just 10 more

Maybe that sounds too depressing.  Well, anyway, besides rain (we had about 6 in. one night),  A. was clearing the table at Panera’s last week and managed to knock her root beer into my lap.  Then, on Monday, I was having lunch with the exercise ladies at Olive Garden and the server lost control of his tray and I had ice water  and ice down my back.  Poor kid, he was sooo horrified that he did it.  What are the chances of something like that happening to anyone twice in a week?????  On the bright side I now have a $50.00 credit there.

Big thanks to Patti for the pic instructions; I promise to use them to actually try to do it one of these days.  I do enjoy seeing everyone else’s.

We have been chainsawing limbs and cleaning up major debris that fell into the yard from the latest storm.  Heavy, tough work.

I have all the orchestra girls measured for their new gowns……..went smoothly.  They seem to be nice kids.  The teacher wants the order based on bust size; well, hmmmmm, I think some of them are going to be able to SWIM in those dresses cause some of those girls are little except for that.  We’ll see.

The news on Rachel is bad, in fact, awful.  She has laminitis; from what I read I think this is what finally did the great Barbaro in.  The stable owner is packing her feet in ice every am and we are going out and doing it at night.  She’s on medicine—right now she stinks to the high heavens as the stuff is excreted through her pores.    AND, on a starvation type diet to try to take weight off quickly.  I feel bad for her but she was a pistol tonight; trying to get her to stand still in the ice packed boots we made for her (blue jeans legs sewed shut at the bottom with bungee cord over her back to keep them up) was just about impossible and she’s supposed to be still for 15 min. when all she wants to do is circle the stall which she’s confined to.  I am not a horse person, I’m scared to death in that stall, but A. can’t do this on her own so I’m drafted as her owner is not about to.  I hover as close to the door as possible ready to make my escape.  Don’t know how long this is going to go on and I resent being put in this position.  I think a lease on a different horse is needed; or none at all.

We had a dr. appt on A.’s osteonecrosis; dr thinks the area looks a bit more diffuse, possibly a good sign…go back for another x-ray and visit mid- Oct.

The air show is here–Blue Angels have been buzzing all over the past few days and the noise is triple what the jets from the base usually make.  I  hope noone is killed this year.  No, we won’t be going.  I’m one of the very few people who never saw Top Gun—why should I pay to hear jet noise???  Get way too much of it for free.

I’ve made it to the gym all three days for the last 2 weeks—-2 perfect weeks; but just doing tm and ladies lite aerobics, have to get back to weight machines and rower yet.  Food—-one step forward, then I blow it.  Can’t seem to get back on that horse (bad choice of word).  Have not been on scale yet.

That’s the news update, chickadees; have good week-ends everyone.  I’m not having time to keep up here as much as I’d like although I do think about y’all every day; hopefully this will improve.

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