Friday

Exercise at the senior center was good today. There were about 12 people there. I decided I would teach Wednesdays too, but not this coming Wednesday because Mary Kate will still be here. The ones who come seem to enjoy the work out and I'm just being selfish in not wanting to wake up early and go teach Wednesdays, too.

I drove over to the Latham's apt and found their building but there weren't any numbers on the building. I guess they were on the doors. I didn't stop because it was early to be visiting, 9:30 AM, so I came on home. I fixed the hamburger mix but I used rotoni instead on beans since Mary Kate and beans don't agree. I used 1/2 of a jar of spaghetti mix that was left over and of course used TVP with the hamburger and two cans of tomatoes. It tasted good.

Around 2 PM, I drove out to Publix to get some 15 bean soup and some other things to have when the children come to visit. I didn't have the beans on my list so I forgot them. I did get a chuck roast that I will put in the crock pot late Saturday night to have ready for Sunday's noon meal. Mary Kate and kids will watch General Conference at their house in GA and then leave for here after the second session is over. We'll get to watch Sunday's Conference together.

Strength Training

I met with Janet today. I was doing bicep curls with 8 lbs of weight and it was about my limit, for now, anyway. We did lots of other moves too. Next week, we'll be back on the Thursday at 2:30 PM schedule. These last two weeks we had to move the exercise to other days because Thursdays are temple nights. I didn't get to go last Thursday because Frank was sick but I look forward to this Thursday night.

Mary Kate is thinking of coming to visit and arriving Sunday morning early enough to watch the 11:00 AM session of General Conference with us. That will be fun. I guess I'll tell the seniors I won't be there Monday but can teach Friday. I don't think I want to teach Wednesdays too. Right now, I'm to greedy with my time.

I'm thinking of going to the Family History Center and taking some genealogy. I know nothing about how things are done now and I'll have to get over my fear of new things on the computer. There are people there to help those how come, so it'll be a matter of me getting my courage up and going.

Monday, Monday

Don't know the rest of that song...Had a good exercise class. I did forget as couple of exercises but the time was filled with the others. I think we had about 7 people. I went to Curves afterwards and then to Walmart. This gets to be a theme, doesn't it?! I needed bananas and I bought some milk and a pair of PJ's. I got a size too small so I had to go back and exchange it. I had to go back into town to pick up Frank's medical records from the hospital so I just went on to Walmart. The next size will really be too large, but they will be plenty roomy!

The Sims are here cutting our yard. I think ours was the only one in the neighborhood that hadn't been cut this year. I want the asparagus bed cut down. The morning glories have taken over the bed and the asparagus can't grow. I'm not interested in taking care of it and the Adam's have been harvesting the asparagus but not taking care of the bed. Don't know if they knew that it would be good for them to do it. I just told them they could have the asparagus that came up. Plus, the bed is on our property and they may not want to take care of something that really belongs to us!

One of our two pear trees had lots of blooms on it. The other one is half dead. Not whole dead, only half.  April 15th is the last day, supposed, for a killing frost in North Alabama, but the weather has been so weird this year that it will probably be May before I can plant anything. I thought about planting Swiss Chard in my little planters, then I realized that the rabbits would probably enjoy that crop. If I could get some fencing around it, I might could keep the little critters away from the Chard.

It's fun to think about it anyway.

Rain Again Today

It was only cloudy the first part of the morning. We did have some thunder storms but not too much rain. The sun was out this afternoon. Mr Sims couldn't get to our yard to cut it this week so I guess it will be done next week.

I slept in and listened to Kim Kamando on the radio. Then got up and changed my sheets and did two small loads of laundry. I cooked some broccoli for lunch.

We called Frankie and Mary Kate and sang "Happy Birthday" to them on their answering machines. Frankie is 42 yrs old and Mary Kate is 37 yrs old. Trudy is 40. Time is moving on. In June, Sadie will be 15 and will be learning how to drive! My babies are growing up!

Wonderful Day

We did get some rain and it washed the pollen off of my car. Dad's car is brown and it shows up more on his car.

I left the senior center at 9:15 AM went by the PO in town and mailed a package and then on the way to H'ville, I stopped by Staples and mailed a box for UPS. After that, I drove to Madison to Kohl's dept store. I originally wanted to get my name on the email list for coupons but while I was there, I just had to do some shopping! I got some cropped pants and some blouses. I got up to check- out and the lady asked if I had a Kohl's charge card and I said no, that I had tried once before and had been turned down. She said to try again and I did and the information went through! I saved 30% on my order which ended up to be $41.00! I left after an hour and drove on into H'ville to JC Penny's. I got some more cropped pants and a blouse. They had moved the petite section and I had to ask where it was.

I was to meet Trudy and Sadie in front of Penny's at 12 noon. Trudy's back is in bad shape and she can barely walk and that's why I did all my shopping before meeting them. We went to lunch at a nice Chinese restaurant and had a nice lunch. I felt good about being able to treat them to a good lunch.  Afterwards, we went back to Penny's to Trudy's car. We took some pictures in the parking lot and got some sweet pictures of the Granny and her family! 

Still Sick

Frank has been in bed all day, asleep most of the time. I had an appointment with Janet at 1:30 PM today and Frank didn't wake up until about 12:15 PM and I was getting worried about being able to go. In fact, I had called her to tell her I couldn't come but didn't get her and left a message. She called back and said to come at 2:00 PM and that was a better time for me to go.

We had a good work out. I used 10 lbs on one exercise and maybe 8-9 lbs on another which was hard to complete. I think Janet was glad to find my limit for I had lifted the other lower weights with ease.

I went to Walmart to get some Clorox for all of mine that was opened had gone bad and I needed to bleach some things. Frank needed some Kopectate and some GaterAide and I got a cooked chicken. I stopped by Westside pharmacy and got some more direahrea medicine so I would have plenty on hand. The new Clorox worked great and got the stains out of the clothes. I'll use some on the towels next time. I used some of the old Clorox today but it didn't brighten anything.


With Frank asleep and the birds put to bed it's really quiet in the house. I hope we have some rain tonight. The gold car is covered with gold pollen and looks pretty bad. A good rain would help with that.

Sick, Sick, Sick

It started Sunday night sometime when Frank got the fevers. He woke up with fever. I got him to eat a little bit so he could take his medicine and I left it with him to take. He was sick all Monday and Monday night and Tuesday morning when I went to give him his medicine, I noticed that he hadn't taken his Monday AM pills. They had the prednesone in them. I couldn't get him to take them this morning so I finally gave up and called his Dr. He said to take him to the emergency room. I had to call an ambulance to do that. They came and got him and we got him in the hospital. We were there 4 hours. All of his blood work came back fine and they gave him the prednesone by mouth. When the Dr came in and told us all the tests were fine, he said we could go home. All this happened because he wouldn't or couldn't take the meds I was trying to give him at home. He feels pretty bad now. It's a big jolt to his system when he messes with the prednesone.

While I was in the pharmacy getting the nausea Rx filled, I bought another big ring. It's oval, black with wavy lines on it. It's a fun ring and it fits all sizes. I now have 3 of them.  It was only $4.95-a cheap thrill!