A jungle

of Spider Lilies...

:-D

Hubby tried using his tractor today. He is disappointed he could only ride it for a little bit. It is too jarring on his shoulder right now...

Have a safe, blessed week, all! ♥

What a wonderful gift.

My brother surprised me last week with an email. He is downsizing in expectation of retiring in a year or so, and emailed me to ask if I would like our Granny's Norge Cookbook!
She was a nurse at the Norge factory when it was there, and my Mom thinks that is when she acquired it.
I got the cookbook today. I think it weighs about five pounds!
Here are a few pictures, courtesy of my brother.

What a wonderful gift. A great cookbook for a house built in the late 1800's!
Thank you, Wayne!

Finally!

Like a lot of you, we have hummingbirds. Unlike a lot of you, I don't hang feeders because I know I might not keep them filled or properly cleaned. Better they eat somewhere else.
That said, they love morning glories! We have a lot of wild morning glories around here. Every fence line, many oak and pecan trees, the out buildings and by the house and garage.
Like this.

And this.

The last couple of days I've been watching them out the back door. In spite of all the flowers, they don't like to share. Not with each other, or with the bees. Bees like this love the morning glories, too.

There is one little female that I think has made the yard part of her territory. (Obviously I don't know this for sure); because the last couple days, I've watched her feed by the garage. She feeds some. Then sits on one of the bare grape vine branches for a bit, then feeds some more. I think she goes to all the flowers at least twice. Probably more.

Here she is feeding.

And here she is in her favorite resting spot.

I finally got a picture of one of our hummingbirds. :-)

Hope you all have a wonderful, safe, blessed weekend. ♥

Think I'm getting a cold

Found these cute, so I thought I would share them with you all.

Day 13 for hubby. I have slowly been letting him do things, all the while harping on him to be careful. So far, so good as near as we can tell.


Happy Wednesday and God bless. ♥

Men!

I was out mowing around the pecan trees in the pasture. I saw the youngest boy take the tractor over by the barn, so I went over to investigate.
Me: "What's up?"
YB: "Didn't you send me a text message?"
Me: "Nope. What's up?"
YB: "Must have been Dad then. I got a message telling me to hook up the rake."
Me: "Oh. Why?"
YB: "Just said hook up the rake."
Me: "I hope your dad isn't thinking of using the tractor..."
YB: "He better not!"
Me: "Exactly."

So, I went into the house. Hubby was in his chair, watching TV.

Me: "So what's going on?"
IH: (Innocent Hubby) "What?"
Me: "You asked youngest boy to put the rake on the tractor. Are you thinking of using it?"
IH: "Yes..."
Me: "I don't think so."
IH: "Darn."
Me: "I'll send youngest boy in, and you can tell him what you wanted to do."

Now hubby is miffed at me. Better him mad at me, than me mad at him because he ENDED UP BACK IN THE HOSPITAL FROM BEING STUBBORN!

Ugh.

Hope you are all having a wonderful, blessed, safe week so far! ♥

Surgery

Went mostly well.
Yup. Hubby got his pacemaker yesterday early afternoon.

The anesthetic did not do his job. I don't remember the name, but BIL said it is one that often makes people forget what happened.
Hubby was awake the whole time. Said it felt like a drill with a wire brush on it.
Doctor claims he got 8 cc? mg? of whatever it was, but hubby said it did nothing for the pain. He was talking to them during the whole procedure.
BIL said that this drug is often... faked? in the medical community. Apparently there is a... black market or some such? He's not saying the hospital was necessarily at fault; but based on the fact that hubby's medication did not work, it is quite possible he got a fake drug. :-|

Mostly the hospital staff did a good job. Seems like there was a lot of... uncertainty? for a place that does these procedures routinely.

They were good about the pain medicine after surgery though.

Doctor said hubby was supposed to get a home telemetry deal to keep track of his pacemaker, but no one on staff knew anything about it when we were being released to come home.

Ah well. There will be time enough for that. We are home now. Hubby is sleeping in his chair that we bought just for this procedure, as he can't use his left arm for a minimum of two weeks; though his doctor said it will probably be three weeks. Just to be certain the leads take in his heart and don't need to be reset.

The real trick will be keeping hubby to that after this weekend when he starts feeling better!

Hope you all have a wonderful, safe, blessed weekend. ♥

Saw this little critter

on the way to somewhere when we were doing some gardening a couple days ago. Don't know why it decided it had to cross IN FRONT of the mower...

Any ideas?



Can you believe it's already September? Before you know it, it'll be tax time! :-|

Hope you all have a great week! ♥

P.S.
Posting videos is such a pain. I'm sure there is something I'm missing.

P.P.S. As far as we know, hubby goes in at 0800 Thursday morning for his pacemaker. I'll let you know how it goes...