I did it.........Garden...roses

 

Thought I would post a picture of some of the daffodils that are blooming right now...I have a few of them in bloom....

 

I did it...title refers to me planting roses in the garden...I planted them before our last snow...I know I should have waited....the above pic is the two variety's of climbing roses I planted...I originally wanted pink and white one , but came home with these two.

                                              
                                                   this one is the Maid of Honor rose

                                                        This one is golden shower rose
                                 I think they will work well together once they start climbing
                     a blend of colors similar to each other...........Maid of honor has some hints of
                   yellow on it............their was a couple of other climbing roses I looked at as well,
          I will wait until clearance time and see what they have left.

                       These are the other two I brought home with me...so many roses to choose from...
                      Can not wait until they bloom...........

                         
                                                           This one is Snowfire rose.......
                                                       My oldest helped pick it out.
                                   Back behind this rose is irises and a lilac bush...
                                           that is starting to bud out...not done with this bed
                        Planning on transplanting a day Lillie on each side of the rose bush
                                                so it can be like the other corner.................

                                           This one is Golden Glow rose.........yellow or rather
                                       bright yellow, I wanted a yellow one.........
                 these roses were my valentine`s present from my hubby............

                           This bed is where the Golden glow rose is planted.....It is going to be sunflowers, daisy's in this bed along with some black eyed susans I found last week ..just haven`t planted them yet...I am working mulching this bed before I plant them...When I planted the roses over the weekend , I put mulch around them .....so hopefully this past cold snap didn't do anything to them.....
I have been working on this bed in the morning , then in the afternoon working on the quilt block...until I get to hurting to bad and stop working on it...

quilting.....

I thought I might update you on the 2011 times and seasons quilt I am working on...here goes the blocks that are done...

 

 First off ...here is October`s block...title of this block The Three Wise Guys....beading and sequins on this block...Bible verse with the block pattern..." But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be in treated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy...James 3:17

Next is January.. I don't think I am quite done with this block, I think it needs some little grass sticking up out of the snow....Good Morning Master is the title of this block.

Next is November`s block...Come One, Come All....mice...the Bible scripture is Romans 8: 18-25
more beading and some ribbon embroidery as well

                                 This one is September`s Block... Barnyard Adoration....
                         both the cat and dog is looking in the sky at the star....

                   
       This is the block for August..." Goodnight My King...I am not really happy with one of the lions...can you guess which one?

                                
                                            This is the center block...Do you see what I see.....

 

             This is the block I am working on at the moment...December`s....Holly-lu-jah....Lots of Hollies on this block...the small holly berries are done in felt....I realize I cant cut a perfect circle with these little circles of holly berries, even though I do trace the circles off the pattern...O well...in his eyes I am perfect....Yes, I am sewing each small piece on each block......a lot of work....I work on this when I have time...and there is sun...as my eyes can barely see to thread my needle ...

results...and alittle gardening

Well yesterday was the mammogram and ultra sound. First off  what I went thru yesterday, then the results ...then a little gardening. can`t do with out that you know. First off, I got there and put on the little half gown and asked to go wait until they call my name for the first pictures, ( Mammogram)....there was a lot of other women there as well....I seen one come out crying , as a woman you just know what those results were...then my name was called.....they took pictures of both breasts, when the tech got to the left one, it smarted just a tat. ..( I had took a couple of advils before hand)....then off to the waiting room again...Then they the doctor needed more views of both breast...this time it really did hurt on the left one as the paddle things were clamped tighter, at least that is what I thought....I did see the previous pictures...then back to the waiting room....then my name was called and they did an ultrasound on the left ...then the doctor came and told me the results.
The right breast has some small calcifications in it and gonna need to recheck in 6 months, the right has a fibrocystic mass....You need to take  600 mg of ibuprofen, a vitamin E and a Evening primrose pill once a day...Take the ibuprofen for about 2 weeks and if the pain isn't any better go to the your provider, the pain is probably in the chest wall, has nothing to do with the breast....and where was the lump that the nurse felt at , cause he couldn't find it, go back to her and see if she can still feel it in about a couple of weeks to a month...At least it wasn`t bad on what I thought...he said the purple breast was probably poor circulation, I have never heard of poor circulation in the breast, I have seen in it feet , but not breast ( I have worked as a CNA in nursing homes).

Now on to the gardening, and little bunnies....

my cattle panel turned archway into the top half of the garden, I think it looks pretty good...now to get some climbing roses to put on each side, don't know what color of roses I want....maybe pink or white...????? am planning on building a bench or chair of some kind and putting next to the cooler...and having sunflowers, daisies and the like behind the bench.....maybe a yellow rose bush as well....

                                                  this is a picture of a lilac, I transplants
                                       I had dug up some young starts from the lilac in the yard.
                        planning on planting this area like the one below..

                  
        Here is one of the corners in the top part of the garden...In this area  a lilac in the back, then two irises then the rose I transplanted out of the yard since the youngest keeps running into it when her and daddy are throwing the football around ( my tomboy)...then on both sides is a daylily , then in front I plant hostas......Don't know what low planting I can put in front of the hostas, maybe some marigolds or something like that......

                                            Here is another lilac start. From the corner above

                            
              a couple of Century /yucca plants I transplant out of the front yard...these are on the side of the corner up above with the rose and the lilac ....on the other side of them will be another rose bush and of course more flowers/herbs maybe...

      two different views of the rows of blackberries, I moved so my hubby can have the gate where he wants it...in between each blackberry bush is a iris plant.......along my fence I made from wire....

                                           sorry I forgot I put this one on here already...enjoy it again, lol

              
   two new vegetable beds , as soon as I get the dirt...I am gonna try and lay cardboard down then put the dirt on top ...to try and prevent the weed/grass from coming up...

                                                   just some tulips ready to bloom

                                              one of the beds that are planted...square foot gardening bed.
                    trying it this year with this bed...green onions, lettuce and radishes are planted here...

                          I just divided this bed in half, more green onions and radishes...did I mention I like radishes.....I would eventually like to put strawberries in this bed....I like strawberries too.

                                              now lets look at some bunnies......

                               These are my oldest bunnies, part dwarf ...her little dwarf bunny has 4
                                three black and 1 spotted.....a lot of hair she pulled.

                     these are the youngest daughter bunnies...7 of them....part giant and part lion head...
          black, white, grey looks like now ...just have to wait and see what they turn out like...

Well everyone talk to ya later.

so ready to garden.....

 What to do on a rainy day....plan your garden area.....or go take a few pictures outside in between the rain drops...
                                                Here are some tulips and Daffodils coming up

                                 

                                                   
that I dug up and replanted can`t wait until they start blooming!..

                                        
                                              the start of my beaded fence....blackberry bushes will be planted along this fence....can`t wait....

                                just a few plants,bulbs that need to be planted soon besides the seeds....as you can see I am sooooo ready to plant....hopefully I will get some of these in the ground this weekend or sometime next week....I need to get the onions and radish seeds in the ground before the 17.

                                         
                                my bator is up and running...only about a dozen eggs are in there

                   We have the two doe rabbits due this coming Monday....both have pulled some hair to make a nest for their babies, this box is the bigger one ....Red acorn...bred her to the Moe( lion head)..

This screech owl was in one of my cochin pens this past week.....I was surprised to it in the pen...was first thinking , I know I didn't put any other chickens in this pen ,...where did the extra bird come from ,......then noticed it was a owl!...I yelled get the camera, I just had to take a picture of it.

 

Well enough for now...everyone have a blessed day!

I will try and post more next week after my appointment

 

date is set....

I got the date set for the diagnostic mammogram...., now I just need to get rid of this cough and poison ivy....but I am not starting to cough up some....no color really to it...but at least I am coughing some thing up finally, so hopefully the coughing will go away sometime or other...

I do not enjoy this weather that mother nature seems to think we need.....But then again I looked the other day on our little horse and he has not started shedding yet...I wonder if this is a sign of more winter weather.......

We have gotten a new member of the family....My youngest has found her a beagle pup, she has named him browser...Cricket or Trixie don't really seem to impress by this little pup. Now she thinks she needs another beagle so she can go rabbit hunting in the spring and summer months. I need to get a pic of him on here ....soon hopefully.....I have been working some in the garden as well...fixing my fence of sorts, anyway before the last snow/ice came.....Well I am gonna go for now.....

Something is Wrong.....

This will be a long post.... not my typical post about gardening or animals or anything like that, but about me and a woman health issue that I am having. I have decide to blog about it , maybe helping someone else out there .
First Off, Let me say, I do not like the weather has decided to turn colder again and we have more snow and ice on the way...I have gardening to do and eggs to hatch and it needs to start getting warmed and staying that way.............

Now on to my ordeal...I will not be posting any pictures  before I begin.
It started with a couple of red marks on the side of my breast, at least that is where I think it starts. I showed them to my hubby and he told me it is probably just your bra rubbing on that area...So I tried wearing my aha bra, a sports type bra..and wore one like that for about a week, the spots faded , but was still there...I switched back to my other bras and the reds spots came back...The red spots have been there for awhile and learning to deal with it.
About 2-3 months ago  I started having pain in the side of my left breast. At first I thought it maybe just the way I slept on that side or maybe I had crocheting a lot that day, but everyday...pain on the left side of the left breast, then I started having pain in my arm pit and sometimes down my arm and sometime my left hand feel like numb feeling... and sometimes it hurt to wash my hair in the shower. I like to put together puzzles in the winter time...So I have been working on putting one together for my youngest and it was hard to pick up the pieces of the puzzle...So I would stop putting the puzzle together...a hard puzzle still not done with it .
So I was thinking , maybe I need a mammogram and I remembered my mom telling me about a foundation that help women get one...So I checked it out...I know I should already had one since I am a 49 year old women, but there is something that is green ...that has been hindering that process....So I found Breast Cancer foundation of the Ozarks website and got their  number and called and had them send me an application to see if I qualified .The sent me an application and I found out their are 2 types of mammograms a screening type and a diagnostic one...I thought a mammogram was a mammogram, ....
So I sent in the application and low and behold I qualify to get a mammogram.....So I got my voucher and call my doctor to get a doctor`s order for it and then scheduled the screening mammogram....The day comes and what do you know we have winter weather...so I had to call cancel and reschedule it....and pray we don't have any more winter weather on that day.
That day arrives and the pain is not that bad on that day...The pain is always there , but varies in the degree of how bad it is....So I am nervous, of course and worried.  .My mom goes with me....So I check in and wait and then they call my name and my on the little half gown, then go and wait till they call my name again...my name is called and I go back there and the nurses asked me  if I have been having any trouble with my breast...and I tell her and show her the red spot of the left side of the breast and then asked how long has the pain been there ...then she steps out of the room and comes back with a number and a person to contact and tells me about Show Me Healthy Women and that I need to contact that person to get a mammogram, a diagnostic mammogram at that...and that if this screening mammogram were to show anything ...I would have to come back.
I proceed to tell her that my plan was to get the screening mammogram and then it comes back abnormal then go from there....so she steps out again and comes back and then she tells me to contact my local health department...and tells me that it would be best to go thru them the Show Me Healthy Women program and she told me again that I needed a diagnostic mammogram and that they wouldn't`t do a mammogram if my breast was hurting anyway......So I proceed out and then change back into my clothes and  leave......
So I tell my mom and she says you need to call them as soon as you get home...( we do not have cell phones)
So I call the first number that she gave me and leave a message, that has been a couple of weeks ago and still haven't heard anything from that person.....Next I called my local health department and left a message, they called me back...and they had heard of the Show Me Healthy Women program but didn't know all the details and she gave me the number of someone else in a different county health department that knew about it....So I called them and left a message.....they called me back.....My hubby says it sounds like you are getting the runaround.....while I was on the phone and the lady tells me about the guidelines and that I should fall into the guideline's....She also told me to contact my regular doctor and make a appointment to get a clinical exam and she couldn't under stand why they didn't go ahead and do the diagnostic mammogram.....So After I got off the phone with her, I then called my doctor and made an appointment for  the following Monday.....
So all this time, I have been going to Google and putting in my symptoms and it kept bring up cancer symptoms ...one in particular ...Inflammatory Breast cancer.....So I read alittle about this cancer and it is a rare cancer and they only find it in stage 3 and their is only 4 stages...and it is a fast growing cancer ,so I went to the Show Me healthy Women website and seen what providers , since my own doctor office had no clue in what I was talking about......So I found another doctor office that I had been at and that did do the program and they have a sliding fee scale just like mine does and called them ...they are open on Saturday....it is an urgent care clinic. so I called them and they sent me an application and the nurse I spoke too said she would call me Monday and that they wound not take the clinical breast exam from somewhere else...So I waited until Monday and so I can cancel my appointment with the one I had made and waited for her to call...so She didn't`t call on Monday , so I call them back and set an appointment with them for the following Tuesday...and she said the Monday around there was hectic and that is why she didn't call.
So I got the application in the mail the same day I  got  a letter from the clinic from our town reminding me that I needed a pap...the last one I had one was back in 2009.....I know too long, but the green paper stuff we pass around....sometimes it just doesn't go as far....
So that Tuesday comes and I have and early appointment, first one there....at least first patient.....So I wait in the waiting room and wishing I had brought something from home to look at or to do  while I wait....So I am the only one in the waiting room....The clinic is about 30-45 minutes away depending on how fast I drive the curvy road and if their is a train on the track....gotta love these curvy roads of the Ozarks.....
So I go back and the nurse takes my blood pressure....it`s alittle high ...so I show her the red spot of the side of my breast and she writes it down...then the doctor comes in , she likes to meet her patients with their clothes on first before she has them change....I think that is a good idea...and I tell her my story , of course the nurse had told her....So I change my clothes and then she comes back in and starts doing the breast exam.....starting with the left one....she finds lump....I think she said it was elongated  but not for sure, just was a shock that she found a lump and I was hurting from the exam....then she said to order a mammogram and an ultrasound and asked how long has my breast been purplish in color.....I have not noticed that.....since it the color is on the underside of my breast....I am sorta of endowed in the breast department....so its hard to see under them ....not that they are big....but they aren't small either....so she does the pelvic exam and low and behold I have a yeast infection and my first round of poison ivy for the year and that just sprang up over night...besides a cold I am have been dealing with ...
So When I got home and looked at the underside of my breast using a mirror and low and behold my breast were discolored....
So that is where I am know in this story waiting for them to call to set up appointment for the mammogram and ultrasound.

Side note...Why don't  every county in Missouri and every one that is low income in Missouri know about the Show Me Healthy Women program?

beginning gardening for 2014

Look what I picked up in Springfield the other day.

yes that is right daffodil bulbs on clearance, I just love to get things on clearance....will be going in my garden as soon as the ground warms up a bit hopefully they will be planted this weekend sometime or next week, as it is suppose to be really nice,

of course, I will have to let some of the snow melt away first....hopefully this week it will be gone and not come again until about Dec.....

         My two helpers today while I was out taking pics, The top pic is of Bandit, the bottom pic of Buttercup

Signs of Spring, Tulips coming up, these are some of the ones I replanted last year in the fall...the rest that are coming up is covered by the snow.....
Spring cant come soon enough for me....Have some seeds and am ready to plant!!!!