12-24-25 First off, Sharon & I wish you all a very safe and Merry Christmas and the very best in the New Year. Yes, we are still hanging in there. My apology for not keeping up on webpages. No excuse, just haven't been in the webpage edits this year. I've been busy taking care of life here. Seems I get one project complete, thoughts of another pop up in memory or suddenly happens unexpectedly. I'm doing fairly well staying on top of what is absolutely necessary as nature cares not what my schedule has on the to-do list... grass and weeds have a much simpler existance and grow endlessly. This year, projects got somewhat behind. Mike, my oldest son was gracious enough to come for a week or so in his motorhome to lend me a hand at getting caught up and then some with other long left undone projects. I'm very greatful for his time and assistance.
Health wise, I've been doing ok. No major issues to date for me so far. I pray this continues for the foreseeable future as Sharon's Parkinsons is holding fairly steady with a few exceptions. She's has had a couple more bad falls, one fall which fractured four ribs that put her in Intensive Care for a week. Sharon is a little head strong and insists she is more capable of moving about but forgets her lack a stability and leaves her walker abandoned. It's an ongoing argument. There are those who strongly believe Sharon should be in a nursing facility. However, we live among the wheat fields here and I sense the presents of cayotes circling waiting for a vulneraility.
The weather here has again been mild this Fall and appears we are headed for another mild winter. We received one inch of snow so far and that didn't last more than a few days. This prompted me to get the snowblower mounted on the JD garden tractor. Since, there has been no further threat of snow. Go figure! I held off putting the snow tires on the truck until a few days ago. I thought to myself, "if I put the tires on, we won't get any winter this year like last year". So far, it seems to be holding true... no new snow since. *sigh* I am really looking forward to blow snow with our new snow blower. *grin* Last year we only received 3-4" inches one day which was enough to try out the snow blower. Wow! It blows the snow 20-30ft depending on position of out spout. What fun!! *smile* Prior years, I used JD with front bucket which worked but required more time to pile show up in middle of circle driveway. The snowblower now blows snow far enough that it doesn't require repeated passes to get it out of the way.
That's about it for this edit. Play hard, live fair, hope you and yours stay healthy in 2026. *smile*
01-03-25 Well, here we are... 2025 finally arrives. I sincerely hope you all had a safe and wonderful 2024 holiday season. Sharon and I did not do any Christmas season decorations. With just her and I here, we chose to share in the holiday season on Netflix and Prime videos & movies. When I was a kid, we used to watch The Wizard of Oz every holiday season. So, when I seen the advertisement trailer for the new movie Wicked, I got sucked in and rented it for $19.95. The main theme of the movie was centered on the beginning and early days of the Wicked Witch of the West. When she was born, her skin was lizard green and was so throughout her life. Funny, I never associated the Wicked Witch of the West as having green skin in the original Wizard of Oz. Might have been due to our family did not have color TV when it first came out back in those days. Yes, the video photography was amazing in Wicked and was a musical as was original Wizard of Oz. The focal point of the whole movie was what she endure throughout life having green skin. Yes, I managed to get through the whole movie, but have to admit, it was a struggle. In the origianl Wizard of Oz there were multiple individuals with different personalities and short comings. In Wicked, it was just one central individual with personality issues. Within the first 20 minutes of the movie, one was convinced why she became a wicked witch! *smile*
That was our holiday season of 2024. We did not receive any snow this year for the holidays. I hurried to get the snow blower mounted on our John Deere X590 mower in anticipation of this year's snow fall. We recieved a tiny skift of snow that quickly melted off within a few hours. We received 3.27in of rain fall in the month of December 2024 of which only tiny amount was attributed to a skift of snow fall. I'm worried 2025 winter is going to be warmer than usual thus "bug kill" will be a minimum. When you live in the county as we do, bug kill is a blessing keeping paper wasps and mosquito numbers down. I'll just have to stock up on bug spray next Spring. *smile*
That's about it for this entry. Sharon & I are doing as best as we can. Sharon has had a couple bad falls, the most recent she fractured her left wrist. Her doctor gave her a wrist splint to wear to keep it immobile, but it is a struggle to encourage her to keep it on. When she takes it off, she bumps it causing her more pain. She's better at keeping it on, but she's pretty stuborn when it causes her issues, it comes off.
With that, Sharon and I wish you all a safe and wonderful 2025. Pray that World War Three can be averted... *sigh*