Two (and a half) days until our next trip

I messed up my layout, but changed the comment thingy in a further attempt to help people make comments. Not that I know of more than one who had trouble commenting, but in case others have been having trouble I found another group of settings for comments. Why does blogger have to make things so difficult?
Anyway, hopefully this solves any problems people may have been having on my blog.

The sleep study went okay, I guess. I think I got all the pink stuff out of my hair that they used for the sensors they put on my head. There were about 20 wires attached in various places. The lady told me I did real well the first half of the night, but then the second half I kept holding my breath.

That was news to me. All I remember is the dumb machine trying to either suffocate me or drown me in air!

Later yesterday morning I had an appointment with the doctor who is treating my... Apnea or whatever I have. He told me a name of something that I will never remember unless he writes it down, and said it was basically nothing to be done for it other than to do what we've been doing. He explained though that when the nurse told me I was holding my breath, what she meant was that when I wake up and then go back to sleep I don't always remember to breathe. So I wasn't holding my breath, I just wasn't breathing.

The doctor also gave me Flonase because sometimes I have some congestion, but I pretty much always get an itchy nose when the mask is on. So hopefully the itching will stop.

Friday we leave for the farm again. Lots of mowing if nothing else. I was looking at the weather forecast for while we are there. Pretty much every day is going to be upper 90s with a couple 101s and a 102 thrown in. (38C for my non-American friends.)
That means I'll have to keep a watch on the hubby who likes to keep going until he gets dehydrated and then takes a day or more to recover.

I'll try to keep up with blogs while I'm gone, but no promises.

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

4 days to our next trip

Have another sleep study. This time at the hospital, since the CPAP machine is not the miracle cure for me that it is for most people. I find it annoying. The small mask is a bit too small, the medium mask is a bit too big, they both tend to leak and they really bother my eyes and throat. We'll see what the hospital comes up with, if anything.

Friday after hubby gets off work, we leave on our next trip to the retirement property to mow and see if the weed killer did anything about this.

Hubby really wants to get rid of the Johnson grass. The closer we get to retirement, though, the less I want to be using pesticides. Once we get there and can keep it mowed, that should hopefully take care of the problem more naturally. In this spot at least, tilling is not an option. The septic leach field is here.
Johnson grass is one of those things where people don't clearly think out all the ramifications before they do something. Like Kudzu, Nutria and allowing exotic species to be imported for people to own.
Ah well. We'll just keep plugging away and see what happens.

Hope you're all having a blessed week!

Funny Friday

Okay, these were actually taken yesterday, but it's Friday today.
Our squirrel thief came back. Sorry for the quality of the picture, but I had to shoot through the back door and the netting on our porch, and of course the squirrel was tugging on the burlap like crazy. :-)

And here is the little thief with the few shreds he (or she) got before they spotted me with my camera.

Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you all have a blessed weekend, and I hope some of us see cooler temperatures and get some well needed rain. ♥

Large Prayer Circle

As evidenced by people living in Oklahoma, West Texas and South Texas, and ever-increasing areas in other parts of the country, the drought condition

is reaching critical status; cattle are being auctioned; crops have burned up; and drinking water is becoming a concern. Please join us in this prayer circle.

Lets make this one of the largest prayer circles ever. It will be as though everyone is holdinghands around the world. Father, You said whatsoever any two or more come together and agree and ask in Your Son's name, it shall be given. We come to you, humbly, and ask that you bring down the rain to our parched lands. Our farmers and ranchers need it desperately, as well as our firefighters. We ask this all in Jesus' name, Amen. You may adopt this prayer as evidence of your participation in this gathering by simply passing on to your circle of friends! P.S. My apologies for all the text errors when I posted.

12 days