A bunch of useless photos

 Because I feel useless.  Like there is nothing to do but look around.  And I see a nice looking flower with mud beneath it, but it can still glow.  Another doing well because it is fertilized, and getting what it needs to thrive.  One weak outcast experienced a comeback from being diminished to a few stems to now almost impenetrable.  Brilliant color without a blossom, usually very long and thin, this year shorter and solid, a mass of unity.  Against the very dark dwelling, white is a stark contrast, but it doesn't look cheerful, uplifting, joyous, inviting.  But a short distance behind it hidden from view, is brightness, resilience, tenacity, and a whole lot of mud.

Wow.  I'm in a mood aren't I?

 The heavy rain pulls you down, but your limb doesn't break.

And when you are filled and ready to overflow, 

poke a few holes and release the weight.

 It ain't over yet, more to come.

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Lining up

Sometimes our core, our balance, our stem, our trunk, our brace, our frame, does not feel lined up with our branches, extensions, thoughts, movements.   Mine is at the breaking point.

And the first error on Mary is related.  The stem of the large flower does not line up with the completed red area of the flower.   Since the other color in that blossom area was not yet stitched, removing the red won't be a hassle.

My white Calibrachoa does very well, other colors not so much.  Mr. Pete has reddish discharge from his eyes and now has the same affliction that Nit has.  No way to treat, even though he is allowing me to touch his head, but that's it.  I get one drop in one eye every three days and that's only when Nit is soundly sleeping and I can cover him before my blood is drawn.

Have a nice day folks.

Making plans today for Thursday's Cleveland trip.

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Holey Moley!!

 Procrastinate and you lose!  Had these in the cart, did not act immediately, gone like the wind.  So what can I do?  Locate the multitude of files from my box labels and print.  My load of card stock is mostly kraft color, some lighter, so I will get a few sheets of white and have something else to work on and distract me for a while.

These tags come without a hole so you can punch where you'd like for the intended use.  Kitten Stitcher of Shakespeare's Peddler offers them, but don't dally!!  They sold out quickly and will again.

It's been dark and raining - no - POURING off and on for a week and there is no way we will get the yard in order until fall.  Fall?  This is mid July and for how swiftly time has passed since this began on March 1, I'm assuming snow will be here shortly.   Neighbors have not been able to get the equipment onto their property for the eight foot trenches, I guess we are lucky ours is connected to the new sewers, but that could be debated.

I spent the day yesterday at the hospital.  Pulse ox down to 85 and gasping, could not even stay awake.  It only takes a small amount of fluid in her lungs to create a problem.  Even though monitored, they could not hear it but once in the ER, her doctor did.  He's used to her sounds and knew that injected Lasix rather than pills, is required.  After sleeping for almost 24 hours, she is able to speak and we can understand her words, great improvement.  She will return to the facility on Tuesday and leave at 6am on Thursday for clinic.  Long rides back to back on a stretcher have contributed greatly to delirium, we'll see.

Going to visit this evening and she requested something good, so I made individual peach cobblers and ate one, just to make sure it's palatable.  Not sweet enough for me but she'll enjoy it.

Even though I have been retiring earlier than my usual midnight (yesterday it was still light), I am doing a row a day. That's a lot less than most stitchers, but with my eye issues, my limit. The next is DMC 356 and I love introducing a brighter row, hopefully tonight.  Anxious to return to Lucy Beam but this is so easy for me right now, smaller size, not complicated, continuous color.

Hope your weekend is peachy keen.

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Pucker up

 Yep.  In addition to the severe dryness and sensitivity, I have a macular pucker.  Monitoring daily, if or when it worsens, surgery can help.  

Another few rows on the project.

A few years ago I saw a post (Earlene's?) with these ranky looking bunches of what I did not know.  My husband found some on the golf course.  This summer for the first time ever, my yard is loaded with them and the cone's scales are also covering the ground. The squirrels are making a huge mess but why now and never before?  I will gather and allow to dry.  I don't know why.

Carole is back to delirium, Lasix has not helped, the fluid is not in the lung but behind it and the heart.  Oxygen saturation is OK but she can't get her breath so they are treating for anxiety.  Hasn't helped, even by injection.  This morning, she is not having as many hallucinations but slurring to the point of being unintelligible.  When the dilation reduces and I can open my eyes in light, we're going up.  I'm relying on spell check to alert me of errors here, a red underline I can see but not letters.

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Have a good day folks.  

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LOVE

 this sampler.  Entire rows are one color of thread, I like that.  I am using the recommended for the first time in a long while, so much easier.  

A wood "TV tray" has a high rim to hold items that continually slide off and I can just push it aside when I get up from my chair.  Little things like this make a big difference when you are on edge and distracted.

Finally getting to the chiropractor this morning after six months, and have an appointment with the eye specialist on Thursday.  I can't believe how bad they are and am hoping I can get Xiidra samples.  Once again, if you are on Medicare, coupons cannot be used, only people that have good insurance qualify, and the drops are not covered on my and other Plan D policies.

Continuing to fill in and become the most dense of all my petunias.  A single branch has so many new starts you can barely see it.

Carole's delirium has improved, the therapist explained the long and arduous road after the amputations and they still want to take both.  I don't see any surgery in the immediate future, doctor at facility did not listen to me again, and allowed the fluid buildup from CHF to cause a problem.  She needs a large initial dose, 40 mg a day does not move anything from the lungs.  After decades of use and a change to Demadex which worked better, CC removed diuretics from the med list so she has been without for weeks.  

Have a good day.

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Detention

 A form of punishment for bad behavior in our school days.  Sitting in the principal's office, hallway, somewhere to be watched as we kept quiet.  Guess who is in detention at the facility?  Yep.  We got a call at midnight that police were at her house responding to a call about murders and kids lying dead in the yard.  She reported this calling 911 from her cell phone..  Her son's fire chief also arrived, everyone shook up, no one there.  Chris is on a planned golf weekend out of town when he got the call.  Since her windows are nailed and caulked shut because of rot, it's too bad they didn't break them to enter and search for answers.  Or bodies.  And she also fell out of bed for the first time, and disrupted schedules with her calls to imaginary troublemakers to GET OUT!!  So she has been moved to the hallway where the nurse station has view of her.  

Summer is moving into the middle of July and will not be enjoyed this year.  Mid July?  Really? 

I can't figure out what the hell I did with follow.it and I can't download previous subscribers of blog posts, and I may never.  Not even sure entering your email into this bottom link or side will work.  

After yesterday's hours of getting the PA assistance site to accept her registration for online access, finally!  And then the real nutcracker.  They have NO record of her at all, even submitting an application let alone progress.  Thanks PA workers.  Get off your fricking butts, open the offices, and earn your bloated pay and pension.  There are probably a handful of efficient and responsible employees having to carry the load.

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