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There was a lovely exhibit at the botanical garden called The Power of Place and many of these peices are part of the fine art gallery collections in Santa Fe. All for sale too, although outside of my budget. The one at the top is my most favorite!
Enjoy!
sculptures that are featured from some of the fine art galleries in Santa Fe. All for sale too, but alas, far outside of my budget. Here are my favorites!
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Jazzy, thank you! I have to submit a drawing to the HOA for approval. I am researching to put together a plan/drawing.
I like the sculpture of the lady with the basket. I would be scared to death seeing the first sculpture in my garden at night
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JWoo, our big dog is terrified of thunder. He was a rescue so may have been on the lam during a bad storm, we figure. He used to crawl in bed and lay on top of DH's head during tstorms. We got him a Thundershirt and it really works. Now when he hears thunder he comes to us for his shirt. When he was in doggie hospital last week we took his shirt over because it was storming. It works on the swaddling concept. Rose loved being swaddled when she was a baby.
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Just a quick note. Was busy with DD off/on Friday and Saturday. Then of course it poured again Saturday night. Sunday was car races and rained the morning away.
Today we escaped most everything again. Heavy rain I think only about an inch overall but quickly flooded the bar ditch. No wind to speak of though I was prepared with my bag for the storm shelter.
Hearts heavy with all the flooding in central Texas and lives lost. JWoo hope you are safe. Know a couple of others on other threads. JWoo you probably do too from the Texas Hill Country thread. Hope they are all safe. Does not look like this is stopping any time soon. Another round coming this weekend.
Lots of things going on with our members. Cannot recall most of what I read. Glad Mags your dogs are home and hopefully totally on the mend.
Smaarty - double swallow technique is a good thing for taking pills. I use it sometimes too. Put pill far back in mouth. Take mouthful of water. Dry swallow without swallowing anything then swallow pill/water down. Takes a bit of practice but very useful for anyone having problems swallowing. Google "double swallow dysphagia". And like Sassy says make sure your mom drinks something before so membranes are moist.
Headed to bed. Another day another flood/storm/tornado tomorrow. Very wise weatherman long since passed said all droughts end with a flood. So true. Night night everyone.
Tang hope you're safe on the other side of me.
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Yep am up..
Hey woo missed u
So excited bout the fla trip, still don't know when.....
Jazzy love the pix
A new week ahead, but it is summer, sort of, lol
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((((Hugs)))) to Mamaray for tensions and hard feelings at home. For JWoo for not floating away and drowning! Try a benadryl for the dog with thunder fear. I had a border collie that I literally had to lay next to during July 4th...she panted, paced, whimpered just came unglued. Benadryl and laying next to her - arm over was the only thing that helped. Mags glad the pups are good and wish they had those thunder shirts when we had Cricket. Jazzy- loved the art and pictures. Howdy hoo to all. Spookie I hope your arm is better.
Lovlife- my DH bought all these tiny starter plants natives at the Davis University ag extension booth during Saturday market. He has always been a conservationist. Anyway I poo poo these little starts and boy did I eat my words when his drought resistant, native flower and plant garden took off! It was gorgeous and all he did was get these little starts 2$ a piece and prepare the soil. It took planning and work but the results were lovely and we had lots of butterflies. The darn thing took nearly no water, use rocks and grasses for texture and interest. It works.
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Hi Blondie- hope you have a blast in Florida. Hope it is everything you need and want! (((hugs)))
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Chevyboy, not sure about the chemo but I've had chronic esophagitis for almost a year and my WBC's have been 13K-15K ever since. My MO didn't seem too concerned with that.Lovemygoats--good tip on the swallowing technique. I just tried it and it worked like a charm. With my esophagitis, the first symptom was dysphagia so I've had a lot of gagging followed by spitting pills across the kitchen.
Glad everyone's surviving the weather. I've got lots of kin in the east Texas/Oklahoma/NW Arkansas area so I've been following their Facebook posts of all the crazy rain and flooding.
Mags--what a great story! I'm 45 and my longest relationship is 4 years. It's a combination of me being an over-grown 12 year old, a hopeless romantic and a sucker for what Dr. Phil calls "emotionally unavailable" men.
and I like the young ones, too. Haven't dated one less than2 years younger than me in almost 2 decades. -
Ah MAN! Lost the post! I should have KNOWN better! Oh well.......... I was blabbing on about hope you guys are all safe, with this crazy weather!
We had a TORRENTIAL downpour last night! That rain and pea-sized hail just came in WAVES! I read about Austin Tx...! All the flooding going on there and in Oklahoma.... Never mind about going out driving, and trying to look at all the flooding, I would be soundly planted in my bed, and hoping it didn't come CLOSE to us!
I read about all those nuts who try and beat the flooding, or get close enough to take pictures, or like those 2 guys in a pick-up last month, who wanted to see how deep the water was before their truck could swim! That live feed rescue was broadcast on the weather channel....! They should be hung up to dry in the middle of town, and everyone gets to spank them!
The sun is coming out.... Let's hope for a whole day, maybe!
Morning to VanMama! Also, I LOVE all the pictures! Have a dry day gals!
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Chevy, I have lost so many post lately, my internet has been iffy. DH changed something, or switched a cable. Ah, it's greek to me.
Jazzy, great photos, what a cool place to go & hang out.
Marlanab, I had weird swallowing issues. Seemed to start when I was sick with A/C. Has gotten better in the last 6 months. I also have low WBC. MO says, no worries. But she says that about everything. Don't worry, can't change anything. So, are you just starting chemo, on Thursday?
MammaRay, hoping the tension & pain start to subside. Will you work all summer, with your childcare?
This is for LMG & Jwoo......
& Tang, where is she? Dang, I miss her wit.
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Dang, anyone here from Houston? Watched the news this morning about the flash floods that have inundated part of the city. Thinking of my TX friends today......
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Chevy.. HaHaHa.. Yep.. Some of them are very bad combinations !! :-)
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You guys! Guess what happened! We were at Walmart, and we were getting ready to walk out the door, after shopping, and here comes this one huge good looking guy, carrying this young gal, flailing her arms, and hollering, kicking her legs, and these other two guys on each side....!!!! I thought now THAT doesn't look right!..... I mean he was holding her up off the floor, with her back to him, and her raising all this hell!!!!
We just stared in shock! DH thought they were just PLAYing! I said, No, somethings wrong, with her fighting like that! Then the gal at the Subway said they caught her shop-lifting, will now call the Police, and they'll take her to jail.... Her second or third offense! AT WALMART.... of all places!!!! She said now it will be a felony! OMG! I was in shock! Wow! Boy was SHE trying to get away.... probably had to chase her down in the parking lot, but this one guy was not letting her go..... Hah!
She yelled "I AM NOT FIGHTING!" And the security guy said, "YES YOU ARE, JUST CALM DOWN!!!" So that's all the exciting stuff that happened to us today.... then stopped to see Carol.... I just don't think her brain will come out of this one..... Her right side is a little better, but it is such an effort to get any words out.....
I think she is going home Friday, with a walker.... But her leg is really weak yet, her fiance' said.... But she will be at home getting therapy, and 24 hour care..... This is all such a tragedy.... Your life can be threatened so fast! We just have to be careful, and get all of our vitals checked... don't know what caused her stroke.... but it is much worse, because she was down for so long......... Take care girls..... xoxoxo
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So sorry Ms. Chevy about Ms. Carol's situation. It's tough when we feel helpless and hopeless. It sounds like she has a supportive fiancé and family. Regardless, it is not difficult for Ms. Carol to fall into depression because of her loss of independence and the ability to communicate among other things.
I love the picture of the rain droplets dripping from the flower petals....it's so clean, pure, and peaceful.
Ms. Spookie, hope your arm is okay.
Blondie, wonderful news of clearance from your doctor.
Rose, by any chance, do you remember the names of the plants? If not, no worries.
Jwoo, Mag, and Goats, hope you and family are spared. Hope the rescue team find the poor mother and 2 children whose house was swept away.
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Update on arm, so far, nothing. We've been getting some bad storms the past few nights. Nothing like Texas, bad thunder here. Scarring the dogs. Spookie has never been one to crawl in my lap, Kris is shaking. Poor pups.
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Blondie in Florida livin' the dream.......
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Jazzy, I used to live in Houston, so I've been following local news. I'm not surprised it's flooding. It's 3 feet above sea level and the clay doesn't drain easily. I'm sure at least one of our old neighborhoods flooded. It used to flood if it rained hard at lunch. Also following the Oklahoma news since I grew up there.
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Holeinone--my chemo got bumped to Wednesday afternoon. I'm pretty anxious, can't sleep. My swallowing issues started last spring. I was originally diagnosed with "silent reflux" as the cause until a bunch of other crazy symptoms popped up. So then it was GERD induced esophagitis but the only one with an idea for a cause was my allergist who had me do an elimination diet where it ended up I was having a reaction to wheat. My PCP and I discussed testing for celiac but that was the same day that I went to see him about "The Lump" so that diagnosis is on hold for now. I know the steroids that we get with the chemo can be pretty harsh on the stomach and cause GERD not to mention the chemo itself so maybe that was your issue as well
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Morning gals! Marla! Holy cannoli's! That sounds like them trying to find out what was wrong with my Husband one year.... They kept changing his diagnosis... And thankfully it went away! But he was a MESS for awhile... First they said acid feflux, then they changed it to Gerd.... THEN I started researching it, and found this, and TOLD them, "This is what he sounds like when this happens!" But we had to figure it out ourselves...
HIS was Esophageal spasm, or "Laryngospasm" where it felt like he couldn't catch his breath, and was choking, etc! They said he would finally pass-out, so it would straighten itself out....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPtdkqOLLP
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More on "The Lump"...my friend that had BC a few years back is always reminding me that I have cancer but the cancer doesn't have me so a few days before my surgery, I named my tumor "Claude" and gave him a French last name that translates to "The Jackass" in English because I decided that Claude was a smarmy, unwashed, chain-smoking French guy squatting in my right breast as if he had a right to be there. Surgery was the equivalent of a forcible eviction. Yesterday, I decided that chemo is like fumigating to get rid of any cockroaches that the smarmy bastard Claude left behind.
Spookiesmom--I know some people that also had success with a thundershirt. Personally, it was a total failure for my big chicken. Luckily, he didn't eat too much of it and it all came out in a couple of days. Of course, I wasn't really surprised given that when he was a puppy, he ate 2 couches, a love seat, the living room carpet, the edges of the stairway bannister, almost every plant in the back yard, several coffee table books, half a dozen candles...and I stopped counting how many shoes he devoured. when I got the little guy I had an old, blind shepherdthat passed away when the baby was 13 months old and miraculously, the destruction stopped. Could have been that the blind, slow old man was trying to kill the puppy all the time but he could never quite catch him
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All the severe weather systems are just terrible! My chicken neighbors... (I watch their chickens and cat when they are gone) are leaving for Austin this week-end.... hope the weather clears up for them.... They are supposed to be going to the beach for a week.... I saw all the pictures of the Houston flooding.... just makes you sick! I won't post them...........
Spookie! Why aren't you UP?
And Marla, if your symptoms don't improve, keep trying to figure it out... Sometimes it's hard for our Docs to pin-point something....
Also, have you tried drinking Aloe Vera? I get it from Walmart... I had an ulcer one time, and it eventually helped it go away... You just mix it with tea, or make a smoothie out of it..... It is good for any kind of digestive issues.....
We use Ranitidine, instead of those other expensive ones.....only when we have problems...
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Marlanab- so it sounds like you begin chemo today and I wish you a good day and minimal SE's. I like the visuals you have created for yourself too about the little french man and then the fumigation to remove the cockroaches.
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Marla, your story about "Claude" is priceless!!!! That was a GREAT way to look at it! Too bad you don't have a sense of humor..... Haaaaaaaaaahhh!!!
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Thanks, Chevy--I'll have to try the aloe vera...it makes sense that if it works for burns on the outside, it would work on the burns on the inside. My mom has a plant in her backyard that got me and my siblings unscarred through our childhoods but I don't suppose I can eat it straight from the plant. Mostly because I can picture my mom catching me leaning over her plant with one of those tentacles hanging out of my mouth as she yells "Marlana Ruth, have you lost your mind?!?" with a few of her favorite swear words thrown in
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Chevy- there you go, talking about a pole again.
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jazzygirl--thank you for good thoughts!
Chevyboy, sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is humor!
Even though we're civilian personnel, we still wear uniforms so I got my boss to let me hold a contest for my co-workers on what kind of head cover I'll wear to work when my hair falls out. So far my crazy co-workers have come up with a Davy Crockett coon skin cap, a Russian-style hat with the ear flaps down, a knit beanie with one of those dangly balls on top also with ear flaps, a propeller hat like Cecil from the "Cecil and Beanie-boy" cartoon, a Pirate hat with a big plume, and giant stuffed royal crown that says "I Rule"...so I'm not the only warped one on the loose, apparently
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Marlanb- that is a great way to get folks to support you. People often want to help but don't know what to do. You do have a most excellent sense of humor. That is going to help you sister.
Let us know how the first chemo goes. I did not do it myself (surgery and rads only), but have supported others who have. Take super good care of yourself.
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No! It's okay Marla! I love the feeling that people feel I am warped.... Ha! You HAVE to have a sense of humor, once that feeling of dread, and hopelessness and gloom wash all over you..... It's the only way to pick yourself up.... and those around you will help out with that.... Same with my hip, as Jazzy so promptly points out!
When I fell of that pole in the middle of the alley at midnight, I just LAY there, like I mean a big blob! Could NOT get up! Like that old lady in the commercial! Tried pulling myself up by trying to crawl up my husbands pants legs.... HE tried to pull me up, but I could not help! And that old fart at the end of the alley standing there like a real SOB!
Finally got up on one leg... My whole arm bleeding... leg hanging on by a thread.... I just cried, because we couldn't go gambling that day.... sniff.
But I got over THAT set-back, and back on the pole again.... Hah! We just laugh at turmoil.... once we stop crying.... That's just us.
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Hey Marla, I found one for you:
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