Good News Today. At 10:15AM we met with Dr. Siddique, the vein specialist at Sheboygan Memorial. He went through the records and checked the MRI of Dick's legs and says that he can help him. He showed us the MRI. It is easy to see where the arteries are blocked. He says that the veins are also in poor shape and had us schedule an appointment for an ultrasound of them. First, however, we tackle the arteries. He will have the first procedure on August 2nd. It will take two or three times before he can finish. Each procedure will be two weeks apart. We are so excited. It looks like this will do just wonders. Pray for us. We are so hopeful.

We stopped at Dairy Queen for lunch. That was nice. As Dick said, it is almost like going out for dinner.

I went to the Cream City Writer's Club at 1:00 at Book Heads here in Plymouth. There were seven of us there. We need to recruit a couple of more people. As it is one of our members gets a little preachy as he is an elder in his church. He writes very nice song lyrics associated with scripture. The trouble is that he seems to sometimes feel that everybody should be preaching. After reading Michael Perry's Population 485, he thinks that he wants to let Michael know that he should have used that book to show religious comfort to the victims that the fire department dealt with. Kudos for Sy Regan, who is a deacon, for saying that emergency workers need to be providing care and not counselling either with psychology or religion.

Anyway, I read the entries that I have for the WFOP Triad contest and they seemed to like them. The words we chose last month were plover, glorious, tranquil, concert, flag, fireworks, lavender. I had also written a poem using them. Here it is.

Concert in the park
Fireworks on the 4th of July.
Where is tranquility?
I found mine on my morning walk
Punctuated by plover sitings
And lavender wild phlox
Glorious in its simplicity.


This month we are just going to write on summer's end. It is kind of nice to have an "assignment". It gets one started.

I went over to Kate's today because she ended up not being able to make the meeting. I had several things for her. We have set the first meeting for the new Celtic Women's Club for August 29. Kind of close to Labor Day but it is the Wednesday before so should not be too bad.
Kate, Bev (Cream City's President) and I have decided to go next year to Kohler to hear Maya Angelou speak. Want to come? Let me know by the end of the week. It is on Saturday, April 26, 2008.

Mom looked great today. We stopped off with her eye vitamins. She had gone over to church for the funeral of Adeline Lawrence. She lived right around the corner from my Aunt Helen. Randy and Donna live in Aunt Helen's house, you remember. Adeline raised strawberries and I miss them. I am sure Aunt Helen was there to show her around heaven. Mother commented that there was no Mass which surprised her. Just a prayer service. We decided that perhaps, since most of her children are not practicing Catholics, they asked for just a service.

Anyway. That is the news from our house. Have a good Tuesday. I get to feed pheasants tomorrow morning. Did I tell you I sprayed ANOTHER wasps nest. It is in the last possible crevice on the house.

Mary