Things went very well today. We had an appointment at the Sheboygan Clinic with Sue at the Anti Coagulation Clinic. Yippee. Dick's blood is now just perfect for the procedure that he will be having on Friday. We will have to be monitoring every week for the weeks that he has these done. It has to be below 2.5 but over 2. Since it was all the way up to 3.9 last week we were very pleased at the count today.

We then went to the Plymouth Clinic because Dick's "clicker", the piece that you put the needle in to prick the finger, is malfunctioning. We still don't have it resolved but are getting there.

After we got home, I watered plants and vacuumed the living room. We had good old cheeseburgers and fries for supper tonight.

Tonight was Fr. Van Beeck's last Adult Education for this year. He went through a lot of how to interpret the bible. Should you take it literally. His prime example. Jesus said that if your eye sins you should pluck it out and if your hand sins you should cut it off and throw it away. He pointed out that we sure would be a weird bunch of blind cripples if we took THAT part of the bible literally. AND it contradicts another statement that He made stating that we need to take care of our bodies because they are the temple of the Spirit. We all found the thought of hobbling blind Christians quite amusing.

My cousin Harold Ziegler, who used to own an office supply store in Plymouth. He is my second cousin as my Grandma Deeley was his Aunt Helen. Dad used to stop and see Harold when Dad worked at Gilson, now Toro, in Plymouth. Dad was the only one who kept in touch with the Zieglers. Harold brought me some pictures that his mother had of my grandmother, my uncle Jack and Aunt Helen as children and a couple that are unidentified except with Deeley on the back of the pictures. They are treasures. I am SO excited and can hardly wait to share with the rest of the family.

Now, home again, I am blogging and enjoying a glass of wine after having dipped my poor sad hands in a lavender pariffin dip. That is such a good feeling, warm, soothing and healing.

Tomorrow is shopping day AND I will be taking the taxes to Mark to get him started on them. We have LOTS of deductions this year because of the two house situation. He will be able to advise us on what to do ongoing.

A poem for you from Austin Clarke who is one of my favorites. It is short but will make you think.

Til tomorrow night.

Mary

Penal Law

Burn Ovid with the rest. Lovers will find
A hedge-school for themselves and learn by heart
All that the clergy banish from the mind,
When hands are joined and head bows in the dark.