a quiet sunday

i haven't been here much, between doctor's apointments and getting stuff canned, it's been busy around here. bruce has been helping out at a booth at the fair almost every night and i've been here. i have canned 99 pints of green beans this week and 18 pints of peaches. i have another bushel coming tomorrow of beans. they sure taste better than the store bought canned ones. ick! when it's canning season, the house usually stays the way it is until i get done canning. went to both doctors last week and i got a clean bill of health. my lab work came back kind of screwy but the nurse says when they mess with the thyroid it messes with all your metabolic counts. my cholesterol came back high and some other things were off. i don't eat alot and stay with low fat, low cholesterol diet and exercise monday through friday. so they're going to re-check it in 3 months. i have to hear from them concnerning how many calcium i'm to be taking a day. but i feel good and am glad to be back to doing what i normally do. it's so good to drive and get to the store instead of relying on others.
our garden hasn't produced like i had hoped. i was just out there and our tomatoes are ready to be picked and our corn didn't do anything. we have huge onions though. we have weeds up to my butt and i was out there a few times but think i just gave up as it's a never ending battle between me and the weeds. bruce always plants this huge garden then it seems he's always busy and doesn't get out there as much as both of us should.
uncle ray had a birthday the 19th of august and i called him and wished him a happy birthday. i felt bad thinking i should have had him over for supper of something but maybe this next week after the canning of beans.
mom is doing ok. she still haves alot of pain from her tailbone but she's been getting out a little and has some pool therapy at mercy hospital. she is in a lot of pain after that, but like we both say if you don't use it, you'll lose it.
we haven't gotten the final statement for the surgery. i think i'm scared of that one. we got a statement from the hospital stating they were billing our insurance company $14,000 and some odd change. i was like yikes!!
penny came up last week and while i was stemming beans, she piddled around with my plants and she stayed the night and left the next morning. it was nice seeing her. good thing we have a spare bedroom downstairs. jasmine, our kitty, thinks that room is hers downstairs. ha!
we traveled over to eastern iowa thursday. bruce had a customer to see and we had a nice day trip. neither one of us has been real thrilled about traveling lately. been kind of staying around home. we haven't had the boat out for a while. of course, i was on restriction for 2 weeks. last weekend it was too HOT! now this weekend it was nice temperature wise. yesterday i opened up the house and turned the air off. it was wonderful. don't think it made it to 70 degrees.
we went to the brooks and dunn concert friday night at the state fair. we had a nice time, other than our seats sucked big time. but i was thrilled to be seeing them especially since they announced they were breaking up the act. it was a good concert.
well, i better go. God Bless, Treasa

forgot about the garden

we've had a few tomatoes out of there, which were really good, and we've had a few messes of green beans which we both just ate up. i've picked zucchini out of there and bruce watered the other day. i actually picked green beans by myself the other day. everything looks good. our corn has tasseled. i asked bruce the other day "what happens if the green beans are ready to can and i can't do anything about it?" he said, well, it looks like i'll be canning, won't i? love to all, treasa

still recuperating

got the drain out Monday and was instructed by the doctor to have minimal activity for the next three days. so today is day 2 and this is really hard. i watched movies on the t.v. yesterday all day. i should have cut out my quilts before surgery but didn't think about it. so tomorrow is the last day for the minimal restriction, then i can be up and do more. it does feel good to be able to take a shower though. never take for granted the power of a hot shower and be able to wash your hair. ha! everything is healing nicely. have talked to penny quite a bit. she's doing OK. everything is healing on her well also. the pathology on the nodule was negative. i got told that Monday. I'm quite glad of that news. mom is doing OK. she's had some appointments and i can't drive until next week. so she has either taken herself or she had some friends take her. she did come over last week to see me and i was having a bad day. but we talk on the phone quite a bit.
i think of all these wonderful things while I'm down. i contacted my sil the other day and was talking of having a coxe gathering sometime. i think it's a shame their grand kids hardly know who uncle Bruce and aunt treasa are and the same goes for all the kids here, they hardly know uncle john and aunt Janis. just don't know when it would be. i have to wait until i can actually lift more than 10#. Ha!
Bruce just informed me this morning we have to be in Ohio the end of the month to tour the Kenworth plant. i thought he was joking. but he wasn't. I've never been to Ohio before. so this should be interesting.
i am in the process of making a baby afghan and have some fleece downstairs to cut into quilts. guess I'll cut that Friday so i can work on that this weekend. i need to get them finished anyway because one couple has already had their baby.
the dogs and the kitty are fine. i think they were glad i was home. Bruce said jasmine wouldn't hardly come out while i was in the hospital. hammer doesn't seem to understand why i can't let him on my lap. he has a habit of sometimes getting his feet up by my neck and i don't think that's going to happen right now.
Well, i better go. Take care and God Bless, Treasa

the surgery is over

and done with and everything is now healing. i felt really cruddy yesterday but feel better today. i was supposed to have a drain taken out yesterday but the doctor thought there was too much fluid still. i told bruce when we went in I just gave it to God and if it's God's will that it gets taken out, it will. but it wasn't. so it supposed to come out monday. kind of awkward wearing this drain and hangs down between my boobs all the time. i change this little tube in it every day. i plan on getting in the tub in a bit and getting cleaned up. that will feel so good. bruce has been taking very good care of me. we have a friend that's an RN and she stayed with me for the last 2 days. bruce had appointments thursday for him and then friday he worked. i can't lift anything over 10# and can't like walk on the track or bicycle for at least 2 weeks. can't drive for 2 weeks. i think the doctor about choked when i asked when could i start walking on the track and he said how far? i said oh, like a mile or 2 and he said maybe 1 lap but definitely not a mile until 2 weeks. yesterday was a really cruddy day for me. i always told patients that the 3rd day post op was always the worse. i thoroughly believe that because yesterday was my 3rd day post op and i was just cruddy all day. mom couldn't be at the hospital but she came over yesterday afternoon to see me. we had alot of people at the hospital with bruce. penny stayed the night with me the night of surgery. bruce had a ferocious headache that night and i told him to just get better. i really appreciated penny being there. i better go as i'm tired. take care everyone, treasa