Funny old week

Well it's been a bit of a rubbish week!

Jim has seen the vet and had a new pill added to the mix but ideally the vets need an xray to see what's going on. We had decided it was too risky at his age but vet says he could just get Eric to lay him down and keep him calm and take a quick one, wouldn't be as good as normal but all the pulling around he would suffer wouldn't do him any good, so we are now seriously thinking about it. He has really struggled to get about but remains happy and full of cheekiness.

New hens have settled well, slight problem Thursday evening, one had disappeared, spent an hour searching but couldn't find her, up at dawn and Eric found she had got over the 7 foot fence into hedge behind and had roosted there all night, needles to say she will be having some feathers clipped today! Getting plenty of eggs

Hand clinic very pleased with progress!

Went to Dr's as felt unwell, infection so ab's which means no humeria this week and to add insult to injury I had a high blood sugar reading so had to go back the next day for a fasting glucose test, thankfully it came back normal. Always a concern because my Mum and her Mum have/had diabetes.

Yesterday was a good day, scrapping with Dawn then in the evening off ut with Vikki and Ben to see Christmas lights switched on, met up with Marc, Rach and Harvey and had a great time. Flippin battery on my camera died so luckily Vik took some photo's on her phone. We met Prancer a 3 year old reinderr, he was gorgeous and so friendly, apparently they live upto 10-15 years, spend 4 weeks a year working and the rest of the year running free on a farm. Their coats protect them from the cold but also the heat. He was so chilled out and just after this photo laid down and went to sleep LOL.

Ben, Harvey and me, boys were not cooperating with photo's as they were so excited.

Finally finished the digi DLO, has taken me ages to get it as I wanted, have decoupaged some of it but the photo I took was awful. Photo's are from my Cousin Sandra's youngest son's wedding in July. We all had such a great day and I wanted to use lots of photo's, we had a similar class kit from papermaze last which I sorted of adapted for this.

New additions

Yesterday we had 2 new arrivals!!!!

No not dogs before you all start yelling at me LOL.

Rescue battery hens. Our son was going to collect 4 for himself and talked us into having another 2 and then he got talked into taking 5 for himself LOL. As always they are very scrawny but with some TLC should perk up quickly.

Haven't chosen names yet so hen 1

hen 2

and a few of our others with one of the new ones so you can see the difference and  see what they should look like.

had to share this photo with you, Eric had cooked some meat for the dogs and had their full attention, Jim was sitting in the hall waiting for room service!

Off to the vets later to see if any other medication might help Jim as he is struggling again.

Had a lovely time at Papermaze crop on Saturday, it was so good to see Vanessa and Lesley and be able to give them a hug after the awful time they've had with the fire. Managed to finish this LO at last! designed by Janina for Bramford crop using papers from Bo Bunny. There is some hidden journelling behind the photo that tells how stupid me hadn't tried my dress on and my the time I did it was too late to have it taken in, so on this photo my cousin Sandra (it was her son's wedding to Jenni) grabbed the back of my dress and pulled it in so it at least looked like it fitted one one photo!

Decided to decoupage some of the bits of this digi LO so it's now a hybrid, which I think is where my heart probably lies these days.

Hand clinic

I'm just back from hand clinic, they made a few adjustments to splint, took out some stitches that hadn't dissolved and were becoming sore oh and more exercises LOl, seeing surgeon Friday and back to hand clinic again next Tues. Oh what fun!

Feeling a bit better now I'm back on meds!

Hoping to get another 2 rescue ex battery hens this weekend from little hen rescue. Not sure what condition they will be in, may need jumpers if they don't have many feathers. Our other 2 young hens are just starting to lay tiny eggs, not daily but they've started.

 

Had a little play yesterday and made this digi LO, photo's are of Vikki being a bridesmaid three times. May turn it into a hybrid, not decided yet. Got a bit carried away with pink LOL.

Looking forward to Papermaze crop on Saturday.

Hounds are all ok. Paws crossed

New splint

Back from hospital, cast off and new splint on. Have to bend fingers 5 times a day 10 each time i.e. 50 per finger eek!.Two middle fingers I can bend but two fingers with ruptured tendons I have to do with other hand, little finger is very sore think it was squashed in the cast!
Hand looked pretty good, back Tuesday to hand clinic just so they can check it over.

Going to attempt to go to crop tomorrow, more to socialise really, even Eric thinks it’s a good idea for me to go out for a bit. Luckily I have a kit so will just take that and see what I can do, have more usability with splint than cast if you know what I mean LOL.
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Lucky suddenley became very stiff a few days ago and we rushed her down to the vets, seems the poly arthritis has returned! she is much better now she's on the steroids but would be nice to know what triggered it off again, Jim is very very sore and we're both starting to feel quite anxious.

Finally we got our first egg yesterday from the new hens, about time! LOL....

Made my lovely surgeon a fuuny card digi of course and got him and is super secretary some sweeties, they are both such lovely kind people.

No scrapping

No scrapping done this week and I'm still plodding on with the birthday book I'm making. Slow am I LOL.

So a few recent photo's

We now have 3 female pheasants, who have taken up residence in the garden but they are a bit camera shy.



Lovely photo showing just how hen like my little waifs now look.



Alfie watching the hens LOL



And this one of Eric and his boys. Alfie is such a poseur.



I went back to the Opticians on Tuesday, he duly put the drops into dilate the eye and deep joy he still couldn't fine out why I have this cobweb, so now I have the pleasure of going to hospital Tuesday for more drops. I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening walking around indoors with sunglasses on looking a right twit LOL.

Lucky is fully recovered from having her tooth out, Jim continues to be well and happy, Alfie is going to have to go the vets as his hole in the head refuses to heal, due mainly to him keep scratching it but there is still a small amount of gunk coming out and Gangley is still in hibernation LOL.

4 eggs

Yesterday for the first time we had 4 eggs from the girlies !!!!!! started off with 2 a day then went up to 3 although Sunday I only got 1 and now 4 woohoo. The girls are looking much better with their new feathers and I thought they looked fab until I saw some hens on my friends blog. Her hens must be about 5-6months old now and are huge compared to my little waifs LOL.

Nothing to show as the layout I did yesterday on my usual scrap day with Dawn is for a UKS weekly challenge in a couple of weeks that our team is doing.

Been to hospital twice in the last week, once for normal RA check up and Tuesday for pre admission appointment for my op on the 21st May.

Eric celebrated (that's not how he describes it) his birthday Wednesday so all the family came over for birthday cake in the evening, Ben had made his Grandad a spaceship which is lovely and will have to be scrapped LOL.

Off to Bramford crop tomorrow (NSD) and Janina is doing a door prize for everyone which is just as well cos if Dawn doesn't win she sulks loudly...

cluck cluck cluck

We collected the hens at 2pm Friday, brought them home and popped them straight into the hen house as advised, so it wasn't really until Saturday that I got my first good look at them. I thought I was prepared but was actually really quite shocked and upset at the state of them. The little hen rescue volunteers only release healthy hens and as it turned out all people expecting to collect their hens on Saturday would have been disappointed as there was not enough healthy hens left and the adoption day was postponed a week to give the hens time to recover.





My four hens are short on feathers and what they have are prickly they are also very skinny! but we did get our first two eggs on Saturday LOL followed by another two on Sunday.



Today the hens came out without us turfing them out and look much more relaxed and provided us with another two eggs LOL.. Going to start them on a hen tonic and vitamins in the next few days. Have so far plucked (oops) the courage to hold one but they are still a bit scared of us and me of them...

Happy Easter

Today we are going to collect the hens wooohooo!



This is the hen house Eric is making, he's just adding a window now (seriously) and then we'll take it round to their enclosed area. When we collect them we have to make a donation of £1.50 per hen and then buy the following recommended supplies

- Feeder
- Drinker/s
- Layers Mash
- Bedding
- Grit
- Purple spray
- Wormers
- Vitamin tonic

Luckily they will be selling all the stuff at the collection point. We've been told to expect the hens to be very upset for several days as they will have come from being crammed in with hundreds of other battery hens and suddenly having space will scare them. Have to keep an eye out to make sure they drink as when they're stressed they don't and may need to give water with sugar direct from a syringe. Steep learning curve coming up I thing.

Did this layout of Ben yesterday, quite pleased I've managed to leave white space LOL, better put it in the album before I give in and add stuff to it.



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Is now a little boy with
his own likes and dislikes
his favourite colour is RED
his favourite television programme
is THE SIMPSONS
favourite food is SPAGHETTI
BOLONAISE with GARLIC BREAD
And the latest saying is
“I didn’t do it, it wasn’t me!



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