Gee !!!

pic of pond over the hill from years ago. 

          I have been kicking myself about not writing in my blog for days now. Daily I think about it and yet no action. So while sitting here waiting on supper to cook I thought I would at least write about what I accomplished so far today. Not really doing this for anyone but myself and will try to be brief so I can get posted and place online in blog.

         Today was an easy day and really not a lot to say. I did pick up meds at drugstore and took care of daily cleaning including myself. sat around too much watching TV, and watching favorite program of Yukon Gold. I took the tractor over the hill to feed the ducks at other pond where I have a campsite and started to improve the road leading up to the dike area. I intend to have a road across the dike where I can take visitors on jeep rides up into the woods. I can and do that now. It is pretty cool. In a way I am glad the ducks have decided to hang out over the hill as it does get me out and lets me see what is going on over the hill. It is quiet and peaceful over there when I am not running something. I call it deer spring and will include a fall pic of it I took earlier.

       I have had a washout and had to reinstall an over flow pipe and that is settling in fine. Need to add additional height to the dike and in the process of fattening it up also to make it larger and more aesthetic. I will selectively cut trees around the pond area and open things up a bit more as well install that road across the dike. I have plans of building a small wood structure that looks down on dike area where one can go and relax and kick back . Will have a deck outside and will be built mostly primitive. I do plan on putting in a large window in one corner or two to allow one to view from inside better. I have a small woodstove that could be used as a cook stove I plan on using there. I will use the kiss principle. Keep it simple.

        I need to. This summer has been the worse with my back. Not sure if it is any better after the operation but I have considerable pain, but x-rays show good spacing of discs in my back. So it must be arthritis and bone spurs as well as a cartilage in my hipbone doing goofy things. I have hardly carved at all this summer. And I am now just getting the bug to try some but have visions of making myself worse if I try. I was swimming but feel that may have exacerbated my back pain, and since I was swimming I have started a regimen of pills and currently have something inflaming my skin. I have dark splotches under the skin and large round sores on my legs and cant go back to swimming although it isn’t contagious it looks like heck and I am sure if I was in a public pool and saw me coming I would have to question whether I was safe to be in pool.

       They had this commercial on TV and had this lady my age who had scoria tic breakouts on her skin. She was cute so I nicknamed her scabby , as I thought too bad I couldn’t meet someone like that , heck if it wasn’t for the scabs she would be almost perfect. She was actually selling prescription medicine that only people with good insurance could afford to buy. Anyhow scabby kept her in shape by doing yoga and other daily activities you could include in a 60 second commercial. But scabby didn’t have a boyfriend. Well I haven’t seen scabby for a while. Apparently that crap she was using must work and she is healed and no longer needs the insurance or the money she made. Who knows, maybe she even found a man.

       But the problem is I am scabby now. I can’t remember the medicine she used and it probably isn’t covered by Medicare. Doubt if my dr. would prescribe it , but have already tried a slew of different salve and creams as well steroids which I think may be causing it. so now I am taking away meds till I find out what is causing this inflammation even if it means that I need to give up pain meds. What a pain in the butt, so to speak as that is where it hurts the most in lower back. Don’t know what the answer is , and questions abound. But will seek answers where I can and how I can. In a nutshell this is me , not a lot has changed but will try and update better. I haven’t forgotten and I have some new stories to tell. Would like to say I will be more regular about writing but that always gets me in trouble. So until next time this is scabby –out.