Thursday, April 21st and we head towards the weekend.

 TERRY

Terry was awake before I and as of 9:30 she is finished with the paper and is relaxing with the TV on.  I would say she is OK.  She had her annual wellness visit yesterday and that went well.  It is not an easy task to get her in and out of the car now but she did good!  So here we are another day and life goes on as usual.

I read this on Facebook and thought it was a laugh:

A pastor was winding down his message for the morning.  In a normal voice he stated, "We should take all the beer in the world and throw it into the river".  Then in a louder voice, "And we should take all the wine in the world and throw it into the river."  Then in a very loud voice, "And we should also take all the whiskey in the world and throw it into the river!"  At this he finished and sat down.  The music director stood up and with a hint of laughter in her voice she announced, "For our closing hymn we will sing #365 We shall gather at the river!!!"

Not sure what I should do today.  The kitchen is clean.  The dishes are in the dish washer.  There are no clothes to be washed.  What is a guy to do???  

I did have breakfast.  Of course it consisted of FP.  Then there was a small bowl of cottage cheese with no sugar peaches on top.  Then of course there was the pill taking.  That was done with a bottle of cool water.  What the heck, life is good.

Well actually the dinning room table is NOT cleared yet so I may work on that.  I did get some things taken care of but some remain.  

I drove over to the courts yesterday and WATCHED some tennis.  I may have said already that I will try to stay off the courts until I see the Dr. next week.  BUT Terry had her wellness visit yesterday and at the end I asked her Dr., which is mine as well, about playing tennis and she thought there should be no problem so I may give it a shot.  I really am trying to be careful, careful, and REALLY. careful.  I do not want a relapse or another stroke FOR SURE.

Oh, the desk and the couch in the den are kind of in a mess so I could work on that as well.  As I think about it there is plenty to keep me busy for a time.  AND keeping busy at this time in my life does not take a whole lot as I still am trying to rest once in a while to keep my recovery goes.  So far so good.  I have rested a lot and actually have knot missed taking those darn pills either.  They seem to sit on the pass through and beckon me to do what I need to do.  It is discussing but then at the point of old age one had better do what keeps one kind of healthy.

Not sure if I posted this in the past but it certainly shows a lot about Mom and Dad.  Up to the time this was taken hot water had to be heated on the stove and even perhaps on the cook stove where we burned coal, wood or corn cobs.  One can see how excited  and happy Mom is.  This tiny room was maybe 4 feet by 6 feet and at the end there was a door in the floor and that led to the basement which had dirt floor and walls.  It was down there that Mom stored all the things she canned including canned suckers 😝 and canned chicken at times.  This was the place where I used Dad's razor with his shave cream that was put on with a brush which I started using in grade school.  That was my shaving all through HS and I admit there were times JoEllen's or Gail's checks were red the next day!!!  I know more than one holiday Gail got teased about it.

I am making inroads into eating more healthy.  I am NOT 100% there but do need to clear out some things to leave more room for veggies etc.  I never thought I was terrible at eating but there is certainly room for improvement.

No, I do think I am finished for the day.  Here it is past 10:00 AM and I am finished with my FP so will take a short rest and then tackle some of the papers on the dining room table.  After that another rest maybe!  I do think life needs to get a bit more interesting but for sure not as interesting as several days ago!!!