We've had our little monster, Red, for just over a year now. Which means that we lost Dominion just little longer ago than that. I still cry over him. A LOT. Crying now, as I write this, as a matter of fact! I made peanut butter pumpkin cookies for the pups today, and realized that no one has made homemade dog treats since before Dominion passed last year. And Clydie reminded me how very much Dominion loved them. 😠(lawdy Clydie don't say nothing else to me tonight about the cookies or Dominion, I'll cry even more! lol)
Gabriel has been struggling lately. I don't want to get into it any further than that at this point. Please don't even ask, as I cannot talk about it without totally losing control of my emotions. (this includes you too, Mom 🤣 )
Brian is healing nicely from his 4-wheeler accident on July 5. Every time he gets out of line, I threaten to blacken his eyes again for him. LOL But seriously - Brian was so very fortunate to have not been injured worse than he was in that accident! (You should see the photos of him, which I promised not to post) He did have an unrelated shoulder surgery on August 8, to repair his rotator cuff, remove a bunch of arthritis and bone spurs, and move his biceps over from one spot to another. His incisions have healed so well I can only see 1 of them!
It's coming up on deer hunting season here, bow season opens 3 weeks from yesterday! We went to hunt camp yesterday and last Saturday to do some work on our sites. We took Brian's grand-nephew with us last weekend and he helped out with the weed-eating and chain-sawing that needed to be done, and yesterday it was just us and Red. Red had a good time roaming around the woods with us, and he rides so well in the truck. My only issue with going there this time of year (besides the damn heat & humidity) is that freaking bugs that like to bite you and make you itch. As I've mentioned on this blog many times before, I just cannot deal with constant itching, it makes me absolutely INSANE!!!!! Last weekend I was eat up on my ankles, the backs of my knees, and a big bite on my hip and my butt. Yesterday, I used some tea tree oil spray that I had on hand, and while I didn't get as many bites, I did get some and they are driving me NUTS!!!!! About the only thing that works to cut down on the itching is triamcinolone cream. Last weekend I was all bandaged up, because it seems to work best when I put a big blog on the bite, then put a bandage of some sort over that. Right now, I have a gauze bandage on the back of one knee, and 3 band-aids on my legs. I'll be taking me some Benadryl tonight and covering myself in steroid cream and bandages! LOL
So last weekend on the way home from hunt camp I was driving and Brian pulled the visor down on the passenger side. He asked me "why is your mirror dirty?" and I said "it's your truck, not mine remember?" and he responded with "but this is your side of the truck, so why is the mirror dirty?". I said "Well I guess one of your side bitches must have gotten it dirty" and started laughing hysterically, which only got worse when I saw the look he gave me! I then said "that's a look of either you're trying to be all serious and trying not to laugh, or you just got busted!" He didn't find my line of comments amusing, which made it even funnier to me. I haven't laughed like that in a very long time and it was great!
There's just never enough time in the weekend to get everything done. I'm covered up in laundry, have to make the bed, should have swept and mopped the floors but I just don't see that happening tonight, and I still have to do my nails. Speaking of nails - I now know what it's like to have an ingrown toenail surgically cut out. It's not an experience that I'd like to repeat, but it wasn't the worst thing in the world that I've had to go through. The numbing shots were the worst part of the actual procedure, and it was more the thought of them than the actual feeling of them. Until the numbness wore off. I swear I think the shots caused arthritis in my foot in a place that had never hurt before! lol But seriously, I don't want to scare anyone off from having this done if you need it. Your feet are very important to your health, and you don't want to get infections in your toes from ingrown nails, especially if you are diabetic. So please get your feet checked and have those nails taken care of if needed! The funniest part of the procedure was when the doctor was cleaning my foot in preparation to do the numbing shots, I looked where he was cleaned and was being overly dramatic and said "oh god I don't want them put there!" and he said "well, where would you like me to put them?" and I said "you're the doctor, you put them where they're supposed to go. I just don't want this lol!" I admit, I cried when he injected me the first time. After that, I didn't feel much, and certainly didn't feel any of the procedure. Once the numbness wore off, I wasn't as sore as I expected, except for when Big Foot (otherwise known as RED) stomped on said toe. Multiple times. 🤷
Clydie is healing up quite nicely from her ordeal of the broken humerus. She got out of the sling about 2 weeks ago, and is back to cooking and driving on her own again. I know she's glad to be independent once again! She's got physical therapy twice a week, and "homework exercises" that she does on the daily, so she's coming along nicely.
Well folks, I'm blogged out for tonight, I still have 2 loads of laundry and a bed to make tonight, so I gotta go. I hope you have all had a great weekend, and that you'll start the week off on a positive note for tomorrow. Thanks for reading!
