DOIN' THE SHUFFLE

Little by little we're getting settled into this PRAIRE HOUSE 
making it our HOME.  

I still have so much to do...it hurts,

d

ALMOND JOY!

A DAY OF  RE*JOY*ING!!!

The Living room was rearranged, I ate some Almond Joy candy 

and I do not have skin  cancer.

Rejoice.  Again I say rejoice.

The JOY of it all!  Popped a miniature ALMOND JOY candy bar in my mouth.  Coconut on my palate.  Sitting to rest my neck with a heated sock of rice wrapped around it.  Not sure what is ailing me, but this heat helps alleviate the pain.  A pain in the neck for a fact.  

Here I sit with a sock resting on the back of my neck and the backs of my elevated feet are being iced by cloth covered frozen peas.  I have a thing going on.  I was out of the house most of the day so resting now at HOME with my feet elevated in my recliner is relaxing after a day out and about in this chilly weather.  53 degrees.  A nice temp for AUTUMN.  

I had a doctor's appointment that I had been waiting for several months so I was in Topeka today.  It seems like it was forever that this appointment was made and now tis over.  Back up some and recall the day.

Got around this morning to wake to HUBBY rearranging the Living room!  We had talked about this arrangement and he went ahead and did it.  I was very HAPPY about this for I could not muscle it.  He moved the two wing chairs to where they sit on either side of the fireplace as they had been in front of the front window with a dumb waiter table between the two.  The two love seats had been on the other end of the Living room so they were split up.  One faces the fireplace and the other is where the wing chairs were.  Our two grey recliners are now at the end of the room where the sofas were.  LOVE this arrangement!

Temporarily the love seat is where we will seat to watch the television until the tv goes upstairs to the new MEDIA Room where the brown leather recliners will go when we get the room organized to house them and the tele.  Mercy sakes we are still moving about working for a fit just right room.  

AFTER I rejoiced that the furniture was rearranged, I got ready for the day.  A trip to St. Mary's for a SUGAR CREEK LUNCH and on to TOPEKA to go to GOD's STOREHOUSE and SAMs plus my Doctor's appointment.

On the way to LUNCH we saw a walker pushing a cart.  SHE WALKS THE EARTH.  Angela Marie Maxwell is walking across the U.S. and we saw her walking.  When we got home we looked her up because I did not have my camera out fast enough to snap a pic as we drove past her.  

https://www.shewalkstheearth.com/who--why.html

Checked her out on facebook, Angela Marie Maxwell.

Lunch was Tuna fish on croissants, root beer, bacon maple potato salad.  Purchased some new cotton dish clothes, Zimmerman's Natural Creamy Peanut Butter without sugar and OLD FASHIONED mild Salsa.  It started to rain.  Off to the car we went.

HALLMARK stores are getting fewer and fewer in between.  Went to the nearest one to my HOME which is in Topeka.  WENT CHRISTMAS shopping and bought HALLMARK 2019 CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS.  Try to buy this train series every year.   

Choo choo. 

  

MY NOSTALGIC HOUSE AND SHoP SERIES:

ADDED A NEW ONE THIS YEAR:

2019 Clara in the Nutcracker, Madame Alexander #24

Onto STOREHOUSE where we had hot coffee and a homemade peanut butter cookie.  Picked up a VICTORIAN PRINT with three playful children in the image.  The print is a repo and I will want to put it into a different frame.  This will be a sweet print to hang in the Victorian room.  

Bought some costume jewelry, antique covered vegetable dish, some salt 'n pepper sets and a metal Home Expandable Bathtub Caddy.  From here we went to my doctor's appointment to see if a bump on my eyelid is cancer or not.  Relieved to be told this is a cyst.  Watch and wait.  Later I'll have it removed.

~REJOICING IN THE RAIN~  

Rejoicing and very thankful that this is not cancer.

Waited three months to see this doctor because he only comes to Topeka the first Friday of each month.

It was quick encounter, but a very good one.

SAMs afterwards to get our organic coffee pods, organic free range eggs, organic salad greens, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, more Halloween candy.  Boxed up items and out the door.  They no longer had the huge mums I waited to buy.  If only....Onto ALDI for a few more items.  HOME we go.


Meals planned are Pot Roast with carrots, onions and potatoes.
Enchiladas, rice and salad.
Baked chicken and green beans.
Salad with croutons.
Meatloaf and more veggies.
Pizza and salad.
Asparagus and chicken breasts.
Chili Nachos.  
Scrambled eggs with onions and peppers.

Overall pleasant day. HOME SWEET HOME and back to heating my neck and icing my heels.  Enjoying the rearranged Living room.  Enjoying this long awaited change.
d  

LIFELINE SCREENING

The word did not get out to me that the CROSS COUNTRY MEET had been canceled due to possible bad weather and being in a flash flood warning so I drove the distance to the location.  No runners.  No course.  Phoned my Sweetheart to find out where he was and he told me he had tried to catch me to tell me the meet was canceled.  I just laughed and said well I'm out of the house and saw beautiful scenery plus rock houses.

I enjoyed the country roads where I saw quite a few stone houses.  Made my heart sing a little as they sure were so very cute.  The weather was in the 90s with a high heat index, so it was for the best that the meet wasn't.  Since I was so close to Manhattan I drove on into town to go to GOODWILL.  Tuesday is Senior Discount Day.  Then walked over to TUESDAY MORNING and overheated.

I know that I am not in the best of health these days.  Tis awful.  Difficult for me to admit that I am not in good health.  Pretending it's not so does not make it vanish into thin air.  I will be better off if I admit this is happening and seek medical attention.  HELP.

As the weather cools off I will still be challenged as walking doesn't come easily to me.  The inside of the store was warm which didn't help.  Found some BLUE WILLOW Bowls with handles on them called A JUMBO MUG.  6 of them for soup, pudding, salad, chips or ice cream.  So cute I couldn't help rejoice that the store had them for such a discounted price.  Bought them.  I don't have any such bowls for my collection, so this was a find.

TRUE TO IT'S NAME there is only a little bit of honey in this product.  A small bag of BIT O HONEY candy caught my eye as these were some of my childhood favorites.  HUBBY had caught up with me and took over at the check out so I could go to the car and sit with the air conditioner on.  This helped.  I drove the back roads HOME.  Lovely drive HOME.

A forceful storm passed us in the evening as a tornado warning was in effect in a nearby county.  We were blessed to not be threatened by tornadoes and had a pleasant SUPPER then watched PBS POLDARK.  We have binged watched the last SEASON and saw the ending which ends well.  No spoiler alerts.  Well done Poldark.    

The scenes are way too short and choppy.  Don't like this technique.  I'll have to go to the first episodes in Season One and see if these were as choppy.  I don't think they were.  I'll have to contact the producers of the show and complain.  I know they'll listen to lil ole me.  ha grins.

This afternoon I opened the backdoor to let some fresh air inside as it is raining.  Presently the temperature is 65.  Lovely day to sit in screened in porch and listen to it rain.  No thunder or wild wind.  Peaceful rain. 

My middle of the week day has not gone as I had planned.  Much time has been spent sitting going through paperwork, icing my heels and heating my neck.  Many phone calls were made about medical appointments.  The one that I choked on was by Ascension Via Christi HOSPITAL where the woman on the other end was informing me that a Vascular ultrasound is scheduled and I will be charged $1122.oo toward the insurance company and out of pocket expense will be $502.oo

This phone call was actually a blessing to receive as it caused me to remember the LIFELINE SCREENING test.  This phone call prevented spending of $502.oo out of pocket for one test.  ONE TEST.  

I'm already up to my neck with medical bills to pay.  Trying like heck to not owe anyone anything.  It has been hard to pay on medical bills for so long.  Slow and steady but still draining.  Soon we will be retirement age and I'm wondering how this will go for medical bills.  

www.lifelinescreening.com

At the Hospital payment for ultrasound is expected ON DAY of test.  
I put two and two together and recalled an offer by LIFELINE SCREENING that gives 5 tests for $139.oo. that's $27.8o a test.  This is very doable wouldn't you say?

CAROTID ARTERY SCREENING (Same as the Vascular Ultrasound is the Carotid Artery Scan by theHospital)
PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE
ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
OSTEOPOROSIS RISK (Bone Density) 

I made arrangements for my Husband and I both to have LIFELINE SCREENING give us these 5 tests next week.  I rescheduled my Vascular Ultrasound and will have this done if I'm not pleased with LIFELINE's.  

12 years ago we did LIFELINE.  If these results do not please us then we'll go this other route and see what they say.  

When having Health Insurance causes some test to be higher priced then if you don't have health insurance makes me frown.  Prices are elevated for insured peeps.  Humpf.  I heard of some medicines being higher with insurance.  This is a racket folks.  Hello?

So my evening will be spent going through more papers, feet up icing the heels and heating the neck.  Lovely way to spend an evening pleasantly at HOME.

Blessings,

d

OCTOBER ARRIVES

WAITING FOR THE MIDNIGHT HOUR I was awake as OCTOBER arrived quietly in the night.  No storm or winds blowing.  Peacefully in the dark she crept in to my life so I went to bed to cover up my head.  Autumn present.  

Cooler temps late into the evening and early morning hours are welcomed as the long hot Summer symptoms wear on into AUTUMN and now OCTOBER.  Leaves have baked by being overheated from the sun's rays and humidity baking crunchy curls that fall to the ground.  AUTUMN is falling.  

Late Summer blended into early Autumn on the calendar as well as in the out of doors.  AUTUMN arrived and marched into the beginning of October.  Here she be.

My OVER CROWDED calendar has many commitments that I wish I could ignore, but need to be realistic with medical appointments and doctor's visits.  Makes my head spin how crowded the calendar is becoming.  This first week of the month is no exception.  I just phoned my doctor's nurse in which I got a recorded message.  I am in hopes to have a prescription refilled without having to return to the physical building where a brief encounter would take place and a prescription faxed into the pharmacy.  I left my info and will see if the nurse phones me back before I head out the door.

I have sat in my recliner this morning icing my aching heels with cloth covered tea towels.  Both heels are in discomfort.  Heating the back of my neck with a rice filled sock that was nuked in the microwave for two minutes gives some relief to whatever is going on there.  A week ago I finished a round of strong antibiotics for a sinus infection, but have a slight temperature today with the base of my skull aching and a tell tale sign of discolored snot as I blew my nose.  Headache time.  So I believe my infection doesn't want to go away.

This is the pits.  When I have an infection in my body, I have signs of irritation and sometimes blah ness.  With as old as I am, paying attention to the symptoms shouldn't be ignored.  I have a problem with not wanting to admit that I wear down so easily and frequently.

Is it that my immune system is worn the heck out?  Is it what I'm eating?  I will be writing down some blood test that I'd like to have done.  Can I get to the bottom of this?  Should I be checked for food allergies?  Give up gluten?  Be checked for MTHFR gene mutation?  Is my body not absorbing the nutrients needed?  Too much stress?  Adrenaline Fatigue?  Cortisol?  

I believe I need to study the word of God and read what a person is to eat or not eat.  The way our food is produced these days, the soil not having the nutrients it needs because of farming practices these days, the fertilizers that are being used, the crops being molested by GMOs, the chemicals being used....makes a person wonder.  The water isn't pure.  Chemicals overflow into the aquifer.  I fear we are KILLING ourselves by what and how our food chain is being treated along with what's in the water.

SO I ask myself....SELF, DO YOU KNOW more then you are letting on?  Are you behaving like a half wit even though you know more than the average bear?

You can believe that you are eating and drinking healthily and when push comes to shove, hidden info is revealed and you actually are not eating and drinking healthily.  Take nutrients, take vitamins and minerals.  Think you're doing a healthy thing to find out that the synthetic vitamins do not absorb the same as natural.  

Eat organic.  You find out the organic chickens you are eating are not fed healthy food, but junk.  They need to be free range not caged and fed healthy grains.  Grains that are not GMO grains.  So the chicken you are eating came from chickens that ate GMO grains.  

Gluten free yourself?

You're told to drink more water.  So you decide to drink more water just to find out that fluorides added to the water are a monster that you have been brain washed to accept and believe is alright for you.  

What's an endocrine disruptors?  Derailing what?  

The plastic the bottled spring water is stored in isn't a great thing cause the plastics leach chemicals into the water contaminating the water with chemicals that you drink.  Will fluoride calcify your pineal gland?  My what?  

Does a calcified pineal gland cause dementia, Alzheimers?  Health issues that turn you into a cash cow for the illuminati?  Is Lucifer your god?  

Fake food, chemically loaded food, pesticides galore, GMO altered food, polluted drinking water, synthetic vitamins.....pesticides laced fabrics that you wear.  Radio frequencies...the better to fry you with. 

Overload.  Overload.  Too much information.  Deanna, you sound like a nut case.  Debbie Downer here with Susie Sunshine.  There has to be a happy medium. 

Susie Sunshine, What do you have to say about all this?

Do you have a ray of HOPE for me?  

d 

Like Being There

WALKING SLOWLY down the stairs to take a look at the Formal Parlour at Clover Cliff RANCH is like walking back into the past.  I enjoyed every second we were there in AUGUST.  Pictures make me recall this very nice Bed and Breakfast in the country.  Pleasant and peaceful place.  I'd live there if I could.  Love.

I don't know who this is a picture of but believe this to be an excellent image of how people dressed in the later 1890s and early 1900s.  I think it is a beautiful example.  Compared to so many who do not wear coats when the weather is icy cold this picture warms my heart.  Hats and coats worn by practical peeps.  Nicely dressed.  No wholly jeans that hang off the body saggy around the knees.  T-shirt and bluejeans have their place, but not here in this time zone.

PLEASANT MEMORIES are in the making.  

Enjoy LIFE and be at peace,

d

GUMPTION, GUMPTION. WHO's GOT THE GUMPTION?

TODAY IS THE DAY!  Hopefuls are on my list of things to accomplish.  I may be old AND SLOW, but I have gumption.

What I achieve today will be just right.  

Paperwork

Bills

Hair shampooed

Legs shaved

Laundry hauled to the car

Kitchen tidied

Reading

Phone calls

Heels iced

Neck heat treatment

Supper plan

Looking over a 1920s Food Plan.  

Dr. William Howard Hay wrote a book HEALTH VIA FOOD 

after he struggled with health issues.  

Checking the Public Library to see if they have it or can order in their Library Loan.  Hope I can get my hands on it to read during the month of OCTOBER.  FOUND IT!

Will read a little everyday and get better acquainted with how to group certain foods together to eat together. 

OLD WOMAN COMPLAINTS.  Have been hobbling about for about 5 and a half weeks.  Icing the backs of my feet this morning with cloth covered frozen green peas in bags.  Ice them for 20 to 30 minutes a session.  

Thought I had Plantar Fasciitis, but now think it's the achilles tendons as the pain is on the backs of my feet and not so much the bottoms.  Tis the strip of skin and muscle that ache so.  Almost feels bruised.  Painful to walk.  While I ice them I do wiggle and stretch the feet.  Rotate them in circles.  

This morning my feet feel much better after icing them several times a day.  My neck still is stiff and hurts.  Mercy...if it isn't one thing it's 5 other.  While I sit I do allow my thoughts to wonder off out of this chair and think of things to do to the house when I can manage to get to them.

My calendar is filling up with appointments and obligations.  Will be a busy month and will try to make the best of my time.  Hopefully my energy level will increase as my thyroid meds decrease.  Vitamins taken, protein drinks drank, vegetables enjoyed, water sipped, rest, exercise and fresh air.  Laundry caught up.  AUTUMN CHORES continued.  Paperwork gone through.  Bible readings meditated upon.  Writing continued.  It's just a matter of doing it. 

HUBBY worked this week-end on our lawn.  Weeded the flowerbeds.  Mowed the large lawn and began edging it.  I have a thing about edged yards.  LIKE THEM.  When we lived in TEXAS, I would edge the grass as the TEXAS NATIVES did this.  It really was the first time I ever really noticed that people edged their lawns.  After I got the hang of it, I edged as well.  Wider strips edged along the sidewalk looked so manicured and clean.  We're getting there.  He wore a blade out and will have to get another to finish this task.

The months of August and September have been flowerbed and lawn months.  Taking great shape.

BEAUTIFUL KANSAS DOVES

BEAUTIFUL KANSAS SKIES BEFORE THE STORM

BEAUTIFUL KANSAS CHILDREN

 COMFORTABLE RECLINER FOR TV ROOM

Better go...paperwork awaits me then off to shampoo my hair.

Continue vacuuming and tidying.

Need to milk an ALDI cow.

Shuffle spare room all week.

Meal to plan and prepare.

A book to write.

   

DO you have GUMPTION?

Sometimes I have to hunt for it,

d