Making Life better by what we do and think

I was watching it snow again for the last several days. Oh how exciting. One good thing about it, it melts quickly and usually doesn't stick to the roads. But what happened to our lovely 50s, 60s, and even 70s? I know it will come again but oh how sweet that sounds - again sometime.

I have been having a difficult time the last few days - not feeling so great with lots of pain and such. So I finally listened to my Daughter Sue and went on line and looked up the symptoms of fibermylagia. One of the triggers so to speak is "stress". Boy doesn't that get a lot of blame? Anyway, I'm waiting to hear when I can get into a doctor that is suppose to tell me what is wrong. All the tests I've taken so far have turned out negative. Sure doesn't help the lady feeling yucky.

Well anyway, today I went to get my nails done and the gal that does them is the happiest lady I know. She is so pleasant and is so calming. After I spent that hour with her I felt so much better and was determined not to let this get the best of me. It seems I have so many auto immune diseases that one more shouldn't bother me BUT it does. I know that positive thinking and taking care of one's self are major and also learning to sit limits. That one I am working on.

Taking a point from another Daughter, Steph - listing the things I'm grateful:

I am grateful for people that care
The love of my family
The love of my husband (what would I do without him?)
The love of my Heavenly Father
The love of my grandchildren
For my Mom - who tries to love me

Thank you Lord for everything

Spring Continued

Some pictures of Glen's hard yard work out front.

Maybe one day I'll get the hang of how to arrange pictures and text but at least you can get an idea.

Don't they look so different?







Now to the unveiling - clean, clean, clean. Now what out front? Any suggestions?

Spring

This last few days have been so lovely just plain wonderful. It's spring and we are loving it. Glen has been very busy taking out bushes in the front of our home. The tall pine and the small ones by the drive way are no more. He was able to pull them out with his truck pretty easy. Although if you check out his arms and hands he looks like he's been to war, I guess in a way he has with the bushes. They have little roots but are they ever heavy. They still have the moisture they collected during the winter months still in the roots.

He had trouble getting the job done because of all of the people driving by - they all stopped to see what was happening and wanting to chat. Aren't neighbors great! A couple guys one from next door and a guy that was from around the block came by and helped clean up yesterday. Glen filled his truck but there was still a lot left to go to the dump. He took the truck (BIG load) this morning and has been working on the stump and limbs left but that will be for another day.

Now we can see when we drive out of our driveway. Yea!! No more worrying we'll hit a child or adult for that matter or even a car that appears all of a sudden because we couldn't see them coming.

I was afraid it would look really bare but to be honest it looks just great without them there. We are going to plant grass - make taking care of our yard much easier. The flowers along the drive way are going also. Just plain Jane house now. The pine and small pine by the front are also on the agenda to go too. Mostly these are getting the ax because they have over grown the area they are in and are threatening our roof.

Change is good and as long as we go along with it - life is good. But when we develop a "mule" brain it becomes very difficult to deal.

I love seeing the flowers coming out this time of year especially. Saw some crocus Tuesday morning that were in a ladies yard - yellow, purple, white and pink. They are just so breath taking this time of year after all of the winter snow and cold winds.

Also, we have some of our garden planted. Peas, radishes, red beets, parsnips, and lettuce. Now to wait for the growing to happen!

Isn't Spring great?