SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER

                                                

FINALLY able to get back here again. New laptop and had to redo a lot of passwords.

Lots taking place here. Health has taken a real ride lately. Lots of Dr. appts and testing going on. I just wish what one Dr. orders the others would be aware of. I do know I ask them all to send info on..I gave permissions. So lots of things now days are taking a back seat. I sure hate it but they do. I am so far behind on things. I guess they will settle down some time.

Our fall has been wonderful. We have had rain and cool temps and the leaves are just now beginning to color here. Some years in OCT. we have had frost and snow. I am happy not this year. So many are talking about the very cold winter we are in for. Several have told me that the wooly worm this year is solid black. They predict winter conditions pretty good so.. I'll be waiting to see what happens. 

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL HALLOWEEN!

                                             

UPDATE ...JUNE/JULY

 

What’s going on?? Well not much these days..I am still recovering from my battle with bronchitis and COVID. The test was positive but I am NOT convinced at all that is was right. I had NO, I mean NO similar symptoms to Covid at all. I have been away from people and it has been a long road getting strength back to normal. I guess I will not know for SURE unless I have the appropriate testing done. The doctors have told me that the test for that is very expensive and not covered by insurance. So I won't have it, but I sure am changed since being sick. After affects are being more tired than I was before and my way of thinking about things is slower and I am more forgetful. I am so grateful that I did not have any other bad side effects. 

Does it seem to anyone else that the hot months are just longer that they used to be? Is it just me?? I could not wait until winter was over and warmer weather set in. I was hoping that after all the push for vaccinations got  over we could come back to some kind of normal. I wonder if that is ever possible? It surely will be a new normal. We will always be on guard as to someone near us that is contagious and maybe don’t know they are. 2020 was hard to get through.. 2021 is 6 months in and the summer is here. Here’s hoping that families can get together safely and we can go without masks and find some kind of “normal”.   The news and professionals say we can but the new Delta variance is running rampid in the country already. I , for one am still using my mask. I am used to it now anyway and feel funny NOT wearing it. I NEVER thought I would say that. Having covid the first time around.. I sure  DO NOT want anything else. The heat in the whole country is making it harder to wear one I confess. I have been limiting my time outside when it is very hot. Hope you all stay free of illness and have a great summer. 

                                                                    

                                                                  

TROUBLE...

I had trouble getting back into the blog. The browser kept saying it was unsecured so I had to use some other tactics to finally get back here. 

March was a month to beat all. It started out a great Spring with wonderful warm weather and all the snow GONE. The snow did not show up again either. I was busy getting my spring cleaning in order, while the weather was good. Seems the flowers and leaves are out on the trees really early this year. The whole month I spent trying to get into a place to get a covid shot. No matter where I went I hit a snag. I managed to get on several lists to be called IF and WHEN they got the supplies. Seemed like everyone was getting their shots at the same time. Our clinic called and said ONE AND DONE shots and that made me happy as I would not have to go back again. Not driving it is not easy to go anywhere.

WE got a date of APRIL 14..what a relief.  AND THEN TROUBLE HAPPENED.

I TOOK THE BUS to town on the 26th and two days later I came down sick. The bus informed the public they were shutting down next week for a COVID problem. I immediately called them up. Should the public be concerned since I rode on Friday? They said NO.. I will always wonder,,

AS the days went on I got sicker.. it felt like bronchitis, which I have had at least 50 times in my life. So I did everything I usually do. Seemed to work some but the fever would not pass. The weakness was incredible. I got a call and they would be able to give me a covid shot early.. being sick.. NO WAY I could do it. So disappointed. 

WELL by APRIL 1st I was tired.. I no longer wanted to fight the fever and congestion I decided to go get some antibiotics to help out. 
I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT IS NEXT.......

THEY DID A RAPID TEST AND YES INDEED I HAVE COVID. OR DO I??

I CONSIDER MYSELF LUCKY NOT TO HAVE IT SO BAD I AM HOSPITALIZED. MY horrible lungs due to asthma all my life probably helped the condition along. 

SO I was told to take the meds and go home and sleep and rest. The meds make everything taste horrible and are pretty bad. I have a recheck in 10 days to see how I am progressing.  I have been inside my tiny place for 13 days now. Only time out was the dr. The wiping and spraying of my sisters car and the double masks help. I sure don't want any one else getting it.  IT IS NO JOKE...

I HOPE TO UPDATE IF AND WHEN I GET BACK HERE. I AM NOT POSTING ON FB ETC ONLY HERE, 

STAY WELL GET YOUR SHOTS AND WEAR THE MASK.. IT MIGHT SAVE YOU A WHOLE LOT OF MISERY. 

2021 HOPEFUL AND SPEECHLESS

 

                                      

I had such hope for 2021 knowing that the election was over and all but done and all the upset over who won was done. It was decided. OVER. but what happened on the sixth day into the month of January left me stunned and speechless and tearful. I had come in the house from grocery shopping  and turned on the tv for the local news. What I saw took my breath away. OUR nation's capital building being over run by rioters and protesters determined to get into the building and they did. Hundreds of people rampaged into the building destroying as they went. It was a scene I hope to never see again. If you lived in another country it might be normal to see such a thing. The talk of revolution and riots are normal. The world is dealing with a pandemic now though and things are calmer than they used to be. 

It is now FEBRUARY...Biden is president and Trump has been impeached and is on trial. It's a process I know. They are all reliving the nightmare that happened that day in the Capital building. Clearly as the senators etc. give their testimony you can see what the whole ordeal did to them. They were so very close to being in real life threatening situations. The guard is still standing around and so are the gates that were installed around the building. Life is still going on inside the Pandemic that we are under. They put speed on vaccines to help us fight. Some are getting shots others are still waiting and some refuse completely. Some people in the  United States of America don't  seem to be the ones though that are sure of the whole virus thing they believe it is not true even though hundreds of THOUSANDS are dying. 

I shake my head and wonder just what they are thinking. They just cannot see the dangers that are evident. The winter goes on..the whole country it seems is now in really cold temps. Spring will come in less than 40 days and with it the hope that we turn a corner into getting back our lives. 

TWAS COVID...

 T'was 3 sleeps before Christmas, and all through the town, people wore masks, that covered their frown.  The frown had begun way back in the spring when a global pandemic changed everything.  They called it corona, but unlike the beer, It didn’t bring good times, it didn’t bring cheer.  Airplanes were grounded, travel was banned. Borders were closed across air, sea, and land.  As the world entered lockdown to flatten the curve, the economy halted, and folks lost their nerve.  From March to July we rode the first wave, people stayed  home, they tried to behave.  When summer emerged the lockdown was lifted, but away from caution, many folks drifted.  Now it’s December and cases are spiking, wave two has arrived, much to our disliking.  It’s true that this year has had sadness a-plenty, we’ll never forget the year 2020.  And just ‘round the corner - The holiday season, but why be merry? Is there even one reason?  To decorate the house and put up the tree, who will see it, no one but me.  But outside my window, the snow gently falls, and I think to myself, Let’s deck the halls!  So, I gather the ribbon, the garland, and bows, as I play those old carols, my happiness grows.  Christmas is not canceled and neither is hope. If we lean on each other, I know we can cope!