Is There a Doctor in the House?

I need one. I went to Urgent Care on Friday, could not go before because Vic wasn't home all week. He was helping harvest the peonies at Derek and Vickie's farm in Prosser. 

I don't have pneumonia, x-rays proved that. I got antibiotics for an infection and Musinex-D. I was told to come back on Monday if I am not better. I am not better.

I will get back to posting when I am feeling better. 

Huh?

Vic has to ask me to repeat what I said not just because he is hard of hearing (HE IS!) but I'm suffering from a horrible cough and don't have much of a voice. I got sick last Thursday and am still ailing. Unfortunately, I cannot go to the Urgent Care because he is in Prosser harvesting peonies with Derek and Vickie. I cough like a heavy smoker. No, I've never smoked. 

I haven't made any headway on my craft room, with the filing cabinets. I still need two frames put together, then I can commence. I'm sick anyway, so it doesn't matter that the frames haven't been put together. 

I mentioned the organization "Letters Against Isolation," in an earlier post. I've been writing letters, many letters, 150 letters to nursing homes, assisted living homes, Meals on Wheels. The letters must be handwritten, and they said at least 5 sentences. That's not a letter. I tuck in a sticker or two, some images I have on hand, or items that aren't stickers. I put playing cards with an interesting back in some of them. 

So, I'm off to take a nap, I couldn't sleep last night. 

Nancy

Time Out

I'm taking a time out. and didn't realize it has been over a month since I posted. I'll be back soon, hopefully.

The Storm Before the Calm

No, I said it right. I am working on Vic's family history again, after some time off for ... whatever reason. Creativeness, I guess. Christmas cards, envelopes, journals, Valentine's cards... Anyway, I was filing paperwork in my hard plastic filing crates. They are getting pretty full and my cuticles have been bleeding from it all. I was filing away and Vic came in. I told him I need real filing cabinets. I have 9 of those crates full of family history from my side of the family as well as his side, and a few more banker boxes of related paperwork, like different cities, areas, groups of people and where they settled, forms. You get the picture. I went directly to craigslist and typed in "for sale, general." Five ads down I found an ad for 5-drawer filing cabinets! There were four available, at $50 each. Long story short, I now have two 5-drawer filing cabinets in my craft room/office.  We went to get them, and the guy said we could have both for $80. He said his wife is glad to get more room in the garage. 

In order to fit those in, we had to empty some shelves, and I must say it is standing room only and watch out or you'll fall because all the "stuff" got stacked (more like piled) and there is just a trail to get around in the room. I look forward to organizing and purging. I had to order the metal racks to put inside the drawers to hang the hanging file folders, but they will arrive tomorrow. And I need more of the plastic shoeboxes. Dollar Tree, here we come. 

We have a peach colored rose in our backyard. I call it 
Mom's rose. She loved the color of peach. 
especially the peach-colored rose.
This one is a little more pink
than peach.

The dogwood tree I can see from my writing table is about to bloom; I can't wait! All around town the flowering trees are in bloom and it is just beautiful. Spring is magical. The cemeteries have flowers everywhere; we drive by a few when we are out and about. 

Back to my mess now. Have a good week.

 

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Patti, you can do your DNA through Ancestry.com or 23 and Me, but I heard 23 and Me filed bankruptcy and maybe you shouldn't go that route. David has that one, and I have Ancestry.com. Ancestry puts theirs on sale frequently, so I'll let you know if I come across an ad for it. You don't have to be a member to do the DNA test. 

This morning when I was doing my journaling, I tuned in to YouTube to listen to some music. I first heard "Happy" by Pharrell Williams, then "The Git Up" by Blanco Brown, and then "Combo #5" by Lou Bega. If you want to get instantly in a good mood, listen to one of these! And if you have time, listen to all three. And you should watch the video as well. That makes it even better.

Rick's mother, Joyce, is in the hospital again. This is the third time since she got to Washington in a little over a month. Two weeks, one week, and I don't know how long she will be there this time. She got admitted last night. She got a pacemaker last time. I hope they keep her long enough to get her completely well. So, if you're "praying around," could you add her to your list? Thank you. We saw her on Saturday and had a nice visit. 

Serendipitous

I think there is a movie called Serendipity, and it is one of Vic's favorites. He has quite a few favorite movies: Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, The Bourne movies, Crocodile Dundee, and the Taken movies with Liam Neeson. Probably more. Oh, yes, one about a little girl and a horse. I can't remember the name of it.

Anyway, one day, when Vic was in the shower, the doorbell rang. I usually tiptoe to the door and look through the peephole and maybe I'll answer it, but most the time I do not. Especially if Vic isn't here. So he's in the shower, the doorbell rings, for some reason I opened it. A man was standing there and enquired about the Aurora automobile in our driveway. He asked if it was for sale. I did not know, I thought we were just going to donate it to one of those charities that takes cars. It had been sitting there in the driveway for 4 years. So, since Vic wasn't available, I gave him Vic's phone number and asked his name and phone number to give Vic. I asked hs name. "Paul Martin" he replied. "Paul M-A-R-T-O-N, I asked. "He gave me a funny look and replied that was right, that was his name. I then asked, "Rusty's friend?" And it was Rusty's friend! I told him who I am and Vic came to the door. He and Paul talked for about an hour in the living room. We gave him the car and he has been working on it ever since. Rusty was my brother, but he passed away. Last I heard, Paul was in Michigan or Minnesota or somewhere not here. Rusty lived with him for a while in Idaho. I had not seen Paul in many years and did not recognize him and he didn't recognize me. Serendipity. Co-inkee-dink, yes?

Has anything like that ever happened to you? Once in awhile, I will happen to think of a person I knew in the past just out of the blue. I figure God wants me to pray for them, so I do. 

Have a good week, it is Spring Break for the teachers and kids. I hope everyone has safe travels. 

The flowering trees around town are in bloom.
They are so pretty. 

Baby Chicks

You know you are old when the baby you held just yesterday is driving now. Or signing a letter of acceptance to a college when she was just running through our beaded curtain and giggling. Sweet memories. Almost Kleenex time when I think too hard about it!

It's baby chicks time. I used to get baby chicks, I love them. I'll tell a story about myself. I had maybe six baby chicks. I kept them in a cardboard box with layers of newspapers on the bottom. There was a light clamped on the box to keep them warm. One night we were sleeping in our upstairs bedroom at the house on Campbell's Drive in Prosser. I woke up and smelled what I thought was cookies. I wondered who would be making cookies at that time of the night so I went downstairs to check. No one was making cookies. The chicks had pulled the light down into the box. They were huddled in the corner farthest away from the light. The downstairs was full of smoke. I rescued the chicks, and called the Fire Dept., and by that time everyone in the house was up. That light burnt through the layers of newspapers, the cardboard box, the indoor/outdoor type of carpeting on the floor and it scorched the wood. There were no flames. The insurance company paid well. They paid me and I made all new curtains, we had to paint, and I can't remember if we put carpet back on the floor, but I doubt it. It could have been so much worse. So every spring I think of baby chicks and my toasted little chicks. They survived! I don't recall if Crippy Hippy was of this batch or not. I'll have to ask the kids about it. 

Jerry and Anne are back from their adventure! We sure enjoyed going with them. The pictures and the places they went were very interesting and we had not heard of some of them.

That family history problem I mentioned a couple of posts ago? I have yet to solve it. I'm about to give up and just leave the parentage blank. Can't prove it, can't disprove it. But I'm like a dog with a bone. I have to quit looking, I've done it many different ways, so I just need to move on.  (That's what she said.)