What are you Thankful For?

So its about to be another weekend to start. It hard to believe that Thanksgiving will be next week. Not alot planned for turkey day, just a quite day at home and Marks aunt will be having supper with us, that will be a treat, she moved here in March and it will be her 1st Thanksgiving here with us. Family is something I do not have much of, My one and only aunt passed away acouple of Weeks ago and that ended it for my family now only a brother and sisters left with all there kids and grand kids. Sadly to say we are not that close so we don't see many of them. Sue is posting on facebook "What your Thankful for" and my response is GOD! he does so much and asks for little with out him in our lives nothing would be possible. You could say Family, Health, Roof over your heads, but GOD comes 1st in my book. Well I hope you all have a great weekend.

Hubby took this picture, he knows I am allergic to bees.

Welcome Back! My last post with the pictures of the big horn sheep just amazed me so much that I want to go back up there but I know with hunting season here it would not be nice to the hunters to go up there and disturb them. I have seen Deer, Chucker and Quail there also but its been awhile since we were geocaching up there. Yes someone put one out in the middle of nowhere. My needs to get out and geocache is growing. Everyday I think soon I will be back doing those again and sure enough I get an email saying some one found one of mine. I started taking little walks around the block to help build up my legs some. Here's more of my Fall colors, my mums are growing out of control, and the stray cat we now have just loves rubbing up against them, he likes the smell of them I think. November has come and almost gone on me, with not working I don't remember what day it is, and Thanksgiving is just next week. Well I am off for now, Hope you all are having a great week. Thanks for stopping by.

Lookie what we found?

OK, After not being able to get into the drivers side of the jeep to drive I asked hubby if he would take me up to the spring to see if any big horn sheep were up there, with hunting in progress, I did not think we would see anything. We passed a few cars full of hunters in them, that made me sad knowing they are up there shooting something that breaths, eats. After passing them we came around a corner and sure enough here were 5 Big Horn Sheep standing in the road. Hubby stopped for me to get all the pictures my heart desired. They impress me seeing them just grazing the hill side and not really caring whats happening around them. So after a truck came at us we continued on toward the spring following them as they walked. As we got ahead of them we came up to the spring and sure enough there were 3 more getting there drink and off they went. We stopped and waited for the other 5 to come down from the ridge and sure enough they did. Hubby got about 50 feet from they as they were at the spring getting there drinks. This animal is s strong, rugged and beautiful animal. With little water around, they seem to survive the harsh desert life. Hats off to them and they made my Veterans day GREAT! We saw a total of 15 ! WOW

I am having withdraws from being able to get into the jeep and going out in the desert. I love just driving on the back roads and watching for with little wild life there is in the desert. The other day after I took Kyle to school I took the van out looking for some Fall colors in the desert. Beatty has the Amargosa River running through it, now when you think of a river you think wide and water running with rapids in it, not here. We just have a small stream that stops and goes. The Amargosa River is more under the earth then above ground. Its very long. So if you google it you will see what I am saying. I did find some Fall colors so I will share with you. My progress is going ok. After my weekend and all the walking I did, I have been pretty sore, which I exspected that, so I have been taking this week one day at a time. I am glad that I ditched the cane. Enjoy your week.

What a very busy weekend we had here in the desert, while the weather was just perfect it was good to be out and in the fresh air. I did my share of walking around the last couple of days and with out the cane too. Boy I sure can feel it with stiffness in the knee and my back flaring up because I am not walking correctly. All in all it was a nice weekend. I saw people I went to school with who I have not seen in years, I saw alot of vendors with some neat stuff. The longest parade I have seen in Beatty the whole 28 years I have been here. Ate some food that I really should of said no thanks to. Bands with music filled the air in different direction and even on Halloween the bars had bands. We had 70 kids come to the door for trick or treat. Its been a busy weekend and one my son will not forget. His favorite thing of all time are trains and every year the Las Vegas Garden Railroad puts up there display and run there trains all weekend long, so for 3 days hes been up there walking around watching and this year they let him run his train on the tracks, he has been in heaven all weekend. Just watching him makes my weekend. Well I hope that your weekend was as grand as mine. It feels so good to be out and about again. Enjoy your week and it NOVEMBER already????

Happy Halloween Everyone!

WOW can you believe that Halloween is upon us all? Where has this horrible year gone but thankful that we are close to a new year coming up. My year in review is not a pretty one and I hope to put this one behind me. I do want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween! And in Nevada we are celebrating Nevada Day. Our weekend has started off to be a busy one with Beatty day which years ago Beatty was world known for the Burro races they held which now with the animal laws they are not allowed to do that. Its a good time to hang out at the park and see people you have not seen in years or so. Enjoy your little ticks or treats and I will be back!

Redneck

What really is a redneck? Now I know we all have an idea what it is or who it is. I was reading my facebook this morning and I see a post from Melissa, Sues daugther in law saying something about redneck and duct taping the ironing board cover on. Is that what a redneck really does or is it just a quick fix until you can go out and get another one. I dont know if thats the case but what ever works will do for me. I think we all have some of that Redneck in us, we might not always show it all the time but if you look deep enough you too will find it. All is going better over here. I am walking around the house with out the cane now, kind of scared to go out with out it, that too will take some time. I look at it as everyday is a new day. I have been busy canning alittle bit for something to do. I may not be back to normal but I am alive and well. I do ride the exercises bike for 10 minutes and go over 2 miles, not to bad. Well I wanted to check in and say HI to you all. Enjoy your week.