Tuesday, September 30, 2014

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I am no longer TIRED, nah that's not true...
Sadly, I am always tired, but not always TIRED, got that?

Any-who, yesterday was a fun and exhausting day, and we Hubby, Number one Son and I had a wonderful visit.

He arrived a wee bit later than he expected due to an accident on the highway coming down here, it was about a quarter to eleven in the A.M., he had wanted to arrive around nine-ten-ish, I think.
And Hubby and I had determined how the day would be going pretty much, he again suggested that I not go into the pool before going over this time to the rehab, but now for my first day of return to independent exercises.

We almost left to go there and have Number One join us over there but we saw his car arriving at our home and so we talked a bit and all went together for my independent exercises.

Although, Hubby and our son did an errand of picking up our vitamins and postage stamps at the Winn Dixie grocery story in the same shopping mall as the rehab center.

It worked out fairly well since I was halfway through my four exercise machines completion of my first day as being on my own…
But not entirely that older couples lady knew the equipment there rather well and helped me align my sheet information with the set up as well as the proper way to get onto the machines.
She and her husband have been using many of the different ones that 
I hadn’t used previously and so it was very nice of her to help me and I did appreciate it and told her so.

Sometimes I do stop and realize that acting like a know-it-all is not the best way to learn anything!
And as I have said before as I grow older I realize that I know less and less; not like when I was a fifteen year old and knew everything, ha!

After we left there it was lunch time and we mentioned to our son of a restaurant that was not a chain and that we had not taken him to before.
He and his girlfriend enjoy traveling and have been on many cruises but also enjoy going to New Orleans and I mentioned that this restaurant serves Cajun style food as well as many other cuisines, but with a strong seafood menu and he said ok.

Hubby and I had only been there once before due to finding out the chef there had once been the chef for the Cultural Center and when he was there we so enjoyed the food.
So we tried it, and asked for him but he was not there that day. That day I had the jambalaya that I took pictures of, like a true foodie would and of Hubby’s chicken Marsala too.

Yesterday, I decided to try something different and so I had from their appetizer menu a shrimp cocktail and from the salad menu a wedge salad, and Number One chose their cod sandwich platter and Hubby got his new favorite there again, chicken Marsala. Two iced teas unsweet with lemon, for me and my son and Hubby had his coffee black with sugar.
Everything was delish.
 
Hubby asked our server if Chris the chef was in and she said that he was and Hubby commenced to tell her about us knowing him from where he used to work and missed his great cooking.

She went and got him and Chris Cooper came out, we all chatted a while and he said that his specialties there were his signature soups/ chowders and sauces and I said oh how much I love them. And he brought me out a cup of his very scrumptious fish chowder with shrimp and clams and cod etc. 
I had asked before he had left if he will be making lobster bisque that we used to enjoy so much when out on the boat down in the islands, here, not far away, at one of the Florida islands coastal restaurants.
He wasn’t absolute but I think he might.

We will definitely be going back there.
 
They are located on the water in Punta Gorda right over the route 41 bridge south of us.

Hurricane Charley’s
300 Retta Esplanade Punta Gorda Florida 33950
941-639-9695 or 941-575-0062

Used to be Benedetto’s Steak House there, next door to the hotel.


Yes, they’re named after that notorious day in our local history on 8/13/04, a Friday and the pictures of that day are throughout the place with even pieces of other remembrances too, debris etc.…


On that note of trying to make lemonade out of a nasty lemon, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!


And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Monday, September 29, 2014

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Tell me a story...



Children for centuries have made that simple request.
And by all parents means the truest thing to do is they honor that adorable tiny one’s desire to hear words that have been written by wonderful children’s books authors and so we read those memorable words for the ages…and feel we have completed a job well done… but what if..

Although, as much as we love to conquer the idealistic world of kiddie-lit, ( here’s a site: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/kiddie-lit )and bring home that knowledge of what each and every child’s future teachers would prefer for them to have under their proverbial belts when they enter pre-school here’s an out of the box concept… make up a story with them front and center as the main character and ask them for their input and ideas to sallying forth with a plot and development of a backgrounds for each and every included participant in the tale; crazy?

Who knows but there are books out there that now do make your child the star. I know that I have heard of this before.
But my question to any of you is the plot also original or do they just add your little one’s name in place of the original cast of characters?

Sure it’s a long shot that your brilliant small selfie will want to cooperate and if not, you start the ball rolling, but always remember to try and make it from their point of view and true life experiences, they are yours so this should be easy and if not… well, maybe you better get to know them better and then start all over.

Making stuff up for publication is best when you start with things you know of personally; at least that is what many professional writers say… but authors have imagination and do research for legitimacy or have reliable sources to give their works occasional reality, but not always. Poetic license has been known to run rampant in many of a creative tale from a child’s mind…

Now to get started with your mini you, you might let them try an imaginative sentence of what they did for the day…
“I went over to play with Timmy today and we had a great time until…yep, Richard, his big brother took back one of his trucks saying it was his!”
Now a good parent might ask, “How did that make you feel?” Yep, parenting is not that different from being a therapist, ha! Any-who, feelings are also how a writer writes to express a situation’s relevance for what might occur in a future chapter or scene plot development, huh, got it?

So emotions are important to express.
Most children understand happy or sad or angry or mad or funny or sick or scared or brave, you get the idea… but don’t put words in their mouth, listen!

If all else fails with this idea and it very well might; think of it this way you had another bonding moment with that child and you really tried hard to understand their way of thinking like all good parents should anyway!

They are, after all, little people.

What brought this on, one might ask.
And I am very happy you did, even if you really didn’t.
Well, I will tell you anyway…
Our grown man of a son, number one who is in his fourth decade of his life, called today to say that he was coming for a visit and to deliver a workbench he had asked Hubby, his Dad if he wanted and the answer had been yes.

Wonderful ploy to see the boy!
Kidding, Hubby said yes because he did want it.

But I am happy that he had.

And so he will enter into our somewhat confusing day of, maybe pool time, weather permitting, independent exercise, and off to lunch where he will have some input and then we will have time to catch up during that meal and after and then he will be off to his home two and a half hours away, again…sad to even think about it even now…

I did manage to have the weather cooperate today for my two half hour sets and I did try again with some yellow band exercises and deep-end ladder ones too and even those Styrofoam spongy water weights, but I did not put them under the water, too heavy still and painful, and yes, I am listening to my body, thank you very much!

On that note of now you know too, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS My writing ability did not start until I was a girl of twelve years old, and a babysitter at that time. I had some difficult children to sit for and then I found the best way for them to see the errs of their ways was to make up stories with their misbehavior in them and they saw themselves and it had worked, they were wonderful from then on… mostly! Later that year in seventh grade I wrote my first play about a candy store robbery called, “Sweet Job” and for that I received my first, “A” in writing and I was hooked.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

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Can you decipher it all, some I didn’t even know what it was for until I clicked on it this evening, but I bet all of you did, hmm?

Got it, so why not use some of it, ya think?
OK, I see where this all could cause some confusion, true?

So I will continue in an easier to read format, but it’s not like I got too much to say except…

Today, I was back on track, in other words, in the swimming pool, got my hour in, two sets of half hours, each with a break in between and tried some exercises besides just walking… YEP, you heard right I took that yellow band and tied it on the railing and commenced to do my physical therapist prescribed exercises, pulling each separately and holding to the count of three, 5X’s each arm, standing with my shoulders in the water, and then lying down with my heels on the bottom step and again same thing.

Even did some circles with my feet, twenty in each direction, and then holding on and pushing off of it too all down by the deep end ladder…
I am now starting to feel it, but I won’t know until tonight when I try to sleep if I did a BIG mistake or not. The issue is I am on too much pain type stuff the Gabapentin 600 mg. and the Baclofen 60mg. in my opinion.

Beat the rain coming in, had to wait until after lunch this time for the pool to get back up to temperature of around 84/85 and the chemicals to reactivate; the chlorinator emptied in all that rain so Hubby had to refill it and I waited for some to show up in the tester as well as the Ph adjustment to lower.
But it did so I did it and before the rain came!
Again it appeared to have waited for me to get out and sit up under the lanai roofing for protection!

After showering and seeing that nothing was on the TV that we cared to watch we put the DVD in for Noah and then the rain stopped enough half way through and it was time to barbecue that nice rib eye steak that Hubby picked out and the bake potatoes had been put on earlier and I zapped the asparagus in the microwave with just a bit of extra virgin olive oil lemon juice and sea salt.

Then the news was on so we probably will finish the movie tomorrow; personally I think it’s too violent and it doesn’t follow any bible story about Noah that I recall, but that’s just me.

Any-who, on that note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Friday, September 26, 2014

Nothing urgent, but she will tell me when I see her on Thursday?

Is that cryptic or is it just me?
In my opinion it's both.
Nothing urgent but something?
That entitled statement was visa vi Dr. Nord and told to me by Cindy the RN.
She also said to have a good weekend...whatever that means?
I know, I know, me over thinking again! 
Perhaps due to me awakening again early; this time I have been up since 1:58 A.M., and never looked back!
Yep that's me up and going since then and oddly enough no nap.
How would you do with very little sleep and pain that awakes you out of a restless sleep.

So you can relate?

Hope not.

Most days I had the pool as my way of gaining some solace for my pain, even just walking around in it was of some minute help, but since it has been rain cooled or even raining when I would love to be in it I am hoping that all of these grey skies and gloomy weather will leave us very soon, depressing.
I feel like a baby bear with needing it just right the temperature too cold is just as bad as too warm too!

Today was my last day of PT and Paula says that after she did a test the doctor said to do and had been done in the beginning of all this and she had Dx’d me with BVVP that I DO NOT HAVE BVVP, what?
She feels that I have vertigo caused by something else and perhaps from my TIA in 2006?
She too sounded oddly unsure.
But I am NOT spinning and I told her from the start that I wasn’t, just dizzy and off balance from my Ataxia. The hospital diagnosed me with vertigo.

My pain across my shoulders is evident as well as my lower back and I have been avoiding doing anything that has to do with pain in those regions.

And so even though we tried different equipment in the exercise area I could only use my legs for most, which I suppose is not too bad, really!

My head seems to be uncooperative due to its usual pain or lack of sleep or both and so I will be closing this very shortly. My arms are exhausted too…

Next week will be hectic much going on and I will report as the days wear on…

I suppose this weekend would be a good time to relax or chill or distract oneself etc., etc, etc…
On that note of trying to keep my brain busy thinking in other directions, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!


PS Ironically we have rented the movie Noah! (The rain never ending here, in case you forgot?)

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Sun shinning now, but we are in for it soon...

Yep, the rain she is a coming, huh?
Why a she? Why what makes us say she so easily about nature and it’s, so-called blessings and not so wonderful acts that it bestows upon us? Why a Mother Nature, not a Father Nature…just wondering…?
Used to be all hurricanes were named for only women, happy that that stopped

“History of Hurricane Names

For several hundred years many hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. Ivan R. Tannehill describes in his book "Hurricanes" the major tropical storms of recorded history and mentions many hurricanes named after saints. For example, there was "Hurricane Santa Ana" which struck Puerto Rico with exceptional violence on July 26, 1825, and "San Felipe" (the first) and "San Felipe" (the second) which hit Puerto Rico on September 13 in both 1876 and 1928.
Tannehill also tells of Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorologist who began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the 19th century.
An early example of the use of a woman's name for a storm was in the novel "Storm" by George R. Stewart, published by Random House in 1941, and since filmed by Walt Disney. During World War II this practice became widespread in weather map discussions among forecasters, especially Army and Navy meteorologists who plotted the movements of storms over the wide expanses of the Pacific Ocean.
In 1953, the United States abandoned a confusing two-year old plan to name storms by a phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie) when a new, international phonetic alphabet was introduced. That year, the United States began using female names for storms.
The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. “
Thanks to: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames_history.shtml I would go there just for the fun of it, since their info is so reliable, really!

Moving on…

Today I had my Orthopedic PA appointment with Maryanna; she has decided that since I have nothing needing surgery that perhaps I would like to go the injection route for the pain. (Déjà vu, hmm?) Another doctor or two suggested that.

And so in a little over three weeks I have an appointment with the doctor who does the sticking to see if after he explains that he won’t do that one of his colleagues did to my hand and arm with one stick of the pain remedy that lasted for two days with my arm unable to move and the actual pain reliever lasted maybe a week, if that?
So I am weighing that prospect, seeing how severe the pain gets I might end up saying UNCLE!

Meanwhile on the bone scan results I was notified after I asked via that secure email that tomorrow I should have my results from that and I will be able to post them here I suppose by then.

The rain came and so as lame as it may be the same as many of my previous word games, allow me to be the very first on that note to wish you all a very happy good night and ask all of you to count your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Some days go down in history for what happens...

...that can be considered significant, and then there is what happens to some of us individually…




Tonight’s blog will be brief due to threatening storms and me feeling badly, quite dizzy.



And yes I am once again and forever known as “A Dizzy Blond”.



My dizziness I am afraid it is something I will have to live with until something changes that.



I received the other two planes information sheets for the proper exercises for the BVVP: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/vertigo/basics/definition/con-20028216 I was told that I have that and supposedly it is causing this feeling.



The rainy weather just brings us all down when it continues too long…everything is nice when it has a short visit like company… always leave them wanting more I say!



This is the second or third time I tried to copy and paste something from the net and it screwed up my formatting and so I deleted the whole thing.

I suppose those sites don’t like you copying their stuff, but I always give them credit and put quotes around it and never claim that it is mine!



Any-who, it was just the Tommy Roe song, I’m so dizzy, but he’s talking about a girl causing his dizziness due to falling in love… mine is an unknown cause or ominous, although that BVVP is a pretty good contender… I guess if the exercises cure me that is what it was? But this started on April 30th with my vertigo… too long.



So far no news on the results of my bone scan, and as anyone knows NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS!



I hope.



On that upbeat note with the noise of thunder getting much, much louder in the background, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all too kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!



And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

 PS: This is my history, get it? Big smile inserted here.

Remember that, Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery that is why today is a gift, a present."




















Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Did it!

The test is over! Another one that I hope has gone the way of the dinosaur, as far as me needing it ever again, extinct!

And as far as I know, grade-wise, it is either a pass or fail...
They had me come in three hours time after I was radiated, instead of four.
All in all it was only about forty-five minutes, not even.
I truly believe I passed, meaning I know that I smiled through the whole thing, and it seem to be not very long that way for the whole shebang to be over.
Yes, I do think that we, Dr. Nord and I were making more of this issue than it probably is, I hope...
There was only one area that required some more pictures, and that was my rib-cage; due to that is the real reason I had this whole thing in the first place, correct?
And they felt the doctor wanted to see it; I suppose they meant the radiologist to be sure.  

Since it was Dr. Nord who ordered the test, but I am more than sure they will tell her that everything is just fine in a few days I was told... just like the Mayo Clinic had said, in 24 to 48 hours.
Of course the techs are not allowed to analyze the scan themselves, since they are not radiologists, but they were nice young folks named, Adrienne and Allen, the techs that is.
Now all I have to do is allow the radioactive material leave my body naturally, huh?
What’s wrong with this sentence and what did I just do?????

A normal result on a bone scan:


An abnormal bone scan:


I can actually see vividly the differences, can you?
I am more than sure you do too!

So I guess mine will show the first one, the “normal one”, one can only hope; sure it will!

That will be great, since I have never ever been called normal before…KIDDING! NOT!
Well, maybe not…not often...

On this note of once again giving you all TMI from my ideas of what is the way to get my point across, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Monday, September 22, 2014

Tomorrow



Most tests I have had from biopsies, blood, MRI's with and without contrasts, ultrasounds for every innards in the human body, as well as for pain... IVP the kidney x-ray with and without contrasts, bone density test, mammography’s, etc…you name it I am more than sure I have had it test wise, but not this one ever before…
So instead of being a bit scarred, may be I should think it is just something new, nu?

Bone scan Definition - Tests and Procedures - Mayo Clinic


 A bone scan is a nuclear imaging test that helps diagnose and track several types of bone disease. Your doctor may order a bone scan if you have unexplained skeletal pain suggesting bone loss, bone infection or a bone injury undetectable on a standard X-ray.... A bone scan is also an important tool for detecting cancer that has spread (metastasized) to the bone from a tumor that started in a different organ, such as the breast or prostate. Similarly, a bone scan can detect some abnormalities related to leukemia and lymphoma.” Why it's done

If you have unexplained bone pain, a bone scan may help determine the cause. Images from bone scans can reveal bone abnormalities related to these conditions:
  • Fractures
  • Arthritis
  • Paget's disease of bone
  • Cancer originating in bone
  • Cancer that has spread (metastasized) to bone from a different primary site, such as the prostate, lung or breast
  • Infection of the joints, joint replacements or bones (osteomyelitis)
  • Fibrous dysplasia
  • Impaired blood supply to bones or death of bone tissue (avascular necrosis)”


I guess that chest X-ray I got was not as self explanatory as I thought.
We all know that these less invasive tests, such as bone scans, although they are deemed completely safe we as aware creatures of habit who know from stories on the TV that some of these so-called “safe tests” things can go very wrong, true?
And no, I will not be put to sleep with any anesthesia, but the radioactive chemical injected into my arm sounds a bit ominous you must admit?
Why is it taking three hours to reach its necessary potency and permeate through my bones that would logically take some time to be able to be scanned?
Alright, that does sound plausible; I suppose that it has many locations to reach, since my prescription is for a full body scan...and I do have quite a lot for it to see…!
More than most, I suspect.
Even with knowing all that I am going to need some really big distractions to not over think this whole thing like I sadly have done too many times before…and this gives you the results in 24 to 48 hours, but when does the doctor tell you those results, hmm?

Yes, that is the question, always…
In all my years I have found that doctors don’t call with good news any time soon, but they have with bad…

Geez, don’t they know we also like to know the good?

I hate once again depending on others for my fate, damn!
Cringe factor be DAMNED! Take that four letter word now more than four, no longer a curse? Who cares, this has to be expressed and if some cussing is necessary for that emotion, so it be!

I do think my needing to know how it went as soon as they get it is not that difficult a request or too much to ask; do you?

All patients should be treated with dignity, and yet some medical people forget that. If only they would put themselves in our position, and no I do not mean taking the test for us, unless they really, really want to… That’s utterly ridiculous!

The reason I posted the exact info on the test I think a few of the people I reach with this blog might have thought I was referring to the bone density test given without the above reasonings, just to check for Osteopenia or Osteoporosis. “A bone density test determines if you have osteoporosis — a disease that causes bones to become more fragile and more likely to break.
In the past, osteoporosis could be detected only after you broke a bone. By that time, however, your bones could be quite weak. A bone density test enhances the accuracy of calculating your risk of breaking bones.
A bone density test uses X-rays to measure how many grams of calcium and other bone minerals are packed into a segment of bone. The bones that are most commonly tested are in the spine, hip and forearm.”
  • Identify decreases in bone density before you break a bone
  • Determine your risk of broken bones (fractures)
  • Confirm a diagnosis of osteoporosis
  • Monitor osteoporosis treatment”

See, not scary at all!

Just thought I would clarify if some did not click on the links that I had left last time I discussed this...I really don’t blame you.

On that note of trying hard to be understood one day at a time… allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages with you who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

WISH ME LUCK!

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Another day under my belt!

Each and every day we continue on this life's journey and it is a blessing.
People with extended family members nearby or within reach of their hugs and kisses are extremely lucky...and don't you dare ever think otherwise!
For I am so very jealous of that; is that so wrong?

Many family members are gone, as in dead  ... and others are very far away!
We have no grands, as in grandchildren and so that too makes me wish for if only...
But that could be considered selfish to want those things...After all more family created by offspring is not the same as keeping up with the Joneses and their additions of inanimate objects! These are people making people.

Oh no, no one has control over such things any more of people in their extended immediate families, and demanding such is frowned upon by the closest of your own production numbers, and I am not speaking of Broadway!

You create these beings out of love for your mate and from there you think when they find theirs (spouse) they too will continue the process… But you never ever suggest it; oh, maybe just in passing… give us some granddaughters so we can see pink and ballet classes, boys are great but we already had those, and of course we would love them too, ha!

Nah, no one can ever put in an order of grandchildren we can only hope for them like health and happiness.



Is it something we did differently than others I wonder?



So many of our age friends have tons of fun with their many little skip a generation selfies wandering hither and yon with them at the helm with less stress than the previous parental experience with what their own of theirs caused.



I so wanted to have that ability to be like my own parents who would love and spoil our boys and send them home joyfully; for our sons could never ever do any wrong in their hearts…the way it should be!

Now I fear I will never know that joy of another type of unconditional love that so many show and we would too…if only…

It seems that Sundays are the family days as they were when we were children too that all would somehow fit each other into our so-called busy schedules of life, even way back then, and of course on all the holidays too!



Not unusual to have twenty-five or more for dinner way back then…How I miss that!



Bittersweet with lives marching on; and some families make more and grow bigger and greater and some sadly diminish into less…



Melancholy me these days, so sorry!



I don’t know why…



But you all enjoy your wonderful days of life that seems to get better and more fulfilled daily and for that I am soooo happy for all of you!



On that note of envy being a good thing to share as in to appreciate and realize that happiness should never ever be taken for granted, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!



And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Glorious rain, but oh what a pain and did I say that in...vain?

Sure we need that wet stuff for our watersheds and reservoirs and the like as well as our crops, gardens and oh so much more, but today I am quite rained out!
Not unlike many a sports team knowing that if it doesn't stop soon they will have to reschedule?
I am so done with this not too much more fun wet stuff!
Shall I be bold or quaint and say, “rain, rain go away, come again another day!”?
Shall I?
Is my life so full of that proverbial “too much time on my hands”, that I find in all those wasted instances that I have found that elusive time to complain about something so mundane, and so I suppose it is my shame…
What a lot of hooey I refrain, for life’s got more in it to detain me from this game of calling out annoyances by name…
Or is it with old childhood mindset frames that run through my brain… of laments that are truly very sane…
YES, OH YES, “RAIN GO AWAY AND COME ANOTHER DAY!!!!”
Now some may feel that to complain of such a thing as the rain is not sane at all but quite the opposite…
Oh but how I disagree as for me it is one of those few safe topics to speak of freely and we all do…whether the weather is good or bad or clear or cloudy or cold or hot or dry or wet… everyone has something to say, and we all know that even so nothing we refrain will change the fact that it continues to surprise us daily and we have our different ways to react…
You must admit this is true, but have you or you or you, done one single thing to change it?????
A resounding NO! I hear you! No I don’t… but let’s pretend anyway…
Since in life there are some things, although, we would more than likely wish to change their outcome and sadly we have no ability to do that…!
Such is life we say when we do know that there is no answer for these mysteries in life.

I even contacted the professionals at NOAA years ago, about ten, after Hurricane Charley in 2004 devastated us here in Florida, and since with all the other natural disasters my heart cries whenever I hear or see those areas of the world destroyed by what we still have no ability to change…
If only…

So that is what I am talking about the lack of ability to change certain things, but in life we do have the power to change other things or so we would like to think.
Our fear level is high with truly scary monstrous threats of people, no they act like animals just wanting to kill other human beings and for this too I feel somewhat helpless.

Sadness and so many emotions come over me when we see or hear about all of these daily murders, and they make me, an Agnostic person feel the need to pray and ask the deity to help all of man/womankind to stop this BADNESS!

And again pray that it will stop… but again I have no ability to do anything, and yet the need to do something exists, but what?

Does anyone know?

Frustration and killing continues, to end this...I DO KNOW IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT STOP!

Sadly, if we had a better knowledge of the why people do these things, but in reality we all do know why, there is no reason; they just do…is it like when you pray for something and you get no answer, because there is none that is why…NO!

It is nothing like that!

Then it is that we people of peace do not understand people of violence and now to me that makes some sort of sense, like apples and oranges I suppose…?

On that note of trying to figure out the whys in the world one day at a time, allow me to be the very first to wish a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Friday, September 19, 2014

Flamingos!


 You either love 'em or hate them, but they do exist!







http://www.flamingos-world.com/

Whether you think they are tacky or iconic or even just a little bit interesting we personally lived in Florida for over twelve years before we succumbed to the activity of considering them as lawn ornaments in any shape, style or form.

We had purchased the type that many found tacky, four in a pack from Walmart and we chose two that are not too different from some of the above ones. At first we put them out , only two in the front center garden and nastily when we came home one day one was missing, it either blew away or someone felt that stealing one would make us remove them! Little did they know we had six more, seven with the one no longer a pair...
We decided our backyard would be more appropriate and safer for their exhibition and so that is what we did, although I had the brilliant idea to make them reindeer for the holidays and we stretched lights from each one and we had had a slightly less tacky looking metal one that we installed a red nose on from a Styrofoam ball painted red! Santa was found at again Walley World and we had him in major strong wooden board and this display was placed on our back lawn facing the canal for all other boaters to see during the holidays!

We did this for quite a few years, and we received all sorts of comments, mostly positive. After all when you live in Florida you have lighted dolphins, and sharks and palm trees and all sort of tropical sea creatures boldly displayed for the holiday season, especially in our famous boat parades!

These days we only display two of our better quality Flamingos, both oddly enough referred to as PINKIE!
Their colorings have been over the years redone several time due to weather taking its toll on them, and I used to make up a brew of my special acrylic and latex paints, white in latex and red in acrylic that would turn into a Pepto Bismol color, yep that really pink pink!
But this year I was thrilled to see when the coloring of them needed to be done Hubby took it upon himself to do it the smarter not harder brush way but with our spray of rust proof iridescent pink! They are the first two examples of Flamingos, although real ones have been placed into the mix, which I am sure you can easily tell...

Do yourself a favor and read the link I included I bet you thought you knew more than you did about them, yep the iconic tacky always pretty in pink even if it is more peachy keen than true pink...waterfowl that makes most think of Florida when they see one....

On that note of good vibes allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
 

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Its here! My convertible has arrived!

Finally the wait is over! As of 11:40 A.M. this morning I am prepared for all outcomes in my fun-filled days! Whether walking pretty with my balance aid or if my body gives out and I need a push, even if I am half and half I can sit while walking and push myself... WOW what a concept!

I know, I know most gals at my age are looking forward to automobiles with convertible tops and not convertible walkers... or may be they are? LOL! I hope not, convertible tops are great... but in my opinion noisy on highways... I'm just saying we had a rag-top on our Jeep Wrangler, not good on I95, very noisy! Around town nice though...

You see how this one converts from a regular walker to a transport with its two sets of handles and drop down foot rest as well as the back rest changing position too...Oh, I almost forgot the really neat thing is that now the handles are up significantly higher than my old one and that adjustment that my other one was at its highest and could not go any higher seems to help me stand straighter which could only be better for me, true? And this one has three more adjustments to go even higher if someone should need that! Being short does not mean for you to stand bent over, I do believe that was harming my thoracic region as much as my knowledge now of having Osteoporosis there, at least I think that's what the demineralization of my thoracic region means. My calcification of my thoracic aorta means, according to what I read means that I more than likely have age related hardening of the arteries...


 The above PIC here is representing the seedlings homes that is right the Marigold's appear to be appearing; we will show you more when there is more to see, alrighty now!
 This above PIC is showing you my yellow exercise band that was really beneficial to use tied on to the railing this morning doing my prescribed exercises; I could keep my shoulders mostly under water or even lie down with resting my heels on the steps. Although, I now feel that exercise or just my normal pain...
This PIC is documenting how fast and furious the Bougainvillea has grown/recovered from its chopping down!

On this note of again pictures worth a thousand words, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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