Last night we had storms again! Only this time they were deadly, killing a 90 year old man in his yard.
There was over 200 head of cattle killed, numerous homes blown apart by the tornadoes, and many towns had varying degrees of damage.
On the news cast this morning I saw a silo crushing the top of an outbuilding, cars upside down, and people's belongings scattered over a large county.
Right now the Sheriff is asking volunteers to just call the courthouse for directions on when to arrive to help. So many Minnesotans want to pitch right in and it's chaos down in the southern region of my state.
All we got was lots of rain, some thunder and lightening. Although two nights ago the wind was blowing the rain in a vertical sheet across the street! Trees were bent in the wind, some snapped.
Last month was probably the hottest on record for July or close to it. Now we've received more that the normal rainfall and August isn't finished with us..
I won an auction on Ebay on the 9th of this month, it was supposed to have been shipped on the 14th and I'm still waiting.....I meet the mailllady every morning so it isn't in someone else's hands, that's for sure! I've had more and more bad experiences with Ebay lately and getting fed up quickly. Losing my business won't hurt them, that's for sure. I'd like for lots of people though to know just how bad it can be.
I did get the new drapes hung in my room, and the spread on the bed, had to take that huge white wool rug and fold it into a smaller size as it's too big, I can't open and close the door to my bedroom if I unfold it all the way. I have more to do in there if I want it to look good. Having that tv cart, ala 1970's phony woodgrain, at the foot of my bed doesn't look good, yet haven't any other ideas on how to work it.
For the record, I don't wear a tinfoil hat, or...according to my son I don't wear an aluminum foil hat! However I did just take the "aluminum foil" off of my bedroom window. I had put tinted film on the window for privacy, I could still see out, however the heat coming is unbearable. Now it's cooling down so the foil came off! It DID look weird, if the drapes were pulled open!
You'd be surprised how much heat that keeps out. And it makes the room dark as a cave, which I understand Elvis used to do in hospitals and hotel rooms so he could sleep during the day.
My landlord has been on vacation and I got to admit it's quiet now not having him pulling up in his diesel truck 5 days a week and cutting the grass every 5 or 6 days!
He's one of the reasons I want to move. Not his truck or cutting grass so regularly, it's what I've been told about him. The Sherif's dispatcher used to live in this apt I'm in and she said that one night while she was at work that he used his key and walked into her apt. and surprised her daughter who was home alone.
I was shocked one day while on a trip to the hospital to find out that my Medivan driver, a woman, used to live here and had the same experience! She said that the loandlord used his key and walked into her apt. and startled her boyfriend who had come over for the evening.
What would you do? By law, or regulations of HRA, I can't change the locks. I'm considering installing a hidden camera. In fact I've spent some considerable time LOOKING to see if he has a secret camera hidden in here to watch us! No I'm paranoid, just reasonably concerned as to why he'd be going into womens' apts. when they're gone!!
Lord I detest renting! wish I'd kept my home 10 years ago!! Oh well, hindsight is 20/20......
Tomorrow my friend is supposed to come over for lunch, we'll see what happens. I've got chicken breasts, her favorite, and burgers for the grill, potato salad, baked beans, pasta salad with tuna, celery, ect. and still haven't figured out dessert. I think i've eaten too much of the ice cream for there to be any left for a sundae....ah well.
Sunday I just want to rest. And give thanks for all my multitude of blessings I seem to forget about during the week.
Have a good weekend!
fleaface
August 25, 2006
August 23, 2006
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! a silly movie, it is really. I feel like I have killer tomatoes on board! I am bombarded with tomatoes from the 2 tomato plants the neighbor man put in for me and the roomie.
These are the sweetest tomatoes I"ve ever eaten in my whole entire life, and hey that's a lotta years :)
They're getting put into my scrambled eggs, sandwiches, hotdish tonight, tacos last night, and I could use a few suggestions! Onetime it seems like we put some under the broiler, they were sliced and I think brushed with melted butter and garlic and topped with seasoned bread crumbs.....pretty sure that was how we did it.
It's a warm day here, humid for sure, and overcast. We had storms early this morning, at about 2:30 til 4, no it was 5 o clock! So I've had no sleep last night or this a.m. Guess I"ll sleep good tonight.
Boy those storms! The wind bent the trees in half, the rain was driven so hard it was like a sheet of rain blowing across the road and hail was the size of marbles! I had to run out into that chaos and rescue my palm plant and also the geranium. I left the impatience out there as it was sheltered, along with pointsetta plant.
Tomorrow is another boring "go see the doctor day" yuck. At least I get to go into the drop in center that's in the same bldg. and maybe play a game of Sequence, my favorite, or just peruse a book. They have movies there, however I'm not wanting for those!
Friday I should go get my vitamin B-12 injection then I think I"m done until next month. Am having the neurotomy procedure done ( ont the 8th of Sept.) on the left side of the spine, right after they insert needles into the right side, inject dye, take pictures, then they'll add novacaine and then steroids. The good part about this two fold. One: no more pain for a long long time. Two: they'll do an IV first and mildly sedate me with versade ( sp?) and also a narcotic pain reliever!! Ya!
Last time they did the left side and there wasn't anything for pain and it hurt like a bear to have the doctor trying to get that needle into the nerve root going through bone spurs.
Now :) I can tackle my photograhpy project and not have to quit because of pain, I'll be able to do the housework without pain, and even have an evening after a full day and be able to enjoy the night :) God Bless the doctors!
President Bush was here yesterday, and I couldn't bring myself to watch the local coverage of it. I think it took a lot to cope with 9/11 and think he did the best he could. Now I think he's totally wrong with his choices regarding Iraq and more.
Guess it's time to go do some cleaning up around here....shucks...rather have a V-8!
fleaface
These are the sweetest tomatoes I"ve ever eaten in my whole entire life, and hey that's a lotta years :)
They're getting put into my scrambled eggs, sandwiches, hotdish tonight, tacos last night, and I could use a few suggestions! Onetime it seems like we put some under the broiler, they were sliced and I think brushed with melted butter and garlic and topped with seasoned bread crumbs.....pretty sure that was how we did it.
It's a warm day here, humid for sure, and overcast. We had storms early this morning, at about 2:30 til 4, no it was 5 o clock! So I've had no sleep last night or this a.m. Guess I"ll sleep good tonight.
Boy those storms! The wind bent the trees in half, the rain was driven so hard it was like a sheet of rain blowing across the road and hail was the size of marbles! I had to run out into that chaos and rescue my palm plant and also the geranium. I left the impatience out there as it was sheltered, along with pointsetta plant.
Tomorrow is another boring "go see the doctor day" yuck. At least I get to go into the drop in center that's in the same bldg. and maybe play a game of Sequence, my favorite, or just peruse a book. They have movies there, however I'm not wanting for those!
Friday I should go get my vitamin B-12 injection then I think I"m done until next month. Am having the neurotomy procedure done ( ont the 8th of Sept.) on the left side of the spine, right after they insert needles into the right side, inject dye, take pictures, then they'll add novacaine and then steroids. The good part about this two fold. One: no more pain for a long long time. Two: they'll do an IV first and mildly sedate me with versade ( sp?) and also a narcotic pain reliever!! Ya!
Last time they did the left side and there wasn't anything for pain and it hurt like a bear to have the doctor trying to get that needle into the nerve root going through bone spurs.
Now :) I can tackle my photograhpy project and not have to quit because of pain, I'll be able to do the housework without pain, and even have an evening after a full day and be able to enjoy the night :) God Bless the doctors!
President Bush was here yesterday, and I couldn't bring myself to watch the local coverage of it. I think it took a lot to cope with 9/11 and think he did the best he could. Now I think he's totally wrong with his choices regarding Iraq and more.
Guess it's time to go do some cleaning up around here....shucks...rather have a V-8!
fleaface
August 17, 2006
it was another grey day here, cool and humid. Fine by me. Rather the way I like it.
It's so unusal to NOT have spine pain...just odd. I like that too.
I haven't overdone it since the doc put in steroids and novacaine. Have slept like a baby :) what a wonderful thing, to sleep peacefully. Finally after months and months.
My kid sister called me tonight. She liked everything I mailed her :) So glad! She got socks, bandanas, talcum in rose scent, keychains for her collection, a dromedary camel for her collection of those, a gag gift ( it was a "grow a new sister" toy. Put it in water and it grows. The card it came on said "she'll never borrow your clothes, hog the phone, read your diary, steal your boyfriend, rat on you" and other assorted sister stuff.
There was other things and I can't even remember them. It's hard to know what to send her as she's homeless, living in the shell of a camper with her boyfriend and their dogs. Mostly in the past I've mailed her money and a phone card.
It seems to be quieting down around here. Been a noisy day in the neighborhood. A lot of people taking advantage of the cooler air.
Tomorrow I've got an early morning appt. and then I'm going to have the driver drop me off downtown. I need some time alone to putz about the shops and enjoy solitude on the town's streets....
I might stop in at the bakery and get a doughnut, a glazed one, or a bismark. Cross the street and get my haircut, and then call my son and we'll have lunch at the grocery store as they're having brats for .38 cents each, same for pop and chips.
I got some movies at Block Buster yesterday, watched one of them today, still have two to watch. Think tonight would be a good idea for one as there's not much on tv.
Saturday the ladies want me to join them at the luncheon for this month. For some reason I"m just losing interest in this activity. One of the ladies wants to have it at her house everytime so that she can get to the nursing home right away if her husband gets worse. She's a devoted wife, to the point where she doesn't even leave to do her grocery shopping now, she has it delivered in case the home calls. She lives in a senior home right next to the nursing home. She insists on having the menu the same everytime, and wants us to do the same thing everytime, watch a movie.
We used to get out and go for walks, play our musical instruments, go to the park, now it's the same old thing. We're sitting there waiting with her as the hours go by...
I know that's what friends do, it's just been a long 3 years since his stroke..how sad for him and for his wife of 60 years. Maybe the routine helps her cope with the uncertainty of how much longer he'll be able to hang in there.
Maybe I can start visiting her during the week and skip this monthly luncheon....that would still help her and also get me away from this group.
Tonight is strange. I feel like I'm caught in a time warp, suspended between the past and the future somehow...I'm not the same person I was back in 96, that first Christmas I attended a dinner party with our group. BAck then it was different, there was professionals that ran the program, there was activities, outings, different environments, and my spine was recovering from major surgery. ..where has the decade gone???..............................
Do you think you're poor?? by U.S. standards I'm considered to be living below the poverty guidelines. Yet I feel as rich as the most noble of all kings and queens. I have a roof, food in the house, electricity, natural gas, hot and cold running water, a bed, dishes, I have a home. So many don't have that most basic of things. A home where one can go to seek shelter from the outside world....
The Canada geese are gathering now, have been for the last week or 10 days. That's how I know the end of summer is approaching, like a parent waving a child in from playtime...
fleaface
It's so unusal to NOT have spine pain...just odd. I like that too.
I haven't overdone it since the doc put in steroids and novacaine. Have slept like a baby :) what a wonderful thing, to sleep peacefully. Finally after months and months.
My kid sister called me tonight. She liked everything I mailed her :) So glad! She got socks, bandanas, talcum in rose scent, keychains for her collection, a dromedary camel for her collection of those, a gag gift ( it was a "grow a new sister" toy. Put it in water and it grows. The card it came on said "she'll never borrow your clothes, hog the phone, read your diary, steal your boyfriend, rat on you" and other assorted sister stuff.
There was other things and I can't even remember them. It's hard to know what to send her as she's homeless, living in the shell of a camper with her boyfriend and their dogs. Mostly in the past I've mailed her money and a phone card.
It seems to be quieting down around here. Been a noisy day in the neighborhood. A lot of people taking advantage of the cooler air.
Tomorrow I've got an early morning appt. and then I'm going to have the driver drop me off downtown. I need some time alone to putz about the shops and enjoy solitude on the town's streets....
I might stop in at the bakery and get a doughnut, a glazed one, or a bismark. Cross the street and get my haircut, and then call my son and we'll have lunch at the grocery store as they're having brats for .38 cents each, same for pop and chips.
I got some movies at Block Buster yesterday, watched one of them today, still have two to watch. Think tonight would be a good idea for one as there's not much on tv.
Saturday the ladies want me to join them at the luncheon for this month. For some reason I"m just losing interest in this activity. One of the ladies wants to have it at her house everytime so that she can get to the nursing home right away if her husband gets worse. She's a devoted wife, to the point where she doesn't even leave to do her grocery shopping now, she has it delivered in case the home calls. She lives in a senior home right next to the nursing home. She insists on having the menu the same everytime, and wants us to do the same thing everytime, watch a movie.
We used to get out and go for walks, play our musical instruments, go to the park, now it's the same old thing. We're sitting there waiting with her as the hours go by...
I know that's what friends do, it's just been a long 3 years since his stroke..how sad for him and for his wife of 60 years. Maybe the routine helps her cope with the uncertainty of how much longer he'll be able to hang in there.
Maybe I can start visiting her during the week and skip this monthly luncheon....that would still help her and also get me away from this group.
Tonight is strange. I feel like I'm caught in a time warp, suspended between the past and the future somehow...I'm not the same person I was back in 96, that first Christmas I attended a dinner party with our group. BAck then it was different, there was professionals that ran the program, there was activities, outings, different environments, and my spine was recovering from major surgery. ..where has the decade gone???..............................
Do you think you're poor?? by U.S. standards I'm considered to be living below the poverty guidelines. Yet I feel as rich as the most noble of all kings and queens. I have a roof, food in the house, electricity, natural gas, hot and cold running water, a bed, dishes, I have a home. So many don't have that most basic of things. A home where one can go to seek shelter from the outside world....
The Canada geese are gathering now, have been for the last week or 10 days. That's how I know the end of summer is approaching, like a parent waving a child in from playtime...
fleaface
August 13, 2006
Rather a rainy, sticky, gray day here. Is it peaceful yet in Israel? I sure hope so. Thinking of all the deaths there is overwhelming.
The oddest thing happened to me yesterday....back on June 12th of this year I had a feeling that something was wrong, that something was amiss and couldn't figure out why. It happened again in July, on the 12th...strange, what was I forgetting?? Then yesterday I had this nagging feeling again, like I've forgotten something....like I was supposed to do something or see something..
Last night, after a very busy day of re-arranging furniture, yes I"m one of "those kind of women" I decided to watch one of my favourite movies, "Hans Christian Anderson". I searched and searched, to no avail. So I grabbed on of my "taped off of cable movies" and popped that into the VCR.
I clicked on and there he was, in all his glory! Black hair, brown eyes, and arms wide open as if waiting to hug someone in the audience. It was Leo Buscalia! I had taped a couple of his shows off of cable. I LOVE his voice, so full of inflection, soft one minute, high in excitement the next, joyful almost always. My hero!!
I watched all of one show and part of the second, trying to remember different quotes so I could use them today to convey to you how I "am" in the world, how I feel about people, life, joy, love, and death. He's inspired me since the 80's and being told about his shows is one of the few things I can thank my ex for.
My ex told me about his shows and said I might enjoy them, and when I became instantly enamored of the gentleman, my ex made both of our children sit and listen to Leo. OH they hated that! especially my daughter who was just becoming or coming into that age where parents don't know anything!
One one occasion Leo talked about this man, seems his wife had wanted a red satin dress to wear, and the guy wouldn't buy it or approve it or some darn thing. Well the wife died suddenly and the man was grief stricken, he buried her in a red satin dress. His cries to Leo though inspired Leo to write and talk about how important it is to care about each other, while we're still here. BEFORE it's too late.
Well my ex knew how much I loved the color pink, how much I love satin, and how I love ballet. He knew the story of the pink satin toe shoes from my childhood and how my dad threw threm into the furnace. For Christmas that year my ex gave me a nightgown and matching robe that were pink satin, and the name of the outfit itself was called "pink ballet". To write this breaks my heart, with tears flowing I tell you why I"m sad.
I wanted to write Leo and tell him thank you, for he helped our lives, our joy, our marriage, our outlooks on life. I didn't do it. I didn't write to him.
AND, last night after the shows, I went and online and saw that Leo had died of a heart attack on June 12th, 1998....
I didn't write him that thank you..now it's too late. This time the grief is valid and inconsolable.
fleaface
The oddest thing happened to me yesterday....back on June 12th of this year I had a feeling that something was wrong, that something was amiss and couldn't figure out why. It happened again in July, on the 12th...strange, what was I forgetting?? Then yesterday I had this nagging feeling again, like I've forgotten something....like I was supposed to do something or see something..
Last night, after a very busy day of re-arranging furniture, yes I"m one of "those kind of women" I decided to watch one of my favourite movies, "Hans Christian Anderson". I searched and searched, to no avail. So I grabbed on of my "taped off of cable movies" and popped that into the VCR.
I clicked on and there he was, in all his glory! Black hair, brown eyes, and arms wide open as if waiting to hug someone in the audience. It was Leo Buscalia! I had taped a couple of his shows off of cable. I LOVE his voice, so full of inflection, soft one minute, high in excitement the next, joyful almost always. My hero!!
I watched all of one show and part of the second, trying to remember different quotes so I could use them today to convey to you how I "am" in the world, how I feel about people, life, joy, love, and death. He's inspired me since the 80's and being told about his shows is one of the few things I can thank my ex for.
My ex told me about his shows and said I might enjoy them, and when I became instantly enamored of the gentleman, my ex made both of our children sit and listen to Leo. OH they hated that! especially my daughter who was just becoming or coming into that age where parents don't know anything!
One one occasion Leo talked about this man, seems his wife had wanted a red satin dress to wear, and the guy wouldn't buy it or approve it or some darn thing. Well the wife died suddenly and the man was grief stricken, he buried her in a red satin dress. His cries to Leo though inspired Leo to write and talk about how important it is to care about each other, while we're still here. BEFORE it's too late.
Well my ex knew how much I loved the color pink, how much I love satin, and how I love ballet. He knew the story of the pink satin toe shoes from my childhood and how my dad threw threm into the furnace. For Christmas that year my ex gave me a nightgown and matching robe that were pink satin, and the name of the outfit itself was called "pink ballet". To write this breaks my heart, with tears flowing I tell you why I"m sad.
I wanted to write Leo and tell him thank you, for he helped our lives, our joy, our marriage, our outlooks on life. I didn't do it. I didn't write to him.
AND, last night after the shows, I went and online and saw that Leo had died of a heart attack on June 12th, 1998....
I didn't write him that thank you..now it's too late. This time the grief is valid and inconsolable.
fleaface
August 07, 2006
I'm doing my level best to remain in control of my emotions. HA! like that's gonna work! I HAVE been razzing the heck out of a certain somebody and then either ignoring this person or acting all innocent. I don't usually go in for these kind of antics, however was irate over how she treated a young blogger over there.
It's been busy today, however not too bad as the air is drier so housework is easier too. I'm constantly finding more things that need to be either put away, thrown away, donated, or start using now! What an experience. I've only lived here two years and it's like we've been her for decades!
I have to admit I started collecting little knicknacs the last few years, mostly birds. Not the real ones that I feed! Just little cardinals, bluebirds, chickens, baby chicks, and one gray cement type bird, very large, very much like a mourning dove. Love that one. The chickens are all about 3 inches big, almost all roosters. I told my sister to take the 3 she wanted and I think she got all the hens. Maybe there was only one of them anyway.
I also went and got a squirrel! about 5 inches high, holding an acorn of course. That's it on top of my cupboard I use for storage. Boy, I'm going to have to throw out my magazine collection. Just as well, only collects dust and takes up room...
I've already given away my amber depression glass, to a dear friend of my son's. She's been so good to me. So it was her I wanted to have them.
Oh, did I mention I collect these small circus animals? Ya, got a mama and baby elephant, a Bengal tiger, and a black bear with her cub. I also have a fawn, cause I lovem. And a Palomino colt like the one my ex sold and wasn't supposed to. It was supposed to be my birthday present.
I'll have to get a picture of these creatures as they sit on my puter! Then a picture of the birds on the cupboard. That'll be different.
Well I've got supper in the microwave, some chicken breast that I grillled last week. Had to thaw and then heat it. Got fresh home grown tomatoes to go with it, and I just added a baked potato, got real butter and sour cream to go with it. Ohhh it was yummy!
That's all for today folks!
fleaface
It's been busy today, however not too bad as the air is drier so housework is easier too. I'm constantly finding more things that need to be either put away, thrown away, donated, or start using now! What an experience. I've only lived here two years and it's like we've been her for decades!
I have to admit I started collecting little knicknacs the last few years, mostly birds. Not the real ones that I feed! Just little cardinals, bluebirds, chickens, baby chicks, and one gray cement type bird, very large, very much like a mourning dove. Love that one. The chickens are all about 3 inches big, almost all roosters. I told my sister to take the 3 she wanted and I think she got all the hens. Maybe there was only one of them anyway.
I also went and got a squirrel! about 5 inches high, holding an acorn of course. That's it on top of my cupboard I use for storage. Boy, I'm going to have to throw out my magazine collection. Just as well, only collects dust and takes up room...
I've already given away my amber depression glass, to a dear friend of my son's. She's been so good to me. So it was her I wanted to have them.
Oh, did I mention I collect these small circus animals? Ya, got a mama and baby elephant, a Bengal tiger, and a black bear with her cub. I also have a fawn, cause I lovem. And a Palomino colt like the one my ex sold and wasn't supposed to. It was supposed to be my birthday present.
I'll have to get a picture of these creatures as they sit on my puter! Then a picture of the birds on the cupboard. That'll be different.
Well I've got supper in the microwave, some chicken breast that I grillled last week. Had to thaw and then heat it. Got fresh home grown tomatoes to go with it, and I just added a baked potato, got real butter and sour cream to go with it. Ohhh it was yummy!
That's all for today folks!
fleaface
August 06, 2006
The day went pretty good, considering everything.
I only had the tv on long enough to hear the temp. this morning and then I started by blogging after I had a good breakfast.
I spent the afternoon doing what shoulda got done a long time ago, putting the apt. into shipshape. There's going to be an inspection this month, anyday at all now. The place needed a thorough going over. I'm exhausted. Then I repotted three plants, including my palm plant which is my favorite. The geranium and lemon grass are pretty, as is the impatience, however love the stately beauty of palms.
Tonight I got the grill out and put charcoal on it for cooking supper. Decided to use Hickory smoked chips and wow! Just a lowly hamburger was fantastic! Also cooked a pork steak, and baked some apples on it! holy tamales! hmmmmgood!
Too tired to do much more tonight, almost 10 bells here and am beat to the bones..LOL, boy the neighbors sure start coming out and looking as soon as that charcoal gets going! I've never seen so many neighbors appear so soon! Maybe I need to start inviting some of em?? well maybe the dispatcher for the sheriff's office, and then maybe the couple down the hall that have helped me....not the neighbor drunk though that can only leave the door open on the coldest days, and open on the hottest days when the air is on!
Tomorrow I have errands to run, and then I better check my calendar as I don't know what's planned for this week yet.
I'm finally gonna have the Ryzotomies done on my back, the first set on the 14th of this month then the right side of my spine in Sept. I know I have an appt. with the knee surgeon, my first year checkup since the total knee replacement.
I also have an appt. with a doctor, right after I have my blood work done
Thank goodness that's all as I am also going fishing with that seniors group again!
I gots to catch me a Northern! I can't imagine catching a Muskey! wow! those fish are huge!
Tomorrow, tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace....or something like that. My kingdom for a horse. Then again if wishes were horses, this beggar would ride. Jiggety jggety to market to buy a doggie in the window..
I did talk with the son, so that's one less headache to worry about. When I look around, I ponder the wisdom of my decision and all the work involved, and is it necessary? Is it the best choice? In some ways I know in my head and heart it's the best thing. Yet....some times I wonder....One is the loneliest number..
The time had come said the walrus to the ...shoes, and hats and sealing wax...
a favorite movie of mine~ K=Pax with Kevin Spacey.
fleaface
I only had the tv on long enough to hear the temp. this morning and then I started by blogging after I had a good breakfast.
I spent the afternoon doing what shoulda got done a long time ago, putting the apt. into shipshape. There's going to be an inspection this month, anyday at all now. The place needed a thorough going over. I'm exhausted. Then I repotted three plants, including my palm plant which is my favorite. The geranium and lemon grass are pretty, as is the impatience, however love the stately beauty of palms.
Tonight I got the grill out and put charcoal on it for cooking supper. Decided to use Hickory smoked chips and wow! Just a lowly hamburger was fantastic! Also cooked a pork steak, and baked some apples on it! holy tamales! hmmmmgood!
Too tired to do much more tonight, almost 10 bells here and am beat to the bones..LOL, boy the neighbors sure start coming out and looking as soon as that charcoal gets going! I've never seen so many neighbors appear so soon! Maybe I need to start inviting some of em?? well maybe the dispatcher for the sheriff's office, and then maybe the couple down the hall that have helped me....not the neighbor drunk though that can only leave the door open on the coldest days, and open on the hottest days when the air is on!
Tomorrow I have errands to run, and then I better check my calendar as I don't know what's planned for this week yet.
I'm finally gonna have the Ryzotomies done on my back, the first set on the 14th of this month then the right side of my spine in Sept. I know I have an appt. with the knee surgeon, my first year checkup since the total knee replacement.
I also have an appt. with a doctor, right after I have my blood work done
Thank goodness that's all as I am also going fishing with that seniors group again!
I gots to catch me a Northern! I can't imagine catching a Muskey! wow! those fish are huge!
Tomorrow, tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace....or something like that. My kingdom for a horse. Then again if wishes were horses, this beggar would ride. Jiggety jggety to market to buy a doggie in the window..
I did talk with the son, so that's one less headache to worry about. When I look around, I ponder the wisdom of my decision and all the work involved, and is it necessary? Is it the best choice? In some ways I know in my head and heart it's the best thing. Yet....some times I wonder....One is the loneliest number..
The time had come said the walrus to the ...shoes, and hats and sealing wax...
a favorite movie of mine~ K=Pax with Kevin Spacey.
fleaface
fleafaceIt's a gray, cool, humid Sunday morning here. If the sun comes out it'll be a scorcher.
The birds are singing, the rotten crows are making their loud, raucous calls, and for once the traffic is little.
I've been really homesick, on edge too as I have to tell my kid I'm moving out. My worker has done the paperwork and the whole process is underway. Looking for a place is a matter of deciding where to go.
I can't follow my heart. That would put me hundreds of miles away from my son. He really wouldn't survive that.
I walk around feeling like an invisible monster is biting me. This isn't good.
I held a puppy a few days ago. It was as sweet as could be, nothing like puppy smell to make one feel warm and happy. The only thing missing was Peppy. It wasn't him. Maybe an adult dog again is the way to go with this pet thing. I'm unsure and probably won't make a choice until I'm settled.
I wish our soldiers could just come home. Let the people in Iraq figure it out. We've done enough. Lost enough soldiers.
I don't understand what's happening in Israel between them and Lebannon. It isn't good.
I don't want to spend another winter in this apt. Perhaps not even in this town.
I'm disappointed with people over at the other place I blog. Guess I'll get over it, or else I'll be miserable a long time.
I could pull my hair out when it comes to my two sisters. What good would that do? Maybe I shouldn't give a damn what they do or don't do... one acts like she's got her nose in the air, and the other is homeless, making a living by prospecting for gold and gems, and getting food stamps and medical assistance to help her. What the hell kind of life is that?
Back in 2002, after a year of being online, I finally found a family website. I had typed my grandmother's name into a search engine and her name popped up. I read the story with glee and was delighted as I read further and found the website for the Flint family. I discovered that one of mom's brothers had had 6!! kids! I didn't know that Floyd Flint had that many kids with his wife, Lil. As I read the list of names, I came upon his 2nd oldest child's name, Joyce Flint. Try putting that into a search engine. I didn't have to, for all the information was there.
I almost fell of my chair. I shook so hard I couldn't hardly walk to go to my son's room to tell him the news.
When my older sister and I got together she was horrified that I'd told my son. Well hell's bells. He was 25 at the time. Not like he was 10 or 12 years old! She hasn't told her kids yet. They're all adopted and that's the only reason I think that she believes is best not to "burden them" with it. It took her until 2 years later to finally dawn on her just what all the implications are. It took 2 years to give her that "punch in the gut" feeling. Her words, not mine.
Why? why our family? we have enough stuff going on. Did this have to happen in our family too??? Unfair. Not right. So many kind, generous, intelligent, educated, professionals in our family and this happens? Those of us that aren't professionals, or educated beyond high school, are still kind, generous, happy people.
So the sun has come out, and for now there's a breeze to soften the sun's rays. In an hour or two I'll need to shut the place up again. Drats! Autumn is being anticipated this year!!
The birds are singing, the rotten crows are making their loud, raucous calls, and for once the traffic is little.
I've been really homesick, on edge too as I have to tell my kid I'm moving out. My worker has done the paperwork and the whole process is underway. Looking for a place is a matter of deciding where to go.
I can't follow my heart. That would put me hundreds of miles away from my son. He really wouldn't survive that.
I walk around feeling like an invisible monster is biting me. This isn't good.
I held a puppy a few days ago. It was as sweet as could be, nothing like puppy smell to make one feel warm and happy. The only thing missing was Peppy. It wasn't him. Maybe an adult dog again is the way to go with this pet thing. I'm unsure and probably won't make a choice until I'm settled.
I wish our soldiers could just come home. Let the people in Iraq figure it out. We've done enough. Lost enough soldiers.
I don't understand what's happening in Israel between them and Lebannon. It isn't good.
I don't want to spend another winter in this apt. Perhaps not even in this town.
I'm disappointed with people over at the other place I blog. Guess I'll get over it, or else I'll be miserable a long time.
I could pull my hair out when it comes to my two sisters. What good would that do? Maybe I shouldn't give a damn what they do or don't do... one acts like she's got her nose in the air, and the other is homeless, making a living by prospecting for gold and gems, and getting food stamps and medical assistance to help her. What the hell kind of life is that?
Back in 2002, after a year of being online, I finally found a family website. I had typed my grandmother's name into a search engine and her name popped up. I read the story with glee and was delighted as I read further and found the website for the Flint family. I discovered that one of mom's brothers had had 6!! kids! I didn't know that Floyd Flint had that many kids with his wife, Lil. As I read the list of names, I came upon his 2nd oldest child's name, Joyce Flint. Try putting that into a search engine. I didn't have to, for all the information was there.
I almost fell of my chair. I shook so hard I couldn't hardly walk to go to my son's room to tell him the news.
When my older sister and I got together she was horrified that I'd told my son. Well hell's bells. He was 25 at the time. Not like he was 10 or 12 years old! She hasn't told her kids yet. They're all adopted and that's the only reason I think that she believes is best not to "burden them" with it. It took her until 2 years later to finally dawn on her just what all the implications are. It took 2 years to give her that "punch in the gut" feeling. Her words, not mine.
Why? why our family? we have enough stuff going on. Did this have to happen in our family too??? Unfair. Not right. So many kind, generous, intelligent, educated, professionals in our family and this happens? Those of us that aren't professionals, or educated beyond high school, are still kind, generous, happy people.
So the sun has come out, and for now there's a breeze to soften the sun's rays. In an hour or two I'll need to shut the place up again. Drats! Autumn is being anticipated this year!!
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