Monday, August 30, 2010

Happy Days!!!


I have been trying to get to my blog for days but my computer would not let me get here --until tonight.

I have been having some very painful days like over a week of it. Both shoulders have made me sick from the pain. Well I got an MRI last Wed. and it showed my rotated cup was torn into and had been so long it could not be reattached. It has formed a protective fat around one end the end that tore away I suppose. I said," What can I do ?"He told me to take physical therapy again and then do it my self as faithfully as brushing my teeth daily for the rest of my life.

I was thankful I don't have to have surgery but I must be tough as nails if this has been in this kind of shape so long. I did hurt my shoulder years ago shoveling mulch[a truck load] and had to go for therapy then. He said when I fell in Feb. I just hurt it bad and it is very inflamed. My Primary care Dr told me to take Ibuprofen three times a day and take Vitim D a 1000iu --2 a day for a week and then 1 a day from then on. He says everyone he has tested is low in Vitamin D. I will find out more about this --I will do little Internet research and let you know or tell you how much better I feel in a couple of weeks. I do know the physical therapy will help I have had that before.

I have things I want to get bact to and finish up before the end of the year gets here. I feel like now I will be better and get these things done.

Farmer Man is still good old Farmer Man. So confused but I go with him to the barn and he feeds the goats and waters the chickens and goats with my direction.
I am glad he can walk pretty good but does have to use his cane all the time.

God Bless,
Love Aunt Maria[marie]

Monday, August 23, 2010

Cats --Cats-- Cats


Just a few lines tonight ---I need to post more often and come up with some interesting things to tell you. I have been back to Dr today and have been in lots of pain in my shoulder. He said i need to have MRI so tomorrow I will have one. I am praying I do not have to have surgery. I have to take care of myself too or I can't take care of Farmer Man. Today he was pretty good just that when I was helping him to bed he asked where the other girl was. She didn't die did she? I told him no she had left. If I tell him that she is me he says ," No that can't be." Life goes on no matter what. We deal with it. I know God has plans for us all---Just don't know what they are. I do ask !!

Something light here!!! I have 12 cats now and I only asked for one. Ms Pinkie brought the 3 new kittens to my cabin so I could help feed them as they grow.
Her four almost grown ones come in there to be fed too. I want to give the almost grown ones away but most people have cats if they like them and if they are not a cat person just don't mention a cat. I just can't take Pinkie and her babies to the pound cause I know what they do . I will figure this cat thing out too.
OK ---Now I am going to have to have a chicken and cat sale that might work. I have lots of chickens now and they eat lots of corn like the cats they eat lots of cat food. Maybe I could advertise cat and chicken feed for some company. I could tell them how much my pets like their special food.

Love ,
Aunt Maria{marie}

Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Old Chicken House



I could not upload my book cover picture so i just did this picture.i will try the book cover later it is 10:00pm and time for me to settle down before I go to bed.

Love,
Aunt Maria

Just Chickens Talking




This is not the front of the book this is a page from inside. I also had to show you a pretty bouquet of flowers from my dried up garden.

This is the title of the small children's book I wrote last November. It is titled this because I listen to chickens every day and they do talk to each other and to me.
I have lots of free range chickens and I mean free. This year I have raised about 30 I think ---I really don't know for sure. I have about 60 in all. They greet me each morning at the back door. Now I know you think my my she must be a little eccentricity---probably so. I have a chicken coop my grandson built for me joined onto the back of my cabin. Oh no you must say. It does work well for me but every thing thinks the cabin belongs to them too. Chickens cats an more cats.

I have a cat hole in the back door for Miss Millie my only black cat--Used to be my only cat. In February a new cat showed up in my cabin with a pink collar so she became Pinkie---well Pinkie stayed because I couldn't find her owner. Now she has four almost grown kittens[She was pregnant when she came] ---before I could do anything about getting her fixed she was showing again and now she has more at the barn and I can't find them. What am I to do? I am going to give them away if I can.
I could go on with chicken and cat stories---well I might some other time.

My little chicken talking book is small for the beginner reader only about four lines to the page. I haven't even had any printed I did two copies on my computer for myself.

I have to say Farmer Man has had some really bad days lately. We think he has had some more mini strokes. For several days he was talking about our car that we haven't had for 30 yrs or more. He was going to get it he knew the man that had it.
So this has gone on and on and has not been easy to take care of him wanting to leave. I called Dianna and she came Fri. and took him out to look for the car and he couldn't find it---he has been some better sense he came back.
He has slept a lot, a lot more than usual. I just hope he stays calm and not agitated like he got Fri.. He did go out with me to feed the goats this afternoon and he likes that.

Hoping for a good week.
God bless us all.
Love,
Aunt Maria[Marie]

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Surprises!!


Farmer Man and I have been married 59 yrs today. It was a hot summer that year too--seems it was about like this year. Today was not a good day for Farmer Man --some reason he didn't even know me today.I asked, did he remember our wedding day and he didn't. I had him come into the kitchen and help me seed the damsons. We talked a lot and he thought I was his sister again. It is sad to see him have these days when he doesn't know me and they are getting more and more.

This picture is of some things from my gardens and I really don't know how we have much of anything with all this heat. It is good to have this much and i have flowers that haven't dried up completely.

After lunch he went to the porch with the fly swat which he carries around all the time killing flies or ants or wasps and anything that he thinks needs swatting.
I was in the kitchen washing dishes and after a while he came in and sat down in the living room---pretty soon i heard him snoring. When i finished in the kitchen I went and sat on the sofa and took a little rest and he woke up and looked over at me and I looked at him --OH my goodness his left eye was as big as my fist , almost swollen together. I jumped up and said," What happened to your eye?" He had to think a little bit and said,"A wasp stung him on the eye". I got an ice pack and gave him a baby aspirin cause that's all I had. He never complained but when Dianna came by after work she said she would bring him Benadril and she did so I gave him one.
The swelling was all over the side of his face and neck by night ---he still never complained only he asked me if i had some eye drops and I put some in his eyes at bedtime. I hope tomorrow is a good day with no unexpected happenings. Today was a good day in The Lord and I thank him for it and the 59 yrs of marriage to Old Farmer Man.
Love,
Aunt Maria[marie]