Slaters' Funny Farm

I am a little slow posting today as I have been trying to catch up on emails as well. I am also going to go through the stack of mail that my other daughter brought to me yesterday. I am thankful for the visit as I am truly getting homesick. I love my oldest daughter, but it would be nice to be home. I am thankful that she has opened her home to be and that she takes good care of me. So enough of that, here's my Happy Homemaker Monday. :::: The Weather :::: Has gone crazy! It is supposed to be in the mid 50's tomorrow before a strong storm system moves in and brings a winter storm. We are predicted to get 2-3 feet of snow! That will make it almost impossible for me to get out. Wheelchairs and snow aren't a good combination.  :::: How I am feeling this morning :::: I have already answered this, but let's just say I am feeling that I am ready for winter to end and spring to be upon us. :::: On the breakfast plate :::: I am drinking my Nestle Splash water. I usually don...

 As many of my readers know, my goal the last couple of years has been to strengthen my walk with Christ. Growing up in church and being very active in my youth group led me to many great friendships and plenty of fun times. I am thankful for the youth director we had as he truly spoke to us on subjects that we could relate too and he was always just a phone call away. Once I turned 20 and was more in the world, my walk with Christ suffered. I fell hard, but I was thankful that I knew God was still with me. I knew the day I had asked Christ into my heart and I knew the day I was baptized as well. I was still a prayer warrior and believed in God, but I wasn't following the way I knew He wanted me to live.  Now that I am older and fully aware of the mistakes I have made, I am fully aware that I need to make sure my walk is closer to God and to follow where He leads and not try to do things my way. He will guide me if I just allow Him too. I tell all of that to tell you all of a ...

  Hello from my little corner of the world. I am still at my daughter's house recovering from surgery. I was able to see my husband yesterday and my grand doll, so I am happy. We have a dusting of snow on the ground and it is cold. Somehow though, it seems we are having warmer weather than we should have for January. I decided that I truly miss blogging like I did before and so I have decided to rejoin  Sandra with The Happy Homemaker Series . If you don't know what it is, take a look at her website.  Happy Homemaker Monday Categories The weather.... .I have already mentioned this, but it is cold and a little dusting of snow. Right now I am ....sitting at my daughter's kitchen table talking to her and writing this post  Favorite blog post last week (mine or other) ....I can't really say because I didn't read much because of surgery. I have many favorites so, it could be difficult to pick one. Something fun to share.... Since I have been down from surgery, I don'...

 Good afternoon! I am happy to report that the doctor visit - the first following surgery- went well. He says the foot looks fine and the swelling is as expected. The splint had been a real issue and he agreed to wrap the foot lighter in order to allow me to wear the walking boot, even though I am still unable to walk. Non weight bearing will be 6-8 weeks. I am still at my daughters' house. We were able to go to my house and I was able to see one grand and my husband as well as my mom. It was nice to see them after a week. I was also able to stay in the area long enough to see my other grand after school. That was the brightest spot of the day. I cried and I am not ashamed to say that. I miss her deeply! I miss home! I know I need to be here where I can be cared for, but I miss home. I want my bed, my chair and my couch. I miss my husband even though I talk with him daily and we are still struggling with some issues, but I have dedicated 27 years to him and I miss him. I hope anoth...

Good Afternoon! I am at my daughters' house and doing ok with post op now. The first few days were rough to say anything. Surgery was scheduled for 2 to 2.5 hours and it took over 4 hours, Once the surgeon got into the work, he realized that changes to what he was doing needed to be done so I was in surgery much longer than expected.  The morning of surgery I was so nervous and wanted to cancel it, but I trusted God in going through it as scheduled. Upon arrival at the surgery center, the receptionist was behind and it was only 7:45 a.m.  She finally called us up and explained that she was behind because there were so many papers to handle and that there weren't so many three years ago when she retired. The hospital was recently hit with a hacker that took hostage all of the records, so now things are having to be done manually instead of relying on technology,  We finally was escorted back to my preop room and things continued to go downhill. The lady that was attempting...

 Cold weather has finally hit the farm and boy, it is cold! We woke to wind-chill around zero and the high is never to get out of the teens today. I know it is winter and I know we should be cold, but I was quite enjoying the warmer temps that we have been having.  I have done all of my pre-op testing and paperwork and I am ready for surgery according to the doctor, hospital, surgery center, etc. I feel far from ready. I will be packing my clothes and stuff today as I will be going to be daughter's home for a bit following surgery and then hopefully, using a knee scooter to get home much faster than before. I am excited about that! I did not like what the podiatrist said about recovery time as he feels it will be 18 months before I am fully healed from this surgery. He is doing some major reconstruction of my foot and says recovery is going to be slower than before. I will be non weight bearing for several weeks and I hate those days. I need to find things to keep me busy and ...

  I was hoping to share some of our latest adventures with you today, but I can't get my phone pictures to import to my computer. UGH!!! Some days, I truly hate technology! So I decided that instead of not doing a post at all, I will just use Google Images to share some thoughts with each of you today.  I have once again decided to use  The Bible Recap with Tara Leigh Cobble  as my Bible reading for the year. I truly enjoyed it last year and learned many things from the study. Why change a good thing, right? I also use Podbean to listen to her as well. I managed to only miss about three days last year and I hope to complete it this year without missing any.  A dear friend of mine read and studied this as well and we found that we could bounce questions and thoughts off each other to understand some reading even better.  I have also joined an online book club that  a fellow blogger, Colletta Miller  has begun. Our first book of the year is Year of...

  HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EACH OF YOU!! It seems since I started this blog, I have made many promises to write more and devote more time here, but I am not making that resolution today. I do have full plans to be here more often though. I may even start a new blog dedicated more to my reading than to the life here on the farm.  Farm life has changed quite a bit since I started this and it makes writing here a bit more difficult, but I will find things to share here that deal with farm life and I will be making more posts about things we are doing as well. We still have a few animals, but not as many as we have had in the past. With both girls out of the house and living their own lives and my husband and I aging, animals are not as easy to care for as they were a few years ago.  I hope every one has a fabulous start to 2022. I will be having surgery in 11 days and I am stressed over it because I will be off my feet again for several months and I feel so helpless and know that s...