Hello everyone! So, yesterday I went to get the link off of here for one of my recipes to share with someone, and was completely shocked that I haven't written a blog, shared a recipe, or a crochet pattern with you all since April!!!! I kind of have an excuse, but I kind of don't. I will get to all of that here in just a second, but I will say from the very bottom of my heart, I'm sorry, and I will try to do better, but with everything we have going on I cannot make any guarantees except to say that I've got some recipe's to share sometime in the near future, and I've been working on some new patterns that I want to share with you all!!!
So, let me catch you all up on everything!!!
So you know how they say, when it rains it pours? It's so true, from the farm, on through life. Ginger, one of my first Silver Fox rabbits, passed away back in the spring. She left 8 kits that were just a couple days shy of being 4 weeks old. They all made it, and I had wanted to keep 2 of the girls, but they were all just so small that we butchered them all at 6 months old. My heart really hurt over that. She died of a spinal cord injury. We think something scared her, and that's what happened to her.
Then we had a ton of rain...constant never ending rain...it rained so much that we couldn't get a garden in, and by the time it dried up enough to be able to till to plant, it was hot and buggy out, and I said nah.
We hatched a bunch of Buff Orpington chicks, I kept 4, 1 boy and 3 girls. The boy has been named Wesley. We were planning on doing an order from our favorite hatchery, but with everything that's happening now (will get to that) its going to have to be put on hold. Remember those Rooster chicks we ordered from Mt. Healthy???? Those 5 Rooster chicks that I needed for my flock???? All 5 turned out to be female!!!! Oh I was so mad!!!! The only thing they offered me was to refund my money...which I wasn't interested in, because I wanted roosters. But...that's ok...I can let things go...especially since I got 5 hens for the price of 5 roosters.
Frank had to have some major gum surgery done. It was split up into 2 different surgeries. He's now recovering from the second, and just had the stitches removed. His pain level has gone down, but he's still tender, and isn't quite able to eat his favorite foods yet. They had to do gum grafts, because his gum line had receded enough that he was going to lose those teeth if he didn't get the grafts done.
I've been on a diet, and am 3 pounds away from losing my first 40 pounds!!! I'd love to be down those 3 this week, but it's hard to say if that will or wont happen. As of right now, I'm 12 pounds away from being able to get my left hip replaced!!!! I'm more excited about that left him than anything!!! It's going to open up a whole new world to me being able to walk like a normal person. (yes, I'm only 36, but I had my first hip surgery at 12) I've recently shaken my diet up a bit to keep it moving in the right direction. I've been doing Slimfast, but have added the Atkins products in, that way I'm lowering my carb count some as well. My doctor and I have set a 20 pound goal by the end of December. I have lost 5 pounds for the month of October so far, so I'm thinking its a doable goal.
My mother in law, who is a diabetic has been having some major problems with her one foot. I won't go into details yet, because we don't know what the outcome is going to be. I will just ask for many prayers, and much love.
I had to take Sam to the vet today, again, for another ear infection. This is getting to be a yearly thing for him. I had been looking for a groomer for him, because his groomer that he was going to had to give it up due to health problems. I'm going to be using the groomer at the vets office, since they were the ones that groomed Nikki and I know that I can trust them. You see, I have a hard time handing my dogs over to just anybody. We have this one place in town, that sells reptiles, and when I went in there before to see what they would be like, not only was the lady really dirty looking, and wearing seriously stained up clothes (at least I hope they were stains) but the place smelled like a litter box that had not been changed in months. The smell of ammonia that was in the air there was almost over powering, and I wasn't about to leave my dog there. Now there is this other lady on the back streets that has a place, but I can't ever get in there to see what its like because she only opens her doors for appointments, and where as I respect that, I'm not taking my dogs in blind like that. So, even though it's going to be expensive, the vets office is where it's going to have to be. I checked and it is the same guy that worked there when we took Nikki (she had so many health problems that it had to be at the vets office). I had been working on keeping Sam's rear end fur cut off myself, but I'm far from a groomer, and I don't have the equipment to give him the groom he really needs. He's my only dog that needs to go to a groomer.
So, I'm going to close this up for now so that it doesn't turn into a long boring read. I've been working on some things using some free patterns. Once I get them done, I plan on sharing a pic, and the pattern link with you guys. If everything goes well, I hope to have some stuff to start sharing with you all within the next week...depending on how everything goes. I know I need to do some pictures, but I can't make any guarantees about that either. Lets just say, once things settle down again, I should be blogging more.....oh and as long as stuff stops breaking!!!!! (We've been busy getting vehicles repaired, and tires replaced, and we had to get a new washer and dryer, and dehumidifier etc etc...its just been never ending!!!!)
