February 2008 Archives

You know what is worse than being sick? Getting sick while you are sick!

As soon as the last of that aweful virus moved out we got struck with achey fever head and chest colds. We have walked around sniffing, sneezing and drinking my hoarded stash of Nyquil form the days when it had the good drugs in it. I even broke out the sudafed and alka seltzers.

Then we all slept for a week.

That is one way to pass the days of a pounding head and a cough that sounds like a lung is coming up.

Look for many posts this week!

I went over the Blue Ridge! And I brought back blue chickens! And I have eggs in my incubator!

And Steven had a  birthday and he is now 2 whole years old.

Can you believe it?

I made it through the entire day and did not put one drop of chocolate (or any type of candy) in my mouth!

P.S. The previous post is entirely true. No exaggerations.

After dealing with sick children for a week I found myself flat on my back so very sick I just wanted to cry.

Steve took a day off to help me with Steven.

This is so not funny I want to cry again.

He slept all day, either by the fire or in the bed and didn't help me at all.

People he wasn't sick. Sick and tired of the BS he was having at work but physically battling that virus he was not.

Thinking about it now makes me angry because in his mind he did everything friday. How laughable, he didn't fix his own lunch or dinner and to ask him to do something drew filthy looks and smartass remarks. He even went back to bed at 8pm. Yet he tellspeople he was at home taking care of me and Steven.

Now we all have headcolds. The nasty clogged sinus, you can't breath, but you have to blow every 5 minutes, geesh my head hurts and my body aches kind of head cold. He is even more grouchy and mean. He lays in the floor by the fire acting like he is providing sole care for Steven meanwhile I am picking up behind them all, cooking supper, doing laundry. If I sit down at my laptop to check email or to look at the farm forum I belong to he throws it back at me that it is all I do. WTH?

I am on a short rope this week. Someone might get hung with it, too.

Kids

Virus

Both ends

Laundry

Laundry

Laundry

Exhausted

Would you understand completely and feel very very sorry for me?

The 98 - 100 year old apple tree in my backyard is gone.

We woke this morning to rain. I paid it no mind and went about getting Gracie ready for school. As daylight came Gracie says, "Everything is whitish but not frost." I did not pay much attention and went on with getting the fires roaring and other things like pouring coffee down my throat.

She went out to the bus and I saw what she meant. Everything was dripping in ice.The trees where groaning under the weight and all of the box wood were bowed down. I could hear cracking and popping and a big crash but thought it was over at the neighbors.

The rain picked up and I went in to get the keys for the truck so I could run down and let Gracie stay warm and dry while she waited. When I went out to the truck I instantly saw the tree. It had broken. Not just broken but the weight had pulled it by the roots from the ground. It missed the front of three of our vehicles by a foot. I moved the trucks back to take photos.

It was a beautiful tree that bloomed and gave welcome shade in the summer.

It's time has passed.