A little Fall decor and flu shots...

Last week was blood work and flu shot time for Hubby and me. Mine was Tuesday, Hubby's was Friday, he also got a pneumonia shot. He had a lot of pain in his arm where they gave him the pneumonia shot. He went to bed but was back up shortly for something for pain. I gave him two Advil liquid capsules, and heated my rice pack to put on it. It eased it enough so he could sleep. Thankfully, it didn't affect his golf game the next day...ha.

As for the rice pack, I have two sizes, a small one made from one of the girls old socks and a larger rectangle one about 10 or 12 inches long (I sewed it from some leftover cloth I had). I filled them with rice and sewed the end up and pop whichever one in the microwave to heat. A lot quicker than worrying with the heating pad. I got the idea from a friend of mine that had one.

 

 

the fall decor is out, I put a leaf on their pictures

 

 

 

The wooden fan and tea set Hubby bought on a trip to China.

 

My little scarecrow girl, she's my profile pic on Facebook.

I also put some leaves in front of the TV, not the best idea, since I have to pick them all up to dust...ha.

 

The cutest picture of all, the little sheriff of San Antone.

Time now to put some Halloween stuff out.

Take care,

Sheila

Happy Fall Y'all!!

Jarin had a birthday on Sept 14th. Her and Cori wanted to try to make 'Groot' cupcakes, instead of a birthday cake. I made the cupcakes and helped a little with the shortbread cookies they made 'Groot' out of or I should say Cori made 'Groot'. It was a fun time and it got the girls off the computer...ha.

We bought a decorator tip to make it look like grass, but it didn't work so well so Cori improvised.

Here is the finished product.

This is what a 'Groot' is... 

 Hubby had a business trip this past week, so me and Jarin got caught up on some of our shows. 

I also temporarily (six hours) messed up my iPhone Saturday, because I decided to update it by connecting it to iTunes on my computer. The update failed which put it in recovery mode, then when I tried to restore it through iTunes, that kept failing also...when I could get it to actually connect to iTunes. But after searching and trying, and trying and searching some more, I finally found something that worked. Now I am restored and updated. Next time I'll just update it through the phone, that was a long and stressful process.

Today was grooming day for the doggies, so they are all fresh and clean again...ha.

That's about it for now,

Take care,

Sheila

PS. This cooler weather is nice...

Fall is just around the corner...

Here it is, September already, and I am way behind on posting. Lets go back a little ways to June. Hubby had a birthday in early June...

 

My daylillies. 

(took photo in June)

We thought we were buying the kind we had in Mobile, but these grew taller. You can't see the rest of our plants from the front...ha.

But there are other plants growing in there... :-)

They should bloom again before long. One plant (the one on the left by the walk) has had a couple of blooms the last few days.

We spent about three weeks of the month of July in Alabama with the parents. Well Hubby only one week. My brother Shawn and his family were there for a week. I got behind in my blog reading during this time but I finally got caught up again. 

Rylie (Chihuahua) turned 6 years old on July 14th and Charlie turned 2 years old on Aug 3rd.

Won't be long now before the cooler weather gets here. Time to get out my fall decorations. I hope this season goes a little slower than the rest of the year has.

One last thing, if you pray, please say a prayer for my cousin Judy, her husband passed away yesterday. Thanks.

Take care,

Sheila

Wow 28 years...

We celebrated 28 years of marriage this weekend, May 31st to be exact. I look forward to many, many more years! Well, we actually did our celebrating on Friday. We went shopping and out to eat. I finally got the raw oysters I've been hankering for...ha.

Coming out of the church 28 years ago...

Hubby's Aunt Margaret made this wedding album for us when we married.

What she wrote inside, she passed away when we were still in Mobile.

My main anniversary gift, I've been wanting a juicer. He gave me a beautiful diamond wedding/anniversary band for Christmas and I claim it as part of my anniversary too.

New lumbar pillows we bought for the rocking chairs on the porch. Maybe our ghost will enjoy sitting in them again.

and my pretty Bromeliad he bought me.

His main present was a new golf club...of course...ha. Also ordered him some shoes that they didn't have in his size at the store. We also bought some new silverware/flatware. Our other set seemed to be disappearing. No one claims responsibility so our ghost must be a poltergeist stealing our utensils...ha.  

I think I need to get the doggies by this week to get a shorter haircut for summer. Rylie will get spayed on the 4th. I hope everyone has had a great weekend.

Have a great week,

Sheila

Memorial Day...

Hello again...

Hope everyone is enjoying their Memorial Day weekend!

 I went with Jarin, Thursday night, to the 10pm premiere of the new 3-D X-men movie. Yes, I did manage to stay awake..ha. It was pretty good.

We are enjoying the fireflies at night when we take the doggies out. At first we would only see one each night, now they are twinkling all up in the trees. One landed in our grass and then put his light out, I guess he was going to bed... : )

As you can see, I was having a hard time erasing 

the Christmas tree I drew on the white board...ha.

but after I took this pic, I erased it.

Cori drew the pics of Charlie and Rylie.

Toward the end of winter, Charlie discovered heater

vents, this is near the kitchen table. I later showed

him the one in the living room and he started using that one.

He also loved the fireplace, actually both dogs liked it.

A couple of years ago, my doctor suggested a place to get shoes and inserts, that would help my ankle that was bothering me. I did and they also helped some pain I was having in my hip. I put those initial inserts I got into a pair of boots, so I ordered me two new pair, one to go in my new running shoes (no I don't run but they are more supportive) and the other for a spare. I think I have already mentioned before that I buy orthoheel flip flops, can't do without my flip flops. I am looking to get me another pair of croc flip flops too. 

Trying to get in the habit of posting more...

Take care,

Sheila

Hello...

We have had a few days of nice cooler weather, quite chilly at night and in the mornings. All is well here, I turned the rocking chair on the porch around where it was facing the other chairs and the 'ghost' didn't move it or choose a different chair...ha ;-). But Jarin has said her desktop computer has turned on twice during the night waking her up and one time when it didn't wake her up. Probably just a glitch or something.

Hubby got to go on a company sponsored deep sea fishing tournament to Ft. Lauderdale a couple of weeks ago. He caught one fish, a small 10 to 12 lb Bonita...(I had to look it up to see what it looked like). The one who got the prize for biggest fish caught some type of shark.  He is a bit of a workaholic so I am glad he got some time away.

Took the dogs for their check ups and shots. Rylie goes back June 4th to get spayed and dental cleaning. She needs to lose a pound, because she has luxating patellas and the vet said she will gain weight easier after being spayed. The hard part will be keeping my Dad from feeding them from the table when we visit this summer...

til next time,
take care,
Sheila

We have a ghost...

Well, maybe not a ghost, but something is moving our rocking chair to where it is at an angle. It has happened at least 5 times. We have not sat in it and turned it. The wind hasn't done it, we will have lived here three years in August and the wind has never turned it before. Plus I have kept a close look out when it was windy to see if it moved. Maybe a dog or animal runs through there and bumps it? But 5 times? Hmm, has me baffled.

On to other things...Hubby went to the allergist, no allergies to food, nuts or anything he ate that night. No bites or stings from anything.  A few minor seasonal allergies to certain trees, grasses and weeds, but nothing out of the ordinary. He's taking meds for that now since that may be contributing to his cough. If the cough continues though I will make him an appointment with an ENT doctor. So the cause to his anaphylaxis shock was because of a preservative in the children's benedryl or no known cause, random. He has an Epipen now. Actually two at work and two here. I threw away the children's benedryl. Hopefully it won't ever happen again.

Cori (my youngest) and I had birthdays in April, me on the 12th her on the 21st. Cori is not much into cake and cards but we get them anyway...ha. Actually she wanted cheese cake so I got that and an ice cream cake. Candles don't stick very well in an ice cream cake... She wanted money for her birthday so that is what she got.

We also got a new rug recently, it is less bright and more muted than it appears in the picture.

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!
Take care,
Sheila