Tuesday April 20th 2010

What a night!!  What a day!!  Aunt Virgie had a Doctor appointment this afternoon.  That wasn’t the bad part keeping her awake until the appointment was really hard, not only on her but on us.  Hated to keep waking her up she was so tired.  She had to be sleep deprived for the appointment and she was.  The Doctor told her to take a nap and she had no problem at all taking a nap.  She was really tired when she got home.

I just had to take this picture.  I can’t hardly believe what a difference that 4 inch platform made.  She doesn’t require any help now to get up.  YES!!! We could lift it up another couple inches if needed but for now it is good.

Decided to make some Date Bread, nothing like Banana Bread.  Turned out decent. Gave a loaf to Rick when he dropped his Mom off from her appointment.

Beautiful rose in the back yard.

Thought this was unique. Two different colors in one bush, they are still beautiful but are starting to lose their petals but these still look very nice.

 

We went to Rick and Connie’s tonight and played a couple games of zilch. Had a good time but we are all kind of tired.  Oh, got one more pic…

Took this at Rick and Connie’s, they are Amaryllis.  I used the flash since it was dark and they are a lot nicer than the picture shows.

 

Time to go to bed, hope everyone has had a wonderful day…Bye yall….

Monday April 19th 2010

Aunt Virgie has an appointment with the Doctor today.  There are also a few things I need to get done also.  Take the garbage out, replace the outside light bulb, wash a load of clothes etc. We were supposed to go  on a picnic today but with Aunt Virgie’s Dr appointment and Linda and I not feeling the greatest Sunday, we decided to cancel.  Maybe later this week.

Rick came over this morning and we are going to raise up Aunt Virgie’s chair.  She has a hard time getting out of it.

This is the before and after pictures of the chair.  It may not look pretty but it sure makes a big difference in the ease that Aunt Virgie gets out of the chair.  It took Rick and I about an hour to get it fixed. It feels pretty solid and I will try to figure out how to cover up the boards underneath.  We tried pillows on the seat for Aunt Virgie but that didn’t help, I think this was the answer and if needed, we could raise it up more but it still wouldn’t look good.   The other alternative is getting a lift chair that will lift up when you want to get out.  My Dad had one and it saved a lot of wear and tear on the legs.

I called Paw Paw’s and they thought the parts were coming in the 20th and I thought he said Monday (not sure what month).  I called Steve at Gulfstream and he looked it up and confirmed it was Tuesday the 20th!  That’s tomorrow!  If this is true and it really happens we could get our camper back this week.  We will go into town Wednesday and take a look and see if the parts made it and they are working on it.

The rest of the day is going to be relaxing.  Aunt Virgie went to the Dr and has an appointment again tomorrow to check a couple other things.  Hopefully the diagnosis will be good and be treatable.  We have to keep Aunt Virgie awake until later then get her up kind of early so she will be sleep deprived.  She did pretty good tonight, will see about getting her up at 8AM!!    Night yall….

Sunday April 18th 2010

Today is Sunday and it is church day.  I forgot that last Wednesday Pastor Bud had a little devotion on “Reaping what you Sow”.  That was very interesting,  Everything that a person does or says, has a reward. Good for good and bad for bad. He used an illustration of planting seeds in a garden that had been mixed up by mistake and when the plants started to produce they produced the wrong fruit!!  No, not really, they produced exactly what had been planted and we can be easily deceived. Anyway it was very interesting.  Back to church, Pastor Bud had a good sermon this morning also about the thief on the left of Jesus.  He had an interesting story of the thief, he mocked Jesus as did the one on the right (Mark) then in Luke he changed and admitted he was worthy of death but not Jesus, then asked Jesus to remember him when He came into His kingdom.  Jesus said “today you will be with Me in Paradise”.  Paradise, think on that, we have had discussions about paradise, is it heaven or somewhere else, but Pastor had a really good point, “doesn’t matter” as long as we are with Jesus!!!   Love it!!

Linda made the chicken and rice casserole again today and it was delicious.  She also made the cherry angel food cake desert.  Had a great dinner.

Steve and Anna Grace came over for a visit this afternoon.  I think she is posing!!

Wanted to get a picture of this.  Anna Grace is helping Grandma Virgie get her exercise.  She is strict, she won’t let Grandma get away with anything.  Grandma Virgie has a very hard time getting out of her chair and walking since the mini stroke.  She got her exercise this afternoon though.

Today was a nice quiet day, not going to do to much, Linda wasn’t feeling the greatest and neither am I.  We were supposed to go on a picnic tomorrow and cancelled it, looks like rain anyway.  We will take it easy tonight and try to get a good nights sleep.  Night yall…

Saturday April 17th 2010

Today is Aunt Virgie’s hair day.  I baked a couple loaves of bread this morning before we had to leave.  For some reason it didn’t taste right to me, Linda said it was good though.

After a big lunch I had to take a walk so I walked back through the cemetery and they had just mown the grass.  Almost looks like a golf course.  During the walk I happened across some clover.  I see this along the interstate and it almost looks like a carpet.  I am from Northern Illinois and our clover doesn’t look like this.

If I remember right the northern clover is round and a bluish red color. This looking at it from a distance almost looks rust colored.  Interesting.

This is Rick and Connie's refurbished porch.  Looks very nice.  It was a great afternoon to sit outside and watch the birds and talk.

Connie made a really tasty Shrimp Bisque and served it with garlic bread... Good stuff...

Here we are having a wild game of Zilch.  Had a really fun night.  I think the pollen is doing a number on me, I have a headache, couldn't have been the card game.  Church tomorrow...night yall....

Friday April 16th 2010

Well, after looking at the days on the side of my blog, I think I may have deleted Tuesday the 13th  HMMMM.  So much for Tuesday I guess, I think that was the day we came down from Missouri.  I may be able to recreate it if I need to.

Today, we are planning on going to the Crosby Arboretum in Picayune with Rick and Connie.

This is part of the Arboretum.  Picture place.

This is the only goose we saw but look at all the turtles!!  I didn’t try to count them but we were given bags of food at the entrance to the Arboretum.  They were a lot of fun to feed and watch.

There were many different types of foliage and flowers and plants.  All these pictures are ones that Linda took with “her” camera.

  Rick and Connie posing for Linda.

These were pretty neat flowers (?).  They are actually insect eating plants. The straight ones have an opening at the top and the insects go in and can’t get back out, settlers used them in their houses to keep the flies etc down.  Ingenious.

Now I am from up north and I found this interesting.  The ground looks dry but there is water about 6 feet underneath. The mud piles with the holes in them (I thought they were termite dens) are actually Crawdad dens (?) We didn’t see any but they are important for the bogs.  Maybe this is why they call them “mudbugs”.  The walk was long but worth it.  We stopped at Burger King afterward for a little lunch.  Brought a burger back for Aunt Virgie.  She enjoyed that.

Aunt Virgie looks happy doesn’t she?  I think she is.  Linda made her smile.  We took it easy the rest of the day and time to check all the pictures and comment on them.  Have a great day….Bye yall…

Thursday April 15th 2010

Today is tax day!!  Thought I wouldn’t have much to write about today but things happened.

Found a great new place to EAT!!  We didn’t really eat here but did have coffee and Linda had a ROC Coca Cola and I tried to get a return number for the camera I bought a few weeks ago. Overstock.com doesn’t have a user friendly return page.  I finally got to talk to a real person, IM, and she walked me through the process, well, she is sending me the things I need to send it back.  She was very nice, and helpful.

Just happened to get a picture of a computer geek!  She got to read LaVon’s blog and Destiny’s blog.  Took a long time but she enjoyed both of them.

We went over to Wal-Mart to get a few things and it is quickly becoming the $200 store.  I bought another camera.  It is another Kodak, a C182 and seems to take very good pictures.

I really like the camera.  I can get my phone and camera in my shirt pocket.  I am going to include a couple pictures I took with it.  Started out at 12 megapixels but lowered it back to 3 or 4.

I think this is short at 12 megapixels.

This was taken a few hours later at 3 megapixels and probably farther away.  Looks good to me!

I finally got a call into Gulfstream.  He tried calling me twice but I wasn’t in a good area to talk to him.  Finally called him back and he said the parts would be here MONDAY!!!!!  At Paw Paw’s they said it would only be a couple days and they would have it finished.  If this happens we will just have to enjoy the rest of our time here….Bye yall….

Linda took this picture and wanted it included.  I think the dark ones are Llamas of course the others are Zebras.  Bye yall…

Wednesday April 14th 2010

Good morning!!  Have lots to do today…First things first….Reading….

Yes sir.  Baked bread.  Don’t worry Rick I won’t tell anyone you had a piece of each, your secret is good with me…

Azalea’s and Babies Breath (I think).  Hard to believe that when we left we saw some Jonquils and now….WOW…  It was dead and now it’s alive.. Sounds like our Savior doesn’t it??  Got lots of flower pictures..

Fig tree and Azalea bush..

Bluebird and it’s upscale bird house and Rick and Connie’s

How’s this for flowering bushes…Amazing…Beautiful…

Picture of Rick and Connie’s back yard…Awesome..

Texas Longhorn.  This isn’t in Rick and Connie’s yard, it’s a neighbor.

They have one and two humpers!!

This is T.J.  He is the one working on our camper.  They are just waiting for parts.  I called Gulfstream and they called back but my cell phone didn’t work.  Will call again tomorrow.

Church night tonight so I will sign off and hopefully I will have something to write tomorrow.  Bet I will, I am going to call Gulfstream again.  Call them everyday until I get some parts for the camper.  Parts were ordered 6 weeks ago.  Even if it was 2 weeks ago it would be to long.  Time to start making a nuisance of myself….Bye yall….