Happy Wednesday everyone....what's new today?

Hi Vickie....why honey...you will turn into a regular farmers daughter!!! I can see you doing those things. Me...I am much to citified for any of that. Plus, I am allergic to anything with fur of feathers. Pretty much takes me out of the farm!! LOL!!!

I am glad you will be seeing Butch's doctor tomorrow. It will be good to see how he feels things are coming along. More prayers on the way!! I hope that lump is just from the radiation. 

Have a great time at dinner tonight. I haven't had steak in so long. I gave up red meat long ago. I do remember how awesome it is!!!

I love you much!!

Lots of hugs and bunches of love.....connie d

Vickie, my GPS is Gertie, but she is confused sometimes.

When I was in Grand Rapids, MI, there was a woman in ceramics class that had a farm and she raised goats and made soap and cheese from the goats milk. She sold the cheese to some of the fancier restaurants in town. She was in the rural area outside of GR. She was a hippie woman lost in the 21st century. She would never wear a bra ... nice woman, but she was always bouncing around. She taught several of the ladies in class how to make soap. 

Me, I'm a Chicago born woman and I don't know how I'd do on a farm. I like the smaller cities/towns I've lived in ... I couldn't live in Chicago again ... too big. I know my dad always said he wanted to have a small farm. He never got to do that. 

So go for what you want to do. Sounds like fun.

Vickie, 

My sis-in-law dreams of raising alpaca, and spinning the wool.  As it is now, she does have a spinning wheel right in her family room in her new house.  And when I was there, it was evident that it's being used.  

I grew up in the suburbs, where our eggs, and meats came from the grocery store, and the meat was on styrofoam, wrapped in plastic.  I was absolutely devastated when I was little, and my parents let us get chicks at Easter, which my uncle two hours away raised, and then brought to my parents, where they slaughtered them right in front of us.  It was my chicken, and they did not ask me, or warn me.  They just killed it, and served it for dinner.  I didn't eat chicken for a very, very long time after that.  Now, that I'm in farm country, I've had eggs, and chicken from free range chickens, as well as farm raised beef.  But, I'll gladly pay a farmer, or a friend for those things.  If I ever get a piece of land, with the right buildings, I'd have some laying hens, and a goat.  I've cared for goats when I ran a petting zoo at a day camp.  It can keep the grass short for me.  I just am such an animal freak, I can't raise something and then have it slaughtered.  I love steak, chicken, and pork.  I just don't have a relationship with my dinner before it's on my plate and in my mouth.

Love you.

Hi there I don't even know what day it is today!!!! But I'm home from being in the hospital. Paid my copay of 200.00.

Went to medical records transfered what I had to to my Dr in my town and came home. 

I have to see a Bariatric surgery specialist. My stoma is probably messed up. Not sure.

But My gut feeling it's the addisons.

Time will tell.

Onward to Vinnie on October 15th for 6 days she is next!