A Week!

My goodness! Over a week has gone by since I posted anything. It’s just been more of the same here. I’m working, working, working on the baby cross-stitch. I am making progress, slowly but surely.  That light green in the upper left took me hours and hours because of the counting and many interruptions.

We dodged a snow storm yet again. This entire winter has been one of no snow for us so far. I think the total snowfall for the season is around 9 inches.  We were supposed to get 7 inches of snow last night then it was downgraded to four and then by bedtime last night they were saying 1 inch. It all went just south of us. We woke up to barely a dusting and it’s already gone. You won’t hear me complaining! Although I do know we need the moisture so it could warm up a little bit and rain. That would make me happy.😍

Other things have taken time also.  Together, Dennis and I put new covers on the dining room chairs. Whoever came up with the idea of putting cream colored seats on chairs needs to have their head examined! We didn’t do the most professional job, but they look a lot better than they did.

The gray blends in with the rest of the furniture too. Thank you to Connie at “The Crafty Home Cottage” blog that you can find on my side bar. She gave me some hints on how to do this, although her upholstery work looks much more professional than ours does. 💜

Here is my snoopervisor who helps me with all of my projects. She’s always right by my side ready to add her two cents!

She isn’t the greatest housekeeper as her toys are always all over the family room floor. 🐕 

I’ve decorated just a bit for St. Patrick’s Day. Here are the crocheted shamrocks that I made several years ago and have always had hanging on the kitchen island. With no island in this house, this is the next best thing that I found. We spend most of our time down here anyway as it’s where all of my yarn is and also our comfy chairs.

We go to the grocery store at Walmart in Iowa. It’s only 10 minutes from our house and just over the Missouri River. We were driving back home Tuesday night and it was the most glorious sunset. Of course by the time I got my phone out and took this picture the colors were fading but it’s still pretty. Prairie sunsets are always so beautiful.

Here we are driving back over the Missouri River into Nebraska. This is the Mormon Bridge. The Mormon pioneers had their winter encampment just about a mile from our house. There is a beautiful visitor center and cemetery on the location. This is historically known as the spot where they crossed the Missouri on their trek westward.

Monday afternoon we had a lady, (Aimee),  come over to help us with options for health insurance. She has worked with my brother and sister-in-law for several years and they have been very happy with her. She just got my sister set up on Medicare and a supplement last month. Each year she gets together with you and goes over your options to see if there is another plan that will work better for you. She ended up staying at our house over 4 1/2 hours. She went over all of our options and also reviewed moms. We are pleased with the information she came up with for mom and for us and we got all of our applications and forms filled out. I do have to find a new primary care doctor, yet again, if I want to keep the same Cardiologist who I like a lot, even though I’ve only seen him once. I will need to keep all of my doctors in  the University of Nebraska Medical Center complex. They are known for being the best, so that doesn’t bother me at all. It’s just finding a new primary care for the third time in less than a year that is a pain. I go for yet another “meet and greet” on Monday afternoon.

It looks like we’re going to lose our health insurance one way or the other come April 1, so we had to get something else in the works. Dennis will either retire completely or go part time, either way we will lose our health insurance. For him, there were no questions. He will have Medicare and another plan to pick up what Medicare doesn’t. However, I’m still three years away from 65. I have to go on the open market and it’s a scary world out there! Especially when you are on medication’s and have a pacemaker. Aimee seems to have found some plans that will work and cost about the same as we have been paying while Dennis has been working. 

I think another reason I haven’t felt much like blogging is the Ukraine situation. My heart is breaking for the people there and what they are going through. I wish it could all just end. I don’t think it will stop at the Ukraine if Putin is allowed to continue on with this war. I am not normally very political and I understand the reasons why NATO is trying to stay out of things, but I believe there’s a good chance that we’re going to be sucked into it at some point anyway. Why not save as many people as we can? Especially as they are now purposely bombing civilian targets. Maternity hospitals? Who does that?

And that’s all I’m going to say about that today. But please, please pray for the innocent lives that are being killed there every day.

I’ll see you all again soon.