made it to the end

 Well... made it through the three days of doubled lasiks... successfully... with many many trips to the bathroom!! The scale is happy with the results too.

Yesterday was a busy day too with Bob, my two daughters and me working on house and yard projects. They finally got all the mesh hardware cloth down at the bottom of the wooden yard fence... to keep the two dogs from digging their way out!!

I worked on cutting down all the volunteer bushes and vines growing up the walls - outside on the garage. I was going to cut and put everything into yard waste bags this morning but it has POURED  all day!

After this was done we all spent some time  getting the basement ready for spraying the ceiling... it is going to be a sewing room, laundry etc. Hopefully the white ceiling and colorful walls will make the room lighter and more inviting.

After this and some talk time out on the deck, Carolyn went home to see how her son/ our grandson tolerated his first covid vaccine. Dom is almost 15 and the CDC opened vaccinations up to those over 12.  He has been waiting ... being the last one in the family to be able to receive the vaccination!!

Laurel made dinner and after eating we headed home ready to collapse!  There were texts going back and forth this morning on all our aches and pains!!

dreams

I have aphib and other heart issues so I keep track of my weight... if it makes a 5 lb jump I assume I am retaining water. Well it did and I was also getting out of breath when walking into a store etc. My cardiologist upped my lasik, metropolol and potassium for three days....leads to lots of "peeing" and dreams.... finally got to the point, right?  

That addition of pills leads to weird dreams. In the last dream I spent what seemed like hours trying to peel hard boiled eggs  and chop black olives to make egg and black olive salad sandwiches. To add to it all I wasn't sure the eggs were hard boiled!  I finally told myself that everything was fine and that was the end of the dream!!

Lo-o-ong day

 Our trip to El Dorado, Kansas and back made for a long day ... about 7 hours!!

 Part of our trip went through the Flint Hills.... about 50 miles worth ! The Flint Hills are different . Rolling hills of green this time of the year. The soil is thin and tends to slide making small gullies with crumbled limestone being revealed. Very little water except for man-made ponds but where there are streams cottonwood trees are too.

Lots and lots of cattle spread out all over. I heard that this land can only support one head per acre... but with all the spring grass more cattle have been brought in.  One ranch has made a scenic outlook where  the trucks come into pick up cattle from many many pens!!

The last time we drove through the Flint Hills it was late in the summer and everything was brown and all the rock was evident..... and fewer cattle roamed!!  By the way ... in all those 50 miles I saw only three houses!!

Glad to make it home where both of us settled into our recliners for a nap!!

aches and pains

 Scout, my elder daughter's  little black puppy, decided to dig her way out of the backyard on Saturday so we all went to work!!  My daughter bought rolls of mesh screening to go at the bottom of the wooden fence.  It goes to on the grass up to the fence and is held down with long u-shaped metal rods. The grass grows through the metal mesh but the dogs don't like to dig through it. So I weed whacked along the fence so my daughter and husband could lay the metal mesh in place and hold it down.... whew... We managed about half the fence. 

The hole Scout dug was filled it !! It was almost deep enough that she could have wiggled through to the neighbor's yard!!

Teeny tiny Scout now weighs 28 lbs.... still hungry all the time ... the vet says she will probably double that !

This is how small she was!!

We were all exhausted  ( and with aches and pains) on Sunday so Mother's Day was a quiet one!!

busy... busy

 Today my latest online bear show opened!! And so I spent quite a bit of time packing up bears and adding "click and ship" labels!!  Then I pile the boxes on our front steps and leave a note in the mailbox for our postal carrier ( some days its woman some days a man).... that person gets out of the delivery jeep and walks up to my front steps and takes the boxes!!  In the jeep the boxes are checked in with a hand held screening device which reads the barcode on the "click and ship" label! All very easy peasy.

My online show bears are bought using PayPal and the "click and ship" labels are printed through the PayPal site!!

So there went my morning!!   It's nice to see the bears leaving and letting the buyers know that their purchase is on its way ( I send an email).

We went out for a short visit to my elder daughter's house later in the afternoon.  Scout and Harper were very glad to see us!  As was my daughter...lol    Tomorrow we go back for some house chores and our daughter will "reimburse" us by making dinner. Fair exchange don't you think??  

  Here's one of the bears that left today....  She's wearing one of the covid vaccine buttons I received - one for each shot!!

  BTW... our grocery store had signs up about the lack of wet ( or canned or tinned) cat food... evidently due to the manufacturer.  So we are going on  a  hunt tomorrow... Can't have Jack , the gray/black striped one, not have his food. Tigger eats dry ... Jack eats the wet.

temps back down

 I woke up in the middle of the night cold!! I have been sleeping with just a sheet for the past week or so but that just wasn't enough last night!! And the daytime temperature hasn't gotten above the mid 50's!!

Fingers crossed that it will warm up again very very soon!!

Bob had an appointment for a sonogram of the arteries in his neck this morning... no symptoms but his doctor wanted a "look see" when he went for his annual checkup last week.  He went to our local hospital's radiology dept.... in and out in less than a half hour. He said the co-payment part took the longest ! The hospital called this afternoon to tell him he had minimal plaque and to keep watching his cholesterol !

Bob's been fixing our grand daughter's coffee table... I think "someone" sat or stood on it and broke the legs. Well... it's fixed and tonight Lili came by to pick it up. She's had her two vaccines as we have so it was really nice to see her and to sit around and talk. She bought a toy for the cats... a fish that wiggles and has catnip in it.  The wiggle part is charging so we will see if the cats find it intriguing when Bob puts the wiggle part into the fish ( after it is charged )!!

Our grandson is in the 12 - 16 age range and will be able to be vaccinated shortly according to CDC guidelines!! Hooray! He's the last in our family...

not a quiet day

 Even though Bob wanted a quiet day for his birthday... it didn't work out that way. HE decided to work outside some more.... cutting up this winter's fallen branches so that they would fit in the large brown kraft paper bags the garbage company requires. Garden waste must be separated and put into a different area by the trash companies so that it can be composted -- State law. Bob has been putting the branches aside just for this "event" .. the cutting!  

Better than the outside stuff was the many phone calls he received!!  Much to his delight !!

But he was tired enough to go to bed much earlier than usual!!