All is well around here

 I am doing great feeling good. Not back to walking in Wetlands yet. Kind of nervous about it. Trying to get some walking in around the neighborhood though. 

You gotta love Las Vegas, this is in the Albertsons grocery store. Every where you go. 

We are in Monsoon season so have had some nice sunrises. Looking out over the Weasands  I forgot to check the sunsets, but the clouds usually add colors. 

Well they got us again. Got the "letter" from the 4-sided inspection. I need to trim all these plants. They need to be "trimmed to shape and ensure they don't touch the home or over grow." They are kind of growing over neighboring house yard. But no one lives there and it is usually full of weeds. So emailed the gardener, he will have his guys trim them before the reinspection. I think it looks pretty.

Sitting out in the back yard just enjoying the scenery Waiting for it to rain. 

Bill checking things out. That is one of the many, many, many dump trucks loaded with dirt that are going down behind us. Something to do with the new sewer line project. Need to go out there and check it out.

Looks like the rain is getting close, heard a couple of loud claps of thunder. 

We did get rain - very heavy and loud for about 5 minutes and that was it. More expected for the next few days. Listen to the sound on this. 

Bill went to see the new neurologist about his ocular myasthenia gravis. He really likes him. Doctor was very thorough checking out Bill. And talked to us about what goes on with MG, Going back for some testing on Oct 1st - and has a new  pill to take to hopefully get him off prednisone. We will see what happens, hope he can take it. 

Need to go to market today but that is about it. I haven't touched my sewing for a few days, looking for a new pattern. 

We have been having a wind, rain, thunder and lightening storm for about an hour. Not a whole lot of the wet stuff but plenty of the rest. Glad it waited until we got home from grocery store. 

It was an interesting day.

 Last Wednesday started out as a normal, nice day. Cool enough to walk, got errands done all was well. Bill had gone in to lay down. He gets up around 2/3 a.m. every day so he needs his naps. I was sitting at the computer when I felt a thump, thump in my chest. Hum? I've had that before after too much coffee or aggravation and it has always stopped. So I kept playing on computer. Well the thump thump didn't go away. I got up got a drink of water walked around in house a bit. THUMP, THUMP,THUMP. Got the little thing you put on your finger that shows your heart beat and oxygen level. Heart beat was bouncing between 130 and 145. And not slowing down. So took my blood pressure  183/89. Well that's not good. So I waited a bit. Not getting better, called my walking friend who is a nurse. Told her what was going on. She suggested going to ER. Either call paramedics or drive myself. I woke Bill up. Told him what was going on. Not getting better. So decided not to drive and called the EMTs. So trip to hospital, luckily they let him ride in ambulance. Ended up being there 10 hours. Poor Bill was stuck there with me (he was freezing the nurse finally brought him a blanket.) Any way. Blood enzymes showed no heart attack. I actually felt okay except for thump thump. EKG showed no problems except fast beat. Heart beat remained around 115-120. Blood pressured above 180/89 - go up once to 212/98! Then a CatScan of chest because doctor told me my blood oxygen was low.  Well that was new. Scan showed nothing. About 9 o'clock doctor came in and asked me if I wanted to stay overnight and have more tests or go home. Duh! Go Home. He said okay but if it got worse or anything else happened come back to hospital. As soon as they said I could go home heart rate and blood pressure started to go down. So called an Uber went home. Had something to eat and went to sleep. Next day everything kept returning to normal . Blood oxygen remained a little lower than usual for a day. Now I'm fine. All is normal. Blood pressure is normal, heart beat is normal. Oxygen levels normal. So maybe I had a Panic Attack.  Had one years ago and spent the night in a Mazatlan hospital. I've been taking it easy, haven't gone back to walking yet. But might tomorrow. 

Yesterday I got pictures from Havasu of all four of our great grand daughters cuddled up in their new quilts. Now I have to decide on a new project for my sewing. 

And that was a wake up call to get our affairs in order.

So nothing else going on to write about. All is well. The Sphere getting an early start. It looks so real. 

Walked again

On Wednesday early in the morning while it was still cool my friend and I took a 2.5 mile walk in the Wetlands. This picture is right behind our home. They are putting in a new sewer line. Today we walked north instead of south. No orange fences to go over or under that direction. 

Haven't been by this pond in quite a while. It used to be full of big soft shell  turtles.  Can't tell if there are any in there or not due to all the algae. Just a couple of beer cans, why do people do that?

There hasn't been much maintenance going on, some of the dirt trails are getting pretty narrow.  But it is so peaceful to walk them. 

Another one of the ponds. The beavers keep trying to damn it up. See the are in the square. They've put in a lot of mud and reeds. The maintenance people come along and drag it all out every few days. Some of the old stuff on the ground at the edge of the water. 

Another of the fire areas, lots of new plants, now if they just grown. A couple of the little trees still have green leaves. Fingers crossed. The mountain in the background is the one I can see from our kitchen window. Love to watch the changing shadows on it. 

A rocky area in the river, helps purify the water. And some ducks. 

Hard to believe this is so close to the Strip. A whole different part of Las Vegas. 

A couple of these trees seem to be sprouting fnew growth from their roots. 

A lot of the water in the river is run off from the city of Las Vegas storm drains. so after rains lots of stuff ends up right here in the Wetlands. Mostly from the homeless who live in the tunnels. Some ducks are out there, don't know if they were the ones who stayed here or if winter migration has started. 

Harry is going to catch something to eat. 

Our walk took us about an hour and a half. We stopped in sat down and of course stopped to watch the birds. After getting home Bill and I went to the UP store to ship the quilts, the market and CVS to pick up a few things. Then Bill, yes Bill, drove the RV back to the storage area. Our son couldn't do it for a couple of days and our neighbor across the street made a point of letting me know he saw the message that the parking area was open again. 

And then the day went to heck.