Peeling woes

I'm still peeling from when I put the garden in. My back is so itchy it's rediculous!

So that is new in my life. I also instead of cleaning in my house today, I pulled weeds from around the edges in the grass in my backyard. The grass is still too little to walk on, So I just crouched on the railroad ties and did my morning stretches to reach the weeds. I can't believe how many goatheads are coming up!

I'll be taking a break from blogging for a while because I have to:

• clean my house
• organize my garage
• have a garage sale
• bring stuff to Goodwill
• paint
• give the dog a bath
• go on vacation

that last one probably won't ever happen, but I threw it in anyways. I feel like I live in a dump. My house is empty, and always dusty dirty. everytime I turn around, the dog still smells and still wants to be petted, and there is always weeds to pull, or something to water, or something that needs to be cleaned or has a layer of dust over it an inch thick! Plus, I still have library books to read!

So:

1. Get up- NO MORE INTERNET!!!!
2. sweep
3. dust
4. mop
5. GET OUT IN THE GARAGE AND ORGANIZE!!!!!!!!!
6. garage sale or Goodwill
7. get motivated to finish the house (paint, drywall, mud, new door..........)

So I will write more when the dust settles. See you later! I expect brown buggers and mud/paint/dirt/?? in my hair. We'll see if it gets done, or if my husband wants a lazy weekened!

Have a great weekened! I know I will be having a party! See you next week!
Trisha.

Garden update

MY GARDEN UPDATE:

Strawberries

2 watermelon (front and back) they are starting to vine out!!!!

 cantelope overtaken by grass- I don't dare pull it cause I might loosen the seedling roots. so my husband might have to spray them.

 cantelope grass again...

 tomatoes

 baby pepper plant the birds are intent on eating.

 Big happy pepper plant

 pickling cucumber looking like it's getting sunburned....

 big happy cucumber

 squash seedlings the birds adore. There should be 4-5 around each post, and they all came up. you can see how much they've eaten so far.

 bean seedlings the birds leave these alone. but grass...

 Big beautiful rosemary

 and the grand finale: a van so full of plastic bags and newspapers, the only place not covered floor to ceiling in the entire van was the drivers seat.... the camara wouldn't have taken a picture through the tinted back windows or I would have shown you... pew! How can they live like that? Can you imagine their wonderful miles to the gallon they must get with their gas? This was in the Fry's parking lot.

We went to fireworks lastnight! they were really nice and I'm glad I was able to go. Now if they cancel the big ones this year  because of wind or weather like they tend to do every year, I will have seen them at least this year.

So, Have a good day, I'll see you later. I have work today and work everyday till Friday. then 4 days off!
So I gotta absolutely get my house in order so I can clean it in the next 4 days! won't that be exciting??? Then I can just sit all weekened.
So see you later!
Trisha.

Flourishing

My garden is growing taller still, and I am a proud farmer.

I will take pictures tomarrow morning because I'm hoping to catch up on my chores today.

So have a great day!
Trisha

...........(MOM DON'T READ THIS)

I saw the worst thing in my entire life tonight- a dog get hit by a car in an intersection. I felt so horrible. I continued on my way to the office, and right after I got there, (it was quiet and all I heard were my own thoughts replaying and replaying in my mind...and kept seeing it....) I felt like throwing up and felt sick to my stomach, so I vacuumed and home I went. I'll finish it tomarrow I told myself.

I just had to share with you my horrible day. I woke up happy and ready for a new day. I mean my garden is growing! I went to work, and my boss the chef was in a FOUL mood and griping at EVERTHING. So I was excited to see her go home early. My servers were absolutely wonderful, and I left in a better mood only to have to see a small dog get hit... I would probably be the stupid one to run out and pick up the dog and bring it to an emergency place cause it was still alive, but I left it to the other dozen cars stopped trying to catch it. As I pulled away, I saw a lady go towards it to get it. So I didn't worry cause I knew it would be taken care of.

BUT         I              SAW                  IT!  not the actual hit, but it run out, my veiw was blocked by another car, and when they both passed, I saw it had been hit.   And I was so shaky after. EEEEW who wants to ever see that?

So anyways, I am going to go get ready for bed.
 Hope no nightmares come.
Trisha

First Harvest 2011

I had my 1st harvest today! I decided the strawberries we're looking a little over abundant and if I didn't pick them soon, they would be coming out of my ears!! I placed them on a coaster (3 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches) so you could see their adorable size.

So, ideas anyone??? should I make a pie? or a gallon of strawberry sauce for icecream? Or jelly?

I do believe we will split each of them in 2, and we'll each savor the sweet juiciness of each delectable half! :-) I'm excited!

OUR GRASS IS COMING UP!!!!!!
they started peeking through the dirt yesterday, but I forgot to mention it then! Exciting! Now people will flock for miles to be the first to veiw our lush green lawn!!!! The dog decided he's waited long enough and we can hardly get him to stay out of the grassy area anymore! he's so naughty! And it hasn't even grown over 1/4 inch yet! It still looks like dirt unless you look closely!

Well I need to go do my cleaning chores so I don't get behind this week! I'll see you later!
Trisha

We have sproutage!

My garden if growing! I almost lost hope "they'll never come up!.... It's too hot!....."
And they came up!
TA DAH!!! Just like that! and there they were! Bam!

Beans:

Cantelope:

Cantelope:

Here is the sad Strawberry: It's flourishing quite nicely!

Here is the sad pepper plant that hides all day: Still alive! 

Anyways, that is the fertile state of my garden!

So have a good night!

I know I will! I went shopping today! I bought lots of nice yummy fruit, and black long sleeve socks (or little boy crew socks for those of you who don't understand)  for work! I also bought some exciting new seeds for a fall or spring flower garden! I still have to figure out the seeds to see when they need to be planted!

See you in the morning!

Trisha.

Quack Quack

I'm so excited about these and just love their colors and textures and am hoping to start eating them tomarrow now that I found out the entire squash is edible. skin, seeds, and flesh. you can eat it raw as well.

These came from my mom's garden!
Thank you mom! You grow beautiful squash!

Happy Father's Day!

Yesterday my mom came over and helped me in my garden. It seemed like I did a lot of watching cause she just popped the whole irrigation thing togther! after I realized what she was doing, then I could do it too! I am now a master gardener just like her! (But I bet she still beats me).

But look at this:

 Strawberries:

 Watermelon:

 Tomatoes:

Bell peppers: (the other one is hiding cause it's sad.)

Cucumber:

Check out the size of this strawberry! I'll have to start making plans of whether I'm going to turn it into jam, pie, or a large fruit salad.

I HAVE A GARDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU MOM!!!!!

Last day!

Today is my last day of work and then I'll be sunning myself all weekened! 4 days with no work! exciting!!!!!!!

I can't wait as usual, But I'm also getting excited about work tonight. I got so far ahead of myself that I already mostly decorated the dining room, and had all the wine glasses polished, worked out the seating chart, and divided the room out between the servers. it will be exciting! I can actually enjoy the night now. To make it even better, I finished the schedual last night as well.

So I should be able to just concentrate on making the food look beautiful my servers will be putting together and will have a lot of time to be able to go over the menu with them as well so there is no confusion on how to write the order out like last time.

My husband finished clearing out the top layer of rocky soil from the grass area, and last night we bought bags of seed cover, and we already have seed and fertilizer, so we're good to go for planting!!

I'm hoping we can do it tomarrow cause I already have plans for my Saturday!

I'm going to go get my day started! I gotta pick out some fancy clothes, and shower, and figure out my lunch, and waste the rest of the time till I have to leave!!!

So have a fun day!
Trisha

SHOPPING TRIP!!!

I went shopping at Pro's Ranch Market today and paid $32.11 on this:

(Check out that huge grapefruit in the back...)

I was quite proud of myself yes I am! Almost feels like your stealing to get that much for that price! Probably would have been like $80 at your local supermarket!!! I will be eating raw for the next few days cause look at all this!

This is all the produce I left out on the counter after putting the rest back in the fridge!

And true to my word, everytime I go there, I always try something new. Today, it's:
                                  Mexican Green onion       

and Beets

I also bought tamarind, but I didn't take a picture of it by itself, instead, I took a picture of it with the vegetables. I also bought 2 tomatillos. Now I gotta figure out what to do with these new things! Exciting!!!

Anyways, Now I gotta get started on my day at home till I leave for work!

Have a great day!!!

Trisha

Yay, a good day at work!

Everyone showed up, and finally they showed some effort to work!! My boss the chef is having the pre-meal meetings with me, to hopefully drill the things we've been having problems with into their heads so they fix it.

I had a good day though and am getting excited thinking about the next couple of days... 2 more days till my weekened, and one of them is family night. the last 2 family nights, the residents and their families have had great fun! So I'm looking foward to the atmosphere and hope to prepare the servers for that day by doing extra prep work today so the day of won't be as hectic. I'm excited cause the schedual will be easy to finish this week cause I have lots of new found availability in servers now out of school, and have servers asking for more hours. So I have tons of help. Now I can weed out the ones who call off...

So, on I go to shop at Pro's Ranch Market, and to work, and eating happy and healthy till I find out why I'm getting migraines! (Although I don't think you can state tacos for breakfast as healthy...)

Have a great day!
Trisha

Hi!

I'm back to the land of living. I went home early yesterday and got home 2:30! I do have to go in early today-10:30.

My boss decided it was best for me to head on home so I could still come in for the rest of the week. After I arrived at work, I received another call from a server who had food poisening.- The same server called out last monday with the same illness. FISHY FISHY. But to make matters weird, my headache went away! Talk about a horrible morning of being on the phone trying to reach servers to fill in so we wouldn't just have 4 people for the lunch and dinner shift! I did it though, and even got an extra server for the evening so I could go home early. I was so excited! I was just shaking with excitement the entire drive home! But as soon as I got home, I realized how tired I was, and I just lazed around for the rest of the day. I even lay down for about 1/2 hour to try sleep, but couldn't. So I went to bed early.
That was my day yesterday.

Today, work will be 10:00-7PM. That means that just because I'm coming in an hour early, I also have to take an hour break now. HMMPH! I'd rather just come in an hour late! But it's not my choice!

I went to bed at 9:37 last night and I woke up at 6:37. exactly 9 hours. I feel so rested and ready to finish off my last 3 days of work till my 4 day weekened!

I'm planning on going shopping for produce at the Pro's Ranch Market tomarrow. They usaually have such great prices then that I only go shopping there Wednesdays. So excitement reigns as I plan my trip. I don't know exactly why I love shopping there! I havn't gone in a while though.

I hope you have a great day!
Trisha

ZZZzzzZZzz

I woke up 5:45AM and couldn't fall back asleep. I'm in for a long day. I have a headache, and at 6:25AM I received a phone call that someone who is schedualed 7-7 today won't be coming in. The irony is that employee has a headache. So, I'll be going in for 7:30 when breakfast starts, and working till 7 at night. I hope the person I called and left a message for will call me back because I could sure use them today.

Last night, I had my family over and I had fun! It was a Happy Birthday all over again! I got a bath set, garden plants, and a watering sytem complete with timer and all the little peices you could ever imagine for my garden that would be needed for it from my mom and dad! I'm excited cause my mom said she'd help me put it together on Saturday!

I'm hoping I can leave early at work for the next few nights till I'm back on my hours again so I don't go over.
It just sounds good cause then I can go to sleep early every night.

I am so tired and exhausted, and I don't want to go, but then what will happen if I don't go? I'll not have a job I'm sure.  I'm thinking tylonal and a big glass of water and to work I go and we'll see if it goes away.

I gotta go to finish my breakfast- 10 minutes before I leave and I'm still in my jammies.

Have a great day!

Bored

Today I am bored. I have so much I could do, but I don't want to.

I want to make cookies, and just be lazy.

The master bathroom sink is working! I finally saw the time when my husband agreed to put it together and now we have a functioning bathroom! We just need to do the shower now. But at least when I get up in the middle of the night, I won't have to walk all around the house 1st.

The sprinklers are finished and I have my yard back to myself. I have mud everywhere inside the house (and out) and everything is dusty again, so starts the endless cycle of having to clean every square inch of my house. Again.

Oh well. All I've cleaned so far is my kitchen island. The counter sparkles beautifully.

SAD!
Look what I found at the office last night! What happened? How was I supposed to mop???? and where was the mop head anyways? and if it was there and I mopped with it, wouldn't I just smear whatever greasy mess someone put in there all over the floors?? you can't see it in the picture, but the mop ringer had it all over too. So I swept the floor, and hung a note on the mop handle with the reasons of why I couldn't mop last night.

I don't like leaving unfinished. It's like eating chocolate cake but leaving the frosting.

Well, wish me luck on my raw cookie recipe I'm going to try!

Have a great day!

Trisha

Almost there!

Our sprinklers are almost finished!

My yard now looks like 1000's of little gophers, meerkats, or prairie dogs have taken over

Gopher tunnels

Mounds of dirt

Almost finished atomatic tree watering system.

A busy highway where all the pipes seem to all want to be at once.

Anyways, I'm excited! I'm going to have a new backyard soon!

Hope you have a good day!

Trisha

Pretty Pretty

I really am enjoying waking up and seeing this. It's like a ray of sunshine in the morning.

A bloom that just lasts.

Well. the sprinkler guys are taking their time! They only lay the water line from the front to the back yesterday and said they will be here all day from 7:00am on. where are they? The owner said they had a big job they were working on while doing ours. Makes you feel important huh? Going on day 3...

Oh! They just showed up! It's 7:39AM.

 punctual.

Right on time.

NOT. :-)

Oh well at least they showed.

I am still eating breakfast. I like to eat by the computer every morning and update myself on the blogs I follow. I usually start waking up a little before 6AM and then the dog hears me moving around more and then decides it's time for me to get up and askes to go out. I have learned if I tell him "go sleep," he lays down for 1 minute tops and asks to go out again. So I'm forced out of bed then. Cause who can go back to sleep after walking around and with sun pouring through every window just to let the dog out?

Did you know my husband put up another one of the blinds? We now have 2 windows covered at night! My room is finally not bombarded with light at night!

Next, I hope my room window can be done! I'm getting excited at the thought! Did you know you can buy ones that stretch across your big slider door? We havn't decided if we will go that route, or if we'll just use curtains. I think it would be funny to have a big huge blind over the door and can imagine it would just look like yuck after a short while with the dog being his usual nosy self having to look out at birds, or see if a cat is out there he can bark at... I can see it falling on his head after a few to many times of him whipping them to the side to get behind them!

Well, I hope you have a great day!

I'm going to go finish my breakfast!

Trisha

New Blinds!

Last night we went out and bought new blinds for our house. They are toffee color, and accordion style and work very well. We got room darkening ones and have only installed the one in the living room. I slept very well last night. The neighbors new flood light that is motion sensered won't bother me anymore!

We will also be getting curtains to decorate the windows even more, but I'm excited to just have the lights blocked at night for now.

 My bromeliad my husband got me for my birthday! It's already growing 2 pups!

 My husband's plant is finally starting to vine after owning it about 8 years! I guess it's happy finally! And yes, My counter is messy. That brown thing in the background on the drying rack is the cutting board my sister got me for my birthday! It's such a pretty color! It's the perfect size for cutting salads!

 Here are the trenches in my backyard. I hope today they put piping in and fill them in.

The other side of the yard. That's one of the workers. He did a lot of standing there and watching the other guy work the machine for a while to dig the trenches. Them guys are hard workers. I mean why shovel the dirt out of the holes if there's a machine to watch?

I'm posting a video to YouTube of them working. It really is funny cause one of the guys aparently had never used the machine they borrowed from home depot before and almost cut up our railroad ties!

I also uploaded more of them working if you want to check them out, Click HERE. I  also uploaded a video of Cruizer a couple weeks ago attacking balloons.

 He had never seen balloons before. He popped them shortly after I took this video. I wish you could have seen the surprised look on his face both times!

Cruizer is completely absolutely back to his normal self entirely. He is back to begging for food, asking you to throw his ball ALL day long, jumping on you "Pet Me Now!", and takes his usual naps and not all day ones.

Anyways, I'm going to go get my day started!
Have a great day!
Trisha

94 and trying raw.

today is my 94th posting of nonsense. wow. amazing how fast it acumulates! I couldn't for the life of me come up with that many postings in one day all at once if I tried!
Bet you thought I was 94 years old or something!

The sprinkler guy hasn't shown up yet. Is he coming? did I waste my time picking up dog poop?

I ate 3/4 cup soaked almonds, 2 falafel balls, a stalk of celery, and a vitamin for breakfast. I just finished a baked potato for snack. (with butter and salt of course).
I found tons of raw recipes that sound good online. a lot of them had really great reveiws on them.

I'm attempting to go mostly raw for a while to see if I eliminate most of the meat and dairy from my diet like I did last time, if my headaches will go away again. I'm thinking I have a lot of food triggers. I also had so much energy while eating raw I want to go back to it. It also gave me a more clearer happier veiw on the world. I think cause my digestive system wasn't bogged down with all kinds of crap. I've noticed when I eat at work, I get tired. the food is so greasy and full of dairy. also, every meal consists of meat. There's so much meat there. I guess I'll be eating hardly anything there till I figure out what has been causing my migraines!

Last night, I ate 2 baked potatoes with my supper. I was craving another today. weird how I crave them every once in a while and then other times, can't get past 2 bites! just shows my body has been telling me what it needs if only I would listen! I never crave meats. Is it my body telling me I can't digest it? I'm going to find out.
I crave cheese every once in a while. So maybe certain dairy products I can handle. I usually feel sick after eating yogurt though- over filled bloated sorta feeling. I can't stand the taste of milk, but I have also noticed if I eat cheese or any dairy product, the next day I have cold symtoms- buggery and stuffed up. Sometimes a sore throat from the mucus draining.

I've also found out flouride can cause thyroid problems, aches and pains similar to arthritis, disrupts normal functioning of hormones, allows aluminum to cross the blood barrier of the brain which causes dementia and alzheimers
 Kind of scares me cause I work with people with both. Maybe thats why my hormones have been wigging out? maybe that's what's been causing my migraines?
It's weird how stuff you put into your body affects you

Maybe that's all I can handle for now till I figure out what my body needs.

So I've been playing with the idea of starting a new blog page for:

 The Raw Side Of Me.
Check it out and tell me what you think

What do you think? Worth a try? Should I go for it for my health? Or will I die from lack of nutrition? I'm worried that because I don't know all that is available to me out there yet, I will be depleting myself of important nutrients for a while till I figure out what I'm doing. That's all that has been holding me back so far.

I've been playing things over in my mind, going through many different ideas, and worries.

-How much will it cost?-will my husband disown me for spending $$ on weird food?
-Will I be wasting my time?
-Will it take too much time to put together a meal and end up making me not want to stick with it?
-How will I get all the nutrients I need to sustain life each day?
-If I eat true salt- salt that hasn't been stripped of it's minerals- will I harm myself cause I'm not consuming iodine? Do I even have a thyroid problem? And isn't iodine already a natural occuring substance I'd be able to get from other foods?


With raw, you can eat warm food heated up to no more than 115 degrees. So it's not like I'd be eating cold salads all the time. Some of the recipes are actually so delicious looking, and contain only healthy ingredients, that you could have dessert all day! just think a pumpkin pie made with no sugar at all, just fruit to sweeten and  a delicious crunchy sweet nut crust! Healthy. you get fruit, healthy fats from the nuts, vegetables, protein, and vitamins- all of them cause they're not broken down with heat- without worrying about bad fats, dairy, and sugar!

looks good doesn't it? That's from favediets.com That is also their picture.

So you see? It's not like I'd really be missing out on anything or any kind of nutrient. I just won't be adding certain things, and won't be baking it.

I also will have some cooked foods. it's not like I'm going to deprive myself of pasta or baked potatoes if I crave them!

So that's what's been on my mind for the past few weeks. I've been getting excited thinking about it then I remember my husband who won't eat anything but meat. So I'd have to make 2 meals every meal. Not fun. will that ruin my excitement and make me not want to go with it? Should I just be mean and tell him if I'm the one cooking, he can either eat it or make his own stuff? I feel like he'd think I'm forcing it on him then and he would only get mad saying I'm trying to change the way he eats to my ways even though thats not the case.

So see my dilema here? any help people?????

Have a great day!
Trisha.

Fail not.

I made falafel balls. I found a recipe online.
I started by sprouting garbanzo beans a couple nights ago. I improvised on some of the ingredients (who keeps 2 cups of fresh parsley in their house all the time?) I used a little dried. I got it all started, then turned around to the fridge to get an egg, and no eggs in the fridge. Hmmmmm. to the internet, EGG REPLACEMENT. up pops 1 tablespoon flax seed meal with 3 tablespoons water. I had that. it said to simmer it 3 minutes. ????? wont it gell up anyways with soaking? I put it in without cooking.

So I mixed it all together and heat up the oil, and drop the first batch in. it boils apart into thousands of little peices. I seive it all out, and mix flour in the rest and drop 1 in. almost success! it fell apart a tiny bit. so I add a bit more flour, dipped them in flour, and fried the rest up. It was surprisingly a good tasty recipe! I feel queasy after eating so much grease though and feel nausious at the smell of them now, but definately a good recipe.

the dog liked them too, but he only got to try a little. I'm keeping life bland for a while with him till he heals.

here they are. the grease dripping crumbles, and the flour dipped balls. MMMMMMM untill you eat about 1/2 the batch and you feel sick. but I'll eat more later if my husband doesn't like them.

My husband being the caring responsible man he is, has put off picking up his doggie's poop and guess who gets to pick it up now so the sprinkler installer doesn't have to work around it?
Hints: My husbands working at the homeshow yesterday and today, and hasn't been here all weekened. The sprinkler guy gets here tomarrow. My husband will be gone all morning with appointments.

Still havn't figured it out??? ME!!!!!! Aren't you excited with that thought?

Oh joy happy day excitement and jumping up and down and....

I'm just going out to do it right now to be done with it and I'm taking the dog.

see you when my nose hairs grow back.
Trisha.

Hot Blazes

Last night we had a FIRE!!!

This is the second one this week. 1st was 3 days ago. I got the idea after we cut 2 huge branches off the mesquite tree out front and also the thought of Cruizer's never seen fire! So, we had a fire in the backyard.

FUN!!!! Cruizer was nervous the first time, just fine the second.

I baked yesterday instead of cleaning the entire house. I sat around and feel so rested now today it's wonderful! I woke up and the black bags under my eyes appear to be fading!!! Maybe they're not permenant after all!

In my quest to make "Healthy" cookies, I found 2 recipes online that call for applesauce and very little fat.

The first batch of cookies I made were:

Chocolate Spice Cookies.

The second batch, Alaska Molasses Cookies.

I will openly admit I don't care a thing about the chocolate ones. Probably cause I can taste a little salt in it. My husband likes them though. Just something about adding salt to molasses doesn't ever work out for me. It seems all I can taste is molasses and salt then. I do like the Alaska Molasses ones though. Spongy and soft, no greasy feeling left on my hands to have to wash off before touching anything, wonderful warm molasses flavor...

Anyways, one recipe to keep for sure. I'll have to ask my husband exactly how much he really likes that chocolate cookie before I keep that recipe. 

For now, I smell smoke. I smell like a campfire. whats weird is the embers are still hot this morning. I got all excited and started scooping the ashes into my mop bucket till I realized wait! These are still hot! so I dumped them out, and scooped them into a pile to turn into ashes the rest of the way so I can put them in my garden later.

Am I the only one who gets excited about putting ashes or anything else into my garden? I'm planning for a garden next year and am trying to think of the soil. I never have done anything to it before except put a bag or 2 of compost or manure in it every year.

I'm trying to build it up naturally. I have a compost heap but it's so small, it doesn't compost well. I don't care though cause every 2 years I'm finding dirt from it. The only problem that drives me crazy is the grass growing in my garden stealing all the nutrients and choking out my plants. It was so bad this year, and I started my new job, that I said I can't do a garden this year. I wouldn't be able to even get the seeds started with my unpredictable schedule.

I miss looking out the window at watermelon, and cantelope growing, and watching the vines spread from sweet potatoes. What I don't miss, is standing out there every morning getting sweaty and muddy holding a hose trying to water them frantically before work.

So, No garden this year. YET. I remember last year feeling the same way, and then planting watermelon and sweet potatoes last minute. I would also love to grow pumpkin.

Maybe I'll start some now that I have a 4 day weekened to get them watered and started.

Have a great day!

Trisha.

Cruizer taking his pills

See what a good boy he is?

AND YES, THOSE ARE MY PAJAMAS.

He just swallows them like I said. just gulp! and waits for the next. I always give him a bone after and he doesn't ever mind having to take his pills. I'm so happy he's back to normal! Those pills are magical!

Yesterday around noon, I started feeling wonderful again. back to normal. Today I feel good also. So today I will get lots done.

I'll maybe write more later, or tomorrow!

My 4 day weekened starts today! YAY!!!!!!!

Have a Great Day!
Trisha

ZZzzzzZzz Blink blink Blink

Still trying to wake up. I went to bed around 9 or so last night and got up about 6.

I went home with a migraine last night. yuck. I don't like clouds. I felt sluggish all yesterday morning and couldn't motivate myself to even sweep the floor. So, none of my chores are done, and my eyes are burning from tiredness today, so I fear the first day of my 4 day weekened will be spent cleaning. Oh well. I should feel better by then I hope.

Cruizer still has medication and is taking them very well. we barely have to try to open his mouth, and he holds still while we stick our hand entirly in his mouth and deposit a pill partway down his throat gagging him a bit, and he just swallows and waits for the next. it's so weird! this is the dog who thinks your going to cut off his entire foot when you trim his nails! He's such a good boy! So I don't dread giving him medicine! It's almost as if he realizes that this is what has been making him feel better! He's so smart!

I'm proud of myself. I got 3 loads of laundry done yesterday and almost all folded even while feeling the starts of a migraine! I washed 2 loads of dog stuff. his bedding, and toys/balls. I'm so worried he got sick from something outside, and he brings his toys out there, so we are going to try clean the backyard as well as we can also. We both also have caught him eating poop in the backyard at different times, so either we have a cat pooping in our backyard, or he's started eating his own... HELP! He could have gotten sick from anything! even just going on a walk and licking his paws after! I guess we're going to have to try clean up after him everytime he goes poop for a while! talk about being one with your dog full time! right now, he needs constant supervision outside at all times so he doesn't eat more woodchips either.

We will be getting a sprinkler system put in on Monday! that means grass this winter and next summer! Yay! I'm excited!

But there's nothing like feeling like ick when your house looks so horrible! Makes you feel even worse! Cause you can't even clean it. I seriously feel like sleeping. If only I could turn off the sun for a nap....

Well, I'm going to try sleep some more. I'll write more some other time. I'm going to try video giving Cruizer pills tomarrow morning so everyone can see how well he takes them! I know. I'm weird! But I'm so proud of him!

Have a great day! I'm going to! My headaches GONE!
Trisha