“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” — Blake Lively

 Good day!

I have made some Christmas cards, out of scraps.

I'll show you those, then you can get on with your day!

I DID go to work after Thanksgiving, and have been going regularly!

I am almost caught up!

This happened.

We have to be out by December 1st.

This week I will be seeing what's available for internet at my mom's.

We've been moving stuff like crazy people.

There is nothing in my room but my bed, and work clothes in the closet. Oh, and my day off clothes!

All my craft 'stuff' is moved.

I have been working on the cold room.

The jam and all the empty jars are in my van. I can't pack the full jars up the stairs!

Half the living room furniture was sold, and left on Thursday.

When the rest goes, I guess I go!

That's all I got!

Talk to ya later, stay safe!

“Every now and then I like to do as I’m told, just to confuse people.” Tamora Pierce

 I have made my Halloween cards.

I can (sort of) sit at my desk.

Have to ease into the knee bending part!

Yesterday I made a Christmas card, you'll have to wait for that one!

Bryson's

Kalen's

These 2 were an easy fun fold I found here!

Vanessa & Harley's

That one was going to be Bryson's, but my pumpkins were scary!

Mom's

There!

Hopefully I have a couple in the drawer for the aunts, as that's where we are going for supper tonight! I made my famous double layer pumpkin pie! You can find the recipe here!

I AM going to work tomorrow.

Going to see how I make out. I will still be hooked up at home in case I can't sit. 

We went out last night for a turkey dinner at a pub. It was cold, but I ate everything cause I was starving! 

We have had 9 viewings for our property. I think the drawback is that it's only a 2 bedroom, so we miss out on the families wanting to have a couple acres. We need a semi retired couple, or younger retired couple who want to putter!

I also filled out a survey for our Wildlife Centre here. 

I won a painting (my choice) from portrait painters! Guess it will have to be Bryson! I will contact them this week!

Better go, talk to ya later!

Stay safe!

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa

 Well, it has definately been a long summer for me!

My friends say I didn't miss a thing, not getting outside much. It was smokey & hot, one even said brutal!

I will show you the card I made for Mr B's 5th birthday, then you can get on with your day!

I can finally sit at my desk, so will be making a few Halloween cards!

I got it off of Pinterest! Of course I did!

I have been working from home since the middle of July. For the last week I have been sitting in a normal dining room chair instead of the wheelchair.

I have made an appointment for a sorely needed haircut (it's like Covid hair all over again) for Thursday, and am hoping to get a pedicure that day too. And, I will be driving myself! I haven't driven since before my surgery, but I am confident my leg and knee bends enough that I can drive. If that works, I think I will go back to work after Thanksgiving. The physiotherapist is coming again on October 13th, so I am kinda hoping to impress her!
 The kids came to visit for a week or so in August.

It was my birthday while they were here, and moms the day after they left.

 Kalen took a day or 2 off work and they went to the top of a mountain, and went to a waterfall in the other direction. A couple hikes. 

I stayed home.

Bryson said that I can cook better in a wheelchair than his mom can. I had a hard time getting stuff OUT of the oven, but someone always came along! I have the greatest friends and family!

His parents left him here for 2 days and nights while they went for a getaway about 4 hours from here.

Ate fruit (peaches) off the tree, read books, and watched movies!

 

Sorry this one is sideways. He told me it was hard to drive!

Then we took him about  3 hours from here, into Alberta to meet his parents, so they could be on their way home.

My brother met us there. He's the impressed looking guy in the middle. We had pizza and water. Was a really hot day, but I wasn't as uncomfortable as I thought I would be. It was nice to get out!

 Then this happened.

 I got to ditch the boot, and the splint! And I got to SHOWER! Don't take anything for granted!

Kalen DID get a few birdhouse gourds. They're in the house drying. A couple loofah are in here too!

I couldn't help with anything for 3 months, so was overwhelming, and didn't get watered & looked after like they should have. Oh well!

So, this guy started kindergarten! WHAT! And will be 5 next month!

And, he has a new cousin!

A little girl named Addison.

 

And we still Facetime!

 

Hahahaha. And I'll leave you with that!

Talk to you later!

Stay safe!

Every day is a new day

 Hello everyone!

Thought I'd better update you with things!

Not a lot of crafting for me lately!

I worked from home for 2 weeks after my surgery June 9th.

Then I went in 3 days a week.

And I liked it!

Then this happened!

 

4 weeks post op on July 10th, I fell down in the yard.

Broke my knee cap, tibia right under the replacement, and broke my left ankle!

Did NO damage to the knee replacement, but it is compromised, as the splint stays on from 6 weeks to 3 months.

I will have to work 4 times as hard when it all comes off.

The boot is 6 weeks!

I have a wheelchair, so the right leg is stuck straight out in front of me, and a walker, as I'm allowed to put weight on the left leg to hop!

I got my stitches out last week, and go for x-rays this week.

It's not any fun taking me anywhere with my leg stuck out!!

I've been home for 2 weeks, and just this week started working from home again!

I have no pain, I get muscle spasms that are fun. 

It's been really hot here,fires all over, so it's smokey, but we are supposed to get rain!

I hired a handy man to finish the little front entry, as me falling pushed Kalen over the edge, and he wants to list our little farm!

He will wait until I am walking/driving.

So we will get done what we have the supplies for, and move on.

There is a lot to do, and now I can't even help!

On a happier note, this little family is on the way here, minus Abby in the backseat, she's being dropped off at her mom's!

So, I will get better, it will just be a long haul!

I do have to make my mom a birthday card.

I do get around slowly & carefully with my walker & hopping, so will put something together for her!

Hope you're all well & enjoying summer!!

Talk to ya later!

You are doing your best. And it is enough.

 Well, this is it! I'm off for my surgery tomorrow! Had a Covid test this morning, and already got the text that it was negative!

Now, a visit with the surgeon on Tuesday, X-rays, then a new knee on Wednesday!

UPDATE ON MY MOTHER FROM PREVIOUS POST!

She broke her ankle. Sometime between Saturday May 8th when her sisters were there, and Mother's Day May 9th, she did something. She doesn't know what. She had x-rays and a cast put on May 17th.

I made some cards to mail out, in case I couldn't sit at my desk for a minute after surgery.

My son in laws card.

  A card for Bryson

He's always thrilled! They should all be that excited to get a card from me...in their underware!

 

Firepit Friday a week ago, was in the pouring rain. It did not put the fire out, or dampen our spirits!

However, the payoff was worth it!

 

This horse chestnut got a serious trim so the fence could go up!

It was really hot the day I took the picture, so there's the haze!

It's one of the nicest we've seen, with beautiful pink flowers, and it lives in the forest!

These are the loofahs & gourds hanging out in the front entrance. We tried to slow them down until they could go outside!

Most of them are planted out now. Some are not happy (the loofahs), and the gourds don't care, and are blooming!

The petunia tree is up. I told Kalen it was his job to keep it alive while I'm gone. It's supposed to be cooler this week, so I have hope!

Kalen has bee busy planting lavender. Over 200 plants, and another 160 to come.

Then we will get ready for the pigs. OI or OINK, I'm not sure which!

Have a great week everyone, and I'll talk to you when I get home!

Wash your hands & stay safe!

Talk to ya later!

Try to be like the turtle-at ease in your own shell.~Bill Copeland

 Good evening! I started this before 7am, and am just getting to it now!

I have done laundry, worked up my garden boxes, hauled $#it, made supper, and a cake, then I had enough so I showered!

I still have to go close up the greenhouse, but that can wait a minute!

I made 2 grad cards for my SIL's gramma. She needs them for the end of June. They are already on their way!

Hope the kids are happy with them!

I have sent Vanessa's birthday card too.

 

 

I have one more craft related picture, then you can get on with your day!

 

My Xyron needed a new cartridge.

I took it out carefully so I'd get the replacement in properly.

I ended up U-Tubing it!

Hahaha, must have taken me 20 minutes! 

Facetime photos

 Doesn't take much to amuse us!!

 

This munchkin is finished preschool!

 

This next picture is the greenhouse, with load bearing pool noodles!

 

The apricots.

 

Lavender is going in to the left.

The upright posts need to have the fencing put on for the loofahs & gourds!

 

The south side of the back fence is finished.

We also did the front & rest of the south side a couple Saturdays ago. I told Kalen he better use me before I'm usless!

 

My knee surgery is June 9th.

 

Fencing

 

It is 7.5 ft tall.

We're hoping it keeps the deer out. 

Kalen run a strand of barbed wire at the bottom.

The contraption at the top is how we tightened the fence before tacking it onto the 4X4's 

We are pretty sure the deer don't bother lavender, but we want to harvest the loofah & gourds.

Last year the deer even ate the tops off our potatoes!

 

Last picture.

 First sour cream rhubarb pie of the season.

Today I made rhubarb bundt cake!

 

Yesterday I took mom to an appointment an hour away.

We(as in Kalen & I) are going to see what's available in town for seniors.

I said I would pay for 2 Meals on Wheels a week to be delivered if we have that.

Kalen & I will still make a meal once a week.

I also need to find out if someone does home visits, light house work etc.

We will be having "the talk' next time we're there.

The one where she wants to be independent; but isn't anymore.

It's not fair to all of us to go for a visit, and there's a mile long list of chores to be done. She has 2 sisters here too. One is 70, and one is about 64.

We all just want to do our own yardwork.

Then there's the worrying!

I am waiting for her to burn down the house. She has 2 wood stoves.

She hurts herself and can't remember what she did.

She missed Mother's Day, sleeping in her chair.

We had a lovely lunch, cleaned up, left her a plate of food in the fridge, and 2 desserts.

She stayed in that lazy boy chair for 4 days.

I called her and said, 'you know if you're sick, you can't go to your appointment.'

She said, 'Gail, I'm not sick. What I have is not contagious. I hurt my ankle, I don't know what I did.'

I said, 'did you fall?'

Mother, 'You'd think if I fell, I'd remember.'

But she doesn't.

We are telling her that if she ends up in the hospital again, they won't let her go home, because she lives alone.

She is very forgetful, gets disoriented.

We would like if she would move into an assisted living place.

She says I am living here while I can still drive.

And she shouldn't be driving.

Barb, don't you call & tell her.

 

Kalen is so stressed, and he's got 600 projects on the go. 

He just wants to go have a visit with gramma, and a game of cards.

He stresses over her to do lists.

 

Anyhoo, have a great rest of the weekend!

I am sure these are first world problems!

Wash your hands & wear your mask!

Talk to ya later!