The weather has been pretty up and down...beautifully sunny or bleak and rainy. Warm as all get out or so cold the heater keeps kicking on. We were supposed to have a hard freeze last night, but it was really a light one with temps down a little under 30. It's crazy, but probably typical for April. I feel lucky that I haven't put anything in the ground yet...lol
I have finally passed that healing point where my knee and leg are not hurting all the time. Thank God..it was getting old. It's only been a month and a half since the surgery. Saw the doc, he said I'm right on track and he's pleased. That relieved a lot of my anxiety about the muscle pain and looking at the x-rays helped too. Both knees looks awesome. yay me.
Today , through the thoughtfulness of a friend, the help of another friend and the generosity of a new friend... I got hooked up with a woman who is selling her mother's house (she passed away in January) and had a cellar full of canning jars. She boxed them up, drove an hour and a half to meet us in the middle and sold me 16 dozen quart jars for 3 dollars a dozen and 13 dozen pint jars for 2 dollars a dozen. With lots of decent rings too. My friend from here drove me to St Louis in her SUV which we packed them all into...the 4 of us had lunch and then we came home and unloaded close to 350 jars into my garage. What a deal. What a day ! I feel so blessed by the love and friendship of the women in my life.
The pollen count around here is through the roof and something is killing me. I have not had allergies in my life, but every few years HERE something comes around that knocks me for a loop. I cannot imagine people who have to live with this every year !! My nose is runny, my eyes watery, my throat scratchy and I am sneezing like crazy. My head feels like it's stuffed with cotton. I stopped at the Walgreens and picked up some allergy stuff and just took one. Some of these things knock me out, but I only took one and I guess we'll see. lol If suddenly I'm not making sense, you'll know why. :)
I got to go to a book release party tonight for a young man I know and it was so cool...He's not very old, maybe 30...and you couldn't ask for a more humble nicer guy. The book is about the heroin epidemic and his life story in all that. Especially close to my heart since I had a great nephew die of an overdose a couple of years ago and another one (nephew) that may be dead any day because he thinks it will never happen to him. Kids are dying every day, all over this country...and I hope that his book does well and maybe even saves a life . You never know. It takes a lot of courage to recover from heroin addiction and even more to tell about it. and talent enough to write it. He has also done a play about it all and it played once and will be presented again at the local junior college at the end of the month. I can't wait to see it.
I am starting to get really excited about this years garden. Lots of work to be done out there before planting, but still--it's early for us. Thankfully we have such a long growing season. I have high hopes for a serious abundance of crops this year.
OK...I'm starting to feel drowsy...
Time to finish up the odds and ends and head for bed. Hopefully (except for one small errand) I will get to stay home all day tomorrow. I have 3 bd cakes in a row to bake this weekend Fri-Sat-Sun. I will bake them with love. One is a pineapple upside down cake. One is a cheesecake, And one is a coffeecake. Some kind of fun, huh ?? I have kinda been on the run this past couple of weeks and I am tired... time for some r&r...
Namaste
3 comments:
I love pineapple upside down cakes. My wife bakes one for me on my birthdays.
the Ol'Buzzard
So good to hear you're feeling better and better. Having a physical ailment is very draining on your body and soul!
What a find to get all those canning jars! I think only a person who cans a lot might get excited over that . . . especially at the price off the shelf of them these days.
Funny story (well, it kinda is now) from several years back. My husband went to an old couple's house to pick up something he had bought from them. Can't remember what it was. But when he was in the garage there were cases of pint canning jars and the wife asked if he would be interested in them. The price was right so hubby loaded them into his vehicle and brought them home. I was elated . . . until I opened the boxes. They were FILTHY. Moldy, gritty, grimy, who-knows-what caked on them. I came close to dumping the whole batch, but you know we canners couldn't do that. I soaked those blasted jars over and over, then scrubbed and scrubbed and then boiled each and every one before using it. What fun! ;o]
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