Just a few more of who I like to call Chris

He really shouldn't be here, only suppose to be here during spring and summer migration. For some reason he is still here and hope he makes it though the winter.As a male I guess he forgot to ask for directions ...just like hubby. I will keep him well feed with all the things he like. Chris came on Christmas Eve and has been here everyday all day long.

The granddaughter were here yesterday and we did some bird food making. They just love to get into the making of the suet...lol. Usually gets messy!

Merry Christmas to all

Today is a special day...I love Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A few days with family and friends and the joy of kids!

I started the day out like most other and was just enjoying my morning coffee and on the phone with a dear friend. As I was sitting there all of a sudden I saw a bright flash of orange in the bare trees. My first thought was it can't be! Then I saw him in all his glory and beautiful colors.

A Baltimore Oriole.

Now I don't see them much in the spring and summer. Sometime I will get one as it pass though. ( Oh I forgot to mention I am a birdwatcher ) So this is a real treat for me. I have been watching him most of the day coming and going to the feeders. I do have to say .... what a way to end the year and what a year it has been! I couldn't have pick a better way.

Now it time for me to get ready for the evening of fun.....Have a Great One

Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy; forgiveness. To an opponent; tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer; service. To all; charity. To every child; a good example. To yourself; respect. Oren Arnold

This is just to good...

Today Hubby and I did the shopping and had to take a few things over to DS for dinner on Christmas. After that we were heading out to have dinner at the diner. Now DS was held up at a meeting and we called and said we will take the grandkids with us. Now grandson didn't want to go. Guess when you are almost 15 you don't really want to go out with your grandparent and little sisters. So off we go to dinner..just us and the two granddaughters age 8 & 10. Dinner was fun and had some good laugh with the kids. The girls are so good to take out . Now we are on our way home and the girls are in the back seat of the car talking about the gameboy and what they are going to play. I was just sitting there enjoying the ride and the christmas light and listening to the kids. When all of a sudden I hear the one say lets play this game, now I am going to type it the way she said it .....Grand Pricks! Now I am hearing this and thinking to myself did she just say what I thought she said and I was right! With that I turn and ask her what is the game you are playing and one again she say it again. Now at this point Hubby is trying to keep a straight face and just drive. I said let me see that game..you just never know with the kids today and what the games are! She hands me the game and I read it..with relief I see the game is Grand Prix. Now I have to say to her WITH A STRAIGHT FACE and not doing well! That not the way it said honey and tell her the right way..Oh no Mom Mom it Grand pricks...NO HONEY it not! After much talking and just about busting a gut laughing the older one say oh MomMom that a bad word. Now I have to explain the difference in the way the word is used and she was just not saying it in a way that sound good. So now we had a great dinner with two of the sweetest little girls ( ya I am just a little bias on that one...lol ) had a great laugh and life lesson on the proper way to use a word and when not to use a word. It is ok to say you prick your finger on the rose bush, but not to say GRAND Prick! Just doesn't sound right coming out of that sweet child mouth...lol.

Well that was our day and evening with the grands today..Kids got to love them!

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The count down begins

Happy Hump day to all....Here I sit like I haven't a thing to do...lol. The cold has got the better of me! Thank goodness I'm not having Christmas dinner this year. We do have to head out to get the food as DS is having dinner and I am doing the shopping for him. He has 3 kids and being a single Dad he has enough to do to get ready for the big day. Oh he has the kids, they live with him.

I just about have my voice back and Hubby is doing better each day. They have been keeping me off the cash at work, I think they are afraid I will scare the customer away...lol. I don't mind at all. But I know come saturday I will be on as it will be one of our busy days. I am glad that I am off on Christmas eve this year. My first one in 5 years.

Talk to granddaughter last night and I have to say this kids is so funny. She is six years old and crack me up. As we were talking she says to me ...so how are things going at your house?? Now I was taken back just a bit, but didn't skip a beat and told her fine. with that she say good. So I ask her the same thing and she tell me good and I am being good for Santa. She is waiting for a tooth to come out and it is hanging by a thread..lol. I ask her how many is that now that she has lost and she put the phone down to count the missing teeth...lol. I can hear her Mom telling her to put the phone back to her ear and talk. She tells her she counting her missing teeth. Gotta love the kids they are so darn cute.

Well that about all from this little part of the world for now. time to get a move on and get finish.
Have a great day and enjoy the week it only comes around one time of the year and soon we will all be saying ..boy Christmas sure got here and went fast. I am so looking forward to spring that is my favorite time of the year...love the gardens and being on the boat!

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

Seven days till Christmas

Well here is it only a short time to go and I am not even close to being ready!!!

I think maybe I should start wrapping the gift today since I am off work.

Speaking of work! I had to work the weekend and still after 5 years at working in retail I am surprise at some of the really dumb question I get. First of all I work at a close -out buy -out store, if you see it and want it you better get it because it might not be there tomorrow! We have the same people that are always there shopping and I always get the same question...Are you getting more in on the truck??? Excuse Me!!! How long have you been coming here and how many times must I tell you.

Now the kicker is I have a cold and it has left me with no voice above a whisper, so very hard to talk to the customers, but that doesn't seam to matter they just keep asking the same things over and over again. No matter how many time I tell the same customer that we aren't getting anymore Christmas stuff ( it is already mark down to 50% off) or No they won't be sending more toys! They still keep want to know when they will get here. I do have to say for me to talk and be able to hear me I am shouting...lol. So I do get some satisfaction from it...ROFl and they don't know my anger.

I really enjoy my job 95% of the time and I really like working with the customers, but at this time of the year I swear they all become brain dead! I will never understand why people have to trash a store! We won't be able to get the store clean up for about 2 weeks. As fast as you get one area clean up and move to the next...go back to where you were and it is trash again...AMAZES ME!

Oh have to tell you about some of the help we hired for the season...It is a bunch of sloths, they can't move any slower unless they are in the stop mode!!!! I am 3 times their age and can run circle around them on a bad day. What really scare me is the fact that this is the next generation to take over!!!! They will be the ones taking care of me in the nursing home!!!! I think I will take my chance and just live at home till I die! It would be easier. I have my GED and this bunch have finish HS and can't even count! I have caught so many mistake they have made on the cash!
Well that is my grip for today ....time to wrap a few things and take a few pills for the cold.
Tah Tah for now and have a great day!

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.
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He is Home

I am happy to say that Hubby is home and doing better every day. He tires very easy, but this will pass as time goes on. Guess you don't spend 6 days in bed in ICU and just come out and get right back into the daily life. Well that what I think, but keeping him down has been tough! I am back to work and have to trust him to behave...lol. Now the kicker is I have a cold now and feel rotten! Still have shopping to do and nothing is wrapped yet. Oh well when it get done it gets done...lol. Christmas will get here if I'm done or not, so I'm not worry about it this year. Just so happy to have Hubby home with me.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song! - Jerry Van Amerongen

What a week!

I want to start by saying that I am married to a VERY stubborn MAN!

This all started out by a simple test, people have it done all the time. But my dear husband can't do anything simple. He is lucky to be a live right now!

Dear husband has what they call Barrett Esophagus, Now is you drink or smoke a lot and have had a wild life, you might want to look this up. Hubby will be 67 this month and like his beer for years! Was a Sailor for 8 year when I meet him. Just a little back round to help you along here.

On tuesday of last week he was going to have a scope of the esophagus and to scrape away the bad part of the esophagus, so the Dr thought might as well do a colonoscopy too. Well all went well hubby came home and was doing good.

I get up on wedsenday morning all is good so off to work I go. I call several times during the day and he is feels fine. Well that didn't last much longer! I get a call on my cell and he tell me I think I am having a problem "I am bleeding" So off I go tell the boss I am out of here! Now we only live 3 minute from where I work so I was home fast. I get in the house and ask him how bad is it? I say to him the next time you use the bathroom I want to see, his comment no you don't! With that I said yes I do. Not 5 minutes later he back in there and I go and check and the tolit is Blood red! That it we are off to the ER!

We get ther and he say I can walk in ( I told you he was bull head ) so he walks in and passes out just as we get in the door. Now I do have to say that as soon as they knew why he was there I felt like I was in the show ER with everything that was going on. I never seen so many people move so fast. First they had to get him stable then they had to find out where he was bleeding from. I want to tell you that I have been though alot with this man on health issues but this was the worst by far. We were close to losing him at this point! Ok now he is stable and at 4 in the morning they move him to another hospital that has better way of treating him if the bleeding start again.

I go up the next morning and he is looking ok, we got though this and he will be fine...NOT! I leave and come back at 5, he is in ICU I walk around the nurse desk and go to his room stand at the door and just stare HE NOT THERE! the room is a mess. I turn to the nurse sitting there and ask Where is my husband??? Oh I think they took him for a test. I turn back to the room and just stare at the room and know you don't leave a room looking like this if you go for a test! Back around to the nurse and this time in a voice that get your attention WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! With this a aid or I not sure what she is comes over and say to me I will take you to him. Off we go. He started to bleed again to the point that he fill 4 bed pans with blood! His BP was dropping to 50/45 and we were about to loss him again if the couldn't stop the bleeding. She takes me to the room where they are working on him and the Dr comes out and tells me what they are doing. They found the artery and were putting a coil in it to stop the bleeding. Now he has to stay awake to keep him from going into a coma. Hour and half later the Dr come to me and say they have it stop and it is a 72 hr wait to see if it will hold. Well 8 units of blood later and 72 hrs of holding your breath, He is still in ICU as of this moment and hopes to be move today to a room. But it is looking good so far.

I have had great support from my sister who has been at the hospital with me whenever I called and a dear friend in Canada who I have called at all hrs day and night. I have had a few meltdown during this time and talking to my friend has got me though it. I will never be able to thank her enough.

I thought that while I was home from work and Hubby not here I could get a few things done. NOT! The phone never stop ringing and I don't mind. It just the tree has been up for over a week and it still bare...lol. Not one present is wrap and still have shopping to do. Oh well it will be a weird Christmas, but I have the bull head man of my life with me and that all that counts right now.

Now it is time to hit the shower and head to the hospital for another day of waiting to see what going to happen. Up date later.

These things, I warmly wish for you-Someone to love, some work to do,A bit of o' sun, a bit o' cheer.And a guardian angel always near.

Back with a up-date..Hubby is doing ok but his blood count keeps going down. If it doesn't come up today they will have to do another unit of blood. At least they are giving him real food now!