24 hours from now

I'm wondering what the next night will bring...great pain with no end in sight from having this piece of metal put in my leg.a long sleepless night writhing in pain from this foreign object implanted in my body......I can see the purple and black now surrounding my leg as i bruise easily and this will actually be the first major surgery i will have had although i have had my throat cut from one side to to the other when they did my thryoid surgery and i have had both knees operated on with ligaments sewn back together and cartilages taken out but i think this will be the worstest (ha..no such word) one of all....unless i muster up nerves of steel overnight to take the brunt of most of the pain....maybe i can sleep thru most of the next three days and wake up with no pain.I tried to accomplish most of what i wanted to get done in case i am hindered for a week or so .ok........short post ....i am outta here to pack a few more things for the journey to the new leg.............part....owww..it hurts already.

so much to do..too little time

the big day will soon be here..today i went for pre-ops at the hospital to get me ready for that big day next Tuesday...I am in no way looking forward to this surgery..i don't see why my doctor thinks i need surgery...don't these legs look anywhere near perfect..shapely....guess not.....I guess if i were in severe pain or any kind of in depth pain i would be more intent on having this done...but the way i see it ,,i am going to be in more pain after surgery then before and it seems to me it ought to be the opposite...anyways...the date is next Tuesday..the 22nd...and i have so much i want to get done before then...we are in the process of trying to get a house in condition to rent...and i am not in any way much help now..let alone after the surgery...i just have to much i want to do to be hindered by not being able to do anything of great depth for at least 6 months..oh well..too late to turn back now...

maybe i can take this laptop to the hospital and do some catching up on my posts..we'll see....

i thought i could have the femoral block or the pump like the Louisiana sis but i guess they don't do either one anymore..its either pills or shots..just want i wanted to hear...that's just hunky dory..ok....just an update on where my surgery is at....now i am off to the kitchen to find something to eat......I've worked up an appetite just thinking about surgery....good bye.

why would i go

after tonite,,,why would i.......

and you ask me..."why dont we go on a cruise" well tell Miss Peggy I would like to BUT..........if it wasnt for the ???????????.

I would have... and my mind runs wild when it gets over water....

ahh,,,the boat ,,the boat
For one thing,I went on a mini cruise tonite...we boarded our boat at the hockingport docking site....i was trying my best to stay steady as i hiked one leg over the dock onto the boat and looked back to see if the other one was following..yep..two legs..still attached....I'm carrying my life jacket in one hand,,a sweater for the cool breeze from the water and a pair of sweats in case the temps drop fast...as it is always a little more nippier in or near water....I scanned my surroundings as we got on...I could see a yacht docked on the other side of the little river, river boats all decked out with palm trees and bright lights, people sitting in chairs fishing from the banks

cruising the river..

we cruised on down our little river til we crossed under the bridge that directed us into the mighty ohio .....the banks were ten times as far apart as the little river we were on....the pilot..(man in the house ) piloted the cruise ship we were on down the mighty ohio and opened the throttle up full force ,,the wind blowing our hair among the roar of our little engine..soon when we got tired of cruising down the river ,,the pilot pulled the little boat over to the side and proceeded to fish for whatever would have the misfortune of jumping on his hook...fishing is not one of my favorite things to do but when asked to go...i grabbed my camera and thought why not..

as i sat in our little boat ,,,i would gaze out of the corner of my eyes watching in case i would encounter a giant squid wrapping his tentacles around me or a menacing shark coming up to take a bite out of our water craft and visioning the little boat sinking to the bottom in all that water never to be seen again..with that thought i clutched my life jacket closer and thought the man in the house will have to pry my locked fingers off of this one to get it away from me...(I've got to quit watching all those movies

that end up with the main characters being ate because in this scenario I'm the main character....) with that thought I gazed around and my wandering imagination saw a crocodile .

...alias a big log floating on the river

...a different looking bird

sitting on the side waiting to take off in flight and swoop down upon us..ahh but he took off and flew the opposite way.but wait theres a snake sticking its shiny green head out of the water waiting for the chance to spring upon some unsuspecting prey....but wait...thats not a snake ,,,thats a pop bottle..my eyes are deceiving me again.....alas my camera helped me pass the time again,,..the moon was shining over the water and casting a shadow as far down as the eye could see and a picture was in tow...i would have been absolutely bored on this little cruise if not for my little buddy in my pocket...when bored,,take pictures...

on the west va. side of the river among the trees and wooded hills you could see houses and farms dotting the river..on the ohio side at the point we were at was highway and rock cliffs that the man in the house worked on years back,logs and other objects floating on the river..,OK.. my cruise is almost over and we want to get off the water before dark.and the other cruise liners (((barges)))) happen up the deep waters..the waves they create could toss and sink a smaller vessel like ours if we would wander into their territory....things look more sinister in the dark especially in water..and im sure my eyes could really imagine things..and to top it off ,,i have never sat so still in my life...and i sure dont want to piss the man in the house off at this point...i can see him tossing my fat butt of this little cruise ship we are on and noone knowing where i went or what happened to me..happens all the time doesnt it..or trying to load our little ship and getting caught underneath it..all kinds of thoughts race thru your mind..who can you trust these days....is the person in the house with you that you thought you knew for over 15 years coming out of the closet...has he had enough of me...have i ticked him off...think I will just sit on my cruise ,,take pictures and KEEP MY LIP SHUT....so my lip was zipped on this trip ..i even talked nice on this trip...i am not in command or have any control on this ride...this one hour trip was a half day outing it seemed..I WANNA GO HOME AT THIS POINT..

im back home and im safe...whew....i'm dry ,,,i dont smell..so i must have done alright.....that was my mini cruise...

now ask me,,,if i want to take a major cruise on the mighty atlantic or pacific ...sharks..whales..octopus,and all those other creatures in that deep dark lurking water..well...miss peggy .........I DON'T THINK SO...i dont like water and all those creatures in it...and i think i am going to skip my shower tonight...ive seen enough water.............later............

lunch break,,m-m-m good

I'm ready for lunch ,,I'm tired and hungry...so i took time out for a ???????? what might this be,,,my lunch....yeppppppp??????Mrs..K might say it looks like road kill..but i swear i wasn't out anywhere near the highway..what i actually wanted was a tomato and mayo sandwich but the friendly preachers wife wasn't up this way today...so i had to settle for a mayo and jelly sandwich...actually it was so yum yum good i had to have two....now ,,gut is full and i had to take a break...break to the blog site that i cant seem to get to anymore...

all gone......yummmy

..........another day almost gone in the hundred minus 88 acre woods..actually the man in the house acquired another 30 some acres when his mom passed but the immediate 12 surrounding us is all that we have...of ours together....

it has been one of those long days where i have worked and toiled all day and it only looks like i did nothing when i get through...i worked inside cleaning and sorting canned goods and rearranging shelves in the kitchen and hallway...lots more to do in those areas but as usual i had to wonder out on the screened in porch and wanted to work outside a little bit..the outside was calling me ...cause you see,,,I HATE HOUSEWORK..so i proceeded to sort and separate on the porch...the box ..no i should rephrase that and say the big box that holds the big bags of dog,,lamb and pig food for those monster animals had to be cleaned out,,,,now this is not a small box....it holds three 50 lb. bags of food along with everything else that seems to fall into it....ok,,finished that...now for all the pool toys, the floaties,,,the life jackets,,pool chemicals, the tools for pool cleaning, the goggles, fins and hoses are all to be put away..the baseball bats ,,balls, bases and gloves , all needed to be nestled away some-where for another summer ,all the toy guns ,swords and whatever had to be collected ,, out with all the summer toys and out come the winter....sleds,coats , boots and gloves will soon fill the transition from summer to fall, and winter.........football season is upon us..can still ride the bikes and riding toys for a while yet.i swear if i didn't have all the toys that the 7 year old DOES NT play with ,,i might have room around this house...but I'm not getting rid of his toys..that's his stuff...unless hes willing to give them up and occasionally we get to sorting and do..but theres toys for the living room,,,the tub..the porch..then there is the outside toys....as a matter of fact you would think there was 10 kids around here..sometimes there is but not permanently... but he has times and moods like we do that he wants to play with army men...farm animals..hunting toys..monster trucks or whatever strikes his fancy that day...so i let him pick and chose...so how can i get rid of his toys when that is all hes got....that's his own things that he can call his own...and the older ,broken ones i do pitch without him knowing....

the pool is slowly turning green,,,which we will not try to resuscitate at this point because our season for swimming is GONE for this year..when these nights get down in the 50's..just doesn't warm back up through the day to warm the pool water..

and when the man in the house doenst go in it,,,IT MUST BE COLD...so good bye to all those sun soaking days..hello fall..

ok...my break is up...just wanted to make an appearance before i start back to work..want to finish the outside porch before i quit..so toodle loo til next time...well. before i could get this posted i heard the dogs barking and someone calling my name...the preachers wife was outside with watermelon,,a tomato for my tomato sandwich and watermelon for the pigs...so we let her 4 year old go out and feed the piggies some watermelon rinds.....we wandered around the yard then down to the deceased mothers house that she and her husband are wanting to rent ,,,she wanted to walk through it one more time and see what changes we might need to make as she has 5 boys and it only had three bedrooms...planning is in the progress if we can get the builders to agree to it...so now it is almost 4..time to do a few more things before i quit for the day which i am almost ready to do...i could do more but this knee i need replaced slows me down more then i want too....or if it isnt my knee that slows me down then i have a darn good excuse..ok..im outta here............