My arthritis doc is in the county west of me. My Orthopedic surgeon is in the county south of me. My insurance sends me to the local medical center in my county for all testing. Neither doc nor local medical center are even in the same hospital company.
A wasp was on my porch today. I got it with the fly swatter and it bounced off the screen and hit me in the chin. It didn’t sting but it took me by surprise and gave a yelp. I have no idea where it went but I haven’t seen it since. I told my husband he should spray the area tomorrow when we go to work as I have seen a few around the porch area this weekend.
Kill that sucker! Those things bite not sting!! We sprayed 4 under our deck before we came down. They each had started a nest. That is a lot for us this early.
Oh my gosh. What an exciting day for dd, her team, and us crazy parents. There were 17 teams actually. The announcer kept announcing teams and there’s hadn’t gotten announced. When they got to 10, we all started looking at each other. Then 9, then8, then 7, 6. When he got to 5 and they still were not called we held our breaths. Four got called and it wasn’t them. All the other teams clear the stage and only the top 3 are left. Remember that team from Tom’s River, NJ that had beaten them twice? Yep, they were one of the 3. Well the announcer says there was a tie for second. Then he announces first and it was not Toms River and not dd’s. They actually tied for 2nd. They lost first by only .09. We were so proud of them. It was their first time at this competition and it was the first season of cheer for many of the girls. Here are some pics. In the photo with the 3 groups, her team is on the left. The middle team got first. So cheer season is now over, except for The Summit at Disney. That is next weekend.
A shot in your wrist is not pretty. I had to have it because the doctor wanted to see if he could put it back into place but he couldn't. Needed surgery for hopefully the 3rd and last time I broke the same wrist.
Ok, we’re off to soccer now. We should have exactly 45 minutes to get ready after returning from the game.
I finished the cross cupcake cake about an hour ago. Frosting was a little too soft, didn’t come out exactly as planned. Almost ran out of frosting and had to do tiny stars instead of the swirl-ish star I had planned.
Oh well, hasn’t been a great month for cake decorating apparently. I just hope likes it. It’s (almost) exactly what he requested, down to the gold foil. I wanted to do silver, he needed the cake board to match a chalice. It’s his day.
Hope the game went well. I will have to ketchup to find out. I am beat now been up since 3:30am. Didn’t need to be of course. Those cupcakes look yummy. Hope you ate one for me, since I am not eating sugary things right now.
Oh my gosh. What an exciting day for dd, her team, and us crazy parents. There were 17 teams actually. The announcer kept announcing teams and there’s hadn’t gotten announced. When they got to 10, we all started looking at each other. Then 9, then8, then 7, 6. When he got to 5 and they still were not called we held our breaths. Four got called and it wasn’t them. All the other teams clear the stage and only the top 3 are left. Remember that team from Tom’s River, NJ that had beaten them twice? Yep, they were one of the 3. Well the announcer says there was a tie for second. Then he announces first and it was not Toms River and not dd’s. They actually tied for 2nd. They lost first by only .09. We were so proud of them. It was their first time at this competition and it was the first season of cheer for many of the girls. Here are some pics. In the photo with the 3 groups, her team is on the left. The middle team got first. So cheer season is now over, except for The Summit at Disney. That is next weekend. View attachment 282426View attachment 282427View attachment 282428
I had a splinter that had healed over and it was a solid lump in my right foot. They had to do about 6 injectons to numb the foot and then cut it out ... fun times.
Oh my gosh. What an exciting day for dd, her team, and us crazy parents. There were 17 teams actually. The announcer kept announcing teams and there’s hadn’t gotten announced. When they got to 10, we all started looking at each other. Then 9, then8, then 7, 6. When he got to 5 and they still were not called we held our breaths. Four got called and it wasn’t them. All the other teams clear the stage and only the top 3 are left. Remember that team from Tom’s River, NJ that had beaten them twice? Yep, they were one of the 3. Well the announcer says there was a tie for second. Then he announces first and it was not Toms River and not dd’s. They actually tied for 2nd. They lost first by only .09. We were so proud of them. It was their first time at this competition and it was the first season of cheer for many of the girls. Here are some pics. In the photo with the 3 groups, her team is on the left. The middle team got first. So cheer season is now over, except for The Summit at Disney. That is next weekend. View attachment 282426View attachment 282427View attachment 282428
Ok, so we spent the weekend in Germany visiting a friend of mine. She's from Sri Lanka and met her husband when he went there for work once. Niwanthi and I met at the Dutch Language school. We have a group of friends from that school and we all married Dutch men and moved here, and had families. So Niwanthi and her husband moved to Germany about 2 years ago and I hadn't seen her since, and I really missed her. I'm sad that we only had basically 2 days there with her. My husband didn't want to drive down on the Wednesday night after work...it's a 4 hour drive there without stops. So we drove over on Thursday and got there in the early afternoon and she had to take her kids to music lessons, so we didn't have time to go anywhere that day, Friday the poor girl ended up working more than 12 hours. She manages a vacation park there and they had gotten a huge shipment of couches for all of the cabins. 94 couches that needed to be removed and then the new ones moved in. So she didn't get home until almost 8 p.m....glad I was there to make dinner so she didn't have to do it when she got home!! Her husband was home around 3 or so, so we went hiking a few minutes from their house. We basically made a big circle....we followed a stream up to the edge of the town and climbed this big hill. From the top, you look one way and you can see the whole area down below. You turn around the other way and you can see where the border sat between East and West Germany. I didn't see the watch tower...I don't know if it still exists, but you could see the line where the wall was, and you can see the roofs of the houses from the town just across that line in the East German part. When they opened the border, people from that town flooded into Bad Sachsa to get jobs and homes. And these homes are all really big because several generations would live in one house. My friend's neighbors have 3 different families living there....a man with his new wife, his son and the son's family, and then I think she said it was a daughter and her family. Anyway, pictures:
The view from the top of the hill:
Facing the other direction. You can't see the wall line in this picture. But it's basically in a line from the windmill to the right of center, and then that clump of trees to the left of that, and all the way across:
The area is known for that white stone you see there in the first picture. It's used to make plaster, and apparently all the houses in the area have these rocks in their walls. My friend's husband said you can't really remodel because the walls are like....dry wall over a wooden frame with rocks in between and they are sturdy as they are, but as soon as you break into the wall, the structure loses its integrety. You don't know what you'll find behind each wall, so you can redecorate, but not rebuild. Here's the big kiln where the stone was baked.
The kids climbed all over the place.
There was a bunker in the wooded area, but I didn't get a picture. Niwanthi's oldest came running out of the trees shouting "Daddy, come look!!" and I was a bit afraid of what an 11 year old boy found worthy of this kind of excitement. I was expecting maybe a snake or something. But it was a bunker that Marc said was from WWII for ammunition. I tried to google it and there WAS a picture that looked like it could be it, and it said it was now repurposed as a
refuge for bats.
Just a little way down the path from there is the Priest hole or priest cave?
On the other side of the path is the pond:
And then you follow the path around and end up at the bottom of the cliff from where we had the first view.