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Weekly Photo Challenge/Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood

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Entrance to the house Barry and I built from scratch and Mom’s house, off the back.

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Our Home

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My favorite aspect of our new home, my lovely ramp. It looks so much better when the lantana is blooming.

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Tooter, our gas tank

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Tooter, Jr., friendly neighborhood wind-chime

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Rosemary starting to bloom, I need to trim it into some   interesting critter to add more character to the yard.

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The daffodils are starting to bloom, just beautiful. Forsythia and daffodils signal the start of spring in Georgia.

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Wonderfully quiet neighbors across street

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Old Homestead, across the street, of the man the road we live on is named after.

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Old barn in the lot next door, more in the right of way than the lot. Shows how much the area has changed.

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Long drive to an old home place off the road, next  door. Recently police discovered someone had stolen mail and going through it in the old house. Not always quiet in the countryside.

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Bush with blooming white flowers in neighbor’s yard

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Cedar Tree on roadside

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Area known for finding sleeping wildlife, while out for a long walk. Our dog starts barking before we get close to this area.

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A practical joker was at work in January. I could not believe this when I pulled up to it. It was across from a stop sign on an extremely busy road in our neighborhood.

I wish I could get a picture of the bull frogs around here. When rain is on the way, they are so loud it keeps you up at night.

The above photos taken with my HTC Wildfire S.

Crazy Email

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Barry and I have forwarded our email attached to the blog, to another address. There is a message attached with the forwarding. Please have patience with us as we work an issue out. If you need a valid email address, just ask. We will be more than happy to give one out.

Thanks for your patience! We love you all!

Barry and Jill

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Time for Myself

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For the first time in ages, I have time for myself.

I’ve loaded the dishwasher, washed two loads of clothes, fed the fish, fed the dog, made lunch, supper is in the crock pot, and I actually made my bed.

All I have left to do is exercise. I don’t start that till 2pm. I was going to hit the gym, but it is crazy windy and bitter cold outdoors. Maggie is refusing to go outside. I do not walk well in the wind and sitting at the fireplace sounds like a better option to me.

Maybe I’ll get Epic Mickey out.  That will kill some time.  Video games usually make me sleepy.  I should probably get more laundry going, too. It’s been raining so much, we’ve been afraid to over load the septic tank. I am behind with the laundry. 

Word of the Weekend: Decidophobia

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Decidophobia is the fear of making decisions.The word decidophobia was first mentioned by Princeton University philosopher Walter Kaufmann in his 1973 bookWithout guilt and justice[1] in which he writes about the phobia in length.

In Without Guilt and Justice, Kaufman describes people with decidophobia as people who lack the courage or will to sort through the different sides in disagreements to find the truth. They would rather leave the deciding of what is the truth to some authority. This might be a parent or spouse. It might be a church or university or a political party. Once the decidophobe has relinquished authority to decide the truth then they will accept as truth anything argued by that authority.

References

  1. ^ Kaufmann, Walter, Arnold (1973). Without guilt and justice: from decidophobia to autonomy. New York: P. H. Wyden. pp. 273.
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Round Four Finale

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MM900295156Biopsy results are NEGATIVE! NO cancer. They still want me to have an MRI, because they do not have a solution for the problem. But no cancer!!!!!!!Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Saw endocrinologist today about thyroid scan. It was clear, but there is a lymph node she wants to follow. Which means she wants to schedule a thyroid scan! I hate the thought of another thyroid scan. You have to put your system into hypothyroidism before the test.

Last time, they were out of the injection to do this for you and I had to quit taking my medication for 3 weeks before my body converted to hypothyroidism. I was so weak, I could not walk. I was having to use my wheelchair to get around everywhere.

But I’ll do what I need to do to make sure I stay cancer-free. I may not be happy, but I’ll do it. I’m hoping Thyrogen is available and taken care of in 2 days.

Get results of the MRI on my left knee, next Tuesday. I have the feeling surgery is around the corner. But again, I’ll do what I have to do to stay healthy.

I can’t wait to get back to my full exercise routine. I miss it! Gonna light a fire under Barry’s fanny to get him moving with me. We may even get Maggie in on it!

Well, I’m putting this tablet down for the time being. We have to run an errand. Round 5 starts next week, with God leading the way. I hate to think where I’d be without the good Lord guiding us through this mess. Still taking things one day at a time. Thanks for your comments and support.

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Round Four: Thyroid Scan Results/ Biopsy results

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At 11:30am, we will be headed to the next appointment for the week. I’ll get my official thyroid scan results today. It’s in God‘s Hands as usual, but I am feeling rather positive today. The Neurosurgeon‘s visit has really lifted my spirits. Hopefully, Dr. M. will deliver similar news. I also received a message from the breast center, telling me she had good news about my biopsy. I left a message for her, so hopefully I will hear from her soon.

Have a good afternoon everyone. It was 60° yesterday and in the 30’s today with possible snow on Saturday. You have got to love the south. Daffodil’s are blooming already. Spring is coming. I can’t wait!

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Daily Prompt: Buffalo Nickel

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Dig through your couch cushions, your purse, or the floor of your car and look at the year printed on the first coin you find. What were you doing that year?

With this prompt, it would be my luck for the first coin I come across be from the year I graduated from high school (1983). I searched the couch cushions due to the temperature outdoors. The car would have been more appropriate since I spent most of 1983 in a car, after graduation. I met my ex-husband in 1983, right after graduation. When he wasn’t at my house, I was in my car on the way to see him. It was kinda a close, long-distance romance.

I got sick my junior year in high school, so when graduation time was getting close, I had to go to summer school to have enough credits to walk with my class. To make sure I had enough credit, I took a night class at the local junior college, to pad my credits a bit. I’d been through too much with this class not to graduate with them. I worked my fanny off to get the credit, but I made it.

I spent the rest of the year finalizing my plans for nursing school, learning what it means to ‘shoot dove’, learned how important and fun it can be to try to be quiet while deer hunting, I learned how to catch and clean a crappie, and I learned how to drive a tractor to pick up a big roll of hay, to feed cows. Yes, I was turning into a country girl.

I learned many more fascinating things, these were just the first to come to my mind. 1983 was a year of many firsts.

There have been times I look back and say that if I could go back, I’d tell my ex ‘no’ when he asked me out. When I think a little harder about the subject, I’m the woman I am today, because of my ex-husband and it all started in 1983.

Big Day Finale…..

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Everything went off without a hitch. I guess wearing clean underwear to the doctor actually works. The biopsy didn’t hurt a bit and the Neurosurgeon released me till 2018. I’ll be 52 years old. He said the tumor was not growing and my brain was not showing age, to keep up the good work.

I’m just tickled with the day. although I do have to wait 3-5 days for the results.

I even had the pleasure of running into my ex’s sister-in-law. She was there for her yearly visit. It’s nice to see that dome things never change.

I’m headed home for a nap. Didn’t sleep a lot last night catch you all later.

Dancing, Gray New Balance Sport Shoes

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My mom is married to a very sweet man named James. The situation the two were living in, made my sisters and our families uncomfortable. My abilities around the house and my level of functioning was making everyone a bit nervous, especially Barry. Mom needed a home, we needed help. Ta-da……Barry and I got a new roommate. James did not wish to come with her. He wished to stay near his family.

My mother is as sweet as she can be when she wants to be; then at the drop of a hat, she is a totally different woman. She is extremely protective of her girls and will do anything to protect us.

At this moment, she realizes, I am stressing about tomorrow. I am not sure if she is joking with me about this dream, or she really had it. True or not, I have to share. I cannot believe she even thought this up, I’m hoping she actually dreamed it.

Mom discussed her dream with me, when I went to give her a thirty-minute warning to leave for church. She first told me she wasn’t going because she ate too much salt the day before, then she starts giggling. When I asked what was so funny, she asked me to sit down and tell me about her night.

As she was sleeping, she swears she opened her eyes and was awake through all of this. She says she opened her eyes and could see herself as if looking in a mirror. She stuck her tongue out at herself, the image did the same. She moved her left hand and touched palm to palm with the image. She says she closed her eyes, when she opened them, the image was gone.

Next she started to hear country music playing. She looked up at the ceiling to see her gray, New Balance sport shoes dancing on across the ceiling. Mom loves shoes, and has a ton of them. She said the next thing she knew, her closet door flew open and her shoes, all of them, proceeded to dance up the wall to join her  sport shoes doing their thing on the ceiling. She laid down on the bed to watch the show.

She states the next thing she knew, her alarm clock went off. When she went to get out of bed, her shoes were all over her bedroom floor. At that moment, she heard a man laughing in her bedroom door, she looked up to see her father in her doorway.

His comment to her was she never could keep her room clean. He closed the door. She chased after him, at the moment her foot hit the floor, she was wide awake. She opened her door and he, of course was gone…….

Gotta love her………..