Sunday, May 19, 2024

Birthdays and things going on lately....

   

Happy Heavenly Birthday Noel

 On this day May 19, 1987, Miss Noel Marie Hansen was born in Frankfurt Germany. Noel is my husband's first daughter, and she was a hoot, there are so many stories I have been told by the family that I love and cherish.  I so badly wish I had gotten to meet her.  

Noel had seizures from a young age which caused a lot of health issues and even though her parents were told she probably wouldn't live to age 5, well she proved those Doctor's wrong, and she made it many years past that.  Noel was feisty, funny and had a great life and was very loved. 

 My husband Dave is also a parent who grieves the loss of his child because Noel passed away July 5, 2012, from a stroke.  Today Dave is pretty quiet, I asked him if he is okay and he said he is a little sad, but that is about all he will show of that pain he carries every day.  God bless his heart!



Other goings on....

We have been planting stuff in our Garden boxes, we have peppers, tomatoes, okra squash, strawberries. potatoes, onions broccoli, cauliflower, and beans.   Our Grand dog "Pickles" laid on one of the boxes of plants right on top of those plants after Dave had planted them.  We had to holler to get her off, and then yesterday she climbed in a box and dug up our tomato plants.  Dave took her out there for a serious one on one talk. (whoopin)  so hopefully she stays off the boxes.   (Meanwhile she has been hiding by me all night )  Pickles is like her Gma... she is Scandalous and gets into trouble a lot.  

Mother's Day was last week... it was quiet and low key.  I am still thinking about my friend who lost her son and that was her first holiday without him.  We planted a Chestnut tree in his honor on our land we call it the Shane tree.  

The Chickens are getting BIG...  They have a couple weeks left in the house.  We have one that got picked on so badly her back was bloody; we Ciara named her Holly.  Holly is off by herself in a tub because she needs to heal.   Holly doesn't like being alone, so she cries and carries on till Ciara gets her out and puts on her lap and then Holly hangs out with Ciara on her lap most the time.  

It has been pretty mellow and HOT lately.  When I say hot, it is about 87 or so, now where I came from in Arizona that was a great temperature, but my body thinks it is a hot temperature now lol.  

This week I get a steroid shot in my left hand by my thumb in some joint.  I have had it before and it hurts when they do it, but then after the pain goes away you can use your thumb again and your arthritis is at by for about 6 months.  We have Memorial Day off and I took that Tuesday off as well hopefully we can do something fun that I don't need to use my hand for. Last time I had this done I had both hands done and I could not do anything with my hands for about 3 days.  


Have a great week and hug your loved ones tight.  







Monday, May 6, 2024

Hubby is Home, Our Kitty is still not home, and Chickens have a new home. 🏡

    My Hubby is home!  Yay!  On this last trip he was in Augusta Georgia for work and then made a trip to Tennessee to finish painting and putting the wood up on the walls of the Nursery and spend time with Nichole, Matt and our grand chick Jordyn.  Dave had a blast with the kids, I guess they stayed up till 1am playing card games last night.  Just a couple more months till our grandson is born.  I cannot
wait.  Here is a couple photos of the walls Dave was painting and the wood design which was what Jordyn was wanting done lol. 


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    Our Kitty Chimi still hasn't come home. I feel that either Coyotes or an Owl got him that last night he went out on the April 23rd.  My heart aches and I miss him so stinking much, but I am so thankful for the time we did have with him, and we spoiled him rotten.  We have put away all the Cat toys and will probably adopt another cat someday but for the moment, we are just healing from the loss of our sweet boy.  
 
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Our 15 baby chickens are growing so fast they have doubled in size.  We originally had all of them in one tub, then two tubs. Now we have them in a tent kind of thing with a wooden frame Dave built for us to put that in.  We had to move our furniture around a little bit too.  This Friday they will be 3 weeks old, and we can start letting them outside in the yard a little bit in a pen and hopefully the OG's will come around them and get used to them through the fence.  (we call our older Chicks the Old Gals or OG's, and the new chicks the Chicken nuggets)
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It is finally it is time to start our garden outside. We have our little seedlings we started in the house, and they are doing well.  I think we are going to start the preparation outside this week and then do the planting.  It will be more fun this year because Ciara will be doing it with us as well.  




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One more thing before I forget, another Friday family house has gone up for sale, it is just across the 61 from us.  1420 S Utah Ave, Davenport, IA 52804 | MLS #QC4251950 | Zillow

I wish I could win the lottery, I would buy that house.  


Well, that is about all that I can think of at the moment.  Hope everyone is doing well.




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