Monthly Archives: March 2012
My pond is already shaping up
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Does this mean that I shouldn’t think about filling it in and finding homes for my Koi yet? I do know that last year I wasn’t able to keep up with the plants we had in there. The one was over-growing everything both inside and outside the pond. Do not get lizard tail plants unless you have a lot of room.
We tore the lizard tail out and pulled the pot it was in out of the pond. I’m hoping that’s the last I see of that plant. It was while trimming it back in August when I had my heart attack.
My Koi look happy and healthy. The little black one is fast catching up in size to the others. They are mooching food already the finny pigs. This mild winter we had has them fully ready for warm weather food.
You all have a good one.
Posted in my garden
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Doggoned, Home and Garden, Koi, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Water garden, Writer
Happy birthday to me!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I never thought I’d be quite as happy to celebrate a birthday like I was when I was a child. However, I am! I am happy, tickled, delighted, and beside myself with joy that I am celebrating my birthday today.
For those of you who are just starting to read my blog, I must tell you that I have good reason to be this excited. I had a heart attack back on August 17, 2011. I almost didn’t make it to this birthday, but by cracky here I am!
I’ve made lifestyle changes that I hope will give me many more birthdays. Today I celebrate!
I will dance and sing like no one is watching and listening. I will get silly any time I desire to do so. I will laugh. I will find joy wherever I can. I will speak my mind. I will choose my family and friends and will love them fiercely.
You all have a good one! I know I will!
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Birthday, Bull Terriers, Doggoned, Happy Birthday, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
May the wind at your back
not be the result
of the corned beef you had for lunch!
Dance a jig and sing a fine Irish song for me!
Posted in Holidays
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Family, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
2 days of garden pictures, can you tell?
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Posted in my garden
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Gardening, Gardens, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Unbelievable weather and more energy, can’t be beat!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I can’t believe how incredible the weather has been the last several days. Never have we had such a warm March. I’m loving it.
Along with the weather came the chance for more exercise–going for walks and I have taken full advantage of it. What I find remarkable is I am starting to have more energy again. (It’s about friggin’ time!)
Yesterday, and the day before, after my walks, I got out a bucket of scrub water, climbed up and down a ladder several times and the ceiling fans in my living room are now sparkling clean. I am amazed at how filthy they were. That’s what I call having more energy.
I might even tackle the fan in the bedroom next. Then there are all those floors that are in need of a good scrub…
You all have a good one!
Posted in Weather related
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Implosion imminent!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
If the warranty runs out does it mean the item is soon going to implode? In our case, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. That would be a normal occurrence.
Nothing is made to last these days. Planned obsolescence is on what today’s manufacturers depend. Appliances no longer last thirty years as they did in the past. Today, you are lucky to have things last more than a year or two.
We received notification yesterday that our ‘new’ washing machine’s warranty will soon run out. What????
You all have a good one.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Disability, Doggoned, Humor, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Planned obsolescence, Writer
Great day to go walking.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
So I didn’t win any money on the scratch-off ticket I bought yesterday. It didn’t mean it was a bad day. In fact it was a good day.
The weather was lovely. G and I went for our walk in the Rose Gardens park. This time we did the whole trail and used each exercise station except for one that was occupied at the time.
When we finished, we both remarked as to how good we felt. The entire walk took us a little over half an hour. We plan to do it again two more times this week. We’d like to get a small group together to do these walks with us.
We do hope to work out an exercise plan that will take us through all the parks in the city this spring and summer. We may do a week at one then a week at another. We’re not quite sure. We need to factor in a few things like what do we do when the weather is bad? What if someone is sick? If we’re running late getting there, do we call the other members of the group?
Posted in healthy living
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Walking, Writer
Was that an earthquake?
Posted by doggonedmysteries
My built-in Bullie earthquakes regularly move the stuff in my curio cabinet. It’s reached the point where I have actually taken that sticky stuff you find on credit cards and things they send you in the mail and put it on the bottom of a few of my knickknacks to keep them in place.
It sort of works. However, when I go to dust I have to pull it off the bottoms so I can move the things.
The curio cabinet’s glass is also in constant danger. Have you ever seen a Bull Terrier prance about with a large bone in her moth, whipping her head from side to side in a victory dance? “Whee, I stole my brother’s bone!”
Have you ever watched a Bull Terrier hucklebutt and nearly brain himself on a glass door?
If you haven’t, you haven’t lived with one.
You all have a good one!
Posted in Dog related
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Doggoned, Dogs, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Pets, Writer
If the dogs could have, would they have helped him to his feet?
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I wish we could predict or at least have some idea ahead of time of when The Curmudgeon will have a bad day. At least then I might be awake and downstairs when he can’t get up from the floor or ground.
I really wish we didn’t have to worry about that sort of thing at all. However, we do. He had a bad day today. He told me he had to sit down on the floor on the back porch for a bit yesterday morning when he felt as though he was going to fall.
Later the same morning, and still before I got up he was on the floor in the kitchen.
The dogs were no help. They assumed that he was down on the floor to play with them! The Curmudgeon says that Gavin kept poking him in the ribs and back while Patty tried to get in some kisses. They do love their Daddy. It’s bad enough that he was struggling to get up, but then, with a case of the giggles, it was even more difficult for him to get to his feet.
You all have a good one.
Posted in Dog related, MS related
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Dogs, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Keep your eyes on your goals
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Even though I hadn’t done much writing since August, it didn’t mean that I wasn’t champing at the bit to do so. The words just weren’t coming. I do believe the dam has developed a crack.
I finished a chapter the other day and I am at present working on another. I won’t jinx it by saying that I’m writing again. Let’s just say, I am working on writing again. My goal is to get back into a groove where I am writing at least several hundred words a day.
The goal after that is to get back up to a thousand or more words a day and then the next goal is to finish the friggin’ books that have been staring at me for months at a time!!!
Wow, I have goals again!
You all have a good one and keep your eyes on your goals. It’s all one step at a time.
Posted in Writing
Tags: Author, Books on writing, Craft of writing, Doggoned, Fiction, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Novel writing, Writer
Walking again was wonderful!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
G and I went for our walk at the Rose Gardens park yesterday. They’ve put in new exercise stations along the path. We had great fun trying them out. Since this was my first walk in the new shoes, we walked half the park only. There’s no need to begin this walking for better health project with blisters or very sore muscles.
Weather permitting, we plan to do this at least once a week. We had fun, we got in our walk, and we did some bonus exercises at the stations.
Next time we’ll add the south half of the park to our walk. I’m looking forward to checking out the exercise stations over there. None of them so far were difficult and all were rather fun.
You all have a good one!
Posted in healthy living
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, diet and exercise, Disability, Doggoned, Life, Physical exercise, Writer
When I was a child…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I loved to take things apart to see how they worked. Under no circumstances was that ever encouraged. I was scolded or punished when caught. I was a girl! Girls don’t do that! They would give me another Barbie doll or some such thing. I hated Barbie dolls. For Pete’s sake would it have killed them to give me an Erector set?
Had I been a boy, I probably would’ve been encouraged for having such curiosity.
If you’re punished and scolded enough you stop doing those things that brought the world down upon your head. As fascinating as mechanical things were to me, I quit exploring their internal workings.
If I’d been encouraged, sent to classes for this, who knows what wonders I would have brought forth?
If you have a daughter, never tell her she can’t do something amazing. I might have done something spectacular with a little encouragement and support.
You all have a good one!
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer, Writing
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