Husbands and Lunches.... again!

Today’s lunch was typical.....

     We had to go to OKC today for birds. Stopped in Shawnee at Aldies since it was closer easier to maneuver in than Wally World. Picked up a $5 pizza for lunch amongst other things.

       I’ve been up since 5 am. We made a trip to the city and finally get home unload things and put pizza in the oven. 

       When it’s done I served hubby his in the recliner and go get mine to eat. Sitting there enjoying the new lunch choice he turned the tube to what I am currently binge watching. 

         Earlier coming into the house we had a jam trying to get into the door. He was in front opening the door I was loaded down trying to get through. I couldn’t get around him. He wouldn’t just go forward out of my way. No he had a one track mind. What he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it. Anything I was doing wasn’t even crossing his mind! 

       So here we are eating quietly enjoying the new treat and he starts talking about business! I growled at him telling him he was doing it again! How and when and what he wants to heck with anyone else! 

       He said well since your irritated anyway.... and started asking me to do some business stuff later. I told him he was like someone else we know... irritating as hell but I loved him anyway. 

       It was so funny,he said now that’s going over the line! That’s a little much!  He said, I’m going outside to check things and shut the gate. I said, great you mean I’m going to get rid of you for a little while! We wound up laughing as he walked out.

Love

Ranchmama 

Work of the Ages

Some days are just too humorous on the ranch. I am 59, hubby 63, Heidi Ho is 11. It was just a regular day as far as the work goes.

     Hubby went to town for haircut , groceries, banking etc. 

While he was in town my nurse came for her last visit! Yea! She took before and after pics of my inscission and showed them to her sister who’s also a nurse and she was astounded at how quickly it had healed. We talked and visited since we didn’t have any medical business. Really nice woman. I told her some of the things going on with her and what direction her future is going in. She has a promising an interesting future .

       She left.Hubby came home unloaded and we headed out to the pasture to move some hay to the cows and go cut cedar trees 🌲 off the fence line and under trees I can’t get to when brush hogging. 

      Cows were following us everywhere thinking we were going to feed them. So here we go up and down the fence hubby on the tailgate hopping off every now and then to clip a tree, 30 cows and calves following us everywhere and Heidi Ho chasing around moving the cows 🐄 around with me driving sidesaddle because I can’t let the steering wheel touch my tummy inscision.

     Heidi Ho dives into a couple of ponds to stay cool and is a real mess. LOL 

     We all wound up back at the house. Heidi landed on the first doggie pillow she came across. Hubby found a recliner and I struggled through finding some lunch so we could eat and just sit down and say ahhhh.

     I think we are just all done for the day. We are just plain pooped! Lol

      Aging and ranch work makes for a interesting and sometimes hard day

Love

Ranchmama

Wrong Side of The Bed

Daughter called one morning while I was fixing breakfast and asked what I was doing 

     Told her I had already fixed her dad cereal,sausage and toast with grapefruit on the side and was trying to fix me something since I can’t eat the milk in cereal and the sausages make me sick. Evidently my tone wasn’t that great.LOL 

     Told her I get tired of us not doing things together anymore! The only time we sleep at the same time is in the recliners! When we do happen to be in bed at the same time he sleeps with his head at the foot of the bed on top of the cover because that’s the only way his body is comfortable. So when I make it into bed I get to snuggle up to his big toe!

  Then for some reason he thinks meal time is the perfect time to talk business and bills! I hate it! I want to relax and he gets going and there is no enjoying the meal. 

      Breakfast is at the kitchen table whenever I sit down he is almost done heading out the door telling me what he’s doing and when he will be back to pick me up in a few. This means I have to hurry so I can eat get refrigerator stuff up take meds change clothes and get ready. There is no way to just eat and have a pleasant meal with someone like that!

   Lunch sometimes doesn’t happen usually in the garage sometimes in the living room then it’s back to yacking about whatever is bugging him

    Supper I fix his plate and deliver everything to his recliner. Usually he’s to tired to talk plans and business and is lucky to stay awake till 7pm

       After some ranting daughter laughed and said sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed!!

Love

Ranchmama 

(Where did the romance go? LOL)

Why Am I Tired ?

 Sometimes I stop during the day and just can't believe how tired I am.  I know some of it is older age. I don't think it is the surgery still. 
    Well this afternoon I told hubby boy I sure am tired ! Then I stopped to think about the day and figured it out. 
     I was up at 5am.
    Hubby was out with the birds earlier than that. He came back and got Heidi Ho because since he has gone through the building and plugged all the mouse hole he trapped a bunch in the building. Heidi had such a good time! She lovesss to catch mice and kill them. She chased and killed 3 running all over the place and under cages and hubby killed 3 himself with a broom and disposing of them.  
    I took a shower, did my breathing machine thing while he was out.
     Hubby wanted me to check something out with the checking accounts and when I went to log in my password had expired. He came back in the house several times all antsy wanting to know if I was ready yet. I put the phone on speaker so he could see what the delay was after I explained I tried several times to reset the password and finally had to call them to fix it. Took forever so I carried the phone around while I was getting ready waiting for someone to get on the phone. Drying hair and gathering things. Finally got that fixed and got the information he wanted and of course I was supposed to walk out the door ready to go because he got what he wanted and just couldn't understand what the delay was for me! Grrrr sometimes! 
     We were out the door by 8:10 which was 10 minutes late for hubby and he just had to get all bent out of shape about it. 
    We drove to Shawnee running by Micky D's eating and since I drove to town he finished the drive to OKC. After we finished our business I got the pleasure of driving home to give him a break. 
    We got home around 12 ish. We unloaded the truck from Sam's. He changed clothes and went down to the barn to get feed for the cows. 
    I came in did the darn breathing machine again, changed into work clothes and told Heidi Ho to load up in the truck. 
    We stopped at Grandma's first and was feeding the bunch of cows there and some of them started bumping heads. First 2 then 3 or 4 were at it. Hubby had to make sure and stay out of the way of the shifting herd. We saw a big red cow get knocked down then we saw a really old cow go down on her side and couldn't get up. 
    He's yelling at me to get out and help with the down cow. It didn't help when she was kind of facing the wrong side of the hill to get up. I helped him get the rope over her head and got in the truck with him directing me to gently pull a certain direction so maybe she could get up. Well she did and wound up going back down the wrong direction again! 
   So I let Heidi Ho out to encourage her to get up. That didn't work. She nipped at her but I was afraid she was going to hurt her so put Heidi back in the truck. Hubby got hold of the front legs and I got the back trying to roll her over and not get kicked in the process. She was just too much for us to handle like that.
    I told hubby lets go feed the other cows and come back. That will give her a chance to calm down and rest a bit and maybe we can get her up again. 
    We fed the other cows and since we had at least 2 inches of rain yesterday we burned some trash.
    We took Heidi Ho home because sometimes she is just too much to handle all excited and doing things with the cows. Hubby picked up the hot shot thinking maybe that would get her going.
    We went back to grandmas and damn it she was still laying down! We pulled up and she was Mooing like she was wanting to get up or needed help or something. He cleared the area around her with the hot shot and tried it twice on her and we could see it wasn't going to get her up. He thought hook the rope up to the trailer hitch and try puling her so she would be lined up on the hill right. 
   I told him no lets just see if we can pull her up. He just about laughed at that ! Oh sure like we are strong enough to do something like that now days! Got the rope around her neck and I was in the lead with hubby pulling behind me. We got lucky. I guess on the ground like that we could actually direct her in a way she could get up easier. She got up and wobbled some. We jumped out of the way so she wouldn't fall on us. 
   I was worried she wouldn't be able to get with the herd but hubby put some more feed out and she ran right over and got in the middle of it with them! Whew! We got lucky!
   Went back to the house and I went in changed clothes again and sat in the recliner drinking a bunch of water to keep my BP down decent. I watched some Netflix while he was shutting up gates, checking birds etc. While he was down there Heidi Ho looked around the birdhouse for mice to kill. She was actually disappointed. LOL
   Hubby came in cleaned up and I went into the kitchen for supper. I sliced up a nice pork tenderloin and bagged that up. We had fried tenderloin spiced up with garlic & onion powder and chili powder, masked potatoes with gravy and warmed french garlic toast. 

   No wonder my hips and back hurt after playing tug of war with a cow! LOL

Love
Ranchmama