It appears that Bill will not be coming anywhere near the costal US, good news for once. The rip current warnings are out but of course that doesn’t detain anyone from getting out in them. I can remember countless times of having to watch Jacks as he ripped up the waves prior to a storm he had to be out there.
This weather only slows my progress down in work, it’s been hot and muggy per usual with the occasional storms blowing up. That’s fine I guess.
Lori all about school still, loves the classes’ she’s in and the boys in her classes. In fact, she’s talking about having a pool party not this weekend but the next. “Just a get to know you party” is what she told Mom. She promised to do all the work and preparations because Mom is still on the weak side. I offered my services as a monitor and Mom could hang out at Gs.
Diane had her little boy; I don’t think I mentioned she was pregnant because she asked me not to. However was allowed to say something about the birth after. I was miffed at her the whole time because she wouldn’t find out what the sex was. I don’t see how people can wait to find out. I want to know! She wanted little girl since she has a boy. Well she had another boy………see if she had told me what it was then she would have had a girl, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Mom and young un is doing well.
Mom update, she’s doing slightly better, in fact she walked the mall like a champ and hardly was out of breath. That’s good news to me even better news for the malls. G is please with her progress.
Talked to Luke checking up on his crew these few days, the twins are still growing and drooling. Camen insists they are her baby dolls to dress and play with, just like Lori used to do her. Kyle is not impressed with them yet. “They are my little brudders and I get to play with them later” Good man. Luke says they planning on a Mickey Mouse Cruise next year. Camen said “I don’t know about getting on that big boat”. She astonishes me with the things she says.
I guess since Mom is doing well and Lori is going to have her party the next weekend Trace and I should take our bike ride this weekend. Wayne and Chris of course are all fired up to go. Today we plan on planning our route.
Thursday, August 20
Tuesday, August 18
A Tuesday
Well the last week was blasting by for me, work, work and more work and then some more. Tropical storms are starting up early again this year to hold us back on our progress. We are keeping an eye out on Bill. I’m keeping an eye on the gas prices to go up because of them.
Lori has started school and of course its all boys all the time. She told me the other day while we were in the hospital waiting on Mom she text a guy in her class, oh my God she’s already texting guys! She’s wanting to start some cheer thing in school and was asked if she would like to join. Its weird she no longer hangs out with the group of girls from the last few years. When I was in school I stuck with the same guys through out the whole time, I guess girls are different.
Mom is doing better and thanks for the well wishes e-mails for her. She still of course has her good and bad days, I walked in Sunday at Gs to find her on the couch all propped back with a blood pressure cup on her arm. At first it gave me a shock to see her like that, after she said she was improving. Her blood pressure was running 88/50 which was making her weak. G was cooking some home made mashed potatoes and potato soup so I nabbed a small plate of the potatoes and forced her to eat them. In about 15 minutes her pressure was 106/55 a slight improvement which made me feel a little bit better.
G was cooking a huge dinner minus salt and hardly any butter, now we are from the south -- who does that!?! We just seasoned it to taste ourselves I didn’t mind really I just like to pick on her, but Paula Dean might get upset with her if she found out.
PG and I had a few projects to knock out around the barn. I kept an eye out on the radio controlled helicopters he put in the little office he has in there. I was in the mood for some cow chasing.
I’ve been contemplating about going back to school instead of working on my country club projects. My Mom told me that stopping school was a bad idea and of course I didn’t listen. “Just get it over with Mark if that’s what you want to do” and my bull headedness insisted on quitting to keep up with work.
A life, Live and learn.
I'm waiting on baby news today.......
Lori has started school and of course its all boys all the time. She told me the other day while we were in the hospital waiting on Mom she text a guy in her class, oh my God she’s already texting guys! She’s wanting to start some cheer thing in school and was asked if she would like to join. Its weird she no longer hangs out with the group of girls from the last few years. When I was in school I stuck with the same guys through out the whole time, I guess girls are different.
Mom is doing better and thanks for the well wishes e-mails for her. She still of course has her good and bad days, I walked in Sunday at Gs to find her on the couch all propped back with a blood pressure cup on her arm. At first it gave me a shock to see her like that, after she said she was improving. Her blood pressure was running 88/50 which was making her weak. G was cooking some home made mashed potatoes and potato soup so I nabbed a small plate of the potatoes and forced her to eat them. In about 15 minutes her pressure was 106/55 a slight improvement which made me feel a little bit better.
G was cooking a huge dinner minus salt and hardly any butter, now we are from the south -- who does that!?! We just seasoned it to taste ourselves I didn’t mind really I just like to pick on her, but Paula Dean might get upset with her if she found out.
PG and I had a few projects to knock out around the barn. I kept an eye out on the radio controlled helicopters he put in the little office he has in there. I was in the mood for some cow chasing.
I’ve been contemplating about going back to school instead of working on my country club projects. My Mom told me that stopping school was a bad idea and of course I didn’t listen. “Just get it over with Mark if that’s what you want to do” and my bull headedness insisted on quitting to keep up with work.
A life, Live and learn.
I'm waiting on baby news today.......
Monday, August 10
Drama Mama
I haven’t had a drama blog in a while; this one isn’t so much a drama but a scare that started way back on Friday. I had the pleasure of working on a project by myself it was a fountain where I managed to get myself good and grimy. Not really paying attention to my phone calls coming in, as a matter of fact the phone had died on me.
I managed to scum myself up when my aunt came flying about the corner looking frazzled and mad at me “First, why don’t you answer your phone?” I had no answer for her “second you need to go to the emergency room your mom has had a heart attack” Ok nice slap in the face.
I grabbed what tools I could and ran to the truck and to the hospital trauma room. My G and PG where already there hovering over her, moms look on her face was one of worry and happiness I was there to pull them off of her a while. They had every imaginable cable hooked up to her.
If you know my mom’s history of medical problems then you know she has or had colon and breast cancer. Friday was her day for an endoscope and where they jab the tube down your throat and check you out. She’s been anemic for a while and they were looking for some internal bleeding. They found nothing…while she was laying flat her acid reflux decided to erupt and gave her massive pains. Which gave an alarm to the doc that she might be having a heart attack, ok this Doc is starting to annoy me even as I type this.
They rushed her over to the trauma room did an EKG and discovered that she had fluids on her lungs which could be covering damage from a heart attack. I started to sweat but mom insisted it was only the reflux and lack of food she had in her stomach because of the procedure that morning.
After over 8 hours of sitting in that room they decided to move her into another room for the night so they could do some tests on her the next morning. A good hour into me hanging out with her I would casually walk out and call Jacks to let him know what was going on then give a call to Luke. Of course Jacks flipped out and insisted to coming home that very second. I said wait till they do the catheter on her in the morning and we get the results of that, he wouldn’t hear of it
The next morning I get a phone call of “I’m at the airport help a brother out” I wanted to choke him. By the time we had returned to the hospital she had gone to take her test. If there was any flooring in the room Jacks walked it off, pacing back and forth. I wanted a staple gun but I let him be. Lori sat quietly reading one of her Twilight books and watching her brother pace.
An hour later the Doc strolls in says she did NOT have a heart attack but she did have three very small blockages and constricted veins that needed attending to. Moms had issues with breathing during long distances and in cold weather. So if they can correct it then they are going to have to eventually do a bypass.
They settled her in her room and she was shocked to see Mr. Long Tall and Skinny walking in. “where is my baby fat?” Jacks had no reply and G just shook her finger at him and said “I told you”. I did have to defend him and say he is gaining a lot of his weight back. He kept her entertained with funny stories and projects he’s been working on. Somehow he can make her giggle and forget everything which I’m grateful. All in all it was a very terrifying few days for us all; I don’t take shock very well. Luke came to show some pics of the new babies.
The doc came in later to let us know Mom would be coming home on Sunday and she would need to talk to her regular physician sometime this week to work out a strategy for her new set of pills. Jacks and I stopped off at Gs for a huge dinner and a breath and somehow me a nap.
All the family was there, even the ass hole, who for some odd reason kept his mouth shut the whole time. I do have to say I’m proud for that.
Soon as we get details on the regular doc and their decision I will post it. BTW Jess, Jacks does snore!
I managed to scum myself up when my aunt came flying about the corner looking frazzled and mad at me “First, why don’t you answer your phone?” I had no answer for her “second you need to go to the emergency room your mom has had a heart attack” Ok nice slap in the face.
I grabbed what tools I could and ran to the truck and to the hospital trauma room. My G and PG where already there hovering over her, moms look on her face was one of worry and happiness I was there to pull them off of her a while. They had every imaginable cable hooked up to her.
If you know my mom’s history of medical problems then you know she has or had colon and breast cancer. Friday was her day for an endoscope and where they jab the tube down your throat and check you out. She’s been anemic for a while and they were looking for some internal bleeding. They found nothing…while she was laying flat her acid reflux decided to erupt and gave her massive pains. Which gave an alarm to the doc that she might be having a heart attack, ok this Doc is starting to annoy me even as I type this.
They rushed her over to the trauma room did an EKG and discovered that she had fluids on her lungs which could be covering damage from a heart attack. I started to sweat but mom insisted it was only the reflux and lack of food she had in her stomach because of the procedure that morning.
After over 8 hours of sitting in that room they decided to move her into another room for the night so they could do some tests on her the next morning. A good hour into me hanging out with her I would casually walk out and call Jacks to let him know what was going on then give a call to Luke. Of course Jacks flipped out and insisted to coming home that very second. I said wait till they do the catheter on her in the morning and we get the results of that, he wouldn’t hear of it
The next morning I get a phone call of “I’m at the airport help a brother out” I wanted to choke him. By the time we had returned to the hospital she had gone to take her test. If there was any flooring in the room Jacks walked it off, pacing back and forth. I wanted a staple gun but I let him be. Lori sat quietly reading one of her Twilight books and watching her brother pace.
An hour later the Doc strolls in says she did NOT have a heart attack but she did have three very small blockages and constricted veins that needed attending to. Moms had issues with breathing during long distances and in cold weather. So if they can correct it then they are going to have to eventually do a bypass.
They settled her in her room and she was shocked to see Mr. Long Tall and Skinny walking in. “where is my baby fat?” Jacks had no reply and G just shook her finger at him and said “I told you”. I did have to defend him and say he is gaining a lot of his weight back. He kept her entertained with funny stories and projects he’s been working on. Somehow he can make her giggle and forget everything which I’m grateful. All in all it was a very terrifying few days for us all; I don’t take shock very well. Luke came to show some pics of the new babies.
The doc came in later to let us know Mom would be coming home on Sunday and she would need to talk to her regular physician sometime this week to work out a strategy for her new set of pills. Jacks and I stopped off at Gs for a huge dinner and a breath and somehow me a nap.
All the family was there, even the ass hole, who for some odd reason kept his mouth shut the whole time. I do have to say I’m proud for that.
Soon as we get details on the regular doc and their decision I will post it. BTW Jess, Jacks does snore!
Tuesday, August 4
Good Monday
Yesterday was extra nice, light work since it was a little rainy some shopping and then a long chat with Amy.
We rattled and babbled on for most the afternoon. She caught me up on all the family fun she was about to have and the trip she was making. I’m missing out on taking a trip so maybe this weekend we can plan a good long trip ourselves on the bikes.
We are working out the plans for another country club again. Which will be nice for some fall work, I really need some fall work. Really I don’t want much I have to get back into school again, another year and a half to finish up my degree. Gosh I’m slow.
Lori is home, full of snickers and phone calls; she sends e-mails to her new found friends from camp this year. For some odd reason she’s overly excited to go back to school again. I can’t ever remember being excited about going to school. Jacks they lucky devil was always home schooled so he never had the thrill of purchasing school supplies and clothes, although it’s a misnomer that he studied in his PJs.
Luke and his clan of kiddos are doing wonderful. He is still working the majority of the time from home, a luxury of doing all his IT work from home. The twins are spewing their cereals and milk just as they are supposed to. The older kids are enjoying the rest of their summer. In a few weeks they will be moving into their new home. I guess they will be needed a moving crew to come over to help out.
We rattled and babbled on for most the afternoon. She caught me up on all the family fun she was about to have and the trip she was making. I’m missing out on taking a trip so maybe this weekend we can plan a good long trip ourselves on the bikes.
We are working out the plans for another country club again. Which will be nice for some fall work, I really need some fall work. Really I don’t want much I have to get back into school again, another year and a half to finish up my degree. Gosh I’m slow.
Lori is home, full of snickers and phone calls; she sends e-mails to her new found friends from camp this year. For some odd reason she’s overly excited to go back to school again. I can’t ever remember being excited about going to school. Jacks they lucky devil was always home schooled so he never had the thrill of purchasing school supplies and clothes, although it’s a misnomer that he studied in his PJs.
Luke and his clan of kiddos are doing wonderful. He is still working the majority of the time from home, a luxury of doing all his IT work from home. The twins are spewing their cereals and milk just as they are supposed to. The older kids are enjoying the rest of their summer. In a few weeks they will be moving into their new home. I guess they will be needed a moving crew to come over to help out.
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