Nothing makes me want to blog more than not being able to include photos with my random probably boring weekly news. My sweet husband is working on this recent problem with miniscule inching closer results. Questions to the web host resulted in answers that weren’t surprising: the problem isn’t on their end. Searches on the word press forums bring up some information although how helpful it will be has yet to be seen. And so we trudge forward hoping the few of you who come by to see what’s new don’t get bored with just my random postings and frustrations.
I had my latest and increased dose of Remicade 2 days ago and am elated on how well I feel. My hands work again! Mind you not completely like they are suppose to, but to be able to grasp my morning cup of joe safely is a huge one. Getting out of bed in the am isn’t as uncomfortable as it was a couple days ago and I can get to sleep with a simple plop of this grey haired head on the pillow again.
From where I blog I can see the back patio clearly, even a couple of bird feeders and the potted plants on the patio. I’ve been having a bit of an issue with our squirrel, Rocky (so named by my sweet husband). Seems he has taken note of where Jay and Kay (our blue jays, also named by hubby) hide their peanuts when Jerry passes them out in the morning. That hiding place would be deep inside my potted plants. Rocky likes to come by and dig the peanuts out, and of course being a squirrel he doesn’t clean up after himself, leaving dirt and such strewn all over the patio. When we emptied our small pond a few years back I placed the pretty grey river rocks we had on the pond bottom, on top of the potted plant dirt. This was more due to the lack of something better to do with these expensive rocks than for decoration although it does look nice. I didn’t realize at the time that it would prevent the scrub jays from hiding their peanuts in these pots, but hey, it worked so I thought I’d put more of the same rocks in all the potted patio plants (try saying that real fast). Of course the price of pretty rocks has gone up so I compromised and got the next best thing; smaller sized beige rocks. One bag at $4.59 of beige rocks covered the tops of remaining planted pots and I saved $6.50 or more by not making everything matchy patchy as I tend to like. Done. Or so I figured. The sun was shinning brightly when I walked onto our patio yesterday morning. It seemed like it would be a good day, until I saw a neat pile of rocks stacked in one of the pots, with dirt strewn all over. Again! I should have taken a picture of it, not that I could have posted it here, but it would have been fun to look back on it and imagine how cute Rocky must have looked stacking the rocks to get to that hidden peanut. Guess I should have invested in the bigger grey rocks. I bet he would have had trouble getting his little paws around those suckers!
