Boy,  I thought yesterday was busy.  

Today started off just as every other day.  Silly Roxie, however tried to nag me into getting up at about 4AM.   What a goofus.     I got up shortly after 6AM showered, put some wash in and fed all the living things including  me.

Jody came to clean at 8AM. Before she arrived, we got Dick all changed and ready for his appointment with Dr. Sharon at 9:45AM. 

That went as well as can be expected.   Dr. Sharon determined that Dick does not have pneumonia, despite the wheezing and coughing.   But he does have an infection.   So he is on antibiotics for 5 days.   That meant that we had to call the anti-coagulation clinic to let them know that he is TAKING antibiotics so that they can determine if they should see him sooner than the month we have scheduled.

When we got home, Bobbie was already here.   I was a winery day.   We started a batch of her strawberry wine getting it all set up in the primary fermenter.   I will stir it daily til she comes back next Friday, then we will rack it into the secondary fermenter (the gallon jug) to age.  We also filtered the persimmon.  It is much clearer now.  Still a bit fuzzy but much better.

The three of us had Irish Bacon, tomato and lettuce sandwiches and pear cheesecake for our lunch .  Bobbie and I will do more winery tasks next Friday.   I am going to put a batch of Lemon Balm together.   Then on the 25th, she and I are going to the Sheboygan County Quilt Guild Quilt Show.   That is always a fun event.

At 2:45PM Dick saw Dr. Ziegler again for his eyes.   Both are better.  That blasted eyelash keeps coming back into the right eye.   When we go in again in a month, if it is back again, Dr. Cheryl will see about getting an eye surgeon to remove it and perhaps that lump too.  The left eye is healed but still a bit rough.   At the next visit, his left eye should be settled and he can get a permanent prescription that should clear up the fuzziness he has now.

Tonight was the Sheboygan Branch of Celtic Women meeting.   What a rush.   One of our members, Dorothy Rose, who could not even be there, got the use of a room at her church the UCC on Hwy 67 for our meeting.    It was great.  Tommi O Hagan, our speaker, was such a super speaker.   She herself just got back from Cornwall the day before yesterday.    She told us of the history, the art, the inventors, the music, and the emigration reasons and and where they all settled.  We all know about the Tin belt through southwestern Wisconsin, but the Cornish are everywhere.  It was fascinating.  There were eleven of our Sheboygan County members, Tommi and her husband Bob, two guests, including Kathy Deeley, my sister in law who is of Cornish descent and three members, Gail, Rosemary and Sheila from the Milwaukee area.   So we were well represented.    We ended with samples of pasties that Tommi brought with her and Figgy Hobbin which I brought.   So we had a main dish and a dessert.   I am delighted that it was such fun and so well received.  

Our next meeting will be our second annual Samhain potluck in October.

Home again,  I am enjoying a glass of wine and will then go to bed.

A couple of things I learned from Tommi this evening.    Their name for the "little people" is Spriggans.   They have corn in Cornwall.   But it is all field corn.   Also,  all grains are referred to as corn and corn as we know it is maize.   Also rutebaga are called swede.

So that is my day.  

God love you all

Mary

Another mixed day.   Started off OK.  I and we spent the early morning, getting Dick cleaned up for his trip to the dentist.   I started a load of wash and finished my Football pool picks.   Then I realized that I had until Sunday.   But it is done and I am just as glad to be free of it for the next couple of days.

Ed Schroeder's carpet cleaners (his kids) came just before 10AM.   Was I ever glad because we had to leave at 10:30AM or so, just when they were scheduled, for the dentist.   I just wanted to point out the trouble spots.    I sure am glad to have the carpets cleaned.   We had decided to wait until our Chelsea was gone.   Sad, but now they should not get so filthy.

Dick's cleaning was scheduled for 11:00AM.  Everything went well BUT he was so breathless when we got in there that she took his blood pressure and tit was way up there, SO Janelle suggested that we have it checked.   We had been planning to call the doctor because of the breathlessness anyway.   So we have an appointment with Dr. Sharon at 9:45AM tomorrow.

Home again, I fixed stir fry with chicken to go with the last of the rice from Tuesday.  

Then I spent the afternoon making the Figgy Hobbin for tomorrow,  and preparing and freezing a pie pumpkin and zucchini.    Now that I have the freezer, I can get the produce prepared and frozen for the winter.  I have one yellow squash and two more pumpkins. to go  ---- so far.

Tomorrow will be even busier, ending with the Celtic Women meeting with Flora OHagan speaking.

Pray for us at Dick's doctor appointments.

God love you alll
Mary

Another busy Wednesday.    Since it was shopping day, I picked up breakfast from Mc Donalds.   It was a lot more fun when we could just go there but his brings us the memories and we do like their breakfast sandwiches.

Grocery shopping did go well.   I was all our of soft drinks, and flavored water so everything was heavy.   But it went well and I was done by 9:30AM.    I was able to move some of the food down into the freezer that Jeff and Shane brought over from Mother's.   Old it may be but it works just fine.   Now I am able to preserve the excess veggies and fruits that are coming my way this season.  I was running out of room.

This afternoon, I had some banking to do for CWI and then went on to Walmart to add minutes to my Tracfone.   I was down to 6 minutes and 120 days.    I now have over 900 minutes and over 6 months.  I was thinking of a more involved phone but after asking Richard and Brenda, decided I am best to keep it simple and cheap.

We had tilapia, hash browns and fresh beets (a gift from Jeff) for lunch and leftovers for supper.  Again I am exhausted.  

I really miss my Chelsea today.   Don't know why.

Take care of yourselves.   Tomorrow, Dick has his dental visit.  And we are getting the carpet cleaned.

God love you


Mary

Today was trash day.   This week they came quite late to pick it up.   I always try to get it out there by 8AM anyway.

We had a rather quiet morning.   Then Dick had his appointment at the anti coagulation clinic.   We were delighted.  First: Sue Reiter, the first technician that Dick had when he got this condition, was in Plymouth training a gal.   We were so glad to see her and she was SO glad to see Dick.   He was her prize patient for two years before all the infections started settling in his legs.   Second:   His count was perfect - 260.

On the way home, we stopped and picked up Chinese food.   I got beef and broccoli, fried rice and egg rolls.   It was petty good too.  I had tome to take a little nap before my 2PM dentist appointment. 

Dr. Joe says my teeth are wonderful.    By the way, please pray for my dental assistant's sister, who is dying of cancer. 

While I was out, I voted and picked up and absentee ballot request for Dick.   It is too late for this one, but if we do this, they will automatically mail a ballot to him unless he at some time does not turn one in.

Dick was napping when I got home, but got up pretty quickly.  We had leftovers for supper.   At 7:00PM I had my telephone conference with the Celtic Women executive board to decide what insurance we are getting.   It went well.   I still have one officer to run it by but three of us plus one of the board that works very closely with the treasurer were on and we came to an agreement.

Do you remember that when we first got Oscar and Roxie,  Roxie kept taking little stuffed animals and little matchbox cars and dropping them all over the house?   Last night I left the door to the downstairs rooms open.   When I got up this morning,  the little black mother doll that I found at Aunt Nonnie's house was lying in the hallway.   She left that doll's baby sitting on the shelf and brought the mother upstairs.

Grocery shopping tomorrow.

Another busy day.  

I went to bible study this morning.   There were 6 of us today.   Helen Maurer was back after her eye surgery.   She will be in an out for the next month or two because of checkups but can see and is no longer in pain.  Thank God.   She has had a year or two of health problems but is so cheerful and trusting. 

Mom was fine this morning.   She looked really pretty with her new perm.   We reviewed the mail she had received.   I brought a couple of things home to work on and take back to her.  She had a good time yesterday with visits from Jeff, Shane and Georgina and all three of Randy's girls.   Jeff brought her food from the Celtic Mass and Faire, a chicken sandwich.  She said it was really pretty tough, so Jeff cut it up for her and she is going to fix a little stew with it.   I brought her the last of my stew and a cooked chicken breast too.

When I got home, Dick was sleeping so I started dinner and then went down and cleaned the freezer.   Tomorrow morning I will plug it in - it will have had a good chance to dry out and by evening I should be able to move food into it.  

I got a pretty good nap this afternoon.

Then this evening I went to the Rhine Plymouth Meeting.   This was really a Rhine Marathon.  I was there four days in a row.   But now I will be free for at least three weeks.

Tomorrow is election day.    I will be checking on getting Dick registered for the big one in November.   This one kind of got away from me.


Til tomorrow God love you

Mary

Whew.   I am exhausted and kind of mellow all at the same time.

I started out this morning getting Dick ready for the coming week.   We are working on getting a rash under control.  

I drove to Sheboygan Falls to attend the Celtic Mass at Blessed Trinity Parish.  In the previous several years, I have been involved in the Mass.  This year, Zach Holzer is the new choir director and he chose to go on his own.   It was a nice mass, well directed but I noticed that there was no cover sheet with Celtic spirituality information and there was no bagpiper.   I rather think that the member of the parish was not available and they did not look any further.   So my worship folder was better.   Hee Hee.

I left home at about 9AM and stopped to visit with Mother until it was time for the prelude at church.   As it turned out, I had to leave directly after communion so that I could zip out into the grounds, greet my brother Randy and my sister in law Donna.  Then I got a single brat to take with me to Rhine for my lunch and two scones for breakfast tomorrow.   I stopped at the bandstand to say Hi to Dave and Linda from the band.   Dave asked if I had been involved in the planning this year.  Then one of his fellow members asked how I got out of volunteering.    I had to tell him that the only way to get out of things in a parish is to move to another parish.   Even then it took four years before I got out of working on this project.   Dave mentioned that one other way was to die.

I went right from church to home to grab my phone then on to Rhine for two hours of work at the open shoot.   We were not too busy.  I shot one round.  Not too well, but I hope I learned a bit.

I had but a beer and venison stew into the slow cooker this morning so at the Green Bay half time, Shane, Jeff and Georgie came and delivered the little freezer from Mom's house.   We all watched the last half of the game and feasted on stew and sourdough bread and corn bread and cupcakes.    It was such fun to have lots of people to feed and to enjoy the game with.

P. S.  At THIS point, I am one point off of the lead.   So my plan is working. 

Now we are at the end of the day.   It was a good day.   We even got to talk to Leslie this afternoon.  She called shortly after I got home from Rhine.  She sounds good and Bill is taking excellent care of her.   She goes back to the doctor tomorrow and we will be praying for good results and readings.   But she DOES sound good.    One day at a time to full health.

God love you all.

Mary

I received this some time ago and may have forwarded it  at the time, but I think it is worth repeating.

Mary

 

 

FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY


In Florida , an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter and
Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case
against
Christians, Jews and observances of their holy days.

The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized
days.

The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the passionate
presentation by the lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring, "Case
dismissed!"

The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, "Your honor,
how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas,
Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet
my client and all other atheists have no such holidays."

The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you do. Your client,
counsel, is woefully ignorant."

The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance
or holiday for atheists."

The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day.
Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.'
Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that if your client says there is
no God, then he is a fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court is
adjourned.