A quiet day at home. I spent it packing and getting things ready for Dick while I am gone. Don't forget that you will not have a blog from me until Sunday night as I will be at the Irish Center in Chicago at the IBAM event.
I will be with The Celtic Women at our table and will be helping out with the event and selling my book, hopefully.
So I have nothing exciting to report. We are well and were grateful for the quiet. I fixed a lasagna for our dinner and Dick will have that to eat on Saturday. Bobbie is coming each day to be sure that Dick doesn't need anything. She will mix up a batch or two of concord grape wine while she is here.
We heard from Mary Pat Kunert, Dick's brother Harold's daughter. Did I tell you that we, Dick and I, will host the reunion next year. I think I did and am I ever excited.
Take care. Until Sunday night.
Mary
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Grocery shopping day. That pretty well wiped out the morning. When I got home, Dick and Chelsea were sleeping. So. I started mixing up salads and dinner. Dick had asked for Raw Beef Sandwiches, so I bought fresh ground round and mixed it up with chopped onion for his lunch and as it turned out, his dinner too.
I also made a fruit salad of cantaloupe and watermelon. That will last for several days. Probably through the weekend when I will be gone. I am looking for things that will be there for him to easily get to when I am gone. Tomorrow I am making a couple of casseroles that Bobbie can put in when I am gone. I also got some hamburger buns and will have hamburger patties ready to cook. I worry when I am gone, but Bobbie will be here for part of each day and I am leaving numbers of several people that he can call if he has any problems. I will call every night too.
I took a nap after lunch but am still tired. Went to the Amputee Support Group meeting today. Our speaker from the DMV canceled AGAIN. This time she had a great reason. She had to go to a funeral. Next month is our Christmas party. I am bringing Peanut Butter Buckeyes and I hope Dick along. We will be exchanging $5.00 Gifts too. That is always fun.
Now I am home until Friday morning. Yippee.
Roxie came in to sleep with me early this morning. That was a pleasant surprise. I really miss my Oscar being there to cuddle me before I got to sleep each night.
Have a good Thursday.
Mary
I also made a fruit salad of cantaloupe and watermelon. That will last for several days. Probably through the weekend when I will be gone. I am looking for things that will be there for him to easily get to when I am gone. Tomorrow I am making a couple of casseroles that Bobbie can put in when I am gone. I also got some hamburger buns and will have hamburger patties ready to cook. I worry when I am gone, but Bobbie will be here for part of each day and I am leaving numbers of several people that he can call if he has any problems. I will call every night too.
I took a nap after lunch but am still tired. Went to the Amputee Support Group meeting today. Our speaker from the DMV canceled AGAIN. This time she had a great reason. She had to go to a funeral. Next month is our Christmas party. I am bringing Peanut Butter Buckeyes and I hope Dick along. We will be exchanging $5.00 Gifts too. That is always fun.
Now I am home until Friday morning. Yippee.
Roxie came in to sleep with me early this morning. That was a pleasant surprise. I really miss my Oscar being there to cuddle me before I got to sleep each night.
Have a good Thursday.
Mary
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
We really had to be moving our tails this morning because we had an appointment with Tim at Wisconsin Prosthesis at 9:30AM. We got there OK and we got all the morning stuff done too. Tim kept the shoe after determining what he needs to do to hopefully make it not rub and give some relief and support to the areas that get calloused. We have to pick it up again on Friday. The only morning appointment available was for 8:30AM. So we will REALLY have to hustle that day.
As I am leaving for the IBAM event at the Irish Center in Chicago shortly after noon, we had no choice as we want him to have the shoe back as soon as possible
I will be leaving shortly after noon on Friday and arriving home before 7PM on Sunday. This will be rather exciting as I have not been on a train in years. I used to take the train from Sheboygan to Chicago to visit my friend Sally when I was 19 or 20. My lord, that was 50 years ago. Wonder what ever happened to Sally, I know that she married and had a ton of kids. But I don't know what happened to her in the last 35 years at least.
A friend will be picking me up at the Glenview stop, take me to my motel, have dinner with me and then take me back and forth to the Irish Center both days. Thank you Betty. I will really enjoy rubbing elbows with great Irish authors, musicians and artists for the two days. CWI will have a table and I can set my book out too. We are also going to help the Irish Center keep food and coffee pots available. It should be fun.
Bobbie came over for lunch and we racked the currant wine into a secondary container. The next time we need to work on wine is the end of next week.
I got a haircut this afternoon. That was quick and easy. Then tonight was the third of my Herbal Remedy Classes at the UW Center. We went out on a bit of a field trip to the woods on the edge of campus and looked for some wild plants that are useful. We found burdock, Queen Anne's Lace, high bush cranberry (though the ornamental, not the wild kind), clovers (red and white) and dandelions.
Then we went in to the classroom for some more information and we finished the evening by making comfrey poultice to put in the freezer until we need a healing poultice and an echinocea tincture that needs to mature for six weeks, then be strained and is a herbal for healing bacterial infections. We chopped up the comfrey, then ground it up fine and wrapped it in cheesecloth and froze it in cheesecloth. The echinocea we chopped up and put in jars and covered it with vodka to make the tincture.
Now it is really bedtime. Chelsea is such a pest. I have taken her out twice already since I came home. I am not sure if she just wants attention or really has to go but when she starts whimpering at me, I can't take the chance. It is late enough that I am hoping she will let me sleep til really late in the morning. That would be SO nice.
Tomorrow, I just have grocery shopping and the Amputee Support group meeting. I made some ricotta cheese today so I can make a small lasagna for our lunch tomorrow.
Til tomorrow then.
Love
Mary
As I am leaving for the IBAM event at the Irish Center in Chicago shortly after noon, we had no choice as we want him to have the shoe back as soon as possible
I will be leaving shortly after noon on Friday and arriving home before 7PM on Sunday. This will be rather exciting as I have not been on a train in years. I used to take the train from Sheboygan to Chicago to visit my friend Sally when I was 19 or 20. My lord, that was 50 years ago. Wonder what ever happened to Sally, I know that she married and had a ton of kids. But I don't know what happened to her in the last 35 years at least.
A friend will be picking me up at the Glenview stop, take me to my motel, have dinner with me and then take me back and forth to the Irish Center both days. Thank you Betty. I will really enjoy rubbing elbows with great Irish authors, musicians and artists for the two days. CWI will have a table and I can set my book out too. We are also going to help the Irish Center keep food and coffee pots available. It should be fun.
Bobbie came over for lunch and we racked the currant wine into a secondary container. The next time we need to work on wine is the end of next week.
I got a haircut this afternoon. That was quick and easy. Then tonight was the third of my Herbal Remedy Classes at the UW Center. We went out on a bit of a field trip to the woods on the edge of campus and looked for some wild plants that are useful. We found burdock, Queen Anne's Lace, high bush cranberry (though the ornamental, not the wild kind), clovers (red and white) and dandelions.
Then we went in to the classroom for some more information and we finished the evening by making comfrey poultice to put in the freezer until we need a healing poultice and an echinocea tincture that needs to mature for six weeks, then be strained and is a herbal for healing bacterial infections. We chopped up the comfrey, then ground it up fine and wrapped it in cheesecloth and froze it in cheesecloth. The echinocea we chopped up and put in jars and covered it with vodka to make the tincture.
Now it is really bedtime. Chelsea is such a pest. I have taken her out twice already since I came home. I am not sure if she just wants attention or really has to go but when she starts whimpering at me, I can't take the chance. It is late enough that I am hoping she will let me sleep til really late in the morning. That would be SO nice.
Tomorrow, I just have grocery shopping and the Amputee Support group meeting. I made some ricotta cheese today so I can make a small lasagna for our lunch tomorrow.
Til tomorrow then.
Love
Mary
Monday, October 26, 2009
I have been going since 5:40AM and I am exhausted. Soon I will take my Chelsea out and go to bed. I just hope she sleeps til after 5AM again tonight.
I go hold of Dorothy at Dr. Moreno's office before I left for bible study and when she heard about the callous she make an appointment for us for this afternoon at 2:15.PM.
So I went to Bible Study which was nicely animated, we finished discussing Mark 4 today. There were six of us there. This is a nice group, we range from 4 to 12 depending on who can come. I picked up a bulletin for Mother as she did not go to Mass yesterday. The weather in the morning was pretty iffy. I ran into Loraine Schaap and was told that the choir sounded just wonderful on Saturday at Stevan's memorial. That made my morning.
Mother was just fine. I can tell that she had the weekend to rest. She was totally exhausted on Saturday when I stopped in after the mass. But she had had a very busy week and needed to rest.
On the way to Falls, I noticed that the Low Tyre icon was displayed on my dashboard and in my message board. And indeed, the message said tyre. So on the way home, I stopped at the service station at the corner of Hwy 57 and PP and put air in all four tires. It worked, the warning is no longer showing. I stopped at Kris's Cheese while I was there and got some of the Sartori specials. I told them I really want the cinnamon which they do not have yet. Sometimes Sartori doesn't get it out to the vendors before they demonstrate it at shows.
Home again, we had lunch, then on to Plymouth Aurora to the anti-coagulation clinic. His count was 2.9. Right on!! So unless ends up taking antibiotics, we don't have to go back for a whole month.
Our appointment with Dr. Moreno was at 2:15 in the Sheboygan Clinic. We were SO relieved. The callous had redeveloped. A blister had formed under it and then lifted the callous, but when he trimmed it, there is no open wound, new skin has formed below AND there is no infection. So we are really jazzed and I cannot tell you hoe relieved I am. Dr. Moreno wants Tim at Wisconsin Prosthesis to do some adjustments to the shoe. So when we got home, I called Tim and we will take the shoe in tomorrow morning at 9:30AM. We will be home in plenty of time for lunch. Bobbie will be coming sometime around lunch time so we can rack her currant wine into the secondary.
The at 2:30PM I am getting my hair cut and finally I have to be at the UW in Sheboygan at 5:30PM for our herb class. We are hoping for decent weather and that it will be light enough to go out into the woods for some hands on experience.
I know my Dad knew a lot about wild plants and animals. He and mother used to harvest wild asparagus in the spring. I remember that.
It rained all day, not hard but pretty steady. Tomorrow is supposed to be nicer.
Take care.
Mary
I go hold of Dorothy at Dr. Moreno's office before I left for bible study and when she heard about the callous she make an appointment for us for this afternoon at 2:15.PM.
So I went to Bible Study which was nicely animated, we finished discussing Mark 4 today. There were six of us there. This is a nice group, we range from 4 to 12 depending on who can come. I picked up a bulletin for Mother as she did not go to Mass yesterday. The weather in the morning was pretty iffy. I ran into Loraine Schaap and was told that the choir sounded just wonderful on Saturday at Stevan's memorial. That made my morning.
Mother was just fine. I can tell that she had the weekend to rest. She was totally exhausted on Saturday when I stopped in after the mass. But she had had a very busy week and needed to rest.
On the way to Falls, I noticed that the Low Tyre icon was displayed on my dashboard and in my message board. And indeed, the message said tyre. So on the way home, I stopped at the service station at the corner of Hwy 57 and PP and put air in all four tires. It worked, the warning is no longer showing. I stopped at Kris's Cheese while I was there and got some of the Sartori specials. I told them I really want the cinnamon which they do not have yet. Sometimes Sartori doesn't get it out to the vendors before they demonstrate it at shows.
Home again, we had lunch, then on to Plymouth Aurora to the anti-coagulation clinic. His count was 2.9. Right on!! So unless ends up taking antibiotics, we don't have to go back for a whole month.
Our appointment with Dr. Moreno was at 2:15 in the Sheboygan Clinic. We were SO relieved. The callous had redeveloped. A blister had formed under it and then lifted the callous, but when he trimmed it, there is no open wound, new skin has formed below AND there is no infection. So we are really jazzed and I cannot tell you hoe relieved I am. Dr. Moreno wants Tim at Wisconsin Prosthesis to do some adjustments to the shoe. So when we got home, I called Tim and we will take the shoe in tomorrow morning at 9:30AM. We will be home in plenty of time for lunch. Bobbie will be coming sometime around lunch time so we can rack her currant wine into the secondary.
The at 2:30PM I am getting my hair cut and finally I have to be at the UW in Sheboygan at 5:30PM for our herb class. We are hoping for decent weather and that it will be light enough to go out into the woods for some hands on experience.
I know my Dad knew a lot about wild plants and animals. He and mother used to harvest wild asparagus in the spring. I remember that.
It rained all day, not hard but pretty steady. Tomorrow is supposed to be nicer.
Take care.
Mary
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