“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?” Oliver W.Holmes

Fall has come: Friday night we started our wood furnace. Thursday night Matt had started installing the new blowers on our furnace. Friday it was all set to light up. Now we are quite cozy! Last night we actually had to open the back door to let some cool air in. The house was up to 77*: I guess the new blowers work REALLY well!

Saturday was a beautiful day! I spent most of the morning barely able to walk. I think my cyst has been pushing on my bladder and poop-shoot: I constantly felt the need to go #1 and #2, but it wasn't going too well. By the end of the day (several glasses of cranberry concentrate and prune juice later) I felt better. Still ehh today, but definitely better: Just bloated today.

In spite of it I got a lot of things done. I'm not one to let pain keep me down!















Matt spent most of the day traipsing the woods with my dad, setting up their tree stands for hunting season. I had the whole day, home, alone. I took the dogs for a walk in the field: The sky was so blue and the clouds so perfect that I just had to get out there. (the picture on the left is from the morning, on the right as the sun was setting). The dogs were happy to be out and cold air felt so good!

When I got home from our little expedition I jumped right in to making my applesauce. I have a HUGE box of Cortland apples that will be made into sauce and pies before the end of the season. The sauce is so easy to make: Core your apples, cut them into big chunks, throw in a large pot with a 1/2" of water in the bottom, toss in some cinnamon sticks, and let it cook for a couple of hours on a low temp. Delicious! No sugar added!

The other thing I spent most of the weekend doing was working on a autumn wall hanging for my brother in law and sister in law, who just bought their first house. This is a completely "original" design. With the help of my Electric Quilt 6 program I was able to design the leaf blocks and get my instructions and yardage from it. The pumpkins I free handed onto the back of freezer paper. Then I stitched it all together and appliquéd the pumpkins, stems, and leaves on. VOILA! (click on the pictures to view them bigger). This is my first appliquéd project, so it isn't perfect, but I'm pretty proud of how it came out.

Above the pumpkins I plan on appliquéing "Welcome".

If I can ever get blogger to work I have two videos to upload: How to's for applesauce and the wall hanging.

"The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;" ~ Ps 18.1-2

I haven't tested yet. It's not because I have such wonderful self control, but because I am scared to near-death that it is going to be negative. Even though I know it won't be the end of the world. I am scared to see only one line on that test.

Matt and I deliberated last night (we both feel the same about testing) and I think I am going to test before we drive the two hours to the RE on Thursday morning. It's just hard to believe that this could have worked...the first time...just one shot.

Two years ago I bought a book for Matt: The Expectant Father. It's been sitting in my nightstand ever since, just waiting to give it to him, it's still in the original shipping envelope, along with a card that I bought for him, "To the daddy to be". I never thought it would be sitting there over 2 years later.

In the mean time I am over analyzing every little thing. I've had continual cramping which seems to move throughout my lower abdomen and fluctuate in it's intensity. I'm peeing almost every 1-2 hours and I'm tired.

I'm still chalking it up to the progest.erone. Which, don't get me started on that! The rest is way TMI and if you don't read on I COMPLETELY understand.
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These suppositories are disgusting! I think I'd rather do the PIO shots. I wake up in the morning and the crotch of my pjs are SOAKED! It looks like I wet myself. Supposedly the suppositories are progesterone suspended in gel...well the whole thing doesn't get absorbed, just the progesterone and then the water/gel is left to drain out. It's disgusting.

The other thing with these is yeast infections. I have chronic yeast infections and continually battle them through a holistic regimine of mega acidophilus.

Saturday night I felt very itchy and uncomfortable (still do today), after thoroughly washing my hands I put my finger up inside and I felt this goopy lump. I pull my finger out and it's this huge lump (the size of a large cotton ball) of nastiness...it's off-white, green-ish-blue, and slightly yellow. While I don't think it's a yeast infection I'm sure it's some other kind of infection: LOVELY!