Happy Fathers Day Rick!

Today was a good day. In the morning we went to Choir practice and Church. We got our spiritual reservoirs filled. Then came home and relaxed for a while and had dinner. I made Ricks favorite dinner, steak and noodles. We had a green salad with it. I figured out how to do it in the crock pot. It turned out really well. I took a photo of it so you can see what it looks like. (You can tell the picture is of Ricks plate because of all the pepper. He LOVES pepper.) Then Rick opened his cards and unwrapped his presents. Kirsti sent him that cute card with the cat in a frog costume. He got some jeans and a shirt, a video about the Dead Sea Scrolls and The History of the Church books. We then watched the movie, "Amazing Grace". It was such a good movie. I would recommend it. It's a true story about the man who wrote the song, "Amazing Grace" and his friend who tried to abolish slavery in England. Towards the end of the movie we had a piece of a Happy Fathers Day ice cream cake. It was sooo... good.



I am back on half strength Tracleer now. I started taking it again Friday. My headaches are back. They aren't as bad as when I'm on the full strength, but I'm having to take Excedrin at least once a day. Plus I'm still so tired. I will call Dr. Shrader again on Thursday and see what he wants me to do now.



I just have to include a couple of photos of 2 of my furry friends. Kissa is sitting on the trailer under the tree watching a down pour. He sat there for about 45 minutes til it stopped raining for a minute and then came in. The second picture is of Teemu under a blanket. You can see his little white nose and paws poking out. He loves to get under blankets! They are such fun cats.

A Rainy June!

This has been a very strange June! Today it's June 16th and we have not watered our lawn, garden and flowers all month. It has rained just about every day, with a lot of thunder. It's been nice not to have to water. But I'm starting to wonder if we need to buy or build a house boat. I guess it really could be worse. Last year it was still snowing in June.

This is what happened on Monday June 8th.

Yes it hailed. The hail was marble sized. The sky was very black and I even started looking for the tornado, which thank heavens didn't show up.

I have now been off my Tracleer for almost 2 weeks now. The headaches are gone, but I am totally unable to exercise. My heart rate is a lot higher even at rest and it's impossible to keep it below 130 when doing even mild exercise. So I'll call Dr. Shrader tomorrow and find out where we go from here. Even thought I haven't been able to exercise, it's been wonderful not having the headaches. My stomach is even feeling better now that I'm not taking all the Ibuprofen and Excedrin.

The only thing new at our house is that we have gotten Direct TV and Quest Internet. We love watching the HD programs on our big TV. It's amazing how clear and detailed the picture is. The only problem is we don't get any local channels, so today the Direct TV people are coming to put up their antenna to see if that helps. If not I'll be calling someone else in to do it. I know we get the signals here. It's just a matter of getting the right antenna.

Just thought I'd show you my little flower garden. I'm really sad that one of my pink flowers Kirsti and Kenzie planted for me last year has died. I don't know what happened to it. The other one is just beautiful. I've got 2 other plants I planted near the pink one that aren't doing very well. Hopefully they will start doing better.

Beautiful Star Valley

On Thursday June 4th Rick took the day off so he could go with me to Afton, Wyoming for my appointment with Dr. Shrader. It was an absolutely beautiful day. Not to warm, kind of cloudy with a little rain thrown in. I was amazed at how green everything was. I don't believe I've ever seen it so green. (I got a few pictures to show you how beautiful it looked, but they just don't do it justice.) If any of you ever go to Afton you just have to go eat at "The Rocky Mountain Seafood Restaurant". We had a late lunch there before going to the doctors. It's the freshest Seafood I ever had except for maybe Seattle or the Oregon coast. Now you are hearing this from someone that doesn't like seafood very much. But I love... fresh halibut. It was soooo... good!! Maybe next time I'll try some shrimp too.

My appointment went fairly well. I am having horrible headaches which are a side affect of the Tracleer I'm on for my pulmonary hypertension. I'll be going off it for two weeks and see if the headaches go away. If so I'll probably be changing to a different medication. They're also testing me to see if the Tracleer is still working. They are finding in a lot of people who taken it 3 - 4 years it stops being as affective. I've now been taking it 3 1/2 years. I have to call them to let them in 2 weeks if I still have the headaches and I have another appointment scheduled for September.

I've included a few photo's of my furry kids. (I didn't get a very good one of Kissa last time.) Kissa is the fluffy cat, Teemu is the siamese looking cat and Tennava is our dog.





Yes our pets are getting old and sleep a lot.