Today it was probably 65 degrees (in Feb.!) so we decided to get outside with Kobe. I looked up dog parks on the Internet and saw that there is one maybe 10 min. from us, so off we went.
It is a very nice park in the east foothills of Reno in the Hidden Valley area. There is not only a dog park for small and large dogs but hiking trails, play ground equipment, tennis courts and a whole arena with bleachers for horse or cattle events. Really nice.
I was a bit worried about how Kobe would act being around a lot of other dogs. 6 months ago when we were camping he attacked two larger dogs, after being provoked by them and also snapped at a little girl who was just being nice.
We entered the small dog area and Mike kept Kobe on his leash for a while. Then we let him loose and did he ever have fun! He was not aggressive at all; he just wanted to play with every dog there. He had a special liking for a little female dachshund that he kept going back to. We will definitely take him back since he did so well.
It was a beautiful day with views of the Sierras and all of downtown Reno. Nice to get outside.
That's all for now. Hope all is well with everyone!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Car Seats and Weekends
If I could just get the passenger seat in our car up an inch or so I would have just about no more glitches when it comes to sitting! The driver's seat does go up and down but not the passenger seat......I guess a pillow would do it. Pretty much back to being able to do everything now and I'm so thankful :)
I was recently thinking that we are really enjoying the weekends in the last few years. You see for 15 +yrs. we worked on Sat. and either before or after the Sunday meetings. So now being able to go in service, maybe socialize a bit in the evening and not have to run out of the Sunday meetings to go to work is just wonderful! We aren't dead tired by Sunday night. Yikes, weekends were the busiest days when we were running our spa. Also for years we did all the laundry for the spa at home. Dragging home huge sacks of sheets and towels and body wraps. We made a good living for the family but so glad those days are over!
Not too much new going on. I did decide to stop doing in-home medication box set ups for old folks. Too much liability. And what I made doing it didn't warrant paying for all the licenses necessary, which are due at the end of the month. Still have the other two jobs which are sporadic at best right now.
Hope those who read this are doing well! Till next time......
I was recently thinking that we are really enjoying the weekends in the last few years. You see for 15 +yrs. we worked on Sat. and either before or after the Sunday meetings. So now being able to go in service, maybe socialize a bit in the evening and not have to run out of the Sunday meetings to go to work is just wonderful! We aren't dead tired by Sunday night. Yikes, weekends were the busiest days when we were running our spa. Also for years we did all the laundry for the spa at home. Dragging home huge sacks of sheets and towels and body wraps. We made a good living for the family but so glad those days are over!
Not too much new going on. I did decide to stop doing in-home medication box set ups for old folks. Too much liability. And what I made doing it didn't warrant paying for all the licenses necessary, which are due at the end of the month. Still have the other two jobs which are sporadic at best right now.
Hope those who read this are doing well! Till next time......
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Update
In the famous words of Inspector Clouseau......I can walk! Doing pretty well with only a few glitches here and there now. My x-rays looked fine and muscle testing to see if I had a bulging disc were negative so I guess it was just a freak nerve pinch. There was a slight narrowing at the very end of the lumbar vertebrae just before the sacrum which is exactly where the hot knife feeling was. Wish I knew what the movement was that I did to cause it so I could avoid ever doing that again!
I have to give a gold star to Mikey......he waited on me hand and foot the whole time I was down. What an awesome hubby I have!
It's super cold here in Reno lately. There has also been freezing fog that the Native Americans call pogonip. The snow pack in the mountains is 200%! It seems like it's been a long winter already but it's only been a few weeks that it's been officially winter :(
It was a great coincidence that I've virtually had no work for the last 4 weeks but I couldn't have done much anyway! It is starting to pick up a bit now.
We got our convention dates the other night: Aug. 19-21 in Sacramento. The hotel list was almost completely different. Now there are only 3 hotels within walking distance. I was happy to be able to get a room at one of those. We really liked parking the car and walking everywhere last year.
That's all the news from us. Hope everyone is well :)
I have to give a gold star to Mikey......he waited on me hand and foot the whole time I was down. What an awesome hubby I have!
It's super cold here in Reno lately. There has also been freezing fog that the Native Americans call pogonip. The snow pack in the mountains is 200%! It seems like it's been a long winter already but it's only been a few weeks that it's been officially winter :(
It was a great coincidence that I've virtually had no work for the last 4 weeks but I couldn't have done much anyway! It is starting to pick up a bit now.
We got our convention dates the other night: Aug. 19-21 in Sacramento. The hotel list was almost completely different. Now there are only 3 hotels within walking distance. I was happy to be able to get a room at one of those. We really liked parking the car and walking everywhere last year.
That's all the news from us. Hope everyone is well :)
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wouldn't Wish This On Anyone!
I believe since the day after my last post I have had sciatica of one intensity or another. This is not something I would wish on anyone! And I now have complete empathy with anyone who has it or has had it! One friend said she "felt my pain in her butt", since she's had the same thing. True empathy!
From out of nowhere came the burning, cutting, stabbing feeling to the right of my tailbone over to the right hip joint and down the front of the leg to the knee. Wish I could at least say I had been climbing Mt. Whitney at the time! Nope, just doing normal everyday stuff. That lasted for 10 days. Didn't matter what kind of pain pills or whatever I took, it stayed the same. No sleep.
Then gradually, gradually, one pain pill seemed to help, ice seemed to help and I kind of sort of got some sleep. Now on day 15 I can say that I have slept 3 or 4 nights in a row (with chemical help) and the pain has changed to a feeling like I have been kicked by a bull in the right hip. I guess that's progress! I can walk around the house for about 5 min. before the affected muscles get really tired and I have to sit/lay down. Hmmm, at this rate I may be able to be back to normal in several months!
The best thing is I was able to go to the KH Tuesday night. I just hobbled in, sat down and did OK. Sitting seems to be what I do best right now!
So, that's my current situation. I know many people have much worse ailments and that makes me very sad. Hopefully I can write something much more encouraging next time!
From out of nowhere came the burning, cutting, stabbing feeling to the right of my tailbone over to the right hip joint and down the front of the leg to the knee. Wish I could at least say I had been climbing Mt. Whitney at the time! Nope, just doing normal everyday stuff. That lasted for 10 days. Didn't matter what kind of pain pills or whatever I took, it stayed the same. No sleep.
Then gradually, gradually, one pain pill seemed to help, ice seemed to help and I kind of sort of got some sleep. Now on day 15 I can say that I have slept 3 or 4 nights in a row (with chemical help) and the pain has changed to a feeling like I have been kicked by a bull in the right hip. I guess that's progress! I can walk around the house for about 5 min. before the affected muscles get really tired and I have to sit/lay down. Hmmm, at this rate I may be able to be back to normal in several months!
The best thing is I was able to go to the KH Tuesday night. I just hobbled in, sat down and did OK. Sitting seems to be what I do best right now!
So, that's my current situation. I know many people have much worse ailments and that makes me very sad. Hopefully I can write something much more encouraging next time!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Mr. Toad & Getting Up Early
A week or so ago I raked the leaves out of our little garden area on our patio. I was trying to make a larger dirt area for Kobe to do his business! Apparently I disturbed our resident TOAD when I raked up the leaves! We thought we had a toad or a frog this last summer because he (or she) would makes it's song every evening, although we never saw it. Kobe discovered the kind of medium sized amphibian and thankfully didn't try to eat him. Michael brought it inside for the night. He thought it was sick but I think it's body was just confused about whether it should hibernate or not. Nov. was mostly cold but now it's in the 50s. The next day Michael made a burrow in the dirt next to the pond for him and covered it with leaves. Hope he survives until spring!
When you're not used to getting up early it's hard! I had to get up at 3:30 a couple of days ago and it was weird! Of course just knowing I had to get up at that time had me worrying and looking at the clock all night. Then the cat was being very irritating and there was construction going on on the highway not far from the condos which we could hear quite distinctly. Blah, I pretty much didn't get any sleep and then had to function until 10 pm the next day. Once I got to the job site (health fair/flu shots) my brain was supposed to work......guess it went OK. No complaints so far! I don't know how night shift workers do it!
Our S.A.D. was great. We had one from our congregation get baptized. There are many interested people attending our meetings lately. It's great to see! Hopefully next year we will be building a new Kingdom Hall right next to the one we attend right now. That will be fun to take part in somehow and there really is a need in our area for it.
Hope everyone is well and doing fine. Until next time.......
When you're not used to getting up early it's hard! I had to get up at 3:30 a couple of days ago and it was weird! Of course just knowing I had to get up at that time had me worrying and looking at the clock all night. Then the cat was being very irritating and there was construction going on on the highway not far from the condos which we could hear quite distinctly. Blah, I pretty much didn't get any sleep and then had to function until 10 pm the next day. Once I got to the job site (health fair/flu shots) my brain was supposed to work......guess it went OK. No complaints so far! I don't know how night shift workers do it!
Our S.A.D. was great. We had one from our congregation get baptized. There are many interested people attending our meetings lately. It's great to see! Hopefully next year we will be building a new Kingdom Hall right next to the one we attend right now. That will be fun to take part in somehow and there really is a need in our area for it.
Hope everyone is well and doing fine. Until next time.......
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Alarm Clock
Ha ha.....last night I set the alarm clock for 6:30 AM because Michael needed to be at Elder's School at 8 AM. It went off, we both jumped up and did our assignments. Him to just get ready and me to make coffee and lunch. After 1/2 hr. I went upstairs and noticed that the wall clock said 6 AM not 7 AM as I thought it should. Yep, we got up an hour early because I set the clock wrong! Michael laid down in his suit for a few more winks and I went back to sleep until 8. It's a good thing we both thought it was pretty funny! Also we saw a very bright star or comet on the horizon as the sun was rising so that was a bonus for getting up way too early!
Cold weather is setting in and Kobe can't be outside much since he has virtually no hair or body fat. We zip him into his fabric kennel when we leave the house but lately he has found a way to unzip it! Then he proceeds to find things to destroy. Mike's leather meeting bookbag, two couch pillows, various cardboard things. This is not good. And winter has just begun. Now we are securing the zipper!
With the Elders School, Spanish C.O. and S.A.D. coming in rapid succession now our meetings are all over the place. Will I ever remember when they are supposed to be when things calm down? Time will tell :)
I have had quite a few nursing assessments for long term care insurance policies lately. They are quite time consuming in that I have to make sure I use objective language until my opinion is called for. I have to go over and over them before I send them in! Mostly I would like to say "Just give them the insurance; they can't take care of themselves anymore!"
I really don't know if anyone besides Darci and Richard reads this blog. Any other readers out there? :)
Cold weather is setting in and Kobe can't be outside much since he has virtually no hair or body fat. We zip him into his fabric kennel when we leave the house but lately he has found a way to unzip it! Then he proceeds to find things to destroy. Mike's leather meeting bookbag, two couch pillows, various cardboard things. This is not good. And winter has just begun. Now we are securing the zipper!
With the Elders School, Spanish C.O. and S.A.D. coming in rapid succession now our meetings are all over the place. Will I ever remember when they are supposed to be when things calm down? Time will tell :)
I have had quite a few nursing assessments for long term care insurance policies lately. They are quite time consuming in that I have to make sure I use objective language until my opinion is called for. I have to go over and over them before I send them in! Mostly I would like to say "Just give them the insurance; they can't take care of themselves anymore!"
I really don't know if anyone besides Darci and Richard reads this blog. Any other readers out there? :)
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Snowing on Mt. Rose
It was pointed out to me today by my blog fan club of 1 (you know who you are) that I haven't posted in a while. So, I'll try to think of things we did in the last month that might remotely be interesting.
We took the Chateau A Go Go out to Washoe Lake 15 miles from our house about 3 weeks ago. That was probably the last time this year since we have a winter storm coming our way. Washoe Lake is a deserty and flat area but the campground looks straight across at the Sierras, so we like that. There are no big trees, just big sage brush that smells good. Our objective was to star gaze! We had a nice campfire and sat in our camp chairs staring up.
First the sun set behind the Sierras which was very pretty. Then the stars came out one by one until it was a full blown Milky Way extravaganza......awesome! Only 2 shooting stars but one was very low and lasted a long time. And 3 satellites. We like to look for them even though they aren't made by Jehovah. :) Just one night there but it was quite enjoyable.
Kobe is not much of a camper. He is a condo dog. He doesn't like dirt. He just acts miserable and whines. Or maybe he just didn't like this particular campground!
Last weekend old friends from Palm Springs passed through Reno and stayed with us for 3 nights. Tom and Sherry Cardona. We've known them for 25 yrs. We didn't do anything special. Mostly sat around and told stories about things we've done together over the years. We did go to the Sunday meeting. Then on Tues. they were off to wine country and the coast of California below San Francisco. I don't even know if they are back in P.S. yet.
Next month will be a blur of activity. C.O. visit to start the month, 2 day Elder School for Michael mid month and our Special Assembly Day on the 28th. Sounds tiring but fun!
So that's 30 days condensed. Till next time!
We took the Chateau A Go Go out to Washoe Lake 15 miles from our house about 3 weeks ago. That was probably the last time this year since we have a winter storm coming our way. Washoe Lake is a deserty and flat area but the campground looks straight across at the Sierras, so we like that. There are no big trees, just big sage brush that smells good. Our objective was to star gaze! We had a nice campfire and sat in our camp chairs staring up.
First the sun set behind the Sierras which was very pretty. Then the stars came out one by one until it was a full blown Milky Way extravaganza......awesome! Only 2 shooting stars but one was very low and lasted a long time. And 3 satellites. We like to look for them even though they aren't made by Jehovah. :) Just one night there but it was quite enjoyable.
Kobe is not much of a camper. He is a condo dog. He doesn't like dirt. He just acts miserable and whines. Or maybe he just didn't like this particular campground!
Last weekend old friends from Palm Springs passed through Reno and stayed with us for 3 nights. Tom and Sherry Cardona. We've known them for 25 yrs. We didn't do anything special. Mostly sat around and told stories about things we've done together over the years. We did go to the Sunday meeting. Then on Tues. they were off to wine country and the coast of California below San Francisco. I don't even know if they are back in P.S. yet.
Next month will be a blur of activity. C.O. visit to start the month, 2 day Elder School for Michael mid month and our Special Assembly Day on the 28th. Sounds tiring but fun!
So that's 30 days condensed. Till next time!
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