Tuesday......

Today we took Zippy to PetSmart to be groomed. Elizabeth is so nice and did a great job as usual. While we were waiting we went to Target and looked at portable CD players and cameras. After the last camera that we tried and returned, I just don't know about trying to get a new camera. It was a Sony H-20 and I liked the camera, just didn't like it's software on the computer and how all that worked. So....hmmm
By the time we did that and went to Subway and picked up a sandwich, Elizabeth called that Zippy was done and we went to pick him up.

Later I mowed grass. I mowed for 50 minutes, came in for a break, talked to my cousin who called, and then went back and mowed about another 45 minutes. I have almost all of the fenced part of the yard done. In some places I was really stirring up some dust. I plan to mow over by the garage and the other driveways tomorrow. I also might do some out back if I have time and it isn't too wet. Amazing that I'm making dust up here and there is standing water back there.

Also talked to my neighbor and friend on the phone tonight.

I thought about my journal page work earlier this morning and didn't do any thing then, so I going to go work on a background or something for a start and I don't really have too much of a plan at this time.

Journal page

Well, I have about 15 minutes left in the day to work on my page that I started yesterday. Somehow I totally forgot about it. I've been crocheting tonight. I wonder if I will be able to do even some tiny bit of work each day for a month in an art journal. We'll see I guess.

A new month begins

Today was a beautiful day to begin November and back to regular time. It was sunny but cool enough to work outside without sweating. We've had a lot of rain lately and the ground is pretty saturated with standing water in many places outside the fenced yard. I drove through this with the quad going out back to dump a load of fallen branches and pine cones. Usually this time of the year is dryer and it begins to rain more in January and that's when we've had the stinkhorn mushrooms over the last few years. Well, we've already had three of them---and they totally live up to their name. They STINK!!!

DH is working to organize his shop in the garage. We've been trying to clean out more of the residue of "stuff". We also bundled for garbage pick up some of the huge weeds that we pulled out of the front ditch with the quad 2 weeks ago. They had dried out and were much lighter to handle.

We've been letting Sophie roam more on her own in the yard when we are out there. She is totally blind but does pretty well. On Tuesday the vet checked her blood sugar and it was 182 so she does not go back for a month. I also got him to look at her eyes again and only one of them responds to light now, so the tiny hope of the slim possibility that she could be seen by a specialist for her cataracts if her blood sugar stays stable for 6 months grows dimmer. :-(


I worked on the background for a page in one of my altered books. Do something, do anything to make a start, and I have. I'm going to try to do something, no matter what, each day. I've taken a photo of what I've done tonight.


I've been crocheting while I watch tv at night. Right now I'm working on an afghan or a lap throw out of scrap yarn that we had at the church craft group. Three skeins of black came in last week and I'm using them to tie it together. I'm thinking that it will be something to be donated to someone in a nursing home or similar. It is looking okay so far. I'm going to check and see what other yarn we have when I go to crafts tomorrow.

STILL hot

10:45 p.m. and it's 82 degrees and feels like 92. There has been no let up in the heat. It's getting old and probably will continue into next week!

Just for the record......

It is 10:50 P.M. and the temperature is 83 degrees and feels like 92. It's almost the middle of the night, hello people. Where is fall????? Some leaves are falling but the grass is still growing. I mowed some today and it was 88 felt like 92 or something with the sun out, humid and the mosquitoes were bad. I am SO done with hot weather. We have been hot for 5 months. When we were in TN in July it wasn't as hot during the day as it is here at night in Oct. Go figure....

Hot weather and stuff.......

6 p.m. and it's 83 and FEELS like 91 degrees. ACK! It's Oct. 5----- enough already!!!!

Sophie has been back on 9 units of insulin 2x per day since Fri. afternoon. She is doing well and the infection in her eyes is much better or gone. I bought another bottle of eye drops today as we are supposed to use them through the end of the week. The bottles are small and you can go through them fast doing 2 drops per eye every 3 hrs. We are beginning to taper that off to maybe 4 or 5 times per day and only 1 drop most of the time. We bought her a couple of toys on Sunday, trying to find some that she would be able to find by noise since she can't see. One ball that has bumps rolls around and that makes noise and the other makes several different noises when it is moved. She seems to like them

Yesterday we returned the Sony H20 camera and all it's accoutrements that we bought a little over a week ago. The camera was awesome and took great pictures. The software for the computer was a nightmare and the guys at the store agreed. Forget watching any video except through their program. So, back to our old HP camera which is probably all we need anyway. At least for now.

Tonight Rachel Zoe Project is on TV. I like that show along with Flipping Out which is on tomorrow night. Both are on Bravo

Sophie's progress

After Sophie's insulin was raised last Fri. we rocked along with that till Wednesday afternoon when she seemed kind of unresponsive and appeared to be getting the eye infection in her right eye. We took her to the vet and saw yet a different vet. There are 3 in the office and this one is only there on Wed. and Thurs. He checked her blood sugar and increased her insulin again and told us to bring her back on Thurs. to check it again. She weighed 16.6 lbs. We changed the dosage and took her back on Thurs. and saw him again and again he increased it 2 more units and told us to bring her back on Fri. Her eye infection was better. You can see the pupils respond to light, but the cataracts are keeping her from seeing.

We took her back on Fri. and saw the lady vet. She is SO nice. She checked Sophie's blood and her count was all the way down to 93 and this was at a time it should be rising again. So, she changed her back to 9 units and said the other was too much and we will check her again in a week. She said that she and the vet who owns the clinic (that we try to see when we can) think more alike about this and want to do the increases gradually rather than changing it so close together. She said "I don't want you to run to the grocery for 20 minutes and come home to find her dead from too much insulin". ACK!!! Plus she is taking a new pill that should help her liver function. We are continuing the eye drops for a week. She is eating all her food and seems to love the special diet food canned and dry. She has never been a picky eater. She is such a good girl and they say that about her at the vet's office too.

She played with a ball today in her special yard that N. built. I need to find one that has a bell or makes noise in someway to make it easier for her to find it. She looked like she was having so much fun with it. She hasn't played in weeks since all of this started. She even jumped up on the ottoman last night and N. found her on the bed. That's scary when we know she really can't see. We will have to keep the ottoman farther away. I so wish that this tiny bit of light that she may see could improve and that she could have the tiniest bit of sight. She seems to be dealing with it very well. (Much better than me) I'm so grateful that she is responding to the medicine, enjoying her food and appears to be feeling better.