Dean Leaves Today

I was sleeping very well until all the rain started and the thunder. It was so loud it woke me up.

I quietly went into the bathroom and got myself ready for the day. Dean has sleep apnea and uses a ventilator that regulates the oxygen he gets as he sleeps. I forget what it's called. Keith uses the same type of ventilator since he too has sleep apnea.  It makes just enough noise that he doesn't wake up and notice when I come in and go into the bathroom to get myself ready for the day. 

Anyhow, it's 5:30AM now and the thunder continues to rumble away. I hate that he is going to have to drive home to Topeka in this stormy weather. 

We have had a very good visit but I know he has to get home to Rod. Rod has a caregiver but ultimately he needs his dad there to take care of everything else about his care. Dean told me yesterday that Rod is fifty six years old this year.

I don't know if I will be able to get Krystal to mow this Sunday afternoon with all this rain. I don't know if the grass will be dry enough to be mowed. That's the problem. We will just have to wait and see. 

Monday I will need to call Cox Communications and try to get a man out here to figure out what is wrong with my TV signal.  I don't get one at all and I put new batteries in my remote last evening but that wasn't the problem so I still have no TV. So I won't be able to check the weather or watch the news.  I don't know how to "stream" the news on the computer. So it's NPR or nothing.

I do still have Amazon Prime and also everything I have already recorded  and can watch those programs but as far as the weather and news are concerned, I will have to use my phone.

I don't know if Dean is up yet or not. I thought I heard him moving around a little while ago but haven't seen him yet. He could be in the bathroom shaving but until he comes out for breakfast, I won't know for sure. He will be leaving this morning but I don't know when yet.

I cleaned up the hummingbird feeder and added fresh water and sugar to it. I noticed this week that the hummingbirds are not eating from it nowadays. I thought they might need fresh water and sugar.

Scruff came for breakfast and I took her food out for her. I think she is still eating. There was no sign of Blondie.

More even later...

Scruff finished her breakfast and left and I took the cat food in and put it back in the garage and covered it up. 

Sally Love just called and asked me to go to dinner in Copan with her. I agreed to go and she needs me to drive because her car is in the garage. I will pick her up at 5:00PM. I need to cultivate some Caney friends. I have either out lived everyone I knew here in the past or they have moved away.

Suzanne is now so occupied with the care of her sister and Nancy is in assisted living in Bartlesville, so I know no one here to visit with anymore. I have either outlived them or they have moved away over the years.

Dean is still sleeping and it's going on 9:00AM. Surely he still plans to have breakfast here with me before he leaves. I am hungry and ready for breakfast myself. I usually would have had it hours ago. 

Dean left about 10:30AM after I fixed oatmeal and coffee for both of us for breakfast. He loaded his car up and took off after that. We had a very good visit.

After he left, I called Cox again about my TV. I talked to six different people about the problem and finally they made me an appointment with a tech that will come look into it between 8:00 and 10:00 on Monday.  

Then I went over to Coffeyville and bought gas and went out to Walmart there. There are some things I simply can't get at our market.

I need to get my coleslaw made so it can marinate in the frig overnight. So I will do that now.  

I got the coleslaw done just in time to leave and go pick up Sally for our trip to the Copan Restaurant .

She shared a prime rib with me and had a gift card to use to pay for it.

We got back home at 6:30PM and I took Sally home. Then I came back home myself and at 7:00PM I will take my bath and read awhile. I watched some Amazon Prime programs on my TV this afternoon since I have no cable TV. Thank goodness I have Amazon Prime. It's 6:45PM now. I may as well get my bath over with and put my pajamas and robe on to read.

I plan to go to bed between 9:00PM and 10:00PM.

It's 8:34PM now and I am almost ready to go to bed. I am very tired. Tomorrow after the dinner at church, I will come home and hopefully my mower, Krystal,  will  be ready to mow if the  weather is nice and the grass is dry.

I will start my cleaning tomorrow afternoon by mopping and vacuuming. I usually do that on Thursday but Dean was here on Thursday so it didn't get done.