Preparations!

 Yep, even if we did not have an accurate weather channel, my forecast is for aching bones and more of the same. Today was very nice even with the wind, but by Monday night it will not be so very lovely at all. Oh well. Texas. February.

Cindy and Ben just left. They came to unload feed and put it in the bin. Nothing like getting too old and decrepit that one has to have help unloading feed. Oh well. It is done. Cindy brought her little dog Wookie. He looks just like a Wookie from Starwars.

Joe Malay has been having fluid on his heart and lungs--think that is right. Anyway, he could use our prayers that he can stay out of the hospital. God can do anything; we just have to ask.

As soon as the weather gets decent, Michelle DeMers is going to rehome my Buff Orpingtons--Goldie and Grey Lady. They are sweet hens, but they are SO heavy! They can get in a nest full of eggs and just break one, and then all the eggs have to be washed and dried and put in the fridge. That's a pain. Never have to refrigerate my eggs unless they are dirty and need to be washed. 

My doctor came by to pick up three dozen eggs this afternoon. Recently she moved her office to 4610 Kell West next to the pharmacy there on the corner. Anyway, we were talking about various things, and she said that her lab tests cost $18 for about $400 dollars worth of tests. That is better than it is with insurance from what the lab downtown wanted to charge me. SO glad to be one of her patients. Even folks with insurance (mine is Medicare with United Healthcare) don't pay as much with Dr. Blackwell's services. That is ONE of the reasons that she will be my doctor as long as this ol' gal is still kicking. That and the fact that she listens! Having 24-7 access to a doctor at my age makes a difference, too. 

Walked the east side lots and picked up rocks and assorted things the kid across the fence has been throwing at my dogs. Found a dart that just made me want to say something terrible. Maybe those people will leave soon. They are constantly working on vehicles and racing their motors, playing loud music, and otherwise being obnoxious. Sigh. Lewis' cousin Gerald Talley once said that he thought that living way out in the country where he had land would prevent that kind of nonsense. THEN they put in a type of racetrack for four-wheelers on the land adjoining his. TRASH all over the place. Know just how he felt. They shut down the race track, so maybe it is not as bad now. But around here there is noxious odors from stuff that Jerry is burning, plus all his flying trash into my fence line. ARGH! Sooner or later the city may stop some of his fires, but then it would be something else.

Sounds as if a certain old woman is on a gripe fest. But did talk to my friend BillyeRuth this afternoon. She had a friend over who brought scraps for the hens and some leftover pizza for her dog Moe. BRs hens really love Martha and her scraps cause they come running when they see her. Doesn't take hens long to realize what goodies are and who brings them.

Found out today that John Rhoads bought that Texas book for me--after mine had already arrived. One of us will have to offer a copy to the WF Library here for the Texas Reference section. At least after it has been read, we will KNOW that it is a good book. Wish one of my kids would be a historian. Today they are changing Texas history with a vengeance. That is just too sad for words. Would love to even have a book about all the women of Texas history. Did read up on The Yellow Rose of Texas, and it seems the history is somewhat confused. Definitely not a match with the song we have sung all our lives. Even so, many of the women who have started businesses in Texas have made a difference for other women. Thinking Mary Kay cosmetics. Can't remember the name of the Black woman who developed cosmetics and stuff for Black women. But women have always had to do their own thing to be able to make it. Read today about the first woman who was a Pinkerton detective. She saved Abraham Lincoln's life by uncovering an assassination plot on a train that was to go into Baltimore. She was quite a woman and made it plain that women could discover things that men would never hear. But she died of pneumonia at 34. Sad.

My sister-by-another-mother Sharon Dickerson has found pictures of a bird that they keep seeing in their yard. Have not been able to find it so far, but pretty sure it is not a Goldfinch. Anyway, the bird for today from my calendar is the Greater Double-collared Sunbird. Don't really think we need to expect to see one of these little critters in Texas. Maybe it is enjoyed in the southern section of South Africa. It is still fun to see the different birds even if we will never see them here in Texas.

It's Friday, so we can all look forward to the weekend and goofing off around home. Hmm. Isn't that what we do most of the time anyway? Well, some of us do that goofing off thing. 

May your time be used to fulfill your joys. You are loved.