Sigh-Still Sittin' On Hell's Front Porch

 

Ugh.

 

It's August!

Turning the calendar page to August always make me feel like we're on the downhill side of summer, even though we will probably be in the triple digits for at least another month! 

I saw this today and I really liked it so thought I would share. Have a great weekend!

Life is Quiet

 Not a lot going on right now, getting out in the mornings while it's relatively cool-as in mid to upper 80's instead of 100's)-and enjoying watching our chickens and cows. 3 of our 6 hens are laying an egg a day, so we're enjoying that. Our 2 heifers and 1 steer and just eating grass and hanging out under the trees in the shade. Nothing gets them very excited-which is good because something that big getting excited is not a good thing! Watching our heifers made me remember this which I thought was funny:

It's so true! 

Our daughter is almost 2 weeks out from her knee surgery and is doing so well! She just uses a cane now and can bend her knee almost 90 degrees! I'd say at this point, her biggest problem is cabin fever! She is feeling so good and can walk better than she has in a long time, so she wants to get out and go. Fortunately she knows that can't happen yet. She is enjoying a short drive to Dutch Bros which is close to her house! 

Not much else going on-I'm deep into trying to sort out the bird's nest that is my DMC cross stitch floss. I decided to put everything onto bobbins and organize it by color number. I have a lot more of it than I realized, but then, I've been cross stitching for over 30 years. The biggest problem is that I have a lot of unlabeled floss. I haven't decided if I'm going to try to match it all to the numbered floss or not. Ugh. I have at least gotten rid of my bird's nest of little leftover threads-"orts" I think they call them. 

Anyway, I hope everyone has a good weekend and week!

This and That

It's been fairly quiet lately, just normal life, or at least what passes for normal around here! The weather finally decided to get hot. Days around 100 F and no rain, but that has changed this week with cooler weather and showers. I won't complain!

Our daughter had knee replacement surgery this morning and is doing really well. She is already home and moving around with a walker for a few minutes at a time. It's amazing what they can do now. She is young to need it-just 46-but her joint was in really bad shape from arthritis and she was in so much pain. I'm so happy she will have relief from that after she heals! She got the bad knee genes from her dad. I'm almost 70 and really have no trouble with my knees other than stiffness from getting older! My hands and neck are another story, though.

We're keeping our two youngest grands this week. They are our "bonus grandbabies" at 4 and 6 years old. They surprised everyone and it's so sweet to have littles around again for a while. The other 5 grands are teenagers except for the 11 year old.

That's all for now. Enjoy your week!

A Special 4th

 

This is my 4th-great grandfather on my mother's side. He served under Capt. Daniel Boone in Boonesborough

His obituary the Warsaw Whig Missouri Newspaper:

July!