July 30, 2011

Been a busy few days. Lita took off a couple days from work and came to town Wed. evening. We had dinner with Bill on Wed., then took him a pulled pork B-B-Q from Subway on Friday. She went over to watch a movie with him tonight, so I'm catching up a little.

We cleaned out 7 1/2 shelves of kithen cupboards. Got some more stuff set aside for the next garage sale. Even threw away a few things--like spices that Bill and I had before we were married nearly 44 years ago. :-)

Sorted several bags of books and have nearly two paper grocery bags ready to take to a friend whose church is having a book sale in August. Have several more boxes I'm going to go through and see if I can part with some more.

Got all of the West Bend Penquins out of the closet where they were stored. Going to parcel them out to some of the family members who don't have one. Lita found an article on them which says they are now selling for $40 - $80 apiece in antique stores. Sure glad we started buying them when they were $5 - $10, although I think the last one we bought was around $20. Right now they are sitting all around my living room. Kind of pretty, but hard to walk around. :-)

She also took (will take) a couple boxes of my Sharing God with Young Children books back to Grand Rapids. She knows a lady who is passing them out to Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS). That cleared out quite a spot in the corner of her former bedroom. Going to meet her at Bill's around 10:30 tomorrow morning. She's going to take off for Grand Rapids when his lunch comes--I'm going to skip church and have lunch with him.

That's about it for now. Maybe I'll go sort some books before bed.

July 26, 2011

Went up to Hart for a couple days to spend some time with Jerry and his family. Was great to see all of the kids and get reacquainted with the older ones and meet the new ones. Didn't get in the sun, because I'd been on medication that reacts to the sun. While they were in the sun at the beach, I napped up in the trees. We celebrated a couple of birthdays and just had a good time visiting and catching up.

Had people coming three times a day to feed and baby Tilly. She seemed to do pretty well. I may even think about getting away a bit more.

This week I am caring for a friend's dogs in the morning and early afternoon. Their son takes care of them after work and in the evening. Got a shock this morning to find a pile of pills on the living room floor when I got there. Picked up all I could find after checking between the couch cushions and down in the cracks around the cushions in the chairs. Out of 200, I found 196 1/2 pills. The dogs didn't act strangely when I went back in the afternoon, so didn't take them to the vet. Call an animal poison control hot line, but they wanted $65 to answer my question, so didn't ask them anything. They have quite a group: 2 German Short-hair pointers and a toy poodle.

Bill is doing about the same. He's very good about understanding when I call and tell him I'm not going to make it that day. Try to make it about 5 times a week, but don't always. His birthday was the 21st. The girls sent him a gorgeous arrangement of flowers. They had already gotten him an Ipod earlier in the year. He sure enjoys that. Hard to know what to get him, there isn't much he needs. Take him snacks a couple of times a week, but have to watch, because we don't want him to gain weight.

Not much else to write about, so will close for now. Hope everyone is enjoying the summer.

July 11, 2011

Still waiting to hear from Medicaid. Personnally I think they're dragging their feet because I didn't play nice, but the gal in my lawyer's office says that isn't true. They had told me they have 45 days in which to process an application. The first one took the full 45 days. The second one took less than two weeks (did it before I got all the info in that they asked for) and now, this one has been around 60 days. Linda says that 45-day thing is just an in-house goal, it's nothing they can be held to.

Had a garage sale in June. Three of us had stuff in it. Made $200d dollars all together. Now, I'm unpacking some of the "old" stuff we have. Going to call a few antique dealers and see if they will come check it out. If they all say it's not worth buying as antiques, I'll put it in the next garage sale. Had half-planned to have a second garage sale this summer, but may wait until next year. (If I'm not here then, someone else can worry about it.)

Spent most of July 1 & 2 in the emergency room. The first day the doc told me to take a laxative. Said "You are not dehydrated. You are not cantagious." The second day a different doctor told me "You are dehydrated. You have a form of the flu. (means I'm contagious) You have a urinary infection."

On the 8th, went to my optomitrist and discovered I have an eye infection. Think I'll hibernate for a couple weeks and see if I can start this month over from the beginning. :-)

Other than that, things are pretty much the same around here. Hope all of you are having a great summer.