Thursday, 29th of August 2010

Ken hasn't been feeling to hot in the last couple of days. He didn't even get on his computer until evening. He needs a lap top so he could get on-line while he is in bed. I drove up to Tennison and bought some plants at Bamba's, then Quality Feed to buy dog food, plus bird seed. Then over to Dollar General just to buy a few needed things. One was Ice Cream because Ken has been enjoying having some mainly for dessert in the evening. I was going to stop at the gas station to buy gas for the mower and my car but I didn't want ice cream soup so headed back to the house to put the ice cream in the freezer. Then went back to the gas station for the much needed gas. I then drove past our place to the Hilltop Liquor Store to get Ken some wine. He drinks a little almost every evening. When I got home, planted the flowers in 2 hanging pots. Only problem is, we live on Hurrican Hill (just kidding) and the wind is blowing awful. I finally brought all four hanging flower pots into the house for they were being blown all over the place. I watered all the trees, flowers, and garden with the sprayer. It sure makes it easier to water things for now I can just drive up to the needed plant or tree and spray it until it has had it's fill of water. Unhooked the sprayer, then started mowing grass. I mowed until it got dark. Only got the front and back where the fruit trees are, then started up the driveway on both sides. I can't believe how much the grass has grown. I am going to try to do some mowing Friday before the rains come.

Wednesday, 28th of April 2010

Woke up to the phone ringing. It was Andrea and she was heading to Harrison and wondered if I would meet her there so she could give me more yard sale items. I bought some tubs while I was in Wal Mart to store things in. Ken worked on the spayer and got it put together and then tested it by watering the plants. Plus he started a fire in the back and tried to burn the stump. It burned a little but it is still there! Jessie came by and checked Ken's oxygen machines and left more tanks. I got to see a picture of her new baby girl. She is darling. Ken went to bed in the early afternoon and stayed there the rest of the day. I think being outside really made him tired for he slept most of the afternoon. I worked on the items that Andrea gave me. I ironed a hugh amount of cloth napkins and got them all packaged up. I ran out of plastic bags or probably could have finished packaging everything and pricing them. I also had to make more price tags.

Tuesday, 27th of April 2010

Ken rode with me to Harrison but didn't get out of the car. We went to Home Depot, Millers Hardware, Wal Mart and Tractor Supply. I saw Joyce at Tractor Supply. I bought a weed sprayer but I am going to use it to water all my plants. We stopped at Wal Mart and they had got more fruit trees in and I was able to buy another cherry tree, plus I bought flowers to put in the big planters. I saw Romona at Wal Mart and she offered to bring home the cherry tree and the 2-50lbs of top soil in Sam's truck. Our car was full and I don't think we would have been able to get it home otherwise. We put one of the planters on Robbie's grave. The other one I put beside the steps in the front of the house. I am going to build a stand for the bird feeder but haven't started it yet. When I got home I hand dug another hole for the cherry tree and planted the flowers in the planters. They look really nice.

Monday, 26th of April 2010

We had lots of company today. First Sam stopped by and connected the wires in the carport so now we have electricity. Then Betty and Wayne came and picked up Yuki. Just as soon as they left, David pulled in with all sorts of goodies. David built me two planters, one large bird feeder, and 2 trellises. Plus he bought me a cherry tree, and some garden plants and seeds. In the evening I hand dug a hole and planted the cherry tree, plus planted all the plants he had bought me.

Sunday, 25th of April 2010

Ken and I went out to the carport and cleaned up the trash I had found. We were going to stay out longer but the wind is really blowing so we said the heck with it. Ken watched racing most of the afternoon. I drove up to Sam and Romona's to see if they had a t-bar driver, but Sam didn't. Sam thinks he will be down tomorrow to connect the electricity in the carport. David had talked about driving down today but he didn't because he didn't feel very good. He says he will be here on Thursday of this coming week.

Saturday, 24th of April, 2010

This has been a strange day for weather. One minute it gets dark and then rains like heck, then the sky clears. Then within a hour, it is cloudy, and raining again. I mainly cleaned the house and washed clothes. Talked to David. He is sick and he isn't for sure if he will be coming down tomorrow with the trailer. I hope he stays home if he is sick for Ken or I sure don't want to catch what he has. When the t.v. wasn't messing up because of the weather, Ken got to watch races most of the day.

Friday, 23rd of April 2010

Ken and I went to Harrison and stopped at Wal Mart and Home Depot to buy more seeds and plants. In plants I bought 4 egg plants and 6 brocolie plants. In seeds I bought califlower, brussel sprouts, and acorn squash. I planted the squash with the rest of vine plants. The califlower and brussel sprouts, I planted them in cake pans and hopefully with in two weeks I can plant them. I also bought 12 plants of asparagus which are not planted. They are packed in sawdust and I won't plant them until the new raised garden boxes are built.

Thursday, 22nd of April 2010

I watered the garden this morning since we really are not getting enough rain to really make the soil wet. Planted muskmelons, watermelons, squash, pumpkins, and several varieties of gords. Sam came over to visit with Ken,

Wednesday, 21st of April 2010

Ken went out for a little while in the morning but his back was bothering him so he went back to bed and mainly watched t.v. I went out in the morning and found a few weeds growing in the garden, which are now goners. In the afternoon I suggested to Ken that we drive to Yellville to Hudson's Grocery Store since they have a small garden area and see if we can find a tree that we like to replace the one we lost over the winter. I bought a pot of decorative ferns for the front of the house, a Silver Maple to replace the tree we lost, and a Evergreen to plant. When we got home, I hand dug three holes, put the fern by the house, the Silver Maple in the front part of our yard, and the Evergeen which is called an Arborvitae Green Giant #3 between the house and the carport. Hand digging in this rocky soil is hard work but they are all now planted and the work will be forgotten within days.

Tuesday, 20th of April 2010

Ken was able to get up for the first time in about a week. He went outside and actually got on his mower and mowed till noon. Then he came in, ate a little lunch and layed down for awhile. I also mowed in the morning and part of the afternoon until Betty and Wayne stopped by with Yuki. I am going to baby sit with Yuki while they go to North Carolina for a week. After they left, Ken and I both got on our mowers and finished mowing the whole place. Boy does it look nice. I need to fix a little supper and then I expect we will watch t.v. until we fall asleep.

Tuesday the 13th through Tuesday the 29th, April 2010

Goodness. A whole week has gone by without me writing anything. It's not that I had forgotten to write but Ken hurt his back really bad and almost everytime I get on the computer, he is calling me for something. Ken comes first here.

Ken hurt his back last Tuesday the 13th. We are not for sure how but I suspect he twisted wrong when he was trying to shovel the rock and dirt back into the trench where the electric line is running from the pole to the carport. I saw he was getting quite winded so I went out to help him. At that time I nor even him had any idea he had hurt his back. I wasn't able to do it real good but at least now you don't see the pvc pipe in the trench. Sam came over later in the week and saw it and said he would come over and really fill it in with his tractor. At the time of Ken working on the trench, he had no idea he had hurt his back but by the next morning he was laying in the bed in massive pain. About all he can do is get up to go to the bathroom using his walker, but otherwise he is confined to the bed.

Ken had ordered a t.v. from Amazon on Sunday and Wednesday we received it. Then Friday a man from Direct T.V. came out and got his room wired so now Ken can watch t.v. The t.v. works fantastic. Great color and Ken is really enjoying it.

Friday I went to Wal Mart in Harrison and bought some much needed groceries. I was practically out of everything. I shouldn't let my larder go down so low but I didn't feel comfortable leaving Ken for any length of time. But now with the t.v. working, I felt more comfortable leaving him for I knew he would probably watch t.v. the whole time I was gone.
Later in the afternoon Sam came over and visited with Ken for quite awhile. Sam really likes Ken's new bedroom and enjoyed setting on the sofa talking to Ken.

I mowed the front part of the yard but didn't mow the whole area from highway down to the house. Now (Apr. 29th) it looks awful and I plan on starting the mower and get busy today. Thank goodness I enjoy mowing or I would be really dreading the job.

I have been working on the garden alot. I now have 7 tomato plants in the ground, 6 banana peppers, 6 green sweet peppers, plus I planted bush green beans (4 packages), cucumbers, onions, and zuchini. The rest of my seeds will be planted as soon as I can prepare the ground where I plan on planting the vine plants. I need to rough up the soil and I may have Ken do it when he is feeling better with the garden tractor and rake, or just call Sam and have him do it. So far my pole green beans, radishes, and white potatoes are up. Everything looks good so far. Which means we haven't had any storms to blow things down or hail to crush the daylights out of them. I also bought two hanging flower plants which are now in the garden hanging above the raised garden boxes. I have been carrying over the timbers to the place where I want to build four more raised garden boxes. Two large and two small boxes. I think I have enough timbers but need to buy a batch of lag bolts and washers to put them together.

David called and said he would be coming down here on April 22nd to bring us our trailer and he is also going to bring me some rhubarb plants. Ken is not fond of rhubarb but I sure am. It will be nice to have the trailer back home. There has been several times I needed it this last year but I hated to bitch at David about getting it back here.

Another niece contacted me. Angie (Callahan) Ocasio who is Alberta (Lehmer) Callahan's oldest daughter. Known her since the day she was born. She is now married and has 4 children. Angie lives in Bellevue, Nebraska. She filled me in on her brothers, Todd and Brian, but we didn't get to talk about her younger sister, Melinda. That will come tonight if I see Angie on FaceBook to chat with her. I am thrilled that my nieces are contacting me. Alberta doesn't have a computer but looked at the pictures on Angie's computer and enjoyed them. I wish Alberta had a computer for I can't imagine not having one. I always loved Alberta and felt like she was my little sister. She use to stay all night with Jerry and I when she was young.

Joyce gave me a whole batch of newspapers. I kept some but also shared with Sam. We both use them for the garden, plus I use them for the Ferrets. I shredded some and put them around the pepper plants. Some of the tomato plants I put the two broken aquariums over them protecting them from the cold evenings, and the others I cut the bottom out of some plastic jugs and put the tomato plants in the jugs. I can remove the lids during the day and at night put the lids on the jugs and they will not feel the cold as much. And of course the newspaper tucked around the peppers helps them from feeling the cold.

Ken has a hard time getting me to hear him when I am in the kitchen or bedroom, so I went out and brought in the motion detector which lets us know if anyone has driven into our driveway. Now all Ken has to do is wave his hand over the detector and it goes off. I can hear it with no problem. Ken has been testing it quite abit to make sure I can hear it! LOL

Our first Hummingbird flew in on the 15th. Of course a male, then on the 16th, we had another male fly in. On the 18th I saw my first female. We should be seeing lots more arriving any day now. I have all my nectar feeders filled so there is no shortage of sugar water for them to drink. Still haven't seen any Oriole's but they should be arriving soon. Plus no Blue Birds or wWrens are using their new homes as of yet. Probably too soon to start a family but I am so anxious to see all the birds I enjoy watching.

I have been pricing things for the yard sale for Tender Heart Wildlife Rehab. Joyce gave me quite abit of things which both Andrea and I appriciated. I need to start advertising in the newspaper and radio now. I am planning on having the sale on May 7th and 8th. I also need to make sale signs to place on the highway. Not for sure what I will use for we don't have any large boards here. But I will think of something.

Wed, 7th through Mon, 12 of May 2010

It has been several days since I have posted anything on here. I just haven't felt like writing. Ken and I are still missing Robbie. I will try to remember some of the main highlights of the days I have missed writing on here. Sam and Romona arrived back home last Thursday. Sam drove over here Friday and buried Robbie for us. I went into the house crying and stayed there for quite awhile. Thank Goodness Ken was able to be there for the burial. Before Sam came over Thursday, both Ken and I mowed the grass and Ken was able to finish the back Friday. Monday the oxygen people came out and brought us a batch of oxygen tanks. I talked to Romona also on Monday about helping me price things for the yard sale. I also mentioned I needed Sam to come over and help me move the sofa bed out of Ken's bedroom and bring in the other hospital bed into that room so I can sleep beside Ken and be there for him if he needs me. Not for sure when he will be able to do this but knowing Sam I won't have to wait very long. Sunday Ken got on the computer and ordered himself a t.v. for his bedroom. I called Direct T.V. and they will be out Friday to connect the t.v. to Direct. That is, if the t.v. arrives as fast as they say it will. Thursday Ken and I drove to Fayetteville to see the oxygen doctor. When we got back to Harrison we stopped and ate. First time we had been out to eat in ages. Later that evening Daniel Strout stopped by and visited with Ken and I. He is running for sheriff of Boone County. We really like him and plan on supporting him. We told him he could put signs in our front yard, close to the highway. Drove to Harrison on Saturday and met with Andrea to pick up more yard sale items. Then in the afternoon I drove over to Joyce's for she also had some sale items to donate. She thinks she will have more items to give to the sale. With in the last two weeks I have heard from two of my nieces from my "former" life. I am thrilled. It is wonderful to know that they haven't forgotten me. Their names are Peggy (Todden) Rothmeyer and Angela (Callahan) Ocasio.

Tuesday, 6th of April 2010

I drove Ken's Garden Tractor up to Sam and Romona's to mow the grass but found out I had a flat tire. So I limped home. The Sears man came out and fixed both mine and Ken's garden tractor and then we both drove up there and mowed the front lawn. Sure looks better than it did.
It really looks like rain but around here you never know just by looking at the clouds if it will rain or not.

Monday, 5th of April 2010

I drove to Flippin and did a little shopping at Wal Mart and also bought gas there. Drove up to Sam and Romona's and watered the plants and fed the birds. Boy is there grass in the front yard getting long. I am going to ask Ken if he cares if I mow it.

Sunday, 4th of April 2010

Very quiet Sunday. We didn't really do anything that is worth writing about.

Saturday, 3rd of April 2010

Ken went outside and drove his garden tractor down to the area that he would want a fence for the horses. He wanted to get an idea how much land that would consist of. It wasn't as much as he thought but it is still big enough to keep the horses. I really don't think we will end up with them but you never know.
I have been staying inside most of the time today. I did go outside and plant a few hills of potatoes. Most of the time, I am thinking of Robbie and tearing up. I keep seeing him but sadly it is just in my mind. I can hardly stand this grief but with time I know it will get easier.

Friday, 2nd of April, 2010

Robbie still hasn't come home. We are still hopeful that we will see him but so far no sign of him. I even have food left outside, just incase, but he hasn't been here to eat it.
I worked on the garden today. I got all the newspapers layed down and covered with straw. Now I need to work on the outside of the garden boxes but I am not in a big hurry about doing that until I get more boxes made. I moved the miniture pumpkins and gords plants to their home. They really look good. My radish plants are now out of the ground. I planted one row of pole beans and found some watermellon seed that I had saved from last summer and planted them in the garden, covering them with the aquariums.
I started to drive around the neighborhood to look for Robbie in the afternoon but I didn't have to go far. He was laying beside the highway dead. You could tell that it had happen probably within an hour. He was very badly hurt and I am sure he didn't know what hit him and hopefully didn't suffer. Ken and I will miss him so badly and I feel so depressed and sad. He was my buddy and always was with me. I just don't understand why he would run for he had a good home with plenty of food, and love.
Joyce called in the evening and wants us to keep two horses that her cleaning lady has. She knows we don't have a fence or any type of shelter but we sure do have the land to keep one on. When she told Jennifer that, Jennifer offered to put a fence up and build a shelter for the horses. I told Joyce to have Jennifer to come over to look at the area we would want the horses kept in, and to discuss what kind of fence and shelter she would put on the land. Jennifer has five children and wants a place just to keep them but she is not going to give them away for her boys love them, and want to ride them. Joyce also said she has found a free Welsch Pony that needs a home, plus the people that have the pony also have two pregnant horses and they want to give those ponys away when they are big enough to leave their mother. We can't keep these free horses unless Jennifer builds us the fence. So it is just a wait and see.
I had a terrible time sleeping. All I can think about is Robbie and why he would have left this place. Ken says he didn't run away, that he was just a dog that wanted to run. But nothing no one says helps. I just miss him so much. Ken wrote to Sam and told him and asked him to dig a hole for burial of Robbie's remains. I am sure Sam will do it but it won't be till next week when he gets back from California.

Thursday, 1st of April, 2010

Still no Robbie. Both Ken and I keep looking in the field beside of us and calling but no sign of him as of yet. I drove up and down the highway, just incase I saw his little body laying there but he wasn't there.
Ken and I mowed the grass in the front part of our land. We got it all done. Our weather was beautiful and infact it got quite warm in the afternoon. I drove up to the gas station and filled both containers with gas. When full those gas containers are heavy.