What a Week!

What a week it has been!  First I got sick.  It started Saturday before last and still hanging on.  I think it is just a miserable head cold, but I sure have been coughing, sneezing and all that good stuff.  It has now been over a week.  Of course, several days ago Jana started and now she is as miserable as I was last week.  We are tired of being in the house, but we don’t want to go anywhere to share this misery.  We didn’t even go to church this weekend.  Renea made our favorite “hillbilly lasagna” yesterday for supper and brought some to us.  Sure did taste good.  She even included garlic bread.

The cow has been back.  Kevin and Renea have seen it.  I just have cow patties in my back yard – large cow patties.  I don’t know if it is the cow or deer, but something has been knocking down my birdfeeders in the back yard.  They have completely destroyed one of the feeders and ate all the feed.  The finch feeder is still okay and they have not been able to get the seed out of it.  I guess I will take them down for now.  The animal(s) seem to stay in the back yard.  They are not bothering the ones in the front yard.

Jana and I have finished decorating.  We have been taking pictures.  If I ever figure out how to use the picture program on my new computer I will put some on my blog.  I am really happy with how my tree looks with my home made ornaments.  We decided to hang our stockings on the railing between the dining room and living room.  Miss Penny thought that was wonderful.  When Jana first hung them she tied the yarn in a bow.  Immediately Penny figured out how to untie the bow and the stockings fell to the floor.  She was so proud J.  Jana then tied the yarn in a knot and she hasn’t been able to do anything about that.  Of course, my stocking has a yarn ball on the top (santa’s hat) and she has been pulling that apart.

Penny and Smoky are doing just fine.  I had mentioned that Smoky barks at Jana and me if we correct Penny when she does something she shouldn’t.  The other day I tried to move Penny from under Jana’s Christmas tree because she was chewing on the branches.  Smoky got between me and Penny and started barking.  Penny just looked at me as if to say HA!

The weather has been so nice the past couple of days that we have some of our neighbors riding their horses down the road.  Smoky has been busy keeping any eye on them and barking at them as if to say don’t come in this yard!

Neither Jana nor I have been able to get a picture of Smoky and Penny touching noses, but they still do it every morning.  They spend a lot of time together.  Penny has started checking out Smoky’s tail.  We guess it is because Smoky is always checking Penny’s butt so Penny is trying to figure out why. 

Hopefully, in the next few days we will be feeling good enough to get out of the house and go shopping.  We are both getting cabin fever.  I opened all the windows both yesterday and today.  We have also been spraying with Lysol.