What nice MEA weekend.....

It was a fabulous MEA weekend. The family I use to Nanny for came up for 4 days. It was so much fun. The highlight of the whole weekend it that we saw a wolf on the driveway and then later that night Barry started to howl. There had to be about 5-6 wolves howling back. COOL! Then we went to explore the big bog that we have nearby. NEAT!


Dad.....

He continues to do well. He now has the Okay to drive again. Good thing, too, because he drives Mom nuts by being that "back seat" driver. Though he never says anything when I drive =)


Sad news...

We have sold our 3 year old Appaloosa. It is not what we really wanted to do but we didn't have the time to train her and she needed to have something to do. Someone came out to see her Saturday and fell in love with her. I delivered to to her new owner on Monday. We will miss her terribly and we hope that the new owner will stay in touch with us so we know how and what she is doing.

"Law of the .........."

I recently received a comment about my post, The Law of the Garbage Truck. The comment was from Chris... Thank you for letting me know about the author, Chris. I have since then checked out David's blog.

So everyone..Check out www.davidjpollay.typepad.com



***And if anyone is following any of the updates about my Dad...He continues to do well. We had a minor issue arise but he is doing good! We found out that every time he would exercise and push himself, he would complain about some discomfort or burning in the upper chest area. He had to visit the ER while he was at Rehab. All his tests and Xray checked out normal. But the Doctors at the St. Cloud Hospital suggested he come in for the night just to make sure there were no new developments. They had him do a stress test. Come to find out that the area of his heart that has the bad block is what is causing him to have this sensation. What has to happen is that he needs to do these exercises so new blood vessels for in that part of the heart so it can receive the oxygen it needs. Weird but Okay, I get it. They have added more meds to what he already takes and increased some of the ones he started out with.

Also, they decided to "fine tune" his ICD. That was scary and I am sure he was a little nervous because they pretty much had to put him "cardiac arrest" again to make sure the ICD did its job and zapped his heart to beating normal. It did its job! He did have to be somewhat put out for this because they said it would hurt. My poor Dad has been through so much these last 6 weeks. We hope that things will be a little back to normal soon.

The next news is that I have made a decision, rather late in my life, but what the heck, better late than not at all. I am checking into becoming a CPR/Heart Saver Instructor. I saved my Dad by using CPR and I feel that I need to get a message out there. You may someday have to help someone by doing CPR and you can't just sit there. It may work and it may not but you will never know if it worked or not if you don't at least try.

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER

Boy, with SO much going on I thought I had better get this posted.

Wishing all of you who have had Birthdays AND Anniversary's in the months of August and September. I apologize for not staying on top of this but with what happened to my Dad we wanted to stay focused on him.

LAW OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK

Someone emailed me this and I had to share...


One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car backed out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. He was really friendly.

So I asked, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so ... Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

Have a blessed, garbage-free day.






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NEWS

Bonnet.....

We welcome GENUINE LIL BONNET! She is such a super sweet horse. We decided to search for another horse and had hopes of finding another one that was registered. We did! Bonnet was listed on craigslist and we could not believe how much this gal was selling her for. Her pedigree can be found on www.allbreedpedigree.com/genuine+lil+bonnet She has some great breeding and she will make a super Mounted Patrol horse for Barry. She is 5 years old and the training she has is unbelievable. All she needs is a tune up.




Dad.....

He is doing great!!! He doesn't have to have PT, OT or Speech Therapy. He is going to Cardio Rehab 3 times a week. He thinks he is going Deer Hunting this year. However we first have to see what the Doctor says on November 3rd.
The other news we found out is that he does have other build up in some arteries in the heart. But he does have medications to help slow it down. That we will take because we feel what he did was a warning sign that something was wrong and it was time to get it checked. Now we will be on top of it!

Emerald, WI

We are just a bout ready to head out and drive to Emerald, WI. We found a horse online that we are interested in. She is well bred, trained, and 5 years old. She will make an awsome Mounted Patrol horse.

So today we leave to Emerald, WI and we will spend the night somewhere in New Richmond. Pick up the horse tomorrow and drive back. I will post more and put a picture of her next week. Also, will do a Dad update.

Stay turned.....

LOVE IT!!!