Little Steps

We are all doing much better.
Hubs is on the road to recovery, even if it does not seem that way to him. He is not operating at full capacity and at times, that gets him down. I just have to remind him where he was two weeks ago. This is a huge improvement from there.
Now he is just taking some over the counter medications and not that often at that. Hubs does have a high threshold for pain. The idea that he is even taking anything at all gives a clue to those who know him exactly how much pain he is experiencing.

The fuzzy children and I are keeping our own company. I celebrated a birthday last week. I don't really feel any older. Just another day really. Jacob baked me a wonderful cake. Cherry Chip. My favourite after ice cream.

I'm working on a few different paintings at the moment.


Jackie helped.

Yes, that is white paint on her nose.

I am also participating in a knit-a-long, The Philosopher's Stone There are a lot of interesting stitches.


When we are not being creative, we are just sitting outside enjoying the scenery and watching it pay a visit to our back door.








The fuzzy children were really interested in something outside this morning.




This was our brave visitor.




Well, in a nutshell, that has been my week.
I hope you are all well and enjoying your week!
Cheers!

We Are OK

This past week has been a bit of a challenge to say the least.
Hubs has had on and off for a the better part of a couple of months, pain in his shoulder.
Well, finally it reached the point where he just could not take any more. For him to get to this level of pain is unheard of. He just is not one to complain, ever, about any sort of discomfort.
So let the adventure begin.
We drove to the emergency room in the next town over. The whole time Hubs is just doubled over, almost crying. To see this is very unsettling, scary is probably a better word. I felt so helpless because there is nothing I can do but drive him to somewhere there is help.
I must say, once we arrived at the hospital, the staff were great. They immediately gave him something to stop the spasms. After the muscles in his shoulder quieted down, they took him for x rays. Those drugs are powerful. They knocked him on his butt in no time. If I wasn't standing in front of him, he would have done an epic face plant to the tiles.
After about six hours, we learned that his has had some serious stress to his trapezoids muscle. That is the one that runs from your neck across your shoulder and covers your shoulder blade. He will be off work for a little while until he can heal. Lots of sleep and quite the assortment of medication to help him on the road to recovery.

Yesterday was Comiccon in Montreal for Jacob and I!
It was weird just the two of us going, but it is much better for Hubs to stay home and rest. We did have a great time!
It was very overcast with periods of rain, but not a worry for us!




There were lot of interesting characters and cosplayers that did such a great job!



All that walking around made us very hungry!

So we had a great lunch up in the cafeteria


We walked around a little more,

Picked up a few souvenirs and it was time to head home!


That was my week end in a nutshell.
I hope you are all well.
Happy Sunday everybody.

Happy Canada Day!

I hope the weather cooperates with your week end activities. The start of summer is going quite well at my end of the world. Today happens to be a bit cloudy, but that is a welcome reprieve from the heat we have been experiencing. My plants are doing fairly well.
The exception seems to be my honeysuckle. Something has started to mummify my beloved plant.

I haven't a clue what is causing this. The Honeysuckle tend to bloom twice. I'm hoping after all the flowers drop off, that the second blooming period will be without incident.

My tomatoes are doing great!


So are my lilies!

We had frost much later this spring. I think that is the reason why the Red Lily Eating Beetles did not do their usual damage this year.

We also had more activity from our feathery neighbours, which I have recently learned are Winter Wrens!





Jackie felt it was her duty to protect the feathery babies.

She takes her job very seriously. The parents seem to have accepted the fact that they have sentinel standing guard.

The day after we shot these photos, the little ones had left the nest. We could hear the chirping every time Jackie went to explore the backyard.

This is my first night off in quite some time. It will probably be an early night for me. I hope you are well.
Happy 4th to my southern neighbours!