I'm struggling with some major problems with my hands and arms and don't type much any longer.  Yes, a writer that can't type or write.  Not good.  I'm attempting to work with voice recognition software but its difficult in that I don't like to talk much. LOL - I'll figure it out yet.  I haven't heard from my doctor about x-rays I had taken last week yet.  We'll see if there's anything that can be done besides icy/hot cream and braces.

The yard looks like a jungle and they tell us we're in a drought here and conserve water.  We do take that serious even though it's been raining for almost 3 weeks straight with just a few days of relief.  Our driveway is escaping onto the street!  With Nick here we tackled some major house projects - the kid insulated the garage in one day and night and worked on applying masonary sealant onto the cinder blocks.  He built a fire pit for us and chopped down some trees about to cause problems with our roof - with an axe, he wanted to work on building some muscles - LOL.  Jackie has been working hard at painting the kitchen cabinets and drawers.  The walls are a brick red and the cabinets were a chocolate dark brown.  She painted the drawers and doors a cream color and will highlight them with some red in the detail work to pull it all together.  It looks so much brighter in there and is losing it's "cave" feeling.  We're also working in the bathroom to fix the horrible paint jobs previous tenants attempted.  I swear that they were either blind or stoned or both when they painted some of the rooms!