Today was a lost day.     Dick had to get up at 3:45AM, so I, of course, went back to bed.   He fed our Roxie cat and I did not get up until after 8:30AM.   The only reasons I got up were guilt and hunger.   Dick needed his meds and some attention.   We had breakfast and then Dick napped.   I laid on the couch and read my book.

By noon, we were ready for lunch.  We had Mac and Cheese with cauliflower and cranberry relish for lunch.   Then I laid down on the couch and slept until 3:00PM.   I woke up feeling like all the aches had at least receded for a while.

Heather arrived at 3:30PM  and and I headed to Mass.   A lovely Mass talking about the greatest Commandments.   The first comes from the Old Testament which was read in the first reading.  Deuteronomy 6:2-6.  Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Jesus, the good Jew that he was, quoted that and added. And love your neighbor as yourself for the love of God.

When I went up for communion I asked Jesus to do some curing as long as he was inside me.

We had pizza for supper and probably will go to bed early.   Tomorrow, thank God, is another quiet day.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

I was right.   It was a much better day today.   The headache is way in the background and my other aches stayed away until later this evening.

Jody cleaned this morning and Kay came at 6:30PM this evening so that I was able to finish shooting my targets at Rhine.   I only had two left.   When I got there the place was empty except for three of the people working.    Only one other shooter had been there all evening. Leann shooting pistol also and she had only ONE target to shoot.     I did very poorly on my first one but still got a 31 and much better on the second.  Oh Well, It is still lots of fun.

On the way home I stopped at the Pig  to pick up a couple of things I had forgotten on Tuesday. Got home and still had forgotten the Dishwasher detergent -  the main thing I needed, so I zipped back and got it.

I had a friend who always said that the first thing to go is the brain.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

This was not a very good day.   I have been fighting a headache along with the joint aches, for the past few days.   This morning, I woke up with my head throbbing.    I got up at 6AM.  

Kim from Embrace arrived at 7:30AM.  Kim had been off for several weeks because of a hip surgery.  I had not expected her until later in the month and was so glad to see her.   She is a very caring individual and I missed her.

I left almost immediately for Mass.   Today is All Saint's day - a holy day.   It was a nice mass.   I always like it when the school kids are there as they are on holy days during the school year.   It is so lovely to hear them do the readings and the petitions.

My head kept getting worse.   I picked up breakfast for Dick and me from Mc Donalds.    Then I took some more Tylenol and laid down on the couch for a couple of hours.     The headache is now way in the background and I hope the night will send it away.    I made an appointment with Dr. Murthy for next Tuesday anyway and have called the other doctor's that have treated me for the other pains to see what else we can do for them.

Sorry to be such a whiner, but I am SO very tired.  Tomorrow will be better,   I know it.

I took pictures of my jack o lantern made out of the rutabega and will post it tomorrow, when I have the energy to download the pictures.

We are watching the Country Music Awards.    I love that they actually have a lot of music.   Perhaps we can figure out who some of the newer artists are.   I have not been following Country music for several years but used to be a big fan.   The music isn't like the old country or even the outlaw country.   But it to will have its place.   Most of it sounds boiler plate to me.  Little Jimmie Dickens did a cameo.   how nice to see him again.   I wish he would sing.  But don't imagine we will be that lucky.

So til tomorrow and I promise to be much more cheerful.

Dia Dhuit

Mary




If you look at the Iwo Jima statue in Washington DC very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, when there were six men, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.

Dick is really restless tonight so I am closing down early and will not do much telling about my day.

I wanted to tell you of something beautiful though.

Yesterday morning, when I was taking out the trash in the morning, I heard a murmur and realized that it was coming from the school on Valley Road.  It was all the Children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.     I stood there entranced until they were done and am so grateful that I went out just at the right time. 

That made my day.

I am so glad that I am sent these special things just when I feel the most stressed.    It brings me back to the beauty of the world and the people that God has created.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

I slept late this morning.   Dick slept even later.   We had a strange day and I am sore and tired, though I did get a nap this afternoon.

I called Gary Anderson, a handyman who has been just such a wonder fixing things.  The plug that is next to Dick's Chair and controls most of the computer things, has been knocked out of the wall so many times by the wheelchair and the ground prong, broke off in the plug.    I am afraid of electricity.   As it was, I probably could have just pulled it out myself but I need experts.   He also helped me rearrange a few things and plug in the new cord.

He will come back tomorrow afternoon to fix the corner in the master bath that does not have tile on it.

This evening I went grocery shopping, thinking I would be home early enough to see the last part of Dancing.    I was wrong, but at least I do know who was eliminated.   Shawn, the little gymnast.

I will be going to bed as soon as we get him all settled and ready.    Pray God, that he sleeps tonight.

So you rest safely and I will write again tomorrow



Dia Dhuit

Mary

Today started out rather cold and stayed in the lower 50s.   However, with no wind and sunshine, it was beautiful.   We must brace ourselves.  Hurricane Sandy is reaching the Northeast and combining with the Nor'easter and the cold front that is sailing that way from our area and will smack the East Coast tomorrow.  We will get, from what they say, lots of wind and a chill.   I thank our lucky stars for that.   Jeff's Sara is in New York in Brooklyn Heights.  They are ready.  They have stocked up and are ready to hole up until they can move again.   Sara does work in Manhattan so this  could be a day or two..

It was a high intensive morning for Dick this morning but we were pretty well stabilized by the time Bobbie got here this morning at 9AM to stay with  her Dad while I went to Sheboygan Falls for Bible Study and to visit Mom and take care of business.  ( Business being paying bills and setting up her pills.)  We still had time for a nice visit.  She looks and seems to feel well, but is very frail.   I am glad that we are all retired and those close enough are able to stop in between caregivers.    Just another check.   Nora and George are SO good about calling every week to check  in.   I have met families that are So disjointed that they do not even like each other.   We are so blessed with our family.   We all love each other, accept each other and want to do nothing but make Mom comfortable until she joins Dad, whenever that might be.  

Bible Study was well attended.  Everybody was there, including Felecia, Joseph's wife, who usually is working.   The has a a neck injury so pray for her.   We finished up the Lament Psalms that we have been studying.   It will be rather a joy to get out of lamenting for a change.   We learned a lot from the Laments, but enough already.   Anyway, our full contingency is 10 ( sometimes 11 if a couple of stragglers drop in) and we had our 10 today.   What a joy.

I got home just before noon and Bobbie, Dick and I had pork chops and colcannon with coleslaw for our lunch.   Bobbie and Bill are just back from a lovely vacation in Louisiana with Leslie, Bill, Nora and Marcus.    It was  a great time and Bobbie worked on teaching Marcus to say "Auntie Bobbie"   which is important for ALL Kunert Babies.

The afternoon was quiet, we took a nap.   Now I am watching Dancing with the Stars and will go to bed as soon as I can vote.

That may even be too late.   I am such a slug a bed these days.  But that is because my sleep is often broken  up.  I told a friend who asked why I was tired, to imagine having a baby in the house again.   You just get a broken sleep.  Dick and I were just musing on two days last week that were just perfect.  We got settled at about 9PM and both woke up, refreshed at 6AM.   Then the roof fell in.   Can't  account for bodies. And we had broken sleep for the past three nights.

Oh well, as they say.  What is , IS.   So we will continue.

Have a great week.   Pray for those in the path of the storm.  Our Sarah is there so it becomes close to home.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

En

What a strange but beautiful day.   For me anyway.   Dick actually has had a very difficult afternoon.   His right leg and food started hurting just after lunch and it really never did let up.  I just wish there was something we could do for him.   Heather, the caregiver who came tonight, felt so bad too.

He woke up at 4:30AM and wanted to sit up, so we got him up and I went back to bed.   He even fed the cat for me so I got to sleep until 8AM.   When I got up, we had breakfast and a nice morning until he got sleepy at about 10AM.    He went down for a nap then.

I worked on making the colcannon for the Samhain dinner and gathering up all the other things that I had to bring along.   The sign up book, the wine,  utensils and plates and glasses, tea and the place mat for the ancestors.

Here I was worried that we wouldn't have many people there.   As it turned out there were exactly 13 of us.   A perfect number, we all decided, for a Samhain dinner.   Peg led us in a lovely prayer for the "House and all in it" before we ate.    A great social for all of us.    The food was super.   I made colcannon.   We also had Reuben sliders, a stogenoff, a chicken rice casserole, a sweet potato casserole, soda bread and desserts.    All SO good.   We were pleasantly sated and finished the evening by discussing strange events and superstitions that have come down from our families, or that we have taken on during our lives.

Got home at about 7PM.   Just about when I had expected.    So I am able to get Dick to bed myself which I hope will make him more comfortable.   I have a feeling it will be a broken sleep but I will go to bed early myself so hopefully I can get at least the hours if not the straight through.

As I said a beautiful day.   The dinner was just what we all needed.

Dia Dhuit

Mary