Thursday and Cleaning the Apartment

I slept fairly well last night.and was up at my usual 5:00AM. I made my my bed and dressed and got myself ready for the day, I got in the living room just in time to catch the weather forecast. 

Today will be 68 degrees and rain, Tomorrow will be 81 degrees and AM clouds and PM sun, Saturday is to be 93 degrees and sunny, Sunday is to be 90 degrees and sunny, Monday is to be 85 degrees and isolated thunderstorms, Tuesday is to be 87 degrees and partly cloudy, and Wednesday is to be 86 degrees and PM thunderstorms. That's the week's forecast. There is some rain in it and that's good. We are desperate for rain for the river that provides our water for Caney.

I haven't checked for the cats yet. I have fixed my breakfast and maybe I had better check on theirs. 

So More Later...

I couldn't get into my blog on the desktop computer so I had to come to the new laptop to blog. The desktop computer wanted my google password and I couldn't find it in my passwords so I tried to make up a new one. That didn't work either . 

Anyway, here I am on the laptop. I hope this works. I need to start my cleaning. Well that worked, thank goodness!!

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I finished my first library book from the Coffeyville

 library and also finished the apartment cleaning..all but the dusting.I will do that tomorrow. 

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I went to work on Outlook and could not find it. It had downloaded but when I attempted to access it, I  could not figure it out. It was suddenly all different.

Then the same thing happened on the laptop. I called Cox Complete Care and the tech that helped me worked for  couple of hours to get everything back like it was supposed to be.

Thank goodness for Cox Complete Care It's 5:57PM now and I have been on these computers most of the afternoon.

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I took my bath at 7:00PM and read until bedtime at 9:00PM

 

Wednesday and Bunco

I slept well again last night with cotton in my ears to keep out the sound of the crickets. I was up as usual at 5:00AM, dressed and made my bed and got myself ready for the day. I am eating my breakfast now here in the den...as usual, it's oatmeal, a breakfast bar and coffee and Chai Latte. God forbid I should have anything else. :)

Stephen said last evening that the exterminator will be here to spray for these crickets on Friday. I will be glad if he can get rid of them. The chirping noise is irritating. And I am sure they are eating something...I don't want to know what.

I will get my hair done at 8:30AM or thereabouts and then go get a pedicure after 10:30AM sometime. My toenails are getting long and I cannot find my toenail clippers. Besides, it's been months since I had a pedicure.

Now I will go check on the weather and hopefully, the cats.

Not only did I catch both cats out there but I also got the weather forecast. They ate quite a bit this time and then left. I left the food out there for awhile in case they come back for seconds.

Now for the forecast...Today is Wednesday and is forecast to be 78 degrees and mostly sunny, Thursday is to be 71 degrees and Thunderstorms, Friday is to be 83 degrees and AM Clouds and PM sun, Saturday is to be 91 degrees and sunny, Sunday is to be 88 degrees and partly cloudy, Monday is to be 86 degrees and PM thunderstorms, Tuesday is to be 86 degrees and  scattered thunderstorms. I see the thunderstorms are still in the forecast..at least three days. We sure need it here in Caney. The river that provides our water is very low.

I see the blind here in my den is broken. I can't raise it anymore. Only one side goes up when I try to raise it. I don't know how to fix it so I guess I will just leave it down. Maybe when Leslie gets back from Arkansas she may know how to fix it.

More Later...It's 6:29AM  I will go watch the news now. 

I had to reboot both computers to get an internet connection just now. That's Cox for you...always something...

I left at 8:15AM for my appointment for my hair. Then I went to get my pedicure at Happy Nails. After that, I went to the Coffeyville library and checked out two books to read this week. I went out to Brakms and bought a medium milkshake for my lunch. Then I went back to the library and read until time for Bunco.

I had a good time but ate too much junk food there. The fellowship was good.

Karan wasn't there. She had forgotten about her Bunco. She was working on her sermon for Sunday. I visited with her for quite awhile. Then I came back home. My City of Caney bill was here. It was almost $100.00 and that's just the water and trash. I still have the electric bill to pay and the gas. I have already paid the cable and Atmos Energy bills. Atmos Energy was almost $100. The cable was  $131.26 for the very basic cable and internet. It's highway robbery, The TV picture often tears and the internet was down again this morning on both computers. I had to reboot both computers to even get a signal. The only good thing about it is Cox Complete Care and I pay extra for that. Baloney!

Tuesday and Laundry

I slept pretty well last night and was up at my usual 5:00AM. I made my bed and dressed and got myself ready for the day.

This evening after 4:30PM, my grandson, Jeromy, will come mow my west side yard. I got the front and the back done myself but the west side yard is really hard for me to do. It's much larger. He was going to mow for me while I was gone to conference but it rained and rained and he couldn't do it. I was up to it Saturday so I did the part I could and left the rest for him.

I need to do some laundry this morning. I usually do it on Monday but I didn't get it done yesterday. So I will do it today.

Now I will check to see if the cats are here for their breakfast and fix my own breakfast too.

So, More Later... 

No cats were there yet but I was just in time to catch "the weather on the 8's" 

Today is to be 73 degrees and sunny, tomorrow is to be 76 degrees and mostly sunny, Thursday is to be 76 degrees and Thunderstorms, Friday is to be 87 degrees and partly cloudy, Saturday is to be 91 degrees and Isolated thunderstorms, Sunday is to be scattered thunderstorms. Monday is to be 87 degrees and Isolated thunderstorms. A pretty good chance for some much needed rain here in Caney.

More Even Later. I want to fix my breakfast. 

I had my breakfast and started my laundry. It's finished washing now and I will put it n the dryer before taking my walk. 

I have been watching Good Morning America. After I take my walk, I will read awhile while the laundry dries. 

More Even Later.. 

I almost forgot to take cookies to the First Christian Church in Independence today for their supper tonight.  I was supposed to buy cookies for myself and Billie Jo and Mike. So I left at 8:30AM and when I got to Independence, I stopped at the market across from the Church and bought our cookies. Then I honked as I went by the pastor's office and he came and took them from me. He said the last time we would need them this summer was in two weeks and then they are going to take a break from the dinners until fall. So I will need them again on the 14th of May and then we will see if they start them up again in the fall or winter.

Then I came back home.

I read until the laundry was dry and then I put it all away after folding it. 

Then I read until lunch time. I went out to Eggbert's and used some more of my gift card from Keith and Esther for my lunch. I still have almost $30.00 left of it. I stopped at the gift store and bought a beautiful hanging plant.

Now I  am thinking of buying another one for Stephen and Dee Anna.  I would have to water it when I water mine and be careful not to waste any water. But they are gorgeous and only $20.00 and they are huge. I will mull that over. I don't want to offend them. But I do have an extra hook and it is in the back where no one could enjoy the flowers.

I went over to their apartment and checked it out. They don't have a flowerbed in front or even in the back so I will mull that over some more.

I trimmed the hedge as well as I could, Some of it was dead from lack of water so I trimmed that out. Hopefully, it will come back and fill in again.

It's 3:37PM now and I am very tired so I will go back to my book and read. Jeromy will be here in a little over an hour to mow the west side for me.

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Jeromy came and mowed the west side. He missed about eight feet of the south end of the west side. He may have thought it was part of the neighbor's yard. After he was gone and I noticed it, I got out the mower and finished it. I was very grateful he had done so much of the mowing. He said he would be back on Tuesday to do it again. He said he took Maia to her track practice on Tuesday evenings so he was coming to town anyhow. It will be wonderful if he decides to do it all the time. When it gets hot he may decide to let me pay someone to do it. :) He is a fine young man!

I noticed Stephen came and mowed his yard this evening too. I took him some cold water.

It's 8:32PM now and I have had my bath and finished both of the books I had from the library. I plan to go to bed at 9:00PM.  Stephen's exterminator will be coming on Friday to spray for these crickets and the termites too. Stephen is taking the conservative route first. That's what I would do too. If they are superficial, that may do it. If that doesn't get the termites, then he can decide to go another more complicated route.

 

Monday and a Trip to Bartlesville

I will be going down to Bartlesville but not to see Nancy. She is in the hospital and being treated for a serious Uti and a fall. Her son and his wife from North Carolina are there spending time with her.

I am going to drop by the community Center there and see if I can pick up my tickets to next year's concerts. Then I will meet Sally at the restaurant for her breakfast and my lunch.

I slept pretty well last night with cotton in the ear that is not next to the pillow. That is to keep out the noise of at least one and maybe even more crickets. Stephen, my landlord, is coming by on Friday to spray for them. I can't locate it/them. I have taken the furnace filter out and looked there, opened my storage closet and looked there, looked in my regular closet, but never- the- less I cannot find it or perhaps them. One sounds like it is behind my daybed...or perhaps behind the washer in the hall utility area where my washer and dryer are located.  There is also the noise of their chirp in that storage closet in the bedroom. There's a billion things in that area. It's a mystery! They weren't there when I left for my Conference but they sure were when I got back a week later...big time!

More later...I will go check on the cats and the weather report... 

Well, no cats yet but I was just in time to catch the weather report for the week. Today is to be 71 degrees and sunny, tomorrow is to be 73 degrees and sunny, Wednesday is to be 76 degrees and mostly sunny, Thursday is to be 78 degrees and thunderstorms, Friday is to be 85 degrees and partly cloudy, Saturday is to be 87 degrees and partly cloudy and Sunday is to be 88 degrees and scattered thunderstorms. That's it for the week, We can sure use the rain  in this area. The river is still nearly dry.

Now I will go check again for the cats. More Later...

I took my walk this morning  and I got another grocery sack of trash along the street.

I didn't see the cats I feed anywhere this morning. But I did see someone's real nice dog while I was taking my walk. He's about the size of a German Shepherd and followed me all along State Street wagging his tail and let me pet him. I know he belongs to someone near here so I called the animal person at City Hall and told them about him. He has a part of a leash around his collar so he has broken loose from somewhere, He's got to be someone's pet. He's so nice and friendly.  

I am going to read awhile before I leave for Bartlesville.It's only 9:25AM. I will leave in about an hour.

More Even Later...

I went to Bartlesville and washed my car first of all. After that, I went to meet Sally at Boulevard Restaurant and I had another light breakfast instead of the heavy meal that I usually get there. Sally and I had a good visit and afterward went to the Community Center to see if we could pick up our next season tickets to the concerts. We have to wait until they print them all off at the same time and they will e-mail us to tell us they are ready. I told them we would pick them up when we got their e-mail. Sally is down there three days a week where she works. I go down at least one day a week...usually to see Nancy, Of course she is in the hospital now and wasn't available for our usual visit. Her son and his wife were there from North Carolina. They come see her so seldom I didn't want to interrupt their visit with Nancy. I will see her when she gets out of the hospital.

When I got home, I read for awhile and then at 7:00PM, I took my bath. I will read again until 9:00PM when I plan to go to bed...with cotton balls in my ears in order to be able to sleep.

Sunday and Breakfast at Church

I slept well last night and was only up once in the night to take my two meds. I dressed, made my bed and got myself ready for the day. Today we will have breakfast at church again and I have my coffeecake in the oven.

Scruff came for her breakfast this morning and I didn't see anything of Blondie. She ate her breakfast and left but stayed under the hedge so I left the cat food out there in case she wanted more or Blondie showed up for his breakfast.

Leslie will report on our conference experience today at church. She was very involved as Mission Center President and also High Priest and Mission Center Financial Officer. Our Mission Center is the largest in the church. She distributed the small devices we had to vote with when there was doubt about the count. Then she had to be sure to get them back after the conference. Any that were lost or retained cost $50.00 to reimburse the Conference.

I have gone to World Conference as a delegate for forty five years but this will be my last one. I will be 89 years old in two years when we have another World Conference.. It was all I could do to stay up with Leslie this year because she is taller, has longer legs, and walks faster then I can anymore. But it was a great experience for me as my last one. It was good to get back home though. We slept in John and Leslie's new camper. John towed it up there and set it up and came back up yesterday to tow it back home. It's a three hour drive. Leslie drove herself and me in her vehicle.

I think I have two or three crickets in the apartment. Stephen will come by and spray for them on Friday. I have been putting cotton in my ears at night so I can sleep. That has worked out fine so far.

I did catch the weather forecast this morning.Today is to be 68 degrees and sunny, tomorrow is to be 71 degrees and and sunny, Tuesday is to be 73 degrees and sunny,  Wednesday is to be 75 degrees and mostly sunny, Thursday is to be 77 degrees and PM Thunderstorms, Friday is to be 84 degrees and AM thunderstorms and Saturday is to be 81 degrees and partly cloudy. That's it for the next week. We are to get some much needed rain two days at least.

I finally saw Blondie come for his breakfast but he barely ate before he left. I took the food back in the garage. Someone else is evidently feeding him too.

I got the coffee cake out of the oven and put the glaze on it when it was cool. Then later I covered it with Saran.

More Even Later.

I got the back yard mowed and Jeromy, my grandson, will mow the west side yard. It's too big for me to do unless it's cool. I could probably do it since it is cool but I know they would rather I didn't.

I learned from Dale, her cousin, that my friend, Nancy, who is in assisted living in Bartlesville is in the hospital now. She had a UTI when I was down there last Monday and it got a lot worse and then she fell too so they put her in the hospital. I will go down to the Community Center and pick up my tickets for next year's concerts and then have lunch with Sally after she has her lunch hour to have her breakfast. She doesn't eat when she is going to be in the pool. She does physical therapy in the pool at the YMCA in Bartlesville. Nancy's son and his wife are down there now so I won't go to see Nancy until she is released from the hospital. Maybe it will be another week.

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Saturday and Home Again

I slept fairly well last night even though I had to put cotton in my ears to sleep. I have a cricket in the apartment and I cannot find it. It may even be more then one. It's hard to tell. 

I saw nothing of either of the cats. They may have given up on me since I was gone a week. I did catch "the weather on the 8's" though.

Today is to be 73 degrees and partly cloudy. Tomorrow is to be 68 degrees and sunny, Monday is to be 69 degrees and sunny, Tuesday is to be 73 degrees and sunny, Wednesday is to be 77 degrees and partly cloudy, Thursday is to be 84 degrees and thunderstorms, and Friday is to be 79 degrees and partly cloudy. that's the week . It looks like we had at least one day of rain while I was gone last week.

I have had my breakfast and coffee and even Chai latte. I have the Saturday CBS news on but I am here in the den doing this blog. I want to take my walk so I will get back to this a little later.

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I took my mile walk this morning and once again picked up a grocery bag full of trash from the street. Much of it was water bottles and pop cans but also just paper. It's tragic how little some care about their own community. I am back at 9:30AM now. 

I think I will go up to the library and check out a couple of books now. I have nothing to read. My mail is supposed to be delivered this morning when the mailman comes. I had it held at the post office while I was gone.

I went up to Gabbie's downtown and had a very good chicken salad sandwich and iced tea for my lunch. It was very good. In fact I have never had anything there that was not good. Roger makes a great milkshake too and even gives you what is left in the can like they did when I was young. I didn't have a milkshake today but I have once or twice before when I have eaten with them.

They are only open on Saturdays because they have good jobs in Coffeyville  during the week.

More Even Later... 

I tried to call Tom Muller, the man who works at O.K. Electric in Coffeyville and he did not answer. He was going to try to repair my leaf vacuum so I could rake my leaves and vacuum them up. I left it at Ace Hardware for him to pick up there. If he could get the part it needs and repair it, he was going to take it back to Ace Hardware and leave it there with the bill for me to pick up after he learns if he can get parts for it to repair it. I couldn't reach him there at O.K. Elecr

Friday A Week Later

It's Friday and a week later. We just got home from our World Conference. It's always a wonderful experience and we work hard getting all kinds of legislation passed. We stayed in John and Leslie's camper and slept well all week. We ate out some of the time and ate sandwiches and salad at the camper quite a lot too. I gained three pounds. I will work hard at getting it back off before it multiplies.

We saw a lot of people we only see at World Conference. I have outlived several I always got to see there.

After we got home, Leslie and John took me back to my own apartment. I have a hard time driving at night anymore. The bright lights tend to blind me. And another thing happened when I got home. I found I have a chirping cricket somewhere in the apartment. As I unpacked it chirped and chirped. I have looked everywhere but it is still chirping and I have not been able to find it. I may have to stuff my ears with cotton to sleep at all.

Tomorrow is Saturday and I will wash my hair in the tub and try to blow it dry myself and straighten my bangs and curl the hair on top of my head. It has been over week now and it needs it badly.

It's 11:22PM now and I have had my bath, unpacked everything and put it all away. I am very  tired.

More tomorrow!