Go With The Flow?

Sometimes you just have to go with the flow-even IF you are wanting to swim back upstream instead. : ) I had got SO sick yesterday afternoon on the way to counseling . I thought for sure I had got rid of that problem. But , I was wrong. You know how that car sickness is - stomach rolling and stomach cramps that make you want to cry like a baby. Then the nausea that rolls over you like a freight train- about that time I start to tremble like a flower in the wind. I tried everything I could think of : looking at long distances instead of close up, doing the tapping , getting out and walking around . Finally we arrived in the parking lot and I went over and sat on the ground and pulled on my earlobes and that helped a little . The earth was slowing down a little. My counselor arrived about that time and she was concerned. She thought I had shaken that stuff too. I guess sometimes in this life you just take two steps forward and three steps back-no matter how hard you wish not to.But, I knew when I would see her -I would be alright. When you are around somebody who is so calm and gentle and you can just feel the peaceful vibes -it has to straighten your woes away.  I think that is the difference between living in a balanced world and a world gone wild.

But after I got home I felt so whipped - all energy just gone, but I had to do evening chores and feed us and clean up that mess and eventually go fall in bed, close my eyes and all too soon it was morning. I Longed for some more of that shut-eye stuff, but we had to go to Roanoke to catch up with DH's sister. She was coming in from W.VA. to have the stitches taken out of her back. I have never seen a scar so big. I could tell she was a little sore from the ride in , but she did do a little walking today and that is a wonderful thing for her. It has been several years that she has suffered terribly with her back and to see her walk  was a wonderful thing. After all - we all need to take walks and the older we get the more we need to do that and it seems the more hard it is to accomplish that goal.

They took us out to eat so we could visit together and then we rode with them to look at a couple of car lots to check out some cars because they  are talking about getting a more new vehicle to make it easier for her to get in and out of the car. I knew my spirit was lagging and I just got so tired it was hard to fake it. AFter we got back in our little vehicle I caught a glimpse of my face and  it was turning a bright red -which usually means exhaustion  for me.  Of course the drive home felt endless to me.

After we arrived home  DH went out to mow and I went to tackle paying bills. I really hate that job. It is a never ending battle of attempting to keep the wolf from the door.It always seems to take a  couple of hours. Time that I wish I could have been sewing. Already things have popped up each day of next week. PHOOEY!


The one thing that I am looking forward to is the Sewing Guild meeting where we return with our "Ugly Fabric" projects. I am looking forward to seeing how everybody fared. LOL  I am definitely happy with my project. I am so thrilled that someone let me "trade off some ugly fabric" and gave me a lovely fabric to make the seat covers that the vehicle needed so badly. Doesn't get any better than that in my book.  The DH will be able to put his seat covers on his truck seats and he will be a  happy camper. LOL


I hope you have had a lovely day. They are each so special.
Bye for now! : )

A Doctor Day

Today was definitely a "doctor day". When I was younger I used to wonder why I never got sick , except for strep throat every Winter. But now I miss that thought.

Our first stop this morning was for DH to have a growth cut off of his finger. He really liked the doctor because he was one that DH could "shoot the bull" with! Plus , also - the doctor played music while he worked. I told DH I had just read that different types of music had good advantages and one of them was that slower music helped to calm people and there fore reduce pain. So, that part actually did help.  The only negative part was that we had to wait 2 hours for them to call him in. I played chicken for a change and hide out in the waiting room to get to catch up on some of my reading.

He came out with a bandage on his finger and they said they would  send it off to have it tested , just to be on the safe side.

By the time we left there we made it to my doctor appointment. I did not have to wait any longer than 5  minutes so that was nice. I also love my young lady doctor and I tease her that sometimes I can actually see her wings.Plus, she has my Mama's first name and my middle name and  I can remember her name.

She did a regular check up and then I asked her to look at that dumb foot, which she did and instantly diagnosed it as a planter's wart. You could have knocked me over with a feather. I had one of those things in high school because the girls had to take gym class and take showers together. But , I have not been to a beach of public shower???

We even talked about some home remedies and she had even heard of the 'duct tape". But she wanted to run it over with her supervisor and to my surprise he came back with her and they brought one of those bottles of "FREEZE" stuff-which they squirted onto a q-tip and then she held it onto the wart for a certain amount of time and then we both peeked at it . You could now see an indention in the center, so she said HOPEFULLY it should die  or fall out or what ever warts do in 2 days. I am sure looking forward to that so I can get back on my walks. My walks had actually helped my health so much . I had lowered my cholesterol on all counts, plus I had been taking some flaxseed pills .So, Yea- I got a good report. And they filled my antidepressant for 5 more months.So  I am good to go until November ! : ) I did not want to have to take any more pills and I worked hard to lower my numbers. That is the lowest it has been in the 15years I have been working on it.

Miss Mocha - up above is also showing improvement with her lyme disease. She is just like a human because some days are bad where she hurts so much and then sometimes she feels well enough to fuss with us.  She is a funny little Imp when she can ruffle up that little mouth and talk up a storm  and I get the biggest kick out of  it. She has about two more weeks of medicine for that lyme disease - uggg - I Hate that disease!

O, when we got back home this afternoon - would you believe that there was NO ELECTRICITY AGAIN. I was beginning think - everytime we leave the house - the electricity goes off. About an hour later it came back on and the fans felt so devine!

Tomorrow is suppose to be lovely and DH is hoping to fishing - and I am hoping that too! That way I can pick some more beans from the garden and also some corn for lunch . Then after I clean up the food mess I am hoping so badly that I can make it to my sewing room again. O SHOOT! I just remembered I am suppose to work on the bills! Crap! That means another MONTH has come again and I am never ready for it.

Well, I will  just do the best I can and we will see what happens. I want to wish you all the best for your new day also and maybe we will work a little magic to morrow.   : )

Don't fight with Your Computer - Or your husband. LOL

It was just "One of those days". I just got off on the wrong foot when DH throwed a couple of "husband fits" and that just throwed it out of kilter. The next thing I knew he went outdoors and I tore the living room apart and moved all the furniture and vacuumed  the floor and then steam cleaned it good. I love that steam cleaner for cleaning with because I do not use any toxic cleaners that the furbabies could pick up on the pads of their feet and make them sick.

Then I went out and did all the chores and by then it was hot! I had sweat dripping off of my eyes it was so warm. DH wanted me to cook him a wild turkey that he had in his freezer so I got him to cut the legs off to where it would fit in my pot and put that on for him.

Then I moved to the sewing room  with a salad to check e-mails while I munched. Miss Rosie had caught the door open while I was cleaning and she was peeking in the window at me while I am on the computer. LOL She was having a really good time out there . She loves to lay in the swing and just watch everything she can see. Her two favorites are the hummingbirds over her head and then check on me to see if I need help.

Well, you know how e-mails are one thing just led to another and the evening slipped away. Miss Rosie made her appearance on the cutting table and I looked out and it was POURING RAIN! I do mean pouring buckets full.

I really had good intentions of cutting something out -but the computer decided to disagree with me when I wanted to save a project! GRRRRR! It did not want to save anything so we  had a go-round for the rest of the evening. I knew it was my USB that was not working because it would not let me into my USB  port to assess my flashdrive, where I wanted to save the project to! I tried everything I knew . I tested it usb and then I uninstalled drivers for each one and then re-installed them. Still no go! I tried the F5 tab for the universal windows and even that did me no good.  I really want to pick it up and strangle it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It made me lose my project I had worked so hard to find and then it deleated my desktop picture and I had to go find that again! I KNEW I should not have bragged on her last night. Now I have books and papers strewn all over the place where I had moved everything . I really have a great MESS. See the trouble I can get myself into . I should have just cut that shirt out and been happy.

Tomorrow DH and I both have doctor visits. So, I hope to catch up with you guys tomorrow and see what you have been up to.

Happy trails! ; )

Birthday lounge pants for Emmett

OK, I decided to try something different, so I pulled out the lounge pants pattern .I have actually learned this fabric is a real challenge so I took it slow and easy. I put in the "knit" needles and I tried to remember all the tips , like basting the pockets to the front to make them lay right. When I was almost finished I managed to get the fabric poked down in the machine and I was afraid I was going to ruin them after all that work!  I cut the thread and that did not turn me loose so I took the faceplate off and that allowed me to salvage my project! Yea. It must have been for the good though  because the lint had built up in there . It was packed so I took my little vacuum attachment and cleaned it out good!

I had one of my sweet supervisors watching over me today and that was a good thing. My Cocoa looks nothing at all like Chris's Cocoa at DietCokeRocks!  LOL

It was another hot beautiful day and I was so grateful to have this chance to work on a gift for a birthday.

It took me all day , but I have something to show for my effort-thank goodness.

We Almost had a thunder storm this afternoon . The thunder was Booming loud and clear. I was cutting the guinea pigs some more fresh grass this after noon and the thunder made me think of the saying ," angels are moving the furniture in Heaven" It must have been truly heavy furniture! LOL

We had another feast from the garden today. I picked cucumbers and beans and fresh corn and it was SO amazingly good!LOL I truly Hate that I forgot to plant squash and zucchini because I ran across a recipe that looks so good. I also ran across a recipe for Sun Pickles and I was hoping to try that one because I know we have enough SUN. LOL But, not enough cucumbers. I will try again toward the end of next week. I even found the cutest little watermelon growing .  Hope,hope , hope! LOL

Second camo tee shirt-

This was suppose to be the design for another of my sons, but it also ended up being too small for either of them.It amazes me how just the properties of the fabric can change a size. I noticed this last Christmas when one of the shirts I gave to my older son turned out to be too small for him and I had used the same size pattern for all three of them-but the one was too small.Talk about live and learn ? It is a lot more than just learning to follow a pattern!

So, what I thought would be for our youngest son's birthday in August is not going to work for him. I hope I can dig myself out of this lesson and come up with a size with this fabric that will fit him??? Plus, I had been considering making him a pair of lounge pants out of it because it is so lightweight it just feels like air?????

Today was another beautiful hot day . We made our run to the mill to get feed and my sister-in-law asked for me to pick up her a bag of cornmeal because they fresh grind it! She is the one who had the back surgery and she is improving daily! She did say that the doctor who did her surgery told her to Never let that first doctor near her back again because his bad work was the cause of all of her pain and misery for the last year . We both almost fainted because you can hardly get one doctor to say anything about another doctors bad work.  But I am thrilled that she is improving!Yea!

I did not get to go for my walk this afternoon because what ever is wrong with my foot is causing me so much pain that I cannot bare to walk on it. I hope I finally get to see the doctor on Monday -this time????? DH also has to go to the doctor on Monday morning to have a growth removed from one of this fingers. We both might just end up being one "crip" helping another "crip" through the day! LOL

Someones Keeping An Eye On Me Today

Rosie has been watching over me today and I really did need it. I did pretty good this morning . While DH went fishing for a while I did all of  my outdoor chores  I even had a fight with some kind of grass. While pulling grass for the guinea pigs I have discovered a grass that I cannot pull  -it is just too strong to budge. So I went and got a pair of scissors (not my sewing scissors!) And I scissored a basket full of green grass. LOL I guess you would say -that is where stubborn meets stubborn! LOL

I even made it to the garden with my basket big enough for one meal of the green beans. Our garden has decided to go nuts. Everything green has taken off growing and it is a jungle out there. I even found two paddy pan squash and when I was coming out of the garden DH was coming up the driveway.

I got a cold drink and sat on the porch breaking the beans. How nice it is to have a Fresh mess of green beans that you know where they came from and how they were treated. These are the first green bean that I could EVER get DH to eat. They are the Tenderettes , and they are so tender and no strings. We both hate strings .

I throwed them in the pressure cooker and chopped the squash and put them on very low heat while I took a shower. Then it was all ready together and I had added chopped cucumbers too. I was trying to time everything because I had a doctor appointment at 2:30 and we got there 15 minutes early, only to have the young lady tell me that I did not have an appointment until August 1!I did not have my card with me , so she wrote it down for me. Then we went straight back home and I pulled out the card with my appointment for July 28 !I was not too happy because gas is a real problem anyway and If I would have known it would be a wasted trip I could have stayed home and picked more beans and maybe canned some. : (

It left me with an unhappy feeling because everybody just automatically thinks It is my fault when something is wrong.The good part was I got to make it to the sewing room , but I was half afraid to touch anything.

It was a good thing that the embroidery part of the project was already completed. See that crooked pocket? I have learned that this rayon/jersey  knit is a REAL pain to work with. It was skipping stitches like when you push someone -that was the way this was doing -it looked like someone was just pushing the stitches everywhere but where they belonged???? So, a light-bulb finally went off in my head and I changed the needle to one that is manufactured for knit fabric and that really did help a lot, but my serger still Hated it. The entire project was a battle.

I was so glad that I thought to change that needle! After it was finished I studied it for a  minute -thinking it really looked too small for either of my two sons. I took it in the bathroom and tried it on and it was snug on me -so I knew it would be too little for my boys. I took it in the kitchen and had DH try it on for size comparison and it fit him to a tee. So , since it fits him -that takes it down to a medium size. It is just all about the fabric and how much stretch it has. I am glad I thought to pay attention to that.So now I will have to cut out two more -only size XL on the pattern , but the fabric will make it become a size large.

I just have a terrible time juggling everything that you can cram into one 24 hours. If only I did not have to sleep, but the more I find out about sleep -the more important I discover that it is for our health -and most of us do try to "trim" more off it it as we attempt to cram more into our every day lives????

I had a pretty amazing experience this afternoon when I went out to lock up the chickens and re-feed the guinea pigs. I have seen orange skies in the afternoon as the sun is setting , but this time I had waited too late to go for my walk-time just slipped away on me.

So , as I was climbing up the little knoll  I happened to look at the ground and it was  an orange glow. I looked all around me and everything was covered in this beautiful soft orange glow! It was really amazing and simple words do not do justice to it. I looked up into the sky and could see a little orange , but it just was not anything brilliant , like what I was seeing on the ground as it was breath-taking.

Two Days Work

It is hard to believe that this is TWO DAYS work Yesterday was picking it and hauling it in to wash the cucks and grind them and the onions and peppers and celery up. Then I poured a brine solution to cover and moved everything in the fridge to stick them in there to keep them cool.

Today we went to town to get the spices and bread.We stopped at Wal-mart to get the spices and the prices about blew my eyeballs out. I told DH IF they thought I was paying them that price -they were wrong. So we left and stopped at our oldest son's garage as DH was looking for a belt for his tractor .

Then we picked up the vinegar at a little store that has the cheapest prices. I checked the spices but they did not have what I wanted. That took us off again going up into the mountains of our home to where there is a little Mennonite store. If I had to spend money then I prefer it go to our local neighbors instead of a giant box company. They did have it and it was half the price for twice as much . Yea!  I love these gals -they are Always so sweet and kind.

Then we came home and ate a bite and I started working on these guys. Half of the work load was carrying up the jars from the basement and washing them and putting them in the oven to sterilize them. I had the veggies draining while I worked on the jars.

Boy, this is going to be some sweet spicy relish to go with brown  beans this winter. My next goal is to work on the green beans. Maybe tomorrow??? But, I have a doctor appointment for a check-up on my fibromyalgia and I hope to ask her what is wrong with my foot.

But, don't think I have forgotten that "I WANT TO SEW! See how crazy life can get.One good thing is that I got to take my walk this afternoon and even DH joined me . That was very pleasant and we both sounded like two little freight engines huffing and puffing up and down the hills. LOL But we did make it back home and for that I am grateful. I hope that you managed to do something that you love today !