Wanna Go For a Walk?

 

Good Morning All!
Chilly today- Highs to be in the 60's for the next week or so. Lows in the 40's. Brrr... (but just a little "brrr" -as I adjust to the change in weather).
Crap, Winter is coming....

Before resting to watch that great Packer game with Casey on Sunday, I had made 3 separate trips around the fields...
When the sun was high, I brought the camera along too-

I noted more damage by our deer herd.

This first picture is of my own squash plants...


A pretty close, straight, cut.
(Those darned deer must have some really sharp teeth this year)! hehehe

Further in back now, more deer damage.
Look at all the missing and broken corn stalks!


Darn deer- 
They eat the young plants while the stalks are short, and succulent. As the stalks get taller the deer just walk all over them-   I suppose in pursuit of a 'yummier' stalk up the way.


But then came the stark realization that I was witnessing things I had never seen before!

I took these first two pictures way back by the woods...





After seeing that, I saw this one as well.



WTH???  I did not do that to those poor melons!
Now I know we are really in BiG TROUBLE here

Because it sure looks to me like the dang deer have knives now! hehehe
So much for having sharp teeth...


The field hands have already removed about 5 or 6 loads of cabbages-
And there are pumpkins growing throughout those cabbage plants-


hehehe   I will have to steal this one just for me!

But no matter how well those pumpkins have come up on their own this year, the harvest will never equal Blazers... (Right down the road a bit).



This represents maybe 1/10th of what was there. (And, they harvest more every day)!


Along with a wagon~load of gourds too!


These too, are harvested on a fairly regular schedule...


But I digress...
...Back to our walk-


Below is just a bunch of weeds and cabbage-


With a bit of goldenrod in the background- I thought it pretty!


Punk goes straight to my old "climbing tree"-  She seems to love this tree almost as much I do!


Then she poses pretty for the camera!  Such a ham!   hehehe

My dryer is calling me once again, so I'd better close for now-
Just thought I would share one of my daily ventures with everyone!
And after that, I am going to rest a while.

Here's hoping all is well in your little corner of the world.

XOXO
Me

PS
Top photo is for those of us in Wisconsin, (among a few other states), that are holding their primaries today.
Go do it!

Casey- Hanging In.

We have heard from one of Casey's doctors-

Her iron level is not where it should be after her 6 infusions, (although it is a decimal point, or two, above what it was in May before she'd begun those infusions). At that point, her iron was less than 4% of what is normal.
Those infusions alone damn near killed her.
The headaches she has experienced afterward- and the pain along her mid~right side is ever increasing too.  Grrrrr....

Her GP, (general practitioner) will be contacting the hematologist/oncologist, and I hope Dr. Sutherland as well. (She would much rather be in Minnesota. I know how much she trusts Dr. Sutherland). But those 3, talking to each other, are a good team.
They expect to know more by tonight or tomorrow.

Offered as one possibility is that she might have an intestinal bleed somewhere along the line. Which of course means more surgery-
I hope Dr. Sutherland might be able to do this also, (if it comes down to it).

The rest of her tests are not back yet.

She is still very much looking forward to starting school once more- her vet tech courses, this Fall. Time will tell.
As always, her health is vastly more important than either the sciences, or the mathematics, which she loves so much-

There are times I think this is just as hard on me, mentally- than on her, physically. How selfish of me to feel that way! My apologies.
Does that somehow make sense to you?

Casey has more resolute Faith, and class, in her little finger than most of us have in our entire lives! She is honorable; accepting and always strong, taking most everything in stride- (Even/especially when she can barely stand or walk herself). While I know that is exactly what his best for her psyche, there are times that I don't muster "the right stuff" to be so damned brave. (Yes. I always find it; especially as I reach for it).
I know at times I lack much- God only knows that I don't measure up to her own level of courage.

Yet, from the sidelines, (even as her mother), I can only imagine how she feels- and what she is going through.
I am there, HERE, anywhere, for her -always.

Sue and Glenn came for the fruits and veggies for their deer yesterday- I swear they were angels- their timing was so perfect. I was just hanging up from speaking to Casey when they had arrived.

I will post numbers etc as those results become available to us.
I will also update here what the doctors say.

Love to all.

XOXO
Casey's Mom

photo from scientificamerican.com