I am changing the look of my blog (hopefully) for the last time. As much as I liked the purple, scrapbooky design, it didn't scream"Tammy".
So..... stay tuned. My blog will have a fresh new look. I would have a giveaway to honor this "clothing" change, but the last giveaway I had, it took me 6 months to mail out the stuff!!!
Tammy
As many of you know, by past posts, I have REALLY bad allergies. (I am allergic to the 2 most common plants in my state, which, ironically grow EVERYWHERE!!!!)
About every 3 -4 months, I get sick and it turns into bronchitis. I have literally lived the past 2 years of my life on antibiotics and the last 10 years with a dry, hacking, awful sounding, face reddening, gag inducing, dog bark of a cough!
I am happy to report that for the past 3 months, I have been in health heaven. I have my wonderful allergist to thank for it. I am finally in the groove with the allergy meds I need to take to tame the beasties, so my immune system has a chance to actually do its job.
I now take:
Zyrtec (an over-the-counter allergy pill), 2 prescription nasal sprays, allergy eye drops and I get immunotherapy shots 2x per week.
Yes, it's a lot, but SO worth it not to be sick.
We did some shopping......
and saw the sights.
We played games and read and relaxed. It was a great weekend. The nice thing is, the drive was less than 2 hrs.
Our friends left before us and we told them we would clean and close up the house. We got home on Sunday afternoon and were unpacking. I was looking for the bag of dirty clothes, so I could put them to wash. After asking my hubby where it was, we realized we had accidentally thrown the bag away!! We called our friend (who owns the house), explained what happened and between hysterical peals of laughter, I was able to ask her if she could find someone up there that could check the garbage for us. Thankfully, our clothes were there and we should get them back soon.
On a side note, notice the lovely pictures we took? Yeah.... we forgot our camera!
Well, I hate to have to do this, but I have to now put the word verification on my blog for commenters. I am now getting SPAM comments!!!! Just one more thing to make my eye twitch!
I hope all had a wonderful Christmas as well. My parents came out to visit. It was great seeing them.
My dad has some serious skills in the construction/handyman/jack of all trades areas, and this year for Christmas, our gift was some much needed fencing. I know it doesn't sound all that exciting... but for us, it was.
In New Mexico, rock walls are the norm for fencing. Our yard is no different. Our back yard butts up against a street, so people walk by all the time. Our back wall is only 4ft high and people can look right into our yard (and house) when they walk past, (and trust me, they do look).
My dad was gracious enough to foot the bill for some wood fencing to finally give us privacy. We got the fence up over a 3 day period.
The first day was shopping for the wood, cutting the fence boards down to size and "dog earring" each board for aesthetic purposes.
The second day was building and installing the framing in each section.
The third day was putting the boards up.
I am so pleased with the results. Lemme just say.... no more tan lines for us!!!
P.S.
I am also including pictures of pajama bottoms I made for my hubby and father-in-law.
