wonderful Wednesday...what's up??

Good morning, everyone!  I’m still around…sadly my dial-up system is giving me troubles so the whole transaction of posting seems to take forever or I post….finally…and it doesn’t show up. (just took twenty minutes for the open space for me to post....grrrr) Life has been terribly busy this summer…add to that, exhausting heat and humidity.  I continue to do my water exercise (jogging in the water) for 2-3 hours, three times a week at the local Holiday Inn…they have a sal****er therapy pool…usually about 87 degrees which is great for my legs.  The lymphodema is receding some because of my weight loss and the exercise which forces my veins to handle better circulation. My LifePath groups are winding down  in 2 weeks and I will start a new series in mid-September.  It’s so gratifying to watch my clients discover their inner strengths and move forward after great challenges.  I still have more artwork to do yet and we are headed up to the Ottawa Valley for another family reunion…this time from my paternal grandfather’s family…people I know little about. I’ve received a proposal the other day…an engraving company wants to buy my original art mandalas to engrave on granite tiles to sell to construction companies of high-end homes and business buildings…how exciting for me!   But that has to wait until we get back. One new event…last week, I suffered from the heat , and, after a long business luncheon, I went straight to a hair salon and told that that I was thinking about cutting my hair.  They brushed it all out ….two young women, standing almost three feet behind me…everyone was watching because my hair was so long…to my butt!   I was a bit embarrassed at all the attention and then just told them to cut it off…I wanted a fresh new look!  And so now I have hair to my shoulders…the shortest it’s been since I was sixteen!  Hubby hates it…my sons have never seen me with “short” hair but everyone else seems to love it…I’m still getting used to it.  I just told that that I wanted a “power woman” cut that actually moves and swings!   I told them to make sure that they didn’t give me an “old lady” haircut.  I had no idea that my hair was so curly …all these years tied up in a ponytail or a bun…soo hot and heavy…I was too old to wear it down….I guess the weight of my hair pulled the curls right out.  ONE SAD NOTE:  I didn’t lose any weight after getting my haircut…how unfair! 

Well, Wednesday morning, I’m reuniting with half of the twenty breast cancer survivors (the rest succumbed to the disease)  who created the Niagara Breast Cancer Survivors Support Group just after my own diagnosis in 1990…it will be twenty years cancer-free for me in October! And 36 years cancer-free for Mom!

Then in the evening, JB (hubby) and I take out three of his cousins for dinner...one has a birthday...two are from out of town.   One of them has copies of the family tree that I'd ordered...for JBs mother's family, the van Hartens...goes back to the 1600s in Holland so that will be fun...likely it's in Dutch so he will have to translate it all for me and for our sons. ( I'm taking my light salad dressing and my lil bag of seeds and nuts and dried cranberries along.) So another full day ahead...I'd better get my buns to bed!  Have an awesome day, everyone! Nancy B

good morning!
i just have a few minutes-
nancy i am so anxious to see an updated photo with your new hair length!
and the proposal for the mandalas!!OMG!!!! will taht up the price on the coloring books now? guess i need to order mine quick!

we had a lost weekend here- literally- michael does not remember anything since thursday nite's supper....til monday--mom/sil / nephew and i had to reconstruct whole weekend for him- he is amazed- we actually had almost lost him....

back to work today-should have worked mon off yesterday and today but took monday due to michael- picking hours up today then work thru saturday...i think i am going to look for fall/winter cashiering somwhere for weekends and my days' off.....to supplement.

still carless-may be for quite some time- challenging! jan--my mom is my taxi service ...i appreciate but can do NO pleasure driving right now....it's ok-

well- without going into details i guess i'll take my boring self to the shower--
read the last few days' posts- so glad to see ppl talking back and forth--julia- you are right- if the thread is started overnite or way early they talk- last week i could have started a few times but didn't wanna be a piggy! candy - my weeds are doing fantastically!!!! i watch them every day from inside the ac trailer!!!--hey your comment even got john to post out of the woodwork!!!


hugs and prayers to all....

Good morning Margo and everyone else....I off to de stress my self from work today forcing me to get out in to the shade garden and pulling weeds and planting some more shade perienials....coral bels and Hostas that a lady gave me. i think there are about 20 coral bells in the box she brought to work...have been working too much lately will be a great paycheck but the stress is telling on me badly, I am getting depressed and feeling like i dont have anything that i like going. which i dont lol

Joe said i wondered when it would start getting to you . Nursing is a very very stressful job , it is easier actually on me now than it was when i retired but still stressful , i let them talk me into more and more days untill im all but working full time....but one good thing i just paid all the yearly insurances for the house and truck , and motorcycle and the rental house with out turning green with letting go of that much money at once lol ....

going to get out and plant today and pull weeds that is the best de stresser for me there is. playing in the dirt. cant get stressed out doing that. will fill my large jug with ice water and go dig....come play with me ....

Hey sweet Margo. Your avatar says you are 'way up north in Mi', does that mean that is where you live? If so, what are you doing up there? Did they check you out at the border? Still let you in?

I use to work up there. Roseau and Bodettee. OK in the summer, but what about the winter. I know what all those people I worked with do, but we are old now. What do you do?

Yes they got me out of the wood work......Cheers, John

Hey John, good to see you. We live up North Michigan too. Just south of Traverse City. What do we do in the winter? We freeze!!! But so far the summers are worth it. What did you do up here? Just me being nosy. Have a great day, Nan

Nosy, no,  just an inquiring mind. I have one also. Also, this thick Ky skull let me realize the Mi meant Michigan and not Minnesota just after I posted. Forgive me for being in the 5 grade? No, they are smarter than little ole me.

I went to northern Minn, to spray the spring wheat, barley, and treticaly. After I did that I went to central Wis to spray the green beans, potatoes, and sweet corn for Del Monti and Green Giant. I would finish spraying Sept 15Th and after that, I jump on my bike and travel the good old US of A. Next spring, back at it again. .....John

Wow, sounds like an interesting life!!!

john- my hubby;michael, was a sprayer in wisc for years...worked in shawano and seymour areas...also amherst junction....he worked at the specific co-ops, tho.....prior to that he was dairy farmer--

after awhile he would go to hawaii for his "time off"

What a small world. I worked for Reabee flying service in Waupon Wis. They had another airport in Plainfield, and another in Plover. I worked for them about 10 years and had my own operation in Tenn and then in Ky. I just worked in Minn a couple of years. I had to sleep in the loft in the hanger and that sucked. The only redemption was the walleyes at Lake of The Woods.

My wife always wanted to go to Hawaii, but it was just to much $ for us and 4 kids. My sister married a fellow from there and she goes back at least twice a year. Yes, I envy her.

Tell me more...John

michael sprayed liquid from a boom truck- most recently before his accident he was a limer....among other things

at one point he worked 120 hours in a week spraying!