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Pictures today.
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Posted in my garden
Tags: Author, Care giving, Disability, Gardening, Gardens, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Twenty rules I try to live by…
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Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Yay! I have started the vegetable garden.
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Yesterday G and I stopped at a favorite nursery and while I loaded up on some lovely vegetable plants, G found flowers to replace what the wet weather and bugs destroyed in her garden.
I now have six tomato plants, two pepper plants, a nice group of four basil plants, and four eggplants ready for the pots beside the house. Not bad for my first load. I also bought some Rudbeckia, lavender, and zinnias. In a week or so I’ll go to the larger nursery we usually go to and pick up more veggies for the back garden. I want a few more varieties of peppers, bush cucumbers, and some early eggplants.
I did plant some tomatoes and the basil in pots yesterday. Today I’ll finish the job and get the flowers planted in the pots on the front porch.
You all have a good one!
Posted in my garden
Tags: Author, Disability, Doggoned, Gardening, Gardens, Kitchen garden, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Reading the spam is a riot
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I am glad that even though Akismet marks something as spam, I still get a chance to read it.
You know it is spam when:
Someone comments that my page for comments on the Doggonedmysteries series has been an invaluable resource for their research. You know they didn’t read or even look at the post.
Someone writes that my post was brilliantly written, marvelously articulate and they are talking about a slide show, they didn’t look at the post.
Then there are the ones that go in the other direction and thoroughly insult you and your work. Most are poorly written and are easily spotted as ‘English is not even their third language.’
I find it disappointing when I check my page and there is no spam to read and give me a laugh. Yeah, I am weird.
You all have a good one!
Let the grilling and gardening begin.
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The grill is clean! I am happily grilling our dinners again. Next would be to get the hammock stand set up. Yes, I am running very late this year. LOL!
What can I say, we had so much other stuff going on that I got way behind on getting things together here at home. It looks as though we are taking baby steps but getting there. Another thing to do is see if I can still find tomato, peppers, and eggplant for my pots. We’re a bit late on them too.
Dinner was grilled lemon & herb infused boneless chicken breasts served with veggies and a large salad with NY cheesecake for dessert. The Curmudgeon enjoyed it. Does anyone have any special grilling recipes they’d like to share?
You all have a good one!
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Doggoned, Food, Gardening, grilling, healthy cooking, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Lovely walk yesterday
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Posted in healthy living
Tags: Author, Disability, Doggoned, Family, healthy living, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Sometimes people are wonderful!
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The day before yesterday was a horrible day here. The Curmudgeon’s MS knocked him for a heck of a loop. I had to get G’s husband over to help get him up from the floor. Knowing we were heading over to the courthouse the next day stressed me out. I could not see him trying to walk into the building at all.
Yesterday we had to go to the courthouse to the registrar of wills office to meet our attorney and do a ton of paperwork. I couldn’t sign the papers for The Curmudgeon, he HAD to be there. Fortunately, he had a better day and was able to walk into the building. It wouldn’t have been necessary because they were willing to come out to the car to do it all! He didn’t have to stand, they took us to a small office where he could sit comfortably. Before we knew it and with a minimum of fuss it was over and we were on our way home.
I can’t get over how accommodating they were for him. It’s sad, but I’ve found that this is a rare thing.
Thank you registrar of wills! You were wonderful!
You all have a good one!
Posted in MS related
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Life, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer, Writing
I took the camera to the rose gardens yesterday…
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Posted in My blog
Tags: Author, Caregiver, City Parks, Doggoned, Gardening, Gardens, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis
Do you meditate?
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I am trying to get the hang of meditating. For someone like me, it isn’t an easy task. I do have one lovely guided meditation CD that I’m hoping will work and there’s another on its way to me. I’ve always had trouble grounding and centering.
I wasn’t raised in a family where meditation was a daily occurrence. You took things as they came, put one foot in front of the other, and pushed on. You didn’t whine and complain.
I’m hoping to ‘get it’ to get that centered, grounded, and relaxed state of balance I so need now. I felt as though I’d almost made a breakthrough in a yoga class I took a couple of years back but soon afterwards the class ended, the place upped the prices, and I had to stop going.
I have a feeling that if I succeed, I will have the tools to jump-start my creativity. So I ask you, do you meditate? Have you been able to find your balance? Do you have any suggestions?
You all have a good one.
Posted in healthy living
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Life, Meditation, Multiple Sclerosis, Spirituality, Writer
Really? More rain?
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All I can say is holy crap! Another day of very little sunshine mixed with many thunderstorms and lots of rain. I may never get a chance to snooze in my hammock again. One day of sunshine in two weeks is a good reason for getting a life raft.
My basement may never be dry again. If I set up the hammock stand, it will likely sink up to its hooks. When you walk in the back of the yard the mud sucks at your shoes like a black hole. There has been so much mud tracked in that I could grow crops on the back porch floor.
I swear the Koi have made a mud slide from the pond to the yard.
You all have a good one. I’m just hoping for a dry one.
Me buy clothes alone? Never!
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So, I admit it. I’m a real fashion disaster. That’s why I never go shopping for clothes alone. Friends never let the fashion impaired shop alone.
The other day I dragged G and Annie to the mall to help me buy jeans. Yes, I am even helpless in buying myself decent jeans. They were a great help because I came home with a pair of jeans and a pair of crop jeans.
Later I helped them both spend some money on themselves. Turn about is fair play, right?
You all have a good one!
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