I had a couple of paragraphs written but didn't finish thinking I could come back to it but it disappeared so I will start over.
Frankie, Mariam and Josh come about 10 PM last night. They went right to bed after saying, "Hello". They got up at 9 AM. Knoxville time is an hour ahead of us and they were tired. After breakfast, we went to Walmart so I could buy then some toys. Mariam got another doll. It's the same size as the American Girl doll. Josh got a remote control helicopter and Frankie got a rubik's cube. He's teaching Josh, 10, how to solve the puzzle. We drove by the new Athens-Limestone public library. It used to be the building where the Kroger supermarket was. Now, it's our nice new, large library. We stopped and went in. It's really nice. Then we got gas and drove the back roads home. We drove to the restaurant where Frankie's high school class is meeting tonight and then we came home.
Sadie drove from work and got here before Trudy and George did. I had the hamburgers already cooked and they were good. Some of them were undercooked but I like my meat rare! We sat around the table and talked. It was a good time. Trudy, George and Sadie left at 3-3:30 PM and Frankie and the kids walked down the road and talked to the man who owns the horses and the end of the road. He said if they were here again and he was there, he would give the kids a horse back ride. The kids took showers and Frankie left for his shindig. He said he'd be home around 8:30-9:00 PM.
We won't be going to church because of Frank's broken knee cap. He seems to be doing better and we will see the Dr this Monday. He barely can get his leg in the car with the brace on and I think we will just wait until the brace is off before we go back to church. I'll call and get the sacrament brought out to us like they did when we weren't able to go to church.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Friday Again
The time is just flying by. I woke up 15 minutes late today so was in a hurry to leave on time and forgot my list of things to do. I was supposed to stop by the Dr's office for an Rx but forgot so will have to get it Monday. Karen couldn't go shopping with me so we took two cars. Ken was off today and they were going shopping together this afternoon.
I bought food for this week-end. I came home and put the pork roast in the crock pot and cooked about 3 lbs of potatoes for the potato salad. I cooked the cabbage and tomato and smoked sausage dish and cooked some broccoli. I bought a cooked chicken at Walmart and that's what we had for lunch. I was going to cook goulash today but I don't have any room in the refrigerator for anything else. I may cook it and put it in the freezer. We'll see.
Tomorrow, Trudy and George will come over for lunch and visit with Frankie and Mariam and Josh. I bought 12 hamburger patties already made and two packs of buns. Trudy said she would bring lettuce and tomato and onion. I bought some diet Pepsi and diet Mt. Dew. I think George likes Mt. Dew. I got some potato chips, too. I will need to make to goulash for we will need to have something to eat Sunday.
I made the potato salad and it filled a gallon Ziploc bag to the top. That should last the entire week-end.
I'm having a problem with my legs and arms going to sleep and now I feel the tingling feeling outside of both my ears. I guess I need to see the Dr about it, sometime soon. Getting old is not for wimps!
I bought food for this week-end. I came home and put the pork roast in the crock pot and cooked about 3 lbs of potatoes for the potato salad. I cooked the cabbage and tomato and smoked sausage dish and cooked some broccoli. I bought a cooked chicken at Walmart and that's what we had for lunch. I was going to cook goulash today but I don't have any room in the refrigerator for anything else. I may cook it and put it in the freezer. We'll see.
Tomorrow, Trudy and George will come over for lunch and visit with Frankie and Mariam and Josh. I bought 12 hamburger patties already made and two packs of buns. Trudy said she would bring lettuce and tomato and onion. I bought some diet Pepsi and diet Mt. Dew. I think George likes Mt. Dew. I got some potato chips, too. I will need to make to goulash for we will need to have something to eat Sunday.
I made the potato salad and it filled a gallon Ziploc bag to the top. That should last the entire week-end.
I'm having a problem with my legs and arms going to sleep and now I feel the tingling feeling outside of both my ears. I guess I need to see the Dr about it, sometime soon. Getting old is not for wimps!
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Family History Day
Trudy and I went to the church to do family history today. I'm still confused about what to do. Sis Walker helped me unlock two individuals that I had somehow locked last week when I was trying on my own in FamilySearch. We spent most of the time chasing a relative that I had sealed to the wrong family. I noticed in my notes that she was the daughter of the second husband and not the first.
Trudy learned some things too and it was a good morning. We stopped by Dollar General on the way home to get a garbage can for the kitchen. Trudy busted the top off the old one after it fell off. The new one is white and when the garbage sack is in it, the top doesn't want to stay on. I'll get used to it soon. It's sorta nice to have something new once and a while.
Trudy left before lunch but she and George will be back over for lunch Saturday when Frankie and Mariam and Josh are here. Frankie is getting together with some high school friends Saturday night and that's the reason he's coming down. He'll leave sometime Sunday. It will be good to have them all here.
After exercise in the morning, I've got to go by the Dr's office and pick up an Rx and take it to the pharmacy and then go to Walmart to buy groceries for the week-end and then back to the pharmacy and then home. I'll be cooking all Friday afternoon so I'll have enough food for the week-end. I'll fix the cabbage and smoked sausage recipe, buy a pork roast for the crock pot, get hamburger patties and buns and buy more Diet Pepsi. Trudy said she would bring chips and onion and tomatoes for the hamburgers. I have two pies left over from Thanksgiving that I forgot to put out that have been in the freezer since and I can buy some cookies for the kids. Mariam can't have food with corn syrup in it, so that might limit what I buy but maybe I'll find something.
Trudy learned some things too and it was a good morning. We stopped by Dollar General on the way home to get a garbage can for the kitchen. Trudy busted the top off the old one after it fell off. The new one is white and when the garbage sack is in it, the top doesn't want to stay on. I'll get used to it soon. It's sorta nice to have something new once and a while.
Trudy left before lunch but she and George will be back over for lunch Saturday when Frankie and Mariam and Josh are here. Frankie is getting together with some high school friends Saturday night and that's the reason he's coming down. He'll leave sometime Sunday. It will be good to have them all here.
After exercise in the morning, I've got to go by the Dr's office and pick up an Rx and take it to the pharmacy and then go to Walmart to buy groceries for the week-end and then back to the pharmacy and then home. I'll be cooking all Friday afternoon so I'll have enough food for the week-end. I'll fix the cabbage and smoked sausage recipe, buy a pork roast for the crock pot, get hamburger patties and buns and buy more Diet Pepsi. Trudy said she would bring chips and onion and tomatoes for the hamburgers. I have two pies left over from Thanksgiving that I forgot to put out that have been in the freezer since and I can buy some cookies for the kids. Mariam can't have food with corn syrup in it, so that might limit what I buy but maybe I'll find something.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Wednesday
Trudy came over this afternoon. She had her printer and computer set up to scan but couldn't do it. Bro Decker came by to fix the door and Trudy asked him if he knew anything about what she was trying to do. His knowledge plus what Trudy knew got the job done! We found some pictures we had previously made copies of with several pictures on a page and we scanned them into her computer in no time. If we had had to scan the individual pictures in, it would have taken days. Tomorrow, she will go with me to the Family History Center to meet with the sisters who help people and we will scan in pictures there. I have to be taught over again how to use FamilySearch because I didn't learn it the one time I was introduced to it.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Tuesday
I vacuumed the floors and the air filters and then I went to town to run some errands. I was back home by 11:00 AM.
A couple of days ago a man stopped by and offered to grind a stump beside the road. He had an advertizement and I took it and said I would think about it. Today I called him and said I had 2 stumps that needed grinding so he sent 2 fellows out to do it. They just ground the stumps. Left the hole in the ground with the dirt and sawdust around it and the top of the stump on the ground. Now, to make it look better, I'll call Bro Tune and see if the young men could come out and fill up the holes and cart off the wood from the stumps for a nice donation to the Scouting program. If they can't do it, I can have Lance do it. I will have to pay him and I had rather give it to the Scouts. Or maybe George and Sadie would like to do it for the money.
When it dries up, Bobby Adams has some man who is coming to take care of the down trees from the tornado. It's been 9 months the trees have been down and it looks really bad. If the trees could be removed back to where I used to mow or the edge of the original woods, it would look better.
A couple of days ago a man stopped by and offered to grind a stump beside the road. He had an advertizement and I took it and said I would think about it. Today I called him and said I had 2 stumps that needed grinding so he sent 2 fellows out to do it. They just ground the stumps. Left the hole in the ground with the dirt and sawdust around it and the top of the stump on the ground. Now, to make it look better, I'll call Bro Tune and see if the young men could come out and fill up the holes and cart off the wood from the stumps for a nice donation to the Scouting program. If they can't do it, I can have Lance do it. I will have to pay him and I had rather give it to the Scouts. Or maybe George and Sadie would like to do it for the money.
When it dries up, Bobby Adams has some man who is coming to take care of the down trees from the tornado. It's been 9 months the trees have been down and it looks really bad. If the trees could be removed back to where I used to mow or the edge of the original woods, it would look better.
Monday, January 12, 2015
Monday
I noticed I titled Friday's post "Monday" and today is Monday. No telling why I got it wrong.
It was raining a little bit when Karen came over and we went to exercise and was raining a lot when we left the senior center. We went to Walmart for some groceries and then to Collins Supply for some striker plates for the front door. When the paramedics stomped the door in it busted the door frame up badly. Bro Hansen fixed it for us but over time, the door lock wouldn't keep shut. Bro Decker fixed it yesterday but said I need a new striker plate for the door and the dead bolt and that's what I got. We depend on our home teachers for little repairs like that.
Frank's leg brace keeps slipping down. The Dr's office said to keep it tight so it wouldn't slip. Don't know if I got it tight enough or not. Hopefully, the knee cap will heal properly or be well on it's way the next time we see the Dr.
It was raining a little bit when Karen came over and we went to exercise and was raining a lot when we left the senior center. We went to Walmart for some groceries and then to Collins Supply for some striker plates for the front door. When the paramedics stomped the door in it busted the door frame up badly. Bro Hansen fixed it for us but over time, the door lock wouldn't keep shut. Bro Decker fixed it yesterday but said I need a new striker plate for the door and the dead bolt and that's what I got. We depend on our home teachers for little repairs like that.
Frank's leg brace keeps slipping down. The Dr's office said to keep it tight so it wouldn't slip. Don't know if I got it tight enough or not. Hopefully, the knee cap will heal properly or be well on it's way the next time we see the Dr.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Monday
Karen came over and we went to exercise together. She brought me brownies and some chocolates for my birthday. When I got home from exercise, I was going to just taste one of the small brownies and ended up eating quite a few! They have chocolate chips in them and they are good.
I ordered a Tiffany lamp with birds on the shade for my birthday. Anything with birds catches my eye. It will look good in the living room.
Trudy is coming over later on this afternoon and she will spend the night. Ruth and I are going to see Sister Act in H'ville Saturday afternoon. I'll meet her for lunch and we will go by some craft place she's found and then we'll go to the VB Center for the play, musical? I don't know anything about it. Last year, we saw Jersey Boys. It was good but it had way too much cursing in it. That detracted from the musical.
I got birthday wishes from my bank and Allstate agent and the Walkers sent me an ecard which I couldn't read for my Adobe reader isn't current. I down load it but it doesn't correct the problem. My brother called me yesterday to wish me a happy birthday. When I told him he was a day early, he said an extra day had been added to the month and it war really the 9th. I appreciated the thought.
After you get a certain age, birthdays shouldn't count and I am way past that age! I like presents, though.
I cleaned out the file folder holders on my desk and found my "lost" Write My Own Story essays. I didn't know where they were and the thought of all that work lost was disconcerting. Trudy will be glad I found them. She wants me to journal like she does, but I have no desire to journal. My blog is my journal. I had last year's blog printed and sent to me this week. It arrived yesterday and is one years record of what I've written.
I ordered a Tiffany lamp with birds on the shade for my birthday. Anything with birds catches my eye. It will look good in the living room.
Trudy is coming over later on this afternoon and she will spend the night. Ruth and I are going to see Sister Act in H'ville Saturday afternoon. I'll meet her for lunch and we will go by some craft place she's found and then we'll go to the VB Center for the play, musical? I don't know anything about it. Last year, we saw Jersey Boys. It was good but it had way too much cursing in it. That detracted from the musical.
I got birthday wishes from my bank and Allstate agent and the Walkers sent me an ecard which I couldn't read for my Adobe reader isn't current. I down load it but it doesn't correct the problem. My brother called me yesterday to wish me a happy birthday. When I told him he was a day early, he said an extra day had been added to the month and it war really the 9th. I appreciated the thought.
After you get a certain age, birthdays shouldn't count and I am way past that age! I like presents, though.
I cleaned out the file folder holders on my desk and found my "lost" Write My Own Story essays. I didn't know where they were and the thought of all that work lost was disconcerting. Trudy will be glad I found them. She wants me to journal like she does, but I have no desire to journal. My blog is my journal. I had last year's blog printed and sent to me this week. It arrived yesterday and is one years record of what I've written.
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