a product review...

for all of you Little Debbie fans out there...

if you haven't tried these, you need to hop in your car and head to the store...

I just had a nibble of this and I can say that it was awesome...

DH can vouch for these...

you know you want to try them...

inside the one I tried...

moist and weighty...

smooth and good...

iris bed...

and another one of the male cardinals...

I might have overdone it last week a little...

crashed just before noon...

got vertigo, too...

yippee...

I should hear tomorrow about the blood work I did yesterday...

or clinic/ hospital is all connected together...

so the lab is between the two...

they do it onsight...

so no having to wait for it to come back through the mail...

sunny but so cold here...

we have to wait until next weekend to be warm again...

disclaimer: Grandma's didn't pay me one red cent to toot my horn about the above products...

I did it of my own free will...

I thought it was a better thing to post than what I have been doing today...

napping and scooping poop out of the litter box...

;)

and so the day went like this...

purple finch...

my friend, Jettie, knew what it was...

thanks, girl!

today was blood work day, so got up early and headed to the blood suckers...

made it there by 7:30...

done in 5, so Craig and I took off for McDonald's for breakfast...

made a quick stop at Walmart...

found these, for a dollar each...

fun spring colors...

I lit the lilac as soon as I got home...

so here you go, all of you with snow still on the ground...

this is what spring looks like around here...

tulips and crocus...

could very well bloom in the snow...

they say more of that for Tuesday...

we cooked when we got home...

chicken parmesan with penne pasta...

had it for lunch and will have it for supper, too...

and when I have to watch my carbs and sugars, I use this for my bread...

I just take a loaf of the cheap french bread and slice it thin...

put it in a tub and that is the size of my sandwiches...

it makes really good sandwiches without all the things you don't want going to your hips...

its colder today and I am so missing yesterday's 70s...

we have a missing kitty...

Hermie got out on Craig yesterday morning and we haven't seen him since...

he is not used to being outside and is afraid of everything out there, so not sure if we will get him back or not...

praying he is safe, where ever he is...

we have walked the neighborhood and called and called...

got his face posted on fb in case someone found him...

so that's about it for me...

been trying to get my housework done, but it just takes me forever...

and now, we have to do a deli run to Ashmore...

;)

sure signs of spring...

we had a good first day of spring...

green grass...

the trees are budding...

iris are coming up...

got to rake soon, but this weekend looks like a bust...

we went out this evening after supper...

and it was a bit chilly, but not too bad...

another sure sign of spring...

work to do...

Bebe made a new friend...

one is our neighbor, but she had a friend over tonight...

and Craig found these at Walmart today...

marked down to $30...

there were $79...

going on the deck later on...

I think...

that's the plans right now...

how was your first day of spring?

;)

I'm back...

Tuesday night, Craig came home without my test strips for the glucose meter...

and I was completely out...

so, I had taken the antibiotic, which is making me so sick and I grabbed a hamburger...

then we took off...

for walmart, which did not have the script at all, so had to pay full price out of pocket for them, but got the strips and some extras...

I found this fabric there to redo the deck with...

and I found this beautiful blue fruit jar...

and I had an idea, which I will show you later on here...

and I found this, told Craig it would be fun, but only needed one...

when I got home, this was in the bags, too...

he was pretty sneaky, huh?

he paid for it, said I liked that color, so he got it for me...

got some brown terra cotta pots, white plastic eggs, and a birdhouse to paint...

and new shoes for home...

I have had this list of things to look for when I finally got out and ended up getting everything on the list in one night...

that never happens...

we got up yesterday morning to an icky kind of day...

and took off for my drs appointment...

it was at 10:45, so we got up and no internet...

it was so boring waiting on time to leave!

we got out of there at 12:30 and headed to walmart there, shopping around and went to pick up the strips there and there was nothing... 

I am so fed up with the walmart pharmacies and trying to get my scripts!

so we left there without them, which reminds me, I need to call them this afternoon...

to see if they ever got it or I need to make another call to the nurse to see what's going on...

left there and hit Burger King on the way out of town...

ate lunch about 2pm and it went downhill from there...

got my garden gloves and some crafty things...

in the 97 cent bins...

and a pack of Easter cards...

and a couple of these dollar solar lights...

for the jars to set on the deck this summer...

see, I will show you the finished project as soon as I figure it out...

one of my whoppers...

I ended up eating 2 yesterday...

Doug and Paula came right when the guys were getting done with supper last night...

I was still too full from eating lunch so late, I hadn't done mine...

Doug had this nasty looking messy rash with red patches of infection on his arm...

I didn't like the looks of it at all, so Doug, Paula, DH and I headed back to the hospital/clinic and the ER...

we got in pretty quick and luckily, it was only a yeast infection with a secondary infection...

not blood poisoning or anything contagious...

they hadn't eaten yet, either, so we asked them where they wanted to eat and they said Burger King...

so we stopped there and went in and ate supper on the way home...

we had a good time...

but I was already worn out from the night before and then yesterday...

LOL- you should of heard me praying in the back seat on the way out of our drive way last night!

Lord, just let me be able to do what I got to do...

you know the kind of prayer...

I needed to go to interpret for Doug...

and to make sure the dr understood him and he understood what the dr was going to tell him...

the Lord blessed me with enough strength to get down what I had to do and even felt good when I got home...

;)

and a new comer...

I don't know what it is, but there's only one and its so pretty...

not sure if its a little snowbird ready to mate or another kind of sparrow...

doc checked me over pretty good...

ordered blood work for Saturday morning...

must fast for it...

they open at 7am...

so another trip for me...

I guess I am making up for the 3 months stuck at home...

when he gets the blood work back, he will decide on what to put me on...

which he is sure metformin twice a day...

and go from there...

and that's the news from here...

I hope your week is going good...

I will around to check on you soon...

right now there is a sink full of dishes, the trash can is full and laundry to put away...

and someone gave me 3 walmart bags crammed full of old towels...

for the animals and the cages...

so I need to sort them out...

that is going to help so much!

I hope to get a nap in there, too!

;)

it was all well and good until...

they found me...

I got plenty of help getting things done yesterday...

I was sorting out my mail cart...

and found some peonies petals from last year...

and my rose hips and some seeds...

so I grabbed the plastic containers that I have been saving...

but the sticky label stuff wouldn't come off all the way...

so I got into my drawers...

and covered it up...

that's a parsley flakes container...

and this one, too...

its a spice container...

and it has some seeds for this year...

one great thing about these containers, besides being able to see in them...

they have the shaker tops...

perfect for putting things in that might not be dried all the way...

just leave the flip top open until they do...

just shake them up every now and then...

while I was doing that, there was a commotion going on at my feet...

someone is trying to pounce on the kitty in the mirror...

and all of a sudden they have discovered the art of climbing me...

those are little claws in my leg...

I am so full of pin holes...

and while I was trying to photo all the happenings...

the camera cord was attacked...

who needs leprechauns making mischief when I have these?

and all that hard play just wore them out...

sleeping standing up...

and a couple decided I was the nap place today...

I have no idea how many trips they made up me...

as soon as I peeled one off and set it in the floor...

there was another...

I got so little done yesterday, but what's a mom to do?

I called for reinforcements!

stack them up and lock them up for their naps...

so I could finish the sorting and putting away...

so I could get lunch before they woke up again...

and that's basically how the whole day went...

I did manage a call to the dr's office and I go on Wednesday...

and Craig has that day off, so he is going to run me over...

shopping after and lunch...

so that won't be too bad of a day...

just hope it warms up some more and the wind stops blowing...

an update on Tori...

;)

her mom posted a video yesterday of Tori running for the first time since her foot was amputated 16 months ago...

and she did good!

;)

both my guys are working today...

so I am home alone...

resting up...

counting my blessings and my pin holes...

;)