch Up

 Good morning Monday, Finally we have a cool down-it is 70 degrees at 6:20 am this morning, but the high today will be 75 F degrees with some rain-a long time coming this month for sure.

  Yesterday was a very stressful day getting the hospital bed in for Larry. I was told one thing from Hospice and got something else. Not happy with the main nurse-Larry does not like her much-so asked for a different nurse. Sometimes that will cause issues so we will see what happens this week. I have some "bosses" calling me today from hospice.

  I needed to re-arrange the furniture in the living room-thought it would be a better space for Larry and we can be together more. More light in this room as well but he watches totally different tv than I do so will probably watch some of my shows on the computer-we have streaming which I really like.

  I still have hummingbirds-really thinking I am getting more travelers now too so I will keep the feeders up til I don't have any more visitors.

  Wow the KC Chiefs are back-they are hungry for another super bowl I am thinking. Exciting game last night.  I stopped watching the Green Bay Packers they are terrible and in great need of a different coach in my opinion.  Notre Dame college-they have such excellent coaching there-they play better as a team than most NFL teams.

 Now that it is finally cooler I may see if I can bake something. I need to finish getting in new appliances before winter-a friend will help me with that. I have apples so perhaps an apple crisp-will make in a smaller sized cast iron skillet this time. and I have been in the mood for cookies.

  Have a good week ahead

 

 

Late afternoon update: in one of my Good Chop meat boxes recently I ordered a bag of Florida caught shrimp-decided to boil up some and see how they taste. Cooked up some brown rice and frozen peas for the side. Turned out delicious

Continued Extreme Heat

   Good morning Thursday, This seems like a very long week so far-some weeks are like that.

I checked the 10 day weather forecast this morning the high humidity and close to 100 F continues for the next several days-Looks like September cooler weather will show up middle of next week sometime. The heat wouldn't be quite so bad if not for the continued high humidity here. 

I still have had hummingbirds with travelers stopping by too over the last several days so I was back up to a couple dozen. This morning so far I just have a few hummingbirds-so more have traveled on  At the woods house, which is just a hour away, the hummingbirds pretty much travel on first week in September. Here at the lake I have had lots of hummingbirds further into September . I will miss them.

   For next year I will buy another pole for four more feeders-I had lots of orioles that stayed and had youngsters this year too. I had to stop feeding seed in the fall and winter months do to ---too many squirrels at destroying the feeders and eating all the seeds-ugh. There are soooo many squirrels and chipmunks here at the lake. At the woods house they pretty much stayed out in the woods. Smiles

I finally got a full night's sleep last night. I asked for an extra nurse visit yesterday which was very helpful. I was asked to reconsider talking with a social worker-again-so I decided to let her come out on Monday. She may have some sources to help me process all this-which I think I am doing ok with, but since we have no family to help she may have ideas. I no longer feel comfortable leaving the house for errands now.

My friends that help us-and live an hour away near our woods property came out yesterday to start cleaning up the mess from the tree trimmers-I chose poorly on that tree trimmer-very bad choice on my part. The scary part is he left one of the worst dead trees-it is split and dead-and would not be good to fall on our house-our guys are trying to figure out how to get it down safely.

I met them up in town to rent a wood chipper for the day. They got all the limbs mulched so I have big piles of that now. They will be back to cut all the wood into firewood-I said they could have it for their families that heat with woodstoves or sell it.  So they will be back for that soon. I do miss heating with wood-we had the best woodstoves there at the woods house.  There is a wood stove here at the lake house but she had a major chimney fire so that would need a new insert. I do not think I am strong enough right now either to carry the wood-I do love heat from a woodstove on chilly fall days and winter. This wood stove here has a flat top so I could cook on it too-which is nice in the winter. A big pot of chili is the best.

  I needed to wash a few pillows. I was washing the last two this morning-and one of those really blew up and was messing with  my washing machine-so won't be doing that again with that pillow which I have two of. Now to figure out how to get all the water out. I washed 4 pillows and this is the only one that did that.

 I do puzzles on jigsaw planet to give my mind something different to think about-mostly snoopy and the peanuts crew haha I am doing fall themed now I was going to share one but site not letting me copy and paste.

Found this photo online Snoopy usually has me smiling

We really need rain here too-everything is getting super dry.

 Do enjoy your upcoming weekend.

Meat Box Arrived

   I get excited when my meat box arrives. I tried a couple companies and I really like Good Chop They now are offering  Pacific ocean fish and Florida shrimp. The shrimp looks really good.

  For about a year or so now,  I get two meat boxes a year and also fish from Alaska. The fish from Alaska sadly now is getting too expensive except if I buy just a salmon box-which is my favorite fish anyways.

  We are hot and humid again now, and the race boats are flying by our window haha. For some reason I think they changed the date to this last weekend in August-before it was the third weekend but perhaps just how the calendar worked out this year. They can get very very loud.

 It's amazing what can be done if you just ask-we sold some more land and our realtor is coming to us for Larry and I to sign stuff. I have been asking Larry for the last 15 years or so that we need to change some legal things-"don't worry about it" has been his answer- Yesterday he is in panic mode we must---yes I know--so we can hire a traveling rotary for that too-they will pick up the legal papers for us who knew?? 

  This morning when our nurse came-she must have just noticed the hummingbirds. The feeders are near the steps-she was mesmerized by them-had never seen them up close before. Her and her husband are downsizing to a new home so I told her about feeding the orioles first and then the hummingbirds. She was excited-had me smiling.  I started out this year with one pair and it has built up to around a dozen hummers now. I think a couple more pairs found us-and I refill them every morning so they know they can depend on it.

  I am stitching on my scroll this morning. I have been a bit tired-but looking it up we already have seasonal allergies going on here. Another reason to stay indoors.

  Wow can you believe that Labor Day is just around the corner??  Enjoy your weekend

 

A New Week Ahead

   Good afternoon Monday,

We are nearing the end of August already. Usually by the end of August I am soooo ready for cooler weather and a break from the high humidity.

 The huge speed boat race was this weekend, but they moved it to another location on the lake-so we stayed much quieter here on this part of the lake where we live. We did see a handful of the speedboats which are always fun to watch-but not the constant weekend of them going back and forth in front of us-so that was really nice for a change. This is the first year that I did not watch it on the tv. I think they changed where they are broadcasting from so I would have needed to hunt out where to watch. Didn't miss it all that much. These are timed races that go on for two days with many different types and classes of boats. This does draw a huge crowd of people to the lake.  There was also another huge event going on as well.

  We had an oxygen crises early Sunday afternoon. The oxygen concentrator quit working-we have two tanks of oxygen but they each are barely two hours-so that was scary. Do to all the traffic on the highway with those lake events- the oxygen delivery was an hour late-I was on the phone with the fire department to see if they had oxygen or not when the delivery arrived-That was a bit frightening for sure.

  I have exceptional hearing, and these concentrators are noisy-this new one is sooo much louder-ugh-will take me several days to adjust to it so I can sleep. 

  I did get the cold press papers I ordered for the gelli plate-but I was in the mood to continue stitching on my civil war scroll. I am over half way finished now-and am enjoying the stitching.  Will share photos when finished.

  I got a huge surprise when I visited Angie's blog today, so am a bit leary to visit again. There are a lot of ads that pop up now that I need to close to read her blog-Not sure if everyone gets this or if it is the way my computer security is set up-but when I closed one of them down-I got warning warning attack-so I turned my computer off right away and restarted it.  Just wanted to pass this on in case any of you happened to get this as well. I do enjoy her site very much, but that was a bit scary for sure.

  Over the weekend I baked up a peach upside down cake with a new to me gluten free cake mix. It turned out so delicious. My camera does not take indoor photos well so I did not get a good enough one to share. I haven't baked in a long time so it was a nice sweet treat-perfect for breakfast too.

Happy Monday and new week

School starts soon here

 Afternoon update: Sadly Dolly Pardon has passed She will be missed by many

We Hit 100 F Degrees

   I went up to get the mail and Wow felt like it was even hotter along with the still very high humidity And it was-we just hit 100 F degrees  At this point it is a waste of well water to hand water my garden flowers-sadly Being perennials the plants should survive going into next year though.

  I am enjoying stitching on my civil war era reproduction fabrics on the scroll. A really nice way to enjoy the fabrics as I hand stitch. Probably stitched another 8 inches today and yesterday.

  The weather here is really extreme. I have the thermostat set at 78 and the a/c is running more now with this hot and humid weather-hopefully by September or at least by October the temps will drop and get rid of the high humidity. Some hot summers like this one will carry into September

 A lot of boat activity on the lake though-many enjoy hot summers on the water.

     For the last two years I have had a hard time getting my weight back up to 110 or higher. This week, after making myself eat more food through out the day my weight  has made it to 111-so happy dance haha.  Now working on getting my hair to grow again. Stress is hard on the body for sure. My hair is soooo thin now. Trying a couple herbal oils to help with hair growth and breakage. 

 This might be the weekend for that big speed boat race event. More going on at the other end of the lake, so we are enjoying a more peaceful lake this summer-loving that. Parts of this lake have gone way too commercial now-sad to see-as this was always a family & fishing lake.

 Happy weekend

Extreme Hot Summer Continues & This and That & About Pirate Ship

   We did get one day of relief from the extreme heat here but we are back to high 90's with humidity.

  Most of the orioles are back on their insects diet so I see just a few at the feeders now. I so enjoyed watching them all summer and then seeing the youngsters as well.  We have more hummingbirds now too. I am back to taking the feeders down just before dark as a racoon or something is knocking them down now.

It's been a rough week as care giver but we talked it over and I am getting help from home health. Using the same service as before when husband first came home from the hospital almost 3 years ago now. 

I am working on controlling emotions and sadness but I will stay strong-as needed. I am at the time realizing I need help and can't continue alone Lack of sleep does not help me either. I did go sound asleep and woke up around 3 am-caught up on emails and then finished up a puzzle on Jigsaw Planet. Around 4 am Larry needed help-now to get my emotions back in check, drink a stress relief herbal tea-and lay back down for a bit.

  My right leg finally feels a bit better today. My knee was swollen and in pain from working on the hill in hot sun trimming the bushes. Then a couple days ago I got bit by something-perhaps a spider-had two marks together on my foot-which swelled up a lot. Online said to take an antistamine . I use Alavert now I can no longer take Benydril as it makes me very "high"  I can not take much in medicine, even asprin makes me nauseated so I use the herb white willow bark instead.

  went to the large Amish food store with our friends a few days ago and got some delicious huge cantaloupe that the Amish grow and sell. They also had some really nice fresh peaches so I bought enough to freeze-ended up with 12 half pints. Got the last of their fresh blueberries too. It is about an hour drive from where I live so I enjoyed getting out of the house and going along with my nearby neighbors. They go there quite often-so when they went again yesterday they picked up two more melons. I will freeze some of the melon this time. It is about the only thing Larry wants to eat now. No more blueberries though, I wish I would have bought more.

  The other day comments were working for me so will see what happens.  I am almost finished stitching the third slow stitch bag. and then can work on assembling this one and mailing it off.  Thinking I will take a break from the bags and stitch to one of  my meditative scrolls that I have set up to stitch.

  Happy new week

  Oh and when comments were not working for me during the time of the pirate ship post-I wanted to answer comments about that-We see this pirate ship go up and back since we moved here-Only runs during the summer months. I was thinking this was a tourist ship-I found information about it here and about their restaurant connected with the ship here

Monday morning update: I can comment back here this morning-but visiting blogs-some post some not-it is what it is

  

Delivery Day for Appliances

   We are still hot and humid here-typical for Missouri Ozarks though. I spent a lot of hours yesterday morning, getting this gravel pile swept up and found boards to hopefully keep it from sliding down the hill. That was actually a big job.

  This morning our nearby friend here at the lake moved the suburban to the top of hill and into our neighbor's driveway so it would be out of the way for the Lowes truck. Then after that cleaned up the area that was under the suburban-this hill is so steep that gravel and soil comes down with the rain storms.

 I had just enough room in the very old chest freezer in the basement for the frozen items that were in the frig. That was a good thing. I also went through old bottles of things that we don't use any more and filled up about 6 wal mart bags full for the garbage pickup- which was early this morning-so that was good. It is amazing what was kept in the frig-especially since Larry's accident-that we don't use any more..

  The window for the delivery is 1 to 5 that is really a long time frame. not sure what we will eat today around 2 pm. Larry is getting worse-which is expected so we may just have yogurt and fruit today and somethings else later.

  I took a couple of photos

That stone pile was a job but now it is contained more. We bought this for projects before Larry's accident-and it was Very expensive we've used about half of it so far.

This hill is pretty steep and always intimidated me so is why I park up on the spot on top of this-I should learn to master this hill.  I am looking at new Equinox 2027 (online) for a new car for me-I need one soon to stay safe. Our friend that mowed the grass for me suggested it-he says his Mom and Grandma love theirs.  The dealerships near here closed down a few years ago so when I am ready will go to Lebanon which is near the woods home and am familiar with. Do any of you any have this car?

   I hadn't talked with a long time friend in Wisconsin for over a year now so I Facebooked him around 11 pm last night and he says I am calling you.  We talked til 3 am smiles. A nice catch up with a good long time friend. They live in Wisconsin but move down to Florida in September and stay til Wisconsin warms up.  I gotten woken up after two hours sleep this morning-this will be a long day smiles.

  Happy Tuesday

  Update more stress--the appliances won't make it through the opening on top of the steps so have to get a railing off--craziness because we have gotten very large pieces down here before stressed and not happy