Yep! You are reading this right! We got out the Christmas boxes, not to decorate, but to go through them and give stuff away. There is a rummage sale at our church in two weeks and I thought this would be a good time to give most of it away. At the advice of my sister Janice, I am keeping the snow babies. I have quite a pile of stuff to give away and kept a few things to decorate with this Christmas.
I felt a little better today and we went to Greenfield Village to walk and sit and watch people-our favorite thing to do! We also had lunch and coffee afterwards. It was a beautiful fall day with flowers still blooming. One tree was almost in full fall color!
Pain is hard to live with. I’ve had a pain in my stomach off and on since September 1. Sometimes it is all day or all night or part of the day and night. It is hard to function with pain and it is hard to sleep with pain. Sometimes I want to go to the emergency room. I have an appointment with a Gi doctor next Tuesday. Meanwhile, I am taking Nexium on the advice of the nurse in the office. Today it has been hurting all day. I’m eating a bland diet; I don’t know what else to do.
I thought it was from my glp1 shot but I stopped it this week. Of course, all kinds of things go through my head as to what is the cause of this continuous pain. I went to the Emergency Room on September 1 and they did bloodwork and a cat scan. Everything was normal. Well, I don’t feel normal. I feel tired and not interested in doing anything. I haven’t walked or sewn the quilt I started. Next Wednesday I have to teach the lesson in Bible study. Pray for me if you are reading this. this.
My granddaughter in Kentucky called me today to wish me a happy first day of fall! How nice is that!? Then she asked me if I had read the newspaper she sent me. It is called the Lottura Post. I told her I had read some of it and she wanted me to look through it with me on the phone. I didn’t know what I was looking for but there it was on page 7–a picture of me scrapbooking several years ago. She had written an article about me scrapbooking and how she has gained “ a tapestry of memories formed by each scrapbook.” What a wonderful article and I am amazed that she submitted this to the paper and it was printed! I am so happy that someone appreciates my scrapbooks and takes the time to look through them! I feel blessed that I can pass these memories to the next generation. This is why I scrapbook!
Am I happy summer is over? No! I love summer! I love wearing shorts and sandals 🩴 and flowers and watching the birds. Fall is nice if the sun is out and it’s warm, but often it is cloudy and cool. Time to get my sunlamp out!
It was sunny ☀️ this morning but now it is cloudy and windy. I’m upping my caffeine intake too!
I also had to sew the waistband of a pair of jeans that were too big. At a 20 pound weight loss, I’m not ready to buy all new clothes. I like where I’m at right now. I don’t know if I’ll go for another 5 pounds. The keto diet has really worked for me along with the glp1 that I’ve been taking. I’m going to stop my weekly shot this week. There are too many side effects with my stomach and my sleep. I already went down on it the last two weeks.
I’ll try to be positive this fall and praying that the sun ☀️ will be out a lot!
It has rained for 2 days straight and it just stopped. I have been so sleepy and unmotivated! I have to go to a ladies’ thing at 4:00 so I’m drinking a diet cherry Coke Zero and I’m going to go for a walk to wake me up before I go.
Fall starts in two days and I love the colors and the cooler weather. I just don’t like all-day rain and cloudy days. It’s getting to be that time of the year to up my vitamin D and fish oil. Hoping tomorrow has some sun ☀️
I’m so glad that we have a place to go and walk like Greenfield Village. The weather was perfect for it and Don, Karen, and I went today. It wasn’t too crowded which was nice. We ate lunch outside and had coffee afterwards. The flowers were still pretty and some trees had a touch of color. I took pictures of the trees and some of the flowers. Now we are home sitting on the deck. It is 74 degrees out and partly sunny.
I just started a new full-size rag quilt the other day. I’m going to sew today and get more done. It is dark denim and a patchwork denim.
We decided to go for a walk in the woods behind our house after lunch today. The path was cleared of leaves and the roots were painted with orange paint. It was so nice! We saw some deer and we took some pictures of them. It was funny that we took pictures as we see them all the time in our backyard. They just stared at us while we took pictures the pictures.
It is a beautiful day here in Michigan. It was 49 degrees earlier this morning but it has warmed up nicely to 68 degrees. The sun is out and the sky is blue. I’m going to start my Christmas cards today and tomorrow afternoon I hope to start another full-sized quilt.
I’m not laboring today. I’m sitting on the deck watching the female hummingbirds. They stay a long time because they are going to fly south soon and need to fuel up.
I am leading our Bible study class the last Wednesday in September. It is on Matthew 16:1-12. We don’t have a book that we follow. We do all the research on our own.
I’ve done the research and written it out, Now I have to become familiar with it so I can teach it. The class is an hour and twenty minutes. There are about 25-30 woman in our class. I have to have questions for the class to answer the week before the class. The first question will be “What
I’m looking forward to doing this although I’m a bit nervous! Prayers are appreciated
It’s almost 4:00 pm and we are sitting in the basement with the sirens going off. I got an alert on my phone too. It is very dark outside and scary looking on the radar. We’ve had a couple of days of very hot and humid weather which is causing the unstable air.
My third quilt is done; I’m so happy with it. It is another baby quilt with cute little snails on it. I had trouble with the sewing machine because the fuzzies from the material kept clogging up the machine and I had to stop and clean them out. I might take a little break from sewing or sew something else. I am hooked on sewing again!
They gave me some meds in my IV that really helped and they let me go when the tests were back and I was feeling better. I am still feeling better today. I have prescriptions to take if I get the pain again. I sure don’t like going to the ER but it’s the place to go when you aren’t feeling well.
