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Hello,
I really hope that everyone is doing well. I want to say I am sorry that I haven't been blogging but that is nothing new at the moment.
My life has been so.... Indescribable.
It is going to take several blog posts just to catch up on the last 3 months. Some things I just cannot post on my blog so a long stretch will overlook several weeks of important things that have happened but I choose to keep as private as possible with only my family and a few friends.
I know that it would be a huge relief and therapy to journal it all but sometimes that kind of writing therapy needs to be done in a real life journal under lock and key haha.
Seriously tho lots has happened and so much of it not good. Most of these I can blog about. Like our air conditioning went out and the entire unit had to be replaced. Ugh what a terrible time during this kind of heat.
Thankfully we do have a great landlady and we were helped immensely by her kindness and how fast she and her husband took care of the problem. She also had a unit across from us that was vacant at the time and she let us use it as it had power.
My daughter Laurie and her family were here and they have been living in Northern California and this heat was very difficult for them. The last day was just miserable as we had the hottest day of the year so far at the time. They were trying to pack the car and couldn't be outside very long at a time. I was very concerned that heat exhaustion or stroke was very possible with my son in law. I could tell he was not doing well.
Besides the heat what other misery at the time and still is? Mosquitoes the size of Texas along with the swarms. How oh how can they survive this heat is beyond me. It is impossible to enjoy our back patio. We don't have standing water but we do have a lot of trees and the leaves hold onto what moisture that they can.
The repellent Off does not help, nor do the citronella candles and incense . Although I have discovered that the incense does seem to work better than the candles.
My son Nathan and I are the ones that really love our back patio so we are investing in some Lemongrass, Lemon Balm and as many other plants that we can.
Money has been a problem. Having our family here as much as we were happy to see them, it really put us in a bind financially. Laundry, baths, dishes, etc used gas for hot water, electricity and water. but we knew that when they came.
So we are not complaining about having them. We just have to be a bit frugal for a couple of months. Right? Right.
Awww I just received some sad news. Beth Chapman wife of Duane Chapman of Dog The Bounty Hunter passed away today. My heart broke. I was so hoping she would recover.
I never watched the show or even kept up with them but it is still so very sad when we lose anyone. Famous or not, just the fact that she had endured so much and her family is devastated of course.
The day after our air conditioning unit got installed Nathan and my son in law David decided to spring clean before we moved our beds and things back over here.
It was really nice of them to do that. I mean the house really needed to be swept and mopped and cleaned really well. Having 4 kids messes plus our own it really needed a good cleaning.
We had really cleaned good before Laurie and her family arrived and even packed up a lot of breakables that we didn't want to take a chance of breaking but even so we still had a lot of dust and dirt. Little fingers and hands! I have never been one for the Minimalist look. I like my stuff lol. However I am really enjoying this minimal look.
We also have a surround sound system. It is Nathan's actually and during the cleaning it was decided to move the room around for a bit more space.
Karyn has this cute coffee table and they took the big one out and moved this one in. It is a low table and it blended in a bit too well with our hard wood floors.
About 1:00 in the morning I was coming out of the kitchen and forgot the table was there. I tripped completely over the table, I came down hard hitting my head on the edge of a glass table and my neck hit my bookshelf. I really hit my chest hard too. My right breast took the brunt force of the fall.
I still have a large hematoma on the breast. The good news is that I am fading to a light green and purple instead of a deep black, blue and purple. The hematoma is still there. It really hasn't gone down very much.
So of course I had to go to the ER for that.
My latest thing is that I am having a serious issue with my stomach. I haven't been able to keep anything down for the past 10 days. I seem to be doing a tiny bit better but the extreme nausea has had me down to the point that I really haven't been able to do anything.
I just haven't been able to have the energy or the inclination to do much. I wanted to spend as much time as possible with my grandchildren. They are only little once.
But with my fall and the stomach issues we didn't do as much as we wanted to. Arts and crafts were a big part of my plan with them. I had bought them some cute little crafts to do with them but they ended up having to do them by themselves.
Dollar stores are great. I bought each of them wooden crafts. A boat, train, car and airplane. They came with the glue and paint and stickers to decorate their little projects.
Sidewalk chalk and soap bubbles was fun and my neighbor Emily loaned the kids her little plastic pool that is for her service dog so the kids could play in the water and attempt to stay cool.
The one really fun thing that I wanted to do with them was the rock painting. They are really kinda big. The size of a coaster actually. We had a carrot, tomato, sunflower and a pickle.
I am not sure who pulled that craft out of the bag but I was disappointed because I really wanted to help with that. I want to do the rock painting and hiding.
I did not know that this is a huge online trend. Let me see if I can find the information about it.
My daughter Laurie said that people actually join these online groups, takes pictures of the ones found and when and where and then post them online to the group so that they had proof it was found. It is a huge thing. I had first heard about it from a blog poster.
I think that this will be a topic for a future blog post. I want to really research it so I can give as much accurate information possible.
I am also running out of energy so I will close for now and I hope to be back tomorrow. Or even later today.
Take care everyone and Be Blessed. We have soooooooooo very much to be Blessed for.
Love to all and Big hugs to all.... BB
Nice to see you back Beth. I don't know how you handle those hot temps. It's going to the low nineties here today and I don't tolerate it well. I'll be staying indoors with the A/C on. So much for spending my days out on the porch.
ReplyDeleteHave you thought about maybe having your porch (or part of it) screened it? It's just a thought. Or maybe a little screenhouse in the yard near the porch?
That was a nasty fall you took, and I hope all the bruises and pain are gone soon. As we get a bit older, the one thing we don't want to do is fall down. We don't seem to heal as quickly as we used to.
Pogo and I are out on the porch for a while, until it gets too hot. We get shade out here until early afternoon, so it is quite comfortable.
I've looked up the rock painting too. It really does look quite interesting. I'll be looking forward to seeing any rocks that you paint. I'm off now to do some blog reading. You have a super day. Pogo sends woofs, hugs, Edna B.