I did make the time to type a note then after the hurry and all the struggle to do so.............................Nothing! Absolutly nothing at all can I think of to say.
Well, maybe I could take a few strokes here to wish you a great day! HAVE A GREAT DAY!
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.~Margaret Bonnano
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Friday, September 30, 2005
Thursday, September 29, 2005
September 29, 2005
Glenda's leg is a lot better this morning. I suspect that it will still get a little lame about mid-afternoon but what was sore yesterday morning isn't as sore today. Compared to awhile back, it's looking pretty good too.
Now she is into a very strong dread about biopsy of the growth on her liver tomorrow. She isn't worrying about what the results might be, just the procedure. I think they said they would be taking four or five samples. They also said that there would probably be a large bruise in the area where they put the needle in and she might hurt a little later. Because of the last time we think she may be kept overnight again.
We won't know the results for several days but we'll try to keep you posted.
Anyway, we'll be leaving around 5:00 in the morning so I doubt that I'll post anything tomorrow. That way at least some folks can have a little happy bit of relief.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.~David Sedaris
Now she is into a very strong dread about biopsy of the growth on her liver tomorrow. She isn't worrying about what the results might be, just the procedure. I think they said they would be taking four or five samples. They also said that there would probably be a large bruise in the area where they put the needle in and she might hurt a little later. Because of the last time we think she may be kept overnight again.
We won't know the results for several days but we'll try to keep you posted.
Anyway, we'll be leaving around 5:00 in the morning so I doubt that I'll post anything tomorrow. That way at least some folks can have a little happy bit of relief.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.~David Sedaris
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
September 28, 2005
Did okay at the boat yesterday......You don't expect to have a good time and get paid for it bet Glenda and I were. Ruthie seemed to enjoy herself but it sounded like she may have paid a little for hers.
Rain is in the forecast for here again starting just afternoon. We need a few things from Eldon so I think we'll head'er out pretty quick so we'll be home by the time it starts.
I guess the grass sowing can wait a little longer!
Of some things it doesn't take a lot to be too much and I'm sure hoping this doesn't qualify. I just read it myself and decided I would quit now. No need to make it WAY TOO MUCH!
Perhaps too little of anything is as bad as too much.~Edna Ferber (edt)
Rain is in the forecast for here again starting just afternoon. We need a few things from Eldon so I think we'll head'er out pretty quick so we'll be home by the time it starts.
I guess the grass sowing can wait a little longer!
Of some things it doesn't take a lot to be too much and I'm sure hoping this doesn't qualify. I just read it myself and decided I would quit now. No need to make it WAY TOO MUCH!
Perhaps too little of anything is as bad as too much.~Edna Ferber (edt)
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
September 27, 2005
"Baby needs a new pair of shoes", err I guess she does. She is using me as a chauffer again. She has commissioned me to drive her and Ruthie to Boonville where I'm to drop them at the front door of the casino for a short visit then pick them up at the door and drive them home. I don't know what I'll do in the interim, maybe I'll slip inside for a quick observation of the patrons there-in. If gasoline is cheaper than $2.599 in Boonville I may invest ten bucks in a slot machine even while knowing that looking is cheaper.
Glenda's knee was feeling pretty good this morning or so she said. She was able to bend it and exercise it some but it is better every morning. Sure enough after a bit it began to stiffen up........Not so bad as to cancel the trip but not good.
We did get rain yesterday and I suppose it's too muddy to sow grass anyway.
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to do. -Bo Bennett
Glenda's knee was feeling pretty good this morning or so she said. She was able to bend it and exercise it some but it is better every morning. Sure enough after a bit it began to stiffen up........Not so bad as to cancel the trip but not good.
We did get rain yesterday and I suppose it's too muddy to sow grass anyway.
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to do. -Bo Bennett
Monday, September 26, 2005
September 26, 2005
A lazy day around here was our yesterday. I finished one book and made a large dent into another. Watched the race between paragraphs and fretted that I was getting a cold. I'm still fretting about that this morning.
Glenda is still getting new blisters on the area around the wound and each new one eases some of the positive attitude to lower level. After she gets the leg moving it lets up some but not near enough to practice any new dance steps. She still does all the housework, washing and cooking. I can't do any of it to suit her so as long as she is mobile and able to see the results when I do it, I think her doing it is best. Even outside she never lets me do any of the painting and a few other things. I can't water the plants because of too much water or in a few cases, not enough water. What's a poor boy to do but sit in his recliner smiling as he reads a good book. I do get up to move the vacuum up and down the stairs for her.
Let me say this, before you think I don't do a good job at all of the chores, I DO! I can never see the problem with a Larry finished task but Glenda sure can.
I think she is going to let me rake around in the yard and sow a little more grass seed but here at this moment it looks too much like rain to plan very far ahead. Maybe I should have done it yesterday. I don't want to sow any wild oats in the mud nor sow any of the grass seed in the mud either.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.~Pythagoras
Glenda is still getting new blisters on the area around the wound and each new one eases some of the positive attitude to lower level. After she gets the leg moving it lets up some but not near enough to practice any new dance steps. She still does all the housework, washing and cooking. I can't do any of it to suit her so as long as she is mobile and able to see the results when I do it, I think her doing it is best. Even outside she never lets me do any of the painting and a few other things. I can't water the plants because of too much water or in a few cases, not enough water. What's a poor boy to do but sit in his recliner smiling as he reads a good book. I do get up to move the vacuum up and down the stairs for her.
Let me say this, before you think I don't do a good job at all of the chores, I DO! I can never see the problem with a Larry finished task but Glenda sure can.
I think she is going to let me rake around in the yard and sow a little more grass seed but here at this moment it looks too much like rain to plan very far ahead. Maybe I should have done it yesterday. I don't want to sow any wild oats in the mud nor sow any of the grass seed in the mud either.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.~Pythagoras
Sunday, September 25, 2005
September 25, 2005
It kinda tells you what is what when Glenda is up to taking about four pain pills a day then Aunt Sallie and Cousin Leigh Ann come down to play a little Texas Hold'em. Glenda uses only one pill for the whole day. I thought the pain was in her knee area but now I'm thinking most of it could be originating from me. I may need to work on that somehow.
We had a good time at the poker table.....more or less. I was too greedy to stay in long. Broke me pronto. Annie and Glenda were the two winners. Annie got all of her money back and Glenda got hers too, along with mine and Sallie's. She offered Sallie her money back which Sallie refused but so far she hasn't offered me mine. I may be out the five bucks.
They brought a lot of food things along with them and I feel like I may have gotten five dollars worth of eating so I'll not be losing. Matter of fact I gained a pound someway.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.~Bob Dylan
We had a good time at the poker table.....more or less. I was too greedy to stay in long. Broke me pronto. Annie and Glenda were the two winners. Annie got all of her money back and Glenda got hers too, along with mine and Sallie's. She offered Sallie her money back which Sallie refused but so far she hasn't offered me mine. I may be out the five bucks.
They brought a lot of food things along with them and I feel like I may have gotten five dollars worth of eating so I'll not be losing. Matter of fact I gained a pound someway.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.~Bob Dylan
Saturday, September 24, 2005
September 24, 2005
A lazy day is upon us. I've got the blowing, weed beating and mowing all done. And...I have three new books. Not new but unread by me. A good day is in store!
Glenda has asked the doctor that a prescription for pain medication be mailed to us and we're told it was. (They won't call in a prescription for narcotic type medication.) If it isn't in our mail box today Glenda isn't going to have a very good weekend. She is still experiencing quite a bit of pain from the radiation burns and she is out of the pain pills.
That concludes today's update.
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.~Elbert Hubbard
Glenda has asked the doctor that a prescription for pain medication be mailed to us and we're told it was. (They won't call in a prescription for narcotic type medication.) If it isn't in our mail box today Glenda isn't going to have a very good weekend. She is still experiencing quite a bit of pain from the radiation burns and she is out of the pain pills.
That concludes today's update.
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.~Elbert Hubbard
Friday, September 23, 2005
September 23, 2005
The thing is.................everything is about the same and having only gone to town one time to take the animals and not wanting to create more disagreement than I have most every day, I'm putting my thoughts into a place were the typing fingers can't find them.
Whoa! That took everything away!...............
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.~Thomas A. Edison
Whoa! That took everything away!...............
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.~Thomas A. Edison
Thursday, September 22, 2005
September 22, 2005
Glenda's leg seems to be quite a bit better this morning. Hopefully it isn't only because it's had a good nights rest. It even looks a whole lot less angry too. She is still taking several pain pills a day but, whatever it takes, we say.
A trip to Eldon is scheduled this morning. We have two animals that are a little past due for their shots and that will be taken care of first. Then we'll fill both vehicles to the brim with gasoline in case it does skyrocket in price again. Glenda will make a stop for a few staples at the grocery store while I haul a meowing cat and a mellow dog back home.
After all that we're going to be free, we get to idle! No appointments nor trips on the list till next Thursday. We're going to have us a six day weekend if things hold as they are now. I may be wrong about the next trip but I think it is next Thursday when Lena is getting her knee worked on and Glenda will be taking her to that appointment.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.~Floyd Dell
A trip to Eldon is scheduled this morning. We have two animals that are a little past due for their shots and that will be taken care of first. Then we'll fill both vehicles to the brim with gasoline in case it does skyrocket in price again. Glenda will make a stop for a few staples at the grocery store while I haul a meowing cat and a mellow dog back home.
After all that we're going to be free, we get to idle! No appointments nor trips on the list till next Thursday. We're going to have us a six day weekend if things hold as they are now. I may be wrong about the next trip but I think it is next Thursday when Lena is getting her knee worked on and Glenda will be taking her to that appointment.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.~Floyd Dell
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
September 21, 2005
The results of Glenda's yesterday tests sounded really good with the specks in her lungs not any different than before and that is the most common place her type cancer metastasis to. After that a stutter was put in our step with the conclusion that the two nodules on her liver may have increased somewhat in size. It could be that the stuff they run thru the veins just made the picture brighter this time making the growths only appear to be larger. In short, a much more painful biopsy is being scheduled as I type. This one will be several pokes instead of just the one. Glenda is not looking forward to this at all. Neither of us are worried about the possibility of the growths being cancerous but we need to be sure.
They want to see her again on December 13, if as we/they believe nothing negative will come from the biopsy.
I just got the message that the biopsies will be performed on September 30 at 7:00 am at the University Hospital in Columbia.
Today she is driving herself to Jeff City for a dentist appointment takeing Mary Jo along for the ride..........and in case it gets too painful to drive. The back of her leg looks to be blistering a little and it's causing her a lot of pain right now.
They can conquer who believe they can.~Virgil
They want to see her again on December 13, if as we/they believe nothing negative will come from the biopsy.
I just got the message that the biopsies will be performed on September 30 at 7:00 am at the University Hospital in Columbia.
Today she is driving herself to Jeff City for a dentist appointment takeing Mary Jo along for the ride..........and in case it gets too painful to drive. The back of her leg looks to be blistering a little and it's causing her a lot of pain right now.
They can conquer who believe they can.~Virgil
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
September 20, 2005
Leaving here in about 15 minutes, heading for Columbia. May need to leave a little earlier because of the great amount of fog that was left over from the storms that sashayed through here last night. We had severe storm warnings and a tornado warning but we played like a lot of the New Orleans residents and just slept through it with visions of money rolling in from the government a little later in the week. Nothing but a good nights sleep and a good watering looks like about all we're going to get this time.
Oh yes, daughter Debi plans to meet us for lunch if things go as planed.
Time to go.................................
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off."-Henry David Thoreau
Oh yes, daughter Debi plans to meet us for lunch if things go as planed.
Time to go.................................
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off."-Henry David Thoreau
Monday, September 19, 2005
September 19, 2005
The sun did pop out this morning for at least a little while. Maybe all day. High expected to be in the 90's with rain this evening. High humidity?
Glenda's last treatment is today and I think her plans have Ruthie and Mary Jo taking her then a celebration lunch at a Mexican food joint that they've all been wanting to try. I'm not sure how firm this plan is but we'll see soon.
An appointment with a couple of doctors in Columbia tomorrow and a bunch of tests just to make sure there has not been a cheater cell that slipped off and started a new colony. We're sure that is not the case making real relief just a day away. Glenda will continue to have leg problems for a couple or three weeks after today's last treatment because it will take awhile to heal of course. She went a long long time without taking very many pain pills and then when she did she would take only one. She is into them bigger time now, at least three everyday and sometimes four. She works at something all morning but about mid-afternoon she sits down for a rest in her recliner. There are times that she goes from her recliner right on to bed and her dreams.
Nobody ever said that life would be easy and we're very thankful for everyday we get including the hard ones!
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the sick the well are equal there."~-E. M. Cioran (edt)
Glenda's last treatment is today and I think her plans have Ruthie and Mary Jo taking her then a celebration lunch at a Mexican food joint that they've all been wanting to try. I'm not sure how firm this plan is but we'll see soon.
An appointment with a couple of doctors in Columbia tomorrow and a bunch of tests just to make sure there has not been a cheater cell that slipped off and started a new colony. We're sure that is not the case making real relief just a day away. Glenda will continue to have leg problems for a couple or three weeks after today's last treatment because it will take awhile to heal of course. She went a long long time without taking very many pain pills and then when she did she would take only one. She is into them bigger time now, at least three everyday and sometimes four. She works at something all morning but about mid-afternoon she sits down for a rest in her recliner. There are times that she goes from her recliner right on to bed and her dreams.
Nobody ever said that life would be easy and we're very thankful for everyday we get including the hard ones!
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the sick the well are equal there."~-E. M. Cioran (edt)
Sunday, September 18, 2005
September 18, 2005
We're just barely here, not being blown away by a storm. There has been some thunder storms but thankfully nothing to blow us away yet. We are still getting rain and I think I'll need to unplug this again right away.
Yesterday we did notice that something had helped our windsock to escape from off the holder on the dock but we think it was probably the storm of a few days ago and we only just now noticed. Of course I promptly replaced it with a one dollar, 36 inch windsock from the Eldon Dollar Store. Hope it stays up longer than the last one! That one cost us almost .00001 cents per day to fly. WE DON'T HAFT TO HAVE ONE!
I think, if the TV is working we'll watch the NASCAR race today. Glenda may watch it from bed as it is extremely painful for her to move her leg around. I saw her eyes tear up yesterday at the breakfast table and asked her about it. She told me a pain at the burn site had just been acknowledged.
We're still praying!
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.~George Santayana
Yesterday we did notice that something had helped our windsock to escape from off the holder on the dock but we think it was probably the storm of a few days ago and we only just now noticed. Of course I promptly replaced it with a one dollar, 36 inch windsock from the Eldon Dollar Store. Hope it stays up longer than the last one! That one cost us almost .00001 cents per day to fly. WE DON'T HAFT TO HAVE ONE!
I think, if the TV is working we'll watch the NASCAR race today. Glenda may watch it from bed as it is extremely painful for her to move her leg around. I saw her eyes tear up yesterday at the breakfast table and asked her about it. She told me a pain at the burn site had just been acknowledged.
We're still praying!
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.~George Santayana
Saturday, September 17, 2005
September 17, 2005
Somewhat of an aggravation is the necessity to turn lights on to navigate around the house when you get up early. A greater aggravation is when the dawn breaks and you don't get to see the sun rise because of all the fog that limits your view to only the edge of the dock. My risings are coming later and later and you know what, I still end up with a whole day ahead of me. Now what is wrong with that?
We had a pretty nice time yesterday and lunch time found is walking into the Chinese Dragon House buffet where you can eat all you want for $4.95 less a 10% senior discount. It serves awfully good food. You know it is one of those places that after getting off the scales the next morning you find yourself wishing you had eaten somewhere else.
Glenda's treatments are really getting to her now with only one to go. She was worn out by the time we got home and it didn't take her long to lay down on the bed and put her leg up.
Today's plans, I have not been made privy too yet so more than that I cannot say.............Or dare not at least.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?~Scott Adams
We had a pretty nice time yesterday and lunch time found is walking into the Chinese Dragon House buffet where you can eat all you want for $4.95 less a 10% senior discount. It serves awfully good food. You know it is one of those places that after getting off the scales the next morning you find yourself wishing you had eaten somewhere else.
Glenda's treatments are really getting to her now with only one to go. She was worn out by the time we got home and it didn't take her long to lay down on the bed and put her leg up.
Today's plans, I have not been made privy too yet so more than that I cannot say.............Or dare not at least.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?~Scott Adams
Friday, September 16, 2005
September 16, 2005
The Struebbe's called and told us of their plan to take Glenda to her next to last treatment today and I even get to ride along. This probably means a meal at one of those pay to eat places. That won't be all that unusual for Glenda but for me..........WOW!
She and Ruthie met her mother and aunt yesterday then they all traveled to Lebanon for some shopping. I got a shirt and five huge boxes of Russell Stover candy. I mean boxes of 13 inches long by 4 inches deep and 10 inches wide just filled with many individully wrapped packages of candy. Like the one box had 10 packages of jellybeans and cost only $1.25. For some reason I don't feel all that well this morning.
The temp here this morning is only 57 degrees and it still looks rainy but I don't think rain is in the forecast. The high is reported as to be only into the lower 70's by the end of the day. Long pants clothe my legs today. The leaves of the trees seem to be enjoying the cool weather too, as the breeze blows them they do what looks like a pretty happy little dance jiggling up and down then back and forth.
You figured out that I've nothing to say again pretty quick didn't you?
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.~Unknown
She and Ruthie met her mother and aunt yesterday then they all traveled to Lebanon for some shopping. I got a shirt and five huge boxes of Russell Stover candy. I mean boxes of 13 inches long by 4 inches deep and 10 inches wide just filled with many individully wrapped packages of candy. Like the one box had 10 packages of jellybeans and cost only $1.25. For some reason I don't feel all that well this morning.
The temp here this morning is only 57 degrees and it still looks rainy but I don't think rain is in the forecast. The high is reported as to be only into the lower 70's by the end of the day. Long pants clothe my legs today. The leaves of the trees seem to be enjoying the cool weather too, as the breeze blows them they do what looks like a pretty happy little dance jiggling up and down then back and forth.
You figured out that I've nothing to say again pretty quick didn't you?
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.~Unknown
Thursday, September 15, 2005
September 15, 2005
If I understand correctly Glenda's mom and Aunt Sue are going to meet her somewhere then take her for her thirtieth treatment leaving her only two to go. I think thirty two is about the limit for anyone. It seems to stretch ones endurance just about three treatments beyond what one thinks they can take. Glenda is having a hell of a time now with the treated area and the dread of the next one is causing funny looking ridges in the carpet as she drags her ass around trying to get ready to go. She isn't sleeping very well either. The doctor told us that the area will still be a source of pain for up to three weeks after the treatments end. The last one is scheduled for Monday the 19th.
After the treatment they're heading to Lebanon and the bargain clothes stores there. I'll bet the candy outlet store will get a once over too. Glenda is looking forward to the trip and visit.
Yesterday after the treatment Glenda and I drove to Camdenton to take the septic tank motor to be repaired. Hopefully it will be ready for them to pick up today as they cruise through Camdenton.
I don't know what my plans for the day are but one thing for sure, typing anything isn't in the running.
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." -Henry Ford
After the treatment they're heading to Lebanon and the bargain clothes stores there. I'll bet the candy outlet store will get a once over too. Glenda is looking forward to the trip and visit.
Yesterday after the treatment Glenda and I drove to Camdenton to take the septic tank motor to be repaired. Hopefully it will be ready for them to pick up today as they cruise through Camdenton.
I don't know what my plans for the day are but one thing for sure, typing anything isn't in the running.
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." -Henry Ford
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
September 14, 2005
Nice little storm came through yesterday. Without electricity for a good part of the afternoon and night. The road above us had to have a tree removed that had been blown across it. Down our road from the house I can see a tree blown over but it quite reach the road. I understand there are a lot of trees down around here. I need to go all the way up our road right away in case we're blocked. We always leave around 9:45 for Glenda's treatment and we sure don't want to be late.
We didn't even hunker down yesterday, just got flashlights and kept on reading.
It's supposed to clear up around here today then another front might slip in tomorrow bringing some more rain and whatever. I think we're ready for any rain and the whatever too.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.~Muriel Spark
We didn't even hunker down yesterday, just got flashlights and kept on reading.
It's supposed to clear up around here today then another front might slip in tomorrow bringing some more rain and whatever. I think we're ready for any rain and the whatever too.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.~Muriel Spark
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
September 13, 2005
Hey, guess what, I get to take Glenda for her treatment today. Mary Jo talked about taking her again but I'm starting to feel a mite guilty about the deal, so I'm the man. I've been willing to take her everyday but her preference seems to be the other when another offers. If I would study that it would probably tell me something but it is easier to just take the delight in my plight. She will have only four more to go after today. That's good because it is beginning to burn pretty good now.
Nothing to say except we're still alive, kicking and thankfully enjoying the living as much as we know how. We do hope and pray that your are too.
"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."~Ayn Rand
Nothing to say except we're still alive, kicking and thankfully enjoying the living as much as we know how. We do hope and pray that your are too.
"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."~Ayn Rand
Monday, September 12, 2005
September 12, 2005
Stayed pretty busy yesterday helping our neighbor lay 90 feet of 21 inch concrete culvert. I think each piece weights somewhere around 1800 pounds causing it to be pretty much of a job and challenge. WE DID'ER JUST FINE!
Last evening we were invited to his home for supper. I know I've told you this before but I'm saying it again, that MARY JO IS ONE FINE COOK. She is also a good driver and said that she would take Glenda for her treatment today.
I'll help Dale play mud dauber. Some of the pipe was used and will need to have a few patches to cover a hole or two where they connect. The pipe was installed in Dales lower lot making the lot about half again as big as it was. Rain is in the forecast for late tomorrow so he needs to get the pipe back filled proto.
I know I've got a mind because I do it all the time but no one has told me anything to do yet this morning leaving me with nothing on the mind.
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with keyboards."~Frank Lloyd Wright
Last evening we were invited to his home for supper. I know I've told you this before but I'm saying it again, that MARY JO IS ONE FINE COOK. She is also a good driver and said that she would take Glenda for her treatment today.
I'll help Dale play mud dauber. Some of the pipe was used and will need to have a few patches to cover a hole or two where they connect. The pipe was installed in Dales lower lot making the lot about half again as big as it was. Rain is in the forecast for late tomorrow so he needs to get the pipe back filled proto.
I know I've got a mind because I do it all the time but no one has told me anything to do yet this morning leaving me with nothing on the mind.
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with keyboards."~Frank Lloyd Wright
Sunday, September 11, 2005
September 11, 2005
Yesterday afternoon was a fine outing! Visiting and eating are enjoyable pursuits, one of which is even a necessity. It just so happens, that is the one I'm really good at. Fish, pork, chicken and everything you might think of to go with it, enough food to feed an army. Well, it was a nice gathering but an army sounds like more than fifteen. Someone isn't going to need to cook for a few days I'd say. Glenda had a grand time! Oh yeah, I enjoyed myself too, I already said that.
So today will proceed as we go and we'll hang on for the fun of it. If a Glenda whim should arise and make itself known we will do our best to get up out of our recliner and get it taken care of without a grumble............er, an audible grumble.
To say anymore than that would only further waste your time and a little of mine too so, no mas. (????)
"What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them."-Vincent McNabb
So today will proceed as we go and we'll hang on for the fun of it. If a Glenda whim should arise and make itself known we will do our best to get up out of our recliner and get it taken care of without a grumble............er, an audible grumble.
To say anymore than that would only further waste your time and a little of mine too so, no mas. (????)
"What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them."-Vincent McNabb
Saturday, September 10, 2005
September 10, 2005
Another day has been allocated to us, YIPPEE! We can waste it, wallow around in want or head out and make something of it. I think we're going to try the third listed option. I know there are many more options available to choose from but these three serve my purpose and it wasn't necessary for me to stutter around thinking of a lot of others and too, if one is given too large of a selection it makes choosing harder and the possibility of choosing wrong becomes more apt.
You got it! Nothing to type about again other than Glenda is feeling good, I'm feeling good and we really are proud to be blessed with another day.
Our plans for this day include a fish fry at Glenda's cousin's and probably a TV session when we get home to watch the NASCAR race. Glenda is sure looking forward to the fish fry and visiting with so many of her family. It could be a little better for me than her because I like to visit with her family too but I'm also a good eater.
Pretty easy reading huh?
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."~Enrique Jardiel Poncela
You got it! Nothing to type about again other than Glenda is feeling good, I'm feeling good and we really are proud to be blessed with another day.
Our plans for this day include a fish fry at Glenda's cousin's and probably a TV session when we get home to watch the NASCAR race. Glenda is sure looking forward to the fish fry and visiting with so many of her family. It could be a little better for me than her because I like to visit with her family too but I'm also a good eater.
Pretty easy reading huh?
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."~Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Friday, September 09, 2005
September 9, 2005
It was a struggle but I finished the lid for the septic tank, hooked the rubber tube to the motor and plugged it in. THE MOTOR WOULDN'T RUN! It only hummed a little and I think the tune was, "ain't gonna work no more no more". I'm thinking we'll take the motor in next week to see of it can be repaired.
Sallie took Glenda and they were going to eat out so at lunch time I came into the house to make a sandwich for myself. NO BREAD! I finally found a loaf in the deepfreeze, one of those we got for 50 cents when the bread store closed down. I had to use a knife and hammer to pry a couple pieces loose from the loaf then put them in the micro wave for 40 seconds. They tasted decent with a chunk of Spam and an extra large hunk of onion. I like to fold a single piece of brad around the Spam and onion. That way I get two sandwiches. After I finished them, I kind of wanted another one but decided it would be too much trouble.
Mary Jo is taking Glenda for her treatment today and I'm riding along with Dale to Fulton for a few pieces of concrete pipe for his lower lot.
Gotta go now mater of fact.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.~George Sand
Sallie took Glenda and they were going to eat out so at lunch time I came into the house to make a sandwich for myself. NO BREAD! I finally found a loaf in the deepfreeze, one of those we got for 50 cents when the bread store closed down. I had to use a knife and hammer to pry a couple pieces loose from the loaf then put them in the micro wave for 40 seconds. They tasted decent with a chunk of Spam and an extra large hunk of onion. I like to fold a single piece of brad around the Spam and onion. That way I get two sandwiches. After I finished them, I kind of wanted another one but decided it would be too much trouble.
Mary Jo is taking Glenda for her treatment today and I'm riding along with Dale to Fulton for a few pieces of concrete pipe for his lower lot.
Gotta go now mater of fact.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.~George Sand
Thursday, September 08, 2005
September 8, 2005
Aunt Sallie is coming to take Glenda for today's treatment. She called from the other side of Eldon so I believe she get here in time. The two wonders are one, that she is coming like she said she would and two, how far the other side of Eldon did she call from. Anyway her heart is in the right place.
Glenda had an enjoyable time with her mom and aunt Sue yesterday. I suspect she will enjoy going with Sallie too.
I've got plenty of things to do if the urge hits me. Otherwise, I still have a couple of fair books started. My main job will be to finish the lid for the septic tank. I could have finished it yesterday but I refused to make the third trip to the little store that was necessary to complete my project. One of the fittings came up a tad short of threaded body sticking through to accommodate the fitting on the other side of the lid. I need a female fitting and a nipple to getter done. We're trusting that the new lid will eliminate the tiny whiff of bad smell that sometimes floats in while we're sitting on the porch.
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.-Cyril Connolly
Glenda had an enjoyable time with her mom and aunt Sue yesterday. I suspect she will enjoy going with Sallie too.
I've got plenty of things to do if the urge hits me. Otherwise, I still have a couple of fair books started. My main job will be to finish the lid for the septic tank. I could have finished it yesterday but I refused to make the third trip to the little store that was necessary to complete my project. One of the fittings came up a tad short of threaded body sticking through to accommodate the fitting on the other side of the lid. I need a female fitting and a nipple to getter done. We're trusting that the new lid will eliminate the tiny whiff of bad smell that sometimes floats in while we're sitting on the porch.
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.-Cyril Connolly
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
September 7, 2005
Glenda's mother and Aunt Sue is on their way from Jeff City to our house, or will be soon, if the laid out plan works. They intend to take Glenda for her treatment today and then after a meal out, try to teach Glenda a few more lessons on the proper way to shop and look for bargains. I've got my measuring stick out to check the difference in cost of her shopping with them or meeting them at the boat. I'm betting the shopping will be the most economical of the two but of course me driving her over there and back would still most likely be the cheapest by far. I'm going to look up the word cheapskate later. I wonder where/how that originated?
My plans are to check the tritoon motor out again then report my findings to the repair man. I also need to make a cover for the septic tank. There is a neck that has a cover on it at ground level but down inside that neck about four feet is the hole to the septic tank proper and the cover for that hole was broken during the repairs. I suspect that job will be a bit crappy. As you know I have a smeller that might be a little larger than a normal one. Right now I'm thankful for the joke life played on me because even with all that extra room for receptors I can't smell any better than anyone else.
There was a time when people poked fun at the size of my nose and a few times too when it was just poked at. Anyway I devised a plan that worked. I built the size of my body (stomach) up which put my nose in a more proportional size to the rest of me.....No more jokes as to the nose size. I'm just not sure that the belly jokes are any more kind but at least no one takes a poke at it.
I doubt that either job will meet my preferred job description of pleasurable but what needs to be done needs to be done.
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.~P. J. O'Rourke
My plans are to check the tritoon motor out again then report my findings to the repair man. I also need to make a cover for the septic tank. There is a neck that has a cover on it at ground level but down inside that neck about four feet is the hole to the septic tank proper and the cover for that hole was broken during the repairs. I suspect that job will be a bit crappy. As you know I have a smeller that might be a little larger than a normal one. Right now I'm thankful for the joke life played on me because even with all that extra room for receptors I can't smell any better than anyone else.
There was a time when people poked fun at the size of my nose and a few times too when it was just poked at. Anyway I devised a plan that worked. I built the size of my body (stomach) up which put my nose in a more proportional size to the rest of me.....No more jokes as to the nose size. I'm just not sure that the belly jokes are any more kind but at least no one takes a poke at it.
I doubt that either job will meet my preferred job description of pleasurable but what needs to be done needs to be done.
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.~P. J. O'Rourke
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
September 6, 2005
Our yesterday was pretty well spent laying around reading and watching TV. I think the treatments are begining to keep Glenda pretty well tired out now. We actually was still hearing boats after eleven last night but there isn't a nary one out there yet this morning. It may really be over for the year at least for most part........Whatever that means.
Glenda didn't sleep well last night and has struggled a time or two mentally so far this morning but I think it will get better as the day goes. Her leg is healing nicely but the radiation has reddened a good area above the knee and she says that area hurts quite a bit. Ima gonna take her today then there will be only nine more treatments to go. I don't know much about it but from the looks of things 32 treatments might be the absolute max based on what it looks like now. I supposed they could turn it down a notch or two if necessary.
Yesterday I told Glenda I would perform a couple of chores after we get back home today but I can't think what they were to save my life. I don't know if that is just a convenience or a dad blame shame. I believe it may just be a convenience for me right now but it will be a dad blame shame when I find out that Glenda still remembers. The odds are still not stacked against me too much. If it isn't remembered today maybe it will come tomorrow leaving me another day to lay around and think.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.~Victor Hugo
Glenda didn't sleep well last night and has struggled a time or two mentally so far this morning but I think it will get better as the day goes. Her leg is healing nicely but the radiation has reddened a good area above the knee and she says that area hurts quite a bit. Ima gonna take her today then there will be only nine more treatments to go. I don't know much about it but from the looks of things 32 treatments might be the absolute max based on what it looks like now. I supposed they could turn it down a notch or two if necessary.
Yesterday I told Glenda I would perform a couple of chores after we get back home today but I can't think what they were to save my life. I don't know if that is just a convenience or a dad blame shame. I believe it may just be a convenience for me right now but it will be a dad blame shame when I find out that Glenda still remembers. The odds are still not stacked against me too much. If it isn't remembered today maybe it will come tomorrow leaving me another day to lay around and think.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.~Victor Hugo
Sunday, September 04, 2005
September 4, 2005
Another day, me with nuttin to say.........Ain't we lucky?
Lucky to be alive, lucky to be able to see and read. Just plain old luck or is it by some unknown design? I'll take it and be thankful either way. I'm going now to count my blessings..................
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Lucky to be alive, lucky to be able to see and read. Just plain old luck or is it by some unknown design? I'll take it and be thankful either way. I'm going now to count my blessings..................
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
September 3, 2005
My hopes for a calm weekend holiday weekend is being made fun of by at least two un-muffled boats and about seven wave runners that I can see. Hey, it's early yet. KATY, BAR THE DOOR. What a waste of good hope and I knew better too.
I'm thinking we'll probably spend a lot of time in Louisiana today via the television. It is so awful and heartbreaking even after you get up above the bias of the news media. What a terrible happening that is being made even worse by the folks like Jesse Jackson ("Racism is partly to blame for the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "There's a historical indifference to the pain of poor people and black people" in this country.")
And then we have this guy Randall Robinson:
(It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.
I am a sixty-four year old African-American. New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for. I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.
This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.
My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.
But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.)
Typical of many people hunting for the bleak side of everything or making things up then jumping on it. Makes me pretty sick! I think people ought to stop and count their blessings that they've been given over the years and give thanks for the fact they are still alive instead of bitching about it.
Enough, enough!
However, I am not young enough to know everything.~Oscar Wilde
I'm thinking we'll probably spend a lot of time in Louisiana today via the television. It is so awful and heartbreaking even after you get up above the bias of the news media. What a terrible happening that is being made even worse by the folks like Jesse Jackson ("Racism is partly to blame for the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "There's a historical indifference to the pain of poor people and black people" in this country.")
And then we have this guy Randall Robinson:
(It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.
I am a sixty-four year old African-American. New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for. I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.
This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.
My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.
But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.)
Typical of many people hunting for the bleak side of everything or making things up then jumping on it. Makes me pretty sick! I think people ought to stop and count their blessings that they've been given over the years and give thanks for the fact they are still alive instead of bitching about it.
Enough, enough!
However, I am not young enough to know everything.~Oscar Wilde
Friday, September 02, 2005
September 2, 2005
I'm pretty well disgusted this morning! It isn't much of a thing that started it but once something like that gets started................I have been reading a paperback and kept thinking that I had read it before. I wasn't sure because I'll begin more than one book at a time and so thought some of the things that I sorta remembered might have been covered during an earlier read. Anyway, I've been keeping a list of read books and I checked it this morning. Yep, it was listed. I read 232 pages of a 534 page book for a second time and it really wasn't good enough to read once.
Finding that out started it then the TV and most of the news people added to it. Have you noticed how they are talking now about how much worse it is getting there yet most of the pictures they're still showing are from day one or two? Where did some of the refugees get cigarettes to smoke? Why doesn't some of them start walking if it is so terrible where they are and without food or water? Maybe they could find some if they walk far enough. It's hard to help someone who won't help themselves.
How did the newscasters get there? Can't they pick up a few sick folks and take them out the way they got in? The talk is about how help is so slow in getting there or not there, yet it sounds like they do nothing to help the poor folks at all themselves. They only sit back and criticize and look for the worst possible stories they can find.
I know this is the worst disaster ever in the United States, I really do feel for the folks there. I realize that the whole world will be different and with higher prices everywhere for a long time to come but it seems to me the news-media could be a lot more helpful, if in no other way, than by showing us today instead of going back showing us five days ago over and over. I know I'm not the only person that is tired of the five day old pictures.
Glenda has another couple ladies, Nancy and Shirley, coming to take her for her treatment. I may get to take her sometime next week. After today the next treatment will be Tuesday the 6th. That should make the last treatment September 19th. On the 20th we have a doctors appointment in Columbia where they will do all the x-rays and tests again. A couple days after that we expect to be taking tall steps.
I'll go to the library to get a different book or two today. That might hopefully get my mind back to a less disgusted mode.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.~Lynn Johnston
Finding that out started it then the TV and most of the news people added to it. Have you noticed how they are talking now about how much worse it is getting there yet most of the pictures they're still showing are from day one or two? Where did some of the refugees get cigarettes to smoke? Why doesn't some of them start walking if it is so terrible where they are and without food or water? Maybe they could find some if they walk far enough. It's hard to help someone who won't help themselves.
How did the newscasters get there? Can't they pick up a few sick folks and take them out the way they got in? The talk is about how help is so slow in getting there or not there, yet it sounds like they do nothing to help the poor folks at all themselves. They only sit back and criticize and look for the worst possible stories they can find.
I know this is the worst disaster ever in the United States, I really do feel for the folks there. I realize that the whole world will be different and with higher prices everywhere for a long time to come but it seems to me the news-media could be a lot more helpful, if in no other way, than by showing us today instead of going back showing us five days ago over and over. I know I'm not the only person that is tired of the five day old pictures.
Glenda has another couple ladies, Nancy and Shirley, coming to take her for her treatment. I may get to take her sometime next week. After today the next treatment will be Tuesday the 6th. That should make the last treatment September 19th. On the 20th we have a doctors appointment in Columbia where they will do all the x-rays and tests again. A couple days after that we expect to be taking tall steps.
I'll go to the library to get a different book or two today. That might hopefully get my mind back to a less disgusted mode.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.~Lynn Johnston
Thursday, September 01, 2005
September 1, 2005
No sun yet this morning but we're expecting it to show up soon. I don't think there is any rain in the forecast. So far this morning there hasn't been a boat nor wave runner pass our dock. Not even a bass boat! I imagine they are all laying back gathering as much energy as they can. Normally this is a one of the worst weekend to live on the lake!
We made the rounds yesterday and of course paid well for our festive activities. Anytime you don't win and give even $2 to the casino you've paid well. We gave more than $2 but they pretty well let us play on their money most of the time. It was just during the end of our visit that we gave all their money back and a few bucks of our own with it. Glenda's glee to be out and about, doing something she enjoys, effectively tempered our small loss to allow me to honestly type that it was a really good outing overall. HOWEVER, the food still left a heck of a lot to be desired.
One bonus, we got to visit with Glenda's mother, aunt and uncle even tho it was a quick visit without very much interplay of words.
Today a trip to Osage Beach for a treatment then maybe a stop for a couple items at the grocery store then back home to practice hunkering down for the weekend. . . . . . . Just found out Mary Jo is going to take Glenda so I get to start my practice early today.
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.~M. C. Richards
We made the rounds yesterday and of course paid well for our festive activities. Anytime you don't win and give even $2 to the casino you've paid well. We gave more than $2 but they pretty well let us play on their money most of the time. It was just during the end of our visit that we gave all their money back and a few bucks of our own with it. Glenda's glee to be out and about, doing something she enjoys, effectively tempered our small loss to allow me to honestly type that it was a really good outing overall. HOWEVER, the food still left a heck of a lot to be desired.
One bonus, we got to visit with Glenda's mother, aunt and uncle even tho it was a quick visit without very much interplay of words.
Today a trip to Osage Beach for a treatment then maybe a stop for a couple items at the grocery store then back home to practice hunkering down for the weekend. . . . . . . Just found out Mary Jo is going to take Glenda so I get to start my practice early today.
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.~M. C. Richards
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