Rose Garden

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

In my last post I gave you one of the reasons why I have been missing from the Internet and in this post I will give you another one.  This is more personal.  Those who have followed me know that I have multiple health problems and they got to the point where between the instability of the Internet and my health deteriorating combined to make the Internet experience more frustrating than I could handle.  I did however miss the friendships and the relationships that I had formed here which is why I am back.  Thank you all for your support.

While I was away I did continue to take photos and edit them.  I did not do as many as I had done in the past as my health would not permit it.  The roses pictured in this post are a few of my photos that I had fun editing.  Hope you enjoy them.

Serendipity stepped into my life once again when the Internet went down as it gave me the impetus to improve my health.  I did much research and have been able to make some lifestyle changes that have done much to get my on an upward spiral of improving health.  More on this in a later post.

In the meantime I hope you enjoy the beauty of the roses that bloom in my front yard.

  

Enjoy

☺♥☺Johnina☺♥☺

Washington's Waterloo

You might be wondering why my post titled Washington's Waterloo starts out with a photo of my daughter Emily.  Well, Washington's last battle that he lost was a throat infection from which he died.  Well Emily has the same kind of infection  that he did.  She has been in and out of the hospital since last Thurs.  The doctor told her that if it wasn't for modern antibiotics she probably would have died.  Personally I think prayers and the well wishes of her friends and mine and a priesthood blessing had much to do with her getting better.

  She was extra ordinarily sick and it came on strong and hard and fast.  What started out as a sore throat at the beginning of the week and turned into a life-threatening infection by Thurs.  She went to urgent care who sent her to the ER.  They admitted her put her on antibiotics, steroids, and morphine and put her in isolation and the waiting game began.  Where they going to do dangerous and possibly life changing surgery, see if just the antibiotics worked or something in between?  She did improve on the antibiotics and they sent here home Sunday morning only for her to deteriorate and end up back in the ER that night.  Different hospital- different doctor who lanced the abscess and drained it.  Emily said it was really gross all that pus being pulled out of the abscess in her throat, but she is now on the mend and home again.  Her cousin John turned into an angel as far as she is concerned for his concern and help even though he had many kids at his house including a six week old baby.  She has had many people help her and pray for her including people she did not even know.

  As her Mom and  being a continent away (she lives and goes to school in Utah and we live in Georgia) I can't think of words of thanks for her recovery and those who helped make it happen.  She is still going to need help for awhile and I would again ask for prayers on her behalf, prayers of thanks and prayers for those who are helping her so they will not get sick and they will know the spirit of joy in her service.

As her mother I have once again learned that you can't ever take for granted the ones you love.

Lolit posted this on her facebook wall and how true it is:

'There are 5 things in life you cannot recover:

A stone... after it's thrown. A word... after it is said.

An occasion... after it's missed.

...The time... after it's gone. A person... after they die.
Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.
Enjoy Life!!!!'

Enjoy

☺☺☺Johnina☺☺☺

Bunnies are back

When we first moved into our house, it was a new subdivision built in the woods; where they tried to leave as much natural woods as possible.  We had lots of wildlife quite a bit of which has disappeared.  We had Bob whites, whip-er-wills, frogs (they just kind of thinned out in numbers never completely went away) , foxes,an occasional Bobcat, squirrels, and rabbits which disappeared for many years.  The Whip-er-wills and the frogs disappeared because Georgia had a drought for so long that the wetlands around us dried up.  The rest disappeared mostly due to wild dogs.  People used to think this was a terrific place to dump dogs.  I guess they figured we were far enough out so they could get away with it and enough people so that someone would pick them up and take care of them.  Sometimes it worked; one of our dogs 'followed' my daughter home inside her coat, and was put down in the yard so we would think it had indeed followed her home.  Since it was her birthday we got a surprise present from her to her.  This poor puppy was found quite literally under a cabbage in our neighbors yard in the rain.  Sad eyed child with a sad eyed puppy, well what could we do?

 However not all dogs who got dumped where so lucky and since we leave out in the county and there is no leash law some of our neighbors just let their dogs run.  It didn't take long for us to have a wild dog pack.  We rescued a little bunny who was injured but sad to say it only lived a few days.  The dogs got into the neighbors rabbit hutch, where they raised rabbits for food.  Some of them got eaten, but some got away and we had some funky looking cottontails for awhile.  Strange colors and spotted.

The neighbors decided that they had become a danger with lots of children in the neighborhood and the threat of rabies (we had wild foxes in the area with confirmed rabies).  They wouldn't let my friend out of the car.  Wild dogs with rabies would have been a greater threat due to their size and because kids being kids would want to go pet the 'nice' doggies.  Our neighbors waged a war against them and eventually they were eradicated, but by then the Bob Whites, rabbits and squirrels were gone.  Then the foxes and bobcats left due to lack of prey.

 

The squirrels started coming back last fall and have been entertaining us once again.  Now the sweet little rabbits are back and I was thrilled to see one once again.  Since I couldn't get a lot of pictures I took the best one and played with it.  I certainly hope we continue to get our wildlife back.  We're helping out with the birds with our bird feeders.  I don't know to help with the little critters but they do seem to be coming back on their own.  It is so wonderful to see nature heal itself after suffering from man's follies.

ENJOY

☺☺☺Johnina☺☺☺