I'd heard of the movie,  however hadn't seen it until tonight.  It was on the Hallmark Channel and I promptly fell in love with it!  It reminded me of tv shows and movies I"ve seen,  part "Little House on the Prairie",  "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers",  and "Bonanza".

Nothing like a feel good movie after a rought 24 hours....

Yesterday I went shopping for bread and milk and came home with strawberries,  two new blouses,  and a new skirt!  What a cute skirt too,  navy blue and white polka dots with ruffles on the bottom.  I've never had a skirt like this and when I tried it on I fully expected to look like,  well never mind,   it looked really nice on me.  Good thing since i loved it!

So I came home all happy and feeling on top of the world and KABOOM!  I took a header in the hallway.  I tripped on the vinyl runner I have,  actually there's three of them.  One extends from the entry door,  and two head off in different directions,  one to the living room and one to my bedroom. 
It was on my way to the bedroom that I tripped,  I threw my left arm up to catch myself and really racked that arm up bad,  then hit and fell on my left knee,  the one that's had the total replacement in.  I was pretty dazed,   and didn't know where the blood was coming from that covered my right hand.

After a minute or two I dragged myself into the bathroom and yanked on the emergency cord and was happy as a clam to have the manager and her assistant pounding on my door and then letting themselves in.

Xrays at the hospital showed that the cement in my left knee is stable,  no damage done,  Thank God!  and my humerus is fine although horridly bruised.  The blood came from a small laceration on my thumb, and tonight I"m just thankful to be here and that I hadn't hit my head on the wall that my arm hit...

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I went downstairs this afternoon, to have coffee with the gang and have a cookie or two to soothe the misery,  and discovered that two men have been raiding our vegetable garden,  at night.  Late afternoon yesterday they made off with prize cucumbers,  eating greenbeans as they went,  and smashed our tomatoes....

WHat a couple of assholes.

Most of the seniors here that work in the garden,  having purchased the seeds,  planted them,  weeded them,  and water them,  are in their 70's  up to their 90's. 

I wish I could patrol that garden with a gun.....however shooting a man over vegetables isn't right,  yet it's lower than a snake's belly to steal from seniors.

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Qwest is dumber now than they've ever been,  or else they're getting their jollies by giving me grief.  Remember how about 2-3 weeks ago,  if even that long ago,  they supposedly changed my numer,  at no charge cause they screwed up,  and made it unlisted and unpublished?   I think this is the third time now....yep,  it's the third time...well WHOOPS.. they did it again!  Another "glitch" in the system.   How did I find out?   LOL,   well my former landlord called me today.  I asked him how he got my number and he said from "directory assistance"....

The REAL kicker is WHY he called.  After being gone for 6 months now,  and after doing a "walk through" with FIVE people,  to check the condidtion of the apt.,  he says that NOW there's a stain on the bedroom carpet and that the current resident is claiming that it's from me!  and am I incontinent?!  He says " I hate to ask you this,  BUT...are you?   

Good God almighty I read him the riot act!   I needed an outlet for all my physical pain and by Christ he caught it!  He quickly apologized and said he'd tell her what she could do,  and said sorry for even bothering me,  hehe,  NOW I'M gonna start........

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo tomorrow I have an attorney to contact,  and public housing,  since SHE"S the one that instigated this.   Probably I won't get any satisfaction out of this,  HOWEVER....the landlord never paid me the interest due on the damage deposit,  NOW I'm going to go after it....

I might take care of a few other things that happened that I let slip,  "back then".  No this isn't just talk.  I know how to take care of business,  throught legal channels,   and win.  I've done it before,  and this time this person pushed too hard.   Time to reverse the pressure.  Nuf said.

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So late this afternoon as I checked over the garden,  I chose to pull my carrots early.  I like em tender and sweet and figured they might not be around another day.......I heard from the grapevine here that the local gendarmes aren't too quick to help us out here.  I don't know that for a fact,  if that's the case,   woow,  how to change that???  guess I gotta find out for sure if that is indeed the case.  I DO know that here in the suburbs that Meth is out of control and some of the crimes are worse than I suspected.  So the PD might not have time to help seniors that are being bugged by petty stuff.

We'll see....

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Oh by the way,   it was soooooooooooooo sweet to go downstairs and have the gang welcome me back,  they had been concerned about the fall I took and were glad I was ok other than bruised.  Sure made my day!  My son must have been more concerned than I realized,  he called me at 10 last night and then again first thing this morning      That human connection makes it all worthwhile.

The summer can only get better,  when it comes to things like garden thieves,   and life can't get any sweeter you realize someone loves you and cares.