Dr. Hukill, Internal Medicine, is the gentleman I give credit to for trying to get the Hubby on the mend physically.

But today was my turn.  The right arm that has been giving me trouble looks like a rotator cuff tear.  I’m scheduled at MRI Diagnostics Monday to have a look see.  It might be something I’ll have to deal with because my duties keeping the homestead running make no allowances for a surgery.  As we say You Do What You Gotta Do-so don’t bitch about it. 

Doctor said he also wants an up-to-date stress test.  So that will be in June.  Even though I joke that he looks 12 years old he knows how to treat seniors like us.

Turn your back now and close your baby blues or browns whatever the case maybe.

Any day I’ll be changing my ‘Step-Ins’ and I don’t need no Peepin’ Tom telling me what foot to raise first.

Actually I’m moving from MT to I don’t know what yet, but I’m real excited about learning something new.  That means I’ll be asking the Evil One loads and loads of questions and he just loves playing help desk guy to a non tech.. old broad!!!

I can’t tell you how many calls and e-mails it took to bring me up to even a low level of proformance when learning to author in MT.  And now I get to try again on a new program.

I wonder how long before the old (snapper-steins[family joke]) won’t broadcast strongly enough to make connections between those tired brain cells.  Well If they fail I can always try the smile, raise both arms, say something simple routine for a stroke test! (Seems everthing I say is simple so I’ll try just the first two.)

Come to think of it I’d better teach that test to The Evil One because he is gonna need it before I get the new program under control!!
Wish us both luck!!!

It is raining again.  In a couple of hours the sun will shine for a while and then the rain will return.  The neighbor has mowed his yard twice since I was last on the tractor.  Today I say I will mow and then it rains again.

The old saying is ‘April showers bring May flowers’.  But it is obvious that Mother Nature forgot to change her monthly page.  (But I already have the flowers.)  Could it be that she got the pages turned around?

Anyway I have to mow again which means I should pick up some more branches off the ‘hundred year old trees’ that fall every time the wind blows and it rains. Of course when I pick up those branches I pile them out back to be burned.  (I can run the shredder but prefer burning because there is less mess to clean up.)

Onward, to burn I must get a permit.  Not a hard task—call they send it out.  Now I have had my permit for a week and on the days I don’t have appointments to drive to it rains!  So the branches keep falling,    the grass keeps growing, and the traffic out front thinks they made a wrong turn and have ended up in the rain forest!

The grass is almost to my kneecaps and there are so many branches to pick up that the birds are running out of places to build nests.  The rabbits are coming out on the driveway to get air, the geese retreated to the neighbor’s pond because they can’t find their eggs, and I fear an army of mosquitos are forming attack plans behind the shed.

I am at the point where I arise in the morning singing “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More, No More!”  As yet old Momma Nature isn’t listening to my song.  Oh, Oh, What was that?  A low rumble greets my ears!  That Ain’t no garbage truck baby cause I see grass growing and branches starting to fall!!!

After the 70’s and 80’s, yesterday was a little hard to take.  I had dressed in shorts and a tank top then stepped outside to get the newspaper. Talk about nipples standing!  You would have thought I heard the ‘Stars Spangled Banner’ being played on the front “lawn” (no it’s a yard).

I didn’t stop to look at the temp. out there as my knees and the wind blowing through them told the story wordlessly.  Even my shoulders ached from hunching over to avoid the cold.

When does Summer show up?  What is with the Fall flashbacks? How come Mother Nature doesn’t take pity on ‘ole folks’ who want to sit in the sun and read?  Not the most pressing world problems but at least something I know enough on to bitch about!

But as they say in Michigan ‘If you don’t like the weather stick around a few minutes and it will change!’

Sometimes on a sunny, warm, summer afternoon
Nap time really never can come too soon.
If you are Momma it’s a little snooze on the bed.
If you are me it’s the bedroom window instead.
Laying on the ledge with a soft summer breeze,
Caressing my fur just puts me at ease.
So when things get crazy and you don’t know what to do,
Stretch out, relax, peaceful things will come to you.

One of my Christmas gifts from this last year has become one of my favorites.  I introduced you to Miss Jazz a few days ago.  I told you of some of her achievements, this being one of them.  She did this self-portrait in chalk and gave it to me.

I not only have children that write but some, and their children, who are artists also.  I didn’t realize that having them could bring so many extra benefits.

Well Momma’s Corner is one year and one day old today.  We have had some happy times, sad times, and just plain nothing times.  But in my mind that is what life is about. 

Pus_in_prada_boots said that this was my roadside stand along the information highway to sell whatever I’d like.  I don’t know how many have paused to view the wares but I hope a few footprints are on the path!

The ‘Social Calendar’ was in full swing again this week.  We saw Phil on Wednesday to talk about how Jay was feeling and how being able to see was helping. This is Phil by the way. Thursday it was Dr. Ross again to check on how the eye was healing.  Today it was a trip to Dr. Hukill’s office for a blood test that he will get the results on next week during our regular appointment.

I swear if it were not for Doctors we’d have no social life at all!

On Wednesday Sweet Thing and Dave came up to pick up yard sale stuff and kick my butt playing cards again.  While they were here a flash thunderstorm and wind came up so Dave and I checked truck windows and took the flag down.

Just a few minutes later we heard sirens (several of them) but they didn’t go by the house.  We decided to check and found several vehicles out on the road in front of the house.  It seems someone came up over the hill east of our house, lost control of the car, and rolled off the road into a deep ditch on the other side of the road.
The ditch was so deep that we could only see the top of the car from across the street.

The Fire department, County and State police, EMS, and an ambulance were all at the scene. Our neighbor is a nurse and went to the scene to help out. I stayed up in the yard because there was nothing I could do but get in the way.  We watched as the firemen prepared to rip the roof off the car to get the driver out.  Then an ambulance took her to the hospital.

The next day we read in the paper it was a 34 year old woman in critical condition.  I have sat for two days wondering if she is getting better and why in the the world didn’t she slow down the minute the rain hit? 

We keep forgetting the first bit of rain pulls the oil up on the surface of the road.  Hydroplanning is the results.  Even during the last two days when I start up from a light in the rain I hear the little chirp, feel the tires spin a little and I’m not even stepping down hard on the gas.

Please be careful in the rain so you be around tomorrow!

Well the two nectar feeders are hung, filled, and by golly being used.  I don’t know why I get so excited over the birds on the deck but I do.

Yesterday and today the Baltimore Orioles (2 pair) and a Ruby-throated Hummingbird were at the feeders.  They will stay with us most of the summer as long as I keep the feeders filled.  To be able to sit at your dining room table and watch them is great.

We have had thunderstorms for the past three nights so the trees and bushes in the yard are starting to blossom out.  They were here when we moved in and for the life of me I can’t remember what they are besides beautiful!

We have a pair of Canadian Geese out back walking back and forth between the neighbor’s pond and our yard.  They build their nest on the ground and I haven’t mowed yet so I think there is one out there.

So we are not close to stores, don’t live in town, but a more enjoyable place to enjoy nature I have never lived in before.