Pickups, walking & babies

Here is Nick standing in the "new" driveway by his '69 pickup today, about 15 to 4. I'm glad it wasn't blurry. So many of my pictures turn out blurry.

This was a farm pickup & he found it out in Whitney in a field, sitting there rusting. Not sure what was wrong with it. He & Don-Mike fixed it up & he got a lot of years out of it. He traded it, plus some cash, for the Corvette, which they are now trailering home.

One of the T-tops blew off the 'Vette & the owner stopped, picked it up out of traffic, called Nick & told them to get off at the next exit. They did & he returned the T-top. They put all of the loose stuff in the camper shell on Don-Mike's pickup. They took Don-Mike's "new" diesel pickup.

On to walking. A friend had a link on her blog for a blog named Little April Rose. April's mommy has a link to Kayleigh Anne Freeman. In reading the condolences for little Kayleigh, I ran across a link, out of the thousands of comments, that intrigued me, Random Thoughts of a Great-Granny Grandma. See how blog browsing just kind of snowballs?

I read one of Great Granny's posts & thought it was interesting. It kind of summed up my day today:

1. Tell us how you sneak exercise in when you can't "get to they gym" or "the treadmill is broken" or whatever. What do you do at work/around the house/etc. to move more?

I certainly tried to be creative today. I knew I wouldn't have time for a straight 15 minute walk. I tried to get through work by 11:30 since we had DUP this afternoon & the books were being audited. I knew we would need to eat lunch. I parked out in the farthest corner of Stokes parking lot. For the local people, it was where the pink Victorian house used to be on 2nd South. I walked across the parking lot & down to Lewiston State Bank. Once I got my money, I walked down to the deli, opposite end of the grocery store & bought a couple of 3" sandwiches, a small bag of chips, a small macaroni salad & a small cherry pie for lunch. Back out to the car.

This evening, after supper at ChesterFried Chicken, we went back to Stokes to see if they had some postage stamps. I wanted to mail the DUP audit to the company secretary. However, I still have 42¢ stamps. The post office was closed because by now it was after 6 p.m. The post office used to have a vending machine, but no more. We went there & I walked in, only to find a metal sign over the wall where the stamp vending machine used to be. Stokes only have 44¢ stamps. I had Don park out quite a ways from the entrance & walked in & back out.

When Mother discovered that we were looking for 2¢ stamps she said she had some in the cupboard at home. Sure enough, she did. So, I took one & got the audit in the mail, woo hoo!!

Then, this evening, I walked down to feed the dog. Don walked with me & he watered the dog while I got the food out of the shed. Don had to make a special trip to the grocery store last night for dog food. He got the 50# bag. Now, tonight, I see the cats are almost out of food.

The second part of this was:

2. Let us know how your week went. Let us know your goals for next week. Not your long-term goals, just your goals for next week.

If you follow my blog, I let you know how my week went almost every day, LOL. Goals are to continue to walk daily, make the bed daily. One of my big goals for this week was to get MY wash caught up. I needed undies & socks. Undies washed, folded & waiting to be put away. Socks washed & in the dryer. I'm hoping I won't have any orphan socks. I have 9 orphans. I really wish I could find the mates.

Now, back to Kayleigh, April Rose, & Baby Jonah. Jonah is my cousin Loraine's grandson. He was born at 24 weeks gestation in September 2008. Loraine's dad, Jim, told me about a blog that Tanya & Dave were keeping of their baby Jonah. I started following Jonah's blog. I checked it morning & night. Dave & Tanya are sometimes very late in updating it & I couldn't go to bed without checking the blog. I was having a hard time sleeping back then. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle night &, almost without volition, start praying for Jonah.

Now that I'm off the femara, the new CPAP helps too, I'm sleeping better. But one blog leads to another & now I have a whole list of blogs to check. My main ones though are Jonah, Kayleigh & April Rose. I have my blog list set so that those blogs that have new entries rise to the top, like cream, LOL.

Lent, Day 31

Another short post, another missed bedtime. Darn! I read somewhere that someone gave up fast food for Lent, now there's an idea. Why didn't I choose something easy?

I've not had any femara since Sunday night. I should've taken that last pill instead of leaving just one, sigh. Can't see any difference yet, not that I really expected side effects to be gone overnight.

Nick says it's Saturday

Tonight when Nick went to bed he told me he needed some meds. I fill our med boxes every Saturday morning without fail. I was reading a new blog I found. I got up from the computer & was saying how odd that he didn't have any Friday meds. He said it was Saturday. I said, "Saturday? Are you sure?" Don got in on the conversation & said, "I sure don't want to work another Saturday tomorrow." I work on Friday & I worked yesterday, so I don't know why I thought it was Friday again tonight, but I did.

This morning Nick woke me up, like he does lots of mornings. This morning he was telling me that the cats were almost out of cat food & I needed to get some today. I told him that there was a brand new box of cat food in the furnace room that Lynnette had ordered for us. Remember the 2 big boxes he'd brought in from the front porch? He could only find the box of dog food for Mufasa. I got up, showed him where it was & asked him to move it out into the laundry room for me.

From there I took my meds & then proceeded to spend almost the entire day on the computer. I didn't even think of filling med boxes. I certainly hope no one needs any meds for tomorrow. Since it is Sunday, there will not be a pharmacy open. We should be able to get by unless Nick needs topamax or I need some femara. I don't know of anyone we can borrow those 2 meds from.

Then, since I was rudely reminded that it is Saturday, I was thinking that I need to be to church by noon tomorrow. In fact, when I went over to dress Mother's leg, I asked her if she felt like going to church. She said no. I stopped at the grocery store on my way home to buy some non-stick bandages. I used the last of the bandages that Instacare sent home with us. The grocery store will be closed tomorrow. In fact, the only stores that are open are the new national chain stores that have just come into town the last few years, ALCO & Family Dollar, a few service stations & Burger King. You'd think we had blue laws here. As far as I know, Idaho does not have blue laws. As members of the LDS Church, we are not prohibited, but are strongly encouraged not to shop on Sunday. Preston was founded by LDS pioneers & is still predominantly LDS.

Anyway, there are no church meetings in the wards(1) in our stake(2) because it is stake conference tomorrow. I hurried & called Don-Mike to remind him, so he wouldn't go prepared to teach his Primary class. He had remembered. I wonder why he didn't remind me? I could just see myself going to church & nobody would be there.

Mother's shin is still oozing blood & now the bruise runs from the top of her thigh, down under her instep. She was very confused tonight. I asked her if she had eaten. She said yes & so I asked her what she had eaten. She said she had eaten 2 pieces of toast. I asked her if she had eaten anything else. She said no. I went diving into the fridge to see if I could find any protein. I found a block of cheese that hadn't been opened. It had come from the Elks Lodge when they delivered some boxes of food for her at Christmas. It was clear to the back of the shelf. I could also see some OJ. So, I cut her a couple of pieces of cheese. Don-Mike heard me talking about the cheese, so he came out of his bedroom & wanted some cheese too.

I told Don-Mike that Mother was very confused tonight. He said he'd noticed that too. I told him it was from low blood sugar & we needed to get some food into her. So, she ate her little pieces of cheese & took her meds with some OJ. I'd like to get her home so I don't have to run across town to take care of her. I wish I had a plan or a way to accomplish that.

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1. ward
2. stake - an administrative unit composed of multiple congregations in denominations of the LDS Church. A stake is approximately comparable to a diocese in the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations.