Boy - This Stuff Drains You

Today has really been a hard day for me - poison ivy wise. It is really sucking the energy out of me and I have not been able to get done half as much as I would have liked to get done. I have a to do list but I am having to literally make myself do what ever I actually get done.

I did actually make myself go out and work on that corner of the yard. Yes - the corner of the yard that gave me this mess. That was hard to make myself do. I was NOT wanting to go back out there. I did take my poison ivy killer stuff out there and sprayed the poison ivy that was left. Not a lot but enough to cause me some concern. We got the trees cut down and have it mostly cleaned up. I need to take a rake to parts of it and finish cleaning it up. And then I have some stuff to take to the Pile. But I left that for another day.

We had the guy coming to buy the motorcycle and to pick it up today. So that has been taken care of. I sure appreciate my husband being willing to sell it and now we will put more focus on cleaning out the garage. And getting other thing done around here.

Anyway I just wanted to touch base with you all. I may be taking a bit of a bloggy break. Tonight I am going to take a half of a benedryl and hoping that it will help with the itching. Cause I am itching all over and especially the spots of outbreak. Hoping to have this stuff cleared up soon. Ya'll have a good week end! :O)

The Little Family and More

Yesterday I was driving home on some back roads. As I drove up a small hill, I suddenly noticed a little family crossing the road. I stopped and I grabbed for my phone and hurried to get the camera going on it. By the time that I got the camera ready- the little family had already crossed the road. A Mamma chicken and her baby chicks. Oh how I love baby chicks!! I wanted to take the whole family home with me. I was so happy to get to see them go across the street and be able to get a photo. Even though you can not see the babies as well as I would like to be able to. I would have LOVED to have gotten a photo of them on the street - you would have been able to see them much more clearly.

So if you drive back roads- be careful because you don't know what little family might be trying to cross the road!

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I think I shared that I had gotten poison ivy. I am not surprised at all. And goodness, had I known how irritating it is - I would have worn a long sleeved shirt the whole entire time - even though it was quite warm. I have been struggling with this for a few days now and it seems to be spreading. So today I called my Dr's office. I wanted to see if there was anything that she could call in for me. Well I figured she wouldn't - some Dr's do - my Dr does not. Anyway I am not totally convinced of this but how they were talking is that it does not spread by the pus or what ever out of the sores coming in contact with other things but just that I was exposed in different places and that it comes up at different times. Oh and I found out that it usually last about 2 weeks. Goodness - that means I have another week of this. I did find out that I can take benedryl - so I will probably start taking small amounts at night to see if I can get help for this itching. I am itching - not only in the infected areas but all over. And it is annoying. Here is a photo of the worse area of my poison ivy:
Well after this experience - I have a new respect for poison ivy and a new resolve to get rid of it out of my yard. I have a little bit of work left in the corner of my yard and some more poison ivy to clear away. And there is another place in my yard that has had poison ivy before. So I will be vigilant to get it taken care of and cleared way.

If any of you have any more help for poison ivy - I would love to hear it. I would like relief and relief fast. Thanks :o)

Treasures- Matching But From Two Different Stores

Hello~ Today was suppose to be a day off. Then I found out that I was going to have to work, one hour before I was suppose to be there. So my plans were changed and I had to put my to do list aside.

I worked and afterwards, I decided to not let the day go to waste so I ran to a nearby favorite Goodwill. I found a couple of tops for me. I also found a cute pair of capri's,a top,and a dress for for my granddaughter. While I was there I found and awesome find! A couple of weeks ago I found the cutest blue and white Avon vase at a different GW store. Today I found the other matching piece of the set. I was so thrilled. There was so much stuff on the shelves and I was about to leave the store so it was a real blessing that I found it! Each piece cost me $2.00.

My friend Susan found a treasure this week at her favorite thrift store. If you have found treasure's at thrift stores, Goodwill's or garage sales. Please leave a comment. I would love to hear about them! :o)

Tornado Activity Too Close

It has been a rough day here in Texas today. There has been two main tornado's that moved through the area. Touching down here and there.

These two photos are photos of the tornado that hit the closest to us. Just a couple of miles behind where we live. It was quite scary.

This is the radar after a lot of the tornado's calmed down. But I am now hearing that some tornado's are kicking up again.

We have been SO lucky with just heavy rains and then hail for about 10 minutes or so.

I have spent a lot of time today praying for family and friends that are out there in dangers way. here is still activity going on. Just heard of a tornado that touched down near Forney.

I hope you all stay safe out there today. :O)

Selling This, Buying That

Good Morning~ Wish I could report that we got the corner done, but I can't. But I can say that we made ALOT of progress. It will be done in probably about an hours worth of work. We could have finished it last night, but we had a guy coming to look at my husband's motorcycle that he was trying to sell. And Good News - the guy bought it!! Yay! He should be coming to pick it up today or tomorrow. Yesterday I mentioned that I would be sharing a blessing from God. Well my husband had wanted to get an RV. He loves to go fishing and camping and had been tent camping the last couple of years since our last RV was totalled. Anyway he has been looking and looking for something in our price range. Well we had really wanted to get something with a bathroom. The idea of having to get up to walk to a bathroom in the middle of the night - was not something that I looked forward to at all. But most of the trailers that had bathrooms were out of our price range.

One day last week as we were headed home from an errand, my husband asked if I minded if we stopped by an RV place. He wanted to look inside of a pop up camper and see what they were like. So we did. As we were fixing to leave, one of the sales ladies asked if she could help us. We told her that were were looking for a trailer in this price range and she said she had a trade in coming in later that day or the next day that she could sell for that price.

The next day it came in and she text photos of it to my husband. When he got home from work we went up to look at it. We were so surprised at how nice it was considering that it is a 89 model. We were very pleased with it and decided we would buy it. The next day we went and did all the paper work and such. And brought it home.
God really blessed us with this trailer. It is 31 foot - we would have be ok with a smaller trailer. It has a pretty nice bathroom with a shower and tiny tub. A couch that lays out into a bed. And the only thing we don't really like is that the trailer originally had 2 bunk sized beds on either side in the bedroom at the back of the trailer. And so someone had taken those mattresses out and then built a board across the whole room - like for king sized bed.

See what I mean at the end of the hall. And it did not come with a mattress. We had hated the idea of paying several hundred dollars just for a mattress for the trailer - but my husband came up with a great idea - that will work since we sold the motorcycle. We will buy a new mattress for our bed - it is at least 9 years old now. It is in pretty good shape though for being the age it is. And we will take our mattress out to the trailer. So we will have a mattress that we know is comfortable in the trailer!

The freezer works great - the fridge not get as cold as we thought it should - we will get thermometer and put out there and check it out. We know of someone who works on trailers so we will have him come look at it and see what he can do before we decide what to do. The tires on it are in good condition and the AC unit had been replaced recently. Oh some of the other RV's that we were looking at did not even have AC's - it is just too hot here in Texas during the summers not to have an AC - so I am thankful for an AC too!

Well I am still praising God for blessing us with this trailer. We bought it for such a good price - we had not found anything even nearly as nice or with bathroom and AC for this price. Thank you Jesus for this and all the other blessings that you lavish on us all every day! :o)

Not Done Yet, But Getting Closer

It is a very warm afternoon, in the upper 80's. So I have had to come inside to take a break. Oh and on another break - I found what looks like poison ivy on my left arm. I am hoping that is all I get and that it will heal quickly. I had sure hoped I was not allergic.

Hoping I have another photo to share later today or tomorrow of the finished area! Oh and those piles of branches and trees - have been taken to our trash pile. And believe me - we have had many, many piles from cutting things down. This is just stuff from one little area. I have several piles of leaves that I need to get raked up and transferred to the area that I want them. So that will be what I go out and do in a few minutes. Then it will be back on cutting down trees and pulling briers and such out of the trees.

Later this week- I will share with a blessing that God brought to us last week. But for now - it is time to get to work. See ya'll later~ :o)

Hoping to Finish Today

I don't know if I mentioned this a couple of days ago but this photo was taken last year. So imagine the growth - grown up about a foot forward from where it is in this photo. And all of the trees and such have grown taller as well. We have had to cut down quite a few trees - because they have thorns. I don't want trees that have thorns. Oh and when I say thorns..these thorns are like about an inch - inch and a half long. Ouch. It makes it a bit more dangerous to deal with them but that is what my nice pair of leather gloves are for. But let me tell you those thorns along with the brier thorns have still come through the gloves- so I have to be careful.

So we have about 2/3's of it done. So far no poison ivy. I do have one spot on my ankle that very well could be poison ivy. Ever so often it burns and itches but I am trying to hard to mess with it.

In just a few minutes I am hoping to get out back and get working on this area. I am hoping that by tonight I can take a photo of it and post it so ya'll can see the progress- Well actually I am hoping it is done by tonight. We will see. I have a lot of other things I want to do today to..so we will have to see what gets done.

I hope you all have a wonderful day! :O)