carol is getting up today

her dh emailed me and told me she is to be gotten up today to walk

and maybe she will come home Tuesday

i guess everyone's good thoughts helped her ( which reminds me, i need to check on that young girl up here with the brain tumor)

thank you so much everyone

now

it's warm here

i got 5 very clean white duckies now

as we filled the big pool for the girls

i have to get falstaff and his new wifey out there too

and then they need to graze as well

we still haven't named the new girl

who btw is HUGE compared to my baby duckikins

and lillianna always wants momma to pick her up

the others aren't as bad about that but lilli sure is

bernie swore yesterday that she was smiling when i picked her up and carried her to the house last night

which brings me to my back

it's apparently FINALLY on the mend

the pain i have is from the chiro moving bones around now mostly

i still have some twinges here and there

i will have to go back a few more times i think as now my legs hurt

but i think he can fix that too......it's all connected to the small of my back somehow

and yes i am still drawing

slowly right now due to back pain and new glasses but still drawing none the less

new glasses........mine arrived yesterday ( i got these from 'goggles4U, and bernie's from zenni optical)

the pink pair are my every day ones

and the red ones my sunglasses (shown without the sunglass lenses though here..it's from the website)

pretty cool huh?

lemme see

i got some wool moths

i got to start freezing wool

i have not been able to do much with my back but now i will be freezing wool daily

as to the other things on my list

bernie is going to finish the coops for the birds

i think they are too small though

he is doing a 6' square foot print for the chickens but with an elevated coop so that they have the full 6' square underneath, plus i am going to put outside roosts in as well

i think after that though we are going to extend the chicken and duck YARDS

the wire parts where they are out in the air

i can let the ducks free range with a bit more safety then the chickens

who are definitely hawk bait out there

although one option could be a sort of movable 'screen' house

anyway

that is in the works

the pullets are laying tiny eggies daily

so far it looks like two have started up laying

cause i get two different color eggs

yesterday someone BROKE their eggie

one of the chickens

oye

we went a 'food' shopping

just for loss leaders

10 things of mayo on sale for the summer

some meat on sale

a new coffee pot on sale *** the proctor silex one that is like 12 bucks and no whistles or blinking lights.......except has the interrupt.......its the BEST***

( i have to get a toaster, new shower curtains, bathmat, and two throw rugs as well as 4 new pillows before my SIL comes the end of may) i would like a RED toaster, four slice if possible

bernie fixed the oven,

i had ordered the element and it was delivered the very next day

so it took him like 15 minutes to fix it

and he cleaned the oven as well as replaced the light bulb that burnt out 10 YEARS ago

i can't wait to bake

( i am going to make a bunch of doughs to freeze for when colleen comes end of may)

the other thing.........we have to get a new mattress BEFORE colleen comes

i am reading online about stuff and apparently the basics are pretty much the same

and the coils come from the SAME manufacturer

so it all comes down to comfort and price is NO INDICATOR

good to know i think

so we probably will end up with the serta from sam's club and a memory foam topper that we add separately

i would LOVE a 24'' tall mattress/box spring simply cause i like the height and i like having to use a footstool to get into bed but it apparently isn't necessary

let me see

( gee i feel like i am coming out of a fog so i am trying to remember everything.....this back pain thing was BAD)

i have yet to plant the blueberries and the blackberry but soon

very soon actually

and i want elderberry, i want them NOW
i may have to wait on the cranberry for a while however

which sorta sucks as i love cranberry

but elderberry i can definately do this year and i intend on it

what all else?

i think that's it

yes i am knitting

right now a 'twisted vine' scarf

next i think some christmas presents........( yup never too early huh?)

oh and we still haven't gotten a passenger seat for bernie's van yet

i need the seat base for it

he's got a seat stashed

have you ever tried to FIND a base for a vehicle seat

it ain't easy

trust me

oye

ok i gotta go now

nature calls

then of course.......there is breakfast

pullet eggies

mmmmmm

vi