I am always amazed at the amount of dishes it takes to cook for just 2 people even if you use a crockpot, might as well cook for an army. I went to bed early last night and this morning the sink was full, I hate night before dishes with dried left on mashed potatoes and gravy pans, yuck what a mess. We had roast beef, stove top stuffing, mashed potatoes, and peas and carrots. It was great of course, but the clean up mess wasn’t very inviting this morning.
We stopped at a road side stand yesterday while we were out riding and picked up some local grown strawberries which are delicious and the smaller they are the sweeter they are. I cut them up and added spring water and a little bit of grenadine and let them soak and the juice picks up the strawberry flavor. I know lots of people down South that add tons of sugar to make the syrup, but I hate that really sweet syrupy taste and all that sugar is horrible to balance out your bodies PH level.
We also picked up some new potatoes, sugar snap peas, and ham which we are having for dinner tonight. I just finished preparing the snap peas and will add them later because they don’t take that long to cook. Bill likes cornbread with this meal so he’ll make that when he comes home, he likes his better than mine. I grew up using yellow cornmeal, but he prefers white because that’s what his Mother used. I never mess up as many pots and pans as he does and I will certainly make sure everything is clean before I hit the bed tonight.
This past week Shadow has been letting me sleep in the bed till around 3 in the morning, but that’s because Bill has been falling asleep in the chair beside him and not waking up and coming to bed till around 2. It sure does feel good to be able to stretch out and rest. I’m loving all this nice weather and we certainly have been enjoying the outside as much as possible. I’ll have to start typing some posts in advance that I can publish on a time table, maybe less personal posts because I’m sure people get tired reading about my personal life all the time.
Bill cut this out of the York Dispatch for me it concerns the serial killer truck driver that walked into my niece’s home and preceded to attack her while she was sleeping on the couch. I was horrified when I saw this on the nightly news 2 years ago, but thankfully she woke up and fought him off even after he slashed her throat. I can’t imagine the terror of waking to such a brutal attack. If someone wants in your house they’ll get in one way or another, but you don’t have to make it so easy by leaving your doors unlocked, which she did.
All I can say is she is one lucky lady to still be with us. The weird part was my sister and other family members were sleeping upstairs and came running when they heard the noise and scared him off. The whole incident was very strange and the police said it was a random attack not planned out, but that doesn’t make sense to me. Patty didn’t have to testify because the monster waived his rights to a preliminary hearing. Some things I just don’t understand and this is one of them, how someone could have such disregard for another person’s right to live.
It’s hard to get started with anything today for some reason. I know there are a lot of bloggers out there with older pets and I was wondering if anyone had ever tried Dr. Frank’s Pet Pain Spray? I saw the commercial on television and have been trying to read reviews and everything I can find online before I consider getting it for Shadow. So I’m hoping someone that stops by has actually tried it.
If anyone has tried this homeopathic remedy I would certainly appreciate your input. I would love to see my Shadow at least be able to get up and move a little bit and I’m certainly getting weary of him crying, but usually that’s his way of letting me know he’s thirsty, hungry, needs to be turned, is lonely or has just wet himself. For the most part he seems okay and I can’t bear the thought of letting him go yet.
I did get a huge bottle of animal glucosamine from the vet and used that for awhile, but all that did was make his urine stink and turn his fur brownish red. I feel so sorry for this little guy and even though he can’t get up and move he still raises the upper part of his torso up to get his treats and he’s still very alert and smart. I can count the number of times I’ve actually slept in my bed through the night since December using both hands.
Sleeping in a chair for so long is making me feel like I’m a hundred and it’s just too hard to get him up and down the stairs every night. Bill and I both have our problems so it’s easier for me to sleep in the chair next to him to keep him quiet and keep the neighbors from complaining. So please anyone that has ever tried this homeopathic pet pain spray please let me know how it worked for your pet or pets or even if you’ve tried Dr. Frank’s human pain spray I could even judge from that.
Thanks for reading and any input you can supply will be much appreciated. We go for Bill’s eye surgery in the morning and I’ll let you know how it goes.
When we’re young many of us really don’t think about the future or plan for it. We dream about the future of course, but we always think we have time. Even though it’s a good idea to live in the now, tomorrow usually comes for most of us and the way time passes it’s usually always sooner than you think. For most of us we live week to week and have a really hard time even saving money for an emergency. So what do we do? We’ve either had to borrow money or whip out the credit card and it seems like once you’re in debt it just snowballs.
I know 2 brothers that bought their houses around the same time almost 37 years ago, one paid 16,000 and the other paid 18,000. The brother that paid the smaller price worked very hard and diligently to pay his home off and take care of his family. He made less money than the older brother, but he managed to pay all his bills on time and eventually worked his way up in the company he worked for. His family never had the best of anything, but they had enough and now he only has to pay property and school taxes yearly and make repairs.
The older brother even though he made a lot of money never managed to pay off his house in fact they now owe well over 150,000 dollars or more on that house and complains that he can’t afford to retire even though he’s sick. His family had to have the best of everything and the wife was always flashing big diamond rings and driving expensive cars and the wardrobe was always the best. Instead of cleaning the carpet when it got soiled it was nothing to them to rip it out and go buy new. They were young and had the world by the tail.
People have a hard time living within their means so it’s no wonder everyone is so stressed with the economy the way it is now. I really have a hard time when I hear the news about people losing their jobs and homes and instead of trying to find a way they decide to kill their family and then themselves. We the people created this world of scarcity and we can change it, if we only see the bad in every situation then that is exactly what we are going to attract. I do believe in the law of abundance and if you think positively and see the positive then that is what you will attract, but that’s another post.
