Wednesday, June 24th and another perfect Minnesota weather day

TERRY

There are some things new to Terry:

• Her caregiver had her outside, in a wheel chair, for a few minutes.  She said it was great
• They have taken her 24/7 aide out of her room and placed her in the hall by her door.  This is to get Terry to a place of not so much care.
• At this point there is NO talk of a feeding tube, GREAT
• She did say she stood a few times but was surprised she could not walk!
• I am pleased to report that she did call me her love yesterday so we are several days away from the night time divorce threat!!!
• She so so much wants me to be able to visit her AND that may happen sometime in the near future.
• We (social worker and I) are in the process of helping her understand that she needs a transitional placement for a period of time.  I am sure she does not want that and neither do I but in order for me to care for her when she gets home she needs to be somewhat stronger.
• That is it for my "Terry" report today.

As I read this article in the WSJ this morning I thought I need to cut that out and send to Dave as he would really enjoy reading it.  THEN my mind kicked in and I thought "Sure Carmen, go ahead and send it to Jamestown but as you know that is the wrong address"!

From this on our deck

To this in my kitchen

To this on my breakfast table

So now I love pesto.  It was kind of fun making it and pretty darn simply.  I think I may have used a tad too much salt but it is very good.  I think this may be my "go to morning meal" for a few days!  I just will have to remember to take a cube out of the freezer in time for it to thaw out.

So I have a NEW plan for weight loss as that Travis is way ahead of me and our first "test" is coming up next Monday.  So the liquid I drink is the low calorie kind of drinks.  I know they pretty much taste awful but then who wants to drink and be fat?   I have a nice breakfast in the morning and then mid afternoon I have a salad like this.  Two meals a day with NO snacks.  Home grown lettuce, home baked chicken, cherry tomatoes, carrots (I forgot yesterday), home grown radishes and topped with an avocado dressing but not more than 2 T as that is my calorie limit for the dressing.  Well I just started this yesterday so we will see if it works long term.  I actually was down this morning which means after the first 9 days I am now a bit less than when we started.  I have said before that the gain over the weekend was ALL the fault of those darn Lees from South Bend who visited and then I ate too much.  Of course I am totally innocent of any lack of self discipline!!!

I admit I am pretty much half a Plugger.  I find it difficult to get my mask off without having one of my hearing aids come off as well!   My glasses never come off so there is the 1/2 Plugger.

I did make a purchase yesterday.  We had a twin bed in the north bedroom for the last many years.  But it was kind of like me, a bit worn and old!  So I biked up to the Highland Village where there is an Original Mattress store and purchased a new one.  I am thinking we need a good bed when Terry comes home and so the old had to go and the new will come in.  I will pick it up today.

No I think there is a bike ride on the schedule this morning and then some prep to get ready to paint the kitchen windows later.  I need to get that done before warmer weather sets in.  Yes, I had my starter coffee fresh out of the pod machine and then sailed into the rest of the morning with my pot of FP AND it, as usual, was glorious.