helloooo.. anybody home???

It's been nearly a MONTH since we last blogged..

are we home?

are we still here?

perhaps you are pondering what has happened..

perhaps you think the money pit has overtaken us..

or like so many blogs..

we've gone silent..

no

none of the above..

Mama got SICK

really sick..

and am now beginning to heal..

I have asthma..among other maladies..

and on a recent trip to the very

 north 

NORTH WOODS 

of Wisconsin

something just GOT into my lungs..

molds and other allergens were a record high

thanks to the wonderful and yet bizarre weather we've all had 

here in the midwest...

Well "it" got in .. and no amount of coughing would get it OUT..

we came home from the trip and 

Machine Man took me straight to the 

Immediate care

the next day to my doctor..

I was given oooodles of medicine

and basically told to ride it out 

but see that's the thing..

ya can't tell me to "ride" something "out"

because i will..

and I will ride and ride and ride.

till I am barely breathing.

which is what happened..

When i finally confessed to Machine Man

I didn't have much more "ride" in me

he rushed me back to "immediate care"

where they smiled and debated hotly the use

of an ambulance to get me to the local hospital..

When we finally got to the hospital,

it was mayhem..

patients everywhere

like a war zone..

yet somehow

I was whisked away

IV put in my arm

and given a room..

?

guess it was a big deal...

but then..

breathing is sort of.. 

essential

right?

So dear friends

after this long 23 day battle

5 days in hospital

I am back home

healing

and pinning ideas 

of what to do back on the farm!

so hard 

for a gal like me to SIT still..

eagerly awaiting the next 

CRAZY 

adventure

and project..

<><

Mama

aka

Tante Nika