A Holiday!

I’m so excited! Dennis has Monday off. I stayed at the lake until yesterday and came home to do laundry and go to the grocery store. We’ll have Bible study at our house tonight and then I’m heading back out tomorrow.

For those of you who are interested in the saga of my back issues the paragraph below is for you. Otherwise skip on down for the yarn fun!

It has been an interesting week and a half since I last posted. I got my Botox injection last Friday! They called me on Thursday and said the insurance had approved it and they had an opening on Friday, did I want it? Yes, I did! It ended up being eight injections total, on both sides of my back, into the muscles. Not a pleasant experience. Saturday, Sunday, Monday were all terrible. My back was worse than ever. However, this week the neurologist told me it would take 7 to 10 days before I noticed a difference. Then Mandy called and said the doctor that she worked with over the weekend told her the exact same thing and that I would be so glad I got the injection. That made me feel a little better, although the spasms were still excruciating. Then the spine clinic called to check on me on Tuesday and they said it always gets worse for several days after the injection. I sure wish they had told me that to begin with. I was really feeling quite depressed for those days. I was at the lake, but I was flat down on my back the whole time.

The good news is that I do feel much better yesterday and today. It’s still not great, but much better than it was over the weekend so I have hope! My friends, you don’t know how much this means to me. If I can get my back into shape, I can fly to go visit Mandy and Piper. I can fly to go visit Alex in Japan and Tara in England. I know that a lot of you are praying for me and I appreciate it. Compared to the things many of you and your spouses are going through this is “small potatoes and I hate to even ask. I appreciate each and every one of you more than you know.

And now on to the more fun things. 

I finished all 100 mini-stockings for the veterans home.  I was worried about having them done by Christmas and look! It’s not even the end of May yet.  Now I’m trying to find little flashlights to put inside them. I really like how they turned out.

Another dish cloth completed for the gift basket and I have another one about half done on the needles.

I am almost 2 months behind in my temperature blanket. I brought it out and I’m working on it today trying to get it up to date.  I’m really not crazy about this. I like the crochet linen stitch, but I don’t like the color sequences. I guess that happens when the temperature changes all the time! I’m committed to it though, so I will finish it.

My rhubarb has gone crazy. I have already harvested it once and gave all of it away. Three big grocery bags worth. It looks like it’s ready to pick again.  I should have taken a picture for you.  The one below is at the lake. They have four big tractor tires with rhubarb plants in them and anyone who wants the rhubarb is free to pick it.

This is one of our neighbors places at the lake. She has beautiful pots of flowers everywhere. Her tulips are lovely right now.

Just a few of the pots. It has just recently gotten warm enough for us to begin planting flowers. We are always told to wait until after Mother’s Day. We even saw a few snowflakes just last week!

I hope you are all having a lovely week. If you are in the U.S., do you have plans for Memorial day weekend?  When we lived in Omaha we spent the weekend visiting various cemeteries and putting flowers on relatives gravesites. Now, we have no one to visit and pay our respects to.  We will just have a quiet day at the lake visiting with friends there.

“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”  Romans 12:12

I’m working on having patience.  :-)

Blessings,

Betsy