thursday

Spent the morning planting flowers and cleaning up the patio.  Wore me out!  Also made bread this morning.

We raked out under the pine trees and trimmed off some dead limbs and moved one of the outdoor tables under them.  We took a load to the dump, the needles and limbs we raked up plus the trash already in the trailer. 

We walked this morning all the way to the creek!  Lately walking has made me feel so tired that I haven't wanted to go.  The doc told me exercise was good for lowering cholesterol, so I'm going to try and get back into walking. 

We can see the smoke over Escudilla again today, noticed it yesterday on the way home.

tuesday

Called and got in to see the doc this morning.  The results of the bloodwork are in.  I didn't realize my sleep apnea was doing damage to my body, but the results show that it is.  Reece said that my high blood pressure, the high cholosterol and an elevated red blood count can all be a result of the apnea!  He said I am at more risk for heart attack and stroke, too.  I can't wear the torture device they have for apnea, I tried it when first diagnosed and ended up with my nose blistered and sore, I am allergic to the material they make the masks with.  They tried one that goes inside the nostrils, but it soon had me so sore I gave up on that one too.  I stopped wearing the thing and have never used it since.  I wonder if they have come up with new technlogy?  I'm going to make an appointment with an ENT doc to find out.  I'm so tired of being so tired all the time! 

After the appointment we headed out to help our former neighbors move some heavy tables into their new home.  They are living out in the middle of nowhere, a few miles from the Stanford General store.  I don't think I'd like living out there, they're off the grid, so have solar and a generator to supply electricity.  They do have an amazing view any way they look though. 

Went shopping in ShowLow after and got a few items we needed.  I got a new BP monitor, checked mine with the docs office again and it was way off, funny that it's so high there, but not at home, makes me wonder.  Anyway, I have a new one now, we'll see how it does.

sunday

It was almost calm this morning, just a light breeze, yea!  It froze last night, John saw frost on top of the car, thermo said 32.5!    Everything looks okay, the plastic was still on the sf gardens and all the panels on the greenhouse.  It was 50 in there this morning. 

We walked to the corrals and back, gave me shin splints!  Guess it's been too long or I walked too vigorously. 

saturday

The wind was blowing when I woke up this morning, harder than it was yesterday.  Maybe we'll get the 60 mph winds predicted for yesterday today. 

John called the airport about 8 this morning we're having steady winds of 44.5 mph and gusts of 63 mph!  A good day to stay inside!  The gas hog got blown off his perch and is laying on his side on the ground! 

A mandatory evacuation of the community of Mogollon has been ordered by the Catron County Sheriffs Office effective 12:00 noon today. All residents of that community are directed to leave their premises and are welcome to relocate to the Glenwood Community Center located on Community Center Road.  I hope the fire doesn't destroy Mogollon!  It's such a quaint cool little town!

What a day!  The wind was ferocious!  It kind of calmed down this evening.  I never did venture down to the greenhouse to check out that all was okay.

We did get out for a bit today, went for a ride around town this afternoon, lots of tree limbs down.  Our poor locust tree has lost a lot of leaves and tiny branches, mostly the new growth from this spring.  Poor tree!

friday

High winds predicted for today, this morning wasn't bad, but it's picking up this afternoon.  Planted some of the celery in the greenhouse and one in the sf garden, still have another flat to plant.

The wind never did get as bad as predicted for today.  It blew all day and I'm so tired of wind, I'm wondering if it is going to be a bad June like last year was?

Walt, from the dump, and his wife stopped by this evening to look at the artwork.  He brought us some of his art that he's been telling us about to see.  Pretty neat, he used linoleum glue to draw on the cards!

tuesday

I got my permanent crown on this morning.  They were flushing out the fire hydrants this morning and warned us that the water might be dirty after, so we went to ShowLow to get out of town until it had time to get flushed out.  We went shopping at Wal Mart.  While there I ran into Peggy Hill, she gave us some bad news, Dennis has cancer!  He was having his second chemo treatment.  She said it's incurable cancer in his liver where it spread from the colon.  His brother died of colon cancer so Dennis has been faithful about having colonoscopys and just had one in January.  The found a polyp and said it was precancerous, but took it out.  Peggy said his cancer started in the colon, so they missed something there! I feel so bad for both of them, too sad!

John noticed smoke up by Escudilla this afternoon, I went out to see and it was eerily like last summer and the Wallow Fire and gave me chills.  I tried to find info online and couldn't, so called the police.  They said it's a fire in New Mexico.  It must have gotten larger today.  Here's what I found later after I knew what fire it is:

Whitewater Fire Evening UPDATE – May 22nd

May 22, 2012 by jmyslivy0 Comments

The Whitewater Fire burning in the Gila Wilderness is approximately five miles southwest of the summer community of Willow Creek and was detected on Wednesday, May, 16. The fire is currently growing and continues to burn in steep, rugged terrain of mixed conifer forest. The fire remains at 0% containment as firefighters are unable to directly suppress the fire due to extreme fire behavior. Red Flag Warnings were in effect today from early afternoon and will last throughout the evening.
There is a pre-cautionary evacuation of the Willow Creek area at this time because of extreme fire behavior. Crews are also being pulled back to staging areas for their safety because of the extreme fire behavior at this time.
Closure order 06-301 is being implemented and includes the following closures.
• Whitewater Trail #207 is closed from the junction with Powerhouse Trail #810 to the junction with Crest Trail #182.
• Holt Apache Trail #181 is closed from the junction with Deloche/Wynn Canyon Trail #179 to the east.
• Crest Trail #182 is closed from Sandy Point trailhead to the junction with Holt Apache Trail #181
• Bead Springs Trail #138 is closed
• Iron Creek Trail #172 is closed
• Red Stone is closed
• Grouse Mountain Trail #781
In addition to the trail closures, the Bursum Road (State Road 159) is closed from Fanny Springs approximately 13 miles east of Glenwood, New Mexico, to the junction with Forest System Road 142/County Road C021 (Snow Lake Road).
Avoidance of all areas surrounding these closed areas is strongly recommended and caution is advised for the entire Gila Wilderness due to recent lightning and fire activity.
For more information visit the Gila National Forest website at http://fs.usda.gov/gila. You may also visit www.inciweb.org for maps and updates.

monday

Got my blood drawn first thing this morning, then John took me out for breakfast at The Roost.  Checked up on my ADSR racers and did a layout for challenge 5.  Mypartner, Susan, has to finish it up.  

Connie and Eric came by this afternoon, Connie brought by some artwork of Mabel's for me to scan.

sunday and a solar eclipse

We both woke up early this morning and were up by 4.  My BP continues to be on the high side, not as high,but still too high.  Bummer, I was hoping the change in meds would fix it.

There was an annular solar eclipse today.  We were close to the edge of the best viewing area, so ran down to just past SJ to view it.  It was pretty cool, I took photos, but I don't think they are going to be very good.  The light wiped out the camera without a filter and the filter made it look weird and green.  It will probably be the only one we'll see, so glad we took time out to view it!

saturday

Feeling better today, not as tired although I get out of breath easily just walking up the hill from the garden!  BP is still too high, I'm going to give the white pills a few more days before starting on the other ones the doc gave me.  So many side effects from them, I hate to take more if I don't need to! 

Picked a cuke today!  Several more are growing, yea!

friday

Still feeling under the weather today, so tired and it hurts a bit to breathe.  I took only the white BP pill this morning to see how it does.  It's a bit high, but nothing like yesterday.  I feel so tired and wiped out.  Think I need to see doc H and have him check me over to see what's up.  Hopefully the bloodwork on Monday will show up something.  John pointed out to me this morning that he was short of breath when he had the blood clots, something I hadn't thought of.  I don't think I'm in as much pain as he was tho, so hoping that's not it. 

It's windy today!  Yuck, so tired of the wind!  Reminds me of last summer and June and the fire being pushed along by high wind.  Not sure how high it's getting out there but it's trying to blow away the plastic over my grow boxes!  One little piece that was over the one I haven't planted yet did blow away!  While I was fixing the plastic, I leaned my arm on the metal side of the box and thought I got burned, but when I looked at it it looked like a bite.  Hope it wasn't venomous whatever it was, it sure hurts!

thurs

Today was NOT a good day for me.  We walked this morning and I didn't feel good when we got back, so I took my blood pressure and it was high.  Thinking it was the walk, I took it again later and it was even higher.  It kept going up, so I went to the docs office and had them take it to see if my machine was going goofy.  It was even higher there, 170/90!  I don't think I've ever had one that high!  The docs assistant saw me and said everything seemed fine, except for the high BP.  He gave me a pill for it and after 15 minutes, it had gone down to 130/90.  He gave me a prescription to add to the one I'm taking and I go back on Monday for fasting bloodwork and we'll go from there.  I saw a new PA, turns out his wife is a relative, she's Gary Davis' daughter!  Small world.  I took my BP several times after I got home and it started dropping, it got down to 100/67 and kept bouncing all over, but never any lower than that.  By bedtime it was back up, but I didn't dare take my evening BP pill just in case.  For the last two months, I've been given a different pill from what I normally take, and I wonder if the little pink pill has anything to do with not controlling my BP.  It's gradually been getting higher since I started taking them, so I asked as the pharmacy and they were aware that it could do that and apparently they've had a problem with it.  I requested that they mark on my prescription that I not be given the pink one again and she said she would.  She said insurance would pay to refill that one now, so I got it refilled with the white oval ones and I'm hoping my BP will go back down!  I also got the new pres. filled, not sure if I'll start on it right away or give it a bit to see if it starts going down.

wednesday

Went on a benture today.  We packed a lunch and rode up to Big Lake and looked around, got a treat at the store, then went on to the Big Lake lookout tower to see if they'd demolised it and rebuilt.  They hadn't, only change was that they'd added solar panels and antennas.  There was also a butane tank sitting inside the chain link fence they'd put around the tower.  Someone had taken the gate off its hinges and it was open.  Everything that was above in the room at the top was on the ground floor, a stove, a chair, pieces of metal and splatters of melted metal all over the rocks, the fire must have been hot or the metal melted at a low temp!  The ground was a beautiful green, the barley had died, but some kind of grass that didn't look native was thriving as well as flowers.  Maybe from the seeds dropped on the area last summer?  It made the blackened trees look all the more stark!

monday

We went to St Johns to put in Mom's new cooler.  Got it mostly in, we need some plexiglas for the top of the hole.  This one is much nicer looking than the old one and doesn't cover up as much of the window.  We came home to get some plexiglas and were going to go back and finish up, but it was getting late and we were tired so we didn't make it back.  Tomorrow!  Seems like we just don't have much get up and go lately.  My chest was hurting again today, not sure what's up with it.  My Blood Pressure has been high the last several days.  Not sure what's up there either.

sunday mother's day

Mother's Day.  Got a card from Charles and both boys called this morning.  We went out to eat a late lunch with Mom, Carleen, Gary and Sandy at Trail Rider's.  They all came back here to visit and so I could give Mom the pot of flowers I got her.

saturday Jacque's funeral

We drove down to St. Johns and I attended Jacque's funeral.  I didn't realize she had so many kids, 6 of them, wow!  She had such a hard life, Steve was a jerk, he got in trouble at several of the schools he taught at for molesting his students and finally they put him in jail.  I think Jacque divorced him, she mostly raised the kids by herself.  Then she had health problems, one day she suddenly couldn't walk, and had lots of other health issues, too.  Yet she always had a smile on her face and would say she was fine if asked.  Such a good person!  After the funeral went out to eat at El Camino with Mom, their chili has gone downhill, it's just hot now, not as good as it used to be.  It's been that way the last several times we've eaten there.  Trail Rider's has got them beat now.  Returned Mabel's albums to Connie and got three more.

friday

spent most of the day scanning in photos from Mabel's albums.  My arm and rear are so sore, and my brain is mush again.

monday

John helped me redo the hoses in my garden this morning and got me some plastic to cover the beds.  I planted corn, hope it will be okay and not freeze!  We took my chair apart and put some memory foam in the seat.  Not sure I like it, it's kind of high and firm now.  Eric brought up more albums for me to scan, one of them is one I already scanned.  I haven't had time to do the last two, gues I'd better get busy!

sunday

did laundry today. ADSR started today, not even half as many are racing this year.  I think around 66 teams.  Last year there were around 200.  I wonder if the time of year or the fact that last year's theme was so hated is the cause? But on the good side, I only have 6 teams to check in! Last year I got so burned out, I had my 20, plus took on another checker's 20, plus checked in Susan's for a time and and another checker's who disappeared about the end of the race.  I didn't ever want to check in another race and told them I only would do 10 teams this year.  It ended up that there was no problem everyone has only 6.

satutday

We went to Nonie's funeral today.  Left here about 11:30 and didn't get home til about 6!  They had a closed casket.  John and I sat next to Mary Slade, she's such a sweet lady!  There was family controversy over something Betty posted on Facebook, I guess there is more of that going on that I knew. 

When we got home we had two messages that people had gotten spam emails from me.  Checked on the puter and they were sent while we were gone!  Andy remotely checked the puter and didn't find any malware or anything, so not sure what happened.  The mails were in my sent folder, so looks like they were sent from here.  Kind of scary to think of someone hacking into it.  I left several windows open one was a site having scrapping day chats.  Maybe that's how someone got in.

friday

John and I visited Kayle and Becky's greenhouse site this morning. They are going to have an underground one! Cool. Heard on facebook that one of my schoolmates, Jacque Baca, passed away last night. She had such a hard life, her hubby spent time in jail for molesting one of his students, they divorced, she was paralized, had to have her leg amputated, had cancer, yet through it all, she remained on of the happiest persons I've ever known. I'm still not feeling good, don't know what's up, I'm wondering if I caught something from someone at the funeral.

Thursday

Got the dirt put in the square foot boxes and ran water on it for a time, then covered it back up, hopefully the water will soak out and wet it all down.  We put a roast on to cook and had hot roast sandwiches for supper, yumm!

Wednesday

I don't feel well today, tired and achy and my chest hurts.  I wonder if I caught something from hugging people at the funeral?

We returned the recorder to Bryce Burnham today and went shopping, then we went back up to eat lunch at Trail Riders.  I needed a red chili dose, sometimes that helps wipe out a cold coming on.


 Found out Nonie's funeral is on Saturday.  Not sure we will go, there are family troubles going on in that family and John doesn't want to get involved.

tuesday

John and Charles got out early and put up a couple more sheets of tin on the parking roof.  Later, Eric came up and helped him get the last sheet installed.  They almost got it finished. Charles and fam left about 10ish this morning. Nikki had a school program this evening that she needed to get home in time to go to.  Jana's fam and Tristan came up this afternoon to visit.  Had a good time with them.  Jana and Rob have such a cute little family!  John's cousin Noni passed away today, she's been going downhill for a while now and we weren't sure who would go first, her or Mabel.  Noni also had congestive heart failure.