JUne 1, 2021    

A new month,  hooray.  AFter a few months of trauma,  I feel like I am on the road back to normal.  But at my age,  what is normal.  

I broke my shoulder in January. By the time I was fully healed in mid April,   I neede a srthroscopy knee surgery, Which I had and fully recovered from. But I feel like I just don't have my energy back.  I wonder if it is too much trauma to this old body and its going to take a lot longer to bounce back than it used to.,  

Whatever.. OLdest son went to drug rehab again,  but is doing well and we are hopeful. It's been a long haul and a very stressful and upsetting one.  Watching someone destroy their life with drugs and alcohol.  Finally in order to keep his job he went to a month long in house re hab.  I am still holding my breath,  because we've been through this before.  But I am feeling hopeful.   

This is a quilt I recently finished piecing and picked up from the LONG ARM quilter last week.  

Its another scrappy /stash quilt made with fabrics I already owned.   But still new backing fabric and batting and the long arm fees,  There is about $200 wrapped up in it.  

People think making a quilt is inexpensive,  But buying new yardage which is usually $10 to $12 per yard,  backing fabric and batting can put a home crafted quilt in the $400 to $500 dollar range.  

This is why mostr of my quilts are now scrappys,  I have a ton of fabrics. So why not use them up.  

'The death of democracy.

 August 26

After watching Melanoma Trump make her long walk down the walkawy in her militarystyle dress to be welcomed by the brainwashed idiots... To give the most boring speech full of mistruths and downright lies. This shitshow of a Republican Convention... Which is put on by RNCCC   Republican National CCC ( crooks conns and cunts)

Everything this family has done since the election is to move this country toward an authoritarian dictatorship with the orange buffoon as the leader.  

The country is fool of idiots who cannot see what is happening right in front of their eyes. Have they no knowledge of history. What happened to the Conservatives who cared about protecting us from Russia,  China,  and other authoritarian leaders?  They are gone into he cult of Trump. 

I fully expect Trump to retain power and I fully expect him to bring out the guns against his detractors.  He will eliminate the media and only allow what he wants out there. We will be living in hell from here on out.  I can only hope that the young people recognize the danger here and come out in droves to protest. 

Putting this in writing today so that I can look back when everything in this country is cesnsored by The Leader.  

Knee surgery

 Yesterday I had an arthroscopy of my right knee.  It has been bothering me for quite a few months, and I had been meaning to make an appointment with the Ortho group here for sometime,  but just put it off.   

Then in January, I fell and broke my right shoulder.  ( everything happens on the right, broken ankle, broken shoulder, now knee with problems).  Thus began my quest to get my knee working properly.  It was not painful when I walked. It was when I got up from a sitting position to standing.  It would get "out of whack"  ( that's a medical term)  And I would have to move it around painfully until I found the right position that I could stand up,This happened yesterday.  After getting my cardio doc to confer with my ortho doc. And his input was that I could not undergo a general anesthetic because of risk of complications.. Like  Death.  

So a spinal block was adminstered, and this was my biggest fear. Having a needle poked into my spine was scary for me. But I barely felt it... and within minutes I was without any feeling from my waist down.  I was awake  through most of the procedure.   But screened off from the surgeion. I presume because he didn't wan to answer questions from the patient or listen to suggestions on how to do his job.  And for me a back seat drive,  that might have been an issue;

All went well. hsd a long recovery room stay.  Took 2 hours to get feeling back into my lowere body.  But then I was able to get up snd walk with qa walker a few steps then into  s wheel chair and released. 

Once home getting up the three steps into the front door was a challenge, But with assistance from my spouse and oldest slaughter I made it into the house.  Had not eaten fro 24 hours so scarfed down an order of vegen skyline chili and went to bed.  Way too early because I woke up around 3 am couldn't get back to sleep so got up qt 4 am.  Knee feeling much better this am.  It maybe because of the high powered pain pill.  which ia did take before bed.  

Today I will rest it most of the dqy,  using ice and walking around the house . frequently. But its nearly 7 am and now im redy to go bqfck to bed.  But Quilting Arts is on TV, I'd like to see it but may have to cqtch the sedond showing later today.  Tomorrow I start some exercises. 

elections have consequences

FEB 18, 2021

TEXAS.  you voted for candidates who don't care two hoots about your well being or the safety of your children.

As you suffer in the cold,  hungry and thirsty,  I hope you ponder on how this happened...

     IT HAPPENED BECAUSE YOU ELECECTED RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVES WHO WANTED TO DERGULATE EVERYTHING.   Which allowed the power plant operators to skimp on upgrades, and even to avoid winterizing their equipment.  So

The decision to put Texas into their own privately run power grid and to extricate themsilves from any ties to the Federal grid... was another good move. Had they been connected they could have gotten them through the crises by buying power from other states. But NO they were too short sighted for this.  

There is no climate crises in their world view so something like winterizing the equipment in the state was a waste of moeny.  

And on top of all this TEd Cruz the slimy Republican senator cared so much about the problem he bustled his family off to Cancun until the whole thing was over.  Way to go Teddy.  

So in the enbd it is a sad situation for the citizens of TX. But I have  little sympathy for them. They made their beds at the ballot box when they chose candidates with an "R" beside their name.