Life on the farm.

Good news.......  the need for a heart pace maker has been placed on the back burner for 6  months.  My partner's  breathlessness and tiredness has lessoned so all is well so far.  Such a relief to learn that.   From a purely selfish point  of view;   no hospital visiting and trying to find parks and endless walking along corridors and dealing with medical staff.   Feckin Hooray!!!!


Update on my mother......
She is recovering from  a fall supposedly at the dining area at the Home.   I was called within 10 minutes by a very concerned nurse. They were awaiting the ambulance to take her to the hospital for a check.    I phoned the hospital, talked to the doctor handling her and was amazed that an Xray was not ordered, after all it is her right hip area!    She returned to the home later that night.

I visited and she is OK except for soreness and one hell of a bruise.  We all breathed sighs of relief as the last thing any one wants is a broken hip.    I've been told that the elderly do not live very long after a hip fracture.   Mum is now 88 and does have trouble walking.    She has one older sister left who is  92 yrs old.    Her brothers all died before reaching 60! 


My 2 siblings are still living in Mum's home and  supposedly paying the insurance and council rates.  Nothing else.   No rent or repairs.    I don't speak to them now since my last attempt to get them to pay their way became heated and futile.   My brother said he would do jail time over me??    But then... he is a psychotic narcissist.   Really scary stuff there.      I'll be keeping my distance.

Just Busy or Bored or Rained out. Life is Interesting.

 You will not believe it!  The electrical work to the deck has been completed!!!!    It's been 4 months since the last lot of work was done and now 5 hours of work completed it....       An electrician friend volunteered to do the job and it is not a freebie.     We do expect to pay him, of course but should I wait 4 months to do it?   I think so.      The down lights are the wrong type of light. Should be a cool white light but are a warm day light.  They were supposed to be dimmable but are not.  Found this out after the dimmers were installed!   All bought from Bunnings by my man.   I dread him buying things... I really do.

Yesterday he took a neighbour the 90k round trip to our next closest city to drop his vehicle off at the panel beaters.  This neighbour is a lazy, conniving type of person.  That's a long story for another time!      My man comes home with a memory foam mattress topper that costs $399au and is that bloody thin, it won't make any difference to the bed.   It is definitely being returned.

This is a whinge but it's just the tip of the iceberg, believe me...     He did some whipper snipping/weed whacking the other day and there went a fair sized little pumpkin and really slashed at 2 loved garden beds.    Revenge will be mine for a change. I'm not a revengeful  person at all but I have been driven to it!!!        

Doctors, Tests and the Elderly.

     

 I think the reason why I don't post more often is because I really dislike this keyboard.  Keys too undefined, too close together etc etc.       If I have my right hand accidentally  touches  the number keys  it will go into a stupid scroll, delete post attack.          It's not as though there isn't enough things happening to tell you about.   There is.  
   My partner has a very slow heart rate and so we have been traipsing in and out of doctors offices and hospitals, getting tests and seeing cardiac specialists.

Looks like he'll have to have a Pacemaker.  The lovely Cardiac Surgeon said that they are easy to put in but difficult to remove if it doesn't fix the problem.  Hence,  more CT scans and blood tests.
There was the problem of test results not being found at our last visit.  The Drs and staff are just so nice and it is appreciated so much.

I come home a little depressed after seeing all the elderly people and know that is ahead for me.  Old age just stinks.    One lady told me that she had lost 42kgs since December and they can't find what is causing it. She thinks it is cancer...  Her husband has Alzheimer's  Disease and some days he is really angry.  So she is coping with both problems at an age that it should all be easy sailing.

Anyway.......  I'm having a lovely "time out" this morning.    It's cool and a beautiful  sunny day.
I have no plans for it.   May make some lovely soap. May not!  

I hope you and yours are all well and  are going to have a wonderful day.
Take care.  xo

Rain and Autumn Coming to our Neck of the Woods.

This is part of a paddock we call The 20 Acres.

Gotta say, I love this rain!

 It is just coming down gently and not doing damage here.   I love listening to the rain on the iron roof of the house as   I find it soothing and restful.     It is still hot and humid which I HATE....... 

  Hopefully in a few weeks we shall have the beautiful autumn arrive.  We do not have deciduous trees in our climate so we miss out on the gorgeous colours of the leaves turning. 

Bits and Pieces. Floods. Soap. What eva!

Slade Point Lookout.

It's cool. It's cloudy with a lovely breeze blowing.  Just the right day for making a new batch of soap with the gorgeous colours I ordered on line from Heirloom Cosmetics.   If I want to sell my soaps at the markets I need to make lots of stock so that it has time to cure.    If I don't run out of steam, I can make a few batches.

older batches of home made soap.

I would take photos to show you BUT.   My 3 month old camera has now gone back to Nikon to get fixed or Nikon will probably  say it was dropped, it had sand in it, grass in it, your fault!  
The guys from the retailer warned me that this is Nikon's usual stance.   What a mob of bastards!!!   I'll wait and see.  
To make matters worse, could not buy a charger for my other camera at 2 big retail outlets.      Also, couldn't buy a phone battery from where we bought the phones!  The world is going down the tubes to Agenda 21.

Another lot of very yummy Mango Chutney was made here.  It is so nice that we could eat it by the spoonful!  I put a little extra mixed spice in and a little more garlic too and this has given it that extra hit of flavour.  Let me know if you would like the recipe posted.

   This is my first attempt at  sealing the jars in a simmering hotwater bath.  It worked and each of the jar's lids popped in.  I'm going to get out the Fowlers Vacola stuff and do it properly for the  next lot of jam making.       Storage is a huge problem for me due to the smallness of the home and my lovely collection habits!

We have had horrendous flooding in Australia, AGAIN!!  

The wonderful local  Coates Hire in Mackay, QLD  is taking their tilt  tray truck with 2 containers of donated goods and clothing etc,   down to Bundaberg to be there for any one in need. 

Believe me... that's a lot of people.   We took our donations in.  The containers were filled within a few days!!!    I love kind and generous people.   I had made a heap of kids clothes from fabric that a friend had given me a year ago and   I was going to sell it very cheap on my market stall.     Nah.... this is a far better use for them all.  Now, I can sew up some more and diminish that stash.



Also dropped my car off to get the damage fixed from the October incident!   Hell no.. don't want to rush these things...

It is hard to stay optimistic! Floods, Fires and Tornadoes.

I won't put up pictures of the devastation along the east coast of Australia.  There are so many already.

I really don't know how we can help the victims of the fires and the floods and the tornadoes.

I will not give money to the Red Cross.

I do not trust the Red Cross any more after it was discovered that they kept at least a third of the money that was donated to the Bali Bombing victims and families.   I do not know if the whole of this money was ever distributed as it should have been after their greediness and fraud was discovered.    The Red Cross promised not to do this again so the Victorian government let them handle the donations for the bushfire victims of  Black Saturday,  February 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires

 I wonder if ALL the monies, amounting to over 25 million dollars was given to the ones entitled to it.

 Also,   who kept the interest paid for these monies invested in interest bearing deposits?