Doctor's Appointment

We went back to Bartlesville this morning at 8:30 for the doctor to see Bob's eye. It is doing well. After that we went to their large Wal Mart Super Center and bought some groceries. Then we drove over to Sedan and met our daughter for lunch.

Their house is coming along slowly. It keeps raining and interrupting progress.

After lunch we came home and I put away the groceries and Bob took a nap. I took the car up to have it put on the computer. For the second time this week, the "check engine" light came on. We checked the tightness of the gas cap because that happened last winter and it was only that I had not tightened down the gas cap tight enough. It went back off on Tuesday this time but came back on today. The computer said that was what it was again. The mechanic suggested I buy a new gas cap. he said this one might be an after market cap.

So, when we go back on the 5th, I will stop and buy a new gas cap.

Cataract Surgery

Wednesday is the day of Bob's last cataract surgery. We will get up at 5:30, dress and do our thing and then drive to Bartlesville for his 7:00 surgery appointment. After the surgery, we will go eat breakfast at Eggberts.

I was sleeping soundly and the cat , Missy, woke me up from a sound sleep to come watch her eat from her bowl. I thought she wanted out but she didn't. Then I could not get back to sleep. I tossed and turned for an hour thinking about the day ahead. Since the first week in July when Bob had his first surgery, he has complained about not being able to see clearly. His glasses no longer are the correct correction for him to see. He has been able to read with them however. After today, he will not be able to read either in all probability. It will be four weeks before he is healed enough to get new lenses for his glasses. I dread those four weeks. It's not just having to put three drops in the eye four times a day for four weeks...that's not the worst thing. The worst thing is his constant boredom. Now he will not be able to read either.

When he is home, he has very few interests. He only belongs to the church and one other organization. That organization is having a workshop next week and he should have been registered for it but didn't. Yesterday, I asked him about the workshop and he said he thought such things were just do-good activities. I was appalled. What is the point of trying to improve our society if all we are doing is do-good activities.

When I expressed this, he had second thoughts and went to register for the workshop.

Bob works part time for FEMA. When he is home for any time at all, he expects me to entertain him. I am extremely busy. Right now besides my regular church work, I am helping to plan a class reunion for October, taking my elderly friend, Juanita, to her doctor's appointments, attending a monthly board meeting for the clinic, scrap booking, keeping house, and cooking. The first weekend in October, I will also be attending a Peace Colloquy. Besides that, I am co-chairing a Restoration Studies Symposium planned for next April. All this keeps me busy.

Once a week we go over to Sedan, where our daughter works, and take her to lunch. There's grocery shopping, yard work and car maintenance. Then there's staying on top of this blog and reading the others.

I do not have time to be bored and do not understand the concept. If I were to be bored, I would not depend on another person to alleviate my boredom.

Thanks for letting me vent here.

John and Leslie's New Home

I finished breakfast early with my friend, Juanita, this morning so I went out to where my son-in-law, John, and daughter, Leslie, are building their new home to take some pictures of the progress. They have been gone four days to market in Denver and the builders have progressed some while they were gone.

They had hoped to get in by Christmas but I think it will be closer to February before they get to move in.

John has a store he is opening in September next to their present house. I will take a picture of it when I go out there next. But for right now, at least, these are pictures of the house which is going up.

You can just barely see the wall of the second floor going up on the back of the house. The finished house will be about 2100 square feet.

I will post additional pictures from to time.

This is the house they are building but they have reversed the plan.

The garage will be on the opposite side from this picture.
They made a few other changes but this is the way the house will look when finished...only reversed.

Brutally Honest Personality Test

I just took the Brutally Honest Personality Test and, Wow! Did I learn something about me!

Do Gooder- ESTJ

53% Extraversion, 27% Intuition, 60% Thinking, 80% Judging

I don't think that is a good thing.

My judging quotient is way too high. I will have to work on that

From the Daily Koz

From John McCain's speech today to the Veterans of Foreign Wars:

Even in retrospect, he would choose the path of retreat and failure for America over the path of success and victory. [...]

Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president.

More thinly veiled accusations of treason? It's time for the Obama campaign to stop "respecting" John McCain's service to this country more than 40 years ago and start pounding him for his repeated failures in judgement over the past seven years.

There was a lengthly article in yesterday's New York Times titled, "Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine."

Now, as Mr. McCain prepares to accept the Republican presidential nomination, his response to the attacks of Sept. 11 opens a window onto how he might approach the gravest responsibilities of a potential commander in chief.

What follows is 2,800+ words about John McCain advocating taking out Saddam Hussein on September 12, 2001, praising the performance of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, his support for Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress, tying Iraq to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, praise for Bill Kristol and David Brook's vision, and of course, WMD, WMD, WMD. In other words, the McCain Doctrine is to be rash, a poor judge of character, hyperbolic, and of course, wrong, wrong, wrong.

The article finishes with McCain saying:

I believe voters elect their leaders based on their experience and judgment — their ability to make hard calls, for instance, on matters of war and peace. It’s important to get them right.

The New York Times buried the lede.

House Cleaning Day

Monday is house cleaning day here. I cleaned everything this morning and Bob ran the vacuum for me. This something relatively new. He never helped with housework until about four years ago when he started doing the vacuuming. I am delighted. I scrub the kitchen and baths and scrub the sinks, stools, tub/shower and floors. I also do three loads of laundry and dry and fold it out and put it away. He does the vacuuming.

My day begins early. At about six. sometimes earlier, I get up and make up and dress, feed and water the dog, cat and flowers. I feed the dog his morning treat. My cinnamon toast. I haven't had a piece of cinnamon toast since Scott brought him here. I go out on the patio with my coffee and the toast and he immediately comes over and sits down (without even being told) and looks up expectantly at me. After that, I get the leash and he gets really excited. We then take a walk. This is my routine every Monday.

If we have anything going on in the week, I sometimes will spruce it up again but Monday is my regular day to clean.

This is the latest picture of Scott. I took it yesterday beside
his precious jeep. The elderly man sitting next to him here in the yard swing is Bob, my husband. The yard is a good place to sit when the patio gets hot. That swing is where I sit to read when Bob is on deployment. Bob will have his second cataract surgery Wednesday.

Sunday Muse

Well, our son left this morning for Missouri again. We had a good visit. He is so depressed that what he really needed was someone on which to unload. His dad and I listened to him quite a bit and we spent a lot of time with him. He is good company. His latest picture is here to the right.

After he left, we went on to church school and church. We had a bunch of visitors today and that was good for our morale and attendance too. Bob had an excellent sermon.

Later we went to lunch at a restaurant called Lanning's and had some of the worst food I've had in years. I had my doubts about going there. I had been there four times before and never had a decent meal but Bob wanted to give them another try so we did and that was a huge mistake.

Now I will work on my Sunday notes and get them in the mail.

Tomorrow I start putting drops in Bob's eyes again in preparation for his cataract surgery on Wednesday. He gets two drops in each eye four times a day until Wednesday.