Category: My Life

My holiday weekend went splendidly! It started with me having breakfast with Mandy and Savannah at The Cracker Barrel. I will tell you this. If you have never had breakfast at one, go! Oh my goodness we had a really delicious breakfast.

Savannah was truly a sweetheart. I worry sometimes she will forget me, but when she saw me and Mandy pointed me out, she called my name! OMA!

Savannah has become a real chatterbox! I love it. She talked and talked and talked all through breakfast and then we went back to Mandy’s house and Savi had her bath. She talked even more in there. It was great!

Sunday I went to the Sandwich Fair with my cousins, Janet and Dave and their grandson, Isaiah. It was probably one of the nicest Country Fairs I have been to in a long while. I loved all the animals, Fair Food, and the time spent talking with my cousin Janet, while the guys did guy stuff!

Monday was a home day, and that was okay too. I caught up on laundry, cooked Hubby a nice meatloaf and planned on making a lasagna Tuesday when our house sitters come for dinner.

All in all, a happy, fun and pleasant weekend!

I had to drive across the State of New Hampshire today for a doctor’s appointment. It was a beautiful sunny day, with all the bright colorful Autumn leaves sparking against the sky. Why this New England scene was so perfect that I drove past a farm with cows and horses and a flock of wild turkeys crossed the road in front of my car.

I reveled in the beauty around me, and fell in love with my state all over again. Summer is nice, spring is pretty (but it is also known as mud season) and winter can be tough, sloppy, but beautiful when the white snow flakes are falling into silence.

This made me recall about a time I lived in Florida. I was driving back from Miami to Punta Gorda, on the West Coast. We were driving along the Tamiami Trail (Rt 41).

The road take you through the Everglades. And at various times during the year the road would be lined with large and small gators. I remember one time telling Hubby, that if we got a flat tire, We were driving on it!

Florida was an okay place to live. Very tropical. Palm trees, pelicans, dolphins and more. Ours news reports were just about the rain and sun, but how many dog disappeared from peoples back yards, and how many giant alligators they had found in the local neighborhood.

Given the hurricanes, the tropical storms, the wildfires and tornadoes, I felt pretty confident when I told Hubby we had to move back home.

I told him this, and about 6 weeks later, our home in Florida, that we had owned for 6 years, sold, and we packed up and moved back home!

Yes, no matter where I go, or where I live, New Hampshire will always be home!

I got my hair done today, and I have gone back to wearing my smaller glasses. The larger ones hurt my nose. Anyway, since losing fome 18 pounds I thought I looked a bit better.

This is me with no make-up! Isn’t the nose looking good?

Last night I stayed up watching The US Open Tennis. I love Roger Federer, and I was hoping he would pull it out. I simply could not close my eyes. However there is a price that I pay. I have no energy the next day.

Thus, I did not get too much done today. I did start a search for someone to help me with the dogs, and I am not having much luck. Hopefully I will find someone soon to care for them so Hubby and I can escape on a nice vacation.

Anyone looking for a job?

As you all know, a few weeks back, I returned to Weight Watchers and started to follow the Simple Start plan. I love it! I’ve found it easy to follow, and have lost quite a bit of weight.

In fact, yesterday I was running around the house doing various things and my “fat” shorts fell off me! Thus making me feel good and also making me anxious for Wednesday when I can weigh in.

I’ve been really working at staying positive in my mind. You see the depression monster came to visit a few weeks back and I’ve had one heck of a time, but I refuse to give in.

This week I have two thing I really want to do. Get my hair done and go to Market Basket and shop! The employees and customers won and Artie T. DeMoulas is back as CEO!

Positive thinking! Yes that’s how I will start and finish each day!

My glasses broke today! I think they can be fixed, but for now I am back in my old ones until I can either get my glasses fixed or get a new pair.

Here I am in my regular glasses.

And here I am in my old glasses.

I like the new glasses better because I have a wider peripheral field of vision. This means I must get myself down to the eye glasses shop and get these glasses repaired. You know, I am noticing that my old glasses are more comfortable. Hmmmmmm. Maybe I should wear these for a while and see how thesy feel on my new nose.

I’ve decided that my life is too busy right now. I get up every morning early due to Lili, and then it seems that there is no rest for the wicked, as Lili keeps me running in and out and in and out all day.

It is also harvesting season and I am cooking up a storm and freezing spaghetti sauce, and very soon I will be making jams.

There is also Lili’s eating schedule/medications/walks. Add to that Hubby’s eating schedule/medications and his harvest time.

So life is busy. Tonight as I walked up the cellar stairs after freezing more spaghetti sauce, I felt so, very, tired. My legs were like lead!

The driveway gets sealed tomorrow and so our cars are parked up at our neighbors. So, yes, we have to walk up hill to go anywhere. I wonder if I can just stay home for a few days!

I’ve been thinking about life a lot lately. How things in life during your adult years are not really what you thought they would be when you were a child.

I thought that when I grew up I would be totally autonomous. Able to do what I want, when I want, and not be encumbered by the craziness and the rules of life.

But that isn’t how it is. In fact I think there are even more rules! I can’t just do what I’d like, when I want. I cannot eat what I want any more ether. Post menopause finds me looking at food and gaining weight.

I work at following Weight Watchers and I am losing, but the loss is slow and when I see myself in pictures I still feel fat.

In my youth I enjoyed riding my bike and running wild around Falmouth, Massachusetts where I grew up.

And I never worried about being kidnapped or anything. Life was simple. I was in marvelous shape, and had a great tan.

Well now at 55, the tan part has come back to haunt me, but the 12 year old child didn’t know that.

Yes, if I could go back in time, I would tell that child about skin cancer and maybe avoid all that I have lived through in the future.

In youth the biggest heart break is perhaps losing a beloved pet, or moving away. Although I know of many people who have lost parents and siblings. And surely that is earth shattering for a child.

My biggest heart breaks came in my twenties, and I think, although I will never totally recover, I have managed to go on.

Yes, life is not what I expected, but then the blessings of my daughter, Mandy and granddaughter Savannah, leaves me forever grateful to God.

Dear Blog Friends,

I am so sorry that I have been among the missing this spring. With the loss of our dog, Fritz, brought a deep sadness. Such as I have never felt before.

Then we got Lili, and it has been a terrible nightmare. At first I thought it was behavioural only, but when I realized how sick she is, I knew that this was affecting her personality.

The summer has been flying by and I feel I have gotten very little done. Just in the last week or so, I have forced myself to do pickles twice and actually on Monday I will be making bread and butter pickles.

Soon the peaches will be in, and I will be very busy. I would like to make 4 batches of peach jam.

Still, I have not seen Savannah as much as I would like, nor have I gotten to the beach, which was something I really wanted to do.

So, gentle reader, I will try to pick myself up and go on, not allowing this depression to get me down too much.