Sandy, what a beautiful little princess you have there!!

I'm on my way to bed and I wasn't going to post but I had to say that I agree 100% with everyone else.  Fe is absolutely adorable!  And I can't believe it's 5 years already! 

Good night all!  I'm really worn out and tomorrow is going to be another day like today!  I love them all but I have to sleep!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy Spring day tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Thursday evening already. This week has been a very trying one for our family.  The week started out very bleak for Michele, but the last two days have shown some improvements.  Of course any improvements are just wonderful to hear.  She is slowly starting to get a bit stronger. The decision was made yesterday to start radiation on her entire brain. This has not been a treatment plan they ever wanted to do, hence the three gamma knife procedures that she did have done on smaller regions. They did treatment #2 today and 5 more will follow each day.
The goal is to get her stronger so she can get home as soon as possible!

SANDY, I have already seen this darling picture of Fe, today on FB.  SHE IS DARLING.  ALWAYS has been. 

LLOYD, I feel sick to my stomach after reading your post about your home being taken away from you by this person that you thought of as a friend. I have to admit it,  I NEVER thought you could possibly loose this case😡
I am so sad for you and Nancy.

Tomorrow I go to see my surgeon.  I will get my sutures out, I am sure.  Then I know I will be told what PT he will want me to start. Problem being.....he is used to working on athletes and not old ladies that are not in great shape!  I am hoping he will agree to let me have some in home PT to start.

Enjoy the visit with your girls, JANE.

Pleasant dreams to all.

Jenny

Sandy, she has gorgeous eyes.... and doesn't even need make up! Seriously, she is & at any age, will be a beautiful person, the kind that show up on magazine covers.

Did I mention that when I went out to take the motorhome to have the propane tank filled so the RV doctors can work on it next week to find the leak & de-winterize... but it was DEAD. Andy got over tonight & checked it out... 5 year battery about a year old so covered, but I have to get it there to replace. That's on the schedule for tomorrow morning, then on to fill the propane & hope it doesn't leak out again before it gets to the next stage.

I think I'd like to run away from home withOUT cats and motorhome. I'm feeling so guilty tonight because I yelled at Tom for marking a box sitting on the floor in the hall... so wouldn't let him go to my bedroom all day & he's out tonight & it's cold, he didn't even eat his supper. I really hurt his feelings. I do think he is forgetting his "house manners" he has been outside so much lately, but he is getting old, too. I'm ready to part with the motorhome but know when all's well I will change my mind. Too much stress all at once. The eyes, company in the house is even a strain when not used to anyone around 24/7. Plus all the things that have gone wrong. I know, could be worse. 

So, good night to all. Sweet dreams and God Bless. Love ya all. Shirley

Good to see you Jenny, and hope the days will be better for Michele. I have nothing to complain about compared with your whole family. When one hurts the whole family is in pain. Love to you all.

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Good morning...

Going to be a nice day here. NO SNOW! Kyle needs to pick up some supplies at the lumber yard and if the grocery store isn't lined up back to PA USA I will pick up some essentials.

Jenny, praying for miracles..

Jane, hope you can relax some today.

Shirley, that motorhome sure has given you grief. Lots of work involved in keeping it  on the road.

Phyllis, Joy and Gloria hope your day is one that you enjoy.

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

Good Morning!  Cindy is up and checking in with her job.  Nice that she can take off and bring the essentials with her! 

AMY, let me know if you want me to get in line and save you a space until you can get here to take it yourself!

Gotta go take the doggies for a walk.  I've inherited Cooper so Frankie can spend time with her cousin, Courtney who is Cindy's daughter.  No rest today!  Cindy wants to do a little "country sight seeing" and I'm going with her!  She has plans for dinner tonight but Christy will be arriving from Maryland around 7:30.  I love it!

Gotta go take the doggies for a walk!  Enjoy your day!  Prayers continue for the heroine of this group!  God bless Michele and her whole family!

Considering the terrible things that others here are dealing with I hesitate to say anything about myself but I will tell a little anyway.

For sometime I've been having a problem with my left foot and have been very worried that I was going to lose it.  I finally was able to see a specialist yesterday and he gave me the "good news/bad news".  I have a vascular condition called "acrocyanosis".  I will not lose my foot and I will not have to have surgery.  But, there is nothing that can be done about it so I will just have a purple foot and recurring pain, apparently for the rest of my life.  With a few aids such as pain medicine, elevation, compression stockings, etc.  I will be able to live with it.  It is caused by slowing or sluggish circulation that is depriving the tissue in the foot and lower leg of oxygen.  Not enough to destroy tissue but enough to cause some problems.  Not terribly common but not unexpected in a 91 year old.  But, it can be dealt with and I count myself very lucky.

I am so sorry for Lloyd's loss of his home but maybe it is time to find a smaller place in town and take life a little more slowly now that his heart is giving him some problems.

I'm sorry, too, for the not so good news about Michelle's on-going battle with cancer.  She and her Dr. Dave and the whole family are always in my prayers.

Take care, All.

Good morning everyone. Surprise, I am actually posting this morning. Had a good 7 hours sleep last night. Been lucky getting 3  hours sleep la tely then doze on and off all day. I am so lucky  to hve Yvette here  5 days. She is a pretty good cook and she makes sure I have meals  for the week ends. Las t  Sunday my oldes t son and DIL invi ted me out for dinner. Shock all my family here was there except one grand daughter who had to work. The res taurant was crowded bu t son had reservation. Looked like all family groups. My little grea t grandson came up to me with a big hug and handed me a card he made and inside he put some of his stickers. It now resides on my fridge.
Thank you for the birthday wishes. Hard to believe I am the youngest of my siblings and older than any of the others were when they passed away.

Hope it  starts feeling like spring here soon. Was 33 to start the day.

Have a good day and stay safe.

Phyllis , the good news sure out weighs the bad . I can't help but wonder would heat help your foot?

Gloria, so good to see you! Time with family anymore is so precious.  Happy to read the Yvette is taking good care of you..she is a gem to have.

Back to work..

Good morning from the Interior! It's 34 this morning and, as usual, these days, to hit mid-fifties as a high. The snow is receding, and everything is brown, awaiting warmer weather. I wasn't able to get out and am also waiting for warmer weather and better days.

Phyllis, I was sorry to hear about your left foot and hoping that you will have better days with pain medication, stockings, and care. I wonder, along with Amy, if applied heat would help?

Gloria, it is so nice to see you posting and that you got some sleep! I'm glad you had time with family, and what a sweet great-grandson! It's nice to hear you and Yvette are back together again!

Good morning Jane! It looks like dogs and kids are back together at your house! Enjoy!

Good morning Amy! I didn't realize you lived that close to Jane or PA? It seems like you and Jane are always on the go with one errand or event or more. You'd probably be dangerous together if you lived closer. Between the two of you, you'd put things right!

Patricia.  we are 46° at the moment and a nice sunny day out. We just came back from getting 30 bags of mulch and now I need to find the energy to spread it around the trugs.

Jane and I do live far apart but we are close in heart. My son has met with Jane and I am so envious of him. He sometimes stops at the Walmart she worked at.

 Talked with my neighbour, the man he took to the hospital  on Monday was given 2-3 weeks and to get his affairs in order...seems the 2-3 weeks was generous as he passed away last night. That makes two from this area and both had cancer. I really HATE that word.

Now I had better get my rear in gear and get  something done. I did come across a saying and thought  how fitting. Today I am doing nothing because I started doing it yesterday and I wasn't finished..I'm no quitter .

Wonderful! "Today I am doing nothing because I started doing it yesterday and I wasn't finished..I'm no quitter . "

Patricia, you hang in there and finish that job!

Simplifying English for The Americans | Michael McIntyre

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I'm heading for the haystack before the zzzzs come after me.  I'm beat right down to my sox and maybe even further.  We did more walking and talking today than I've done all year so far and probably more than I'll do for the rest of the year.  I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! 

Good night my friends!

Good night, Jane... and all the family! Sweet dreams and God Bless EveryFriend that stops by. Happy to see some missing faces (Joy, Gloria, Phylls).. Love ya'all.... Shirley

Good morning...

We are starting off at 42° this morning and a sunny day when the sun wakes up.

We have a busy morning ahead of us,first a truck load of wood is to come. Wish it was self piling but it isn't . Then between 9 and 9:30 the folks are coming to pick up their trug. After that is Callies domestic duties ,on the bright side laundry can be hung out.

Jane , have fun with your family.

Better get ready, don't wish to be caught in my night attire!

Enjoy your day  and stay safe..

patricia...I am busy doing nothing, but I'm two weeks behind...

Don, you're an inspiration!  

We had a busy day! Right from 7:57 am when our load of firewood came, next the folks to pick up their trug and possibly order another one. Next we high tailed it ot the lumber store for more plastic and doweling. Back home Kyle worked on the tops/covers for two  of our trugs while I worked on the front garden laying down plastic them black mulch over top......all 30 bags of it.  During this time two people asked about a trug and one ordered one for next Fri. I don't think either one of us will need any rocking tonight..

Is this a compliment or not??  The folks that picked up the trug, her husband said while talking about covid that if he got it it would likely kill him at his age..he is a smoker which doesn't help the lungs. When I told him our age he said WOW I didn't think you were a DECADE..yup DECADE......(thats old) older than me...

My ha ha for the day...

Going to do a lot of nothin g if Don hasn't done it all on me..

Amy,  what is a trug? 

thanks

Sandy 

Today was a VERY busy day!  I made a good breakfast for my two daughters who spent the night here and for me, too.  Then took Mickie for a walk (Christy took Cooper).  Then we all got showered, dressed and Cathy arrived.  We went to lunch at "THE FENCE" (a local drive-in and then spent a couple hours walking the three floors at a local Antiques, and second hand store.  It's almost a block long and just about as wide as it is long.  We all came back to my house and the girls talked a while and then two of them left and I took a nap. 

We were invited to Cathy's (I thought) for supper but it turned out to be a surprise birthday party for me at the local hotel dining room.  We had a room to ourselves and everyone was there.  I was surprised out of my socks!

When we came home, we took the doggies out and collapsed.  Cindy has gone to bed, Christy is getting ready to go and I'm on my way to the haystack!  I wish you all a peaceful nicght's sleep and a happy Spring day tomorrow! 

AMY, congratulations on looking decades younger than you are!  Keep up the good work!

Good Morning everyone. I have been playin catchup. I am at least two days Behind Here. well I think what you call a trug Is what I call raised beds. I have to re build Mine they fell over and came apart when I was moving them. Nancy wanted the closer to the back door so she would not have to walk out to the greenhouse. my was 16ft long, consist of four x four one foot deep Plastic tubs, with bows out of PBC pipe over the top. with rails about two foot on the side of them where the venial was fastened , so the bottom 2 foot could be raised up to let air pas through. Now I just need to get some get up and go to fix them. Have a good day.

Lloyd

Good morning..

Another fantastic day in the making and a day of rest.
Cloudy with a threat of rain today...temp is 38 °

We are just going to do a lot of nothing today....get meals and that is about it.

Sandy, the best way I can explain trug is like Lloyd said a raised garden bed but this one is on legs..sort of like a manger on legs. Check them out here..

https://www.walmart.ca/en/vegtrug/N-1291603

Jane, what a lovely surprise!!! You have special children, but then you're a SPECIAL Mom.

I do think there will be one job done and that is a cat nap at some point today.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning, Every Friend!  Got my eye drops in, one cat fed & 2 to go, then dress & off to church by 7:00 am. Tom usually just barely makes it home before I leave on Sunday mornings, Callie has taken to sleeping in her heated bed in the garage (she has a self feeder, water & litter box out there so what more can a girl need?) and Tiger slept in the basement bedroom last night. It is piled with pillows & other "stuff" to keep them off, but Tiger found one comfy spot & already has it fur laden so I'm leaving her be. Most of the time she sleeps with me but think we both sleep sounder each in our own beds.

Jane, what a delightful "gotcha" party! For sure they all enjoyed the surprise as much as you did, and to be honest, I'm enjoying reading about it. Time to break out from this year of seclusion, thanks for sharing with us!

Better get a move on. Lloyd, I will take a photo of my "trug" when I get home from church. We do leave right after Communion so I can get out of the lobby crowd. We now have part of the pews un-divided but one section still every other pew blocked off & only family members side by side. We have a new big church so plenty of room, it's that getting out that concerns me, with such close contact, lots of people. This is the 3rd new/bigger building in 11 years, the happiest church I've ever been in and a lot has to do with the hard working Priest whose family lived on a farm in the same county & his siblings still do. His mother died this past year but his father is still living. His assistant is from Oklahoma and he is equally up-beat & even younger.

Back to my trug, I never heard of one until Amy started talking about them. My kids took the hint & got me one for Christmas (or birthday) & recently put it together & we filled with dirt a few weeks ago. My Early Girl tomato plants already have blooms as does a single "Beefsteak" that had a few blooms when I bought it. Big Boys are later. All the lettuce varieties, including one pack of endive & one spinach, bibb & a mixture, are up & I'm ready to eat but will have to wait a while yet! It survived that late snow but hope I don't have to cover again.

Wishing all a Super Sunday, it's in the 40s & to be warm today. Love ya, all...Shirley

A good Sunday Evening HELLO to y'all.

First and foremost...AGAIN  I thank you ALL for the prayers and support you give for Michele.  She has been in a lot of pain today from the chest tube in her lung, but Dave said it is draining well and hopefully she can have it removed tomorrow 🙏🙏

Seem I have not posted since my visit to the surgeon.  I thought sure I had😩  The appointment went well. I only saw the docs PA, not him.
My sutures are out....the glued incision just waits to fall out when ever. They took X-rays of both shoulders.  Surgery one looks great, but the hurt one I have to get a MRI this coming Thursday to make sure I did not tear the rotator cuff.  I will be having in home PT for awhile 👍. I ask the if I was sitting up or laying down for my surgery?   They said I was sitting in a beach chair when my surgery was done....had a nice vacation and didn't even know it‼️

IF Ihave torn my rotator cuff on my good arm I will not be able to have it repaired until the first one is healed completely ‼️😩  I certainly hope and pray the MRI proves it is just a strain🙏🙏

Michele had a chest tube put into the bad lung that has the dead part last Friday.  They did not want to do this but she had to have it done as well as the 5 radiation treatments on her brain before they will allow her to join a new clinical study starting next week. 

Dave took the children to visit Michele yesterday morning and it went very well.  Dave said it was just like they were sitting around the dinner table.  The kids thought she looked better than they expected her to😘. Best medicine possible for their mama
I must go help with dinner.  Dinner is over.....home made lasagna brought to us by one of my sweet first cousin's yesterday morning.  Along  with 2 breakfast's and fruit..  Veggie tray, special pasta salad, chili with corn bread bites and shredded cheese for the top and this amazing lasagna.  We ate on it all day yesterday and today, so it gave Bob a nice break from cooking. 

DONKLIN,  ."I am busy doing nothing, but I'm two weeks behind"‼️ Thank you for a nice chuckle.

AMY, well, what better compliment could you ever hope to receive than the one you two got from the man picking up his trug!  I looked at the Walmart site and could not believe all the nice thugs there......can not pull that up here in the US😡  Indeed, MIRICLES are just what we are going to need for Our Michele🥰
 
JANE, what a wonderful surprise you had when you were fooled about where dinner would be served. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY...... you are so loved‼️

GLORIA, it is always a happy day when we get a post from you.  So happy Yvette is there with you so much.

SHIRLEY, sounds like your trug contents are growing great....can't wait to see a picture.
PHYLLIS, I am sorry to read about your foot issue, but I am sure glad you found out it is not something that will cause you to loose your foot....how frightening. 

Pleasant dreams to all....have a great Monday.

Jenny

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Good morning..

Cold 27° and windy here this morning. We are off and running to the city to pick up hubby's remote for his hearing aids.  After we get home it is off to the lumber yard for material ......yes.. for another trug.

Enjoy your day and stay  safe please.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  Yesterday was a special day but it took all the "Get-up-and-go" out of my entire body!  Even my toes and my nose were tired last night.  There were 12 here for the potpie supper and it was great.  Christy stayed in the morning and afternoon and in between weeding and planting, she helped with dinner prep.  We had all the stuff lined up for salads so they could help themselves as they arrived and the potpie was on the stove with plates sitting on the counter beside it so they could help themselves when they were ready.  It went pretty smoothly and they hung around and socialized for a couple hours after.  They were all gone by 8 or so and the kitchen was cleaned up.

I collapsed on the couch until Cindy and Christy came home and then I went to bed.  I wasn't all in but my shoestrings.  My shoestrings were so far in, I couldn't even find them.  But I loved every minute of it!

JENNY, glad to hear the good news about your arm and I'll wait for good news about the other one!  Michele and her family are still in my prayers!  She's not just a trooper herself!  She's raised a family of troopers!

AMY, you ande Kyle will soon be known as AMY AND KYLE TRUG!

PHYLLIS, just in case I didn't say it before....HOORAY about the foot!  Good luck with the treatment!

I have to answer the BOINGER!  It's Mickie's breakfast time.  I think I'm going to eat leftover pecan pie for my breakfast!  Someone has to eat it!  It's too good to waste!

I wish you all a good day....better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!