I hate to tell you guys this, but yesterday was beastly hot...no wind either.....coming your way Easterners. So far, today seems a bit better, overcast and a bit cooler, but it is still early!

I am sitting here with my morning coffee....I already let the girls out of their coop and they are busy catching earwigs....and enforcing pecking order. Mere, I had chicken too, lol....just not mine! I have talked to hubby and SIL about having separate meat chickens next year...hubby is unimpressed, SIL says, yes, let's do it! So, we shall see.

I am hoping my numbness and aching resolves by the second cup of coffee!

My purple-yellow Green Beans are ready....Dragon's Tongue! All kinds of veggies are popping. I have made 41 pints of raspberry jam and the raspberries are still on full tilt! I have sold maybe a dozen quarts too. Edible pod and standard peas are frozen. A man stopped the other day to buy and asked to look at my garden and was so impressed. He insisted I must use some synthetics, and I told him, 'No, I don't'. In all fairness, I did get things in early.

My doggies also got their baths yesterday and are all good-smellin' now. I also finally got a tranquillizer for my storm phobic dog, which was a good thing, because yesterday we had a few thunderboomers. Hubby is still mad about the most recent veterinary bill...he is brooding. Whatever. I know women who buy a purse for the price of my vet bill....I am not into accessories. My dogs are my only vice.

Well in 3 weeks I have an emg to decide if I have to have a carpal tunnel release with the tendon transfer they are doing to try to help my hands not hurt so bad and not be so crippled.....we shall see. In a way, I hope it is carpal tunnel, but, lkely it is SNF....and the surgery won't help numbness. But it should relieve the arthritic pain which is quite bad.

This disease sucks and I feel like I am trying to ring the last few drops of a pleasant life from an almost dry rag......but, I am not going to let this get the best of me if I can still do anything....I know that this activity level won't last....I try not to think about that. Right now, my hands feel like I have several pairs of tight gloves on....they hurt and they ITCH inside...(weird feeling that itchy joint feeling). Forever onward.

Happy MID summer to all!