Garage sales

I am going to do garage sales today. There aren't many, it's the end of the month and people have yet to be paid. I find the best ones are after the first of the month.

I have yet to feed the animals and water the plants. I will also take Slinky for his walk first.

I talked to my brother-in-law last evening and it doesn't appear they will take Phyllis back to Windsor Place before Monday. he may lose his room there for her. They only save it for twenty four hours. It has now been forty eight. After that, if they save it, he will have to pay for it....not Medicare.

I will get back to this after awhile. Right now I will go feed the animals, etc.

I went to four or five garage sales but there was nothing of interest. I need to pick up my prescription after nine so I guess I'll just stay here and wait until then. I also want to deposit a check from my older son. I think the bank here is open until noon.

I went to garage sales in Independence and then on to Leslie's house. John had to work late this evening so she wanted to go to a movie in Bartlesville so she and I went and met Jeff and Cyndi there too.

Afterward we went to a Wings place there in the mall and enjoyed some wings. We had a good time. I got home way to later to feed the animals. It's after nine. They will just have to wait until morning. We saw "Inception". I think that was the name of that Sci Fie movie. It was interesting.

Another Scorcher

Today will be another scorcher. It should reach 100 all next week with the heat index...who knows where. We need some rain to cool us off.

This morning at 11:30 my sister, Phyllis, will have her test. Perhaps we will learn why she was vomiting blood and also passing blood the night before last. None of yesterday's tests showed anything.

I will go up to the hospital again this morning after I get a few things done around the house, water the plants and walk Slinky.

More later...

When I got there this morning she had already been taken into surgery. Her test showed she had two stomach ulcers.

It's 101 this afternoon. When I came home at 2:30, I found Slinky was really overheated. I have him in the kitchen now. I don't know how long he will stay.

Thursday

I began baking a blackberry pie this morning and my brother-in-law called to tell me my sister had been vomiting blood and also passing blood and the nursing home was taking her to the emergency room. They did x-rays but that showed nothing so later they are going to do a EGD in the morning. They will pass a tube down her throat to see what they can see.

While she's sleeping we left Denise there and I came home to finish baking my pie. Bob went home to clean up a mess he left in the kitchen. I took the pie out after five minutes of baking. I hope it will be o.k.

Anyhow, I hope they can discover what is happening with her. I will go back up after lunch unless they learn something before then.

More later...

I had a nice lunch with my grandson and now will be going up to see Phyllis at the hospital again.

As the day progresses, Phyllis' dementia progresses too. All she can think about is that she wants to go home. Of course, she can't go home. They must find out what her problem is before they take her back to Windsor. It may be something quite serious. Her EGD test is tomorrow at 11:30.

The pie turned out pretty well. I took a couple of pieces to my brother-in-law.

House Cleaning Day

I will do some house cleaning today. I will also do some laundry. I may as well stay in since the heat index has been 107. I go out at 6:00 AM and feed the animals and water the plants and take Slinky for his walk. Next week, the first week of August, the temperature itself will be at least 100. I will have to let Slinky into the kitchen and Missy into the house or they will really suffer from the oppressive wet heat.

Thursday noon I will have lunch with my grandson, Jeromy. Before I meet him for lunch, I will go out to visit Phyllis. Bob went out yesterday and she continually wanted to go home. That kind of spoiled his visit. Denise went again. She goes each day for a visit. I was hoping we could just take turns but she is Denise's mother and Denise can do what she likes.

Perhaps more later....

I went to Independence this morning to get my makeup base. Afterward I got a coke and back came home. It's very hot so I have just watched TV and worked on my computer this afternoon.

Juanita called and visited awhile. I will see her next Wednesday when I get my hair cut.

Another Hot Day

The heat index hit 107 yesterday. After I got home, I brought Slinky and Missy in for the afternoon. He wanted out about 7:00 so I let him out then. It was still pretty hot, but a big dog like Slinky can only be in a small kitchen so long.

I will go feed and check his water now and get back to this later.

I took Slinky for his walk and then sat on the patio with a cup of coffee until Inky started giving me a hard time wanting attention. Inky is the stray kitten I made the mistake of feeding. Now I have another female cat.

I got my mowing done. I trimmed last time so I will not trim much today. I have no plans for today. Perhaps I will get back to my book.

I chatted awhile with one of my classmates while I was checking my Facebook page. She was online there too.

I finally slept well last night but I had to take a sleeping pill to do it. I hate doing that but it had been a week since I got a full night's sleep so I finally just broke down and took one.

My friend, Judy, called this evening and asked me to meet her for dinner. We went to Long John's Silver. We had a good visit too. I ate too much today.

Monday Cleaning

Today is the day I clean my daughter's house. It always takes me three and a half hours...non stop. She has a big house. Afterward I will see if she wants to eat lunch together.

When I get home, I will go see my sister. I hope she's not too tired by then. She gets very confused when she gets tired.

I weeded my front flowerbed on Saturday morning and the chiggers ate me up. I am covered with their bites from the knees down. I put calamine lotion on them each evening but they still itch. I am trying to ignore them and hope they go away soon.

More later..I must go feed the animals and water the hanging plants. I also took Slinky for his walk.

I cleaned my daughter's house and then had lunch with her. Then I came back home to visit with my sister in the nursing home.

I was so pleased with my visit with my sister. She seemed pretty lucid. She did get mixed up once or twice but generally was in her right mind and we had a good visit. I stayed an hour.

My niece had been there this morning but she didn't remember. She did remember that she had been there yesterday. I told my sister that we were planning on spacing our visits out one of us each day so she would have company from one of us every day. She seemed happy about that. She introduced me to her aide as her sister. I was so pleased that I stopped by my brother-in-law's afterward and told him about my visit.

I will stay home this evening and watch TV..if I can stay awake.

Sunny Sunday

Well church was very good today and we had three visitors. They all three stayed for the dinner afterward. The salads were all varied and one visitor sent me home some crab salad. I made chocolate chip cookies. I took the ones that were left in my container to my brother-in-law. I also took him some of my potato salad.

This afternoon I will send off my letters to those that did not attend and then watch TV. I am tired and I imagine Slinky is too hot. I haven't looked in on him yet.

More later....

Sure enough, he needed to come in for awhile.

I talked to my brother-in-law. He had talked to his daughter, Denise. She spent four hours with her mom this morning at the unit. I will go early tomorrow afternoon but I will only stay about 45 minutes.