3 weeks and counting

How long will it be?..........

It started slow and picked up steam
I'm hoping it's really just a long bad dream
Me trying to be a poet about my ongoing cold.
My activities have been put on hold, while I attempt
to escape this cold.

It's been 3 weeks now, and yes it started innocently enough, just a sneeze here and a runny nose and slight cough there. Then it decided to kick in with a really sore throat, cough, headache, congested head and lungs.

This is how I go through my days and nights:

humidifier - check
water bottle - check
cold medicine - check
vicks - check
sore throat lozenges - check
blanket - check
pillow - check

Some say that the only way to get rid of a cold is to give it to someone else. My husband and I have been sharing our colds with each other in vain. I say here have it, I really don't want it after all, he counters with that's O.K. so nice of you to share but I have one of my own let's trade. and so it goes on.......

maybe if I share it online it will go away, who knows ;-)

p.s. I really hope none of you are suffering with this cold, be forewarned & do everything you can to keep it away.

Now where are those garlic cloves? I wanted to weave them into a necklace.

Best laid plans of mice and men......

We had a wonderful "staycation" this fall.

We spent most of our time driving to watch our granddaughter's events that my husband usually misses while he's working, Elementary recreation league soccer and Middle school cross country meets. Such fun!

We got caught up on some things we needed to like: an eye exam for new contacts & glasses, flu shots and a shingles vaccine, quite a few projects around our yard were completed and but mostly we just goofed off.
My pretty new glasses, stylin' since I'm almost 60 ;-)

The last week of our staycation I managed to get a cold. So most of the outdoor activities we'd hoped to do were cancelled, and then after my husband went back to work he came down with a cold. I was feeling badly because I thought I'd given him mine but no it was a different strain, more of a chest cold than mine was. I know because I got it from him. 

I was anxiously looking forward to getting back to my routine and my hiking, but my plans to get back to hiking with the Senior Trailblazers have been delayed till I can get over these silly colds.

Happy Halloween!

Watch out for those ghosts and goblins today!