My hands look like a man's!

No kidding, they really do.  I've been working very hard and it's taking a toll on my ravishing beauty!  Hehe, kidding of course. 

The good news is that I'm losing weight, I can tell by my clothes.  So I've got to keep it up. 

I'm sorry it's been so long since my last post...a whole week!
The time is flying by!  There's still a lot to do before my son and husband visit next month, but I'm finally beginning to feel at home. 

While my landlady was away in California I worked to make her large front yard look better.  Picking up sticks and debris, raking leaves, etc...   I've made a huge pile behind the barn, (so people can't see all the junk when they drive in), and will be taking a huge load to the county dump pretty soon. 

The washing machine problem is over.  Instead of making my landlady pay for a repair person I told her it would be cheaper to get one from craigslist.  And I was right.  I talked some people into selling me their machine for $50.
I asked her son to go help me get it and we got it in the house and it works fine.   Yay!    (I've been doing laundry today.)   The people I bought it from were astonished that I could lift it into my truck.    :)

A few days ago, it rained and I decided to work inside the house.  It took one full day to take the stove apart, scrub it clean and put it back together.  It now looks new.  And boy, I sure feel better about cooking on it.   
Some of my friends know I'm a clean freak.

Yesterday was spent scrubbing paint and grime off of the windows in the kitchen and dining room...including the storm windows on the outside.  The blinds were sticky and grimy from years of grease I guess so I gave those things a bath in the bath tub.  I had to sponge each blind individually but it was worth it because they look like new as well.  The windows sparkle when I look out and it makes me smile. 

Will and Lily are doing so great.  They're losing weight and looking like horses again.   I brought out the pedestal the other day and I can't get them off the thing!   I got Lily to put all four feet up on it, if only for a few seconds. 

Will is cantering on the 22 and 45 and keeping it!  I only let him go about four laps though and then praise the hell out of him.  
He learns so fast that boy!  He's really acting more like an extrovert right now.   I'm loving that!
I think the saddle's coming out in the next few days.   :)

I'll have them wear the saddle for over a week before ever mounting up.  It will just become part of their daily routine.

I continue to faithfully do my exercise videos and I'm feeling stronger. 

I'm so sorry I can't reply to your responses to my posts.  I don't see any way to respond, but please know that I always look forward to reading them and enjoy them very much.

I just saw on the TV while I was eating lunch today that there's so much more to do in Orlando beside the normal Disney World etc.    My son, husband, and I may need to check that out while they're here.

Oh! That reminds me....  
A couple of days ago I went next door because I saw a worker's truck parked outside another mobile home.  Since I wanted some tips on how a mobile home works, (you know, windows and such), I decided to go ask.

The people there were very friendly and the worker guy had brought along his brother-in-law who was deemed to be THE expert on windows and doors so he volunteered to go over to my mobile with me to give me some tips on how to repair my broken window.

Turns out he's a big-wig over at one of the golf clubs and gave me his business card.
On the back of the card he wrote....
      
          Good for 4 - 18's with cart.    Val.

How cool is that!   We'll get four rounds of golf at his club, that's so exciting!  Golf clubs are busy places around here during the winter. 
Anyway, I got a two-fer.    Lucky me. 

The next time I get to report here I hope I can tell you that I've got the siding on my little mobile home scrubbed down and the yard all raked of leaves and twigs, AND the weeds pulled.   AND that Lily will be better at not bracing against the pressure on her nose.  

Til then.   TaTa.