Aimless Ramblings

Today I feel restless. I accomplished a lot yesterday and still hope to accomplish a lot more today but I just have a restless feeling floating around me.

In life, we are often exposed to situations and experiences that make us wonder about how those things could happen. It's disconsorting to me at times. I am a huge wonderer of WHY...so I always feel the urge to ask questions...but I do try to control that urge. Of course George won't say that I'm successful at it (lol).

I had the best feeling this moring. Standing outside in the crisp sunny morning holding my little baby goat, Sidney, made me feel so content. He was so sweet and cuddly today. He's getting more used to me. I play with him some everday so that he knows me and hopefully stays friendly as he gets older. If you have never been around a tiny baby goat, you should try it. They are extremely cute. They have such individual personalities and they hop, bounce, jump, rear up and fall down spontaneously. I spend lots of time just watching the goats....they can always make me smile.

I also have this feeling with Tess.... at night, she gets on our bed and when George gets in bed, he makes her move...she comes to my other side and stands on the edge of the bed and waits for me to scoot toward the center. Then she lays down next to me as close as she can get...usually squishes me (she does weight 80 pounds) as she lays down. Then she snuggles in beside me. She'll put her head on my arm or my pillow and snuggle with me. It makes me feel very comforted. Isn't it nice to be loved so unconditionally.

I am supposed to be ironing right now. I don't really like it but I don't hate it either. I just really don't want to do it today.

Yesterday, I sorted my closet and took some of the "too large" items out of the closet. There weren't many but there were some. I haven't lost enough weight to need new clothes but I did have some that were too big now (YIPEE). Now I need to iron what I have and maybe pair up some different outfits :0).... almost like shopping...just in my own closet.

Hope you weren't too bored with my rambling...but I did warn you that it was going to be rambling today.

Peace to you all.

New Goat Day

Today, Susie the Goat finally had the babies that I've been waiting for....she was huge so I expected twins and maybe triplets....unfortunatley, she delivered two still born kids but she did have one that survived. He is small but he seems healthy.
This is the new mom, Susie.

Meet Sidney. This is the newest addition to the Dust farm. Isn't he a cutie pie. This is the first photo ever taken of him :-)

Here's another shot of the little man.

Here's Sidney in his new little heated condo (inside his Mom's house).

They have their own personal house and pen for a while so they don't have to worry about all of the other goats getting in their business.

Scrappin' Candy

I got a Hobby Lobby gift card for Christmas and I finally got around to using it :-)

I of course tried to stretch my money as far as I could and look at all of the cool goodies that I got!

I can't wait to sit down and use some of these little lovelies.



Thanks Russell.

What a week.....

Wow, has this been a week. But....in the end, it has good results.

My dad went to have back surgery on Tuesday. He had a problem with his his spine closing in on his spinal cord. It was causing a lot of pain in his legs and hips and would have eventually led to him not walking. He had surgery and had that fixed....but after that he had a heart attack (while he was still in the hospital). However, no one knew he had it and when he complained the next day of chest pain, they did tests but couldn't find any sign of a heart attack. They gave him some meds for his stomach and indigestion and let him go home. After he got settled in at home I came home to Brockwell. (This is Wednesday)

About an hour and a half after I got home, Mom called to tell me that they were at the ER and that Dad had had a heart attack. I grabbed some clothes and headed back to Jonesboro.

After some tests (a blood test that revealed the problem) dad was admitted to the ICU. Luckily (sort of) the ICU was full so they put him in the overflow area and let Mom sit with him. You have to remember that he has a 5 inch incision in his back so laying still and on his back is a bit uncomfortable...and he was so tired and pale.

Now to Thursday.... They scheduled him for a heart cath and took him for that at 11:30. The results were that his stint from 2006 was clogged and he had 2 other blockages. They were able to clean out the first stint and added a second at that spot and then put one in another spot. The before and after photo shows such a difference in blood flow. He recovered quickly. On Thursday night, I stayed at the hospial with him so Mom would go sleep. At about 6:30 They moved him to the regular ICU when a spot opened so I had to sit in the waiting room...but at 11:00 that night they moved him to a regular room because he was doing so good and called me so that I could sit in his room.

Friday morning he was feeling good and they let him come home at about 11:00.
I spent the night with them to make sure he was ok and drove home on Saturday morning.

He has caught up on some sleep and is walking around. He went outside for a while yesterday to soak up some of that sun and this morning he feels good enough to go to church.

So, this week has been "a week" but the results are great.

Catching up with my old blog

As you can probably tell from past blogs, the sky is one of my favorite subjects. On most regular days in my life, I go out the back door in the morning to feed Goldie and Hat. Our back door faces the sunrise so I have a great view every morning...some mornings are a little more colorful than others and offer a little more eye candy. This is one....

This view is a little more zoomed in and south east. (LOL...I had to ask George....directions and geography are not my thing).

My horse is such a princess...She has this regal air about her and I just love her so much. She either stops what she's doing and watches me while I'm outside or she acts like she doesn't know I'm there (for a little while).

We put a round bale of hay in the goat pen for the goats and they decided it was as much a toy as food.

Well, that's just a little bit that's going on at our place.

Scrapping

I got motivated to do a little scrapping this weekend. I can't seem to take a good photo of the pages...so you will see my couch at the edges of these photos.


This is the last page I did.... I had a couple of good photos of us and our dad's so I came up with this.

George loves to hunt and he spends as much time as he can hunting during deer season. This one has a skinned deer in the photo so view at your own risk.
Here's a page dedicted to Robert Earl Keen. He's my favorite singer. I have seen him 6 times. I thought is was interesting that I had a piece of paper with music notes and it even had a train on the page.....so I used the music for the page! Then I cut out the train and used it because REK has a song called Linville Train (one of my favs.)
This page is missing a photo. I want to get a good photo of me riding Goldie and add it to this page. I have a photo from the first trail ride where I met her, but none since... I do have photos of several other people riding her...just not me...and this is my page :-) I also added a new technique (for me) to this page....stitching with my sewing machine....I will probalby be doing more of that at some point...it was pretty cool. This is Goldie's page....it's the first one that I did this weekend. I realized that I did't have a page about here yet. I often say that she and I are so much alike.... we are both "Princesses" and stubborn......and we both "have a mind of our own".This afternoon I've been getting ready for the Superbowl (Go Saints).... we're cheating on our diets today and having......our special recipe hot wings with homemade bleu cheese dressing , little smokies, cheese dip, hot spinach/artichoke dip, pita chips, tortilla chips and chocolate cake.

Bring on the BOWL.

Sweet Giveaway

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A friend of mine shared this super sweet giveaway on Twitter. I really love these Lisa Leonard designs and would love to win one!

Take a look and remember these designs when you need an extra special gift...I know I'm going to!