HURRICANESCheck out the Ibis galore in our back pasture the day after Hurricane Milton! We had some cleanup of a bunch of branches and a $350 large split tree removal from Hurricane Helene. After two weeks, these branches are along our road, still waiting to be picked up by a new trash removal company.We are lucky to live in an area that is a bit high, so storms seem to go around us. Our 1 1/3-mile wide dirt road is another issue. It gets graded often after every storm, but it's very bumpy, so

My breast cancer surgery went really well! My recovery is much easier than I thought it would be. I had good ROM (range of motion) quickly. I had figured I couldn’t use my arms for a couple of weeks, but I immediately could use both, although restricted.Today makes it a week since surgery. I was able to pick mint from my garden – yea! Mint is the only thing left to harvest, though. Garden pests have eaten my whole raised bed of bush green beans and my four tomato plants. My poor gar

Image is a bunch of books in a bulkNext SurgeryI have the schedule for the next breast cancer surgery. It’s September 12, 2024. This one is more invasive than the first one that just removed the left breast. I’m getting the right breast removed and undergoing the breast expander process. This means surgery on both sides with the drains included.The first two weeks will be down time for healing. I don’t know if that means I can’t lift my arms to type. I was able to lift

Image is of happy cats and dogs, like me :)Indexed in Google and #1I just got an email from WA that my newish senior survival website, Golden Survivalist, got indexed in Google and is number 1 for the long-tail keyword. The URL is goldensurvivalist.com/tag/tech-gadgets-for-senior-survival-prepping/. As was recommended by the WA email, I used Jaxxy to check it out and for tracking. It was published 7/7/24 and indexed 8/12/24. Pretty awesome.The URL is number 6 in Yahoo for the long-tail keyword

Hurricane CleanupAs you can see, our first pile of brush from Hurricane Debby is still waiting to be picked up. We only had a bunch of brush falling around our place from the hurricane, although it did go over the top of us during the night and early morning.Trees surround us, and I swear this keeps the trees from falling. We have so many tree roots that show in the ground that I mow over. There isn't enough sand/dirt to cover many places.I was in the throes of bronchitis when the hurricane hit