Sandy's Daily Updates

Another beautiful July day in Tennessee. It is sunny, a bit breezy, and at 3:11 p.m. the temperature is 88 degrees. We had a couple of good rain showers last night. It sure helped the grass a bit, but a little more wouldn’t hurt. I do appreciate the sunshine so am not complaining.

Today I went to the knee doctor and after X-rays, he said that my knee is healing nicely. He said that the PT exercise is good for strengthening my legs but if it hurts to much to quit and do the main exercises at home. Also to use my bike thing as that will help also. He said that it is the upper leg muscles and the core muscle that is the most important as that keeps one able to walk and mobile. I will keep doing the PT and hope that it hurts less. I go back the 11th of August. He also said that the exercises helped my back and that if that hurts to much to quit the PT. The loser back is fused. He is such a good doctor, very good at explaining everything and showing the X-rays. He even asked how Tina’s shoulder was working out and if she was planning on having surgery. He said she chose the best doctor for her back surgery. When we got back in the car she asked how he knew all about her back and surgery? I said he cares about his patients so keeps track of them.

After we got home, Tina made herself a sandwich for lunch and went back to work. She was at work by 6:00 this morning, picked me up for the doctor visit in Knoxville at 8:15, arrived there at 8:40, saw the doctor at 9:00, left there at 9:30, arrived back here at 9:55, she left here at 10:05 and will work until 4:30 this evening.

Now that our new living room chairs are here and the room looks comfortable and homey once again, it is a pleasure to sit and relax. I think I need to find a light for the Christmas Cactus as my rigged up one doesn’t work to well. The plant is to big for the stand I got and to big for the window seat thing it was on, so I will look for something else. It sure is pretty though. I also need to get arm covers for both chairs as these aren’t leather. So, maybe covers for the arms and the head.

Wah’s House Hold Hints and such: From Wah’s book, Kitchen Secrets of The Daughters of Norway, I will add one of the poems. “LOVE” The greatest gift upon this earth is love, the affinity of God; The eternal tie which binds the home; That which makes the elements of Nature more beautiful; the flowers which bloom, The birds that sing, The gay laughter of cheerful boys and girls, All elements of Nature Free to those who seek it. Love, the eternal symbol of humanity”. Written by Miss Florence Hay Round***

Have a great rest of your Thursday. Keep it cheerful, busy, and fun

Blessings

A beautiful sunny, warm July afternoon. There is a slight breeze, with the temperature of 90 degrees at 3:23 p.m. Today has been a good day for the birds and the squirrels as I have seen them at the bird feeders and checking the grounds for dropped seeds. I believe they don’t enjoy the high humidity and heat either as we have only seen the birds in the evenings.

Today has been busy as I cleaned the living room. that included moving all the furniture and vacuuming and mopping and dusting. the room looks very nice and comfortable this afternoon as the new chairs are in place and just waiting for the two ladies of the house to sit in them, relax, and enjoy the evening TV program(s). Yes, they recline and one even rocks. No, they don’t look alike, but they do fit each of these shrinking senior ladies. Maybe I should say three as Sierra has briefly tried each one, then left for the couch in the back TV room.

Tomorrow I go to the knee doctor in Knoxville and see if my knee has healed properly. I had chipped it when I fell in April. I really can’t tell if it has or not since doing PT all the exercises make everything “hurt”. At least for a while. And that is the day after, not the same day. Tina is taking me so she will go to work for a couple of hours, then come and get me, we will go to the doctor, then she will bring me home. She is looking at back surgery in October and is trying to accumulate time for that. Also to be able to take a day here and there, when the weather cools down, to do day trips. She so wants to go to Cades Cove and see the bears, etc. So this weekend we will go to Knoxville and “play”.

Wah’s House Hold Hints: ” This she copied and the true author is Woodrow Wilson; ” I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.” Have a great rest of your Wednesday. Make it a thoughtful, cheerful, giving, and fun day.

Blessings

Today is another cloudy, muggy, warm day. As of now, no rain, but it is very humid so the plants and grass must get some moisture from the heavy air. The temperature is 85 degrees, which isn’t all that bad, but would be better with less humidity. It is 3:05 p.m. so still time for the temperature to heat up a bit.

Yesterday my computer didn’t want to do the blog. I kept trying to bring it up and it would go right back to BING and al the stuff that it shows. I finally gave up. I wasn’t sure that today would be much better as Tina said that the power was iffy at some of the buildings by the hospital and generators were being used. I tried to call PT and there was 1 ring, then nothing. Very weird. Here it all seems to be well.

That being said, it was a good weekend. My car now runs. It was the battery. I was very thankful that it was just the battery and not something worse. I have to confess, the car is just 15 years old, not 25 as it is a 2010. I hope it will run another 15 years with no major problems. The old battery (14 months old) wasn’t good. It had problems. The new one is good. It has a 3 year warranty so that is good.

Tina was on call and ended up working Sunday from 6:30 am.m. until 3:30 p.m. while she was at work I went to church. We had the greeter duty and I felt that it was important for me to be there as one greeter is better then non-greeter. It is enjoyable seeing everyone and saying hi and how are you. the little kids that come in with their parents are so cute. One little boy had on a shark tee shirt. He told me that this is Shark Week!

Saturday, after the car got its new battery, we went to Walmart and bought the necessary items. A filter for the fridge ice and water despencer, filters for the HVAC, a J ring so Tina can hang up her pulley for her arm therapy, etc. and a couple of grocery items. The filters were the main thing. those filters don’t last more then about two to three months. The air ones last two months and maybe tow and a half months. The fridge one a bit longer. Now to get them put in.

I believe I already told about the Senior Fair and how fun that was. That was the highlight of the weekend. Today has been just working on cleaning off my desk and writing my stories. I had two to do as I got behind. Actually I had to think about one of them before writing. And with my furry secretary helping me, it can be challenging.

Now I need to do some housework. I didn’t get the stove wiped down good last evening so need to go clean it good. It is a glass top stove and very challenging to keep clean. it isn’t perfect but I try and keep it as clean and smooth as possible.

Wah’s House Hold Hints: ” Adding a bit of olive or Vegetable oil to your pasta water will help it not stick together when cooking”.

have a great rest of your Tuesday. Make it a thrifty, silly, profitable and fun day.

Blessings

Wednesday’s child is loving and giving. Thursday’s child works hard for a living.

Partly cloudy, windy, chance of thunderstorms, 92 degrees at 3:37 p.m. It was about the same yesterday at this time, It is summer and we only have 10 weeks or so until fall. My furry secretary is trying to help me, but with a few treats she tends to go check the windows for squirrels or the chipmunk. neither they or the birds are out right now so maybe the storm is on its way.

Yesterday was so fun and interesting. My Friend Fran and her mother-in law picked me up and we went to the Senior Fair at the fair grounds in Clinton. Laura said that it was music, a program and an ice cream social. So I’m thinking music by a local group, then probably a speaker, and then the ice cream social. I am thinking in a dining room or hall of some sort. Boy, was I way off base on that one!

The Senior Fair was held at the fair grounds in a long, metal opened sided building. We parked towards the entrance and started walking. About half way there a golf cart came and asked if we would like a ride. We accepted. He took us right to the front door so to speak and we got out. right away a lady hands each of us a long stemmed red rose. Then another lady hands us a blue bag, like the ones you take in to the grocery store to put your groceries in. And another lady hands us a plastic green bag, ans somewhere a yellow bag appears. Also another lady comes and drops a wooden nickel in the bag, and another hands each of us a raffle ticket. Now we are loaded down with all this baggage, and are looking for a place to sit. Another lady said “Hold on, and off she goes, returning with three folding chairs and places two of them at the end of one row of folding chairs and the other in the row in front of the two.

Fran and I sat in the two and Laura sat in front of us. We sit. Then start trying to put all the excess bags in the blue bag. We balance the big box on our lap and manage to open it to see what it contains. In it is a beautiful tea towel with a picture of a lady ( from the 1940’s or 50’s) and a saying. My towel says; What part of “Thou Shalt Not” don’t you understand?. There was also a pulled pork sandwich, BBQ sauce, baked beans, and coleslaw. And a bottle of water and a small pack of chips. That was lunch. We put the towel in the blue bag and set the empty box under the chair. Then settled in to listen to the country music and watch the band. The band was good, playing a lot of the older country songs and singing , They had a lady who sang a couple of songs, Dolly Parton’s hits mostly. She was also good. The band was good. They had a drummer, and guitars, harmonica, and a fiddle. All in the 70’s I do believe, and all very good. The leader of the band is on U-Tube and said that he plays all the music from the Grand ole Opery back when they started in the 40’s or 50’s. And, he said, it is free so by watching him you save money and get good music to boot. I think his name is West, maybe Russell West. I will have to research that. After the music they had a few contests, Hog Calling, Oldest lady, Oldest man, lady who has the most children (two winners, each with 11 children.) and funniest hats. There were five contestants each with a cute hat. One was a tea party. she had a small tray on this hat with a child’s tea pot and two cups and saucers. One was “New Orleans February Celebration with Fat Tuesday. One was sun flowers and one, the winner, had a Coronal Sanders chicken bucket with chicken feet glued sticking out the bottom and on top of the bucket was a nest with a chicken sitting on it. So well put together and so cute. She won. I can’t remember what the fifth lady had.

Then they introduced the current Miss Anderson County and all those in the grade levels below. I am not sure about that as far as what they represented so don’t quote me on that.. They go from High School Senior to first grade. All dressed so pretty and all had crowns.

Finally they got to the drawings. The prizes were outstanding. There must of been close to fifty if not more, and there was $50.00 gift cards to Food City, $20.00 dollar bills, a small refrigerator for the desk maybe would hold a 6 pack of soda’s, etc.; a cordless vacuum, a pretty bamboo container with kitchen tools in it and a large bag with all sorts of kitchen gadgets in it. many more but I can’t remember it all. Needless to say neither of us won anything. But we had a great time. After the drawings it was time to hike up to another building for the ice cream. By that time we had sat for three hours and really just wanted to go home, so we started walking to the car and soon was picked up by a golf cart. That was a blessings as back to the car was all up hill.

Today was just the normal housework. Being home bound isn’t bad. I cancelled my PT for today and will see what happens next week car wise. I still hurt from Tuesday’s session so don’t mind missing today. Now it is my left hip that hurts. Gr! I will continue doing my exercises as I don’t want to undo what good that has already been done.

Wah’s House Hold Hint’s; ” When making roast gravy, add potato or other vegetable water. this takes care of all the vitamins and makes a very rich and delicious gravy.”

have a great rest of your Thursday. Make it a cheerful, fun and adventurous day.

Blessings