Last week was  very busy .  Got a lot done.  And there is all kinds of things going on this week.  Main thing…numero uno was getting my teeth cleaned for the first time in a year.  I was due for a cleaning last October but started chemo and could not get it done.  There is no other feeling like a good  power washing of the mouth.  So thanks Dr. Kaestner and the girls for making me feel sooooo much better.

I also had my port flushed out.  All kinds of maintainence on this old body.  It is always fun to visit and get hugs from the wonderful crew at Kirby Glen Infusion Center.  My buddies Betsy and Tracy took good care of me.  I will have to have the port flushed about every six weeks.  I figure I’d rather have it cleaned out every six weeks rather than have it removed and have to have surgery again to put it back in if needed.  And hopefully it WON’T be needed!

Bill and I had a week of spring cleaning.  He did a lot of mowing and I did a lot of cleaning and rearranging.  Got rid of many things we just didn’t need or things that were just stacking up that other people said they wanted but never picked up.  So we asked our friend John. who has a huge van, come and haul a bunch of crap off to the dump.  Feels almost as good as the teeth cleaning to rid ourselves of junk!.  At the end of that day, exhausted, we sat down to have a wine on the front porch.  I sat in my rocker and Bill sat in his when I heard …”A SNAKE” .  You know the dreaded words that no one wants to hear or see.  A rat snake was wrapped around Bill’s wine holder.  Our wine holders are iron and were bought at the rodeo a couple of years ago.  They stand a bout 3′ high and there are horse shoes at the top where you place your wine glass.  That horrible thing was about 4′ long and wrapped all over the top of that holder.  It was so disgusting.  But he got away…he was really fast…which was even more disgusting.  At least rat snakes aren’t harmful.  But I would much rather have him in a few pieces.  Dr. Bevers sent me a picture of a snake they killed at their ranch.  It was a lot longer than ours. UGH!!!!  We have had several neighbors tell us about gator stories.  Yes, alligators.  So for Marvin’s daughter and my friend Blis who both live on the east side of Fulshear and close to rivers and creeks.  Be careful.  Marvin’s daughter couldn’t get in her car to go to work because a gator was sunning next to her car.  And Blis took a picture of a 7′ gator and sent it to me that was in her yard.  I think I’ll sick to snakes and just carry my shovel around.  On a good nature note, we have spotted woodpeckers in our front trees.  They are beautiful and very curious. 

This week I will be “journey bead” shopping for my friend Lindsay.  Her 12TH birthday is Thursday and I guess journey beads are the thing now.  So I have seen several kits that she might like.  If anyone has suggestions on journey beads…please let me know.

I was sent an e-mail that had a story about an ole guy being forced into moving to a rest home after his wife had passed away.  He said every morning he makes the decision …It’s not how things around you are arranged it’s how you arrange them in your mind.  So every morning free yourself from hate, free yourself from worry, live simple, give more and expect less.  Wow, what great advise.  It seems to me a lot of this comes with age and we call it “wisdom”.   So, yesterday Bill and I snuck away for lunch with our good friends Linda and David.  Dusty and Michele dad sat and he never knew we were gone.  Lunch at Dekker’s was awesome and it was our way of freeing ourselves from worry. 

Have a great week and stay out of trouble.  Lots of events going on this week so there will be lots of news next Monday.  Hugs!  Ride,Baby,Ride!

Leilani

Hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Easter.  The Hurles’ house was alive with love and excitement.  All the kids came and we enjoyed the Honey Baked Ham and brisket.  Add the mac and cheese, green-bean casserole, and all the extras we certainly could not complain but count our many blessings. 

On Saturday I had some errands to run and as I returned and was parking the Jeep, Bill was swinging two shovels around telling me quick…quick.  Which can only mean one of two things around here.  He is either just about to kill Magoo or there is a snake somewhere.  I was really hoping it was the first one.  Wrong!  A three foot water moccasin right beside Magoo’s walkway ramp.  Lilly was having a fit.  And of course dad couldn’t see it.  Bill was screaming for him to get the dog inside and for him to stay in.  Talk about a circus.  Lilly had more sense than either one of them.  So Bill has one shovel and he gives me the one that kids play with on the beach to build sand castles.  What the heck am I supposed to do with this…I just know the snake was thinking the same thing.  Like she’s going to chop at me with that!  By the time we finished, it was in several pieces.  I kid you not.  It looked like a sushi bar of snake parts.  God, I hate snakes.  So, in my infinite wisdom I had Bill find someone to cut down all the bluebonnets.  I hated that, because you know how I feel about my bluebonnets,  but the weeds had grown so tall amongst them that I could just see snakes lurking in them and one of the dogs get bit.  So our wonderful neighbor Ernie volunteers for cutting duty.  Bill and Ernie are out discussing their strategy.  I called Ernie’s wife Bernie, and said how are they communicating out there.  Neither one of them can hear especially over lawnmower motors.  It’s the man thing..the torque crap…the penis talk code that only they understand.  So as they were getting started, Ernie’s mower breaks down.  So off to plan B.  Our wonderful neighbor Marvin got a hold of his son-in-law Wade to bring his huge tractor over and wipe them out.  Since Marvin is one of our local firemen and he was on duty Easter weekend,  he brings the firetruck over to watch the action.  Neighbors were calling thinking something was wrong.  What could possibly be wrong at this house?? OMG!

Good news though.  The rhino rear-end is getting more muscular.  And I am beginning to tan.  That always makes you look thinner.  And I am up to 30 laps a day.  I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying the pool.  It gives me a whole new lease on life! 

The horses had their vaccines this morning.  Poco and Bud are so funny.  It’s like they know it’s the vet when she drives up.  We have to halter them before she gets here cause they try to hide.  But I made sure they got plenty of carrots and apples when she left.  Spoiled brats!  The dogs will have their turn on Thursday.  Everybody hates the spring vaccines!

Have a great week everyone.  Hugs from Fulshear!

Ride,Baby,Ride!

Leilani

One, two, three JUMP!  It was time to hit the pool yesterday.  I was so ready for this.  Got my fat, steroid ass in my swimsuit, grabbed my sun screen, and my extra large beach towel (just in case someone snuck up on me and I had to go incognito) and started my leg exercises and water weights.  I have been waiting for the water temp to rise above 80 degrees so yesterday we hit an 83. It felt so good.  Anyway, I was enjoying the beautiful day yesterday so I’m a little late on the Monday Update.

Everywhere I go I’m on the lookout for snakes.  Our neighbor Marvin informed us that he killed a big copperhead last week and our neighbor behind us who has all the cattle said she shot 3 water moccasins which were sunning on a log in her pond.  UGH!!!! Lani and I got the shotgun out yesterday too.  Only it was for some guy thinking (or not thinking at all) he was just going to come in our locked gate and walk up the driveway without causing a ruckus.  Wrong!  Once face to face with Moochie and Starr and with a bald headed woman and her gun…. he stopped dead in his tracks.  Turns out he said he worked for Center Point and was changing out all the meters in the neighborhood.  #1, he did not have a Center Point energy uniform on and was in an unmarked white truck.  Just what did he expect two country girls to do?  Nobody just makes themselves at home out in the country where all the neighbors tote arms!  Found out from others that similar incidences went on throughout the hood!  I’m sure after changing our meter he had to change his underwear.  I still can’t believe a company that big would not call first or send a notice warning people that they will be coming on a certain date.  Big mistake on their part.  Anyway, that will teach them to mess with Fulshear Farms.  Hi-ho Silver…away!!!!

I will have a pet-scan on Thursday.  Oh, joy!  So as soon as I hear something, I will let all know.  I have an appointment with Dr. Bevers on April 2ND so I should definitely find something out then.  Other than that I’m slowly getting over the crud.  Not coughing as much and I got off the Cipro so I could get in the sun.  (Suns a no-no with Cipro).  Thanks for the e-mails.calls and prayers.  You all know how much I really appreciate the support and friendship.  So, back to “reptile watch” and believe me I will be packing my pistol as I roam “the back forty”.  As I have said since day one,  the only good snakes a dead one!  Better yet…not to encounter one at all!!!! EEEK!

Hugs!  Ride,Baby,Ride!

Leilani

Good morning!!!!

Yes, I said good.  Seems like I’m just back down to the plain ole crud now.  Chemo fog has lifted and nausea and bladder infection seem to have left the scene.  Thank goodness!  Seriously, I was sick!!!!!  I don’t complain too often but all of that at once is too much for any one.

To start off…no names mentioned to protect the guilty and the innocent…I have been told that someone had “a bone” to pick with me!  So I listened and laughed my ass off.  I have now decided that men need a special name for their privates.  We cannot have little boys calling their genitals “who-who’s”.    So for all the men out there I will make sure that your “package” is called “rod and reel”!  I would call it the “remote” but one might get confused since you always have that in your hands all the time too.   I am flattered that the “who-who’ has become so popular but I can see where men would not want their package called that.  Problem solved!!!

I want to thank a friend of mine…Richard Phillips.  He lives in North Carolina and his church sends me post cards monthly.  I want you to know that I received one of these post cards right when I really needed it.  I was throwing up sick and Bill came in with the mail and said “this ought to cheer you up”.  It made my whole day.  The love that God sends is unending.  Thanks Richard.  You’ll never know how much calmness that put in me.  It was John14:27.

Tomorrow is Academy Award day again for Magoo.  It’s already started.  Dragging his butt and moaning about his tooth.  But when we leave he sits down watches TV and I guess thinks of his next move.  He forgets we observe him 24-7 on the monitor.  You really have to see it.  My sis-in -law Libby came by yesterday for a visit and did he ever bamboozie her.  The rest of us sat in the house watching and laughing.  Anyway, Lani will have all the scoop tomorrow. 

This will certainly be a week of catching up and trying to get things back in prospective.  Supposed to have a pet-scan sometime next week.  Have not heard from St. Luke’s on timing.  A Dr. Bevers appt. on April 2nd and I guess that should be it for a while.  For all of you who have been through the cancer experience or know of someone that has experienced it know that I am staying optimistic but am always looking out for my back.  The time I spend with family and friends is so precious to me and not having to deal with the chemo every three weeks is definitely a plus.  Please keep your prayers coming and know that I feel every one of them. 

Pool dude, Scott, is here to make sure our pool is ready to go the minute I can possibly get in it.  So have a great week and let me hear from all of you.  Know that your love keeps me going.  Something a friend sent me…A dog has so many friends because he wags his tail instead of his mouth.  Sounds like a great life lesson to pay attention to.

Ride,Baby,Ride! 

Leilani