Feel Like Complaining

It took me a couple of months, but I finally got half of the front yard weeded. They don't call it ground cover for nothing! When it takes over, it looks yucky, so most of the unpleasant stuff is gone. I've just barely started on the other side.  My cousin is still sending me family pictures that he has found. He's looking for one in particular but still hasn't found it. My grandma is in the middle with 2 siblings. My grandma liked fishing. She's happily showing off her catch :) I think there's a good resemblance to Faith here. My grandma, sitting next to a creek on Blewet Pass. The creeks name at that time was Negro, or the other N word. In 2009 it was finally changed to Etienne Creek after Antoine Etienne, a black man who was a miner and an orchardist. I read that the creek was named Negro creek because he did quite well mining there. Anyway, I'm glad the name was changed to honor him better. My Grandma, far right, with her siblings. She still loved fishin...

A quick update about Tony, he will be having a pacemaker soon. Doc said it's not urgent urgent, but would like to have it done asap. At one point when Tony had the monitor on, his heart stopped for 7 seconds when trying to regulate the fast rate he has at times. That's probably the feeling he's been having for a long time and it was never caught with just a regular ekg. As is the norm, doctors have no idea how busy they are because someone else does the scheduling. His nurse said he's scheduled out to September but she would try to squeeze him in. Oh Boy. Being back with my kitties was so awesome! Faith took the first three nights and as I was getting ready to make the switch with her, she said she had a bad Vertigo episode. I switched some things around and brought Tony up so he could drive her home. The next morning, she was sore and tired, but was able to go to work. A dang miracle is what that was! Miss Riley wasn't too sure of me for awhile. She can hardly see/...

Yea it happens, occasionally; when I said Tony's heart monitor wouldn't really pick up what he has been feeling for quite awhile. Whether the two are correlated or not but about a day after he had been hooked up he got a call from his heart Dr's office. This was not from a button push on the monitor (which he did), but they told him that his heart rate had dropped very low and they wanted him to make an appt with another Dr. in the office that puts in pacemakers. He made the appt., which was a ways out, then got another call to move it up closer. So that's where we're with that! I had all my labs redone because the Jan. ones were high in everything. They were no better, in fact they were even higher. I'm officially diabetic now and the nurse called me and said, no changes in meds, just keep doing what you're doing. Hold the phone lady,  I am not doing NOTHING about this. I told her what my doctor and I discussed so I have a phone appt with her later this mon...

This boy got an upgraded food/water station. The food station has fixed some of his issues since Faith has it dropping food at 4:45 and 5:15 am. He has not busted into my bedroom since. He also hasn't thrown things off of tables and counters (as much anyway). In the afternoon she had it set for 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, and 3:00. Another problem has arisen though; he's started throwing up more and it's mostly food. Faith talked to his vet and we're going with the easiest possible solution first, by making his last drop later in the evening. She thinks there's too much time between the last feeding and breakfast and he eats too fast.  That theory worked great for two mornings, then he let loose like he'd been waiting to show her!  Now her and his vet will have to figure out the next step This is where he perches while waiting for something to happen. We are European now; I wish we had gone European a long time ago. The instructions were easy to follow but it was still ha...