Last night was not pleasant. Woke up at 2:30am with a need to use the washroom, and as I feared the muscle spasms in my left thigh returned. Thankfully with nowhere near the intensity, but enough to be unpleasant, and with a constant twinge as a warning that a full-blown spasm could happen at any moment.

I made pancakes for breakfast (at ( Read more... )

Perhaps I overdid things a bit the last little while.

While I've been rather quiet here on LJ, I've been (as usual) extremely busy in RL. The last couple of days, we have been clearing away some of the deadfall and high grass around one of the old barns here on the farm that we are hoping to restore and make usable again. I also spent ( Read more... )

I finally got PoohBear's hooves trimmed yesterday; the long delay was a result of the weather, my own health, and knives that were so dull they couldn't cut cheese.

Our "barn" is actually an old garage, modified slightly to make it usable as a barn, but while it has electricity for light, there's no heat. When it gets down into the -20' ( Read more... )

     As is often the case, the weekend was just as busy (if not moreso) than the week itself.

At least the weather was cooperating, so I was able to get the Kidling to get the grass cut (with much grumbling and slouching) while I cleaned horse-paddocks and tried to fix a few things.  I made a couple more trips out to Alfie's place to get  more ( Read more... )

     ...have not been fun.

Whatever the "bug" is that I seemed to have acquired last Friday has certainly been making me miserable.  Suffice to say that I was in the bathroom every two hours throughout the night, pretty much like clock-work.  The Kidling and trixstir  show no symptoms of anything, so it seems to be something that only I was exposed to ( Read more... )

     That's more or less the screamed monolouge from the boiler-room earlier today...

I had a more in-depth look at the boiler and its problem this afternoon, and after going through the various manuals that I either already had, or managed to download from the 'net, I was coming to the upsetting conclusion that the most likely cause of the ( Read more... )

Note to self: Trying to "tough it out" and not taking pain-meds before bed will only result in a sleepless night, and even more pain in the morning. Take the darn pills ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who expressed concern over my back-problems!  Just before composing that entry, I had found a bottle of anti-inflamatories that I had from Calgary, back from the last time my back went out while driving for Calgary Transit.  The pills were two years old, and really should have been tossed out, but I was in terrible pain and ( Read more... )

Yesterday was not a good day.  For that matter, today isn't much better (so far) but more on that in a moment.

Yesterday morning the weather report called for possible showers in the evening, despite the fact that the previous forecasts had been for Hot and Sunny until at least Sunday.  This is typical here; a day or two of Hot & Sunny ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone else has had this problem or not, but I hope I'm not the only one...

Pretty much all my life, I've been extremely sensitive to touch.  Now, some touches (like hugs and snugs, and skritchies!) are wonderful, but there are others that are quite painful to me.  The irony is that some of the most painful ones are the ( Read more... )