A New Toy!

I just love new toys....here is my newest!

Now I am officially a redneck!

Goodbye Summer!

Well, fall is here. The leaves are starting to turn and fall. I noticed several Fall decorations at houses on my way to Church this morning. The weather is so nice....warm days, cool nights...gotta love it!

But, the end of summer also means that I have this ugly black square in my backyard!
You would think that someone would come up with a way to dress up this big, black, ugly square!
I really don't understand why something that you have in your yard for at least 6 months a year can't be painted to at least add a little interest.

Fall also means that it is time to get the boat out of the water. So, here is the trailer, parked in the driveway waiting for us to get some time to run over to the lake and get the boat and drag it home for the winter. Another pretty site in the yard to look at all winter!
But, the absolute best thing about Fall is Fall Camping. So, now we have the Popup sitting at the front door ready to be loaded up so that we can head out for some Fall camping....aw, campfires and bike riding, hiking and sweatshirts.....can't beat it!


All in all, I like Fall!

Fairy Ring

We have a fairy ring in our yard every year. It is really neat. I love it when all of the mushrooms open; but I usually have to look fast before they get mowed down!

Fairy rings also occupy a prominent place in European folklore as the location of gateways into elfin kingdoms, or places where elves gather and dance. According to the folklore, a fairy ring appears when a fairy, pixie, or elf appears. It will disappear without trace in less than five days, but if an observer waits for the elf to return to the ring, he may be able to capture it.

One of these days I'm gonna catch that elf :)

Started Bad, But Ended Good!

The weekend, that is.

Mother fell again Friday morning. She cut her arm, but thankfully it didn't involve another run to the ER. Bless her heart, she will not stay in a wheelchair, insists on getting up, but really is too unstable to walk alone. She has a chair and bed alarm, but gets up so fast no one can get to her before she falls. She is a disaster waiting to happen. Every time the phone rings I cringe.

Drew, Lindsay and Maddie came in for the weekend! Drew traded his big ole truck for a medium size truck. It is a black Chevrolet Colorado. It is really pretty and economical. We had a really good visit with them.

Saturday we went to a family wedding! It was outside at Crooked Creek Golf Club. It was so pretty and the reception was really nice. The colors were lavender and mint green. Everything was decorated. We had a great time; but it is always fun to get together with the Sizemore/Miller clan....they are a great bunch.

Gene and Gerri Ann

Apparently the newest craze among the younger set is a phone app called Angry Birds. Aaron loves it, so I made him and Sarah some Angry Bird shirts to wear. Aaron wore this one for picture day at school. Love my grandbabies!

A Little Victory!

I have a cousin that lives in Indiana. She has been so much help to me in my situation with mother and daddy. We email back and forth constantly. She is so loving and compassionate. She doesn't work, but she gets to babysit for her 3 grandchildren everyday, and she keeps me laughing. Three children under 5 years old are always up to something. She is fortunate that she gets to spend so much time with them. She says they are keeping her young. She also sends cards and letters to mother almost every week. She usually sends a couple of pictures. Today she sent the two black and white photos you see in the pic. One is a picture of me and her taken when we were about 5 and 6. The other is a picture of Mother with her mother. I asked mother if she knew who was in the pictures. She didn't recognize me or my cousin, but she did recognize herself and her mother. My cousin also sent the picture directly under the black and white of mother and her mother. This is mothers' brother Wallace. The picture is about 40 years old, so Mother actually knows who it is "sometimes" You just never know!

We have a nurse that is staying with them for the next 3 days. I hope this mess on my arm clears up during that time or I am going to have to go and let the dr. take a look at it and make sure that it isn't something that could be dangerous to mother and daddy.

Always something, but could always be worse!

When You Can't Sleep,

You might as well create. I usually just get up and eat (which is something that I absolutely do NOT need to be doing). So last night I decided to do something constructive instead of destructive. So, I got out my projects box and chose this one. I sewed on it most of the night and finished it this morning. Mother loved it! Bless her heart. She looks a lot worse than she feels.


The dolls name is Daisy and she has a reversible dress. I was very tired when I was sewing the dress and for some reason it took me forever to figure out how to make it reversible.

I have this weird blistering rash on my arm (I won't gross you out with pictures). It looks like poison ivy, but it doesn't itch, so I don't have a clue. When I first got it I was afraid it was shingles, but I think that it is just some sort of contact dermatitis. It just hurts when it is touched or when water runs on it.

I will have a couple of days off this week, so I'm thinking casino or Pigeon Forge. Hm? Tough decision.

Next Week Has to be Better!

This week started out ok. Even though I have double shifts at the nursing home this week, it was going pretty good. Daddy was eating good again and that is always a relief. Mother was doing good until.....I got a call at 10:00 pm on Wednesday that mother had fallen and had a cut above her right eye that would require stitches. So, I get out of bed and get dressed in a hurry, thankfully remember to grab the portable file with all her insurance stuff in in and head for the hospital. I get to the hospital before the ambulance. At about 11:15 they roll in with mother on a back board and in a neck brace. She is not happy about it at all. The EMS person said that they had to place the collar on her because when they picked her up they asked her if her neck hurt and of course she said yes. When will people learn that someone with Alzheimers doesn't know their neck from their ankle or anything else. Good grief, health care professionals need more training on dealing with Alzheimers patients. Anyway, mother was in the ER yelling to get this off me. I tried to get the hospital staff to take it off, but they refused to move her off the hard board or remove the neck brace until the Dr. said they could. So, here she lays, in extreme discomfort, but not from her cut, just all the bracing. The Dr. finally comes in to see her bout 2:30 and orders a CT scan. More fun....they wheel her into the lab, still on the hardboard and she yells the whole time. Ok, scan finished and we take the same trip back to the ER, backboard. neck brace and all. Finally about 3:30 they take her off the back board. About 4:00 am the dr. finally comes around with a nurse to put her stitches in. I said "well, I will step outside while you do this" (I really, really hate stitches). The Dr. informs me that I will not leave that I will stay with her and hold her arms down and if I feel like fainting, just try to fall onto the bed!! So, she goes thru the ordeal of the stitching, screaming the whole time, fighting and wanting to leave. Finally at 4:30 she gets to take off the neck brace. THANK YOU JESUS! The ER is filling up with mostly a bunch of horrible people and babies crying all around. Mother hears the babies crying and starts yelling, "what's wrong baby" over and over. So, after paying her insurance copay they call the ambulance to take her back to the nursing home. I followed her back to the nursing home and made sure that she got all settled in and I finally got home around 6:00 am. When I got back down the next day to check on her she looked so pitiful. The cut looks good, but because she is on blood thinner, every little bump puts blood underneath the skin, so you can imagine how bad she looks I took a picture, but it is just too awful to post. She has no recollection of falling at all and said she feels fine. My husband and sister were both out of town this week and the nurse that we hire to stay a few days a month had emergency surgery this week and couldn't help me at all.

And the end to this perfect week, my granddaughter said to me on the phone tonight "I don't like MIMI, Aaron loves MIMI but I don't"

It can only get better...........................