Rain and down in the back!

Ughhh .. 4 AM Monday and I up with a aching back!  It started raining some time during the night and now the rain has my back in fits!   I tossed and turned and finally i knew i was just gonna have to get up and take some pain med’s before i would be getting any more sleep.  It’s 6.15 AM and I'm still waiting on them to kick in and knock me out. 

I love to hear the sound of rain hitting the roof but my back sure doesn’t like the rain.  Ughhh  I’m counting the days until i see my precious jewels (Grands).

I finally got back to sleep around 6.30 AM and was back up by 8.30 AM.  It’s rained most of the morning.  I spent my day resting a very aching back.  The rain stopped later in the afternoon and the temps were in the 60’s.  Although we are suppose to be getting a cold spell.

Tuesday .. During the night it poured and it’s still raining this morning.  It appears to be here for a bit, when i got up this am it was 65 degrees! 

Later in the afternoon the ran finally cleared out and so we took a trip to Lowe’s to get some wooden pegs.  Hubby had to fix the trim i broke several days ago by me.  He put some wood screws and then the pegs to hide the screws.  Hopefully i won’t break it again.  While he was at he did all 3 slide outs to match and the screws are much stronger holding for the trim.

On our way home we noticed diesel prices have jumped to $3.79!  In 3 days prices have jumped 15 cents .. crazy.

I really haven’t been doing anything except resting my aching back as it does not like all of this rain.  Tomorrow their predicting a high of 50 for the next few days .. can you say brrrrrr  My back probably isn’t going to let up until the sun and warmer weather gets back here.  After a few cold days then the 60’s are suppose to return .. I'm praying for warmer weather until after Thanksgiving.

Windy City

I enjoyed the extra hour of sleep this morning.  Although i hadn’t turned the clock backs before i went  to bed so i needed to do that :)  We went to Central Assembly this morning to church and it was a nice service.  They had 3 baptism’s and the message was titled “The Golden Rule”  Pastor Jeff did a great job and we enjoyed it.  I had talked to my friend (Mary) last night on FB and she said she thought their pastor was her old Pastor Jeff and sure enough.

After service we went to eat and then to Wal-mart as i had forgotten to buy Dog food and my babies were out … not a good thing!  Then it was back home to spend the afternoon watching football .. Rams got beat, talking on the phone and internet catching up.  Basically a day of vegging out and it felt good.
The wind is blowing and rocking us again today.  I’m come to the conclusion that we are in a Windy City.  This summer the wind tried to blow our awning off and finally we took it down and just left it.  This Fall the wind has rocked me to sleep more times then i can count or remember (with this forgettable brain i don’t know which .. hehe)

I got some new Grands pic’s and of course i have to share … hehe


Enjoying a beautiful Fall day in the leaves

Pumpkin carving

Finished results

Trick or Treating .. although my Tobe the builder is not happy

Here is my happy builder .. he enjoyed the candy, just not getting it .. hehe

Precious Lady Bug

Daddy pushing the builder
 
Enjoying Old Settler’s Day



The Ferry ride back home
 
A nice fall day to look at the river

All tuckered out .. i love this picture .. priceless
 

Oh It’s Windy!

I spent the morning being lazy and then it was time to get ready for friends 50th Wedding Anniversary.  Congrats Don and Judy!

Don and Judy renewed their vows, had a party …

Then left in a convertible! 

After seeing the happy couple off we headed to cry.  Look at diesel prices!

On our way home we stopped by Food 4 Less to pick up a few groceries.  Wow the wind is really blowing.  It’s in the 60’s but it’s cold with the wind blowing.

Tonight we have been rocked by the wind.  I have to admit this is a windy city .. hehe  It’s looking like were going to be rocked to sleep and continue rocking us all night long. 

Don’t forget tonight is fall back an hour .. yes i get an extra hour of sleep tomorrow but then i don’t like to fall back as it’s makes a day go by longer and less daylight hours :((

Friends Stopped to Visit

I got up and didn’t really do much today.  I ran to the post office and then after lunch i went to the Dollar Tree, Big Lots and Hobby Lobby.  I have been wanting to get to Hobby Lobby as i need a gift for 50th wedding anniversary tomorrow.  Of course all i got was a card :(

When i got home i had a nice surprise friends from Texas Vic and Nancy had stopped by to visit.  They were in town for an Alumni and had lunch with some other friends.  We decided to go out to dinner at Wendy’s and then they were heading to a basketball game.  Their staying in Branson on vacation.  I forgot my camera but here is a picture i took last winter.


As of Right now the decision has been decided on Florida as our Winter destination. Here is what our winter route will look like of course this is written in Jell-O.
 
 
Although i would like to change it from the above to this and include some what of our summer to be out East.  Since we will be so close I’d love to add PA, NY, MD, DL, NJ and Washington D.C. into our summer.  It would mean either not seeing family for a longer period of time or convincing them to come visit us.  Hmm it’s awhile off so we will see.  In June some lady friends are planning a trip to NY and I'd love to be apart of that.  Esp since my other half has no desire to see it.  I have all winter to work on him :))


 
My other half wants to return to Illinois and then head to IA and NE.  We spent the evening just relaxing and doing nothing!

Home made Noodles on a frightful Day!

Oh my we were rocked to sleep and rocked all night long.  The wind is terrible and this morning we woke up to still being rocked a very frightful cold morning!  The temps are 34 degrees and misting sleet and rain .. although it’s mostly rain.  We have our furnace running to keep the underneath bay warm.  Once it warms up a bit we will go back to using the heater.  I have to admit we are nice and toasty warm inside of the comforts of our home. 

I boiled some Chicken Breast in the crock pot the other day.  I saved the broth and a few extra pieces of Chicken that was left so i decided to make some home made Chicken and Noodles.  Hubby has been craving them and he doesn’t like the dry noodles in the store and i refused to pay $3 bucks for a small bag of frozen noodles!

 
Since it’s such a frightful day and a day of staying inside i decided today was the day i was going to make my own.  Their really not hard to make just a pain letting them dry.  All you need is 4 eggs, 2 C. flour, 1 tsp salt and 2TBSP water.  Mix up and roll onto a good floured surface and cut them with a pizza cutter (i find i like it) or a knife (my sister has a noodle cutter) to slice your noodles.  I put mine on a cookie sheet to let them dry and then i either cook them or freeze them. 

Another great tip is if you put them on a cookie sheet and use wax paper to layer them with after a few hours you can remove from the cookie sheet and put them in a freezer bag or container and freeze them until next time.  I’ve done this numerous times and they always taste fresh.  When i use to do big Thanksgiving and Christmas meals i would prepare my noodles ahead of time and then come the day of cooking i took them out of the freezer.

We thought it was going to be a day to stay inside but our plans changed.  I received a phone call around 10.30 AM from Anna (she was suppose to fly out to Colorado Springs for a few days of visiting the grands and I was going to feed her hubby dinner tonight while she was away) well plans changed and Jackson is going with her.  They wanted to know if we could give them a lift to the airport so they wouldn’t have to leave their truck there.  Jackson called around 11 AM and wanted to know if we wanted to do a early lunch at Pizza Hut.  We agreed although that left me with 15 mins to get dressed and ready to go.  No time for cleaning up my mess.  We had lunch (it was great) dropped them off at the airport and then we drove their truck back to their rig next to us. 

Since we had gotten dressed and already out I needed a few things from Wal-mart and i had seen some material i thought would match a quilt i am making and it was on clearance so I wanted to go before it was gone. We got in our truck and headed to Wal-mart. They still had just enough of the material and it matches the butterflies that i wanted.  This material is going to be used for the outer backside of the backing and the binding on a baby quilt I'm making. 

It’s now almost 3 PM and i have my noodles cooking in the slow cooker for dinner and it’s only 42 degrees!  The rest of the day is going to be spent snuggled up and staying warm inside.

Fall is in the Air

 

The past couple of days you wouldn’t know Fall is in the air.  Temps have been beautiful and in the 70’s.  I’ve enjoyed having my door and windows open.  Unfortunately it’s not going to last.

   

As you can see the trees are all losing their leaves and the evidence that Mr. Winter is approaching.  Hopefully we will be long gone before he officially arrives. 

 

 

It’s 10 pm and the wind has picked up, temps are dropping and rain has found us.  Tomorrow is suppose to be a dreary day with a chance of snow showers!  Temps are to be a predicted high of 46!  Can you say brrrrrrr!!!!! 

 

My poor flowers don’t know if it’s summer or winter.  I have brought them back inside to keep them from the weather.  The middle flower is succulents and a couple of them don’t know what to do.  A couple have lost a lot of it’s petals.  I was worried it might die but today i found this.

 

See the stick looking that is bright .. it has a new leaf growing on it.  There is still hope.  My rose bush leaves are turning colors and falling off but as you see the other is still blooming.

Not really much going on were just sticking around until it’s time to head home for the holiday.  Tomorrow may be a indoor and cuddle on the couch day.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!  It's hard to beleive today is the last day of October!  Wow it's went fast.  Here is our afternoon view.  When the kids get out of school they head to practice (if they don't have a game)

I love being able to look out my window and watch the kids practice football and track.  We have a great view for this.

   
We’ve had great weather for enjoying the outdoors and i love having a blacktop track next to me as it’s great for walking.  Well it was until i fell again and re-injured my ankle/foot. Several weeks back, I was sitting outside and got up to get something and didn’t use my cane and stepped on rock and lost my balance and down i went and so I’ve been doctoring a badly bruised foot/ankle for some time and this week i did something silly again. 

A couple days ago I climbed on a chair to reach something and lost my balance and went to grab a hold of the molding on the slide out and me and the molding both came tumbling down.  I hung on to the molding so it wouldn’t break but my ankle/foot didn’t fair as well.  yes it is my good foot.  So it looks like i will once again be spending several weeks limping around and nursing a ankle/foot when i walk causes me lots of pain.  Hubby put the molding back up and so sometime this week we need to run to Lowe’s to get some finish nails so he can secure it better.  Unfortunately he couldn’t fix me, but he did growl at me for doing something silly and not waiting him for him to get it for me.  He told me that the slide outs are not my own personal monkey bars :)) 

That is one of things with MS and a back injury.  My right side is my week side and I have no balance anymore and it doesn’t take anything to make me fall like a weeble only this weeble ends up falling down!