Need a Name Change

Instead of One the Go it should be Go Has Went.... 10yrs since I started this. I think it has been 7yrs since that last posting.  Alot has happened since the last posting. Still in Louisiana but hope to be living in Arizona when all the pandemic is over. We lost our home in 2016 to the No Name storm..flood, here. It seems a storm has to have a certain wind speed to get a name. it just hung over us for three days. In the middle of that my youngest son passed away at age 52. I spent a month in Tucson taking care of his estate. I can tell you 2016 was the roughest of my life.
   We lived in a 26' travel trailer in our driveway until moving back in the house mid 2018. Us and 3dogs. it was awesome. We lost two of them last year, just have the lab, HOOT left. He will be 7 in June.
    We are working on the outside of the house now, little by little, to get it ready for the market before yrs end.
    I had a total shoulder replacement in 2015, bilateral knee replacements done in June 2019,in Aug. I fell, shattered the 2015 shoulder replacement.  got a new one.  In Feb it came apart. 6 days later I had another replacement done..this time a cadaver bone. Still in physical therapy, have been since June 9th last year!! One right after the other. Thank goodness for Bob, he has truly been my life line all these months. I know he is getting tired too. He just turned 79 this month and I will be 76 in June. Oldies, but still goodies.
   That's probably about all you can take for right now.  Hope to get back to this sooner...Once we are allowed  out of the house I will have fun things to share.

Wear your masks.....wash your hands.

One more try............

                                Coming in for another landing....

Wow, I have to do better with this blog thing....I just can't seem to get it together. It's not that nothing is happening but I just don't seem to set down & write it. Maybe Facebook has taken over too much. I am not even sure that my blog goes out to anyone...no one ever makes a comment. But, didn't start it for that reason - just a place to ramble...I seem to be able to do that well. 

We are getting ready to head out for 12 days to AL for 4 days camping at Oak Mountain State Park then on to Talladega for the NASCAR race the first weekend in May. We rent a space at the Champions Corner campground the week of the races. 

I seem to be hot n cold with blogging...maybe the trip to AL will help - I will try & post something every few days & get back into it. I was at one time then my world seemed to fall apart & I couldn't get back into it. If I don't get it this time I will just bow out. 

Be back in a few days......

                 This was Talladega two years ago...start/finish line......

          And, LSU football is coming up...so, there's that to write about.........

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  OK, so I am NOT the first to tell you that. But then I am behind on everything it seems.  Am looking forward to 2013! I think there is going to be some wonderful things happen this year. Prayers answered. Relationships healed. All the things not done in 2012 will be finished. 

There are no resolutions this year. Just want to do the best I can, take on no more than I can handle..and finish what I start. As I look back I see a list pages long..no way it could all get done..so, didn't even try any of it. A word for this year ... as far as personal items go...is simplify!  

My word from the Lord is PROMISE - More to come on this.

Sissy

Just a few more days & I will see my Sissy. My last talk with her left me broken hearted. She was groggy, like she had been drugged when I first got a hold of her..but, she recognized me & we chatted a little. Then I told her I was coming out to visit & she went to pieces..crying, begging me to hurry, she was so lonely, I just couldn't understand what it was like to be in that place. I scared me at first, thinking that I had really messed things up..got her all upset..but then talked to her for a bit & she calmed down.  I later got a hold of my niece, Judy, the next morning..she told me that Sis was a little difficult to handle & that they were having to drug her a little to keep her calmed down. She really needed one on one supervision & they weren't staffed for that.  BUT, Judy's sister, Jennifer who is a home sitter was/had moved to Los Banos & they were moving Sis to her place that weekend..whew. That will be better...I hope.  But  now worry about the girls..that is a huge responsibility & could be very hard to watch & be a part of.

So, next week should be a mixture of joy & sorrow. It will be nice to visit with my old work buddies again at the W&B Reunion. Hopefully Sis will be in a better frame of mind. I find out before I get there what to anticipate when I arrive.

As the time grows nearer I think Bob & I have made a big mistake by not taking out insurance for home care. I am sure at this stage of the game is it pretty expensive. We know someone that has his wife in a nursing home & has had to go back to work to be able to keep her there. If it was Bob going into one there is not job I could get that would allow me that type of money.  Man, hindsight is ugly....

I love driving in & out of our subdivision. There is always, well, nearly always, an egret in one of the ditches..if not several, getting lunch or dinner. They are beautiful. I love to see them fly off. They are so graceful. Sometimes I feel sad as I am not sure how long it will be that they won't be here anymore..at least not in our neighborhood. 

When we first moved here there were wild turkeys walking in the yard several times a week. Then they started building housing. Ripping out woods,bull dozing the land..dead animals started showing up on the roads. They had no place to go. 

We have three new subdivisions & a new school now. A couple of months ago one of the larger Baton Rouge hospitals bought land, with a large lake on it, across from where we live. They are putting in a med center..doctors offices & emergency care..they tore out the woods, ruined the lake. Ran all the turtles off. Used to judge the day by how many turtles were out sunning themselves on the logs in the lake.

Progress? I don't think so. Coming from California & seeing what 'progress' has done to that state. I used to say that I wished they would put a fence around LA & not let the outside world in.. but, think it is too late now.

Makes me sad. But at least the egrets can fly..they will go into the woods in out laying areas...until man catches up with them again.

All we have to do is ask..He is waiting-always.

A few weeks back I fell, & will not go into the whole story there, but it was a hard one. All I will say is never try & stop a large dog, running full out!

A week later I was almost to where I couldn't get out of bed. My back & hip was in bad shape. A week after that (two weeks total) I went to my doctor. He said yes, back was strained, muscles in knots & bruising on the inside. He gave me pain meds & a muscle relaxer to take for two more weeks, said if it was still bothering me to call & he would refill. He told me that type of injury lasts 4-6 weeks. Because I was able to move after a hot shower without much pain that there was nothing broken or cracked.

I took them Fri night & was able to get a good nights sleep but when I woke Sat morn, oh, the pain. So took them twice Sat..it would let me know when they were wearing off if I stayed in one position too long.

Sunday got ready for church, didn't take them as I didn't want to get drozy in church. Pastor called for healing that Sunday. I went forward & while they prayed over all that did, I prayed & talked to God myself.

I have NOT taken the lids off the pills since that Sat night. I wake up in the mornings able to get up, after my morning prayer & thank you to a most loving & healing God. All I needed to do was ask. Not even beg, just ask..

Sissy Update....

Have we entered another level? How many more do we have?

 My beautiful Sissy had to have an emergency operation a couple of months ago. She went into rehab, to get her back on her feet after the infection cleared up. I am not sure how well this was for her mind.

When I talked to her last week she informed me she was reading in bed, at home, doing well. I was surprised as I had NOT been told she had left rehab.  I talked about how hot it was here in Louisiana, getting all errands ran in the mornings so we could stay inside in the afternoon,blah blah blah. We laughed & talked some more & then, for some reason I felt I needed to say this...so, you are enjoying being home again.. her reply.. Oh yes, BUT you know how it is here in Louisiana, so hot & humid that we have to stay inside in the afternoons... OK, red flag!! she is in California.  After getting a hold of Judy I find she is still in the rehab center. Could/should be doing much more than she is but is enjoying the pampering she is getting there..oh, how sly. Do I laugh, or cry?

I laugh. in the beginning I would hear a lot of  'my life has not turned out the way I wanted, but, I make the best of what I have. It could be worse..'  I don't hear that anymore. I feel that is a good sign. She no longer remembers that her life isn't what she had planned...and, if she has to stay inside in the afternoons because of the Louisiana heat & humidity...so be it. So do I!!!

Everytime I call, I pray before that when I say..hello Sissy, just calling to see how you are doing...that I get back the same reply... hello baby, so good to hear your voice...  the day that doesn't happen, that she doesn't know who I am, then, I will cry.