I had my annual eye appointment with my optometrist this morning. I gave him an update of my eye history and changes over the past year. After his exam he told me the pressure in my left eye is a little higher than they would like to see. Fortunately it is much lower than it was in July last year, and has not changed since December so it's holding just barely over the range they prefer, so I'm thankful for that. My right eye pressure is good. He told me I have a cataract forming on my left eye. He said it would probably be a couple of years or more before surgery is needed. My right eye is doing fine. They will make some changes in my lenses that should help improve my sight for both close up and distance. You might remember I've mentioned having a hard time reading with my glasses on. Sometimes after reading I find it difficult to adjust from reading to watching TV or distances if we go outside. It typically adjusts after a short while which is an improvement, but I can tell some correction is needed.
Once I returned home I straightened things up in Bentley before Peggy picked me up at 11:30. Friends Peggy and Linda, and I are heading to Parsons to have lunch. The three of us served on the Chamber of Commerce here in Oswego many years ago and have remained good friends, later being involved in our Community Foundation where we were all founding members. All three of us are retired now and we enjoy getting together a few times a year for lunch and just a good visit. As usual, we had a wonderful lunch (ordered from Upscale Country) that we enjoyed at Parsons' Forest Park. We had a great visit during our ride to and from Parsons. On the way home we took a slow drive through the countryside which I always enjoy.
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
We walked 2.06 miles this morning. It was nice to be back in our city park and fairground area. We have such a lovely view from our overlook and we often see the "resident" fox when we are there. I love listening to the birds that early in the morning - it's a beautiful sound.
Dean scheduled an oil and fuel filter change and having the tires on the truck rotated at the Chevy dealer in nearby Columbus, KS. The appointment was at 9:30. I decided I would ride along with him - thinking it would take about an hour. Imagine my surprise when we did not leave Columbus until after noon!! It was almost 12:30 when we returned home.
Once we returned, Dean went out to do something and realized they had rotated his tires, putting the chrome side to the inside, rather than leaving it out. He called them and took it back so they could fix it.
Prior to leaving for Texas, we set up a date for him to have a colonoscopy when we returned and tomorrow is the day. He hasn't had any solid foods since lat night and he's awful hungry. I made some chicken broth for him, and picked up a few things at the grocery store that will hopefully help curb his appetite a little.
At 3 he started taking the drink they prescribed for him, followed by 20 oz. of water. At 7 he took the second drink. Bless his heart it's not a fun thing to have to drink - but at least he was able to use Sprite and Gateorade to help with the taste! Drinking this stuff is by far worse than the test itself.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
We were up really early this morning, a little before 4. We have to be in Galena at 6am and it's about a 45 minute drive. Since we woke up to rain, we left a little earlier than planned. Fortunately, we missed most of the rain on the way over. When they took him back, they had me sit in a small waiting area, a short distance from his cubicle while they got him ready. In about 5 minutes or so one of the nurses came to get me, and take me to his room, but when I walked into the cubicle I told her this isn't my husband. I thought she called "Cheri" and she said "Sharon". Sharon didn't hear "Sharon" called either!! I seem to have a problem having similar names to others waiting when in hospitals, as this is the second time something like this has happened.
A short time later, the same nurse came back to get me and made sure my husband was Dean this time! How funny. The doctor stopped in before the procedure and visited with Dean, asking him a few questions, etc. and before I knew it the nurse was taking him back. He was gone barely 30 minutes and here they came wheeling him back. The doctor showed up a short time later to say all was good. Within 30-40 minutes later, they had Dean up, dressed and were wheeling him down (with me following) to the Kitchen Pass Restaurant located in the hospital. Wow, what a breakfast they serve! We both had our routine eggs, meat, potatoes and toast. Since neither of us had eaten breakfast it was a welcome treat for us both.
Afterwards we made stops at Walmart and Sam's before heading home. Dean spent the day resting and I did a few things around the RV, mostly finishing up the laundry I started yesterday. For dinner, we had the chicken and noodles I made yesterday. Since Dean couldn't have anything except a little broth yesterday, he was ready to dig in to them tonight. We spent the rest of the evening watching some TV and maybe looking at the backside of our eyelids until it was time to go to bed. We were worn out!
Friday, May 4, 2018
Our walk in the park this morning was 2.02 miles.
Tomorrow we are having a "Cinco de Mayo" evening at my daughter Misti's. She has graciously agreed to do this at her house since our rig isn't big enough but I plan to do most of the cooking.
This morning I chopped lettuce and tomatoes, and browned four pounds of hamburger for taco meat. I had hoped to have homemade tamales but the place I planned to get them from didn't work out.
This afternoon I filled out medical forms for more appointments next week. They ask so many questions and I had to do some digging to get everything answered. It's amazing how long it takes to do this, but guess it's necessary. You can bet I made copies of all of it for our files.
Afterwards I worked on our budget for April. I had not updated it for over two weeks and I was anxious to see how we did for the month. We were both pleased with the outcome. While we still did not do well on the "Dining Out" line item, we did pretty well in several others that have been high in the past three months, and we came out really good overall. Rallies have an impact on the Dining line item and so do doctor visits when they are in other towns on a regular basis. We'll still have a few of those this month, but I do plan on doing more cooking at home when we can.
Saturday, May 5 (Cinco de Mayo), 2018
Today is Oswego's City Wide Garage Sale. Misti called me last night to see if I wanted to go to a few of them with her this morning, and I agreed. She picked me up a few minutes before 7 and we headed straight to Kansas Street to one she was interested in, but it did not appear anyone was there. We stopped at one across the street and looked and as we started to leave there we could see the one she originally wanted to visit was behind the house. We took a look but left without buying anything. We did drive around to a couple more and stopped at one where they had the cutest outdoor bench seating and folding chairs to match. Misti loved it and I took a couple of pictures since they were made of pallet boards. Another project for Dean, maybe?
After she dropped me off at Bentley, I got myself ready for the day and wrote out a little timeline to be sure everything would be ready by 5:30-6:00 for our Cinco de Mayo dinner. I had to make another stop at the grocery store for a few things, ran by my sister Cindy's to have her look at a couple of frames I picked out for glasses, and then headed back home. I printed a few recipes - refried beans, guacamole, and queso - all new to me for today.
I gathered up all of my ingredients, pans, paper products, cups and food items and headed to Misti's at 1:00. We spent the afternoon getting everything ready. Besides the three of us, her son Logan, and two of my sisters and their husbands (Crystal land Lonie; Cindy and Elmer) will be here. Jody and her husband could not attend due to a family event, and my son Marc and family was not able to attend - he is really busy with his side business now, especially going into Mother's Day weekend. We invited our pastor and his wife but they were unable to attend. At the last minute Lonie could not come due to a problem that came up right as they were getting ready to head over to Misti's. Talk about bad timing - but in the long run it was probably good he was there to get the mesage, but we worry sorry all of the others could not make it.
We had tacos on homemade corn and flour tortillas that I brought from Texas (they've been in my freezer since March); tostada shells, authentic refried beans, taco meat, two kinds of salsa (one spicy and one mild); queso dip, and of course all of the topppings (lettuce, tomato, cheese, and sour cream). My sisters brought dessert - Cindy a sopapilla cake, and Crystal her famous four layer dessert. Oh my goodness, we were all stuffed. We had a great time afterwards sitting and visiting and I thought - we need to do this more often. There were lots of laughs among us, and a very enjoyable evening. Afterwards I helped Misti clean up before we headed home. I was really tired tonight but it was so worth it to spend time with family.
Sunday, May 6, 2018
We walked 2.12 miles this morning. As we left the park, and headed west down the hill, a mother fox and her two kits ran across the road in front of us. I wish I'd had my camera ready.
After breakfast we got ready for church, stopping to pick up Misti on our way. Roger had a good sermon, as usual. We dropped Misti at her house so she could study. She has several tests she must have completed by Wednesday before she takes her finals for this year. She will complete her two year basic classes at LCC this year, and she has since been accepted into their Physical Therapy Assistant Program. I'm so proud of her. I don't know how she does it all and keeps up with everything. She is active in church and school activities, especially project Prom - which entails many meetings and fund raising events throughout the year, she makes time to keep up an exercise regime and still makes time for her kids, other family and her friends.
After lunch of tacos (I think we'll be eating this stuff for awhile - Lol!), I took time to straighten things up before resting for a short time. This afternoon we are headed to Columbus to attend their High School Band Concert. Dacy plays the clarinet and Tucker plays the tuba in their band. We enjoyed visiting with Renae while waiting for the concert to start. I love listening to their band and was very surprised to find out they only have 6 seniors.
It was 5 or so when we got home. I made taco (are you surprised?) salad for dinner. It was very good and is one of our favorite salads to make. No shell, just the lettuce, tomato, avocado, a few chips (tortillas, doritoes, fritoes - whatever we have on hand), taco meat and our favorite dressing for our taco salads - Dorothy Lynch Homestyle Dressing. Wow, it hit the spot!
Once we finished eating, I did the dishes and we settled in to watch American Idol. I hated to see anyone go, but we were quite happy with the final five that were selected to move on. It will be really hard to see anyone leave from this point on, although I do have a couple of favorites I'm pulling for.
Monday, May 7, 2018
This morning it was my turn for a procedure at Galena. Dr. Broce wanted me to have an EGD after the episodes of dry heaves, and since I have a couple of other sypmtoms - a sharp pain that I get a few times a month just below the middle of my rib cage that will not go away until I drink a fair amount of water, along with the heartburn I started having several months ago.
Dean and I had the same doctor so everyone was surprised to see us back again. They had me ready to go shortly before 8 when I was scheduled, however, Dr. Weston had an emergency at the hospital first thing this morning so he was running a little late. It was about 8:45 before they took me back. Everything looked good although I had some bile. With the other symptoms he said the next thing to look at is the gall bladder. Lovely! At least we know there is no ulcer or anything of that type which was the concern. Several years ago I had some pains in my side. The doctor thought the cause might be my gallbadder but I've had very few of those pains since I've retired.
We left the hospital about 9:45-10:00. I needed to make another Walmart and Sam's Club run. I just needed a few items at both places so it didn't take us long. Afterwards we stopped at Golden Corral for lunch. We were both starving since we did not have any breakfast this morning. We were home by 12:30 and we've done nothing but rest since then. I woke up at 3 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep so I've cat napped off and on, both on the way home and since we returned to Bentley. I'm feeling pretty good now.
While we were at lunch we received the first picture of our new grandson, Samuel Peine. He was born at 11:50 a.m. EST (they live in New York), weighed 7 lbs 10 ozs, and was 20.5 inches long.
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| Daddy Matt, Samuel and Mama Megan |
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| Master Samuel Peine! |
Also today our oldest grandson, Logan joined the Navy and was sworn in. He also selected his school following boot camp and chose medical corpsman. He will do 19 weeks of training in San Antonio for that. He is scheduled to leave for bootcamp in October, but it might be sooner. We are really proud of him. During our Cinco de Mayo party on Saturday we learned that two or three other boys from his graduating class, and two from the class ahead of him are joining or have joined one of the service branches, and another friend is in the process of joining.
A pretty exciting day in the life of the Peine's - wouldn't you say?
AND since this will post on Tuesday, May 8 we want to say "Happy birthday to our grandson, Gideon Michael Peine." He is 9 years old today. They live in the Wichita area. The morning of his birth, his dad Heath called to let us know they were headed to the hospital. Dean wanted to leave Oswego as soon as possible so we could try and make it before Gideon made his way into this world. The night before was a Council meeting and there were some things I needed to take care of before we left town so I went in early that morning to get them done as soon as possible - and of course we had a storm move in that caused the electricity to go out. In the meantime, Brett, the next oldest son called to say his wife, Renae and the kids were in an accident on their way to Pittsburg that morning. There was either a really heavy wind or a small tornado that blew a small building across the highway and it hit their car, driving a post into the passenger side front window. Fortunately no one was sitting there - both kids were in the backseat. Finally, the electricity came on, I got the things done I had to do and we left for Wichita. I think we made it to the hospital right before or right after Gideon was born so it all worked out but what a hectic morning that was! I love the stories surrounding a special moment though and now we can laugh at how hectic it was at the time and how we are able to celebrate it today.
Do you see a theme with the Peine/Blair family? - Busy, Hectic, Crazy, Wild, but we wouldn't change it!
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| How appropriate this particular scripture came up today with all the talk about our grandchildren! |
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