Family History

I went to the Family History Center today at 9:30 AM. I was there 2 hours and I think I learned something. I went to Walmart and got a thumb drive for next week. We can scan pictures into the records. I worked on the genealogy a little bit tonight but don't know enough about it to use the program. I've got to get the names of all of my grandchildren and their birth dates and their full names-that's all 8 of them, before next week. I enjoy this work and look forward to the time when I won't need any help.

Exercise

Karen came over at 8 AM and we went to exercise. She's not a morning person but she made it. She got hot during exercise and I told her next time she could turn on tone of the fans. I guess Frank won't be going with us until his knee is healed. Afterwards, we went to Walmart for some groceries. I was out of Diet Pepsi and milk and Karen needed some almond milk. Don't remember what I did the rest of the day.

Tomorrow, I got to the Family History Center at the church and begin learning how to us the computer to do family history. It opens at 9:30 AM and I'm ready to learn.

Plumber

I ran the dishwasher last night-I try to only run it at night while we are in the back of the house because it is so noisy-and I found the sink full of water this morning. I called the regular plumber I use but he didn't do sinks. I looked in the Yellow Pages and found a Kenny Green. He ran a snake up the pipe and got it unclogged. He wasn't too expensive. I couldn't pay him out of the main account for I have no more checks. I've ordered more and paid for fast shipping but don't know when they will get here.

I called several people today for various reasons. I called Karen to ask Ken to get Bro Christianson and come over and give Frank a blessing for his broken knee cap. They did and they arrived at the same time. Bro Decker is coming over Thursday to see if he can fix our front door. The latch won't hold and the only way we can lock the house is with the dead bolt. He can replace the porch light bulb, too. He can just reach up and change the light where I would have to get a stool to reach it. Height has its privileges.

Tomorrow, Karen is going to exercise with me. She doesn't turn 60 until June but I don't think that will matter, I hope. Then afterwards, I want to stop at Walmart. I have run out of my Diet Pepsi. I drink it every day. I consume a lot of water, too, but the sweet taste of the soda is a nice alternative to the water.

Unexpected Things

Frank stayed home from exercise today because of his knee. After I got home from exercise, I called Dr Walker's office but he wouldn't be in the office all week and the nurse told me to take Frank to Medical East to see about his knee. He had fallen and knocked his right knee on the floor Dec 31, 2014 and it was still giving him problems. He got it X-rayed there and found that he had broken his patella or knee cap. So he had gone 5 days with a broken knee cap and we didn't know it. There was an orthopedic Dr next door to Medical East, a walk in clinic, so they put him in a wheelchair and wheeled him into the Dr's office. We didn't have to wait too long before we saw the Dr.  He put a big leg brace on him and told him to wear it 24/7-not to take if off except to bathe and to keep his leg straight. We'll see the Dr in 2 weeks and if it is healing, he'll move the gears on the brace a little so it will bend and I bet he'll have to wear it another 2-4 weeks. If the bone is not healing, he might have to do surgery and but 2 screws in the patella to hold it together. Poor Frank. He can't grow old in peace, something's always happening.

Trudy was going to do a craft day with Carol and her girls Friday, my birthday, but she had conflicts and had to cancel. We'll do it the 23rd or the 30th whichever is good for the Walker's. It will be a lot of fun when we get to do it.

Sunday

I don't usually write on Sundays for it would be the same thing every time-church was great and we watched BYU TV all afternoon or took a nap.

Today was Fast and Testimony day, being the first Sun day of the month. A few people mentioned Frank being able to come to church today and I know it made him feel good. It was a spiritual meeting. We left after Sacrament meeting and came home.

Ken and Karen Decker came by after church and shared with us their trip to Utah to see their family. They stayed about 1 1/2 hours and visited and we all had a good time. Bro Decker will come by sometime this week and fix the door. The handle won't lock and he will have to move some piece of the door forward so the handle will latch. He's our Home Teacher and fixes things we can't do for ourselves.

Saturday

It was raining when we got up this morning. It'll probably rain tomorrow, too, but I hope not. Frank fell Wednesday and hurt his right knee. It had a big goose egg come up one the knee cap. I iced it down and that helped but the knee has been hot for the last few days. We have ice on it today. Frank wants to go see the Dr Monday, but I don't know if he could do anything about it. It just has to get better on it's own.

Silver Sneakers starts back Monday. I've missed getting out of the house M-W-F even if it's just for an hour.

I ordered a terry cloth robe from a sale at Land's End. It came in today. It will be warm if the weather ever gets cold. I didn't have a bathrobe that was warm. This is an XL and is big but I'd rather have it big as small.

I ordered a pair of shoes from Goody's online. I thought I was getting Osics but it was Sketchers and I may have ordered a 1/2 size too large. I can take them back to the store if they are too large. I'm trying to buy a more expensive shoe so it will last longer and wear better. This shoe wasn't that expensive and maybe it will be a sturdy shoe.

I have absolutely nothing to say and I'm babbling.

The Family History Center will be open this Thursday at 9:30 AM. I will be there. I want to learn how to navigate the different genealogical sites by myself so I can do some work at home.

It's 62 degrees outside. It's stopped raining. It always has to warm up to rain. I see on the weather on TV that the North East is supposed to get some single digit weather next. Some of it may get us too-North Alabama.  Hi, Kathy!

Friday

I left home this morning before 9 AM. I needed to stop by the pharmacy for an Rx and drop a letter off at the PO and then take my extra pair of glasses to Jody's Optical to get a pair or reading glasses made. The print in the second edition of the New Testament Study Guide has smaller print in it and my no line bifocals don't work as well. I have reading glasses in my bedroom but would forget to get them or forget to bring them back so I took the last pair of frames I had and had them made into reading glasses for the living room. Now, I have no more glasses frames. I have computer glasses, piano glasses, 2 pair of reading glasses and my regular everyday glasses. It's been 2 years since I got new frames. I like what I have and don't wish to get new ones.

I dropped off a small stack of magazines to Pep Boys. The man was glad to get them. I noticed their choice of magazines was poor and I had a bunch at my house. I hate to throw away good magazines. I had gotten two from Ruth and subscribe to The Week, a news magazine that comes weekly, plus two 2015 calendars and a self-reliance catalog. The only ones they might not put out were the two NRA magazines. When I read the NRA magazine, I want to go out and buy a gun and some ammo!

I ended up at Walmart for some groceries. We were out of fresh veggies and milk. They were out of kale so I got some spinach and baby kale. I cooked 2 bags so we would be able to eat several meals from the one cooking. I cooked two bunches of broccoli this afternoon and will cook a cauliflower tomorrow. We still have cabbage, tomatoes and smoked sausage to eat plus some goulash. I forgot to get some ground turkey today but may have one pound left in the freezer.

Tomorrow, I will cook and wash clothes and I need to vacuum the floors and the air filters and play the piano. It's so hard to go down and play the piano now that I have nothing to practice for. I enjoy it once I get to playing but I don't play enough. I don't want to loose the technique that I have and I will if I don't play any.