getting ready

getting ready for surgery tomorrow. is anyone ever ready for something like this? i've been having anxiety about it and your mind always goes to worse case scenarios. i find if i get in the word, it helps me tremendously. i also pick up the afghan i'm working on and it helps calm me. bruce took today off to be with me and he's sleeping, i've been doing laundry and paid a bill and just piddling around. just got off the phone with my mother-in-law and my mom. mom won't be able to be at the hospital with us because she's been having alot of pain. our family doctor is going to be seeing me post-operatively tomorrow. she said she was managing my care after the surgery. i love her to pieces. i need to get a sprinkler out on the garden. everything is so dry. bruce wanted to know what i was going to do for fun and i said well, laundry and i'm going to home depot for a sprinkler and after it runs a few hours, i'm going out to the garden and weed. i need to stay busy. it helps me. i've picked some zucchini out of the garden, our green beans are blooming and looking good. our corn has tassled. our onions are huge. who knows what we did to make them so big? but they're the biggest we've grown. my sunflowers are about to bloom. we have watermelon on and we have a few tomatoes starting to ripen. they're itty bitty but still home grown. my hot pepper plants are doing well. i have them in pots on the front porch. i better water them today as i think about it. i found out how to get rid of the pesky gnats that fly around here. they came in some organic potting soil, take a small bowl and put about 4 drops of dish soap and pour some apple cider in the bowl and they fly in and because of the dish soap, they can't fly out and they drown. now i have bowls all over the house. i better go and get busy. take care everyone and God Bless. love, Treasa

continuation of another day

plus tuesday when i was scrubbing and such, i kept telling the dogs they were staying outside until the floors were clean, missy and hammer both will paw at the door. so i ignored it until our neighbor came to the door and said the gate was open and hammer was still in but missy was gone. so i went flying out the door walking in the 2 cul de sacs for her and yelling and no missy. bruce was roaming the neighborhood also and didn't see her anywhere. i came home and got the truck and went to the north of us and didn't see her and i had a feeling she was closer to home, (everyone in the neighborhood is familiar with missy and hammer) so i was just crossing our street and heading south on NW 4th street and she was crossing the road heading to a field and i yelled and she stopped and then she heard me and came running to the truck. i practically pulled her in the truck, once i had a hold of the collar, i wasn't letting go. she rode shotgun with me home, i had called bruce and told him i had her. everytime that gate is left open, she's out of here. hammer, on the other hand, knows a good thing when he sees it and he's not budging. she was thirsty, who knows how long she had been running, her tongue was hanging out about a mile. i put her in her dog condo for the afternoon. she scared the you know what out of me. i was the one that can't lock the gate and i mowed saturday and just kind of put the latch over the rail and i told bruce it wasn't locked but we both forgot it as we went fishing and didn't give it a thought. i am so glad i found her. God bless, treasa

another day

it's been so busy around here. mom had her surgery last week and took her to the doctor to get the dressing changed last wednesday. penny had surgery monday and is now home. i've talked with her this morning, she sounds alot better than she did in the hospital. she almost had pneumonia after surgery. i don't think being around for her surgery and such helped my anxiety level but like i told her this morning, i was there for HER not to see what she's going through. i'm nervous. when i came home monday and bruce was here, i cried and said I don't think i can do this. he said well, we would have faith that it would never bother you and when you're ready you can get it done. i said well, #1- God never gives us more than we can handle and #2- if i put it off, that's letting fear rule. so it's getting done july 28th, don't know what time yet.
i cleaned the carpets last week because i have a habit of taking the trash out and when it's too heavy, i drag it down the hallway, well, the last time i did that it had some vegetable oil in there and i made a stripe down the hallway. i was sick of looking at it. so i got it all cleaned up and the night before it rained and missy came in yesterday and i had mud all over the carpet again so had to clean it again today. took the machine over yesterday and cleaned mom's for her. i got my kitchen floor scrubbed tuesday. it looks so much better.
the dog kennel is done. Halluejah! so the dogs are sleeping outside in their dog condo. all the construction tools are out of the kitchen and put away. so since the porta kennels were gone out of the kitchen, i got it cleaned up. i need to get out to the garden and get some weeding done, just haven't had time.
uncle ray is trying to sell his house. some friend of his has made a website for him.
i'm taking mom to an inside farmer's market this afternoon. she wants some beans and corn.
we had company over tuesday night for supper, nancy and larry and marty. we had a nice visit. i got rid of the recumbent bike. nancy came over with some eager young friends and they lifted it and brought it from downstairs and put it in their pickup. larry had knee replacement surgery about 3 weeks ago and it's going to be helping him with his rehab.
we went fishing last saturday at big creek. i caught about 5 white bass and a crappie and bruce caught about 5 bass and a small white bass. none were legal, so we always catch and release. but it was fun being on the boat. now if we could just get it on the trailer straight. ha! i better go so i can get some more done around here. take care everyone and God Bless, Treasa

forgot to add something

i've also been working on making recipe books for the girls for christmas and have been working on all the millions of recipes i have copied and are stored on the computer. i ,finally last week or so, figured out with the software i have for the recipe collection how to capture the recipes i've saved and i won't have to type them out. Thank Goodness! i have so many recipes i've saved that it's not even gunny. love to everyone, treasa

sorry this hasn't been updated

we have been so busy. bruce was on vacation for a week and we went to the game and stayed in KC for a few nights. we had a wonderful time. the cardinals won and albert hit a home run. we went to nebraska furniture mart while we were there and ordered a new stove. it got delivered last thursday. i'm still reading the instruction manual as to how to start the oven and turn it on. LOL! i like it. i just have to figure out how to use it. it's an electrolux and double ovens and convection oven. i am going to try baking some bread in it this afternoon. we got it delivered last thursday and thursday evening my inlaws came over because they wanted me to scan some pictures for them and make 2 CD's for them. so i invited them to stay for supper as bruce was having home made pizza. i had to get the instruction manual to figure out to set the oven temp. everyone laughed as they said it might be midnight when they ate. mom had surgery yesterday and she's doing well. i take her tomorrow morning to get her dressing changed. i have surgery scheduled for 3 weeks today. i really am dreading it but will be glad when it's over and the healing begins. i'm having my thyroid removed. i'll have to stay overnight. so just keep us all in your prayers. penny is almost having the same thing done next week. i'm debating to go down to be there with them when she has it done. what made me so upset about the thyroid issues was i thought they were going to say the 85# weight loss was because of the thyroid, not ww and all my discipline and hard work. ha! we worked in the garden while we were on vacation and took the boat out and ran around saylorville for an evening. it was fun. bruce started work on the dog kennel, building the dogs a better system and it's still in the process of being built. he made a place underneath the deck where they can sleep, now it's just the enclosure around them that they are working on now. i say they because our ex-nephew in law is working on it during the day. bruce was teasing me the other day and said something about maybe he better put an a/c in there, i looked at him and said they are dogs and they sleep in the house in the air all day long until they have to piddle or something, it won't hurt them to sleep outside. then i get the porta kennels out of the kitchen. he scares me with his projects because he used to do that in the old house, start a project around may and not be done until september. now he says his next project is building double ovens in the kitchen. i'm not so sure about the kitchen being tore up. ha! i've always wanted built in double ovens and he says well, he's going to see about it. we kind of sort of picked some out but our handyman will have to do quite a bit of stuff to the kitchen and i know he does good work, but still. i better go and fix my lunch. i got the refrigerator cleaned out and washed out, you know it's bad when something is stuck on the shelf and you can't even get the shelf to move. i have to have bruce try and get it out when he comes home for lunch. i can't as i hurt my shoulder a week and a half ago. all i did was lift 3 cases of water and some birdseed from sam's into the back of the truck and my shoulder has hurt ever since then. i actually feels a little better today and i don't want to hurt it again. i have enough going on. love to all, treasa