Tuesday and Visiting Nancy

I did not sleep well last night. I was awake off and on after midnight.  Finally I just got up and dressed shortly before 5:00AM. I am having my breakfast now and it's 5:25AM. In a little while I will go check the weather and see if the cats are out there waiting for their breakfast.  

About 10:00AM, I plan to go visit Nancy at Green Country Village Assisted Living. Right now I will go check the weather.

The weather looks like it will be nice all week.

Neither of the cats came for breakfast  this morning. Strange....They are usually here by 6:30AM and it is 7:48AM now.

I heard  from Stephen, my landlord, and he is sending another man here from Owasso to measure for my carpet. Lowe's was not sure when they could get any carpet. I told him to just let the man in because I knew I would be gone until at least 4:00PM on Wednesday. Stephen says his father shares my birth date only he is 82.

I did go down and visit Nancy. She does not like it there but she will have to try and get used to it. Naturally she wants to go home to her own home. But she really is beyond that. Caneyites Mary Chastain and Joyce McDaniel were there and they took her under their wing. Mary had moved to Bartlesville because one of her sons lives there. She went to live with her sister briefly but she said she was too bossy and she is perfectly happy to be at Green Country Village Assisted Living.  They were to play Bingo after their lunch.

I went and got gas after I left and also stopped at Copan Truck Stop and had their small chef salad and iced tea. Then I came on back home and have worked all afternoon on getting my newsletter ready to add new information as it comes in. I e-mailed those with e-mail and told them I was beginning to work on it. The others will just have to start sending their news. 

I also worked again on my sermon for December 26th.

I made up a mailing list of those that do not have e-mail. I will send those off those after I get the newsletter duplicated by the woman at Four County Mental Health. Hopefully she can do it for me again. I have all the envelopes addressed already. I did that a few weeks ago.

Oddly enough, John Wade, our class treasurer, called me this afternoon while I was working on all of this and he is sending me the money we have left in our classmate's account for stamps. I think he said it was $125.00.

It is 5:12PM now and I am tired. I had to charge my Fitnus again this afternoon. It sure didn't last long. I had just charged it yesterday.

 I did some work in the yard. I am tired of reading.

I may mow the back again on Friday just to clean up the mess of leaves. It depends on if the weather holds up till then.

More later..

It is 6:22PM now and in a little bit I will take my bath and read. There's nothing on TV I am interested in. TV is pitiful anymore. It's too much violence and stupidity.

Tomorrow I will get my hair done at 9:00AM and then at 1:00PM I go to the senior center and play Bunco. I want to check on Marilyn afterward. I will need to get a treat for Bunco at the market here in Caney. Whatever I have left I will take to Marilyn..if she's up to company. She had surgery last week on her back.

Then on Thursday (my birthday) I will clean the apartment and at 2:40PM, I will go to Independence to get my driver's license renewed.

I don't think I have anything going on Friday.

I hope I sleep better tonight. I will read awhile till I get sleepy and go to bed sometime between 9:00PM and 10:00PM.

 

Monday and the Dentist

I have not had any trouble out of the tooth I broke last Tuesday. And it also lost the amalgam filling. Today I hope to see the local woman dentist and get that filling put back in. I cannot afford a root canal and a crown that's for sure and the last (and only) root canal I had was a complete disaster. The dentist I worked for at the time wanted to do a couple of crowns to hold a bridge the other dentist had done with an onlay and this dentist was having to re-cement it every once in awhile. As he was redoing the preparation, he got into the nerve by mistake and had to do a root canal first....then a crown.  A month later, the root canal he had done blew up and he sent me to a specialist endodontist out of Tulsa who met me at the office of a Bartlesville dentist. He redid the root canal and charged me $1100.

A few years later I developed an abscess on the same tooth and my dentist gave me an antibiotic to clear that up. Then he wanted to extract the tooth. The abscess had cleared up and I wanted to keep the tooth so against his better judgement, he complied. Several years later while I was at a church camp, it started hurting again and that dentist had retired so I went to the one in Coffeyville I had changed to and he extracted the tooth. That left me with a two tooth gap. The tooth had cracked clear to the gum line and had to be removed. It was a bicuspid tooth and couldn't handle two root canals so over time it cracked. This one is a bicuspid too. So I sure don't want another root canal. I couldn't afford one anyhow. It would have to have a crown too. And my Coffeyville dentist has retired too.

A dentist in Cherryvale made me a partial last year to replace the two teeth I had lost and that has been a blessing and it gave me something to chew with on that side of my mouth.. It only cost me $650. Now he is retired.

Long story...to explain a mess. I hope I don't run into another one with my new dentist here in Caney.

It's 6:00AM now and I have been eating my breakfast. I have not had the weather channel on yet nor checked on the cats. Maybe I should do that.

Both Scruff and Blondie came for breakfast this morning. I guess Scruff  didn't completely give up on me coming back after all.

More even later ...

And so far the desktop computer is holding on to the internet..so far.... 

 

We finally got to see this lovely home over Thanksgiving!! 

More later...

I called the dentist office as soon as they opened and got a 10:15AM appointment. I am going to encourage her to smooth where it broke off and  and just fill it again.  We'll see what happens. It's 9:18AM now.

I actually got to see the dentist at 11:00AM. They were very busy.

After an x-ray determined there was no crack in the tooth, they offered only two options....extraction or a crown. I chose a crown. There wasn't enough of the tooth left to build it up for a filling. And I can't lose any more teeth. I need that tooth to eat. I transferred $1300. from my savings to my checking account. Since I am paying cash, I got a 5% discount.

My appointment to do the crown prep is the 9th at 7:30AM. They will put pins into what's left of the tooth to help hold the crown in place. The crown will be back on the 30th and I will go in that day at 7:30AM to get it seated. 

It's 4:06PM now and the sun is shining brightly. It has been lovely all day and I have read all afternoon...later I went to get a Mocha Crunch Blast at Sonic after I ate my leftover chicken salad from yesterday.  

I plan to go see Nancy tomorrow at the Green Country Village Assisted Living  in Bartlesville. I hope I can get in to see her.

More later...  

I spent the last hour sending out letters and bulletins to those who were not at church on Sunday. They need the announcements and the prayer list.  We have a couple of people who are in very bad shape.

Now I will go watch the evening CBS news and then take my bath. I plan to read until I get sleepy enough to go to bed and sleep. I slept well last night.

Perhaps more later... 

It's 8:00PM now and I will read until 9:00PM or even 10:00PM. When I get tired, I will go to bed.

Sunday and Computer problems

I can't seem to get any domains on my desktop computer today. My browser can't connect to anything I just get an error message. I am rebooting now. I have to have my desktop computer because it is the only one that prints. I am trying to get it to reboot now but it is very slow coming up. No, it won't connect to anything this morning. It's always something!

 I will need to get into the church's site to get the worship helps in a couple of weeks .

Now I will have to get my breakfast.It is 6:18AM

So more later.... 

I got contacted a Cox Complete Care IT and the IT said it was a computer problem. He tried everything and I had rebooted twice. Finally it connected and so far I have internet on the desktop computer again...for how long, I don't know.

Only Blondie came for breakfast this morning.  Evidently Scruff gave up on me coming back to the apartment. :) 

This afternoon I have worked on the December 26th sermon I am to give. What is difficult is that from time to time the desktop computer disconnects from the  internet and when it does that, I can lose my resources as well as my printing ability.  I just have to deal with that. I go to my internet connection and choose troubleshooting and it will temporally fix itself...until the next time it happens. 

This evening I have watched the worship service of the Mission Center.  It is 6:41PM now and I will soon take my bath. Then later I will go on to bed.

Saturday and Back Home

We got home an hour or so ago this evening. We had been gone since Tuesday.  We had a wonderful time visiting and some terrific Thanksgiving dinner! I also enjoyed playing with Sarge, Scott and Ginger's Cowboy Corgi, two year old dog. Scott and Ginger have a beautiful home on five acres. We watched the deer come into their front yard every day and every day Scott made a fire for us in their fireplace.

I also enjoyed visiting with my sons, Keith and Scott, and their wonderful wives, Esther and Ginger, and my grandson, Jerod, and his woman friend, Ruby. Then Friday Ginger's daughter and her significant other and Ginger's 4 year old  granddaughter came and we enjoyed visiting with them too and of course, my son-in-law and daughter drove there from southeast Kansas to Tennessee and took me with them or I couldn't have gone at all.

Ginger also had a wonderful cake baked for mine and Scott's birthdays...his is November 29th  and mine is December 2nd. They also gave me a fitness tracker for my birthday. Ginger's birthday is December 5th and so several of our birthdays are clustered together.  Esther's falls in there too. It is November 14th.

While we were gone Octavia had her puppies but there were only two this time. She usually has from four to eight. John was very anxious to see them.  They were both males. He was tempted to ask us to come back home on Friday.

I have to admit I am very tired and hope to sleep well tonight. I have had my bath and put away my clothes and it is almost 9:00 O' Clock now and I should go on to bed.

We have church tomorrow and I hope to be up to it.

More tomorrow.

Tuesday and Awaiting Thanksgiving

I was up at my usual 5:00AM this morning and made my bed and am ready for Thanksgiving on Thursday. I am dressed and I am eating my breakfast now.  It's nearly 6:00AM. I will go check "the weather on the 8's" now and a little later..the cats. 

More much later.

Monday and Packing

I slept well last night and was up at 5:00AM, as usual. I made my bed and dressed and got myself ready for the day. Today will be pretty busy. I have done my laundry already this morning and am about to put it in the dryer. Later on today I will pack my suitcase for a five day stay at Scott and Ginger's for Thanksgiving. John and Leslie will pick me up in the morning sometime.

This morning around 9:00AM or so, I will go over to Nancy's and take her her apple fritter to eat to be able to take her morning meds. Later on this morning Dale will take her to the Green Country Village Assisted Living in Bartlesville where she will stay for the winter months....at least for the winter months. She really needs to stay there for good. She is so forgetful if she didn't have care she could have another accident and it could be worse then just falling on her front porch stairs. She locks the storm doors as well as the dead bolts so no one could get in to take care of her without breaking in somehow. No matter how many times I have asked her not to lock the storm doors, she does it anyhow.  She just can't remember.

I have had my breakfast now and will go watch the "weather on the 8's" on TV. A little later I will check on the cats too. Scruff was here last evening for her supper but Blondie's owners must have had him in their house.

I watched the weather and it looks like southeast Kansas will be pretty nice. I don't know how the trip weather will be though. 

More later.....

I went over to Nancy's and Dale and Gina were there. She had decided once again she would not go to the Green Country Village Assisted Living retirement home in Bartlesville. Dale wanted  me to come in and try to convince her to go. I talked to her about twenty minutes and finally convinced her. She got dressed and I helped her pack her clothes and her makeup. Gina and Dale put together all the other things she will need including what furniture she can take with her and the towels and sheets and bedspread she will use. I got back home at 11:15AM. They wanted me to go down to Bartlesville and help get her settled in but I just wasn't up to it. 

Besides I have an appointment with Toni at 1:40PM to get my hair done for the week. And I want to eat some of my chicken and noodles that Suzanne brought me for lunch too. I will warm that up in the microwave soon.

I ate some of that chicken and noodles Suzanne brought me yesterday and it was delicious! Nancy ate hers yesterday! She thought it was delicious too!

It's 12:25PM now and my hair appointment is at 1:40PM so I had better get over to Coffeyville. More later....

I got over to Coffeyville in plenty of time. I went out to Walmart and bought a few things I can't get at the Caney Market. Then I went to the hairdresser and got my hair washed and styled. It's clean now for a week.

I dropped by the senior center and left the Bartlesville newspapers I had from Suzanne. They will take them to the animal shelter.

Then I stopped by Sonic and bought a medium cherry limeade slush for something to drink. I got spoiled to those when I worked as a car salesperson back in the day. I worked with five guys and they introduced me to the Sonic cherry limeade slush.

Then I came on back home. I was very tired by then. It's 4:50PM now and I have been reading a little. So far I am not impressed with this book. 

I don't know how early we are leaving tomorrow. I haven't heard.

Leslie texted me we were leaving at 7:00AM so I had better go on to bed. It is 9:00PM now and I want to get some sleep.

I finished the book I was reading.It was alright but not great. I will take my Kindle with me to Tennessee. I can read if I have time. 

But now, I need to get to bed. 

Since I don't have  a laptop I can take with me, I won't be blogging until Saturday or Sunday this week.

 

Sunday and Church

I slept well last night...probably because I didn't go to bed until 10:00PM. I only woke up once to go to the bathroom and I got right back to sleep  And I was up about 6:00AM which is unusual for me. I am having my breakfast now. It's 48 degrees now and it's 6:40AM. 

I will go over to Nancy's about 9:00-9:30AM and take her another apple fritter for her breakfast and see to her meds. Then I should be at church by 10:00AM to run off the bulletins and make sure everything is neat and clean. I have the sermon this morning.

In a little bit I will go turn on "the weather on the 8's" and see what to expect today weather wise. Then I will check on the cats and see if they are ready to eat their breakfast. Only Scruff came to eat yesterday evening.

Both cats came to eat this morning. I have fed them and they are eating now. It is 7:05AM now and I am still waiting for the weather. 

The cats ate and left and I brought their food dishes back into the garage. 

Then I watched the weather. It looks like a pretty nice week except for rain on Wednesday. We will be gone on our trip then though.

I watered the mums out back and the petunias hanging on the hook out front.

More later...I will watch the news now.

I read instead and I went over to Nancy's at 9:00AM and took her an apple fritter for her breakfast as planned and gave her her meds. I left about 9:30AM and went on to the church to get everything ready for the service.

After the service we put together more boxes and bundled them up for Leslie or Melissa to take to the First Baptist Church in Independence tomorrow. 

I stopped in Independence and bought gas at Miller Brothers and I got home from "Just Us" about 2:19PM. 

We will be leaving for Tennessee on Tuesday morning.

When I got home I sent letters out to everyone who was not at church and included the bulletin for the schedule in it.

Suzanne called me mid afternoon and said she had some chicken and noodles for both Nancy and me. She said she would be over in about ten minutes with it.  

As soon as Suzanne left, I took Nancy's over to her while it was still warm and after she ate most of it, I gave her her meds. I put mine in the frig here at home and will probably freeze it until I get back home.

Nancy will be leaving in the morning for Green Country Village Assisted Living.

When I got back home, Scruff was at the front door wanting her dinner.

I will take my bath at 7:00PM and read until bedtime.