Just A Little Update....

Friday...16th of the month... -20 C feeling like -28.... Flo went up North to work for a month... and is being missed.... Yvette and Hubert are over in Nova Scotia visiting the youngest one of the family and smiling I am sure on both parts... Pat is up for the weekend with meetings and speaking at the English Masses this weekend... about what I am not sure... Mom and dad are doing good... nothing has changed much with them which is always good...

As for me I am knitting mitts for my new accorded Grandchildren... was out shopping for Valentines for them as well... was to the doctor today got some anti inflammatory which with some hopes this will help my back... maybe I will be better soon to get to the gym some times this month.... was up to visit mom and dad for lunch... Roger was a sweetie if that is possible he he and made lunch for all of us...

Carl got the bird feeder a little active this morning when he started to throw peanuts in the shell... one blue jay clean them out while we were away from the house... and I didn't get one photo of them...

And that is it for the Melanson News of the day and week... Have a great Weekend... Joanne

The 13th Day of 2009

Tuesday and one more day before the drill will be ringing in my ear and I not caring one bit about it....he he for now it is he he god only knows what I am going to be like when the time comes...
The day was filled with sun which is such a rare thing to see these days but as I type away I see the little red lightening come across my weather thingy at the bottom of my screen telling me there is a storm warning of some kind or another... there goes the sun... but today while the sun was shining I got to have a short but pleasant visit with mom and dad... and most of all Yvette and Hubert... they came up for an afternoon visit but was returning tonight because Hubert was curling... but it was nice to see them any way since it had been since Christmas they had not come up....
This evening we went to dinner at Carl's parents as it was Opa's birthday... snap snap away of course... a good meal and great company what else do you ask for on your day of the year.... we even took the puppies with us and they were so good while we ate... lying in the front entrance... not moving until the meal was done... an early return home since someone who is totally forgetful forgot to take her pills with her and the memory of her sore back was not just a memory but a true fact....
And that was the day I had.... looking forward to a little TV and a good night sleep... enjoy all... Joanne
P.S. didn't know what to title the blog thought that would be a good one LOL...

Another Day ...

Monday morning and the day started in the same way as it ended last night in pain from the stupidity of myself.... thanks to dad and Tylenol 3 it is not as bad until it is just about the time I have to take it again....which is soon....

While I was at Walmart yesterday ...I dropped off a prescription for Wednesday's visit to my least favorite place in the world... the dentist... I get to take some happy pills so I would take up too much of his time with all the shaking that goes on when the drill starts .... yes I am finally getting some work done on my teeth... it takes a long time for me to do this and it has been a way too long of a time this time....

Like most Sundays at the Walmart it is busy and like usual the manager of the store thinks that we have all the time in the world to stand around for the day waiting to be served on... well yesterday I wasn't going to wait for 15 people to go through the cash... there was nothing in my cart that I needed right away... and walked out...I actually seen several people doing the same thing... but I am sure the manager didn't really care... they were making enough money that a few lost customers didn't matter to him...
Today was portacalf day for mom and we found them in a different part of the hospital ... in a larger area and as the nurse said a newer area, larger space only means that they will have more coming... the 5 chairs were filled yesterday and more waiting in the waiting room to fill the chair that will be empty soon... but am thankful that they are there because so many that use to travel hours for their treatment have a closer place to go to... and the girls there are wonderful, always pleasant and a smile on their faces...
Another trip to walmart to pick up my pills for Wednesday but this time I was smart.. I picked up what I wanted to get and took it with me... no line ups at the pharmacy and was out of there within several minutes... my way of shopping... I even had mom in with me today...
I came home to a surprise... a box from Craig's family... a mini Christmas was had... I like those kinds of surprises... in my life...
And the end of the day of watching a little tv and doing some knitting... decided that the scarves were starting to bore me and changed to knitting mitts... on my second pair .... I keep looking around at my scrap booking shelf and know that soon I will be getting in to continuing my garden album...actually I do believe that I will be looking for another book soon since this one is almost filled once again...
Well that ends yet another day in my life... LOL
Joanne

Our New Birdfeeder......

Finally I took some time at the kitchen window and took some photos of the new bird feeder Carl made this week... it is big... like 4 x 3 with a bin inside filled with seeds inside... and it seems that our little feather friends are taking their time to come and feast....

So Carl went out yesterday and hooked up almost all of the little feeders that he really doesn't like to fill every day or so... but his way of thinking is fill them get the birds to find the big one and then when the little ones are emptied with some luck they will continue with the big one...

In the mean while there is one no two Mr. Nuttys that came a visiting...

and found that it was not all that easy to get to this one like the other ones....

the pole is a larger one... their little legs would not go around the pole to hold on it to climb to the top of the pole and then the bottom of it is too wide for them to just jump in and have a feast...

But after a few tries one of them got to one of the hanging feeders...
it didn't get to the grand prize of it all... the bin filled with seeds... maybe one day but not today ....
The other Mr. Nutty got a little ticked and when over to the old bird feeder and sat and pouted for a while before going back and picking up some of the seeds that were dropped to the ground...

In the meanwhile our little Chickadees started to travel back and forward to the larger feeder...
And I sat there not so patient waiting for them to come along to see what there was in this big thing that appeared out of no where .... and I am sure they were quite a surprised when they discovered what was in it...

And even a blue jay came over to see what was going on but didn't adventure into too close to actually see what was going on....

We Are Quitting

Carl has been wanting to quit smoking for some time now and it has been me that has not been willing to take on the task with him...when I agreed to do this with him he was very happy... which I don't blame him ... it is a project that you need to do together or don't do it at all....I am a weak person and will not try things on my own because I have already defended myself into doing it before I even start...(I do believe that is called lack of self confidence) so when Carl and I decided to use Champix we were doing it together....last night it was decided that it was time to stop this medication....being heart sick, sleeping too much, or not sleeping at all, headaches, dreaming, panic attacks.... being cranky both of us .... were all okay and we were handling them quite well though I did complain (but then that is me)... but when the heart flutters started with Carl that is when I said enough is enough....I spent the last few days making sure he was okay... panic when he was sleeping and not sure if he was breathing....
We are going to have to find another way to do this...just not with Champix.... and that is the end of that part of our quitting for us... Joanne