Crochet Me Crazy

Well, it's just nearly impossible for me to keep my blog updated with life as it is right now. It's too big of a pain in the rump to go the internet so I don't go very often. I usually just read email and stuff and then get out of there. We are looking into what kind of internet we can get here at the RV....as soon as we have time to look! Well Jeff is almost back to normal! This next Saturday will the the 1 month marker since his accident. I've got him on all kinds of vitamins and he's barely even limping anymore. I would say he's making a very, very quick recovery with a fractured pelvis. He's antsy to get back to riding and he's planning on making an appointment with the doctor to get the okay. Alison is back to working at the stables everyday and Jeff is going up there with her to answer phones, take money, and whatever else he can do around there. Then, they hired a couple of kids and Jeff is now running the rides since he knows the horses without actually riding. I've been in and out up there alot. I usually bring them lunch. Michael and I are mostly watering the trees by ourselves and doing the park duties since they are working and we can usually have it done before they get home. I'm pretty stir crazy and trying to get used to this new schedule of life. I went to the library the other day and I've been reading alot. Well, just to let everyone know I haven't dropped off the face of the earth! I'm just having a hard time getting to the internet these days! Stick around...I shall be back!

Monday night he gave me a big scare. He was trying to climb into bed in the middle of the night and he did *something* to his ribs. He was in so much pain he was afraid to breathe. I found him standing in the kitchen almost having a panic attack. Once I got him settled down and got him to breathe a little bit, we made it through the night with him sitting up. We went to the clinic the next day. I'm really confused now because the doctor told us he had cracked ribs but we would know more after the radiologist looked at the x-rays. They called today with the preliminary report and said he has a hair line fracture on his pelvis. They didn't say anything about his ribs. Well, his hip is MUCH better. He is walking around now with just a limp and not using the crutches. The ribs are the main source of his pain now but he's doing a lot better with that now. I made an appointment today for him to get the staples removed from his head on Monday. I feel a huge sense of relief now that we've had him checked out and we're on the upswing. He's going to try to get back on a horse before he needs to but I'm not going to let him. I've already warned him that he didn't listen to me once and it go him hurt....he's not gonna do it again. Hard headed for sure....Anyway, I'm just so thankful to God that he wasn't more seriously injured.

I am seriously bored when I am sitting at home. We have trees to water but no internet is driving me nutty. We don't have TV either....which I can live without but I miss my internet!! I have no idea what's going on in the world. Everyone tells me that might be a good thing!

I started another doily but have been having trouble relaxing enough to crochet. I think I'll do better now that the crisis is over.

Thanks to all that commented on my doily! I haven't had any time to crochet or do anything really. There is quite an update though....on Saturday, my husband, Jeff got thrown from a horse at the stables and is injured. It was pretty darn scary. His horse is the skittish type and he bolted and started bucking before Jeff got all the way on him. Jeff went flying. He was "unconscious" for about 5 minutes. He wasn't really "unconscious" like he was out of it but we didn't realize until later because he doesn't remember hitting the ground or getting up. He kept saying he was okay. Well, I had him checked out by the EMT in the state park and then decided to take him to the ER that night just to be sure. They put 5 staples in the gash in his head. He cracked his ribs and he's limping around because he hit on his hip. I borrowed some crutches for him to help him get around a little better. He's a pretty pathetic sight but I'm so thankful to God that it wasn't worse. He's somewhat better today but not so much. Well, we knew it would happen eventually. We think we've figured out why Wishes (the horse) bolted. Jeff has some tic-tacs in his back pocket. Our trail horses wouldn't react to those but Wishes is a spooky horse. So, needless to say Jeff has to mend a bit before he can start doing the rides again. The owners grandson and Alison are doing the rides right now and I'm still up there working. Jeff has been hobbling up there some. I'm just real tired because by the time I get home, I just want to wash all that dirt off of me and relax. Got to find some crock pot recipes so I can have some dinner already ready by the time I get home! Pray that we don't have a fire here! It is soooo dry and very, very windy and all these campers with their campfires ...not a good combination.

Well, I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend! I'm making it quick tonight so I get can get back home and go to bed!

Yay! I finished my doily! I'm so proud of it! I can't believe how fast I was able to make that! It took me less than two weeks. I think I could finish one in a week on a normal schedule without all the dance rehearsals I had last week. I have another pattern I want to try but I may try to get a little more done on my cross stitch before I start another one...then, again, I may not have time to work on much of anything since we start working at the stables full time starting tomorrow.

Looks like we will be in the state park for at least another week or two. Jeff went to town and came home with an 18 foot trailor loaded with pipe on Wednesday. He was down there all day today at the stables the getting the water lines put in for the sites. Jeff talked to the park today and they said we are fine right now and they don't have anyone coming to our site right now so that's good. We're just going to have to about kill ourselves trying to get all those trees watered when we get home in the evenings from the stables. I helped Jeff water the trees last night. THAT was not EASY! We had to double the water yesterday (2 buckets per tree). It's hard to find water hydrants when there are campers everywhere so we had to haul 5 gallon buckets to most of the trees. There are 50 something trees to water! The park is supposed to be getting a big 250 gallon water tank for us to haul in a truck. That will make it a lot easier.

Boy, is it hot here! The past 3 days have been over 100 degrees and heat indexes of over 104 degrees. I'm having a hard time keeping the RV cool. We only have one AC and it has a really hard time keeping up on these extremely hot days. Today, I went and jumped in the river with Alison to cool off. Someone stole our tube while we were there.

Well, hopefully we'll have a busy day tomorrow at the stables! I hope the heat doesn't keep people away! Will update when I can!

This past Saturday was Alison's ballet! She did beautifully and she won the award in her class of "Most Improved" this year and got a plaque.




Her Nana & Papaw came for the show.

Yesterday, we spent the day in Kerrville. Michael got his new lenses in his glasses. It feels good to get that taken care of! I got Alison's hair trimmed and after we left, I saw that it is totally uneven! I could have done better than that! I didn't want to go back and have her fix it because Alison was so worried about the cutting off too much. I'm going to even it out myself.

Today, I'm sitting down here on the internet while I'm waiting for my clothes to wash and dry. Today, I'll spend cleaning up from the chaos of the last week.