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Then the fun part of the day ..... flower shopping and planting. I love flowers. They brighten up the yard ..... and my attitude ..... lol. We have a local grower here and she has awesome health plants and a wide variety. Her prices are unbelievable .... and she always tends to give me a couple free six packs here and there. Good way to keep 'em coming back for more. Anyway mom handed me fifty bucks and said go buy ..... so I'm going to!
Speaking of mom ..... I've been have a real issue lately ..... so what else is new, eh? She has been literally hunting me down ..... no matter where I am ..... for stupid stuff. For example ..... some old lady at bingo the other night who knows I bead told me she had a line on beads .... dirt cheap ..... and would call with the information. Well, she did .... on moms phone .... which if you don't have my cell is the only way to get hold of me. Dave and I had taken off to burn a bowl and had walked out to the barn which is a fair distance from the house when your 85 and unable to walk stably ..... and no sooner do I take a hit then there is mom stumbling .... literally .... towards us ..... "there you are .... hiding from me". Bottom line ..... yes, we were. Anyway ..... she is waving this piece of paper with an address link to this beading website. "Did you actually feel you had to walk all the way out here and give this to me?" "It could of been important" .... she says. It could of waited .... and I told her so.
That is one example ..... out of many ..... she has been just walking into my room lately too .... which is my only PRIVACY ..... and as many times as I tell her to quit, she does it anyway. You know, I'm not flipping 16 ...... why do I feel like it?
We are getting her connected to the county lifeline program so that when we are in at the claim she will just have to push a button if she needs help. And we won't worry so much. We also have a friend that loves to come and check on her. I think she feeds him goodies when he visits ..... so he will always stop by. And she thinks he is just the greatest. And he'll throw hay to the llamas and feed the chickens too.
Ten days and counting. Then we get to spend a whole day with lauralew and her beau infinityedge over on the coast. We will be staying with tattooedjen and intrepid28 and so it will be good to see them and visit as well. A much needed break from here. YAY!
The coffee is now cold and needs a reheat ..... one way to put off putting on those hiking shoes .... lol. Actually it has been great the last few days. Yesterday I walked / jogged to the gate the now closes this forest service road. Probably about three miles round trip ..... today I will go on up aways. Petey and I found Patterson Creek yesterday too on our journey .... the creek the road is named after. It comes out just down the road from us aways next to the highway but I had never really followed it up to see where its roots were. Today I will continue on. I should say we .... Petey is coming to expect these little hikes ..... we couldn't leave quick enough for him yesterday.
Off to nuke the coffee ..... change into my hiking clothes ..... smoke a bowl and take off to enjoy the morning.
Enjoy your Saturday all ..... those of you who aren't working .....
Peace. J.
Not a big fan of running / jogging but took off yesterday just wanting to breathe some fresh air and have some alone time ...... thinking time.
There is a road that runs adjacent to our property. Pavements ends about 3/4 mile down and it turns into a dirt mountain road. I grabbed up Petey at about 11:00 and took off walking and stretching across our property to the road. Petey was excited to be going for a walk. YAY!
Upon hitting the asphalt my walking pace picked up first slowly then quicker. Eventually I broke into a jog and started looking ahead and picking out goals ..... just make it to there. The road is at a very slight uphill incline and I could feel it in my chins as I reached my first goal point. I stopped the jog and dropped to a run / walk ..... incorporating an exaggerated arm swing to help keep up the quickened heart rate. Every now and then I would site a new goal, break into a jog and then back to my quick walk / run pace.
Reaching the end of the pavement and heading on up the dirt road into the woods the quiet beauty of it all was sinking in. Petey running along beside me, pulling off every now and then to smell something that would catch his attention, then catching back up and keeping pace. Then I remembered the mountain lion sighting from last week in the subdivision just down the main highway from us. And my imagination started to work me over. As much as I wanted to keep going I ended up turning around and coming back.
Probably jogged more than 1/2 way back .... is was now at a slight downhill and much easier on the legs / chins. Made it home hot sweaty worked over and ready for a shower.
Today I want to head out again ..... and I keep asking myself ..... do you just keep going further and deeper down the road into the woods ..... knowing this bugger is out there somewhere ..... possibly close? Seeing as he was spotted in a subdivision ..... does it really make a difference if I run in a populated area or in a remote area? He is where he is, right?
When we are on the claim the mountain lion is always in the back of my head, but I don't really dwell on it or think about it much ..... I'm able to push the fear aside and just continue on with my daily routine. Is it just that it is so close to home that it bothers me more?
***sigh***
As I write Petey is out cold. It was quite the run for him yesterday and he is still recovering I believe. He is so damn sweet when he is asleep.
Grapefruit for breakfast and off I go ..... it is supposed to WARM up seriously here today ..... so thinking they could be right it would be best to get this little journey out of the way early.
Its Thursday ..... one day closer to Friday and the weekend ..... off to Medford tomorrow, flower planting on Saturday & Sunday ..... its so nice to be able to be outside in the nice warm sunshine .....
Peace. J.
Christopher, if you are reading this AGAIN you should REALLY should be doing your work
Well, good morning all!
Yesturday was peaceful and non-dramatic (very different from the past few days).
I went to work and did not have to deal with hardly any customers. Of course I did have to deal with a few, but for the most part I just babysat the lobby and answered a few phone calls.
I spent most of the morning responding to my normal email influx and surfed the internet for awhile.
About halfway through my shift I was told that I look like Uma Thurman--which I am still not sure if I should take that as a compliment or not.
The owners of the hotel I work at did not even notice my hair being A LOT shorter, and that is fine with me. I am glad that they just left me alone for once.
After work I decided to go visit my friend Peter (futantshadow ). We hadn't seen eachother in quite some time and he constantly invites me to visit and I never do.
I drove up there and he instantly insisted that I eat something. After giving me a bowl of salad (which was really good) and orange juice, Peter sat back down and continued to work on his sculpture.
Peter is an artist and he works with clay and paints as well.
After sitting and watching him sculpt for awhile, Peter got the urge to bake chocolate chip cookies--which he had never baked from scratch before. The fact that he had never made cookies before shocked me. Peter's mother is a fantastic cook (from what I've heard) and also is highly into keeping a organized kitchen. After help from Ilene, (Peter's mother) we had all the ingredients and the recipe to make some really amazing cookies.
After 'supervising' while Peter mixed all the ingredients together, we prepared to bake the lovely cookie dough. 12 minutes later we had the first batch done, and then a few minutes later the second also were cooling on the stove. I managed to eat quite a bit of cookie dough while waiting for the cookies to bake, and then Peter and I ate a few warm, lovely cookies.
Then, we put a few on a plate and decided to walk down (or rather uphill) to infinityedge 's house.
The entire way I had a horrible Christmas holiday song stuck in my head and was cursing the fact that I was wearing flats that were not intended for walking on uneven ground.
We got to Christopher's house and decided that we should call so he would come up and meet us at the gate. I pestered Peter to use my phone to call Chris, and the reaction from both of them was amusing when Chris realized that someone else was using my phone to call him. It was not totally strange because Peter and Chris have known eachother for years, but it was still highly amusing--at least to me.
All three of us went on a walk with Christopher's lovely puppy and enjoyed the sunlight of the afternoon.
It was all very lovely.
But yet again I was a distraction for Christopher--who was supposed to be working (and is still supposed to be working--so if he's reading this, GET BACK TO WORK SILLY!!! STOP AVOIDING IT!!!).
Oh well, I'll just blame it on the warm, soft cookies.
Namaste.
L.
Yay. I dropped my A1C's from a 6.8 to a 5.8. Add that to my back to normal blood pressure I am setting good right? Wrong! I am borderline on my Cholestrol. Fuck! So I have another 6 months to maintain my bloodpressure and my A1C's and get my Cholestrol down before they will take me off my meds. On the up note, I don't have to check my sugars 3 times daily! I only have to check 2 times a week. I can handle that and will do it!
Now I couldn't find my pedomitor so I didn't start the over all walking program yesterday and after what I mowed yesterday my poor knees couldn't take any more activety on the eleptical machine. But here are the pictures of what I mowed yesterday and of the new dog:D
The picture of the drain tube is there to show you I went from the side closet to you down the hill because I worked on the opposite side of the yard and around the house on Monday. The rest of the pictures show the rest of the yard I worked on. Oh and a picture of my Troy Built 21" deck self propelled push mower. This will help me get my cholestrol and body back this summer! Walking down and up these hills really works the core muscles!
The big brown spot on the one picture is my old garden that got the initial tilling yesterday afternoon via my daddy. He extended the garden for me by a foot or two and next year I'll extended it again. I am goign to ask my uncle have one of the hired men who bring back the discs from plowing down set aside fields to put in my rows for my corn on the other side of the house you can't see. I am about done with the yard work besides the mowing all summer long. Finish up my soon to be herb garden in the next week or two (have to block up a window) and rack a small hill off that has wood peices on it from cutting down a dead tree and I am set with a clean yard this year.
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