Are we living our dream?

[Medicine Woman]

DH can’t have his surgery tomorrow because he is in atrial fib so now other tests needs to be done before he is cleared. 🤦‍♀️

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Hopefully there is a treatment that can help get him back on track! Prayers sent

 

[Medicine Woman]

Looks like rain. I just put a little clothes to wash. Might take a while to dry. Still limited on clothes but my cousin gave me her sewing machine. Hopefully no company for several hours. But I have been told by the manager of our community center that the Angel Tree program has been cancelled this Christmas and she was upset because she said many children won’t have any presents without it. She told me she received many child quilts from away and asked me if I could crochet a bunch of beanies from newborn to middle school and even men’s size so I asked my family to help me get as many as possible and asked my daughter to make stuffed animals. I can work on this today a bit. My niece showed me a fast pattern. I will just finish the very complicated one my cousin showed me.

 

[Medicine Woman]

My youngest child and niece came home a few days before Thanksgiving and today went up the bayou. I did inform them that they live with me. I told them their SD has doctor appointments the next two days and then I am going get them. Hugs and they left. But it’s been really productive lately. I haven’t been killing myself working but I have been going to my house and cleaning up for the past few days. I wanted to reach the house soon and I started to stack up sticks and branches in front of one of the damaged trees so I can safely walk around. I then noticed my garbage bin was partially under part of my roof and I managed to reach it and I was able to get it free and the wheels mostly still work so I just parked it where I was trying to clean up while DH was feeding the poultry and rabbits. It always takes him a while and by the time he came to me I almost had a full bin of trash and I had a 3 or 4 foot stack of branches and you could see the ground. He seemed pleased and he took this huge ladder he had made and propped it against the front porch to ascend instead of the stairs, because he knows how I am waiting for them to collapse. So like we found a good 20 square feet of yard in a half an hour. Next day we did something similar in the woods at the camper which really looks tempting. In maybe 40 minutes we cleared out about the same amount of space and started a composting area then went to the house and I started clearing my driveway of branches. Today I went back and started another pile of branches near another cypress tree and my daughter and niece started picking up trash in the bin. The garbage passes twice a week and I wanna have the bin filled both times every week. I am not going to be hauling trees and branches to the roadside for pickup. I think that’s ridiculous. DH got some numbers off my wood chipper and I wanna make the most use of the mess by making lots of mulch. We did a good bit more work today because I had the girls with me. I will have to remember to tell them that. But I wanna go over everyday and work, even if it’s just a little while. I keep thinking that other people will fail me but I just gotta make sure I don’t fail myself. Recently planted several fruit trees in the orchard and it’s been raining a bit so hopefully some survive. I am a little stressed about exactly how I will frame up the greenhouse once I find the floor. My SIL suggested I treat the floor of my house with Thompson Water Sealant. I hadn’t thought that would be an option but maybe it would work. So I am in a toss up on having rafters and fiberglass panels over everything or making it a great big hoop house. The latter would probably be more affordable and faster 🤷‍♀️.

 

[Medicine Woman]

DH is creating an addition to the house. He is working alone. He says it’s gonna be an art studio. Yeah....he is talented. Some of his art hurts my brain and I can’t look at it. When he is in pain he just draws stuff and from far it looks like one thing but looking closely you see he had to draw many smaller things to make the bigger picture. I prefer when he does people or trees and pelicans.
All the stuff I need to do my simple aquaponics garden is here. I will spray paint the plastic jugs brown first. Gotta ask DH where he put the razor blade.
I will honestly try to keep motivated today long enough to make a difference. It takes a lot to set me off but I don’t like the person I am when I start throwing stuff out the house just because no one understands me.
A lot of my clutter is people have given me their deceased mothers yarn, mason jars and fabric and I really don’t know where to start. I have NEVER lived in such a small house. I think I need to see what I can slip under my bed in boxes.
I think maybe the neighbors have started staying at the house next door. On the opposite side...no. It’s the same with business places. We finally have a few burger joints open. But it’s about half and half and the nursing home continues to be empty as well as the hospital. I hope I never see this kind of destruction again.

 

[Medicine Woman]

Omg. DH is trying me! He lost something that only he touches and he thinks someone else moved it. In the meantime I bought something to hook up the WiFi and I know exactly where I put it and it’s gone. So I found the first item. So I only know one way to find a missing item and that’s to clean up. Here I am, wanting to motivate myself and get stuff organized and he passed through the front ramp on the house and now he wants to fix that. That’s not going to clean the house or find the missing item which I know for a fact I didn’t lose. But I bet I will find it exactly where he hooked up the antenna and external wire. I just don’t see why when I want to get something done that I have to have my blood pressure elevated. Clutter!! Yesterday he bought me an abridged copy of The Secret Garden. I guess I can read it to the grandchildren but I don’t have a bookshelf. He also bought a new puzzle. Too bad the table is full of random junk. It’s like I have to keep on top of my stuff and him too. I need to get rid of random things that I know won’t be used like the clothes dryer, a ceiling fan he found in a junk pile, a light fixture from a junk pile, random stuff really. I can’t even think.

 

[tortoise]

Maybe flylady can help me out.

I love flylady!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Who or what is flylady?

 

[Medicine Woman]

Yeah I can do it but DH and I work against each other on diet. So living with him requires lots of self discipline. He just sits there and starts talking about bread pudding and anything for a sweet tooth. I have been over weight for a very long time but since I have been with him, it’s reached dangerous levels. Plus he is a really great cook.

 

[flowerbug]

Delicious! Did it taste as good as it looks?

it does look good.