WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE#475

Thank you Joyce.

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I know you don't like when I apologize but this is a long one. Once I feel like typing it's easier for me to get it all out at once because I most likely won't come back. I've been pretty bad at blogging and reading posts.

1. Something you've labored over recently? 

I guess I would have to say the new DVR I got last Tuesday. By this Tuesday I think I have it. I still have my old DVR remote control and it works with the new DVR which has been helpful. I'm finally trying to use the new one each day. 

2. How will you rest on Labor Day? 

I don't know our plans yet for Labor Day. 

3. Margaret Mead is quoted as saying, "I learned the value of hard work by working hard." Would you agree? Where and how did you learn the value of hard work? 

I feel that I would agree with her quote. Most likely I learned that when I was divorced and raising two young children. However, I lost the value of working hard years ago after retired. Some has to do with medical issues. Now I need to learn this value again. 

4. It's National Eat Outside Day (August 31st). Will you? Do you enjoy dining 'al fresco' or prefer indoor seating? 

No we won't be eating outside today. It's just too hot this year. I would have to say I would rather eat indoors. 

5. Somehow it's the end of August. What was the best day of the month for you and tell us what made it so? 

I'm going to say that is was any day that we spent with James. August was a little tough on me. 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

First of all, Dylan's birthday is tomorrow on September 1st. Wishing him a Happy 41st Birthday! 

Love, Mom and Dad

Amber and Dylan

I think we have all heard these phrases a lot lately. I know I have said them to people. "It's Always Something" and "When It Rains It Pours."

If you read last weeks post I did have several challenges going on. There are some new ones that came up. 

James had flu symptoms towards the end of the week last week. They took him to urgent care on the weekend. They diagnosed him with pre pneumonia. He is on two medications and an inhaler. They don't give anything for a cough at his age. As of yesterday he had more energy but still is coughing a lot. 

So we had a bit of an emergency on Saturday morning. Mark went to change the water filer in our refrigerator and water started flowing like a river. The new filter wouldn't go in. He had to run outside to the front of the house to turn the water off to the house.

We have a large built in frig and there is no way we could pull it out. Apparently the little tab that falls down to block the water was stuck. Let me first say that we have been buying this same filter for years from Amazon. The last time we got them Mark noticed something different but was able to file it off and it worked. So we had the second one on hand. It obviously wouldn't go in unfiled. 

So after we cleaned up the water in the kitchen which took over 15 large bath towels and several small towels to control he went and filed the new one and it went in. Then the water to the house was turned back on and it was leaking. 

However it was just leftover water and is in place and is fine. I did some research and found a new replacement for our model. We don't plan on changing it anytime soon since this one seems to be working like the first one but I did order it that day on Amazon just in case the leak didn't stop. 

These are the last few towels of the cleanup. Also, something that Sandra will understand, my 6 bins that I got to take home from hospital visits really helped us get the bunch towels outside without dripping more water everywhere. It was not fun wringing out these towels, having them dry in the sun and then several loads in the washing machine. 

So to add to this, like it isn't enough, I had a lunch date Monday that I had to cancel. I needed this lunch date with my friend Kendra. We haven't seen each other all summer between her travels and my stuff. So much to share with her. I also had errands to run, especially stopping in a doctors office out that way to get a refill on a prescription because they have ignored my calls since Thursday morning.

Now Amber and Mark were thinking I was just making an excuse to stay home because of my depression. I wasn't. My chest felt weird. I figured I probably strained some muscles in my upper chest from wringing out those towels. Well by the afternoon I realized it was the start of a lung infection. I started yesterday morning my steroids, antibiotics and breathing treatments. 

What gets me so mad is that I haven't had any lung issues in 5 months since we added a new inhaler. 

One year ago on August 28,2021 my brother was laid to rest in Lake Michigan off this jetty in Milwaukee, WI. 

Rest in Peace Raymond