Just need to talk to my friends (199)

I went on a nice day trip today, visiting several bakeries. I'm on carb overload!

Iris

Good morning

Went to the bookswap at Senior Center and got some great books. Danielle Steele, (Sisters and Journey),Preston and Child (Old Bones )Ben Sherwood(The Survivors Club)

what good looking men…wonderful photo

up late then had to watch Mrs Doubtfire…now downstairs pottering about..accomplishing nothing

sprinkler system repair yesterday

Hi biggles from Oklahoma

HB…glad all went well

Iris…yum

Good morning

Welcome, Biggles. It sounds like you have lived an adventurous life. I'm sorry it has changed. This disease robs of so much. Stick with us on this site, do lots of reading and you will learn a lot. Best wishes.

Ron, you and your grandson are handsome! Thanks for sharing your photo. Enjoy your family time!

Leaving the Blue Ridge Mountains Thru the Cherokee National Forest and alongside the Ocoee River onward home today. We’ve had a wonderful time away.

Thank you for all the good vibes. SIL had only 1 short episode but overall was happy and content. DH cooked an amazing breakfast each morning and other meals we laid out a spread together. Food just tastes so much better outside.

Welcome to our newest Porch Friends!! Back later after we get home and I get caught up with all the happenings while we’ve been away. Have a great day!

Love that river pic…

Biggles…my husband was a navy pilot and we sailed also but just locally

Well….looks like the flip house is not going to flip just yet. Long story and not at all interesting.

It is a gray damp day. Perfect for getting stuff done inside

HB, what procedure did your mom have? I'm glad she came through successfully!

I went to a Red Hat Society tea this afternoon. It was my first time.

I bought a chopper at Aldi's. I want to make a broccoli salad.

Iris

Good morning to those on the porch.

Lorita— I hope the weather breaks for you soon now that's it's officially fall. I hope you had a great weekend of football.

Speaking of football, Ron— that is a great picture. Your grandson has your eyes.

David— I'm glad the book swap was fruitful. Mom's clubhouse library has a discard box for residents to take books in addition to their lending library. There's always something interesting in the box that make me wonder how it ended up there. We found copies of The 36-Hour Day and Being Mortal— I wondered if the person who donated hung out here.

Biggles— Welcome to the porch.

Jerilynn— I'm glad your SIL was mostly pleasant and that the trip was a success. The pictures are great. It's weird, but they sort of remind me a bit of sections of Maine.

Mint— I do hope you get your needed rain. And when you've had your fill, please send it in my direction as things here can only be described as "extra-crispy". I hope to go out and trim some spent perennials later as they just look like weeds at this point. Oddly, my black-eyed-Susans are flourishing. I want to pick up a couple of mums or something for my front step and some ornamental corn for the door.

Iris— Mom had what they call a "mini-sling" procedure. So far it seems to be working for her. I'm hoping this helps with her tendency to UTIs which scare the daylights out of me. They're silent, in that she has no urgency or pain, but she goes off the rails. The first time her BP was 199/100 and she was uncharacteristically combative and the time after that her BP was 65/50 and she was so weak I had to use a transport chair to get her into the ER. Both resulted in extended ER visits with admissions after.
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After I last posted, mom and I paid some of her bills. Nothing was late, but she missed the discount deadline on both her school and per capita taxes. In the past, she normally bugged me to drive her to the tax collector's office to pay these in person because 1) they give her a receipt on the spot and 2) the man has a remarkably varied candy jar and is generous. She once left his office with both her coat pockets full. This strategy worked; she crossed party lines to vote for him and his candy jar. It's very odd that she didn't pay these already as the discount is around $250. I got the sense she thought it was August still.

I showered at her house before going home. I asked to use her blow dryer and the one she gave me didn't really work. When I said, I'd leave and dry my hair at home, she got me a second blow dryer. I recognized this one. I bought it on my last trip to FL when I was dissatisfied with the first one she gave me. Grrr, this means I actually packed and moved that thing. Then I asked to use her hot brush. The first she gave me rotated and tangle my hair so badly I thought I might have to cut it out. The second one had too small a barrel and not much in the way of drying performance. So she went back to her room and came back with a third one. I recognized it; it was a Christmas gift from us a few years back. The barrel size wasn't ideal, but it did a mostly OK job.

After, I asked her which one she uses as her hair always looks professionally done. She looked at me with that deer-in-the-headlights look and said, "I don't remember". Note to self— call the Memory Center and find out when you can expect a call back to schedule an appointment. I reached out in April/May and the said 3 months with an appointment in 6-ish. It's getting harder to explain away what I'm seeing. I've already decided to insert myself into her finances more aggressively.

HB

HB, that's funny about the bachelorette party! Hope your mom recovers well from surgery. Her memory lapses are concerning for sure. You have a lot on your plate. When I was helping my mom with dementia, she was on the phone when I walked in arranging for someone to come to the house with her "lottery winnings." (She had NEVER played the lottery.) I picked up the phone and told the guy not to come in no uncertain terms. What would he have done in terms of scamming her? Scary to think about.

JeriLynn, your photos are beautiful. I'm so glad you had a good time.

We got possession of our new home Tuesday. Every day since, we have taken 1-3 loads up there and unpacked them. I've found that we will need a new bookcase pronto. Even though I recently donated 63 books to the library. You see, at our current home we have built ins (pic attached) plus a small bookcase. No built ins at the new house. Movers are here today packing us up. They will do the furniture Friday. Since I told them to take "everything" (almost) I may not be able to cook here for the rest of the week. So sad. Not!

"OLD HOUSE" TO SHOW OUR BUILT INS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE FIREPLACE