Tuesday and a Good Night's Sleep

I slept very well last night and only woke up once and took my meds and went right back to bed.....and back to sleep. I got up shortly before 5:00AM and made my bed and got myself ready for the day. I am having my breakfast now in here in the den while I blog.

In a little while I will go watch the news and check on the cats. It's only 5:52AM now. I also want to check the bank. My car and rental insurance has never cleared the bank yet.

Well, finally the car and rental insurance cleared the bank.  Lacey was supposed to have deposited my check last Wednesday but she forgot until Friday. This is Tuesday and it just now cleared the bank.

I will go check on the cats now.

Only Scruff came for breakfast this morning. She was looking for Blondie too but he hasn't shown up this morning yet.  He must be in the house where his owner lives due to the heat. Scruff has come back twice to eat more.

More later.... Finally I got the "weather on the 8's" and it isn't good!

Today it is to be 108 degrees and sunny, Wednesday is to be 104 degrees and mostly sunny,  Thursday is to be 105 degrees and mostly sunny, Friday is to be 105 degrees and mostly sunny, Friday 105 degrees and partly cloudy, Saturday 106 degrees and sunny, Sunday 106 degrees and mostly sunny and Monday 105 degrees and partly cloudy.

Tomorrow is Bunco at the senior center and I am ready.They cancelled the last Bunco game and I froze the treat I had bought for it so I am ready. I got it out and thawed it overnight yesterday.

Scruff came back to eat more twice. I think she is finished now and I will bring the cat food back in the garage and cover it before ants get into it.

I went out and watered all the flowers while it was cool enough to be out there. It is just 67 degrees right now at 7:23AM.  I also cleaned the boxes  out of my garage  except for those boxes that have picture puzzles in them .

More later.... Now I'm going to read. It is 8:15AM.

I read until lunchtime and then I went down to Copan Restaurant for lunch. That place was very noisy! One man in particular spoke at the top of his voice. I ate my small chef salad as fast as I could and then got out of there. When I eat out I really don't enjoy everyone talking so loud..especially that man...that you can't even hear yourself think.  

More later. I want to go get the mail. 

I got the mail and there wasn't much in it...just trash.

I did trim the hedge this afternoon and balanced my checkbook. 

Suzanne called me and visited on the phone a while. It was good to hear from her again.

Then I read all afternoon and finished another book and downloaded another to my Kindle to take it's place.

I was going to ask Stephen, my landlord, if he thought I should have my yard mowed tomorrow afternoon but I see he is over there this evening mowing his so I guess I will have Krystal mow mine late tomorrow afternoon.

I have a 9:00AM appointment at the beauty shop in the  morning and in the afternoon I will play Bunco at the senior center.. 

 It's 7:09PM now and it's time to take my bath. I plan to go to bed about 9:00PM to 10:00PM.

Monday and A Visit With Nancy

I slept well last night and was up at 5AM as usual and changed my bed and washed my sheets. They are in the dryer now. I dressed and got myself ready for the day.

About 9:30AM or 10:00AM, I will drive down to Bartlesville to visit with Nancy and take her to lunch and perhaps a drive to get her out of assisted living for awhile. We may go back to Copan to have lunch. We have tried that two weeks in a row but I always got distracted and we ended up Eggbert's at Caney so she could see folks she knew. I  think her mother's house sold because the "For Sale"sign was down when I checked Saturday. Either that or they took it off the market.

Now it's 6:01AM and I will go check on the cats and see the weather forecast. 

Both cats were out there to eat and were very glad to get their food and ate their fill. I will leave the cat food out there for Scruff. She usually comes back to it again fter what she has already eaten settles.

The weather forecast was coming on TV just as I got back in the house.

Today is forecast to be 98 degrees and sunny, Tuesday is to be108 degrees and sunny, Wednesday's is to be 103 degrees and partly cloudy,Thursday 15 degrees and partly cloudy, Friday 103 degrees and partly cloudy, Saturday 106 degrees and sunny and Sunday 108 degrees and sunny. What a hot week this will be and it's only July! 

It's 7:46AM now.

It's a little after 9:00AM now and I am going to go on down to Bartlesville. I want to wash my car and vacuum it out at Mr.Clean before I go to see Nancy.

The car wash was closed. I don't know what the problem was.

I have been reading another book to pass the time. I will work on it more what I get back home this afternoon.

More Even Later.... 

I visited with Nancy awhile and then she and I went to Bartlesville's Eggbert's for lunch. We then took a long drive to get her out of assisted care. I took her back at 2:00PM.

As I was leaving, I discovered my hearing aid was gone. I went back in and searched the area where I took the face mask off but I could not find it. I was heartsick because I knew I could not replace it. When I got home I called the Green Country Village Assisted Living and asked them to let me know if someone turned it in. She told me someone had turned it into the lost and found. It was on some of the brown carpet in the hall and blended right in with the carpet since it was brown too. I told the woman at the desk I would come right back down to get it and I did. I knew I could not afford to buy another one. It's the only one I have and I really need another one but there is no way I could buy one. Between the bumper for my car and the crown I had to have after I broke that tooth at Thanksgiving, I have no savings left. So I drove back down to pick it up. I stopped at Miller Brothers and bought gas again. I just got back home at 3:13PM.

More later...

I watered all the flowers again this evening. It will be a miracle if they live.

It's 6:27PM now and in about 30 minutes, I will take my bath  and read some more. There's nothing on TV I am interested in watching. I plan to go to bed sometime between 9:00PM and10:00PM. It depends on how interested I am in the book. 

I did look up the name of my great great grandmother in My Story. I found her first name on a copy of the Cherokee rolls in a library at Woolaroc. It is Mary Fly. I knew her last name was Fly but couldn't remember what her first name was until I found it in that record book. She was the only Fly on record. My grandmother told me all about her trek from Florida during the trail of tears. She was one of the lucky ones who lived to tell the tale.  They walked all the way. The white folks who brought them there rode horses and rode in wagons. Thousands died on the way. 

Melissa had asked me about it at church camp. She used to work at the Cherokee hospital in Nowata. She said if I could find the number on my great great grandmothers registration, I and my family could have free health care.

More later..I am going to take my bath. It is shortly after 7:00PM. Then I will go back to my book until bedtime.

 

Sunday and Church

I slept well last night and was only up once. And at that time I also took my meds. I think I slept well because I didn't go to bed until 10:00PM. That often makes all the difference. I got up shortly before 5:00AM. I dressed and got myself ready for the day.

Although the reunion was a great experience, it was also exhausting to me. The fellowship, the classes, and the preaching services were wonderful and that made it worth the exhaustion. Karan and I shared a cabin and she is very easy to be around. She has always been a good friend. She is preaching today.

I will be meeting Gay at Just Us in Cherryvale at 12:30PM for lunch.

Both Scruff and Blondie came for breakfast so I fed them and they ate their fill and left. I put the cat food away in the garage and covered it up.

I caught both the weather and the cats this morning.The weather is going to be something else. Today it will be 100 degrees and morning showers. Monday is to be 98 degrees and sunny, Tuesday will be 107 degrees and sunny, Wednesday is forecast to be 104 degrees and partly cloudy, Thursday 103 degrees and sunny, Friday 105 degrees and mostly sunny and Saturday 108 degrees and mostly sunny. That's the week's weather forecast.

I have been watching Good Morning America and the CBS weekend news.

It is getting close to 9:00AM when I want to leave for church.

I will get back to this later after lunch with Gay.

We had a nice lunch and Gay insisted on buying my lunch. We also had a very nice visit.  I got home an hour later.

When I got home I wrote letters to those in the congregation who were not at church and  sent them bulletins. Then I got those in the mail at the post office.

I went to Dollar General and bought a few groceries and what I couldn't find there, I found at the Caney Market.

Now I am getting ready to watch the CBS news at 5:30PM and perhaps later I will try to catch the Mission Center service.

I am recording 60 Minutes this evening.

I tried to access the links Leslie sent me but I couldn't get any of it to work....any of them. So I will try zoom later this evening, I guess.

Zoom on the laptop, where there is a camera, will no longer work. I need to get another camera for the desktop computer. The one I bought for it earlier  just lasted a short time before it died.That was a waste of money.

More even later...

I tried to access desktop computer Zoom but the camera has burned out and I would need to order another one. The zoom on the laptop, where there is a camera, wouldn't work anymore.

I guess I will just take my bath. It's nearly 7:00PM and then I will read again after that. Before I go to bed I will copy my blog onto Keith's. I want to stay up until 10:00PM because I sleep better when I go to bed later.

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Saturday and Home

I slept pretty well last night and was only up once in the night and then got right back to sleep and slept until 5:00AM. I made my bed and got myself ready for the day and I am having my breakfast here in the den. I may clean the apartment today since I wasn't here Thursday to do it.

I am anxious to see if the cats come for their breakfast. They may have given up on me after being on their own nearly a full week. It's just now 6:03AM so when I finish my breakfast, I will check on the weather and also the cats.

I finished my book last night before I went to bed. It was 10:00PM before I went to bed but I slept well in my own bed.

Leslie has taken four teen aged kids to Speck (Spectacular) in Lamona,  Iowa, for a week. That's where our Graceland University is located and Spectacular is an opportunity for them to show and share their talents for sports or music or whatever they enjoy excelling in and make friends of kids from all over America. They have sent their oldest granddaughter, Sage, the past couple of years. She is really into volleyball. She is preparing for college now having graduated high school this year.

It's 6:15AM now and I will go check on the cats and the weather.

Back later... 

I got the TV on just in time to catch the "weather on the 8's" and also both cats. They are sure leaner then they usually are since they haven't had a regular meal since I have been gone to church camp except for last Wednesday before I went to the beauty shop and then back to the campgrounds.

Today is to be 104 degrees and partly cloudy, Sunday is to be 101 degrees and cloudy, Monday will be 98 degrees and sunny, Tuesday is to be 109 degrees and sunny, Wednesday is to be 104 degrees and partly cloudy , Thursday is to be 104 degrees and sunny, Friday is to be 106 degrees and mostly sunny. That is the hottest weather yet and this is only July. Lord only knows what August will be like. 

More later..the cats have eaten and are gone now. I will leave the food out there for awhile since sometimes Scruff comes back for more.

More later...

They both came back for more food.They look like they have lost weight alright. After they both left, I took the food back in the garage again and covered it. If I don't do that, ants get into it.

Yesterday I put gas in the mower for Krystal to mow tomorrow afternoon late.

I had an e-mail and a call from my friend, Gay, from Chanute yesterday. She is coming to Cherryvale to eat lunch with me at Just Us, after church tomorrow. I am to meet her at 12:30PM there. 

I have decided not to clean the apartment. How dirty could it be when I have been gone almost an entire week. I will clean it next week. I did take a paper  sack and cleaned up the leaves in my back yard from my neighbor's tree next door south and put them in a paper bag to put in the trash. That gave me some bending exercise. 

It's 10:36 now. I will need to start thinking about my lunch in an hour and a half. I may go buy some more frozen dinners. In a pinch, that's the way to go. I need to get some change for Krystal's mowing Wednesday afternoon too.

I watered all the flowerbeds. They needed it and they will need it even worse after this week after 104 and 106 degree weather later in the week.

More Even Later.....

It's 7:15PM and I will take my bath now and get myself ready to read until bedtime at 9:00PM.

I finished my book at 10:15PM and got ready to go to bed about 10:20PM

Tomorrow is church and I will leave here about 9:00AM to get there soon enough to do what little cleaning the church will need.

So I hope I will sleep well tonight.

 

Friday and Home Again

I slept fairly well last night but never really well when I am away from home.We had breakfast at camp and then attended a baptism of a young woman. Several children were baptized this week. After that we loaded up the cars with our luggage and left for home. It was good to get back home.

I watered the plants...they don't look too good but between Stephen and me they just haven't had enough water in this heat. It was 101 degrees this afternoon. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for my late lunch.  I checked the bank but it would not accept my password and wanted me to change it so after I called the bank and complained, I had to do just that. 

Outside of breakfast that is all I have had this afternoon. I had an e-mail from Gay and she is going to come down here and meet me at "Just Us" for lunch at Cherryvale on Sunday after church.

I put away all my clothes and did a load of laundry and dried it. I read for a couple of hours and then took my bath at 7:00PM.It's 7:50PM now and at 9:00PM, I plan to go to bed

Wednesday and an Appointment

I slept fairly well last night and was only up once in the night. But as usual, I was up at 4:00AM. I made my bed and got myself ready for the day and re packed my bag to get ready to go back to camp after my hair appointment is over. It's 4:27AM now and soon, after I eat my breakfast,  I will check on the weather and the cats. They haven't had cat food from me since Saturday morning so they may not come back. We will see. I am eating my breakfast now here in the den. I will leave for Coffeyville at 7:15AM. My appointment is at 8:00AM but I want to go to the bank there first.

I will check out the weather forecast now and also the cats.  My social security did come in and that's good! I was completely out of money.

More Later ....
Blondie came first for his breakfast but he didn't eat a lot. He probably had eaten at home. I didn't see Scruff. I had taken the food in the kitchen and soon Scruff came too. She looked very hungry and I took the food out to her and she ate a lot and finally left. I left the food out there awhile to see if she would want to eat some more.

The weather finally came on too.  Today will be 96 degrees here in this area,  Thursday will be 101 degrees and sunny, Friday will be 101 degrees too and partly cloudy, Saturday will be 101 degrees and partly cloudy, Sunday will be 87 degrees and morning thunderstorms, Monday 99 degrees and sunny and Tuesday 104 degrees and sunny. Another very hot week and this is only July..  

More Friday after I get back home.

Tuesday Home for Overnight

I have been at church camp since Saturday afternoon and it has been grueling hot until today. It rained a little bit this morning and that cooled it down quite a bit. After the morning worship service and morning class and before lunch,  I packed my small bag and started home. It is 2:10PM now and I just got home.  I will do my little bit of laundry today and also get my hair colored and cut tomorrow morning at 8:00AM. When I am finished with that, I will go back to the camp until Friday when it breaks up.

I have found it difficult to get around with so much walking. I need to get out and walk more here at home so I won't get so tired. One thing I didn't take in account was how much water I needed to drink in that heat. I got very weak and needed to drink a lot more water then I am used to. That meant I got up in the night a lot more and didn't get a lot of good rest. Yesterday my ankles swelled up too. They went down during the night.

But the fellowship, as usual, is wonderful!

More later... 

I have watered the flowers again and hope they make it until Friday when I will drive back home again.  Stephen, my landlord, watered the flowers while I was gone! That was really nice of him!

When I went out to water the flowers in the back, the screen door hit my hand and the paper thin skin on the back of my hand tore open. So I put some bandaids on the mess.  It's always something.

Stephen also came over while I was gone and installed my new garbage disposer. He also began to install the new ceiling fan in the bedroom but the wiring has a problem..it's different.. and he will have to figure out how to get it installed. He's clever!  He will figure it out.

It's 7:35PM and I have just had my bath. I hope I can sleep tonight.  Hey! I just looked and I did remember to bring the Melatonin home from camp after all. I didn't have to use it at camp because I was so tired every night I didn't need it. I will try not to go to bed too early. My appointment tomorrow is at 8:00AM and afterward, I will go back to the campgrounds until Friday when it breaks up. I will go to the bank first in the morning and then go to my appointment and after that get gas at Woodshed in South Coffeyville and then drive back over to the camp...it's ten miles south of Joplin.. just off highway 86 on BB road.

They hired a new camp manager and the camp has never looked better.  They had an arborist come this morning and this winter they are going to have him trim up the trees and perhaps take the one out that died.

Perhaps more later. ...