Sore Body

Yesterday I took a nap around noon. It felt good to just sleep, under a warm blanket. Ken and Kris got us a warm brown throw blanket for Christmas.

When I woke I finished dinner and we ate by 4:30. We try to eat early since we do not go to bed with a full tummy. That is not good for you or your heart. One of the Worse things you can do it go to bed after working hard, and have a full stomach. That puts the heart into working double hard.

As we finished dinner I told David the pool area needed straightening, and the pool vacumned. He went out to do that as I finished in the kitchen. As soon as I finished I headed for the tractor. I had planned on getting my garden spot mowed really good then spraying it with round up to kill the grass. That should help with weeding this year.

As I mowed I kept going , I bet I mowed three acres. It looks amazing outside now. Tomorrow the guys will be out to move rock and finish the mowing. (Front yard only needs mowed.) I do not like them mowing around my orchard. They are prone to nick the trees. Keeping it clean is something I can handle.

David grabbed the DR and he began mowing under the big walnut tree It too is beginning to weep. I think it is sad from no children to play on it. Every tree needs its boy or girl to love and admire it. It may be sad from all the ground squirrels tunneling under it. But today it looks clean under the tree and the spot around the burn pile is clean. We are cleaning up for a dry summer.

Maybe this year we can get some blackberries too. I hope so, but if I see a snake, blackberry season is over. I know a giant one lives out there somewhere I have seen him or her every year. I even saw the skin he or she left hanging in a fence. YUCK. M saw him once, she told me, "Mamaw I thought I was going to faint." I found that funny as she does not remind me of a fainter. She seems tougher but maybe not. She was only 7 or 8 at the time though. M I would be scared too and I would scream and run. Ask your Mommy how we ran when we heard a rattle while standing on a hill overlooking the ARkansas river. We heard the rattle and ran when David said we should have stood still. Right! If we had stood still he may have attacked or worse yet I could feel him chasing us.

I told David I will get together a list of needs to be done. List for the guys to complete. like moving a few rock and moving a pile of stone and sand. Not a lot but heavy work for me.

Now David has to till up my herb garden, I just want it to be cleaned out and we need to have a load of bark hauled in for the guys to put around the rose gardens and flower edging. I called a company up the road and they will deliver for free. Hey, you cant beat that price. Especially since that is the part David hates more, The driving up several times to just bring home bark.

Spring is a busy time for us. Spring is getting ready for a relaxing summer. Once it is all in order there is not much left to do but keep it mowed and we hire that done.

We were going to get in the Hot Tub last night, but we were too tired by the time we came in. So we took a shower and sat to watch Dancing with the Stars.

I had dumped a full bag of shock in the tub. Probably would not be a good idea to get into that anyway. Last year it bleached a blue suit out to purple and ate up the elastic.

The tub looked a little green, which is not possible since it had been filtered. I think it was green from the pollen. And there is a lot of pollen flying. My tables outside are green coated.

As I sat and looked at the Cottonwood tree, I realized my time outside was coming to an end soon. I can not be out when it is blowing. I am sure, beyond a doubt, that is the reason for my sinus problems.

I still have a few problems, since surgery, but it is so much better. SO MUCH.

At least I do not have the constant urge to spit and cough and my throat is not so sore now. What I do have is an occassional nose bleed. That, for you knowledge, is the Nasonex, a steroid.

One day I was sewing and a commercial came on, it ended by telling what reactions can be. I had just watched Jeff Foxworthy (his skit on medication warnings, somtime the side effects are worse then the illness, like death) and I was laughing and repeating as the announcer ran through the list. Suddenly it said, May cause nose bleeds.

Man, am I dense, I never had nose bleeds before, I figured it was the sinus surgery remnants. It hit me. It is the Nasonex that is causing them. DUH! And I am on anti platelets. What a dangerous combnation.

On to another subject, This will give you an idea of our BIG Tree. That is Jarod in front of it and Kiara running to it,

Isn't it beautiful? All but the place where the limb fell off last year. But that will soon cover over with something, I am sure. Perhaps another limb will begin weeping.

It is a weeping Oak. Not a lot of those around but we have one. At one time in Sacramento they were going to cut one down but the citizens became angry and protested. It was saved.

I can not justify cutting down a tree. OK I take that back, I can justify cutting down a cottonwood tree. They have no useful purpose anyway. The wood is not even good to use. it is soft, hence when a wind storm comes it loses a lot of limbs. I know this, I pick them up every week.