Fall Clean-up

All those pretty leaves have all decided to fall now. So for the next few weeks we will be doing clean-ups on our accounts. This usually goes until about the second week of December. One thing hubby forgot to buy this year was some dust masks. We have to wear these just to keep from breathing in all the dust from the leaves. Here are the last of the fall pictures I took back last week.

Loves Me Like a Rock

Hope you well bare with me but as I was setting around this morning I was thinking of some of the corny things that me and Fluffy loved to do. One thing was he loved me to sing to him. LOL I can't sing worth a hoot but that cat loved it. I bought a Paul Simon CD a few years ago and every time I played it Fluffy would come running. He really enjoyed me singing this song to him.



Hope everyone has a blessed day. =)

Fluffy

Fluffy passed away this morning. My heart feels like someone has ripped it out of my chest. I woke up at 3:30 and found him in really bad shape. He had suffered a massive stroke. I sat with him for the next 5 hours until he passed away. We were going to head to the Vet when they opened but he died before we could.


There is a big hole in my heart now. I miss my little furry baby.

R.I.P.

Fluffy

Happy Halloween!

Well we don't have anything planned for today. I think I will head down to the video store and see if I can find us a couple scary movies to watch tonight. I would love to see Psycho again. I haven't watched it in years and I remember it scared me silly the first time I saw it.



So what's the scariest movie you ever watched?

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A Visitor

Yesterday I got to spend several hours with my brother. I haven't seen him in over a year. He is in town with a company doing a roofing job. He has never been over to my house. LOL I spent hours cleaning and still didn't really feel ready for a visitor, even if it was my brother. He didn't seem to mind. Oh wow we talked about everything. It was so nice getting to spend some time with him.
My cats didn't care to much for having a stranger in the house though. The boy cats hid the whole time. Missy, the female cat, kept walking into the living room and hissing at him and then running back to the bedroom. Have no ideal what her problem was.
He said he would stop back by before he left town and see me and hubby again. He isn't half bad for a big brother. =)

That's me he has his arm around. The other little girl is one of my younger sisters.

Daily Walk

I was able to get some nice shots of some really pretty trees right around the neighborhood. I notice I get a lot of strange looks when I am out taking pictures. Thats okay if someone asks I will tell them I just wanted a picture of their pretty tree. I am getting out everyday like I'm supposed to and walking. Its been kinda nice getting out everyday and walking. Don't think I have lost any weight yet but I do feel a bit better.

Update on Fluffy

Well it's not good news. Last year when Fluffy started having problems with his heart we knew then that we were really lucky to still have him with us. Fluffy has problems with fluid building up around his heart and lungs making it very hard (impossible) for him to breath. The vet put him on water pills. So far it has worked. Now the problem is the water pills are causing other problems with his other organs. The vet has cut the medicine down to half dose but said we can't stop because the fluid will build back up again.
Fluffy had what is called a stroke of sorts. The falling over sideways and walking crooked is from the stroke. A stroke in an animal is not the same as in a human. There is nothing that can be done for Fluffy on that. The vet said he may suffer from more of them. If he does than we have to consider having Fluffy put to sleep. We are to keep Fluffy stress free. So if he wants held, he will be held for as long as he wants. Of course Fluffy main thing he really truly loves is chicken. I'm serious, this cat is crazy for it. Doctor said let him have as much as he wants.
Right now he is laying in the bedroom window chilling out. He is glad to have a room all to himself.

Senior Animals

Our oldest cat Fluffy is close to 14 years old. He has had some heart problems that for the last year he has taken medicine for. He actually has done really well on it. I have noticed though in the past few weeks he has been having accidents in odd places around the house. Yesterday it got really bad. He decided to use the bathroom right in the middle of the kitchen floor.

So we have moved a litter box to one of the spare bedrooms and made Fluffy a bed in there. I put his food and water in there for him. He seemed to do okay last night when we put him in there. He used the box.

This morning though he seems really confused. I let him out of the room when I got up and he wasn't sure where to go. Fluffy is almost completely blind. When he came into the living room he went to turn the corner and just fell over.

Well I guess a trip to the vet will be made today to find out whats going on with him. I hate when my babies get old.

What a shock!

When I got up this morning I had really hadn't planned on making my weight an issue. Heck I know I am fat. When I went to get dressed though I realized my last pair of jeans are now to small. I will be honest and tell you guys I have not stepped on a scale in probably 5 years. I had no ideal what I weighed. All I knew was that it had to be bad because I now wear plus sized clothes. It bothered me at first having to go to the larger clothes. Then I just got used to it.

I don't know if you can say when you first started putting on the pounds but I can tell you exactly when my weight gain started. In the summer of 1999 I got my first computer. I was a skinny gal back then. I wore size 2 and had to wear a belt with my pants even then. As the years have gone by and I have spent more and more hours in front of this computer so has the weight piled on. It wasn't until I got my camera last Christmas that I actually started to spend some time out doors.

I made a phone call this morning to a weight loss clinic here in town. I had gone out there years ago and it did help me shed some weight. When I stepped on the scales there at the doctors office and realized I have doubled my weight that I weighed just 10 years ago that dang near made me cry. I mean I knew it was going to be bad but I truly didn't expect it to be that bad. The doctor gave me some helpful advice on weight loss and gave me medication. We shall see how well it works.

First thing I did when I got home was put on my jogging pants and sneakers and head down to the park. I walked a fast paced walk for almost 50 minutes. Actually I felt really good when I finished my walk. The doctor told me I need to do this type of walking once a day. Of course I also have to start on a diet also. Bad thing about this doctor was all he would say about the diet part was stay away from the bad fats. Okay so I guess I will have to head down to the library and find me some books. Anyone have any ideals? I dumped all the candy out. Well actually I just gave it to hubby and told him to put it somewhere out of my sight.

I am up for the challenge of losing weight. Heck this will be a piece of cake compared to when I quit smoking. I don't have the money for going to a gym so I will try doing some workouts here at home.

Okay I will say one good thing about going out for walks everyday is that I can take me camera with me and take pictures. ;-)

Here is flowers I took out at the Zoo Friday.

More Fall colors

Yesterday I was able to drag hubby with me out to the Zoo. Wow the colors on the trees were almost more interesting than seeing any of the animals. You can kinda tell it won't last much longer before all the those leaves will be falling off those trees. I am going to try and get some more pictures today if I can. Hope you enjoy these:

3 Years!

Well twice this week now my blog has reached a milestone. Today marks 3 years since I started blogging here on blogspot.
This blog mainly started out as a place to post book reviews. In fact if you look back in 2006-2007 that's pretty much all you see. Starting in 2008 it started to morph into something a bit different. Around the first of this year my blog made a big change. I started posting photo's and joining weekly photo meme's.
I am happy with the direction my little blog is headed. Who knows it may change again in another years time if I take up a different hobby.
So, to everyone who stops bye to say hello, thank you. =)

400th Post

Okay so it's only taken 3 years to get 400 posts.

Well we are getting down to the last of the lawns that need to be mowed. I always kinda look forward to this time of year that we can finally take some time off to rest. Today the colors on the trees are really pretty.

I heard on the local news that the trees are now in peak Fall colors. May have to see if I can find some really good shots somewhere this weekend.

Where the Wild Things Are

We went to see this movie today and really enjoyed it. I am sure everyone probably knows what this movie is about so I will skip telling you what it was about. One thing about the movie that is different from the book is that young Max has a lonely childhood. He has no father, his teenage sister is off in her own little world and Max doesn't think his Mother pays enough attention to him.

The animated Wild Thing creatures are really cool. I can't remember all the creatures names but I did really like poor Carol. If you are wondering about taking your children to it, I think young children will enjoy it. One thing hubby and I both noticed today was there were more adults watching that movie than children.

My rating on this movie would be 4.5/5

More Fall colors

Things are switching over to our Fall mode now in our business. This means that when the lawns slow down or stop growing we switch over to leaf clean-up. I don't mind this time of year unless it's really dry. Crunching up dry leaves can play havoc on your allergies.

This week I kept close watch on the changing colors on the trees. They are getting really pretty right now.

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Poetry

Yesterday hubby was up in the attic digging around and found a very large stack of old papers that belonged to his mom. She loved writing poetry. Hubby does also. We are going to retype them and put them in a better binder for safe keeping. I am not much of a poetry fan but I will admit her poems were very easy to understand.

It's raining again

This autumn is lovelier than the one before;

A wood-smoke scent fills every lane;

And oh, Beloved, it's raining again!

Last night, by fireside, my new loves arms

warmed my soul, till I felt no pain;

But oh, Beloved, it's raining again!

Yesterday, wild pheasant came to

My cabin door where I'd scattered grain;

And oh, Beloved, it's raining again!

Today, in the park, I saw your image

In a scarlet sweater, but I called in vain;

And oh, Beloved, it's raining again!

Such a red-orange autumn I've never known,

But a blithesome spirit I cannot feign.

And oh, Beloved, it's raining again.

copyright: Dorothy W. 2009