Friday. It was a busy day but moved at a gentle pace. Chelsea and I headed out for our walk shortly after 6AM in the cool of the morning. We ran into several other walkers, including our friend with the cane who is a sister in law of the neighbor across the street. Chelsea was very excited about the golden retriever that we passed on the walk.
The morning was spent putting Dick on the sequential, shopping for fruits and veggies at Cappelles and preparing a poster for tomorrow's Reunion of the Clans about the bus trip to Milwaukee Irish Fest. We had soup and burritos for lunch which really tasted good today. We must have been hungry.
I went to the 4PM Mass at St. John's. I have been a Eucharistic minister almost every mass as Fr. Van Beeck has added a station for the host but the schedule does not reflect this. So, I have been going up to fill in the sixth person and then the seventh shows up. Father must be telling one of the scheduled people to hold back. We had a teacher from the Catholic Schools in Milwaukee's inner city speaking to us to ask for funds. This was our mission Sunday. She was very interested and is obviously very dedicated to her charges. She told a story of telling a young student that if he learned his math she would take him to Mc Donalds for lunch. He Did It. So one noon, they walked down the street and she bought him a lunch. He ate half of it and then stopped. She knew that he usually wolfed down whatever was in front of him so she pressed him a bit and found out that he was planning on taking the rest back with him for his brother who had helped him pass the course. Needless to say, after her tears, they bought another meal and went back to school to share it with his brother.
Lots of good people out there and lots of kids who need to be able to be treated or at least not be hungry ever again.
Love
Mary
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Friday, August 08, 2008
Fridays have kind of become my day. This morning, Dick managed to keep Chelsea away from me until almost 6:15AM so I got a GOOD nights sleep. We had a very nice walk. Saw a couple of other walkers which is always pleasant. Lots of bird singing and it smells SO nice this time of year.
Spent the morning, hooking Dick up to the Sequential compression machine, showering, cleaning my desk, trying to catch up on the computer. I had a nice visit with our neighbors Harold and Helen Wendorf. Harold called me over to see a clock that he had made. It is marvelous. A Brewer clock. It is in the shape of the state of Wisconsin with a Brewer decal for the clock face, a small Brewer hat on it in three dimension. He said he enjoys making clock and has made over 200 Packer Clocks. Wow. Bet he will have a lull in that for a bit because of Farve's escapades. (As Michelle said, and she is right, I am sure there were problems on both sides, but I still think Farve has been acting like a spoiled brat. This is not the first year he tried to keep everybody on a cliff until the last minute. This year it did not work. ) I just hope that Aaron Rogers does well. He is young but needs to get his chance. I hope the fans will remember that HE was not the decider of this whole fiasco.
I had lunch with my bank friends at Dairy Queen. That was fun. They are lovely ladies and such fun. My friend Ceil was talking about their trip to the horse races. They go once a year apparently. Ceil just waited until the end of the day and then took all her bets to the window to have them checked instead of keeping out her winning stubs. Apparently the ticket man was not to civil but Ceil just laughed and figured that that was his problem.
Got home in time to hook Dick up again before Jim and Michelle arrived to clean and send me on my way. I met Bobbie at Marcus Theatres in Sheboygan at 3:30PM. We went to see the new XFiles movie. We both loved it. I found out that the gift cards that I have left are still good and I have enough for another movie. Yippee. Bobbie and I want to do this again anyway. We need to wait for a change in the movies though. There isn't much else there that we want to pay for.
On the way home, I stopped at the Plymouth Art Center to see the new exhibit. It is the night of the Jazz Crawl. I viewed the exhibit and ran into a few friends. The new exhibit is fiber art and is WONDERFUL . It gives me courage to work on my projects. I zipped through the silent auction and put my bid in on three items. I always figure that if I am the first bid and it is early and I can afford the total if I have to I can bid on those kind of things. Then I came home. Jim, Michelle and Dick were finishing up a card game. Jim and Michelle left planning on going to the Jazz Crawl. I hope they did as it is a wonderful experience and they deserve special things.
Now I can wind down for the night. Whew. I AM pretty relaxed. It is nice to be looking forward to a pleasant weekend.
A Sydney Smith said "When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature."
Mary
Spent the morning, hooking Dick up to the Sequential compression machine, showering, cleaning my desk, trying to catch up on the computer. I had a nice visit with our neighbors Harold and Helen Wendorf. Harold called me over to see a clock that he had made. It is marvelous. A Brewer clock. It is in the shape of the state of Wisconsin with a Brewer decal for the clock face, a small Brewer hat on it in three dimension. He said he enjoys making clock and has made over 200 Packer Clocks. Wow. Bet he will have a lull in that for a bit because of Farve's escapades. (As Michelle said, and she is right, I am sure there were problems on both sides, but I still think Farve has been acting like a spoiled brat. This is not the first year he tried to keep everybody on a cliff until the last minute. This year it did not work. ) I just hope that Aaron Rogers does well. He is young but needs to get his chance. I hope the fans will remember that HE was not the decider of this whole fiasco.
I had lunch with my bank friends at Dairy Queen. That was fun. They are lovely ladies and such fun. My friend Ceil was talking about their trip to the horse races. They go once a year apparently. Ceil just waited until the end of the day and then took all her bets to the window to have them checked instead of keeping out her winning stubs. Apparently the ticket man was not to civil but Ceil just laughed and figured that that was his problem.
Got home in time to hook Dick up again before Jim and Michelle arrived to clean and send me on my way. I met Bobbie at Marcus Theatres in Sheboygan at 3:30PM. We went to see the new XFiles movie. We both loved it. I found out that the gift cards that I have left are still good and I have enough for another movie. Yippee. Bobbie and I want to do this again anyway. We need to wait for a change in the movies though. There isn't much else there that we want to pay for.
On the way home, I stopped at the Plymouth Art Center to see the new exhibit. It is the night of the Jazz Crawl. I viewed the exhibit and ran into a few friends. The new exhibit is fiber art and is WONDERFUL . It gives me courage to work on my projects. I zipped through the silent auction and put my bid in on three items. I always figure that if I am the first bid and it is early and I can afford the total if I have to I can bid on those kind of things. Then I came home. Jim, Michelle and Dick were finishing up a card game. Jim and Michelle left planning on going to the Jazz Crawl. I hope they did as it is a wonderful experience and they deserve special things.
Now I can wind down for the night. Whew. I AM pretty relaxed. It is nice to be looking forward to a pleasant weekend.
A Sydney Smith said "When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature."
Mary
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Dick let Chelsea bounce on the bed to wake me up at 6AM on the dot because we had to be at the Plymouth Clinic by 7:45AM to see Dr. Lang, the bone specialist, about his knee. So Chelsea and I went for our walk but I made her turn around a bit sooner than she liked because I had to get us all fed, including Boots AND take my shower before we left. I was a hoppin' but we got out in plenty of time.
We are very happy with what Dr. Lang had to say. Since Dick is not hurting like he was, and the since the second X-Ray showed no deterioration, he said that we should be OK. He does not think that a knee replacement will be needed unless something else causes an injury or something. So we can concentrate on the other problems. Dick says that he thinks the doctors are graduating much too young. This guy is really young.
Then we had to go into the Sheboygan Clinic to have his blood thinness checked. He was at exactly 3 which is at the top end but within the parameters.. He won't have to be checked until September now unless he has to go on antibiotics or something. Then the new nurse, Deb, will hopefully be established at the Plymouth Clinic so we will not have to go into Sheboygan for it.
I stopped at Discovery World and paid for the rest of the bus to Irishfest, stopped at the bank and headed home. We were home before 10AM and I got to stay home for the whole rest of the day.
Jim and Michelle got home shortly after lunch. They had a successful and enjoyable trip. I invited them over for dinner as I had just put a pork tenderloin into the slow cooker and then I would have someone to eat sweet potatoes with me. We got some from Share and I know that Michelle likes them even if Jim and Dick don't.
I baked sour dough bread and zucchini bread today too. So I was on a cooking frenzy again today. Tomorrow will be much easier for me.
The dinner was good too. I had a salad and potatoes and peas with it and then we had ice cream cones for dessert.
Did I tell you I talked to Bart the other day. He sounded good and said they are well. I do miss my boys. Of course, they are not my little guys any more. I remember when they fit in my arms. They fit until they were about 10. When they got so big that their head didn't fit on my shoulder when they were sitting on my lap, it was kind of hard on me. My little boys weren't little any more. And they are so far away.
Tomorrow late afternoon, Jim and Michelle are coming over to clean again and spend time with Dick. I called Bobbie and we are going to see the new X Files movie. That should be fun. I think I will have lunch with my bank buddies tomorrow.
It was a beautiful day today. Warm but not too humid. It is supposed to stay that way through the weekend. The Reunion of the Clans picnic at St. Michaels out at Parnell will be a really pleasant experience. It is so comfortable and so odd to be picnicking amid the gravestones of those who came before.
Love
Mary
We are very happy with what Dr. Lang had to say. Since Dick is not hurting like he was, and the since the second X-Ray showed no deterioration, he said that we should be OK. He does not think that a knee replacement will be needed unless something else causes an injury or something. So we can concentrate on the other problems. Dick says that he thinks the doctors are graduating much too young. This guy is really young.
Then we had to go into the Sheboygan Clinic to have his blood thinness checked. He was at exactly 3 which is at the top end but within the parameters.. He won't have to be checked until September now unless he has to go on antibiotics or something. Then the new nurse, Deb, will hopefully be established at the Plymouth Clinic so we will not have to go into Sheboygan for it.
I stopped at Discovery World and paid for the rest of the bus to Irishfest, stopped at the bank and headed home. We were home before 10AM and I got to stay home for the whole rest of the day.
Jim and Michelle got home shortly after lunch. They had a successful and enjoyable trip. I invited them over for dinner as I had just put a pork tenderloin into the slow cooker and then I would have someone to eat sweet potatoes with me. We got some from Share and I know that Michelle likes them even if Jim and Dick don't.
I baked sour dough bread and zucchini bread today too. So I was on a cooking frenzy again today. Tomorrow will be much easier for me.
The dinner was good too. I had a salad and potatoes and peas with it and then we had ice cream cones for dessert.
Did I tell you I talked to Bart the other day. He sounded good and said they are well. I do miss my boys. Of course, they are not my little guys any more. I remember when they fit in my arms. They fit until they were about 10. When they got so big that their head didn't fit on my shoulder when they were sitting on my lap, it was kind of hard on me. My little boys weren't little any more. And they are so far away.
Tomorrow late afternoon, Jim and Michelle are coming over to clean again and spend time with Dick. I called Bobbie and we are going to see the new X Files movie. That should be fun. I think I will have lunch with my bank buddies tomorrow.
It was a beautiful day today. Warm but not too humid. It is supposed to stay that way through the weekend. The Reunion of the Clans picnic at St. Michaels out at Parnell will be a really pleasant experience. It is so comfortable and so odd to be picnicking amid the gravestones of those who came before.
Love
Mary
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Hello - Here it is Wednesday already. Tomorrow Jim and Michelle will be home from their trip already. I spent some time with Boots again this evening. He played with his toy but will not cuddle. I sure miss my Oscar. That cat knows HOW to cuddle.
Dick had his yearly physical this morning. His vitals are pretty much under control. His sugar levels are good, his blood pressure and all other things are OK too. Now if we could get his feet and legs squared away, we would be able to run races.
I dried some herbs today since I have Jim's dehydrator in the house. Tomorrow I have to store them. Did I tell you that two of my tomato plants have tomatoes on them? This is quite a miracle as tomatoes don't often do well for me. I have hope that I will have more than one or two for our consumption.
Tomorrow we have doctor appointments again.
Have a good one.
Mary
Dick had his yearly physical this morning. His vitals are pretty much under control. His sugar levels are good, his blood pressure and all other things are OK too. Now if we could get his feet and legs squared away, we would be able to run races.
I dried some herbs today since I have Jim's dehydrator in the house. Tomorrow I have to store them. Did I tell you that two of my tomato plants have tomatoes on them? This is quite a miracle as tomatoes don't often do well for me. I have hope that I will have more than one or two for our consumption.
Tomorrow we have doctor appointments again.
Have a good one.
Mary
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
I was abale to stay home ALMOST the whole day. The only place I had to go was to the Veterinary Office to pick up Chelsea's pills. And that was fun for Chelsea. She got to go for a RIDE!
She tried to wake me up shortly after 5AM but I gave her lettuce and shut her out of the bedroom. I was able to sleep or kind of sleep until 6AM. We had a nice walk. It is always so pleasant that early, before the heat and humidity get to heavy. We only saw the two ladies who come down Highview and then onto Valley today. Nobody else was around.
When I got home I fed Chelsea, fed Boots, took out our trash and Jim and Michelle's trash, emptied the dishwasher, fixed breakfast and took a shower. This was a nice day, I started a sour dough culture for some bread, finished drying the dill, made some easy chili and rested.
I also "sewed the sun" onto my quilting project. Now I have to add the ocean and the shadow of the sun. I am having some fun with that project and it does not require a lot of time at any one time. So I can just pick it up when I want to.
Tonight, after dinner, I went over and spent some time with Boots and I called Bart and had a nice long talk with him. They are all OK. Adam and Lexie, Barb's son and his wife and kids, have been around. Adam is getting out of the service and looking for work, probably in Dallas but they are kind of dividing their time between Dallas and Lawton at this point.
Got two more people signed up for going to Irish Fest on the bus so there are only five seats left, maybe four. I feel a little better but will be happy when all seats are full.
A little poem
Tuck sunshine within.
When days are dark and gloomy
Let it shine from you.
Love
Mary
Tomorrow Dick sees Dr. Sharon for his yearly physical and for the physical required before he has the next stent put in his left leg. I also have to go grocery shopping. The rest of the day should be easy though.
She tried to wake me up shortly after 5AM but I gave her lettuce and shut her out of the bedroom. I was able to sleep or kind of sleep until 6AM. We had a nice walk. It is always so pleasant that early, before the heat and humidity get to heavy. We only saw the two ladies who come down Highview and then onto Valley today. Nobody else was around.
When I got home I fed Chelsea, fed Boots, took out our trash and Jim and Michelle's trash, emptied the dishwasher, fixed breakfast and took a shower. This was a nice day, I started a sour dough culture for some bread, finished drying the dill, made some easy chili and rested.
I also "sewed the sun" onto my quilting project. Now I have to add the ocean and the shadow of the sun. I am having some fun with that project and it does not require a lot of time at any one time. So I can just pick it up when I want to.
Tonight, after dinner, I went over and spent some time with Boots and I called Bart and had a nice long talk with him. They are all OK. Adam and Lexie, Barb's son and his wife and kids, have been around. Adam is getting out of the service and looking for work, probably in Dallas but they are kind of dividing their time between Dallas and Lawton at this point.
Got two more people signed up for going to Irish Fest on the bus so there are only five seats left, maybe four. I feel a little better but will be happy when all seats are full.
A little poem
Tuck sunshine within.
When days are dark and gloomy
Let it shine from you.
Love
Mary
Tomorrow Dick sees Dr. Sharon for his yearly physical and for the physical required before he has the next stent put in his left leg. I also have to go grocery shopping. The rest of the day should be easy though.
Monday, August 04, 2008
During last night it thundered and poured rain and lightening was cracking all around. It was toward morning. As a matter of fact, Chelsea got me up at 5:30AM and we couldn't go for a walk anyway. I took her out but it was raining pretty good and thunder was rumbling above us. Fortunately, she can't hear it anymore, so she did her duty pretty quickly and we zipped back in the house. I laid down on the couch and rested for about an hour because I was still quite tired. Then Dick got up and I put the sequential compression on his legs while I took a shower to get ready for the rest of the day.
Bible study was well attended. There were nine of us. The readings were nice too. They talked about faith and hearing God speaking to us. Elijah didn't hear God in the earthquake or the high winds or find him in the fire but found him in a quiet whisper. Sometimes we have to look in the quiet places to find him. The gospel was the one where Jesus walked on water. Remember, Peter asked to join him and Jesus said to come ahead. Peter started out gamely enough but then looked at the storm around him and got scared and sank. So Jesus pulled him up and back to the boat. HOWEVER, it was pointed out in one of our commentaries, Peter was brave enough to START walking on the water. Even though his doubt caused him to start sinking, he was the only one to even TRY.
Then I stopped in to see Mother. She is fine as usual. I brought her some soup, fruit salad and a piece of pie. Donna and Randy brought food over too so she says she is set for the week. She loves it because we fix things that she does not. I had her medicine and money too.
Then home to fix a quick lunch and get Dick to Dr. Moreno by 1:15PM. The appointment went quite well. Dr. Moreno is very pleased with the wounds on his right leg, except for a funny skin buildup that he has on the side. But we just have to watch that. The left huge deep callous is about the same. We have to go back in a week.
When we got home, he rested for a while. I had a lot of stuff to do. Trash and fixing dinner and just things that pile up but I got it all done before dinner. Then I went over to spend some time with Boots before I drove to Rhine for the monthly meeting. That went quite well. I had ordered a coupon set for the converter box for TVs. We did not need one but the club did and I gave the other to one of the members.
Now the day is about done. Dick is on the sequential for the last session and I have one more trip outside with the dog. Tomorrow I can probably stay home all day. I have a lot of things that I want to get done so I surely hope so.
I hope Michelle had a successful meeting in St. Louis, searching for information about her father. It is important to know where we came from and she deserves that. They made it to St. Louis safe and sound. I hope they are not melting in the heat. If all continues as it has, I won't have to water their tomato plant at all. The rain is taking care of that. Mother and Ione, my bible study friend, both registered two inches on their rain gauges.
Hope you have a happy Tuesday too.
Til tomorrow
Mary
Bible study was well attended. There were nine of us. The readings were nice too. They talked about faith and hearing God speaking to us. Elijah didn't hear God in the earthquake or the high winds or find him in the fire but found him in a quiet whisper. Sometimes we have to look in the quiet places to find him. The gospel was the one where Jesus walked on water. Remember, Peter asked to join him and Jesus said to come ahead. Peter started out gamely enough but then looked at the storm around him and got scared and sank. So Jesus pulled him up and back to the boat. HOWEVER, it was pointed out in one of our commentaries, Peter was brave enough to START walking on the water. Even though his doubt caused him to start sinking, he was the only one to even TRY.
Then I stopped in to see Mother. She is fine as usual. I brought her some soup, fruit salad and a piece of pie. Donna and Randy brought food over too so she says she is set for the week. She loves it because we fix things that she does not. I had her medicine and money too.
Then home to fix a quick lunch and get Dick to Dr. Moreno by 1:15PM. The appointment went quite well. Dr. Moreno is very pleased with the wounds on his right leg, except for a funny skin buildup that he has on the side. But we just have to watch that. The left huge deep callous is about the same. We have to go back in a week.
When we got home, he rested for a while. I had a lot of stuff to do. Trash and fixing dinner and just things that pile up but I got it all done before dinner. Then I went over to spend some time with Boots before I drove to Rhine for the monthly meeting. That went quite well. I had ordered a coupon set for the converter box for TVs. We did not need one but the club did and I gave the other to one of the members.
Now the day is about done. Dick is on the sequential for the last session and I have one more trip outside with the dog. Tomorrow I can probably stay home all day. I have a lot of things that I want to get done so I surely hope so.
I hope Michelle had a successful meeting in St. Louis, searching for information about her father. It is important to know where we came from and she deserves that. They made it to St. Louis safe and sound. I hope they are not melting in the heat. If all continues as it has, I won't have to water their tomato plant at all. The rain is taking care of that. Mother and Ione, my bible study friend, both registered two inches on their rain gauges.
Hope you have a happy Tuesday too.
Til tomorrow
Mary
Sunday, August 03, 2008
A very peaceful Sunday. Chelsea and I went on our walk. She let me sleep a LITTLE late, almost 6:15. She was a little adventurer this morning. We went up the path between the ball diamonds in the park and turned right instead of left and then went around the other part of the park and back home through the woods. I made her run so we could get ahead of the mosquitoes. The path is almost overgrown. When the mosquitoes die off, I will have to go through and pull the edges.
I did not have to go anywhere at all today. So. I cleaned my desk. I really cleaned it. Wax and all. I have a mailing ready to go to Kalkthaler about my Kitty Situation in Tallgrass. I am proposing a change to the amendments. I did some quilting too. The wall hanging is shaping up nicely. I just do a bit every day or so to relax.
I am drying some dill for seasoning this winter. It works well for several recipes that I like and mind is so old. I bought some fresh and one needs so little that it seems a shame to waste it. I read online that you could dry it in the microwave. It said to put it in a single layer for three minutes. It dries nicely allright, BUT it also started to flash bits of fire in the microwave too. So I asked Jim if I could borrow his dehydrator. THat seems to take a while but at least there is no danger of burning the house down.
Today I was thinking of a friend of mine who lived two doors down from me when I lived in Santa Ana Heights. Her name was Beverly Morgan and she was a wonderful person. She had three children, one of them the same age as my Bret and he was named Bret also. So we called my Bret, Bret Francis and her Bret, Bret Allen. He was a sweet boy too. But what I was remembering was that Beverly had a really sharp, loud and explosive laugh. She always said that it scared babies. She was right too. Bart was born while we lived near her and he would cry every time she laughed for quite a long time.
Have a great week. Tomorrow we start all over again.
Mary
I did not have to go anywhere at all today. So. I cleaned my desk. I really cleaned it. Wax and all. I have a mailing ready to go to Kalkthaler about my Kitty Situation in Tallgrass. I am proposing a change to the amendments. I did some quilting too. The wall hanging is shaping up nicely. I just do a bit every day or so to relax.
I am drying some dill for seasoning this winter. It works well for several recipes that I like and mind is so old. I bought some fresh and one needs so little that it seems a shame to waste it. I read online that you could dry it in the microwave. It said to put it in a single layer for three minutes. It dries nicely allright, BUT it also started to flash bits of fire in the microwave too. So I asked Jim if I could borrow his dehydrator. THat seems to take a while but at least there is no danger of burning the house down.
Today I was thinking of a friend of mine who lived two doors down from me when I lived in Santa Ana Heights. Her name was Beverly Morgan and she was a wonderful person. She had three children, one of them the same age as my Bret and he was named Bret also. So we called my Bret, Bret Francis and her Bret, Bret Allen. He was a sweet boy too. But what I was remembering was that Beverly had a really sharp, loud and explosive laugh. She always said that it scared babies. She was right too. Bart was born while we lived near her and he would cry every time she laughed for quite a long time.
Have a great week. Tomorrow we start all over again.
Mary
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