Im back everyone !!!!! for better or worse.. :O)

   Hey everyone!!!!!!!   I'm still alive and kicking lol  

   it's been so long !  Cant believe that it been so long.  I have so much to say or tell you all about.  I built my house and then meet someone very special.   special enough to marry !!    that's a story in itself..   as you all can tell I still ;don't know how to type lol  we added onto the house, will have to download some pictures from the phone.   quite a few.   I and we haven't been on much of a adventure traveling but its been a adventure with each other and the extended family.  The wife has three grown kids and one of them has given us 4 wonderful grand children!!  pictures soon.   

  We have three dogs now, 3 house cats and who knows how many outside barn cats!!  two crazy goats, nigerian dwarfs.  looking to b uy some females to grow the heard..  the two we have are males and I banded them so they are unisexed now lol   male goats stink when they have their dingle berries!!    one of our dogs is a daytime inside dog then it goes out for the night to guard the property.  to bark at the deera, the possums and anything else that it decides that is "dangerous"  lol

 we have been planting a garden each year but some years its been a flop for the most part.  weeds!!!   ugh...  bought some weed fabric and it helps really good but after a few years it starts to get thread bare.  then the weeds get to creeping in..  pictures coming soon.

 My wife lived in kansas city but always liked the idea of living in the country so here she is lol   she's not a big fan of being two hours away from the kids or the grand kids but when we get everything settled in it will get easier for all.   pretty sure we will be seeing the kids more since we added on two bedrooms, another bathroom, family room and what we call a family hall way. its over sized so we can put pictures on the walls and some plant table things so in the winter we can bring in the sensitive ones.   added three closets, one in each bedroom and one in the bathroom.  there's also a north hallway with a north facing door.  its basically a way to get to the cloths line and the furnace room.   had to move the cloths line  yet again, third time is a charm right? lol

 the old rv finally laid down a died.  not the motor but the camper shell itself..  had a leak i didn't know about and it rotted/ got moldy.  it was a sad day when I started taking it apart.   sold the motor and transmission. then took the frig out and saving it.  not sure why, pretty sure the hoarder in me has something to do with that.  took it up to my uncles and he tore the wood parts off and saved the copper and such out of it.  the cab, frame and running gears are still there but going to the junk yard soon.

  we bought a new computer,  can we say learning curve?   I have been kinda technology free except for  a smart phone.  no, I can operate it half the time either.  know what I want to do, I know the phone/computer can do it but again, not computer savvy .....

Patches my traveling cat of 17 years passed away a couple of years ago.  she was a great cat all in all.  she was her own personality lol   I still miss her but I buried her and put crickets ashes in with her.  thought it was fitting..   they lived together all their lifes so now thay are living together for all eternity.  them two kept me save from myself back in the beginning of this blog,  they was my world nad my rock...    will remember them forever...

still have chickens, was selling the eggs to the wife's coworkers but since she has moved here it just hasn't been working out getting eggs up to kansas city.  sorry kc peeps but your probably not going to be getting any eggs.   its been really nice though making money to pay for the chicken feed.  the chickens got thinned out by a bobcat sadly along with some of the cats.  guess thats the circle of country life..  

   Ive been talking to my daughtere again,  :O)  planning on flying up to see her and her family..  We have 5 grandkids from her and so excited to meet them all.  pics will follow lol   they are doing good and living life like the rest of us.  

 so anyway, going to get off here and figure out some othere stuff on this thing.  

really enjoyed talking to you all again.  now that im retired and its winter I will be pestering you all alot more.....:O)  

 

Hello

  It’s been so long.   Again.    

What to say lol.   I hope all is well in your worlds, it’s been good here.  As soon as I get internet at the house again, I’m going to work on getting the blog going again.    I’m learning tictok and YouTube so there’s other ways of viewing activities.    I will let everyone know what I’ve been doing the last several years. I’m still living in the house I built, actually working on getting it added onto. 

There’s been so many changes here and in my life…. 

  I'm here all, one day I will be posting again. 

Hey all, my goodness it's been such a long time.
 Allot has happened in the last year or so, I lost my mom for one. She has another stroke and this time it affected her alot. Ended up she had to stay in a nursing home for several months while she was taking physical therapy.  She got better so I remodeled her bathroom to make things easier for her but unfortunately she wasn't able to stay home. She was not happy about it but there wasn't anything that we could do differently.
 It seemed like to me that she gave up at that point and it wasn't very long that she got really sick and with her inability to breath on her own anyway, she went into the hospital and never came out of it.

Rest in peace mom love you and miss you.

 Hey all, its really been along time this time. Just got on here to say hi and let you all know that i am still alive. just so very busy with life. It thru us a curve ball back in june of this year. Mom had another stroke, wasnt a pretty one at all. She lost use of her left arm and leg but she has had months of therapy and she has gained back most of her movements but her arm is very weak, Her leg works mostly but she has problems with her lower leg. She cant use her ankle or foot much at all but she has learned how to walk even with that not working properly. Unfortunantly, her balance is off too much for her to be on her own doing things. She can use a walking fine but we have to be there holding her saftey belt just incase or rather when she losses  balance.  She is in a nursing home which she does not like but she cant be at home. She requires more help than what we can give her at home as well. Sadly. 

  For the most [art she is really chipper and doesnt get to depressed for the most part. There are days though that are not so good.  Its been a very chalenging time for her..  She wants to come home but Im not sure if that will happen. She did come home for 6 days a while back but she lost her balance several times a crashed, the last time she did she fell on the walker and bent it up and cracked two ribs. She went to the hospital and found out the ribs and that she had pnumonia, went and stayed in the hospital and while there we talked and she said that it was time to go back to the resthome. I told her that if she got her balnce back and was able to do all the things at the rest home that she would need to do at home to live there then she could come home again.  She said that would be great but we both knew that she wouldnt be coming back home. Maybe there is a chanace for her too but ...  If she does then that would be great :O)

  In other news, The graci dog has gotten over trying to kill or pluck the feathers off the chickens for the most part, yay.  still working with her but she has made great progress, exspecially after Greg the younger rooster gave her a pecking lol didnt hurt her but she sure thought it was not right for that rooster to be mean to her, not once but twice. she has a new found respect for them now..

  Okay, have to cut this short, again. But will be back on since I have new a computer that I get to use :O) 

Hope all is well out there. I hope all your dreams are coming true and happyness has found each and everyone :O)   

Be safe all :O)

hi again

Hey all, :O)  told you I would be back soon. How has everyone been? good I hope. Things have been plugging along here, nothing really exciting just life.

  I went to bingo with mom fri night, she really enjoys getting out and going. She gets pretty bored in the rest home. She even won at bingo one game, made her money back lol

  Shes really working hard to get out of there. Strokes can really mess things up for a person.

  They are saying that she may get to come home by the end of October, we are hoping so. She said fri night that she just wants to go home and sit in her chair and relax. I can only imagine..

 Country living update.

  I have 24 chickens now and most of them are laying eggs, got way too many eggs lol If the zombie apocalypse happens I will eat pretty good on chicken eggs lol

  We ended up with one roster out of the sixteen chics we bought, I'm thinking we were really lucky from the stories I have heard from diff people buying chicks from orchelns.

 The garden is done, the one cantaloupe plant is empty and the cucumber plants (2) do not produce any, If they do the chickens get them before I do. really Really need to get that fence put up :O(

 

Curiosity

  Sometimes I get really curious about things, like for instance I have a few followers that are my constant. I know that the person in Moscow, Moscow city, I don't know but I am saying hi to you and thanks for being one of my followers :O) One of the other one's is from St Paul Minnesota, That one I may know lol it is a small world sometimes, I wonder if its really truly that small? what would be the odds of it being a old friend that I used to know?   Anyway :O)   Like I said, I get curious and I cant seem to let things go.

the kittens are growing quickly, pooping all over the place. They seem to forget where the litter box is at times. I don't walk in the yard anymore bare foot..  There is 10 kittens and I believe that 9 are boys ugggg.

  Built some flower beds in front of the porch the last few days, looks pretty good I think :O)  Went out and gathered up a lot of flat lime stones to make the retaining walls out of. Even have some to spare. Sure wish I could post pictures on here again, nope I still haven't figured out what the problem is..

  In other news, I cant seem to sleep anymore.  When I do want to sleep I cant because I'm at work lol Very frustrating.  I have tried many diff things but nothing seems to work. I imagine that it has something to do with my Lupus, I know that lately its been acting up.

  I still don't have any goats or any other critters. Still haven't finished the fences for the pens. Things just haven't been happening around here like I had hoped. Sure is rough to get older lol cant wait for another 10 years to be added onto this body. should be entertaining :O)  Well, I'm getting off here and go outside and look at the night sky, maybe I will get to see a meteor or two.  Good night all and talk again soon.  Be safe :O)

surprise

Surprise everyone....    It has been a loooooonnnnngggggg time.  Hope everyone has been doing great.  I'm sure that I have lost most of my followers, if not all. I apologise for the Gap in keeping up with the posts.  Been in prison lol.  No not really. Just been busy with life.
  Some of the high lights that I have been up too and what's been going on.
. Still dating my girlfriend. Working on the place. Working at my job. Getting Pno trained basically. A dog trainer I am not. I had it so easy with cricket dog, she was such a layed back little girl. Pno is a in your face kind of dog lol.
  My mom had a stroke back in June and we have been dealing with that. She's getting alot better but it's still along road to go. Taking her to lunch tomorrow at the Saddle Rock, it's a favorite place that she liked going to. And then going to go see Grandma Estes, she will be 98 tomorrow.  Yay you grandma. You always said you wanted to live to be 100. Just two more years and you will have made it:-)
 I have some cat. 15 to be exact now. Anyone want a kitten? Or two?
 The chickens are doing great, the young ones are starting to lay eggs now. Getting between 7 to 9 eggs a day so far. Got a few free loaders but not sure which ones they are. I had been letting them run all around but they started tearing up my plants and pooping on the porch alot! Got them penned up for now. Need to butcher one rooster, got one too many.
  Got the lean to all done, going to start soon on a bigger one on the other side. Got most of what I need. Will be nice to have the extra room.
Still need to move the tin she'd home that I had given to me.
 I also messed up my knee some how. Bruised the bone ends in my knee. And tore something inside, they said I need surgery on it but have to wait. I need to build up my sick days and vacation time. Can't afford to loose any wages. Did it at home, I'm thinking it might of been when I was chasing graci the dog and fell.
 It's had me hobbling around for a while. It got so bad for a while that I was on crutches. It hurt bad.....
  It's feeling better now, atleast I can walk on it. Just have to be careful.
  Got some cucumbers out of the garden, chickens got alot more of them. Really need to put up that fence.. the one cantaloupe plant has did a wonderful job. The other day I took five cantaloupes over to the rest home where mom is so the cook could give them to all of the residents. They all pretty much loved them. They have asked me to bring some more over again.
  I just tried to upload some pictures, wasn't successful. I'm posting this from my phone. It's smart, I'm not I guess lol...
  Now that I know I can post this way I should be on here more.  I will work on getting some pictures to go with my comments.   Talk again soon.   Be safe all..