Adding to the tropical paradise we already live in...

 

Mini projects...2.

1. Citrus Green 

2. Island Splash

3. Mambo Pink

4. Sun Yellow

5. Sea Glass

All under four bucks apiece, Krylon for plastic!

They will be the new colors of the five plastic chairs down by the canal under the pergohut! I coined the name, "pergohut" due to it once being a tiki hut and then transformed into a pergola but maintaining its tiki legs. The reason for the painting is due to our strong sun the ultraviolet rays caused the plastic to become oxidized and powdery and the white to come off onto your clothes. Hopefully with a good coat of plastic covering paint that will no longer happen. Of course, we could have painted them white, but what fun would that be, really? So tropical is the way to go! 

Hubby is also fitting the cover for the pergohut. It is a 10' X 10' white tarp that will be bungee corded onto it with special white cords that go through the grommets!

All washed to be painted below.

The fifth plastic chair is the only remaining chair from an additional set we had with a matching table that survived Hurricane Charley 8-13-04, a Friday, and so it was written on the chair by me. And will be rewritten I suspect. Hubby is doing all the work, but I chose the colors.

PS the tarp is under $18, and the bungees and screws another under $10 for both, I think.

Once they are complete I will post them here.

Moving on...

Tomorrow I am to have my nuclear stress test to check out my heart's issues.

As a few might know I have been experiencing bradycardia https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bradycardia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355474, a slow heartbeat.

And that prompted my internist's office to not give me clearance for my gallbladder surgery in January unless I saw a cardiologist first.

It was just days before I was to have the scheduled surgery, January 5th, yes, the day before the insurrection, anyway,... that Monday I was able to get an appointment, but by Thursday of the week before I worked myself into such a dither I ended up in the hospital with chest pains that were my slight bradycardia, but mostly anxiety! I wanted the gallbladder out it had been causing awful problems, digestively speaking! So in one week, I had had three cardiograms and one echocardiogram. The last two items in the cardiologist's office the day before surgery and he gave me clearance.

And that is who I will be seeing tomorrow.

But I originally had an appointment for one year to come back.

Then on the first anniversary of my baclofen pump surgery on February 24th, 2021, I ended up back in the hospital, this time with chest pains. I only went due to my internist telling me to go. I had called there to get an appointment, instead, he told me to go to the hospital to be checked out. 

They did numerous tests on me at the hospital and were even going to keep me overnight, but when the tests came back they determined I did not have a heart attack, which I was pretty sure I had not too before I went there... but my new cardiologist even came by to check on me! 

And he said that he was waiting for one more test, and if it comes back okay I can go home. I should call his office and make an appointment for a stress test. The appointment person had wanted me to come in on March tenth... but I had a dentist appointment that I should have changed and switched out, but I apparently wasn't thinking clearly, so tomorrow is the day! 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/17277-nuclear-exercise-stress-test

(*I cannot walk so they just use the tracer for me for the nuclear stress test, same as the last time too!) https://blog.partnersforyourhealth.com/blog/the-chemical-stress-test-side-effects-you-need-to-know I am having the Lexiscan stress test https://www.medicalhealthtests.com/articles/497/stress-tests/lexiscan-stress-test.html#:~:text=Lexiscan%20stress%20test%20is%20a%20nuclear%20stress%20test,test%20aimed%20to%20detect%20heart%20problems%20and%20diseases.

The last time I had a stress test of this kind was several years ago, and it at the time showed that I had diastolic dysfunctionhttps://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Diastolic-Dysfunction.aspx#:~:text=The%20main%20causes%20of%20diastolic%20dysfunction%20are:%201,or%20deposits%20have%20led%20to%20stiff%20heart%20muscles. I had been on high blood pressure medicine for a decade and I was taken off it then due to that problem. (*but I just read they shouldn't have.) My diastolic pressure during the test then dropped to 31, quite low, I was immediately put on an IV of saline, which did help.

And so we must go for now...

Please be smart, as well as safe.

Have a very pleasant night.

Count those blessings, and we will too!

Next time, please be here or be square, ya hear!

Aussie, say Good day!

I am Aussie, not being from Australia, but American-made. I will comply anyway for the fun of it,... so I will say good day!

I am called Aussie because my Mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been looking at me, in the crate at the adoption site that day what she thought I should be named. And without a second thought, the teenager had said, Aussie! She was just looking, by the way,... so Mom did not steal me from her.
We never did find out the girl's name, and Mom liked the name Aussie too. We have since found out that it is a very common name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon though,...some might say even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd. Here is an interesting factoid, I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd but,...as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now three years old, so I am the baby, though tipping the scales around seventy pounds, HA! A very big one! 
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. Below is my new PIC that had been taken on the birthday that I share with my Dad, but Dad is much, much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, February 16, 2018, his brother's birthday.

                            3 months................................................3 years

No tail/tale publishing circa 2018. 

Get it? I was born without a tail, preferable for all Australian Shepherds; only one out of five are born that way!

                                           

Hello, I am Bella, a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be five years old. The middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies that go along with all that! Being the only girl has its rewards, as well as difficulties...We are all rescues, so no one knows for sure our ages. I was turned in from my previous family, stating, that I was misbehaving with their elderly dog, they had said that I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted on 8/18/18, on clear the shelters' day!Oh, by the way, my record's called me Belle, and so for no known reason, Mom decided I was more of a Bella; beautiful either way!

And please don't forget me, I am Chance a Bichon Frise! I am six years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with Mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps in with Dad, till after seven! I enjoy a good tug-of-war on the ropes that Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays too! I was the last to be adopted on January 23, 2020. 

I was wandering the neighborhood for days and then saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window so I hung out there... The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening? 

Now my name of Chance is because I was given another chance, could be only the second one or perhaps more... The animal control lady came out to see if I had a chip with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason being, that if no one claimed me I want to give him a second chance! So that is how I got the name Chance!

Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!