Overworkedjanet

 I'm not much of a Blogger anymore. It may be that my life has nothing going on worthy of sharing, or, I have been too busy to blog. Here goes; I had a small chunk of my upper arm removed in December for basal cell cancer. It did not heal correctly and I had to keep the open wound covered for 3 months. It kept me out of the pool and reduced my arm exercises. It was declared safe about 4 weeks ago. Then... I'd been slightly ill, first a UTI that didn't respond well to the antibiotic so two weeks of different ones to cure me. Exactly the same day I finished those, my GI tract kicked up. I had a C. diff. infection from being on the other antibiotics. Another 10 days of different antibiotics made me feel well, but the doc warned me I could have a rebound occurrence in about 2 weeks. Great. I'm eating all the right things and taking probiotics to ward off evil bacteria. The first night on the GI antibiotics, my Fitbit woke me to an alarm that I'd had an A-fib episode, ab

Why did the spotted salamander cross the road? Because the local police, environmental groups and concerned citizens closed the road nightly during breeding season! My hometown and an adjoining one in my very urban/suburban/farm county closes our shared road to allow the ancient population of spotted salamanders to cross the road from their hibernation home to the vernal pond across the street. They lay large amounts of eggs which turn into tadpoles. Since the pool has no fish to eat the tadpoles, a successful change to adult salamander is in the bag!  Hometown Hero: The Blue-spotted Salamander New Jersey has more roads per square mile than any other state, which hampers the breeding migrations of many similar species. We've built overpasses over I-78 to allow for the migration of the furry, 4-legged creatures, but have been lagging on the under-road passes for the amphibians.  Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey (CHANJ) Today we received our official warning that nightly road clo

 Beyond the call of duty. Yesterday I went outside to try and remove the iced snow from our driveway. My honey had already scraped the SUVs and left for a medical appointment. For the first time in our lives, we had shrugged off clearing the snow from the driveway and sidewalk the day of the storm. Now faced with the aftermath, I trudged out to use the chopper/scraper on the asphalt as well as various shovels. I'm glad I had cleaned myself up a bit before I went out, even had a bit of eye makeup on. I heard, "Can I help you, ma'am?" and turned to see one of our policemen in my driveway, putting on his gloves. He was stationed in front of my house blocking the road while a new utility pole was being installed. The nice gentleman, probably a few years older than my grandson, proceeded to take my scraper and lift all the ice from my driveway. Then he and I shoveled the mess off to the side. He wasn't much of a conversationalist, but what a worker. We managed to clear

 Back to the future. Happy New Year, all.  I've been keeping busy will all kinds of projects yet most, in the end, show no proof other than the blanket I crocheted for Little Miss. The very fuzzy yarn was originally purchased for a sweater but as time went on I realized it was too heavy. As she had tried it on several times and once declared it was too heavy, there were no complaints about the change. I found a similar sweater to purchase so all worked out in the end. Now I hope the boys don't want their own personal blankets! I received my first ever Awwww! present as Nana as LM picked out a 3 'birds on a wire' necklace for me for Christmas. It represents herself, her mom and me. How sweet! She also picked out big red bow earrings that would do better on a mannequin, but I have a feeling my ears will be weighted down one day for proof of love! I've fallen into a large change in my diet; intermittent fasting and lots of liquids. Some symptoms of diverticulitis appea

 I've been busy. Nothing in particular and everything in general. I took a 4 day trio to Florida to spend quality time with my cousin. Fun, too much eating, a lot of laughs and it's always fun to share memories with someone who WAS there! Christmas came and went in a flurry of visiting kids houses and being cooked for, although the requirement of a Mom-baked lasagna and bread and cinnamon rolls was enough. My blog was prompted by remembrance of a very nice man my family met in about 1988-89 in Washington DC. We were sitting in the cafeteria in the Senate building, we always try to vacation like locals, and were contemplating if a person we saw was John Glenn. He noticed our glances and approached the table to chat for a few minutes. We Jersey folks were speaking with Herb Kohl, the senator from Wisconsin. He invited us to his office the next day and we were admitted to his office to simply sit and have a good conversation and he gave us VIP passes to Capitol building. At his be

 Life goes on. Ruth died on Thanksgiving morning and was buried a week later. Sad, but glad to have known her all those years. It is hard to see her house across the street and know it is now empty.  We had our family party last weekend. It changed drastically as the cabin was no longer well-kept thus not good for us. My sister in law and her husband held an "open house" at their new digs and we managed to squeeze in 25 of the 35 who were available! I was in a food coma for a day. Fun and just what I needed. Speaking of what we need, here's something to brighten your day. I saw something in my man, that twinkle in his eye, that sparked my creativity....Enjoy! Who knew I was sleeping with Santa all these years?