New wood stove

The price of corn has really sky rocketed this year and that is how we have been heating our home. We do have propane, but the price of that has gone up also so we use a little tank for our stove. We did not know how we were going to heat without going totally broke. Ken had put in a nice wood burner outside of his home a couple of years ago, inside he had a cute little wood stove that was in there originally. He took out the wood stove in October since it took up most of his living room and gave it to us. We put it up just in time because the snow has really been coming down since Halloween... and it doesn't seem to have an end!

I had asked Chuck to put up our Christmas tree this year because we did not have it up last year. He said that he threw it away and he can't find our decorations. The next day I went to church and was telling Ken how we could not put up our tree again this year. A lady at my church was looking for someone to take her extra Christmas decorations, which includes a tree! Brenden was out of school the other day... a snow day. So he came over and decorated the tree. It looks really good for now, I can't seem to get Lilly to stop taking off and chewing up the tree decor!

My two beautiful dogs

Here are a couple of pictures of the dogs taken sometime last week. I wanted to scan that picture that Maggie took of our dogs in June, but the printer will not turn on... I think it needs a new power cord.

The weekend of my hospital stay

I hope that everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. Mine was alright, had dinner at Chuck's dad and Maggie's. They were supposed to have the big Taylor family Thanksgiving get-together but most of the people celebrated with their other family and not many people were there. I really do not like this time of year myself. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the big family holiday's and it makes me want to be with them. I get really homesick at this time!

There is a lot I did not remember from my hospital stay, like when exactly something happened. They kept me so doped up I slept most of the time. I do remember that on Saturday, June 28, I was visited by Ken and his family (that includes Kelly and all four of their kids). They gave me a rose bush... with very pretty pinkish red roses on it... and a helium get well soon balloon. Now the only question is if I can regrow the plant... I do not have much of a green thumb!

Sunday morning I had many visitors, like my pastor and his wife and Chuck's aunt and uncle. His aunt and uncle brought me a basket full of silk flowers, now those I can grow... LOL! Then I went to sleep and awoke to the best surprise ever! My parents :)!! I hadn't seen them since that previous July and I was really starting to get homesick. They flew in on Saturday and were flying out that following Saturday. So they were going to be here for the fourth of July.

They had gone back to their hotel later that afternoon and Maggie had came. They all had just missed each other again. I have been trying since last summer to get them to meet, but a few days before my parents were scheduled to arrive for a visit Maggie and the dad had gone to New York to visit Maggie's family. Anyways, Maggie wanted to check to see how I was doing. She told me that the dad was on call that weekend so they planned on stopping by Monday evening. She had brought me a picture that she took of our puppies since she was watching them while I was gone. She also gave me a butterfly that Carrie had made for me, she told Maggie that she was making a pink one because I like the color pink!