It was very chilly today.  I don't think it got over 52degrees.   Not COLD but definitely chilly.

The morning was quiet.  I went to Sheboygan Falls to check on Mom and bring her the vitamins and meds that she was out of.   We had a nice visit  and checked on a few things that she had questions on.   I will see her again on Monday.  I brought her a couple of leftovers for meals.  She was delighted with the tuna casserole and the apple crisp.


I got home in time to fix dinner.  We had leftover rice with a bratwurst.    Then I rested for a while.  It is amazing how good the heating pad feels on my ribs. 

I went to Mass at 4PM.  The children's choir is singing again.  That is always a pleasure.   The gospel was from Luke.   He has Jesus telling people in a parable that when a person does well what he is suppose to do anyway - what is the big thing.   We should always be doing more than is considered just average.


We again had leftovers for our dinner.  This time - tuna casserole.   So now I have to start over again.  The leftovers are gone.

I heard a comment on TV today that Theodore Roosevelt suggested changing spelling to phonetic spelling.   This would have worked for my brother Matt, the poet who died so young.   I came home for a visit one year and Nora said that I should look at his writing.   She said  to just sound it out.  I was amazed at even that young age.

His thoughts  were very advanced but you had to sound out the words  - not think about the spelling rules you had been taught.

In his later writings, Matt did not use capital letters.   I will give you an example of his poems.

TREE
by Matt Deeley

it's busy head aloft in the sky
when the wind come roaring
it will lean it's head and cry
it will cry until it's empty
of all it's tears & all it's grief,
and in it's final autumn of anguish,
will shed leaf after lonely leaf.

Love you

God loves you too.

Mary

A nice day.   I think I am a bit better but it is a slow heal.

I put together a tuna casserole to put in for lunch in the early morning so that Bobbie and I could work on wine when she got her.

We did have quite a bit of wine to work on too.   The strawberry, which we racked to the secondary last week, needed a dose of sugar to get the yeast working a bit more.   Boy did it start working right away too.   That yeast must have been very hungry.   It bubbled right up over the top of the jug, then settled back down.

Then we racked Bobbie's Parsley Wine into the secondary and then realized that we had to add more sugar, so put it back in the primary,   added the sugar and then reracked it.

Then we racked my lemon balm into a secondary fermentor.

The last thing Bobbie did was mix a new batch in the primary fermentor.   This is a "cleaning our the freezer batch"  grape/persimmon.   Should be interesting. 

Then we had our lunch of tuna casserole with apple crisp for dessert.

Finally, Bobbie and I went through the fabric I got from Mom.   We threw away pieces that won't work for our quilts and kind of split the rest.    It is always fun to add to one's stash.

At 5ish, I picked up Nancy and we sent to Rhine to shoot.   We have done better but were not too disappointed in our results.   We just enjoy it so much and both agreed that we love the look on people's faces when we tell them that we shoot.

Bobbie said that she caught a mouse in a trap in her house today or maybe yesterday.   It reminded me of the time I set a trap in my house in Santa Ana Heights.   I was home alone when it went off and then I started hearing this weird scraping noise.   Then the mouse appeared, dragging the trap behind him.   Now, I can dispose of a dead thing, but this was too much so I went outside to wait for my ex.  Then I saw a telephone crew working on the lines.    I thought I recognized one of them so I ran over to him and asked if he was Barry.   Thank God.   It was Bearry and he took the dying thing out and disposed of it for me.     I gave him and his crew coffee.

Happy Weekend

God love you

Mary

Wow!  It is the last day of September.  And it was a wonderful day.  Sunny and warm.

We were home most of the day.   I did have to make a trip to Walgreens to pick up some prescriptions and a couple of things that they have on sale. 

I do feel a little better today, so I am healing.

I did a bit of sewing,  I am working on the place mat for the Samhain dinner.   It won't be spectacular but I believe that it will be pretty and do the job.  I will try to post a picture when it is done.

The serviceman from Steger  Heating came today to service our furnace for the winter.  That was our only excitement for the day.    

Meals were easy.   I fixed rice to accompany leftover hamburgers for lunch and made egg salad for our supper.

Mom called this morning.   Her cleaning lady had not shown up.   This was really odd.   I use the same cleaning service and have the same lady comes.   I called the service for her.  It took a while to reach Bonnie but when I did, she apologized all over the place for not calling Mother.  It seems that Jody had a heart attack yesterday and is in the hospital in Green Bay.   So Mother, and me too, will not have a cleaner this week as Bonnie could not pull it together quickly enough.   Pray for Jody.   She is a really nice lady and we have been so pleased with her work.

Have a nice night and tomorrow.

God love you

Mary

I did go grocery shopping this morning.   I was exhausted and achy when I got home but after nap on the couch with the heating pad, I felt better. 

I believe that I am better tonight than last night so we will see what tomorrow brings.

I made a slow cooker apple crisp.   It tastes good.   Not as crisp as an oven crisp but just as tasty.

We had hamburgers for lunch and chili for supper so I was able to be kind of quiet the rest of the day after the shopping.

The weather today was just beautiful.   The temperature settled at about 74degrees.  And it was sunny and not at all muggy.  I watered the front berm so that our neighbor can dig out some of the plants for his garden.   Ours is so overgrown that I am thinning therm out as much as I can anyway.

Tomorrow will be another quiet day.  Roxie really likes it when I stay home all day.  

So.  Perhaps I will be feeling better and be more newsy then.

I love you all
And God loves you too.

Mary

Well, I went back to see the doctor, Dr. Sharon this time.    I usually would see Dr. Murthy, but he is gone this week and I feel comfortable with Dr. Sharon as he is Dick's doctor.

He prescribed a CATscan.   As I anticipated, nothing showed up on that either.   I guess that is good news but doesn't help the pain.    He wants me to continue with the pain meds and use heat on the ribs for the next 7 to 10 days, then if it is not better they will try again.    So I am doing that.   So far, I can say that the heat feels good.   I am going to just sleep on the couch til I am better as it is more comfortable right now. 

It took almost three hours to get the tests done at the clinic so I got home exhausted.   We ate chili for lunch and then I slept til 3PM.  

So I am trying very hard not to exert myself.   I put the trash in the car and drove it to the pick up site, - usually I just carry it out.


Tomorrow I will go shopping and I will have them really pack the bags light.    I have to be able to take care of us.  I am slower and do it in stages, but except that there is no way for me to push Dick up the ramp until I heal, we will be OK.

Tomorrow, I want to get a little sewing done.  Next Tuesday is the Kettle Quilter meeting and I have a project that is almost done.    I also want to get the bias strip ready to sew onto the place mat that I am planning for the Samhain dinner.    I am kind of excited with my "vision".  

There may be frost tonight.   So far as everything I have is close to the building, there has been no problem.

Have a nice middle of the week

God love you

Mary

I am still sore.   Guess that is to be expected.

I did go to Sheboygan Falls this morning.  I dropped in at Blessed Trinity bible study, just to drop a couple of things off and then went to see Mother.  I knew that she needed a couple of items checked and decided to do it before I got more tired and sore.

  Mom is fine and we got her chores all gone and I was home before 11AM.  We had Chicken, mashed potatoes and broccoli for our lunch. then I took a nap.   The electrician came this afternoon.  He was recommended by one of the neighbors here in Tallgrass.  I was unable to put my Christmas lights out last year because the front exterior outlet was not working.   Guess that.   There is a plug with a switch in the front closet just inside the house from the garage that we DID NOT KNOW WAS THERE.   He hooked everything up and checked it out and I will have lights this year.   One of my other neighbors said that I should have asked her.   Who knew.  We have lived here for four years and I did not know that plug was there.

I will be able to stay home and heal the rest of the week.   If it is not better by tomorrow aftenoon, I will go to see Dr. Murthy on Wednesday.  At least there is no sign of a rash, which would mean that I probably have shingles.

Icky

That will not happen.   The Packer/Bears game is at halftime.   We are ahead but let the Bears score just before the break.   I sure hope they win, then I will be tied for first in my fantasy league (If I figured it right.)   Yippee.  Just want to keep up at the top.

Til tomorrow then.   Sleep tight.

Mary

Not a good day.    Last night my left rib cage started really hurting just before I went to bed.   I don't remember doing anything strenuous or bumping it in any way, so I took Tylenol and went to bed, sure that it would be better when I woke up.   

It wasn't so I took a shower, thinking that would help.   That did not help either so I drove over to Urgent Care to be checked. 

After an examination and x rays, as I thought, they cannot really say what is wrong.    There is no blood clot and no apparent break but the doctor thinks that there is probably a hairline fracture on a rib.    To treat that, I am wearing a rib brace and taking Vicodin for the pain.   If it is not better by Wednesday, I am to come back or if there are other symptoms.  We are to watch for a rash as pain like this CAN be the beginning of shingles.   If it is, it is too late for a shot and it is too early to start taking medication.   So pray for me these next couple of days.    My ribcage feels like an achy sausage.

At least the coming week is quiet.   I DO want to go to bible study and see Mom tomorrow but will see how I feel in the morning.

Take care of your selves and God love you

Mary