the garden is finally in. we got it planted last weekend and then God did his part and we got lots of rain. so everything has really perked up. mom has to be over at tower medical for an epidural tomorrow to her neck. i have to pick her up by 6:30 and have her there by 7:15. ugh! i always have to drive her little puddle jumper. it's teeny. oh well! if it makes her more comfortable, then that's what counts. it was a nice 3 day weekend. we got the garden in saturday and sunday. i officially have 43 tomato plants out in the ground. we had 9 too many and gave them to a neighbor. we were just talking last week that we didn't need as many tomato plants and then i go and buy a flat of plants. i still have a flat of some flowers to plants and have to get them planted somewhere. my mil loaned me 2 of her photo albums and i've been busy scanning them into the computer. i'm almost done and then i'm making CD's for everyone. i told bruce last night the pictures were just priceless. there are pictures of stephen when he was a baby and jen when she was younger than hailey. pictures of all of the family gatherings down at knoxville, just precious. i have to finish mom's album also. just haven't done it yet. then i make CD's for my side of the family. we got our other new truck last friday. i love it. the only thing is with the new trucks, they have microsoft sync in them and you can sync your phone or your IPOD in them. it was real easy to sync my IPOD in the burgundy truck, can't do it with bruce's truck. it drives me nuts because my phone won't sync with the burgundy truck. but bruce has the exact phone and his did with his truck. go figure!! i took my phone out to verizon yesterday and they changed something with security settings and it still won't. so they said well, some phones just aren't compatible with the sync system. huh? bruce has the same phone except his is a slate color and mine is purple. oh well! i like using my bluetooth anyway, that way if we're both in the truck, and both of our phones ring, at least i can hear the conversation i'm having. he likes his broadcasting over the stereo speakers and i don't. i think it's too distracting for the driver to be messing with all the buttons like the volume and such for a phone call in his truck. mine works just fine with my bluetooth. but i love the new truck. i took it out to sam's yesterday and did not have a problem parking with it like he said i would. when i get time i'll post a picture of it. this is our personal truck so we'll be taking it to the game next month. i can't wait. the game sounds so much fun. i can't wait for that either. i better go so i can get something accomplished today. God Bless, Treasa

spring time has finally arrived

im so glad. we got a railing put on the front of the house and it looks so nice. i got some flower boxes and got some geraniums planted in them and it's really pretty. i have been planting some outside. we got a fence up around the garden and will be planting that this weekend. we bought a new truck about 2 weeks ago. it's a blue 2009 f-150 crewcab and really a nice truck. well, now i think we've bought another one to trade the red one in. bruce went over to dewey's and signed the purchase agreement and they're doing a few things to it. this one is a king cab and i am so excited. it has a foot longer box on it than the others we've had. but it's really a nice truck. i think we'll pick it up on saturday as we have to have his blue truck at charles gabus ford tomorrow morning for some safety recall. mom is doing ok. she still has pain but she's not taking as many of the strong pain pills. she's been able to go out and get her groceries and such. i haven't talked to uncle ray for quite a while. i made 2 batches of strawberry-rhubarb jam today. God has blessed us so much with the wonderful rhubarb that i wanted to make some jam. we're going to put in some tomatoes, definitely green beans, some corn, zucchini and some yellow squash (for me) onions, i don't know what else. we're a little late this year but whenever he could get out and get it tilled, it would start raining.

i started a compost pile and we firgured out where to keep it. i have to go out tomorrow and try and stir it up a little. i'm excited about that because we have alot to compost that normally goes down the disposal. we've been doing yard work and getting the place spruced up. bruce mowed this week. i have been planting. i want to get some peony bushes for the side of the deck and get them planted and maybe, just maybe, the dogs won't destroy them. HA! we're talking of taking the boat out this weekend also. that will be fun. i better go as bruce has an appointment and he'll be here soon to pick me up. take care and God bless, treasa

update on mom

i took mom to the doctor this afternoon and she was in such pain. dr. gannon finally got in the room to see her and she was just almost crying with pain. so dr. gannon had janis, the nurse, give her a pain shot and she ordered an MRI and fortunately she goes tomorrow for it in west des moines. so i'll be taking her to that. the pain shot helped but she still wants her to take the pain pills until they can get to the bottom of what is causing so much pain. it's her tailbone that hurts her so much and now her neck. i have been doing some planting of some flowers and getting the outside looking nice again. we have part of our railing up and it is sure pretty, it just makes the front of the house now. i have some flower pots hanging over the rails of the railing and they blew off yesterday. (nothing was connecting them to the railing) so bruce contacted out handyman and he's going to connect them somehow for me. i trimmed a bunch of old dead stuff off of the flowers that's coming up and am going to have a compost bin this year. we don't have the garden in yet but we plan on it. i cut my first cutting of rhubarb this week and cooked it down and added some splenda and have been having that. i love rhubarb but didn't want the sugar. so the splenda works for me. same with strawberries, i love them and can now have them with the splenda, which works great for me. i made goal the last few weeks ago. my dr. said i should be between 124-126 so i turned in the slip and they sent in the paperwork. i went and weighed in tuesday and i had lost 2.8#. it's taken me months to lose anything resembling a pound and now i lose 2.8. i'm not complaining, but they warned me i couldn't go 2# below my lowest goal weight. i weighed 121 something here at home and was 123 something at ww. it figures though. but i'm happy to be here and it's not coming back. it's been hard at times but i enjoy buying a size 7-8. it's a heck of a lot better than the size 24 i was in. we have our annual kansas city royals vs. the st. louis cardinal game coming up june 20th. we always go down with bruce's brothers and my sister-in-laws and one's g/f. we have a good time. we will leave on the 19th and have reservations there for the friday night and then the game saturday night. i haven't told 2 of the brothers that our seats are clear out in the outfield. one of the brothers was talking about getting a suite and these were the tickets that came up on the internet and bruce said take them, he said he'd take his ball glove and try to catch a pop fly or homerun. whatever!! until next time, God Bless, Treasa

i have spent all day with mom in the Er at lutheran hospital. she's doing ok now and is home. but she scared me half to death. she called this morning before i was out of bed and told me she had such a tremendous headache last night and she felt herself being confused and couldn't think, at one point she felt like she was going to blackout. she didn't want to call us and bother us. it finally let up to where she could sleep. she said she was feeling better this morning. she called the dr's office and they said if that happens again, go to the nearest ER. i got in the shower and i could hear bruce yelling something at me and he was saying mom was in extreme pain so he told her to call 911 and she did. i was at lutheran before they were. her BP was sky high and they did a CT scan and everything came back ok, the doctor said it was a pinched nerve in her neck and gave her some pain pills and sent her home. i was scared it was another stroke. i hate being an only child. when she had the stroke 6 years ago or whenever, i hated being the one to sign and make decisions. lesson to everyone who reads this: please make sure everything is order in your life, you never know when your significant other is making decisions for you and if everything is written down and your wishes are known, it makes everything so much easier. she's at home and resting comfortably. please keep her in your prayers though, her BP is still running high and she's having memory lapses which concern me.