Krystal

Amber and I decided late Thursday afternoon to go back to the 80s for Halloween at work, this is the result.

Close up of the makeup
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 Matthew has an ear infection that started on Saturday. We went to MedCare in Jacksonville on Monday to get him some antibiotics and we were there four hours (we were in the lobby for three hours and he was in the back for one hour and he told me the nurse practitioner was only with him for several minutes) and they gave him a brand-name prescription (antibiotic ear drops). His ear was swollen so shut when he was seen that the nurse practitioner couldn't see into his ear. How'd she expect ear drops to work? Also, his blood pressure was elevated and they harped on him about that. Hello, we'd been waiting for four hours and he was angry not to mention in tons of pain!

We went to Family Urgent Care in Jacksonville this afternoon because he had not had any improvement in his condition. We were at this place for a total of one hour and forty minutes. They still couldn't see into his ear but they prescribed him a generic oral antibiotic. His blood pressure was also normal since he wasn't in pain and the wait wasn't insane. Here's hoping that he sees some relief in the next day or so!

A friend from high school started posting some old school pictures from High School and right after. So, I went through some of my photos and scanned some from around the same time.



Vince and Granddaddy Morton (Christmas 1998)


Mama, Grandmama Morton and Vince (Christmas 1998)


Mama (November 1984)


Vince and Grandmama Morton (December 1984)


Granddaddy Morton (November 1984)

Me and Bryant (August 1985)

Ashley (Year Unknown)


Me and my cousin, Carla (Christmas 1990)


Me and Ashley (1992)


Me (1993)


Me (1990)


Me at Midway (October 1998)
Bryant and Ashley (1995) - picture by AMM

Bryant (1995) - picture by AMM


Me (1995) - picture by AMM

Me and Ashley (1994) - picture by AMM
Me and Ashley (1995) - picture by AMM

Me and Ashley (1995) - picture by AMM


Me and Ashley (1996) - picture by AMM

Me and Ashley (1996) - picture by AMM

Me and Ashley (Senior Prom 1995) - picture by AMM


Me and Chris (Senior Prom 1995) - picture by AMM


Me and Bryant (1996) - picture by AMM


Me in my Madonna t-shirt (1995) - picture by AMM


Me (May 1998)


Me and Ashley (May 1998)


Ashley (May 1998)


Me and Ashley (May 1998)


Me, Chewbacca and Ashley (May 1998)

We hadn't taken a road trip in a while and I was still too sick to go to Clayton (and too tired because I only got one hour of sleep last night due to sleeping for almost 2 1/2 days straight) and paint so Matthew suggested we get out of the house for a little while. To my surprise, he suggested we drive down to South of the Border because he had never seen it. I had driven by it several times on the way to Disney World as a kid but had never been inside. So, this was an adventure for us both!

Can you tell I love to have my picture taken?

Left to right: me, my mom and Grandmama Pittman.
Left to right: me, Grandmama Morton, my mom, Grandmama Pittman

I have been on vacation for most of the past week after a super-busy couple of month at work.

This is a short film that my cousin wrote, directed and starred in.

My cousin, Mittie, made a website for her artwork. Check it out :)

I'm moving the bulk of my cooking posts to our new farm blog. Since cooking is such an integral part of the homesteading experience, I want to include my cooking posts with all our other homesteading information. My original cooking blog will remain open for any fancy projects that may not fit in with homesteading.

We moved our "farming" blog to a new site and posted an update! http://chandlersgrovefarm.blogspot.com/

A Stormy Night in Eastern NC

Lots of Projects...

Garden Salad

Crazy Kitty

It's been a rainy weekend. Yesterday it rained for a while, the sun shone for a while and then it would rain with the sun shining. Today it has pretty much stormed on and off all day. As a result, both border collies are soaking wet and are locked in the kitchen so our whole house isn't soaking wet. As you can see, Angus is pretty sad that he can't be in the back of the house with us.

Cute baby radish!

This is a normal egg:

This is a monster egg:

This is a normal egg (left) and the monster egg (right) side-by-side:

Sunrise over the chicken yard:

 I was named after my paternal great-grandmother, Mama Gladys (She was Gladys Delane and my middle name is Delane). When I was little, she would call me "Pigeon." She died on Mother's Day when I was 10.

 

A long time ago, after Mama Gladys died, my grandfather, had to have surgery to fix a problem with his bladder. My grandfather was a farmer and a painter and was not used to sitting still inside. When he had this surgery, his doctor gave him strict orders to stay inside and stay still. One evening, he was tired of this and he went outside on the porch to look at his fields and possibly to ponder what needed to be done, knowing that he should be inside resting. As he was standing there, disobeying his doctor, a pigeon landed on his arm. He recalled his mother and how she used to call me "Pigeon" and he went back inside. From what he told us later, he took it as a sign of his mother telling him to go back inside and do what he was supposed to.

 

I saw a pigeon today when I was stressing out about something at work and this story came to mind.

<--A random baby dove in our yard

Silly Chickens

A trip to my in-law's to visit the animals (and take them some hens)

Starting our gardens

Easter Eggers are laying!
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Wow, it's been a busy couple weeks!

This is a busy time of year at work so I've had a lot to do. Lots of employee meetings both group and one-on-one that will likely continue for at least the next month. I enjoy being busy and it makes the time go by quickly.

At home, we've been working on our gardens. Our first garden is planted and we're watching things sprout. We're working on a second vegetable garden bed and a strawberry bed under our shady pear tree. I hope to have the strawberry bed finished this weekend and a good start on the second veggie bed this weekend (Along with mowing the grass). At some point, I think Matthew is going to post about what we've done in our other blog. (I'll post links if he ever does).

The chickens are thriving. We're getting about a dozen eggs a day. We now have two roosters and 15 hens. 3 of the hens are Easter Egger hens which means they have a blue egg gene and, from what I understand, can only lay blue to green eggs (not brown), so we think they are not laying yet. I'll post pics as soon as I have some of any blue eggs.

I haven't had much time for WoW lately. The free time I have has been spent watching TV, playing Rock Band or playing the Sims, mostly. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the new things in WoW that went in with the new content patch once things calm down and aren't so crazy busy.

This weekend is our monthly family pot luck dinner. I'm going to be taking a Quiche Lorraine. Maybe I'll be able to post that on my cooking blog this month...last month's cake turned out to be a disaster...hehe

My family came and visited me at work yesterday and my silly parents, of course, took pictures...


Me and my dad



My mom, my grandmothers and me