This week the weather has been spectacular! Lower 80's during the day and upper 50's at night! Unfortunately, this is just a teaser, the 90's will be back tomorrow. At least we've had a break from the extreme heat of the summer and I'm viewing this as a promise of weather to come!
I went with my friend Ann to a bar-b-q at the opera house last night. There were 7-8 of our classmates there so it was like a mini-reunion! Great fun and I was home by 6:30! Parking is always at a premium downtown when an event like this takes place, so I dropped my car at the BP around the corner and had her oil changed while we ate. Didn't have to park and it was much closer than any available space! Good thinking!
My sister called me at 10:15 last night...now, guess where I was at 10:15...in bed asleep! She'd missed Survivor and needed an update. We talked until 11:00...I was pooped when I got up this morning!
The wonders of Mother Nature never cease to amaze me! There is a large oak tree outside my window that I watch often, you know, birds, squirrels and things. The other morning I looked at "my" tree and it was totally covered with a fine white webbing, every branch and the trunk was covered. Well, it sorta worried me, I mean, what in the world was going on? Was "my" tree going to die? No one here knew what it was, so I did an on-line search. It had bark lice! This is a good thing...the little lice clean up all of the debris left in the crevices of trees and then move on. They are gone now along with the webbing and I'm sure the oak feels much better having been cleaned up!
Then day before yesterday I had the front door open because the weather is so wonderful and I saw a very large hawk come down, sit on the sidewalk and pluck a snake out of the border and fly away! There's a lot to be said for country living!
Friday, September 22, 2006
Friday, September 15, 2006
Funny Time of the Year
The weather is sooo peculiar this time of year. This morning I needed a light weight shirt over my tee-shirt and now it's only 10:20 am and I've shed the top shirt and am glistening!
This weekend is going to be nice with high 50's at night and high 80's during the day and NO humidity! Maybe I'll get some yard work done.
Helen called last night. She'd been to the doctor. She was so befuddled that I'm not sure what's going on. I may call her daughter tonight. What she said was her blood is thick, but the doctor didn't want to put her on blood thinners. She's going back on Monday and he may operate on her vocal cords to let some of the blood out?!? I tried asking some questions, but it just became odder and odder! Yes, I think a phone call is in order!
Not very busy at work today. When I go to the bank and post office perhaps that will generate some work. I just hate days like this!
This weekend is going to be nice with high 50's at night and high 80's during the day and NO humidity! Maybe I'll get some yard work done.
Helen called last night. She'd been to the doctor. She was so befuddled that I'm not sure what's going on. I may call her daughter tonight. What she said was her blood is thick, but the doctor didn't want to put her on blood thinners. She's going back on Monday and he may operate on her vocal cords to let some of the blood out?!? I tried asking some questions, but it just became odder and odder! Yes, I think a phone call is in order!
Not very busy at work today. When I go to the bank and post office perhaps that will generate some work. I just hate days like this!
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Where to start?
Lets see, I guess I'll begin with the most pleasant thing to happen this week. I saw Prentice yesterday!!!!! He sure does look good and is doing some beautiful work in Apalachicola. I saw the door he's building (it's huge!) for city hall and it's really an art piece. He has such talent! He took us (Nancy and me) around and showed us several other projects he's done and we were both quite impressed!
My sister and I went to Port St. Joe yesterday. She's having Thanksgiving on St. George Island and I'm invited along with Prentice, Mother and Bert. If any other family wants to attend, I'm sure there'll be enough food...that was the purpose of our trip to Pt. St. Joe...to check out a wonderful caterer that she'd seen written up in an article in a food magazine. She wants to order everything they talked about and if she does there will be food for weeks! We ate lunch at Provisions (the caterers) and it was wonderful as was just the place itself. We were also greatly impressed with Port St. Joe as a whole. The town has totally reinvented itself with a great walking shopping district with both big and small shops and restaurants. Of course it STORMED the entire trip, but we were able to walk St. Joe because of the awnings on all of the stores!
We stopped in Apalachicola on the way back.
On the way over we spotted some little bitty houses in Crawfordville made by Stewart Park Home. We stopped and peered through the windows of three of them on the way home. They are adorable and livable.
Left here at 7:30 yesterday morning and got home at 7:45 last night. I'm still tired today.
Okay, now on to something I've been avoiding...Mother.
Last weekend Nancy and Mother went shopping. They got on the subject of prescriptions that they are taking. Mother was a little confused about hers and later when they got back to their houses Mother called and spelled the prescription names and gave Nancy permission to call the doctor to find out what they are being used for. Well, the cat's out of the bag now. I'm not exactly sure of how the conversation went with the nurse, but she did tell Nancy that Mother is taking Ambien and has been for several months. I knew, but for some reason Mother didn't tell Nancy. Nancy said something to the affect of "a sleeping pill for someone with congestive heart failure?" and the nurse said "who has congestive heart failure?". The b---h has been lying to both of us for a year and a half! She's mastered the art of puppiteering (oh, you know what I mean)! We are both so angry with her, she doesn't know we know. Actually, the knowing gives us both a lot of relief. It does cut the strings! Also, Nancy looked in her pill book about Ambien and I did an online serch on it. This mysterious "allergy" that she's had that no allergist can find started shortly after she started taking the Ambien. Now, here's a very abbreviated list of the side effect: Dry mouth, allergy-like symptoms, runny nose, flu-like symptoms, fatigue, palpitations, drowsiness, dizziness, lethargy, sinusitis, rhinitis, confusion and forgetfulness! That's Mother to a T! Also, you shouldn't take it more than 10 days and it's classified as "highly addictive"! Nancy tried to talk to Bert about it, but he was rather evasive with a "we'll see" when Nancy told him that she needs to stop taking it! No help there. We have agreed to not let her know we know about her heart (it's actually quite well according to the nurse who said she sure hopes to be in Mother's shape health-wise when she's 81!), but somehow we need to find a way to get her off the Ambien! She's driving!
I have 14 bags of mulch out in the driveway. A birthday gift from work! I've just started digging a new bed. The timing is perfect! The weather's good right now, rainy and sorta cool, at least comfortable. Good for yard work! I've finished the paper and crossword, so I should go out and dig!
My sister and I went to Port St. Joe yesterday. She's having Thanksgiving on St. George Island and I'm invited along with Prentice, Mother and Bert. If any other family wants to attend, I'm sure there'll be enough food...that was the purpose of our trip to Pt. St. Joe...to check out a wonderful caterer that she'd seen written up in an article in a food magazine. She wants to order everything they talked about and if she does there will be food for weeks! We ate lunch at Provisions (the caterers) and it was wonderful as was just the place itself. We were also greatly impressed with Port St. Joe as a whole. The town has totally reinvented itself with a great walking shopping district with both big and small shops and restaurants. Of course it STORMED the entire trip, but we were able to walk St. Joe because of the awnings on all of the stores!
We stopped in Apalachicola on the way back.
On the way over we spotted some little bitty houses in Crawfordville made by Stewart Park Home. We stopped and peered through the windows of three of them on the way home. They are adorable and livable.
Left here at 7:30 yesterday morning and got home at 7:45 last night. I'm still tired today.
Okay, now on to something I've been avoiding...Mother.
Last weekend Nancy and Mother went shopping. They got on the subject of prescriptions that they are taking. Mother was a little confused about hers and later when they got back to their houses Mother called and spelled the prescription names and gave Nancy permission to call the doctor to find out what they are being used for. Well, the cat's out of the bag now. I'm not exactly sure of how the conversation went with the nurse, but she did tell Nancy that Mother is taking Ambien and has been for several months. I knew, but for some reason Mother didn't tell Nancy. Nancy said something to the affect of "a sleeping pill for someone with congestive heart failure?" and the nurse said "who has congestive heart failure?". The b---h has been lying to both of us for a year and a half! She's mastered the art of puppiteering (oh, you know what I mean)! We are both so angry with her, she doesn't know we know. Actually, the knowing gives us both a lot of relief. It does cut the strings! Also, Nancy looked in her pill book about Ambien and I did an online serch on it. This mysterious "allergy" that she's had that no allergist can find started shortly after she started taking the Ambien. Now, here's a very abbreviated list of the side effect: Dry mouth, allergy-like symptoms, runny nose, flu-like symptoms, fatigue, palpitations, drowsiness, dizziness, lethargy, sinusitis, rhinitis, confusion and forgetfulness! That's Mother to a T! Also, you shouldn't take it more than 10 days and it's classified as "highly addictive"! Nancy tried to talk to Bert about it, but he was rather evasive with a "we'll see" when Nancy told him that she needs to stop taking it! No help there. We have agreed to not let her know we know about her heart (it's actually quite well according to the nurse who said she sure hopes to be in Mother's shape health-wise when she's 81!), but somehow we need to find a way to get her off the Ambien! She's driving!
I have 14 bags of mulch out in the driveway. A birthday gift from work! I've just started digging a new bed. The timing is perfect! The weather's good right now, rainy and sorta cool, at least comfortable. Good for yard work! I've finished the paper and crossword, so I should go out and dig!
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Tomorrow's Labor Day
I've been off from work since noon Friday! It's been nice seeing a little stretch of day before me! We open up on Tuesday as usual.
I've actually gotten a few household chores done and it feels better in the house. Now I'm not tripping over dust mice.
Speaking of mice, I found a baby squirrel Monday morning as I was getting ready to leave for work. I'd just gone out to bring Shirley in and saw her and Goodness standing over something on the patio. Went out to get her and thought it was a baby rat, looked a little closer and it was an almost nude eyes still closed baby squirrel and it was alive. So I put it in my shirt pocket, took Shirley in and went to work.
At lunch time I went to my vet's office and got formular and a bottle. When I got back to the office the squirrel was dead. It was tiny in life, but in death it was even smaller. Died curled in a ball with his little hands over his face...smaller than a silver dollar!
When I got home I buried him in the iris garden and put a tranquility rock over him.
Yesterday I made a big pot of spaghetti sauce with marjorim, oregano, basil and garlic chives from the garden. Really good! Had some this morning for breakfast.
Went to a visitation with my sister on Wednesday. Saw some people I'd not seen for 40+ years. Wouldn't have recognized them, sure was glad Nancy was there to point folks out!
I've actually gotten a few household chores done and it feels better in the house. Now I'm not tripping over dust mice.
Speaking of mice, I found a baby squirrel Monday morning as I was getting ready to leave for work. I'd just gone out to bring Shirley in and saw her and Goodness standing over something on the patio. Went out to get her and thought it was a baby rat, looked a little closer and it was an almost nude eyes still closed baby squirrel and it was alive. So I put it in my shirt pocket, took Shirley in and went to work.
At lunch time I went to my vet's office and got formular and a bottle. When I got back to the office the squirrel was dead. It was tiny in life, but in death it was even smaller. Died curled in a ball with his little hands over his face...smaller than a silver dollar!
When I got home I buried him in the iris garden and put a tranquility rock over him.
Yesterday I made a big pot of spaghetti sauce with marjorim, oregano, basil and garlic chives from the garden. Really good! Had some this morning for breakfast.
Went to a visitation with my sister on Wednesday. Saw some people I'd not seen for 40+ years. Wouldn't have recognized them, sure was glad Nancy was there to point folks out!
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