Highs and Lows with a Few In Betweens

The barn and corn fields before the corn was chopped.

Emotional rollercoaster, highs and lows, non-stop PMSing, bi-polar emotions....whatever you want to call it, I am going through it.  For whatever reason, I am in a funk and my happy days are not as frequent as I would like.  Pretty much my only happy days are Saturdays and Sundays when I get to be home with my hubby and my kids, just being a housewife and a mom.  Which as most of you know by now, is really the only thing I have ever truly inspired to be.  A job I have had for 8 years is just not what it use to be, and I find it really hard to be excited about going to work 5 days a week.  I still love being a nurse, taking care of all our very entertaining patients, truly love my work family, but it just isn't enough anymore.  Or maybe it's too much.  See, I can't even decide how I really feel about that!  I just know, something else is calling me and I can't put my finger on it.  I have been giving it all much thought and prayer, and just hope in time, my answers will come.

Today however, I took a mental health day off from work, and it worked wonders.  My intention was to just relax and try and finish the book The Help because I have a few coworkers waiting for me to finish it so we can go see the movie together.  My shoulder has really been bothering me again so I really wanted to just give it a break.  BUT, I am on prednisone again to help with the inflammation, soooooooo......I have a ton of energy during the day so I couldn't just sit all day and read.  Robby stayed home with me, and while I worked on deadheading my hanging baskets and cleaning up our deck, he cut firewood for the winter.  Then we dug beets and onions out of the veggie garden.



Beets and Onions from the garden.

Then it was time to clean up the veggies that are done for the summer.  The crazy heat and drought we have had, has put the hurting on our zucchini and squash.  The green beans were done for the summer as were my kale, lettuce, collard greens.  So, my wonderful Robby just got out ole' Mr. John Deere and cleaned the garden right up so that now we can replant for fall.  I love my man on his tractor, yes I have said it before, I think his tractor's sexy:) 


Robby cleaning up the garden.



 I was feeling much better about life by this point.  I grabbed my camera and went out to the veggie garden to take some pictures of my wonderful Sunflowers.  Then Robby asked if I wanted to take a ride on the 4 wheelers to go for a ride in the fields and see all the corn that has been chopped and just to have a nice ride together on such a gorgeous day.  Here are some pictures that I took while we were on our little adventure.  These pictures pretty much represent why I want to be home all the time, living the simple country life with the man I love most in this world along with my 4 sons.  I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy being able to take them.


Such a gorgeous color.  Soon the center will be black with yummy seeds.







Beautiful, big sunflowers just waitng to feed the birds.



Very happy hummer who has food whenever she wants it.





Can't believe how close these little buddies will get to us when we are on the deck.  They are so use to us being out there, they just buzz right up beside us and go to their feeder.  I think this little girl is a baby from this year.  She is much smaller than all the others.











After the corn is chopped, it still is all so beautiful to me.
The mountains, the sky and the clouds are just amazing.



How did I get so lucky to live in a place so beautiful?  Robby and I take drives and I am speechless the whole time because of all the beauty that surrounds me.



The pond.  Usually has more water, but the drought this summer has not helped very much. But it still manages to be  home for the geese and a turtle or two.

Mama was sitting on a nest but when we came up, she waddled off into the water for a little swim.

And Mr. Turtle was just sunning on a log, not bothered by us at all. 



And another shot of more of the cornfields.  We had a mama bear and her 3 cubs living in the corn, I guess they have moved on into the woods now for the fall.  They sure were cute to watch though.

After our ride together, we came home and made dinner on the grill; hamburgers from the beef we get from our neighbor and Robby had fresh corn on the cob from the garden.  Since I can't eat corn, I just tried a little bite of  his and it was so sweet, juicy, fresh and yummy!!!!  I  hope God will find it in his heart to rid me of my corn intolerance before I die so I can eat fresh corn on the cob one more time from my garden:)  While we were sitting on the deck grilling, I told Robby that this was a Happy Day.  He told me he was glad I had such a good day and I told him I was too because my Happy Days are far and few between these days and then I just burst into tears.  He told me to hang in there and soon things would hopefully be different.  That is all I can do, isn't it.  Wait and see what the plan is for me and know that I am where I am suppose to be for the time being.  Tomorrow is Friday and then I get two Happy Days in a row and I plan on making them the very best Happy Days. 

Wishing for all of you, that all of your days are Happy Days.

With love,

Debbie