Rainy Sunday and My Pain Continues

Hello and Happy Sunday. What an angel he is, Kenso the King. I have told you about my grandson Kenso before but jic you are new he is Crystal's baby boy. He is so precious I love him so much. Crystal gives me updates and happenings regularly. He just turned one you can see his party here http://creationsbydawn.blogspot.com/2026/03/kenso-is-one-fast-one-party.html

Always a happy baby. Miss him so much. They live in El Paso. I have gone there once. I enjoyed my visit. http://creationsbydawn.blogspot.com/2023/08/my-week-in-el-paso.html there wasn't much in that post but I do have more stuff to share I can get that done soon. 

Crystal and Skylar are always taking him to play. He enjoys it so much. He even loves riding in the wagon at daycare. He is so sweet and loving. 

Yesterday Cody and the boys came over yesterday’s post. Bruce and I made them dinner. Burgers and buns. Amelia brought over a broccoli salad which was so delicious. She also brought a gluten free dessert we won’t talk about that. Haha guilty little pleasures. Peanut butter and chocolate my weakness. Everyone really enjoyed the buns. 

Yesterday Alexis had her Easter celebration with her family and she made cornbread. It turned out beautifully. That was one of the Lodge pans I had got her and Amelia for Christmas a few years back. Good to see it in use. Love that! 

Brooksie Bear helped me with my plants now isn’t that the cutest. 

Go Brooksie Bear 

They love coming over to watch tv we watched tractors. 

Skybear and Kenso on the playground. 

Look at that beautiful smile. One happy little guy!! Love you Kenso. 

This past weekend Jr ended up in the hospital. He has knee pain and the swelling just continued to increase. He couldn’t walk on it and still he is struggling with it. No apparent reasons or anything. Nothing bite him or no reason at all. Kim and Jr were going out to eat and ended up in the ER. That wasn’t the date they had planned for. 
When Jr was 10 this same thing happened to him he got cellulitis of the knee. No reasons then either! He was in the Children’s Hospital for five days on IV antibiotics. During that time we drove back and forth to see him. It was hard because I had four other children at the same time and only one car. My mom was still living in the area then, Jr will be 40 this year and my mom has been in Florida forever it seems. So my mom knew Norfolk well so she took us out to eat while we were there visiting Jr. My aunt Jan (Sissy) was there too. 

 

Then today Samantha was feeling ill and nausea so they took her to the hospital as she had got a Zofran for the nausea and started having heart palpitations. So Kim had to take her to the emergency room. They found out her iron level was so low she had to have an emergency blood transfusion. They then wanted to airlift her to another hospital but Kim said no they would wait for the ambulance to come. So now this is all just coming about so I know no more. Just please pray and send all the healing vibes for Samantha. She’s one of our oldest granddaughters. I am sending all the healing vibes your way and positive energy to you sweet Samantha. I love you!!! ❤️ 

We all got your back Samantha! Prayers, love, vibes and all the energy for you for a speedy recovery. Sending love your way! The Dino is adorable btw. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️

Today I worked on my mushrooms as I was a little behind not being able to do anything else with the family and being in this crazy pains. I have done something now to my piriformis muscle. I know right…. As if! I have been doing all the PT for it. It’s really painful. Bruce moved the heating pad to my chair to help. While I was in all the pain I wrote this poem….   See below ⬇️ 

I wrote a poem today for one of my art pages 

Trees, trees, trees—I stand among them, feeling the power of their hearts and the energy of their souls. The wind blows gently as leaves whisper words of gratitude to me. Gaia creates a grounding of positive forces that can't be fully explained with words of wisdom, since one only knows what is felt. The freedom, the spirits, and feelings of love flow through my veins. Mushrooms gather magically. For I belong in the forest. Written by Dawn Gallop April 12, 2026 

Mush love 🍄, 

Dawn Gallop 

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January 05, 2026 The Polar Express in Green Bay

 

Hello and good day. Here we at January 5, 2026 in my neck of the woods. When I put these pictures up it is a bit backwards from what I am thinking it should be.  It’s like the first picture I pick should show up first but it tis the opposite. 

     This is what I call my ancestral piece. It’s all done intuitively. The flowers at the bottom came from holding the paintbrush at an angle. This is all Sumi ink and this was very first painting ever with Sumi. We left the zoom class that morning and when I was thinking of doing the basic stuff “practice using the Chinese calligraphy brushes. This is what showed up for me. I felt like it was my ancestors reaching out. Two little girls picking mushrooms. 🍄 when I was done I was like yes I like this medium.  Last night it snowed quite a bit again. No biggie here. It’s just that out gator is broke down right now. That has our snowplow on the front of it. Bruce is having to clear the snow with the snowblower. So we can get in and out of the driveway. Our driveway is about 3/4 mile long. He has also borrowed Garrett’s four wheeler with a small plow. You gotta do what you gotta do!!! Bruce has been working on our bathroom he had to put in a tub easy for me to get in and out of. I have new handles to hold on to as well. The kids are calling it the five year bathroom. Haha 🤣 not really it’s been six months since he started. It has basically been completely remodeled. He had to redo all the plumbing, replace the floor and floor joists. The other shower stall was leaking when we bought the house so it was a necessity to be replaced. Everything is so expensive now but he has done it mostly with the things we already had. The tub is new, the vanity, and a standard shower. He painted it too after replacing some drywall. I will show you when it’s completed. He also built cabinets and used doors from an old cabinet. Probably as old as the 70s. He added a light in the cabinets so I could see inside. It is a much nicer bathroom. It’s almost done. We hung up the mermaid Beverly gave me years ago. She’s up and showing her best self. 

I had made these for the weekend everyone was hunting. Potato rolls cut in half and filled with pizza ingredients. Cover and bake 400 degrees ten minutes then uncovered for another 10 minutes. The top has butter, garlic, and pizza seasonings. 

The first day Dusty got his glasses and the first day Riggs my grandson got his glasses. 

Riggs got his glasses right around Thanksgiving. He is so 

The park we went to with Kim and Jr the morning of the Polar Express. It was a quiet peaceful place. I enjoyed it so much. Manitowoc County, Wisconsin 

A tree I thought would be great to paint. 

Kim took the picture once again. She’s the best!!  

Kim had bought us PJ’s for every one for the Polar Express.

They brought their elves with them to the Polar Express. 

The grandkids with Santa on the Polar Express 

Look at Levi’s smile 

The bells Santa handed out 

The kiddos heading in the train. I love the colors in this picture 

Hot cocoa 

The hot cocoa machine 

A lot of beautiful trees at the Polar Express 

Mail for Santa 

It was a magical magnificent experience. We all enjoyed ourselves. I was very thankful that Kim and Jr. took us on this journey together with the grandkids. It truly made me feel like a little girl. 

    Today I am at Cody’s house sitting with my grandchildren. They certainly do love watching videos of themselves in the videos. I was showing them some of their videos from a year ago. They were so small. Briar is doing so well she is bright eyed and bushy tailed just smiling and looking at me. I will share those pictures tomorrow. Remember stay strong and keep your head up sending all the best of love and hugs with super sweet good vibes. 

Love you guys, 

Dawn Gallop 🏇 

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Where we will be tomorrow at Deep Creek High School and Some Little Shamrocks for ya

Hello and a HUGE Happy Friday.....TGIF! I love Fridays and get so excited to see some of my customers tomorrow. You guys really make me sooo happy I have been hearing good things and them telling me they came here just for me......which is really AWESOME!! Last weekend at Hickory High it was wonderful to see so many of my customers and all the great people I met too. I even got invited to some upcoming events and looking forward to those shows.....HAPPY HAPPY Dance!!! 

So if you can they are calling for even more rain tomorrow. I know........its like a mud fest hear on the farm. Thank goodness I got my Muck boot!! Really don't know what I would do without them. 

If ya can stop by tomorrow to see me that would be super duper!!! 

This week was yet a crazy one....low temps in the 20's again at night which is really hard on my little greenhouse, I do have seeds coming up....YAY! 

We drove to Raleigh to pick up our ABC Producers  and Special Events License for the Mead. 

I made several items this week....more roll-ons which I know you want more and more types I did do one more....one with wintergreen and the sweet birch and birch tar....and some peppermint....this one is my relief on as you asked for... so you got it! 

We had another baby goat born this week another Oberhasli boy which Colten has named Dumbo. 

We extracted more honey. Which as I type Bruce is actually doing more right now.  Colby helped too. 

I made more of the salves that I have been out of. 

Plus made cheese Sunday and Tuesday......

Milk goats

clean and take care of the boys....as ALWAYS a BUSY LIFE!!! LOL! 

I also had a colonoscopy and an endoscopy which I had to start prep for on Monday night and the test was Thursday at 2pm soooo all I can say I was in need of food after that! 

Had to order more soap boxes too, which now they have went up again. I need more jars too for canning but they have all went up more than a dollar a case. Almost two dollars....

Geezz! Sigh! 

Filling the roller balls

Our Mead (of course you see my watercolor art) wink! 

Bruce giving Colby and explanation of how the honey is released from the extractor. 

The gray box on the table is the uncapping tank. 

We still have even more boxes to extract thankfully ur of our friends loaned us the large extractor which holds ten frames at a time, this extractor only holds four frames. 

The honey coming out of the extractor 

A video of some of my beekeeping pics

Next week we will be at the Daffodil Festival in Gloucester Virginia which is a huge event and we are excited to go. You can view their Facebook page on the Daffodil Festival for exact times, etc. 

We will be at the Smithfield Farmers Market on the 30th of March. I know my customers will be so excited to see us. 

I told you I would show you some Little Shamrocks 

(last year) 

Skylar two years ago

One of my favorites Skylar with Boomer last year, we lost him not long after this pic. He had Lyme disease. 

Skybear at Walmart last year in what she calls our twin coats. 

My little sweet granbaby. 

The art work on the Mead bottle from my watercolor journal

Every year I make Irish Soda Bread which the boys love 

And of course a corned beef 

Usually cabbage but this year I did more sauerkraut  

This is the Sauerkraut 

Well have a wonderful weekend and Have an EXCELLENT HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY 

Top 'O The Mornin' to ya! 

      Dawn Gallop

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