Really?

This month started out with six dates marked on the calendar with various doctor appointments. With one canceled and three added that makes eight.

Luckily we live close by but this is ridiculous. None scheduled in May and only one in June.

I hope that remains the case.

Another Challenge

Backing out of the drive, the garage door didn't go all the way down. I was on the way to a doctor's appointment so we didn't have time to mess with it.

When we came home it was still half way up - or half way down. I managed to lean over enough to get inside so I could unlock the front door. We tried to call a company who had worked on the door before. No answering machine or notice that the number is out of order. Just a fast busy signal that has a name in the telephone business but I can't remember what it is. It might be called a "reorder."

I called our neighbor and she told me who had installed her new garage door. We called them and they were out here within an hour! Another hour and it was fixed! I love it when you get good service.  It was a little over one hundred dollars but that's not bad for same day service.

Quiet

It's too quiet in here.

The dogs are missing the company but not as much as we are!  We had such a great time seeing two great nephews, a great niece, a niece, a sister and a brother! I'm glad I married someone with relatives. None of those classifications appeared on my side of the family.  Being an only child does that. (How I hate that term - it's usually preceded by the word "spoiled."). I got plenty of whoopins when I deserved them. And plenty of love too.

They are now on the road west with a stop in Dodge City planned.  We know that between western Kansas and eastern Colorado there is not much to see but the Rockies will make up for it.

Safe trip for all and come back again!

The complete group with black Jack who is getting grey like the rest of some of us.

Visitors from the East and one from the South

Here is our group selfie very handled by Number One. (Lee can't remember the boys' names.)

Only one missing is Jack, the black dog. But the bully, Jill, is looking very cute (and a little heavy.)

Saturday

We have a visitor from the south that arrived last night. So glad to see her!

Now we are waiting for five visitors from the east. So far we have news that there were maintenance problems on two planes. No later bulletins so maybe that is the good news that they have left Ohare. Not sure how you write that O'Hare? Anyway, Chicago.   More later.

The group arrived from the east and what a nice group they are! The dogs loved them as much as we do! We talked and talked and ate. I introduced them to Kroger's Death by Chocolate ice cream. There are no Kroger's in the east! I think they thought it was ok but there were no excited yells of joy. After a long day of flights delayed and an hour car ride from our nearest airport with an airline available, I imagine they were all pretty tired.

Maybe I over sold it.

Spring and a Fall?

We are still alternating between warm and cool days here. Yesterday we had to run an errand. After getting out of the van with a small box in one hand, I went to the two steps that lead from the garage into the utility room. I grabbed the handle that Lee put up several years ago to help steady someone entering the door.

Suddenly, I felt myself slowly slipping down toward the step. My legs felt like pipe cleaners with no wire in them. I didn't fall or hit the floor hard; it was more like melting body parts (legs.)

Luckily Lee was behind me. I turned my legs around so they were out over the steps and with his help he was able to get me up.

Wow. I don't know what that was.

So today I am doing my own physical therapy. Strengthening those thighs (which are actually about the size of pipe cleaners.)

Strangely, the back is better.

Thursday Morning

We got the phone call from the doctor's office. A fracture of the L2 vertebrae is confirmed.


Oh Snap!

Appointment will be set up with pain doctor.  I think that is better news than an appointment with a surgeon.