will try to add a few more words to this.It's hard for me to keep it all up to date,  I have been worrying about Pat for months, she just  doesn't seem to get back into shape. We  used to run around all the time together, but now she hardly ever leaves her little room. It is as if she has just given up. she said she thought this was as good as she was going to get. but I don't think it has to be that way.
   Halloween is here and that was always her favorite time of the year.  and she has all the things she has bought for the d ay, and they are all put away. I am glad her daughter has moved back, maybe she can get her out of that room and doing something, I know she is in a lot of pain, and takes all that medicine for pain, and am afraid she is addicted to pain medicine. 
  Earl has gone back to Walmart to work a little while, He tells everyone that wanted him out of my way, he doesn't like to say we can use the extra dollar, He is awful tired when he comes in at night, he may not be able to keep it up.
   once again I get on here and can't think of a thing to say. so will try to get back sooner and maybe make notes ahead of time.  love you all.

                                                             

                               Almost Halloween, 

   Sitting here this morning thinking about the wiener roast coming up this sat. and hoping it doesn't rain sat.  but they keep adding more rain on . I am thinking about trick or treating when the children were small, and I wouldn't let them go by theirselves so I went with them. we were going to throw corn at peoples houses, as that is what we did then besides knocking on doors for a treat, but the corn was more fun. It didn't really hurt anything, it  would just scare  you to death it you were just sitting in there reading or something and all of a sudden a big handfull of dried corn hit the side of  your house. and I told them now you  had to run real fast after you did it. before they came out and caught you. so we were going along having a good O time, when one  house we hit , a policeman lived there and here he came out the door, and we took off and he was getting in his car to come after us. so I yelled for them to hit the ditch, to  hide , it was a kinda deep ditch and when got in it , it had water in it , and from the smell  it had to be from someones  toilet, at least it smelled like that , and we had to stay there till he went by, and then we had to go home to change clothes and clean up. so that ended the tricks for that night, and another thing we did, but I didn't have the little ones do it. we took a stick and ran it down the side of the house and it made a big noise, and then you better run, I guess I got a lot of exercise when I was young. of course there were no vinyl siding then it was wooden, so it didn't leave too much damage,. As far as I know it didn't leave any damage as I never went back to see. I really wasn't such a bad kid though, course there were a couple other things  like bridge painting ,that I won't go into now. or probably ever. Maybe that is why as I got  older I became a painter, and  joined the painters union in Indpls. painted for yrs and then went into hanging vinyl. traveled for yrs doing that, until retirement. and here I am 85 yrs old, and taking care of my daughter Pat, we have been to the emergency room twice this week, I sure hope this morning when I talk to her she is a lot better, she has been sick for so long. quit a few things wrong. and with all the pill she has to take for pain, she is doing weird things at night, like falling out of bed. I wish she would come stay with us, Well will get off of here for now, and get dressed as  I have to be at the drug store when it opens to get her med. prescriptions filled. they have gave 3 different things now , trying to find out what is wrong, sure hope they have hit the nail on the head this time. they got to do something about this pain the girl is going thru. later.

                              

          after 4 and been sitting here ince 2:30. leg hurting so couldn't sleep.  I finally got the operation on my legs. One they think is cancer and the other, from about 4 yrs ago when motorcycle fell on my leg. haven't been on the cycle since that day. I know earl hates to ride by hiself so he just leaves it sit most of the time.
    had the surgury yesterday, and it went well. and didn't hurt till in the night. so I went to bed at 10 and read till about 11 and then got back up at 2 30, so here I sit. going to have to change the bandages today. 
    nothing planned for today. I guess I will sit and read or play on here. I figured this was a good time to write something, but drew a blank I am not much of a thinker, so will try to get back later.  going to get some cantalope now.

                                                         

                 Will try to add some more,
  It seems like Pat is on the way now, the dr. said she can start using the leg now as long as it doesn't hurt too much, but the bone is not all healed yet. hoping this will be her yr. to get up and go. she was bedfast almost the whole last yr.  Miss getting to run with her so much. but I know the hardest part was for her not getting to get out of that little room except to go to the dr. and then it was in a motorized chair. she has had a rough yr. Just praying that it all is coming to an end. but I don't think they can do anything for her back. so she will probably still have to use the chair if she is going to be on a shopping trip.
 Johnny and charlene are coming tomorrow, so will have to figure out what I am going to have for dinner,
they like chicken and we like beef so will see who I am going to satisfy.
 I am so glad that it is starting to look like spring. I have 2 bushes with buds on them and we are going to have cold weather and snow this week, so I may have to put a bucket over them. I love my flowers out in the yard,
  Oh, I made a valentine heart with flowers on it and took over to debbie. I forgot to take the camera and get a picture of it, but will try to do that today.  will get off now.

                                           

                 Didn't know how hard it would be to try to do this on a schedule, guess I should have asked twiggy, she would know. love her blogs and read everyone of them. and now I have to start getting the Pink magazine, which I had never heard of , till she started working for them.
       yesterday was a hurting day. went to dermatology and he must have froze off about 10 or 20 places on my arms and face that could turned to cancer if not taken off, and boy  does it hurt. for about an hr. and then he scrapped  a place on my leg and a place on my face that made the other things he did seem like a picnic. I had to yell out  loud on them. Pat said I looked terrible when I came out of there. but that is over. have to go back in 2 weeks to find out if it is all ok.  but there are  2 other places   , one on each leg , that he left alone, said I had to go see the surgeon for them. so guess the pain is not over yet. Here I was going along thinking all was fine. that's what I get for thinking. I have been told to let others do the thinking.
       earl goes to the heart dr. today. will see what he says.
      been trying to separate my hostas, seems like this needs to be done about every yr. boy those things get big. so I had to make a new flower bed, will put a pic on here of it. got to get some color in it besides green.
      been wanting to go to ky and see chris.  been awhile. wish she wasn't 3 hrs away. worry about her also, she is not as well as she wants me to think.
     almost got everything together to start making a bracelet out of beads. the one I am starting on says it is for the experienced beader, and so me who has never did too much in beads  is going to start on it.  will let you know how this turns out.


                                                   

                        another wonderful day. sun. 

  Seems like it has been forever since I have been back to writing on here, I intend to do it often and then it seems like there is always something else that needs to be done. and what needs to be done is trivial, but I have finished a beading job I have been working on. and now I got a glimpse of wire wrapping, and I found the most pretty beach stone yesterday that I had put away sometime or other and forgot and I was thinking this would make a pretty necklace and then this morning was looking thru face book and found wire wrapping and that is what I am going to do with this stone. and I think it looks a lot easier than beading. I have waited too late in my life to do all the things I want to do. So am trying to catch up. Got so many things I want to do. and want to get the tulips planted, I went to try to buy them yesterday, but to early they don't have them out yet. I will make the bed in a different place this time as I think it was too wet in the other place, they were so pretty the first yr and then never came up again. (maybe they were short term tulips)                                                                                               wishing Pat could get well. miss all the running her and I use to do. it seems like everyday we were going to sales and buying junk. but it was fun. wish chris lived closer and she could have ran with us. I guess chris is in more pain than she lets on when she is around me.  Don't know why they have to be in so much pain. I have had a good life, not too much sickness, and feeling good most of the time. and I guess having a younger man around all the time as kept me from just sitting and getting stiff in all the joints. I have had a real good marriage with this younger man. not any money, but plenty of love. and now he is taking care of me , and holding my hand so I won't fall when we are out and about,                                                                                    I have found I have cancer on my leg, and hoping that is the only place, but will find out on the 15th. so won't dwell on that.         picking Cathy up tues.she is coming in from arizonia, going to spend some time with us. been quite a few yrs since I have seen her, and 30 something yrs since the rest of the family have seen her, so a big homecoming is planned                                             looking forward to Johnnys birthday party sat they have a lot planned and now this morn the tv is saying rain. just have to hope the tv is lying. It won't be near as much fun I we have to spend it all inside.                                                                                     got to get off now and think about what I am going to wear this morning to church. 

                                         

     just read Marcy's blog, she does a swell job. I have been following her blog for over a yr. and she does the best photography ,
   I was helping pull weeds and cattails in the field out behind yesterday and got 4 bites, I say spider and earl said it could be chiggers. vinegar kills weeds and chiggers are in the weeds so I soaked my legs in vinegar, but they are still itching this morning. I don't think I will be in the field today, alltho I do like to help earl.
   missing Debbie a lot lately, with all the holidays , she loved parties. and cookouts, and she missed her cruise, but she took the ultimate cruise, not on the sea, but in the air. and got all the perks that went with it. lovely girl.
  
                                                      

    Been  awhile since I have typed anything, I would like to write every day but I am not that person. 
Had fun fathers day cookout at our sons house in morgantown, on sat. the 15th, got to ride the new 4 wheeler 750 . nice , had power steering. He has a woods behind his house and trails going all thru it and in the creek. have so much fun there and visiting with char's brother and his wife, who are the best friends you could ever ask for, super nice people. 
  I am still worrying about daughter Pat, she just isn't getting back to normal. I wish so much that she would stop smoking, I know that would help a lot. It certainly can't be helping any. 
 chris in ky. I don't think she is as well as she wants me to think she is. I don't see her a lot so I have to go by what she tells me. 
 Been trying to clean up this place. earl works on outside and me inside. decided to dust a what knot shelf that looked like it hadn't been dusted for 5 yrs. that got me started. and then I painted the back door inside and the woodwork around it. and plan on doing a lot more today.  I never understand why some one would put the washer and dryer by the furnace. I think that is why I have so much dust. 
 well will get off that subject, 
  Want to say what a fine family  I have, I don't know how I managed to have such marvelous children. Oh and Pat and I and my good daughter in law, and great granddaughter met the daughter from ky , chris. at a halfway point and had a good meal at cracker barrel, and then sat out in front and gave chris her birthday presents, and just had a good visit. so glad char went with us.
 I know there are a lot of things I want to put in here, and I need to start making notes,as they happen. but for now will go put second coat on door. 

                                              

sorry, I just had to add the zipline picture,  I would d o it again if they had a better way to stop yourself.

Had a good day today. Son and daughter  in law came over and I have eaten so much. pumpkin pie and coconut pie , and fruit salad and deviled eggs and they can have the hamburgers and brats, I go for the good stuff. but I did enjoy having them here, and Pat was here. She bought over gift she has made for chris. she is so talented. I wish she could get well. so many yard sales we are missing, and other things we need to be doing. before I get so old I can't do them. 85 seems to be slowing me down a lot. but I am trying not to give up. I have a good family, chris in ky is not in the best of health, she doesn't get around as good as I do I don't think. I am blessed, to be able to do all I do. and I am blessed with a wonderful husband. , still amazed at him still being with me after all these 47 yrs. he has put up with a lot. he must have loved me a lot. we have did a lot and traveled a lot and had a lot  of fun and ups and downs, but still  hanging in there. we're getting toward the end of the  line now. and I don't mean that zip line. I may not have much money wise, but have a good life anyway, and feel blessed.  going to sign off now, and watch the news. and see if earl has found a movie for us to watch. later

                                                           

  well I ;made it to the 85 ;mark, and got to go zip lining, it was fun , my daughter in law went with me. I needed her to hold on to walking from one ride to the other. and sun. they had a big get together at a mex rest . and almost all of the family was there, I think there were twenty something there, food was good and cake was good. and gifts were good. I have a great family. love them all. and that includes my husband also, love him also. and the bunch at the resturant came out and sang happy birthday in spanish to me, so I didn't know a word they said. but it was nice. and we were celebrating 3 birthdays, but one didn't come so his wife got his ice cream. my great grand daughter who was born on my birthday, and now she has to share her party with me. but I think she gets another after they get home.
   been waiting for my tulips to bloom and the one big bed that was so pretty last yr. has not prospered this year, I think because this has been such a wet april that the bulbs must have disintergrated, or what ever they do. so I think I am going to put a bunch of white petunias in it.
   earl has gone to play music,
   the baby has been sick for about 5 days, and yesterday couldn't walk, had a vet appt, for he today , but she is better so we cancelled it. she is walking a l ittle and eating and so far keeping it down. so i hope she is back to normal tomorrow. well will close for now. :I want to put some pictures on here, so will be back


                           

                                                                     

           I has really been a not so good month, with all the rain and flooding, and then this weekend the freezing and we had to get out and get buckets and cans and baskets and we think the freeze didn't get them. I love my flowers out in the yard,
went to sun school this morn, Pat didn't make it as she over slept, she is up half the night and sometimes has to sleep in the daytime. I know she doesn't get enough sleep. earl is asleep now, I think he gets enough, he can sleep all night and then nap in the chair most of the day and then sleep that night, I can't do that, fi I sleep in the day time I may not sleep when I go to bed.
I wanted to go on the cancer walk sat, but I just can't take this cold, I went the last 2 yrs, I talked to   Sal and he said it really was cold.  I hope he doesn't get sick over this.
have to get off now, later  love you all.

 will try to put some more on here, finding out how hard it is to take time to write, I don't think I could ever write a book. unless I had years to do it. earl has gone to play music with a bunch of his friends,  they  are playing in a basement of a church in greensboro, He loves to sing and play his guitar, He took a motorcycle ride yesteday, He doesn't enjoy it as much just going by himself,
I got to tell you what charlene and john got for me for my 85 birthday, a trip on the zip line ;down in brown county. my bithday is not till the 29, but it was a real pretty day and we took advantage of it, earl and john took pictures,   earl said he never did have a hankering to do that. but I thought it would be fun. and it was fun after I learned how to sit down , but never did get the hang of stopping, this one at rawhide ranch doesn't have a brake to stop you, and you have to be running when you land to get it stopped and I kinda messed up on that, but there were 6 rides and I made 4 of them before I decided it was time to bow out, as the last 2 were longer and faster. and I guess I had enough to wear me out. but glad I did it. when I get the pics from char I will put some of them on here, hope it wont be so long before I am on here again.  love  you
                                       

                                                  

   Been awhile since I have wrote on here, would like to do it every day, but  I am not smart enough to think up things to  write about.If there is any place in this one that needs an aposterfee,( now that is not the way to spell it) but you will know what I mean, that key doesn't  work   all the time since I turned my ice cream over on the keyboard.
 Got to say that Pat my middle daughter is getting better now, and she has been home bound for about a year, and 3 surgurys, and she now can walk and get out and go somewhere. She has a rough year. she has so many things planned ;now to do, things she was too sick to do before,  I sure want her to get well.
  Earl has gone to play music with some guys, the loves to play and sing. and watch tv and eat popcorn. does that sound like typical man?  won't be long now till time to fire up the lawn mower. and that will keep him busy. just got to talk to my daughter in law on the cell, she is so nice. we are blessed to have her in our family.
   I got the flowers fixed this morning, and took to the cementary.  well lily mae, my bischon is having a fit wanting to eat or go out, so I have to go take care of her.

                                       

after a year.

                      FEB. 19,  2013

 It's been a year now, Today is no different than yesterday , or the day before that, or the week or month before that, I miss her today, I missed her last week. I was with her a lot the yr before she left for her journey with the great I am. But it isn't all about how I miss her, It is about her, she has no pain now, she is happy. and has a new body, Not one that is all burnt up from the radiation. She was a great person and had so many friends. all the red hat girls she loved so much.
  But now I have to concentrate on helping Pat get well and walking again, and being able to get out and do things. She went to Walmart yesterday  by herself, first time she has went anywhere by herself for almost a year. she is painting again, which is one of her past times, and she is so good at it, I have a wall covered with angels that she has painted. love them.

 I have a lot of bruises today, as I fell again, and went across the coffee table, and I had it loaded down with junk that didn't need to be there. but I am fine, just spotted. as anyone who is reading this knows I am not a good blogger, but I am trying, and it is just me and my thoughts.  later.

                                Long over due
 It is so hard to think what to put in here, that someday my family may want to read.
Now I am just waiting for Pat to get well, she has been down for so long, I miss running around with her so much, we always went everywhere together, and she has not been able to walk for a yr. hoping this month she gets the go ahead to walk, and hope her back doesn't give her too much trouble that she can do things. she has a lot on her plate that she has been waiting to do. Lord I pray that she is able this summer to do it all. I know Chris ;needs help also, but she does not live close so I don't hear all that is wrong with her, but I hear enough to know that she is not well either. I think I am in better shape than either one of them and that is not the way life is suppose to work out. Don't know too much about Earl as he doesn't say a lot, When I ask him why he says why complain and tell me when there is nothing I can do about it. I feel like I am in good health, I can do about anything I want to. and I am going on that zip line as soon as it warms up. and I got to go see Sal , I shouldn't put it off like I do. I got to get busy on the heart for debbie for valentine. and then I got to think of something for easter, maybe a huge egg and decorate it. or just get a bunny. I get to thinking if Chris lived up here she likes to go shopping all the time and she would probably run me ragged.  She needs to live up here where all her family is. but she has a nice place in Ky. I am trying to learn something on the piano, it is slow, as I can't seem to remember it all. but if I keep at it I can do it. I don't know why I can't just go to a hypnotist and be able to do it when I walk  out. I may check into that. well right now I need to check into feeding a doggy that is climbing on me and telling me she is hungry. she is so smart. I bet it wouldn't take her long to learn to play the piano. just saying. got to get off of here now. and go do something.

                                      

Christmas is over, and debbie's birthday. they fall right together, so I haven't been on here for awhile. but now I need to get started again. We are still waiting for Pat to get well.I think she has had 3  operations this past yr. and still is not walking. but praying that this will be her year. and things will begin to turn around. Chris is not feeling good this weekend.  and johnny's wife had a birthday this week. and jr's will be next month and then I think we wait till april for the big one for me.. 85. I am the oldest one living in my family. bro gone and 2 sisters gone and mother and dad, so I am carrying on. and I hope for awhile. we all got together xmas eve at meghans club house and had a pitchin dinner, I gained aabout 10 lbs. earl has started a diet yesterday. I need to . but since I am not fixing big meals for him. I won't be eating as much , maybe.I acquired a new puppy over the holidays, that I really didn't need. now is the long process of training it. and earl wants to call it Boo and I am thinking more toward bandit, as it is a bandit. and lily hates it and doesn't want it to get near her, and it being a puppy wants to chase her and wrestle and earl said lily being over 11 yrs and too fat , it is hard on her to run. so all the time I am yelling no , stop, and looking for a newpaper to swat it with.It is part it is a malchi. ( I know. ) well I guess that is about all the news for now. will try to get pictures on next time. hope anyone reading this has a good year.