A Glimpse into my Life.

As much as I love Winter, snow, icicles, frost, and all that; my least favorite part of the cold is when I am so cold I can NOT warm up. It is a whopping 12°F/-11°C and the only part of me remotely warm is the spot on my tongue I burnt with hot chocolate!!! Thank goodness for hot chocolate and herbal tea otherwise I'd be a popsicle before Spring!

My little Miss is sick right now. At first we thought it was just a teething fever because she has been working on some molars, but now it doesn't seem like it. Unlike some kidlets who like to throw fits or whine when sick, she just likes to snuggle and sleep. Needless to say, not a lot has been accomplished when she is awake, but that is just fine with me. Honey is going to come over and watch her when I get Rynie from preschool today.

Rynie and I need to check fences and water troughs for the horses and remaining steers right now. We have a break between the storms and today is about as sunshiny as we are going to get for the next few days so it needs to be done. When I went to drop Rynie off at school the five larger steers were out and on the road so I put them up. That'll teach me to to not take a coat along just because it's a short jaunt over to his preschool and I'm not really getting out of the car!!! At least I had some work gloves though. And I have a farrier appointment at 3:30 so we will be doing lots of outdoor work today.

We went to visit my Grandma in New Mexico for the weekend. It was a nice trip, but a bit sad since she'd fallen down three or four times in the last week. She had a blackened bruise on her hip, her chin was yellow/green/purple and cut up, I think she broke a finger (She doesn't think so, but it hurts to touch and can't stand mild pressure on it) on her right hand, has a goose egg the size of a chicken's egg on her forehead, and massive bruising on the left side of her face. For some reason she is having blood pressure problems so they are trying to get her blood pressure up. Low blood pressure runs in the family, but it shouldn't drop 40+ points when you change from laying down to standing up. She now has had her medication adjusted and is wearing the circulation nylons and it seems to be helping. We are hoping and praying this works and she recovers well from it. It was really nice to let the kids visit her and see family this weekend. My cousin Sierra and I cleaned her house for her since it's getting harder for her to do the deep cleaning and since she's been so dizzy lately.

Now the random bit. I think the pseudonym Pink Princess is a bit much for Little Miss, and truth be told, I don't really like it much and Rynie no longer calls her that so I'm trying to come up with a new pseudonym. I am open to suggestions at this point since I am drawing a blank.

No pictures, because I have to run, but more posts and pictures later!