Busy Day

We drove to Dallas right after taking Michelle to school. The 18 wheelers on 20 and 80 just get thicker. It is really a challenge to drive through the work zones with all those trucks.

Hubby is reaping the rewards of his short boxing career. The middle cartledge in this nose is in the shape of a S instead of the single line. He has some nasal spray to use if that doesn't work it could mean surgery.

I finally got my doctors office to call me back. They only had the old telephone number. I had called two weeks ago and left my new address and telephone number on there answering machine. I quess no one took that information down. They send me a letter to the old address on the 21 of the month. It is now the 30 of the month and it still hasn't arrived. I don't know what these people here think mail is. They don't think it is very important thats for sure. I seem to have a cist on my left kidney. My doctors answer to this is to have physical therapy. I have appointments for both of us with a new doctor here in Canton. I hope this works out for us.

We managed to get back in time for Michelle's program. Michelle received an award for Good Citizenship. She was so pleased, I took some pictures I hope they will come out.

P and D called today to talk to Michelle. She is fine with them being gone, she didn't want them to leave. We are taking her to Tyler tomorrow to her favorite Pizza place. I hope to pick up some fabric for the new dresses we want to make. I need fabric for a new robe for her.

6:30 am is too early

That's what time I have to get Michelle up to go to school. It has been a job getting her out of bed. It is almost as hard as getting her to go to bed. So far everything has been going well for her stay. Hubby and I have had a tummy upset I don't know what it is from. I'm still having some trouble today but not as much as yesterday. Ginger tea has been helping.

We finally had a rain storm last night the lighting and thunder were bad just as I was trying to go to sleep. tempature down to 63 degrees this morning when I took Michelle to school. It is suppose to get to 85 today. Well that is better than the 100 to 105 we have been having. Fog was on the ground yesterday so it was hard to see to drive. We went by the house last night to see about the animals. We left the cats in the house I'm glad we did as the thunderstorm was pretty heavy.

Have to take hubby to Dallas tomorrow to doctor to see about his sinus.

Success

P has been trying to get me to change my blog background for sometime. I just figured out how to do it. I hope this is easier to read.

Spent part of saturday at P. Her lights went out about 3 pm and we couldn't get the little battery TV to work it would only get football or a spanish station. I called back to the village and they never did loose power. P and Michelle came home with us and we watch Phamtom of the Opera. D stayed at home and slept. We had some wind and rain but nothing bad, I have seen worse here. When we started home Michelle couldn't find her flip flops, she tired to turn on her lights to look for her flip flop and of course we didn't have any. She cried because she didn't have any light. We found her some shoes and we came back to grandma's. I don't know if I'm up to a whole week of her. Oh, yes I am looking foreward to us having a lot of time together.

We went through P trunk of fabric and nothing there that is really usable. I still haven't looked through mine. I need to do that today and see if there is anything usable there. Need to grocery shop today have to have lots of things a little girl will eat. Her lunches at school are paid for so I won't have to pack lunches.

Saturday night I had lots of fire ants in my bed. P and I tried to get them out but I slept on the couch in the living room. Yesterday I striped the bed either washed or ran everything through the dryer and sprayed all the room with bug spray . D gave me some new spray to try. I have to get all of those devils out of this house. The ant traps don't seem to work at all.

P sister-in-law seemed to go to Arkansa right into the path of the hurricane. I hope they are alright. It is suppose to cool off later this week, yesterday it was 102 in dallas. I still need to get all of my stuff out of the shed. It is just impossible to work in there when it is so hot.

Gorgous Sunset

I am sitting at the kitchen table blogging and watching the most beautiful sunset over the lake below our house. I have taken several pictures with my ditigal camera if they come out I will try to get D to help me post them.

Today was a day of prepartion. We brought in all the patio furniture, trash barrels, and the storm door we haven't put up yet( boy was it heavy we had to have help with it.)

I have extra food, water , batteries and have packed a small suitcase for P. We will go over there tomorrow.

P worked today so I haven't heard from anyone. D was suppose to be home all day today to get there house ready.

I have paid all the bills on line so that won't slow us down.

Quess what Holiday Inn in Norman just got around to billing us for one of the rooms for June. They show us there in September, but I went back and checked and they had only charged us for 2 rooms so we did owe for the third. I'm just paying it, they had better not charge any more. I knew the front desk was messed up there but not quiet this bad.

I'm trying to catch up on laundry so that we won't have lots of dirty clothes if we don't have lights. When I took dirty clothes out of the hamper they were full of ants. I put one of the ant traps in the bottom of the hamper I hope that works. After this storm I am really going to have to try and get rid of the ants around this place.

Rita is really scary

As Rita moves toward Texas it is picking up steam. The model looks like it will land on land just west of Houton. Unfortunately Lake Jackson is in that area. D family from Lake Jackson arrived today. They are worried about there house and belongings. Two kittys made the trip very well and seem to be adjusting to the house cats. Michelle didn't want to go to school today I quess because she knew the girls were coming. It was strange she kept reminding me that it was time to go to school. When we arrived she didn't want to get out of the car. I parked and tried to get her to walk from the gate into school. I didn't go dressed to go into the school. Her teacher came along and took her in thank heavens. That will teach me not to dress before taking her to school. I'm going to have almost a whole month of taking her to school. We have to work this out some how. I wonder if all the talk of the hurricane has scared her. When we got home from school the girls were there and she was very happy.

Hubby and I put up pictures my tole work and some curtains. It took all morning, then took blow up beds to P.

I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about my tenant homeowners. I had not changed it from Terrell to Canton. It was too easy just one call to my insurance agent, (which was new not the one I bought the policy from) she took care of my problem. I hope it covers me. With the wind and the rain that the TV says we may receive we may need it.

P and D want us to come over there for the worse of it. They aren't use this house is torrando proof and I'm not sure either.

Tempture 100

It is the middle of September and the tempture is still 100 degrees. No one else is looking foreward to Hurricane Rita but me, it has to cool this weather down.

I am runing out of time to empty that shed, it is impossible to work in there. I tried working in there a couple of mornings with tempture at 70's and in 30 minutes I was sweating up a storm.

I am slowly getting things setup here at the new house. I'm going to have several days to just get things put away that I have brought home already. I have been trying to put up the drapes that I have remolded for the fourth time. I can't find enough drapry hooks or rings. I know there must be a big bag of them somewhere in that shed.

D mothers stuff is arriving my the truck load I have to get that stuff out of the shed. I wonder if I need to hire someone to pick it all up and bring it over here. The last move was $600.00 I don't know if I can afford any more.

D was over and fixed my phone lines and installed the two news ones I needed. P thinks I need to complain to Verzion that there serviceman didn't fix my problems. I now wonder why I am paying for service when I'm not getting it.

I spent a couple of hours yesterday on the telephone talking to relatives and friends. I need to do that more often.

Somewhere in time.

'All week I have been living somewhere in time. August 1953 we were in Cherry Point, NC and I was about to give birth to my second son. This was just the time TV was getting started. We only had radio and not much on it. When you are busy with a 18 month old, radio is the last thing you need. Military personel were coming through the housing area, MEMQ and cutting down limbs and removing all kinds of trash and etc. We couldn't understand what was going on someone finally told us a hurricane was coming. I had no idea what a hurricane was, a big wind with water. How could that be, we were 10 or 15 miles from the ocean, rain Oh, I had been in rain storms before. We were waiting for grandma and grandpa F to come for the new birth to help with the first son. I had stocked the refrig and panty with all kind of goodies. I know grandma would like to cook.

Friends living in one of the quonset hut they had turned into housing arrived on our doorstep with there 1 year old. They had been told to evanuate and had no place to go. We were in a wooden duplex and considered safe. When the storm hit the water can though the windows and doors like they weren't there. Crazy me I was saving the floors and window cells from being wet and used every dry towel in the house. Now we had no electricity, no washing machine, no refrigerator, no stove. Just lots of spoiling meat and milk. No way to cook anything. No clean towels no way to wash the dirty ones. Friends went home to see what there house was like. Hubby had to go to work. Grandma and grandpa F arrived in this mess and I don't remember much else about it. We did get electricity, I went to the base hospital and P was born. Grandpa F, hubby and B went fishing and B caught his first fish. I think B has been fishing with grandpa F some after that. I don't think either of the boys are much fishermen.

Anyway Orphila has been causing trouble in the same place again as it did in August 1953. P blew in with a storm and has been a stormy soul ever since. I hope you are reading his bog Captain's Log.

Before we left NC about a year later. A neighbor got the first TV we ever saw, I can't believe we watched the snowest show out of Washington DC. TV has gone a long way in teaching us about hurricanes and other disasters but not in how to be prepared for them. I'm still watching all the problems on the gulf coast the world seems to have forgotten about NC.

We finally had rain on Thursday it didn't last long it did come down pretty hard for awhile.
We woke up to rain Friday and it rains for alittle while. It was cool enough that I went to P to the shed and brought out a car load of boxes. So much we left out there is ruined. The mice have really been into everything. There still must be mice in there Ginger came in and sat looking at a box I couldn't move and he wouldn't move. When I was ready to leave ( after I sweat buckets) I had to pick him up and throw him out, he still wanted back in.

D is suppose to come Sunday and straighten out my telephone mess maybe I can get on line more often. This sitting on the side of the bed and using a TV tray to blog on is for the birds.

Have the Answer

I have now found out why I can't get on the internet. I only have one telephone cord that will allow my computer to contect to the internet. You know its the shortest one I own.

Telephone company was out today and fixed both of the other phone jacks. Now I can use the computer in all the bedrooms. I ask about a phone jack in living room and kitchen. This phone company gets $91.00 per phone jack. We thought gas was highway robbery how about telephone companies. If I can ever get D without an install maybe he can install them for me.

I'm still unpacking boxes. If I ever get the kitchen and dinning room put away maybe I can work on the office. Everything just gets dumped in there.

We had Michelle all day Thursday, I had a ultasound in Dallas and she went with us. When we got home she was on my bed watching TV and went to sleep. She sleep until P came after her. D called awhile ago we get Michelle again tomorrow. I brought some of her toys over today so maybe she won't be too bored. She loves my garden tub, she thinks its her private pool.

P has chemo again Monday, so we will pick Michelle up from school. I hope this chemo doesn't make P as sick as it did last time.

Hubby said it was too hot for hair today so he had me take him to the barber shop and they shaved his head and beard does he ever look funny.

I bought a new TV at Frys it is only a 27 inch. But it was the biggest one that would fit in our entertainment center. D hooked it up for us it has a good picture. I couldn't find the Consumer Report Book I may have thrown it away,or else it still packed somewhere. I used an 6 month to 18 months old consumer report magzine to buy it. But so far I am please with it. Frys didn't have the micro wave I wanted and the people in that department were not interested in helping me. D was in there shortly after I was in the same department and they wouldn't help him either. That is two sales they lost in a half a day. John on of the resident managers carried the TV in for us. These managers are so great nothing like Terrel Senior Terraces. Hubby managed to get the micro wave out of the box in the car and into the house. Oh, yes I bought the micro wave at wally world. They had the one that Frys didn't for 15.00 cheaper. I got my bed back from P so now all I need is a head board. I looked a little this morning but didn't find anything.

Surprise, surprise, I got a letter from Terrel Senior Terraces they are going to refund my deposit. I quess cleaning did pay off, even if I did kill myself doing it. The chek is supose to come from some other office. I'm not going to hold my breath until it comes.

I'm way behind with blogging on Bruces and Pats blogs. Maybe that I know how to get on line now I can do it more often.

Finally back on line

Was it really wednesday the last time I could get on line. I have been working for 2 hours trying to get connected today. I have tried several days and couldn't get on line. I haven't figured out what I did to get on line today. So I may never get on line again. Boy is dial up slow.

Still unpacking boxes. The living room is full of empty boxes. I promised to save them for P and I am waiting for D to come pick them up.

I have spend most of the day looking for the consumer report books. We have to buy a TV and a micro wave. I either threw them away or I have packed them in some stupid place. I may try getting online Do you think they have that information on line?

Well, just to let you know we are still kicking.

Moved

Well we are in the new house. Boxes, boxes everywhere, I may never get them put up.

Spent all morning cleaning on the apartment, I doubt if I get the deposit back. The stove and refrig are clean but rug needs shampooing.

I tried to install netzero dial up along with my dsl and quess what it wouldn't and knocked my dsl off. I have so much time talking to those turkeys to get it started again. I just left it. I had to completely uninstall all of the dsl before I could install the dial up. Dial up is slow but it is all I can get at the present.

The manager of Canton Lakeside Village is a doll. Every bathroom had toilet paper. Kitchen had a roll of paper towels and a basket of handtowels candy, duck food, and some jam she had made. What a way to be greeted to our new home. The moving company sent a 65 year old man and a kid to move us. The tempture was 100 degrees. They were surprised that I had everything boxed. It still took them all day. I had to pay for 10 hours of work and boy did they work in this heat. They left 4 boxes on the truck. I kept asking if that was all and was assure that yes it was. Well, the next day the older fellow brought me my 4 boxes. Wasn't that sweet it is a 30 minute drive from the warehouse.

I have the tempture at the new house on 78 or 79 and I'm freezing. I can even breath at night. D said the new house is 2000 sq feet, maybe. I know it is bigger than the house on 67th. I'm trying to wash dishes every night before I quit for the day. This being without a dishwasher is going to be a chanllege.

Moved just in time, gas is going crazy. When I drove into Terrell today gas was 2.54. When I started to leave a couple of hours later the lowest I could find was 2.57. Most of it was 2.68. Boy am I glad not to have that 25 mile drive every day.

It is past bed time.

What a Mess

Because of moving I can't have SBC global anymore they aren't in Canton. In fact there isn't a DSL. I have to go back to a dial up. I tried to connect to People PC on line and that was a mess they took my credit card numer and I had a terrible time canceling it. I conacted NetZero and they were suppose to send me a CD. I got a CD in the mail the other day and didn't pay any attention and of course installed it. It was a PeoplePC not Netzero I promptly deleted it but I can't get rid of the home page. The People PC home page won't recognize any blogspots. I have to go the B and click on the replys to even get to my own page. I haven't been back to Canton to see if Netzero has sent me the CD. I won't have this e-mail after the first of September. My e-mail will be ms-prescott@netzero.com. That is if I ever get the CD.

The front end of my Tarus was vibrating really bad it started when P was here last July 4th. It got steadily worse. Yesterday coming from Canton was really bad. I took it to Ford Dealer today. Problem was a seperated tire. I took the car in at 9:00 am they called me about 10:30 am I told them I would call them back. I did about 11:00 they were suppose to bring me my car. I finally got them to return it about 1:30 pm. (Why we changed to italics I don't know this computer is doing crazy things. The B doesn't work half of the time. ) Took the car to Discount tires for 4 new tires. We didn't need that expense right now. When we bought the car they put very cheap new tires on it. We got about 38,000 miles on them so I quess that was pretty good. A lot of people were in there with seperated tires, I wonder if it is the heat.

Finally chased down the maintance guy I have been chasing him all week. He finally took down my shelves and mirrors. It took him about 30 minutes while I was waiting for the car. I rolled up all my area rugs and tied them up. Just two more days until moving day. I can't wait.

Lets see 52 years ago I was in the base hospital at Cherry Point N.C. with a brand new baby boy. I couldn't wait until I could get home with him. One of the corp men was carried him down the hall like he was a football now you could see he then you couldn't. Corp man was a very large black guy I don't know how he wound up in the maternity ward. Babys older brother was thrilled to have someone to play with. Brother would crawl into his crib and share his rasins with him. I don't know how he survived. Lets see that birthday boy should write a book about military life in the early 50's. My friend Annie could give him lots of insights on the Air Force Life and I could add the Marine Corp. Life. Now that would be a story.

Four days before M day

Can't wait until we get moved. I have had to go to Canton every day since Saturday. That's a 50 mile around trip. We have to pick up Michelle today and check our mail at the post office. My computer is running very funny, I think I may have a bug or virus or what ever. I'm going to have to buy a new virus program.

I quess I waited too long to order wedding pictures I hope K can get some for me.

Helped P clean house yesterday it is hard to keep a place to show. If someone will only look at it, of course the minute you don't keep it ready to show. I keep forgetting how a 5 year olds bedroom gets. As I remember I had a 5 and a 3 year old at the same time double trouble to mess up things. P birthday is in a double of days. S birthday is just around the corner. I quess I need to get cards off to them.

Hubby is doing pretty good considering we are living amist all the boxes. Packed most of the closet this morning. I have been chasing the maintance man for 2 days trying to get him to commit to helping this weekend. I give up I found an add in the throw away paper I quess I will call him tonight. I quess I can take most of things down except the mirrors, quilt rack, and front screen. Boy am I not going to try and clean this place up, they are really being Sheety, around here.

While time to go after Michelle.

Lease Day

Today is lease day I'm suppose to go to Canton to sign a lease for the new house today. I woke up at 4:00 am and couldn't go back to sleep, now I'm sleepy. This apartment is not a good place to sleep. I hope the new house is better.

We went to Canton yesterday and stayed with Michelle while her daddy worked. She played with grandpa until he got tired. She really malls tigger around and he just eats it up. He didn't want to be bothered the other day and acted like he was going to scratch her. He didn't break the skin but it stung, she got the idea. She wanted to come home with us to go swimming so we brought her home and we spent about an hour in the pool. She is sure going to miss the pool. P came after her she looks pretty good but she was very tired.

Hubby has been very confused the last few days taking that one medication has helped but he still can't remember things. He has ask me every day for the last few day when P is going to Alaska. P has her doctors blessing in going, I'm glad I hope that will pick up her spirits. If she feels like it we are going to do something fun today or tomorrow.

Well the sun isn't going back to bed so I quess I can't.

August 20,2005

Still packing, and trying to clean as I go. We bought a big black diamond watermelon. We took it to P so everyone could help eat it. They put it in the car for me when I bought it. I used Michelle wagon to take it into the house. P put it on the counter and cut it the 5 of us didn't eat even half of it. Where I bought it said it came from Tyler. I haven't seen one in a long time. Usually you just get the green stripe ones.

Hubby was a little shakey on his feet before we left to go to P's. After a couple of hours at P he said he was light headed and wanted to come home. When we got home I checked his blood sugar and it was OK. His blood presure was a little low, he has been in bed ever since. I have push water all day, it has been so hot. I have given him a perscription for leg movement. That is the only different medication he has had this week. He has really been out of it most of the week. I hope stopping this medication will make a difference. I knew that the move would be a upset to him but I thought it would work out. Living in all these boxes hasn't been easy for either of us. Just one more week to go.

Talked to P and B both today. B and K are on there way to Hawaii. P and L are having troubles at work. I don't know why the closer you get to retirement the harder they make it for you to do your job. Maybe that is what it is all about you have to be so desperate to get out that you don't think about it changing the rest of your life. I know when I retired I thought I would never miss it but I did. I had to find something else to do a couple of different times before I got weaned away from working. Now I'm having trouble just keeping up with everything around here.

Missed seeing Michelle this week. She has been in school and I have been packing. I'm going to Canton tomorrow and take care of her while every one works.

Health Care or the lack of it

Another trip to Dallas and just as fustrating. The doctor wanted me to pick up a copy of the MRI film and take them to him. After waiting for hour and a half I finally got in to see the doctor and then he wasn't interested. He didn't want to see the film after he had me get them. I tried to read the report and of course it was gooblebly gook. He kinda poopooed my back pain and said I just had a little bit of arthistis. I've had Arthistis for some time this isn't just arthistis. He wants me to take some physical therapy which is just another word for exercise. I have ask twice about a manogram he ignore me about that both times. There was a sentence on the report about my right kidney. It wasn't on his report the fax cut it off. He poopooed that too and wouldn't tell me what it meant. When I got home and found out what some of the words meant it scared me to death. He finally said I could do a ultra sound. I've put that off until after we move. I am certain now I need a new doctor. Where or where is a Dr. Like Dr. Gray that knew I was a intelligent human being and would discuss things with me.

Hubby found a van listed in the paper that he wants to see about. All we need is a vehicle that drinks more gas than this one does. Gas was 2.50 a gallon when I filled up this morning. I am scared to drive to Dallas without a full tank. We didn't get caught in a road construction on the way in just on the way home today.

Still packing there never seems to an end.

August 15, 2005

Well, today was Michelle's first day at school. She was go excited and looked so cute. Her mom and dad took her and then went on to Dallas for P chemo. Hubby and I went to Canton and had lunch and picked her up. I wasn't the only grandma doing that chore.

Well, I packed some more, we can hardly move for the boxes. I am about out of boxes will have to get more. Can't pack tomorrow have to go to Dallas about the MRI.

I have got the phone and cell phone taken care of, electricy is taken care of now if I could decide what to do about the internet. I tried to download peoplepc last night and really screwed it up. There add says 30 day free trial, but I had to give a credit card number. I messed it up and it didn't down load so I called this morning to try and straigthen it out. I couldn't make my self understood to the heavy acent on the other end of line. I was transfer and had to go over it again and of course they again transfered me. I stayed on hold for over 30 minutes they kept telling me that it wouldn't be cancelled until I got a cancellation number. So I kept holding until the very end than someone I could actually understand tried to talk me into keeping the service. I never got downloaded and they are already charged my credit card. I didn't have that much trouble with netzero, I may try try them again. If I go the way D wants me to it will cost $300.00 to just seems like a lot of money. Maybe the speed and the convince is worth it.

August 12, 2005

Second day in a row for a trip to Dallas. Yesterday we sat at road construction for 20 minutes going 2 miles and hour. Today we went to Rockwall and down to Dallas. It takes 30 minutes longer and 10 miles longer but no construction. Yesterday I had an MRI that was very painful laying still on that hard table. It hurt so bad when I got up I could hardly walk. I had a lot of pain all day. Today hubby had an appointment with ear, eyes, throat guy. He has to have a cat scan in September. I put every thing off until after the move.

Went to Canton last evening so that P could go to Michelle's school and meet the teacher. I didn't remember how entertaining watching the goats were. They were standing on their heads trying to drink out of the buckets. I sent hubby out to wash out the buckets and refill them with water. They really spent a lot of time drinking after they got more water.

I have to decide if I am going to try and do DSL in Canton which will cost me $300.00 to install and about $130.00 a month. If I go dial up it will only be $140.00 a month, they both include telephone. When we are only leasing for 6 months I can't see the $300.00 installtion.

Well, I've been on the internet for a long while I'd better pack some more.

Look at Bruce's blog today some good stuff, but oh so scary.

August 8,2005

Another Michelle day, she was really wound up today. The weather has been raining on and off so the swimming pool was out of the question. She has so much engery that she makes us tired.

P goes to she her doctor tomorrow, we have to keep praying that this chemo is working. She is suppose to have more chemo on the day that Michelle starts to school. We will have to pick her up from school. I know that is disappointing to P.

I've decided not to take the cat with us. Both of us are having lots of alergies. I now need to see if I can find a good home for Miss Puss. Captain Midnight and now Michelle is calling her Katrina. Poor cat has never had a name and now she has three.

Hubby thought that the barbque beef was bacon today. I'm not sure how his thought process is going today.

Didn't get any packing done today maybe tomorrow.

August 7,2005

Well I just experiened my first tax free shopping weekend. How wild do you get. Thank goodness P was driving I would have been freaked out with the traffic. We did manage to get some things for Michelle, we found her a winter coat, a light weight jacket, some night gowns, -socks, a denim skirt a couple of t-shirt. The weather was only 96 degrees but the heat index must have been 110. I didn't think we would ever make it we only visited 3 stores. We did have lunch at a steak house it was great. No more tax free days too many people.

Talked to B for awhile this morning he wants me to read a book. Something like the second Pearl Harbor. He said it scared him so bad that he can't sleep. I'm not sure I want to read it. With my state of mind I don't know if I can handle it.

We finished our week of doctors appointments but of course that doesn't do it. Hubby has to go to a Ear, Eyes and Throat doctor. I have to have a MRI.

D unhooked some of our CD players and VCR players so that I can get them packed. Three more weeks to go and still lots of packing to do. I'm sure I am going to run out boxes before everything is packed. Now I just have to see if I can get all the utilities turned on and services switched.

August 4, 2005

Waiting to take our 1 1/2 hour trip into Dallas. Hubby needs to see Alz doctor today. He has been doing pretty good until lately. I don't know if the move is bottering him or it is just the progress of the disease. He got mad at me because I wanted him to wear something besides, nylon sweats and T-shirts. He is forgetting more and more of things that happened yesterday. He gets things confused about who is doing what.

I managed to pack 4 boxes yesterday. Now the bedroom is getting crowed too.

Have you found Candi's blog yet, it reminds me of 1950 and when I first got married. It is really scarey that my granddaughter is going through the same thing I did almost 55 years ago.

Wendys -- is E finally working, sorry it isn't a better job but he has to start somewhere.