Feel Like Complaining

Oscar's family lives in another state and was coming here for a wedding so we weren't able to have a meet and greet. I rarely do that but again, cuteness won and I said yes. He's an odd combination of Dachshund and German Shepherd. He didn't like Tony at all that first full day, barking whenever he stood up. But by Saturday his attitude was better and he was a lot of fun. He absolutely loves running around in the snow. Snow you say? Yes mother nature blessed cursed us with 6.7 inches of snow Friday. We knew it was coming so the day before Tony and I put the last of summer things away and we were prepared. But Holy Heck being prepared does NOT mean that we're ready for it. Our Oak tree has barely started dropping leaves and the snow made it droop so low. Faith banged on the limbs Friday night but within an hour they were covered again. Saturday morning was a bright sunny day and the shoveling began. With the sun and a little wind, the tree started looking normal ag...

 I was going to mow my Mom's lawn last month and went up on the porch to get the cord. I turned around and Mr. Deer wanted to check out the mower. She lives right on the edge of a gully in a senior mobile home park and it's very common to have them wander through. It's pretty cool to be outside and watch them. I take apples out occasionally and throw them around for them (and the squirrels) to find. I decorated my window up for the fall. It's mostly covered on top so things won't get too wet. The stems in middle are solar lights (blue) and are so pretty at night. It's  like having another room to decorate, ha. One of my latest rocks, a 5x5 beach rock picked up several years ago in La Push, Wa (of Twilight fame). That's what I've made all of my rock towers from and wish I had more loose ones to paint on. They are stuck together very well and I can't bear to take them apart.  Also, a hippie ghost Now for a Mommy update. She is doing much better, walkin...

Last weekend we spent two days checking out some waterfalls in Idaho/Montana. We stayed in Bonners Ferry, ID so the first 2 waterfalls were on the way there. The first one was Snow Creek Falls. It's a total of 1.5 miles so it wasn't too bad distance wise. But the trail was narrow, with some tree roots and rocks that Tony had to navigate with his walker. We made it though and really enjoyed it (except for the mosquitos). Skeeter bit my eye! After a late lunch in the car we went just a few miles further to Myrtle Falls inside the Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is so pretty and it was a nice drive. The trail is shorter but it seemed harder; or maybe we were just tired. Tony just used his walking stick and portable chair but the trail was just as narrow and he couldn't have used it if he wanted to. The falls itself was hard to see because the sun was in our eyes and trees were in the way, so I don't have pics of it. When we got to our room, we crashed until t...

Dinner was over; I was online just biding time until my usual Sunday evening call to Mom. Then I saw that she had FB messaged me, which was odd. It was cryptic and I just stared at it for a minute, " Call s uusie e. For. M e. I fell...you come. " I thought maybe she was just joking around but then I sprang into action. I called her neighbor Susie who has a key, and jumped in my car. As I walked in the door, her and her husband had just gotten her off the floor into her chair. She could hardly breathe and was white as a sheet. She had fallen in the kitchen bending over to pick up a towel. She wasn't wearing her life alert at the time so this 89 y/o badass Mom of mine drug herself to the living room and pulled her IPad off a table to message me. Convincing her to actually push that damn life alert button took an hour. She has a great fear of going to a hospital and never coming home. But when I tried to get her to stand up and walk, she couldn't. EMT's convinced h...