Time To Live Again

Gee almost a year since I last posted.........I wasn't sure just what I thought of this blogging, but now after reading my past blogs, I think it is a real nice way to look back on the past. So I have decided to add some more things to bring my blog up to date....

Its been a rough year for me, my dear husband passed away in March of 2008, fortunately he didn't suffer much and in the end he went quickly. I really was expecting he would have made it to summer or at least spring, as those were the seasons he enjoyed most. He loved working on the flowerbeds and the lawn, and adding more trees every year. I really miss him, it is so lonely out here by myself.

In June I hired someone to help with the remodeling that I couldn't finish alone. I did the drywall mudding and painted and built some cabinets in the back entrance, I was real happy with the results on that project. I will post some photos later. I still have to finish the bathroom and laundry room, I have all the wallpaper but just didn't find the energy to do it yet.
After that there is only the upstairs to finish. I bought the materials and will work on that next spring and summer. I really am looking forward to having the entire project finished.

Some of the grandkids helped plant a few more trees in summer, and in October we had our annual pumpkin run. I didn't grow the pumpkins again this year, I just wasn't feeling up to it, maybe I can get more into things next year.

NOVEMBER....HUNTING...Wow I actually didn't get a deer this year, hit one but didn't bring it down, my son-in-law finished it off the following day, (wouldn't want to have one running around wounded and left to die somewhere). I had a couple of other shots but they were quite far down in the ravine and I knew none of us would be able to drag one up that hill so I just watched them wander on. My grandson spent the entire week up hunting and I really enjoyed having him stay so long, Unfortunately I don't see too much of him or his sisters, I guess his mom (my daughter) and his step dad aren't into family that much which is really sad.

This year we ended up with more snow in December than last year, in fact we set new snowfall records since 1887. I had quite the time keeping shoveled out and plowed out, I actually got the dual wheel one ton truck stuck one evening, they had plowed in the morning but it was so windy that day, that by early evening everything was drifted full up to the windshield of the plow truck. I sat in the driveway, half way up to the road and waited for the plow to come back again and get me out. That was quite the evening, fortunately the winds died down and I was able to get back in without a problem later that night.

Enough is enough!!!!! Can't handle being so far back here alone in this weather, so I closed up the house the day before Christmas and have been staying with one of my daughters and family, we have had a very nice Christmas and New Year. I had planned to head to Arizona for the winter, I was supposed to meet friends in Quartzsite AZ but found out the day before Christmas that my friend has cancer, that really hit me hard expecially after losing my husband to cancer only nine months ago. I of course put my plans on hold and spend most of the holidays being quite depressed.

Well that pretty much brings things up to date, I'm still in Wisconsin at my daughters and working on refinding my confidence to head south on my own, my trailer is ready to go and it is here at my daughters. We have had one snow storm after another and then rain in between so now everything is ice with more snow on top of that. I am feeling better these days and am starting to watch the weather and plan to head out of here in the next week sometime. Still not sure just where I will go but will start out heading straight south to get to warmer weather asap.