Saturday November 29 2008

Let Me In!

Not much going on right now to report anything interesting. Have been sleeping through the chemo pain most of the time. The wind roared most of the day and after dusk when I let the dogs out it was snowing - the flakes are flying horizontally. It's still doing it at almost midnight when I let the dogs out again, but not piling up much at all so far. I'm sure glad to be snuggled in our new place before that started. Have been enjoying seeing the deer on their daily routine. Tonight there was a fair sized buck in the yard about sunset.

Got some phone calls today, but Joe answered the phone and took messages. Can't remember if it was yesterday or this morning that I talked to Beverly. Thanks for calling and I'll try to catch up - hoping this neck pain is gone by tomorrow or so. Howie, Joslyn and their boys, Jacques and Reeves, stopped by about 5 p.m. They are sure nice looking boys and tall like the Thomas's. They were just little guys when we saw them last at one of the family reunions out at the ranch. One is a junior and the other a freshman at Laramie UofWy. The family does a lot of team roping together. Jacques got Joe's TV in the living room going and looked at the other two which was very nice of him. But the two in the bedrooms - looks like the receiver has gone haywire. I'll get Dish called pretty soon and have them come back and straighten them out. Joslyn brought us some pretty yummy cinnamon rolls she had made. Thank you Joslyn. They had invited us to go to Lakeside Lodge for dinner to celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary (CONGRATULATIONS!) but neither one of us felt we could do justice to a big meal. We sure appreciated the invite though. I made some potato soup for our dinner and that was just the right thing.

Sorry no pictures to post lately, not much is in the laptop to choose from. Bonnie and Craig are stopping by tomorrow after church and will take the laptop to their son, Cheyenne, to get the Office Outlook program going and then I can use the new centurytel.net email. I haven't tried going to that home page yet, so another new thing to learn. Have still been using the hughes.net home page, but I want to put that on vacation and not pay for two email bills. I also have a pretty big stack of papers and bills to get through and better get with it.

So this blog is mostly to say I won't be blogging or looking at email for several days until I get the laptop back. Maybe by then I'll have something interesting to write about Talk to you later.

Friday November 28 2008

Haven't had very good days since chemo on Tuesday. I sat up in the recliner all night last night in quite a bit of pain - yet not as much as the last time. And no TV to watch. I'll have to call asap when I feel like being on the phone to try and get them going again. It keeps saying no signal, but not to call that they are working on it. There has to be something more wrong than that though. It's been going on more or less since they Dish guy was here to hook it all up. At first I just wasn't getting local channels on my TV, the it has spread to all three TVs.

Joslyn came by to see the house this morning and visited for a while. She was in town for the day

. About 11:40 I went down to the clinic to get the pump off and found that they were to be closed in the afternoon. So lucky I didn't wait any longer or it would have been another day wearing the darn thing.

Joe had gone to the ranch to feed the cats and bring a few more things back with him. He said he ate lunch out and brought home the mail. Joslyn came back to see him/us in the afternoon. She was waiting to give Howie a ride back to the ranch after work because his truck was in getting repaired. So we all had another good visit. She invited us to go along with their family tomorrow evening up to Lakeside Lodge for steaks to celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary. So we might do that if I'm feeling up to it.

It's windy and mostly cloudy today.

Sorry I'm not getting many photos on lately. There aren't many to choose from on the laptop (PC was left at the ranch). Maybe I'll find some to use, or maybe just leave these days without any photos. I'm going to bed early again tonight, or if I get to feeling o.k. I might call about the TVs. I ate a late sandwich for lunch/dinner, and heated Joe up some of the leftovers at dinnertime.

Thursday November 27 2008

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING

TO EVERYONE!

Debbie called in the morning and Betty a little while later. About all we did today is fix the turkey dinner and eat. I bought too big a turkey and we have too much left over. It was the day I was supposed to go get the chemo pump off, but the clinic wasn't open. So have to wait until tomorrow. All the TVs have gone out, so I have to get on the phone to Dish. Why does this keep happening?

Wednesday November 26 2008

Feeling o.k. so far today, just pretty drowsy mostly. Keep meaning to take a nap but haven't gotten there yet. Charm called to check up on me this morning and she's doing her turkey dinner preparation ahead. I've prepared all the thanksgiving recipes up to the point of baking/cooking/roasting. It will be the regular turkey dinner. So tomorrow it should be fairly easy to finish up. Even bought one of those throw away aluminum roasting pans for the turkey.

Her son Andy brought Betty Pfaff over for a visit today and what a pleasure to see her. She might come back again before she goes home to Kemmerer. She brought us a housewarming gift. Guess next I'll look at the email, have lots in there right now.

Joe went for coffee with the guys this morning, Then he dug some bigger rocks out of the fenced in part of the yard and threw them over the fence. Maybe he's thinking of getting them out of the way of mowing, but he's said several time's he's not going to mow. We have two weedeaters at the ranch and I'll bring one of them over here in the spring. Now he's gone to wash his truck again. Guess that mag coating for the roads is really stuck on the sides of the truck.

Pericles' Funeral Oration starts: "I shall begin with our ancestors," and "Thus choosing to die resisting, rather than to live submitting, they fled only from dishonour, but met danger face to face."

Gina and Bob have flown Jim's plane to Cheyenne/Laramie for Thanksgiving with her family down there. It will only take them less than two hours to get there. It's about all day driving. Bet she'll have more neat pictures on her blog.

Here's an article and more pictures of the art show.

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2008/11/MixedMediaArtistsArt.htm

Jim Roscoe has won the State House of Representative seat.

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/#roscoe

Tuesday November 25 2008

The Sawtooths on the way to Jackson

Charm arrived about 8:15 this morning and soon as I got my shoes on we were on the road. Snow has stayed on the ground through Bondurant and the Hoback, but the road was clear all the way. There were a lot of deer along the road and coming home I bet there were 20 big horn sheep right in the road - not caring to move - licking the salt off the highway. They all seemed mostly like young ones. Hope they are safe as things got dark tonight. Darn little stinkers.

Things went along well for a while and after we passed Daniel junction I just couldn't keep my eyes open and had fair to middlin' nausea. Carol at oncology gave me some nausea med. I slept in spurts most of the day, in the car, in the chemo chair, through my lunch - I would wake up trying to spoon tomato soup into my chin, and dozing off part of the way home. The chemo treatment went along as usual. I didn't get much of an answer on stronger pain med if I get another bad painful week. except to call when it happens. Next appointment I'll get the CT scans and an MRI on my neck again. That's about all, a lot like the other times.

Charm went over to see Greg and Jim's art show and said it was really nice. I knew I wouldn't be able to do it this time. We went to Smith's and I mainly got prescriptions refilled and got the turkey. It was a long day, especially for Charm. Thank you for going with me Charm. I sure needed to be driven this time and I really appreciate it. She also bought us a poinsettia and I have it sitting by the fireplace. It's very festive. Much love and blessings to you, Charm.

Put the groceries away. Am having some Top Ramen and going right to bed. I was able to get onto my hughes.net web page last night, but only began to eread all the messages there. Will be catching up starting tomorrow.

Craig stoppped in today and plumbed the new fridge for ice and water. I was gone and didn't see any of it, but it seems to be working fine. We're not used to all the newfangled luxuries. It will be real nice to have. Thank you so much for helping us with that Craig. You and your family are special in our lives.

Gina got some way better pictures than me of the art show, dinner here at the house and them flying over the country today. Check out her last week's blogging: http://horseback41.blogspot.com/

Here is a link with 31 pictures of a bear cub that came into a ranch yard in Bondurant. Kind of cute.They were taken by the people that man the Bondurant weather web cam. : http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2008/11/Theresabearcubonther.htm

WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY SAMUEL RYAN

Sammy Grandma Bev and Shane

Bev and Samuel

Samuel Ryan Beall

Shane Andrea and Sammy

Monday November 24 2008

The rose Bonnie gave me for my birthday

opened up today.

Here is the biggest news!! Andrea and Shane had their baby yesterday. It's a boy and they named him Samuel Ryan. He weighed 8 and 1/2 pounds. Joe hollered at me after I was in bed that Beverly called yesterday and that they had the baby and it was a boy. That makes me a great grandmother for the first time. Not so long ago I wasn't sure I'd be here to become a great grandmother. Anyway Beverly and I talked this evening, and she told me all about it. I know she is just going to want to be holding that baby all the time. She and Brent are grandparents of Brent's son Eric's little baby boy born early this year. Beverly has had all boys.There are pictures in my email that she sent, where I'll go next and try to see them - if the email will work. I might be able to put a picture on tonight.

This morning was awake about 7 something and asked Joe if he would unload the rest of the Walmart bags out of the car, which he did. I couldn't resist beginning to put some of it away. But needed to get busy, get a shower and get things ready for the small art group who were coming to paint here today. I called Sandy at the phone company and asked if someone could c ome and get my internet going, and set up my email into the laptop with my new email address. He got here about 9:30 or 10 and I pretty well stayed with him while he did everything so I'd perhaps know how all this new stuff will work. It didn't take him long. And one thing he did say was that I only needed one, ONE (1) of those little boxes that they other guys put one in every room. He might have been here about an hour and got most of it set up. I'm still having probably a small problem, in getting to my email. And I don't know where its going to download in to. It should be OfficeOutlook, but that won't open I recently found out. Remember I said that last spring I asked this same Mike to work on my computer to get Outlook set up, and now it seems like that was never done or done right. So there is still more to figure out.

Joe said he was going to the ranch, and I guess he got a few more things and fed and watered the cats. He ate at Boulder about 2:30 and didn't want any dinner tonight. He got home about 4 p.m. just after the gals left.

They arrived beginning about 9-ish. Charm came first and she had very kindly offered to make a salad and also made some delicious oatmeal white chocolate cookies. Boy were they good. I knew what the day would be like so bought Stouffer's family size lasagna, garlic toast and a Marie Callender coconut cream pie. Any way, we had Charm and I, Lois, Melita, Sandy, Nancy, and Kay. Just as people were arriving is when the phone co. guy came. I had some coffee made and the gals sat up their stuff to paint. I never got mine set up until after lunch. All of a sudden I remembered I had to get that lasagna into the oven. It hadn't unthawed although it had been out of the freezer at Walmart since about 5 p.m. yesterday. Would something you wanted to stay frozen ever keep that long? But soon we had a pretty good lunch without too much effort. Everyone helped get it on the table and off again.

So after everyone left I had to run down to the driver's license place, this was my last chance to get the eye exam taken care of this week. And lucky I got there. But they told me I had to go to the eye doctor for the exam and get him to fax my results to Cheyenne, that the eye exam they give is different than the eye doctor's. And if it doesn't get there before Dec. 10, they will cancel my driver's license. Yikes! I only got the letter the middle of last August. So.... somehow have to get the test. Our eye doctor is in Rock Springs, although sometimes he comes up here on a Friday.

After the driver's license office, I went past the second hand store and decided to go in looking for a small table or TV stand for the TV in my studio room. So far I haven't been able to come across something small that will hold the TV and receiver. But I did find a couple of dog toys, six matching wine glasses, and a turkey rack! I keep working at getting yesterday's shopping put away - still have some more to go.

Tomorrow I have to go to Jackson for my next chemo treatment. Charm is going to drive me. We're also going to see an art show that Greg and Jim W. are in while we're up there. Then we'll go to Smith's for groceries. I'll get our turkey there. I'll need a prescription renewed there too. So we'll pretty much be gone all day tomorrow doing that.