Monthly Archives: November 2011

New mantra; never make plans…

     I should know by now that when I make plans, something is going to happen.  I had planned to go over to the MIL’s house today to get some work done.  Well, that’s not going to happen.

     Last night, while standing at the sink washing my grill pan, my back suddenly went out on me.

     I hadn’t bent, twisted, turned, or lifted anything.  I wasn’t knocked about by a Bull Terrier either.  Go fig.  I’ll be spending the day on ice in my chair or bed.

Happy birthday Gavin–a few days late.

Baby Gavin

     Ten years ago I got a phone call from Nova Scotia.  Rosalyn Forrest told me that there was one white male puppy in a litter born on the first of November.  He was mine if I wanted him.  I told her YES! 

     Eight weeks later he arrived at the airport, had to go through customs, and then went to meet his new Daddy at work.

     DH was surprised, since he hadn’t expected the pup to arrive for another two weeks. 

     He’s been my baby since the day he arrived.  Thank you for calling me back then, Rosalyn.

Koi anyone?

Pond

     It saddens me, but I think we’ll have to give up the pond.  DH can’t do any of the work and I can’t keep up with what all needs to be done.  It breaks my heart because I love it so much but I need to cut back on some of the heavy work around here.

     We’ll have to empty it and fill it in.  Maybe I’ll put a screeened Gazebo in its place.  It would be a nice place to picnic or read and be protected from the bugs. 

     If you are in Eastern PA and could give some large, friendly Koi a good home , we need to talk.

Whatever happened to entertainment?

 

     I find that this season’s new shows are all a complete disappointment.  The big three networks have fallen on their faces and someone in each network needs to fall on his/her sword.   If only the shows were as good as their trailers looked.

     The thing is, I know there’s some fabulous talent out there.  I meet brilliant writers all the time.  Shame on the networks for taking the cheap and lazy way.

     I watch TV for entertainment not to watch idiots make asses of themselves–read that as I hate ‘reality shows and dysfunctional celebrity crap.’  

     I want a good story.  No wonder I spend so much time with my Kindle and computer and so much less time in front of the TV.

Updates on DH and the snow damage

     DH is much improved from his several days of muscle spasticity to our great relief.  His recovery is slow and we hope he will recover fully.

     The night of the dreaded Halloween snowstorm you could hear trees and branches snapping and popping all over the place.  All I heard today was the sound of chain saws.

     I have to somehow pull two broken magnolia limbs out of that tree and so far it looks like only one more tulip tree branch I’ll need to get down from that tree.  How you ask?  You got me by the short ones.  If my tree saw won’t reach I don’t know what I’ll do.

     Then I need to start raking leaves and dragging them out to the street for clean up.  The way I’m feeling now, this is going to take forever.

The after storm clean up begins

     We had sun yesterday and the snow began to melt away.  I managed to pile all but one tree limb in the yard in preperation to cutting them into small, manageable sizes. 

     I will have to drag the long tree limb saw out of the shed and see if I can reach and drag down the remaining broken magnolia branch today.  Then I can begin to cut up all of them and see if I can get them out for disposal before the city stops picking up yard waste.