Oh me, oh my, another award, thanks KC!

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KC over at Mindless Chatter Of A Busy Mom gave me this award today! I am thrilled and amazed and tickled pink! Thanks KC! I do enjoy meeting new bloggers and I do I hope I make people smile with my not so terribly exciting life. I started blogging as a journal for my grand kids but it has turned into more then that with the wonderful people that I have met here in Bloggityville! I have found people to be kind and encouraging when I am going through hard times and fun and hilarious so that I get a good laugh which is medicine to my soul! :0) I feel I have found some true kindred spirits! Thanks again KC, you were one of my very first blogging friends and I still love your posts about your family and life!!

It is raining here today. We need it so I am not complaining. It is Husbands birthday but we celebrated on Saturday at the lake so I am not going to make another cake. I think he liked all of the gifts he got which were mostly new clothes for work and a new safety helmet to wear while working with the chainsaw. This is D trying on Grampies helmet.

We had a GREAT time at the lake this weekend. On Sunday after church we had 17 children there not counting their parents! I spent a lot of time counting heads in the water but most everyone wore a life jacket so that helped. I even went in even though getting into a bathing suit is one of my worst nightmares especially with lots of people around but I didn't want to miss out on anything. I wish I had counted the number of hamburgers, hotdogs and chicken legs we served along with salads, chips and all the other yummy camp food.

Someone recently asked me about my cottage so I will post a few pictures. Now keep in mind that your camp is where you put things that you wouldn't put in your house! lol! I was really into applique for awhile so did quite a few wall hangings for the cottage as you will see......

This picture of a moose and her calf my husband took while out on a woods road further up north. Of course you have to have the obligatory wildlife bedspread and curtains.
We love our cottage. We have had many, many happy times there with our family, youth groups, friends and senior citizen groups. Our sons friends have practically grown up there with us as we used to spend almost every weekend there, summer and winter. It isn't very big and code won't let us enlarge it but it has two small bedrooms, kitchen, living room, one full bath down in the basement and a half bath on the main floor and a family room in the daylight walkout basement with two couches that fold out into beds. We spend most of the time outside when we are there anyway so don't really need more room but it would have been nice it they had let us put a second story on like we wanted and then we could have opened the whole main floor up into a bigger living room/kitchen combo.

The farrier was here today and checked Buddy's feet. He wants me to leave the pads off at night and keep his stall bedded really thick (which I am already doing). During the day he wants the pads back on with betadine soaked gauze pads in between the hoof and the pad as he is getting some soggy hoof issues and this will help dry them out a bit. He trimmed him up as you will see.

This left foot is the worst one and the one that had the tiny beginnings of an abscess so it is more sore then the other foot.

He felt there was some good growth and no new abscesses that they can get with this laminitis so that was encouraging. The sole is still soft and very tender and that is a concern of course but we are hoping that will toughen up. We go back for more x-rays in three weeks and if all looks good will put some shoes on with pads. Like I always say we aren't out of the woods yet but at this point we are still encouraged with his progress. Our farrier is wonderful and I trust his judgement completely and he and our vet work together on this so between the two I feel Buddy is getting excellent care. :0)

I start jury duty tomorrow so don't know how much blogging time I will be getting when I am home so don't think that I have fallen off the face of the earth!

Thanks again KC for the award and now I will pass it on to: Suzy at Suzy's Bloomers!