Imbolc

 Hello to all that celebrate Imbolc,

 And Hello to all of you that do not.

 It is after midnight here. I stayed up to celebrate the start of Imbolc even tho it has started on the Southern Hemisphere. We in the Northern Hemisphere began on Feb, 2nd. But I enjoy both days. Every day is a day to celebrate life in my opinion, and to welcome the new birth of all life. Human, plants, animals, nature. Isn't it wonderful to celebrate life in all forms?

 And to give Blessings. And Thankfulness. I am very thankful. I would have a hard time to count all of my blessings if asked but for today, (yesterday actually) I am especially thankful that my dog Cisco is alright.
 He had an accident and it was a bad accident. He tried to jump off of my bed and hit the side rail and injured his bad leg. I didn't have the money to take him into the vet. It saddens me that he was hurt and I couldn't even take him in. But with a lot of love and care and research on the internet I found some answers.

 1. He can still walk so nothing is broken. We made him a soft bed and gave him a heating pad and alternated it with ice.
 2. Pain Meds. With a quick phone call I was told that I can give him a half of an aspirin every 4 hours. He has tolerated that and will get the last half of the last one when we go to bed. It is harder to keep him down than I ever imagined so I have him pillows so he can come and go at will.
 3. He is drinking plenty of water and eating so that is great news.
 4. He is still greeting everyone at the door and tail wagging.

 He is walking on his own, the limp is not as bad as it was earlier so just seeing the difference between earlier today and tonight has been amazing, so you can see why I am thankful! I took him out to potty and he walked on his own. He refused my assistance so I let him do what he could and when he was done, he turned back for the house.  I put an ice pack on him and he tolerated that for about 10 minutes. But the warmth of the heating pad was his choice. He seems to do better with the heat.
 So I am happy that he will be alright.
 He is getting old. He will be 13 in September so he gets all the pampering that he wants. Everyone tells me that he is over weight. Yes he is. But I am not going to put him on some kind of diet where he is starving all of the time. If it means I have to pick him up and help him up and down then that is what I will do.
 We have him on special food. The problem is the exercise. I am not able to get out and walk him the 3 times a day for 30 minutes. I can't and the boys are at work 12 hours a day. I do what I can. I tried to walk him with my cane and fell. I can't walk him with my walker. He gets confused and wraps the leash around me and the walker. So on my good days he gets walked and on my bad days we make do with what we can,

 I have a few fun ideas I found on the internet that you might find interesting.

 If it is too small to read and you would like a larger copy, let me know and I will be glad to type it out for you. Of course clicking the photo above should open it to a larger size.  I will go and check after this post to see if it is readable. If not then I will type it out and put it here at the end of this post as an update.

and I have one more to share.

 Tomorrow will be a day of planting for me. I have some soil and some seeds. So I will start them. I would love to have some morning glories but I don't have enough sun for them. Or the room for that matter. My garden is going to be a patio garden this year. Some herbs for cooking and they also serve a nice purpose of keeping the pests away. I will get some lady bugs from the nursery. All plants love lady bugs. The trick is getting the lady bugs to stay. If they are not happy they will leave. Also putting them out at dusk is a key to making them happy.
 Some people confuse the lady bug with the Asian Beetle. A true lady bug is red and black. Not orange and black.
 Orange and Black are Asian Beetles and they will take over your garden and your home and you if your outside long enough.

 Oh I got a new mouse. My son Nathan gave my son Jonathan some money on Sunday and said Surprise mom and take her out. Do something with her that she wants to do. Oh... choices... So I chose to go to the computer store and get a mouse for my computer and since it was right next door to my favorite Mexican Restaurant I was so tempted, but knowing we had a few days before payday I was trying to be very frugal. Well I suggested that we just go to the store and find something to cook at home but in the end Jonathan said, "Is that what you really want to do mom?" and I admitted that it wasn't. So he whipped the car into Nuevo Mexico. BTW I misspelled Nuevo but spell checker isn't giving me the proper spelling so that is close enough.
 Jonathan had the soup, a bowl large enough for 3 people I swear, and I had my usual. But when the meal came I was not hungry. We had iced tea and it was so refreshing. I didn't eat much chips or salsa either. Nothing was wrong with the food. It is my taste buds. For some reason all the food I am eating lately has a funny taste to it. So Jonathan helped me eat my dinner, I split it right down the middle with him and since Karyn was so sweet and did our laundry with hers, we gave her the soup that he couldn't finish naturally and chips and salsa. We are sharers of food! I had to say that I was really pleased and surprised. It was nice to just get out. I had been out earlier. I rode with Karyn to take Matthew to the airport to catch his flight to Kansas.

 He is taking the breakup with Barbara better than I expected. The first few days was rough but we had long talks and I asked him what it was that he wanted. He wants to provide a home for himself, with no one else except for his kids and himself. So that is his goal. I think that it is a good goal. I will encourage him as much as I can.

 The man that he is working with or was working with ate something at the airport and developed food poisoning. He was very sick so Matt took him to the hospital. At first they thought that it was just a virus and treated him and released him but it soon became apparent that he was getting worse and not better so Matt took him back to the hospital and stayed with him. After all the tests were done they determined that it was food poisoning and he was so bad that they have admitted him.
 So Matt cannot work alone so they are sending him either to New Mexico or to Arizona. He will know more tomorrow. Or today actually. Matt is a real friend to people in need. He called his boss this morning and asked what he should do and his boss said, Change the oil in the truck, make sure it is ready to go and then do what ever you want for the rest of the day.
 Matt went to the hospital and stayed with his co-worker until they got him settled in and then sent Matt back to his hotel.

 As for me, I spent the day with my son in law. Not sure what the problem is with him sometimes but he was in a very unhappy mood all day. Everything from looking for a job to arguing religion to what movies were good and which were not worth watching. He wore me out. He wore Karyn out when she got here. She asked me if he had been like that long and I said yeah all day! Normally he is a happy go lucky guy, but something was bothering him today.

 Now I am coming to the end of my post but  I want to share one final thing and then I will say goodnight on my end.
 I took my meds but obviously they were to strong for me and I slept a lot. During the night I had a dream that felt so real. Too real.
 I dreamed that I was with my friend Patsy in the desert at her home and for some reason we were loading up this semi flat bed trailer with steel or rebarb. Now I have no idea why that was in my dream but Patsy kept saying, My Chest Hurts. I kept trying to get her to lay down and she would but we could hear this man outside the window calling "Patsy, but it was an eerie voice saying.... Paaaattttsyyyy..... in almost a whisper. She was going out to see what this man wanted and I said... No you cant go out there you don't know who this man is. It is 3:00 in the morning. Who ever it is out there is up to no good. She said Oh it is probably someone wanting to buy some of the stuff on the trailer and I said No. Go lay back down and she said again, My chest is hurting really bad.
 It gets fuzzy here but I woke up and had to go to the bathroom. On my way back to bed I looked at my phone and it was 3:00 am.
 I keep thinking of the dream and I tossed and turned and kept getting sucked right back into it. I had to keep convincing myself that it was just a dream but I remember one point that I just gave up and said I am calling her. I don't care that it is 3 in the morning. But common sense prevailed before I hit her number. I told myself it was just a dream.
 In real life this afternoon I get a text message from Patsy saying she was in the Emergency Room. Her chest was hurting and feeling very heavy.
 Well I tell you I was shook up because I asked her what time did her chest start hurting and she said it was around 3 this morning!
 Oddly I was telling Joey about my dream when I got the text. I was like Oh My Gosh... Joey said what is it and I said... Patsy is in the ER they think that it is her heart.
 Well thankfully it is not her heart but her body did just like mine did. It dumped all of her electrolytes, magnesium, potassium, sodium and she was dehydrated. All of that was just exactly like what happened to me a few months back.
 How weird I would dream this. It is not the first time for me to do this. I have had several dreams like this and tonight I was telling Karyn about it and she was like Mom your connection is strong and I don't like talking about mine but I have the same kind of dreams and connections that you do.

 Karyn and I have always had this kind of connection if you want to call it that. I have it with all of my kids but very much so with my girls and Matthew. I knew before Laurie did when she was pregnant. I am the one that always told her to get a pregnancy test. I knew when Deanna and Matt first got pregnant with Alex. I knew the sex of each baby before they did. I was a little uncertain about Dante Laurie's baby boy. My initial instinct said boy, but I couldn't settle on it. When Courtney and Matt called me to tell me that they were pregnant I told her that I knew and it was a girl. Courtney was like I just found out I was pregnant 5 minutes ago. But I knew. I had my phone in my hand to call her and tell her she needed to get a test. The phone rang in my hand and it was Courtney and Matt. For weeks they felt that they were having a boy but I told them it was a girl. And they had a girl.

 I am so glad that Patsy is going to be alright. They will keep her 3 or 4 days and let her go home. If she improves as much as she did today maybe they will release her a little sooner. Still these things come to me and some times I say certain things and other times I don't. But if they feel really real or if they feel to me a nagging urgency like last night  I can't shake it and that is what I was telling Joey when I was describing my dream to him. I couldn't let it go.

 Well anyway, I have made this post a lot longer than I intended so I will close for now and say be kind to everyone, celebrate to life if you choose and until next time, BB