So us gals decided to haul our skinny asses on the back of the 4-wheeler and Let Kelly drive us around the woods -- are we nuts or what?
Guess who decided to show up? Yup my hummingbird. I was so happy to see him (or is it her?). They are fun to watch and I hope they return often.
Some days you just have to look down the train tracks and think, "where in hell does this go?" Well I know where and it was a fun journey many years ago and I'm sure its a fun one to this day. Sadly passenger trains are hard to find these days and some are just to damn hard on the body -- all that bouncing and those lovely beds -- ye gads.
As the title indicates, today is doctor appointments for me at least. It's see the radiation oncologist at 1 and the oncologist at 1:30. Mostly follow up as far as I can determined and I am sure my oncologist will probably order a mammogram for next month.
I do wish to discuss with both this back pain/ache that seems to have taken over lately but I can't be sure if this is due to the recent activities, i.e.: gardening or just friggin ole age! I just know I dislike. I have another issue which my oncologist may suggest I talk to my urologist about..no big deal. I feel good and if he wants to do that osteoporosis infusion number, I doth think I am ready...dentist appointments are over, thank goodness. My next thing is to make an eye appointment...I would like new glasses and let's face it, I need a eye exam too.
And the weather -- well shit, we can't seem to get two days of sunshine, nope, we have to get this dreary, rainy weather and temps that drop into the 20s and at one point in this month we had snow -- holy crap. When summer does arrive, every one will enjoy it -- no complaints for damn sure.
Whew,it has been busy around here. As you know (I think), Patrick is no longer in the hospital. He's been home the last two months but his recovery is a slow process and we are still making trips to Burlington for check-ups, to the VA hospital in Syracuse to see his Coumadin doctor, getting his new hearing aids, and of course, each week or so it seems, he has blood drawn. Damn vampires!
This photo is his grandson, checking out his surgery and deciding if they did everything correctly!
This Papa and his youngest grandson. Look how skinny he is -- he said "gee, I look so tall!" Hello, Clint is 3 -- duh!
Well, Papa can't have all the fun. Meme has to have some too. Here I am with Clint 4-wheeling and he's providing directions. It was cold that day but we had blast.
Yes, Meme is feeling great these days too.
Now it is Papa's turn to help put a new toy together. For once, something inexpensive turned out to be the best damn toy ever. Usually you end up with crap that doesn't last two seconds, but this sucker seems to be holding up quite nicely.
Yes, it is now May and we have had snow, rain, temps in the 20s and just flat ass yucky weather. I did manage to plant 5 rose bushes, and Clint managed to plant three flower pots with a variety of plants. We have tomatoes to plant but we are waiting to see if the weather is gonna warm up first.
My sister has been here the past week and we got busy breaking down boxes in the garage, we hauled them out them out for the garage man to take today. When he pulls up he's gonna wonder what in hell happened. We also had the lovely Lowe's experience yesterday too. Wait, it started last Friday when we bought 8 bags of mulch, 4 black and 4 brown. It was back-ordered but a good sale price. So yesterday we went to get the bags. Now this is when shit hitting the fan would have been easier. First off, it shows we ordered 8 bags of red mulch. No, we did not, we again repeated what we wanted and now we had to go customer service and get the new codes. Ok, so far we are not too upset. Sis gets back to the mulch area and is asked to bring her car around and they'll load the bags for her. No problem, she arrives and the guy says; "oh you're the lady that wants 8 bags of red mulch, right?" She looks at him and says; 'WTF! Are you from another planet? Do you not read or understand English?" He replies, you're a tad old to be using that word, you are not twenty anymore! Well, that set her off in good style. Finally she gets him to understand she wants 4 brown and 4 black bags of mulch and please put the brown bags on the bottom as they are going to Syracuse. Now she has confused him again and she is ready for a beer. In the meantime, I with Patrick as he buys a new kitchen faucet padlock and lawn tractor!
They want to charge us $70 to deliver the tractor 4 miles down the road and I said, "you know what, I would like to see the manager!" He shows up and within seconds he announces FREE DELIVERY! Okay, gotta change the sales receipt now and then, Patrick reminds her he gets a 10% military discount too. so again, another receipt change to get everything correct. And people wonder why shopping at Lowe's' is such a pain in the ass. Do they deliberately hire dipshits?
Well, you all have a good day and Justine, we are fine, thanks for caring about us.
