Thursday, January 7, 2016

A Busy Thursday

Today will be busy. I awoke at 6:15..late for me. I dressed and had a banana and a cup of coffee so I could take my meds.  I will try once again for breakfast at Eggberts.  I can only hope it will be hot this time. I will try something different. There's nothing worse then cold pancakes.

I also have Ministerial Alliance this noon so I won't be cooking lunch. Tomorrow or Saturday we will finish off the spaghetti.  I am also going to check out the stew meat on sale at the market. Stew might be good. We are having rain and perhaps snow this end of the week. I also want to get some more biscuits if I make stew.

I need to do some laundry too. Maybe I will do that tomorrow.  Marilyn called last night and corrected the day and time for the committee meeting for the Martin Luther King service.  It's Friday at 2:00 at Sharon's "So and Sew" store. That will give me something to do that will not take up my entire day today.

More later....

After the Ministerial Alliance meeting, I did not come right home. I went to Bartlesville. It was a fruitless trip. I found nothing I wanted and just came back home after walking around the mall. It was a chance to get out of the house and out of town though.

Bob is not coming over this evening. He is trying to stay out of the damp weather.  I will wait until 7:00 and then take my bath and Missy and I will sit in the recliner until time for bed.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Wednesday and Bunco

This afternoon, I will go play Bunco at the senior center. It's something different to do and it's fun. I don't think Bob will go. He's still suffering from his cold. Also I need to get something together for a snack for the party.

I've decided we will have chicken for lunch/dinner...with mashed potatoes and gravy and a veggie and coleslaw. I will make pudding for dessert and we still have chocolate chip cookies.

I need to go to the market today. I didn't get there yesterday and I still need a few things. It's supposed to rain today and I want to get there early before that starts.

So far, I don't have Bob's cold. I have tried hard not to get too close to him and definitely wash his napkin every time we eat here.  I have enough problems with my allergies.

Tomorrow will be busy. I will go to Ministerial Alliance at noon and that means Bob will be on his own for lunch. Then at 3:00 I have a committee meeting to help plan the Martin Luther King service we will have later this month.

Friday is free.

Dinner turned out fine. We enjoyed the chicken Bob brought from Wal Mart. It was chicken  breast pieces and it worked out fine. After I browned it, I poured some of the potato water into the skillet and put a lid on it and turned down the heat to steam it. We had mashed potatoes and gravy and corn and coleslaw.

Bunco was fun. I enjoyed the fellowship. I took brownies and all but two were eaten. I gave the last two to Marilyn R.  Many asked about Bob and I told them he was still fighting his cold.

Next Wednesday Asbury will offer Bingo at the senior center.  The following Wednesday will be games. That should keep us busy this winter.

This is some of the group that played today. This my neighbor, Marilyn R.


As you can see, some are not in the greatest shape but we all had fun.

More later...

Bob went home this evening a little early. He is still fighting his cold.  I took my bath and sat with Missy until 8:30. For some reason, I was very tired and went to bed early. I slept pretty well although I did wake up twice and went right back to sleep.


Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Tuesday and Hair Day

This is the day I go to Independence to get my hair done. It really needs  cutting. It is very out of shape. It's amazing how much hair can grow in just three weeks. Bob will go with me. He's still fighting his cold but he can go visit his sister, Betty, while I get my hair done and then we can go out to the market. I need at least three things badly. I also want to pick up a couple of birthday cards..one for Gay's mother, Imogene, who will be 98 this week, and one for Imogene's son in law, Tony, the very next day.

After all that, we will stop at Big Cheese and eat lunch.  I hope Bob's cold is better today. It has hung on for over a week. I wonder if he's still taking the zinc tablets, Cold Ease. I swear by them. My last cold lasted three days.

I have nothing else on my menu for today.

Tomorrow we will have some chicken breasts, mashed potatoes and gravy and corn for lunch. We will have some more of Bob's coleslaw too.  I will fix pudding for dessert and we will have cookies.

 I want to go to the senior center and play bunco tomorrow afternoon.  That goes from 1:00 until 4:00 and is fun and something different to do too in the winter. I do not like winter. I like to be able to sit outside in the sunshine with Missy. I seldom can do that in winter.

Thursday I have Ministerial Alliance meeting and Bob will eat his spaghetti while I am gone.

Friday we will finish off the spaghetti and veggies and coleslaw. We will have the rest of the pudding for dessert and that with the cookies should be enough.

More later...

Bob decided he didn't feel up to going with me today so he decided to stay home. He's not much better now but he's taken some cold meds just now so maybe that will help.  That cold is really hanging on. We decided we would run up to Arby's and have a light lunch.

Bob came over this evening and brought his computer. One of the residents in his building offered his WiFi to him and we tried to connect buy this guy is upstairs and evidently the signal doesn't make it. He is thinking of using the City of Coffeyville's WiFi. It's $10.00 per month.  That's a lot cheaper then Cox. Mine is $29.95 per month. Unfortunately I do not have access to their WiFi or I would be tempted to change myself.

The big Faw Rah on the tube tonight is the President's executive orders. You'd think no other president ever did any.

Check this list:

Consolidated list of Presidents and Order numbers

President Total Orders Order Number Range
George Washington 8 unnumbered
John Adams 1 unnumbered
Thomas Jefferson 4 unnumbered
James Madison 1 unnumbered
James Monroe 1 unnumbered
John Quincy Adams 3 unnumbered
Andrew Jackson 12 unnumbered
Martin van Buren 10 unnumbered
William Henry Harrison 0 unnumbered
John Tyler 17 unnumbered
James K. Polk 18 unnumbered
Zachary Taylor 5 unnumbered
Millard Fillmore 12 unnumbered
Franklin Pierce 35 unnumbered
James Buchanan 16 unnumbered
Abraham Lincoln 48 unnumbered
Andrew Johnson 79 unnumbered
Ulysses S. Grant 217 unnumbered
Rutherford B. Hayes 92 unnumbered
James Garfield 6 unnumbered
Chester Arthur 96 unnumbered
Grover Cleveland - I 113 unnumbered
Benjamin Harrison 143 unnumbered
Grover Cleveland - II 140 unnumbered
William McKinley 185 unnumbered
Theodore Roosevelt 1,081
William Howard Taft 724
Woodrow Wilson 1,803
Warren G. Harding 522
Calvin Coolidge 1,203
Herbert Hoover 968 5075 - 6070
Franklin D. Roosevelt 3,522 6071 - 9537
Harry S. Truman 907 9538 - 10431
Dwight D. Eisenhower 484 10432 - 10913
John F. Kennedy 214 10914 - 11127
Lyndon B. Johnson 325 11128 - 11451
Richard Nixon 346 11452 - 11797
Gerald R. Ford 169 11798 - 11966
Jimmy Carter 320 11967 - 12286
Ronald Reagan 381 12287 - 12667
George H. W. Bush 166 12668 - 12833
William J. Clinton 364 12834 - 13197
George W. Bush 291 13198 - 13488
Barack Obama 226 13489 - 13715...



Monday, January 4, 2016

Monday and Housecleaning Day

This will be a busy week.  I have my hair appointment in Independence tomorrow morning and it's time for my haircut. Thank goodness!

Thursday noon I will meet with the Ministerial Alliance. Then that same afternoon at 3:00 I have a meeting to help plan the Martin Luther King Day celebration that will be held on Sunday afternoon the 17th. We will be awarding  the Nellie Briggins Community Service Award to Virgil Horne, the former mayor of Coffeyville and Howard Bredesen, who co-founded the PINCH organization here in Coffeyville with Virgil.  That organization advocates for the minority community. We want to be sure they get a fair hearing for their unique concerns.

Today this morning I will clean house and later fix that spaghetti for lunch/dinner. Bob will bring coleslaw. I have garlic bread and I will put a veggie with the spaghetti. I still have fruit and we will have that and a couple of cookies for dessert. That should do.

Sometime..maybe this afternoon, I want to see if I can get Bob's e-mail working. That's all he lacks to having his computer back going. I have e-mailed my son, Keith, for some advise on that or perhaps even some direct work on it, but he has not been answering my e-mails. They may have been away for a holiday over the New Year.

More later...

The apartment is clean except for the den. Missy is sleeping in there so that room can wait. Everything else is clean.

I went over to Bob's apartment at 9:00 to write his rent check and one for the administrative fee there. While there, a minister who lives there, came in and began preaching a sermon for us. He was very nice so we didn't object but finally, I had to leave and get back home. So I excused myself and he and I both left. In about an hour and a half, I will begin fixing our lunch. It's almost 10:00 AM now.

I did hear from Keith, and I am to call him after work this evening and he will either walk me through the steps or use his program to do it himself from Phoenix. I hope he can get Bob's mail going again.

More even later...

The spaghetti and broccoli turned out well and I sent some spaghetti home with Bob for Thursday. I will be going to Ministerial Alliance myself on Thursday. He brought coleslaw and I mixed it up. I still do not want his cold. I have enough runny nose problems myself with my allergies.

I fooled with the e-mail program myself this afternoon and finally got it working. I have a couple of issues I will still need Keith to check out but the worst is done.

More even later...

By the way, these puppies are John's dog, Speck's. She is half Jack Russell and half Rat Terrier. Now the father of these pups is their registered Corgi, Hoover. Hoover was very busy there awhile ago. Now Mini and Speck are both very busy.These puppies are a week and a day younger than Mini's Corgis. But like all puppies, they are cute as a bug's ear.




And what do you know....my son's new house is being framed up today. I was really amazed. It seems to be taking a long long time to get that house showing. This is Waterman's Bluff in Florida. .

 
Here are some more!

 
Their Master Builder..
 
More news later....

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Sunday and Communion at Church

Today is Communion Sunday at our church. In our tradition we serve communion once a month on the first Sunday of the month.

I slept well last night and got up early enough to shampoo my hair and use a curling iron on it.  It looked terrible today. I need a hair trim and that's this Tuesday. Anyhow it's clean now at least.

We will all eat out together after church. I asked Marilyn R if she wanted to go to church with us today but she said in cold weather she just likes to sleep in. So I will pick up Bob at 9:00. His windshield will be frosted over and he would have to scrape it. With his cold, he doesn't need to do that. He is making his pumpkin bread today. I texted him this morning and his cold isn't much better.

I need to figure out what to fix for dinner tomorrow. I am so tired of cooking it's hard to come up with something different.   We may have spaghetti and meat sauce with garlic bread and coleslaw and a veggie. I still have fruit and now I have cookies again too.

More later....

Corgi puppies still growing.

 

Cute, aren't they?

I went to lunch with six of the congregation and we went to Sirloin Stockade. Bob was feeling pretty bad so I took him home instead of going with us. The six of us had a good visit and stayed until 2:00. Then I came home and did my usual Sunday newsletters.  After that, I went to get gas for my car.

My friend, Elnora, called me and talked about fifteen minutes telling me about her new resolution to start her yoga meditation again.  That would be good for her. She has had a hard life and has got back on track again. She is sure the meditation will help.

My gas was up again. It was $1.59 a gallon. But that's still cheap. I also stopped at Braums and got garlic bread for our spaghetti tomorrow. Bob will bring coleslaw.

We have our Living the Questions  group meeting tonight at Marilyn's. I will pick up Gary at 6:50 or so. I don't know whether Bob will be up to going or not.  I will know closer to 6:00, I imagine.

More later...

Bob came over to read the paper but just wasn't up to the group tonight.  He went home to stay in out of the cold.  I watched the rest of the Chief's/Raiders game and the Chiefs won it 26 to 17. All Oakland needed was one touchdown to win but they just couldn't pull it off. They were underdogs most of the game. But right at the last, the Chiefs got careless and almost lost it.

Now I had to tell Missy I was going to be gone all evening to the Living the Questions group meeting.  She was looking forward to spending the evening in my lap I could tell. Not tonight. I have to go pick up Gary in about ten minutes.  I wil be gone until about 8:30, I imagine.

This is how the kitchen of my son and daughter-in-law's new home will look when it's finished. Pretty nice, huh? I am dying to see it next Spring.


Saturday, January 2, 2016

Saturday and Computer Problems

I'm amazed I slept at all last night..but I did. I spent the afternoon defragging Bob's computer. After It had finished, I downloaded the newest Mozella Firefox browser.  Everything was working fine. It was working as fast as mine. We went in to watch the news, and while there, the entire thing crashed. I spent the next couple of hours trying to get it back up. I got everything going except his mail. It seems to have disappeared altogether. Computers!

Anyhow, I slept until 4:00 and then just gave up and got up.

More after breakfast...

We did go to breakfast, although with Bob's cold, he probably should have stayed in out of the cold. I'm not his boss though. I picked him up and we went on to Sirloin Stockade for breakfast. Today for lunch/dinner, we will have the leftover chicken and noodles and leftover potatoes and applesauce and Tuscan veggies. I still have fruit for dessert and I should get in there and make cookies too.  I have time. We had such a big breakfast that we will eat later this afternoon.  Initially we had planned to go to Owasso to eat at Olive Garden but he still feels raunchy so we will just stay in Coffeyville and eat leftovers.

I have tried to e-mail Keith to see if he has the time to try to set up Bob's mail again.  But he is evidently out of the house and is not getting his e-mail on his I Phone. I imagine he's trying to have a nice quiet holiday too and that is fine. Bob can use my e-mail and just put "it's your dad" in the subject line.  He now has access to his bank and my blog and that's all he thinks he needs. He does need his own e-mail but until Keith can help me with it, he doesn't have any.

More later..I'd better get on those cookies.   ....

Well, I got the cookies made.  I also warmed up the chicken and noodles  for lunch and sent the little bit of leftovers home with Bob.

I read all afternoon. Later Bob came back over to watch the news. His cold is still bad. He went home about 7:00 to get ready for bed.

Missy and I did the same thing and sat in the recliner until bedtime.

Friday, January 1, 2016

Friday and the New Year

I slept poorly last night. It started out fine..... until midnight.  Then some idiots starting setting off fireworks and shooting guns off to celebrate the New Year. I almost never got back to sleep. Finally at 2:15 I got up and read awhile. Then I took a Melatonin tablet and finally got back to sleep and slept until 6:00 AM.

I will fix chicken and noodles for lunch/dinner today. We will have applesauce with it and a veggie. I have some fruit for dessert. I hope to feel up to baking cookies sometime today. We are currently completely out of cookies.

It's 24 degrees this morning. Brrr. It's supposed to get up to the 40s tomorrow with sunshine and then later in the week it will be in the 50s. How strange the weather is this year. Thanks to El Nino.  

I finally got out to John's yesterday afternoon and picked up my meat. We also went out and looked at the puppies and Mini and Speck.  The puppies will be five weeks old tomorrow and are so cute. The Corgis are darling. They are now eating solid food to supplement their mother's milk.  The half  breeds that belong to Speck are also cute. They are smaller and a week and a day younger.  But, let's face it. All puppies are darling.

When I got back in town, I stopped at the bank and made my rent payment.

Keith called yesterday while I was at the bank and I had a nice conversation with him. Homeland Security had sent their employees home an hour early so he was on his way home when he called... hands free.

More later....

Bob came over awhile ago. I was looking for noodles and all I found was macaroni. Bob volunteered to go over to Country Mart and buy frozen noodles. He also picked up a spice I couldn't find when I was over there. Now I am almost ready to begin lunch/dinner.

I am in the process of defragging his notebook. It is terribly slow. It says it defrags weekly but I know it doesn't because he keeps it in it's case all week and only comes over to use it about once a week. So after about twenty minutes, it's 3% defragged. It will probably take all day for it to finish at that rate but hopefully it will run faster when it's finished.