Overlooked Orchid

I wonder if Spring is finally approaching. It seems that it has taken forever this year to get here. Perhaps it’s only my imagination, but really I don’t think so. We have been below the average temps for most of the last month. Not to mention we had an early showing of snow for Thanksgiving this year.

It’s funny because as a kid I never paid much attention to how long the winters last, but I sure do now….It’s not only because my body protests the cold more than it used to….I long for the sunshine and warm weather so that I can be outside doing things. I have come to love the outdoors even more than I ever have. Being outside in the sunshine and warmth brings a peace to my heart.

PLEASE let the temperatures only go up from now on!!!!

Yesterday was such a nice day. We found a car we want, and did some other shopping.

The best part was seeing Mom in Walmart. *LOL* It was so funny because Des walked right by her without even paying attention. She only turned back when I yelled out “Mommy!” I am always so happy to spend time with Mom, even just chance meetings in Walmart. We got to talk for a few minutes, and of course the girls just loved telling Grandma about the new clothes they were getting, and how they were doing in school and everything else.

After seeing Mom in Walmart we also had dinner with Uncle Mike, Sue, and Daniel. The girls were so happy to see Aunt Sue and Uncle Daniel. I was too, it’s been months since we’ve seen each other. Adam is away on a trip, so we didn’t get to see him, which was kind of sad, but we’ll see him soon. It would have been better if we could have seen Sonia and Mitch, but hopefully we will be moving soon, and I will kidnap Sonia and bring her down for the weekend. I miss my sis so much! *BS* So do the girls, even though they’ve only spent a few hours with her here and there.

I am forever thankful that my brothers and sisters are a part of the girls’ lives. We don’t get to see each other very often, but when we do, it’s an awesome thing how they include the girls in their lives. Coming for birthdays, asking how they are, playing with them, mentoring them. It is what I have always hoped for my girls. Mom is the same way…she is their grandma, heart and soul! The best part is that they want to be that way with the girls, they don’t have to be. By blood they are only my Aunt and cousins, but by heart, they are my Mom, bros, and sis’s, and interact with the girls as such.

A few months ago I started a list of the books that I had read, and then things got busy, and I fell behind on updating it. I am rather disappointed that I fell behind as I really liked keeping track of how many books I had read each month. Here lately I am sure that the numbers would be incredible as I don’t have much else to do but read. NOT that I’m complaining!! Reading is one of my most favorite things to do!! I do miss all of the other things that kept me busy though.

Who knows, maybe I can resurrect my reading list, and give a little insight on what I really enjoy reading!

I’ve been currently reading Fern Michaels. Her Sisterhood series is pretty good, as well as her Kentucky and Las Vegas series.

Well I finally got the go-ahead from Dad to find a house for us. *sigh* I only hope and pray that it will be easy to find something that will work for us!!

We have animals, so that makes it a bit harder to find a rental, plus we need a place for Chief, which makes it even more difficult. We have a portable corral and everything, so that simplifies fencing, but still we have to have room to set the corral up, and also it pretty much eliminates in town living.

I am confident that things will work out, that we will find the right place for us…but all prayers are appreciated!!

It’s been a long and rather frustrating week. I had been noticing for about a week that the ignition had a kind of catch in it before it started. I was going to talk to Dad about getting it checked out over the weekend, but the car beat me to it Friday morning. I went out and started the car, and then it died, and then the key would just spin….I thought it was the ignition switch, so Dad got another one, and we spent all day trying to get it put in, with him sick and all, but than discovered we had another ignition problem.

Anyway Bubble ended up having to pick up Dad Friday, and the girls ended up missing school.

A guy that I had been emailing for a few days came over on Saturday and helped us discover exactly the problem. I was able to pick up the new part this morning, but now we have to find someone to put it in for us. The guy I had emailed said he would do it for us, so I emailed him and let him know that I would have the part today, even though I knew he couldn’t come over until the weekend to put it in, and he replied that he would do it, but he would like for me to come over and help him out at his place. I’m not completely agains the idea of helping out at his place, but he didn’t say what he wanted me to help with, and the weekends are my time with the girls. It was bad enough this last weekend that I had to spend 2 days fooling with the car instead of spending time with them. We’ll just have to see how it works out I guess.

Well despite how slow time goes sometimes, or how messed up things in life are at that moment, things continue to move on. Finally got the cellphone situation straightened out today, for which I’m thankful, especially since the bill should only be about half of what it has been lately. Although I am thinking about having the internet hooked back up to my computer, so that I can have my own private internet at home. Doing that would raise the bill back up a bit, but should still be managable. I will talk to Dad before I decide for sure.

Thanksgiving was a quiet day. We had our dinner on Friday, since that was my sister’s b/f’s day off. Dinner was good, ham with all the usual goodies.

A friend of Bob’s came over for dinner, and brought an apple cheesecake that he had made himself. I was quite impressed to find a man that would make something like that, as well as in heaven as I love cheesecake. *LOL*

Overall it was an enjoyable day, although we had a few rough patches, but such is life when living with or close to other people.

I’ve been seeing quite a bit of wildlife these days, on my drives back and forth to the school. Lots of deer. Came close to hitting one this morning. A herd of 5 or 6 came running out of no-where, all but one stopped at the edge of the road as I was driving by, but one didn’t. Came probably within a foot of hitting her. I am forever thankful that I didn’t, she was able to move quick enough as I slowed down.

Yesterday a deer and a buck crossed the road at their own leisurely pace. I was able to see them well before hitting them, so I had time to stop and let them pass, but I was scared to death that a car from the other direction would come up over the hill and hit them. Thankfully it didn’t so the deer passed safely.

For about the last 3 days I’ve seen a coyote on my way to pick up the girls. He/she is pretty good about getting out of the road long before I am close enough to hit it, but I am always fearful that someone won’t be as careful as I am, and will hit it one of these days.

I hate to see the animals hit, and killed. That’s what people progress has done. The animals are not the intruders on this land, we the people are. And with every passing year I see more and more animals dead along the roads because people are in too much of a hurry to care that they might hit a deer, or coyote.

Sometimes it is unavoidable. I know that, and don’t dispute that, but I also know that if people took more care in their driving that more animals would live.

I don’t have any pictures on this computer, so I can’t post one of the many pictures I have of him, but know that he may not have been a handsome fellow to some, but to me he was most handsome.

Fuzzy was an old stray cat that came to my Dad’s house many years ago. He was king of the country, no cat messed with him much, as he had already proved to them that they couldn’t beat him.

A few years ago I moved and took him with me. I wasn’t sure how happy he would be as an inside cat, but I knew that he was getting too old to survive outside. Much to my suprise, he loved living the easy life inside, and even more suprising is that he always used the litter pan when he was able.

You see, among many other injuries, he had a digestive problem and often had accidents as a result. I never held that against him.

I have known for a long time that his time to leave me was coming, and a few days ago, I made the choice to have him put down. He was so sick, and crippled up from previous injuries, he was just so misirable that he told me it was his time.

It is hard having him gone now, even though I know he is in a much better place. His love and comfort brought me through many many hard times, and I will never forget him, and will always love him.

As my tears flow I hope he looks down from Heaven and realizes how much I loved him, and how much I miss him!!

My days have been filled with this and that lately, but I still have found time to read, as always. *LOL* I can’t help but read, even when I don’t really have the time to read. I’ve also found time to play acouple of computer games that I enjoy playing from time to time.

Otherwise I’ve spent my time taking the girls back and forth to school, helping them with homework, housecleaning, putting the horse out, taking care of errands, and I have the new chore of putting my checking account information on the computer, which will be no small task, but I will get it done at some point.

I’ve also gotten rid of several cats the past few weeks. There were just too many for my liking, and some of them would dash in the door, or were quite nasty come feeding time. We only have 3 that are in the house, or even allowed in, and soon we will only have a few outside. It’s much better for our feed bill.

Well anyway, guess I better get off here and get on with my work.