Not sure what to do

Well I've got no holiday coming up to sew pillow covers for. I've finished my diamond painting of three old hens. Just need to find a frame for it. So far all the frames I've found on line cost 3 times what the picture did. It is actually much more colorful than the picture shows. And we don't have any doctor appointments for a month. So not sure what to do to keep myself busy. 

The weather has turned cold for here. This morning it was 32 out when I got up at 5:30. Only warming up to low 50's during day. We both need to get some winter clothes, I need shoes only have my walking tennis shoes and sandals. Makes for nice walking though. Have got in a couple of three mile walks so far this week. Seen a few unexpected sights. Just some pictures from the Wetlands. It is getting its winter look.   

Only one turtle out taking its sun bath. Guess the others are still asleep. 

One of the ponds, the water was so still I like the reflections of the reeds and bushes and sky. 

The Strip from the bridge in the Wetlands. People over there would never think we were standing on a bridge over a rushing river full of water fowl. Some snow on the mountains, they should get more tonight and tomorrow. 

A guy with one of those cameras with the huge lense was watching something in the river. He came over to us and pointed out this coyote in the reeds watching the ducks in the river. Would never have noticed it if not for him pointing it out. There were also a couple of racoons running around the same area. I just saw their tails as they headed inland. 

Another pond with autumn leaves on the trees. 

The Nature Center has holiday walks through the reeds. Always with a little story. We decided to take the Christmas walk yesterday. Cute story. 

It is about seven different animals going into a white mitten to hide. 

One of the mallard drakes on a rock. 

Yesterday it was quite cool, about 47 when we started our walk, maybe in low 50's when we got home. Also overcast so no sun to warm us up. This is looking towards The Strip too. 

Came across this road runner all puffed up. Don't know if he was trying to look bigger and menacing to keep the other males away or if he was showing off for a female. 

Very seldom do we see a group of road runners, usually just one by itself. These three stayed together quite a long time.

Two males and a female maybe? A little showing off. 

Bill went to the eyelid doctor on Tuesday. He for sure needs the surgery. But it has to be approved by our insurance company - grrr - before it can be scheduled. Might take 4 to 6 week for approval, especially with all the holidays coming up. Doctor said it takes about ten minutes with only about three stitches.That sounds good, I thought big incision and black eyes. Guess not.  We took an Uber over there, on the other side of town. Glad we did so much construction going on around the office. 

Bill has been feeling really good lately, almost like his old self. Doing a lot of cooking. He made this big batch of French Toast. We'll freeze a lot of it for later. 

Posing for the camera. 

Going to lunch with our son today, he just called. Good to get out. 

Mostly sunsets and sunrises

Hadn't planned on doing this today, but I'm sitting at the computer to keep out of the way of the ladies that clean. Got an unexpected call from my son asking if I wanted the ladies to come over and clean our home. Of course! He called just in time as I was thinking about getting out the vacuum ... Well maybe not. 

We haven't done too much this week to write about, but have had some spectacular sunrises and sunsets. This one was the beginning of the week. There was rain and snow in the mountains so a lot of clouds. 

I have my Christmas craft decorations up. The pillow covers. 

Two on each couch. This is a small quilt I made a long time ago. 

A closer look at it. The white areas are embroidered.

The place mats I made last year. 

The stained glass I made a long time ago. But never got to put them up cause we usually weren't home for Christmas. Ran out of things to make. 

Remember the rocks I was complaining about a month or so ago. The ones the wall builders knocked off our backyard into the drainage ditch. Well they are finally back up on the yard. I caught one of the community's gardners cleaning the trash out of the ditch and asked if he could put them back on the yard. No problem.YES!!! Doesn't take much to make me happy. 

Here is a picture of the inside of The Sphere. I think I'd get sea sick watching it. It moves just like outside. 

Sunrise one morning. The funnels are virga. (A virga, also called a dry storm, is an observable streak or shaft of precipitation that evaporates or sublimates before reaching the ground. )  Made for an interesting looking sunrise. 

Same day a weird sunset. Looked like funnel clouds all over the sky. Simply the same as at sunrise. Rain trying to reach the ground. 

Only got in one walk of three miles so far this week. Tomorrow we are going to walk around the community as there is a Holiday Crafts and this and that sale.

Just a different look from one section of the Wetlands. Mountains in Henderson in the back ground. It has been great walking weather. In the high 50's but with bright warm sunshine. 

On Monday  Bill had an appointment to get a heart monitor put on so missed walking that day. Last blog I wrote about the new medication he was put on. He had an horrible reaction to it so he stopped taking it. I never got in contact with any one over the phone. So while he was at the doctor's office Monday I talked to the office lady and she sent a copy of what had happened to Bill to the "doctor's nurse." Never heard back. Yesterday I finally got through to a different nurse. I went through whole story with her. She said she would let Doctor know. Still haven't heard anything and Bill is feeling better than he has felt in  months. Not going to worry about it. He sees doctor end of January. Go the monitor off on Thursday. Next week he sees the eyelid doctor. No idea how soon he can get them fixed. Like I said not much going on. 

Same things different days.

 I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. We went out on Wednesday and I had Denny's turkey dinner. Really enjoyed it. 

Getting into the holiday spirit here are a few more pictures of The Sphere. This is one of my favorites. Of course there is movement He looks down at the sweater and makes a face before he smiles. Very cute. 

Snow globe.

The Rockettes dancing. Click here to watch a video of it. 

One of these days we've got to get down there to see it. 

We got the humidifiers and they seem to be working. Bill only had one very short nose bleed since we've had them. Thank goodness. Have one in bedroom and one in kitchen. Need to figure out where to put that one as I don't want it in kitchen. 

Been walking every other day. Got in a couple of 3 mile days. Sure is nice with the weather cooler. getting some color in the foliage. 

That is a bag of trash the duck is standing on. Lots of trash shows up in the rivers. But they do a pretty good job of cleaning it up. 

Weird growth on this tree. 

A closer look at it. A growth of the tree or a nest of some kind.  Kind of reminds me of termite nests I've seen. 

More bird pictures. Usually they aren't this close together. We haven't seen and bunnies for several walks. Maybe we are walking too late in the day and they are hiding. Saw a coyote in the distance one walk. But it was moving too fast to get a picture. 

He looks mean!

More color and blue sky with  contrails. 

I mentioned in my last post that the heart doctor had put Bill on a new medication. Well...it does not agree with him. After taking it for about eight days it laid him low. Made him so dizzy and weak he couldn't get around. Tried getting ahold of doctor. Could not even get through to the office. Push buttons and no one answers, just told to push more buttons. Gave up, he quit taking the medication and is starting to feel a whole lot better. We go to the doctor's office on Monday so will try to get some  guidance on what he should do. He doesn't see the doctor until end of January. 

Some soothing pictures and days

 Trying to write a little more often. We have been having one beautiful sunrise after another the last week or so. I looked out this morning and there was an okay one, not worth going out in the 39 degree weather to take a picture. 

Yep our weather has taken a big change. Going down to near freezing at night. So cool in the morning we now go out at 9:00 to walk when it gets into the low fifties. I still wear shorts and a t-shirt and a light jacket, which I take off about 20 minutes into the walk. Yesterday we walked 3 miles. Of course with a lot of stopping and looking at things. My friends I walk with.  Guess I'm the only hot broad among us. 

We stopped at the Nature Center Museum and there was a new art display  Some really neat items there. This one I took a picture of because every thing on it was hand embroidered. Lots and lots of work on it. 

Back outside, just like the look of the water and trees. So nice to be outside in nature. 

On Tuesday afternoon we had another semi emergency with Bill. Ended up at an Urgent Care near us. He had a nose bleed that just didn't want to stop. Got good care there, but they were talking emergency room before it finally stopped bleeding. So came home with ointment, q tips, nose plugs and instructions. One of which was get a humidifier for the house, Two will arrive today. We keep it pretty warm in here and the weather is naturally dry. Also he takes aspirin. So far so good, hope that is over with. 

More nature pictures. Elegant birds...Very seldom catch them together in one photo. 

The ducks are so colorful. 

Mama and two babies paddling around. 

A break from nature. Sorry about all the pictures of the Sphere, but it just fascinates me. I take these all from on line posts. I love this one. Scary looking chicken. 

Perplexed green owl? Said on the news it has lost about a half a million dollars since being built/ open. Saw today on the news they are now running advertisements on it. Ugh. 

It is Formula 1 time again, so traffic on the Strip is all screwed up. The roads making up the track are open for a while, then closed for a while. Will be that way until Sunday night I guess. Glad I don't have to go anywhere near there. 

So back to nature. A couple of turtles taking a sun bath. They were hard to see. 

Road runner watching something he was interested in. Maybe a bug or lizard. 

Little bitty fish swimming near the plants. They are about 3 inches long. 

I'm still sewing trying to use up material. Made a smaller 15 x 15 pillow cover. Kind of cute. 

And am working on the third Christmas 18 x 18 pillow cover. This is a work in progress, not sure how to set it up yet. Playing around with different ideas. 

Mama duck again. 

Just something we saw out in the middle of nowhere while we walked towards a different area. A big empty pipe or well now full of trash and graffiti.

We went to see Bill's cardiologist early Monday morning. He isn't too concerned about the hospital reports. He feels the slow heart beat is due to one of Bill's medications so the doc  changed the does to half of what he was taking. Then added a new blood pressure pill that is supposed to strengthen the heart. He also suggested Bill only take the water pill if he experiences swelling in this legs or hands. He also set up appointments for a heart monitor and another echocardiogram. Then of course another visit. I managed to drive there (23 miles each way) without problems or getting lost. Then that afternoon we had an eye shot appointment. We took UBER for that as it was late in afternoon, in Henderson and would be dark when we got out. Still waiting to see doctor for eyelid, Dec 10th for that one. He is starting to get crabby about doctor appointments. Can't say as I blame him. So far he has been feeling pretty good, except closed eye is driving him nuts. 

I started a new diamond painting of three crazy looking girl chickens standing in a field of flowers. Should be fun.

That's it for now.