Crochet Me Crazy

Today is a gloomy and rainy day. I tried to go out on the porch and read my devotional but had to go back inside because I was too cold. Everything is so pretty and green right now! I'm loving Spring! My Mimosa trees haven't started budding yet but it's a coming!



The weeks are going by at lightning speed! Just finally starting to really get ready for the cruise! Got our itinerary all shaped up now. Getting our minds made up what we wanted to do in Cozumel has been the most time consuming. Got our documents printed and paperwork all lined up. I think we're all set. I even started packing a little bit. Alison and I went cruise shopping last week. I needed a new bathing suit real bad...mine are all faded. I ended up with 2! We should be wearing bathing suits a lot more on this trip than the last one in January. We had bad weather the whole trip! I'm expecting this one to be "smooth saling" as they say! I can't wait! I really NEED a vacation!!

I have Brennan here with me until school is out. Ties me down quite a bit because we have to schedule everything around being home when the school bus gets here which is why we had to go shopping on Sunday last week instead of mid-week like we normally would. He's been going home on weekends and I've been working! I still miss the girls a lot but I'm in less pain now as the weeks go by. Haven't gotten to see them but just in passing. It feels like they are trying to keep them away from me so I haven't tried to go see them. I asked Ana about Easter and she was evasive. I plan on making other plans for Easter. It will be the first ever Easter I haven't celebrated with the kids. I will give them their baskets when I see them or send them with Brennan when he goes home. We'll decided what we will do for our first ever non-kid filled Easter Sunday. Maybe we'll make steak. Haven't had a good steak in a really long time.

Jeff started back to installing Satellite Internet but with a different company. It's not going so well though. He's barely getting jobs. He's picked up a side job or two to fill the gaps. He's still got inquiries going on his resume in access control but if it doesn't pick up soon he's gonna end up having to try to go back to the company he was with before. It's a last resort though. There's a lot of reasons not to want to.

In the meantime, he's been getting a lot more done on the fence since he's home a lot. Started on the front driveway and putting a gate in! We still have one side and the back fence to replace the old fence but at least once we get this part done we can let Fancy out there with supervision.



It will eventually have a gate opener on it because who wants to get out and open a gate, right? Until then we can shut the gate if we want to let Fancy out back until the whole project is complete.

Jeff has also been clearing out cactus from the back....this is a big pile of cactus to be burned! Lots more but it's a start!



We had a real scare with her last week. Alison sometimes let her out back to graze and keeps an eye on her. It's all fenced except an one opening to the front. That horse decided to be bad and started wander off to the neighbors before she knew it. Then it was just an all out temper tantrum when Alison tried to catch her. She didn't want to go back in. She started running...and I mean running! All over the neighbors..heading for the highway at full speed. Thank God she didn't run in the road! She turned and there was nothing we could do to stop her! She was disobeying commands. Round and round she went! She finally ran back into our back section which relieved us a bit because we were able to block her exit. At that point we just stood there and Alison said just let her run. She ran around our back pasture which isn't cleared, jumping over cactus. Finally she stopped. I had to keep the exit blocked while Alison went to go try to catch her. Boy, did that horse get in trouble. Alison had to put her in time out and tie her to a tree. We were about to leave to go the YMCA for basketball and Alison to go to Body Pump class but she ended up having to stay home. She said I have to leave her tied for awhile or she's gonna get away with it. So Alison stayed home and left Fancy tied to the tree for over 2 hours. She was also grounded from her going in the front yard to eat grass privileges for about 3 days! LOL! She'll never go in the back pasture without a lead rope again for sure.

I think my long-term care taking job will be winding down soon. I've been with the family for over 4 years now. I went to work one day to find out that the Mrs. fell. (I probably already mentioned it here) I've only been sitting with the Mr. since then while she is in rehab. The family members living there are ready to move on and the couple will probably be going to a nursing home. It makes me sad to see. With Mr. having Alzheimer's I know what that move is going to do to him. They are 90 and 91 years old and still doing so well on the physical health-wise. They and their family have been such an inspiration to me. Such a legacy they have left and their entire family are such great people. I have so much admiration for the Mr. I don't know that I've ever met a kinder soul...Devoutly strong, gentle, Christian man. He has trouble working the TV now so we spend a lot of time listening to music. I put the music on...usually hymns...and he will sit in there with me for hours just listening and whistling. He doesn't have a care in the world. Anyway, always sad to see a season end. I guess I'll have to figure out what else I can get myself into after this is over and after Brennan is done with school to make a little extra money.

We are going to see FOR KING AND COUNTRY in concert tonight! We all love them and have seen them before! Should be fun!