From A Wide Spot In The Road

Just catching up with your diary. My sincere thoughts for the loss of your daughter.

Your approach to your first job served you well. You had character and built more. Not many would have lasted sleeping under the vehicles.
 
Had a good snack this afternoon. Peaches and cream. Good ripe peaches and some
of that heavy cream. I’d have some more tonight but I’m watching my weight. Guess
I’ll wrap a piece of bread around a slice of baloney. Maybe some cheese.
 
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My son came by and dropped off a few groceries we needed, bread and milk, and some fruit. He's leaving Friday or Saturday, moving his son to Madison. The boy is drivinga car and his dad will be driving a rented van if he can find one available, if not, he will take less stuff and drive
his car. So taking two cars and wilo have to leave some thing here in Oklahoma.

I would have left more stuff here and bought what else we needed, new or used when I got up there. But... as many have previously said,every man to his own cup of tea.
 
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Well, they're off, the two men I care most about in the city, my son and grandson, one taking the other away to a far off place
to study and learn to make his own way in the world. I am happy for the young man, my grandson. Happy he has a good
scholorship and will have an opportunity to work at least twenty hours a week. And a little sad he is leaving. I told him I loved
him, I wished him well, and suggested he save some of his money because it might be his only friend when he's all down and
out and with that we shared a laugh and waved good bye.
 
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Well, they're off, the two men I care most about in the city, my son and grandson, one taking the other away to a far off place
to study and learn to make his own way in the world. I am happy for the young man, my grandson. Happy he has a good
scholorship and will have an opportunity to work at least twenty hours a week. And a little sad he is leaving. I told him I loved
him, I wished him well, and suggested he save some of his money because it might be his only friend when he's all down and
out and with that we shared a laugh and waved good bye.
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This sounds like one of life's most important and precious moments. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I wish your grandson every success and lots of happiness. I can tell you're very proud of him.
 
Son is on the way back home. Left his son living in hog heaven seems to me. I'm hoping the boy realizes
money does not grow on trees, as it were. Also hoping somewhere along the way he learns (if he does not
already) know how to balance his checkbook and keep track (budget) his money. I could not help my son
when he went to college. He put himself through school, eight years of schooling on his own. Maybe that
gave him incentive how he wanted to help out during his son's graduate studies. It will all come out in the wash.
He will be home tomorrow afternoon sometime.
 
Had a piece of toast and a spoon full of apricot jam for breakfast. Made a note last night to check my weight
and my blood sugar. I over slept a little so only weighed this morning as my nurse was coming to see me. My
weight was old, 174 lbs. but I expect my blood sugar is a little high. I'll check tomorrow. If it is I'll throttle back
on sweets, eat a little more fruit and hopefully bring it back down in a month or so.
 
Hawks have been circling above my yard and the yards north of me. I thought for a while they might consider my place a sort of cafeteria
for hawks for a while. They've snatched several doves out of my yard and hoped up on a tree limb or a telephone line to eat them. And a
few days ago one scooped down and snatched a mouse running toward the fence The hawk quickly graspthe mouse and lifted of so
quickly you had to be looking out at the very spot or you might have missed it. South of me, one half block in some very large trees to my south, four hawks have nests there. When they are out looking for food the birds disappear into the trees and bushes and do not appear
again until the hawks disappear. Exactly what I'd do.
 
drifter said:
Hawks have been circling above my yard and the yards north of me. I thought for a while they might consider my place a sort of cafeteria
for hawks for a while. They've snatched several doves out of my yard and hoped up on a tree limb or a telephone line to eat them. And a
few days ago one scooped down and snatched a mouse running toward the fence The hawk quickly graspthe mouse and lifted of so
quickly you had to be looking out at the very spot or you might have missed it. South of me, one half block in some very large trees to my south, four hawks have nests there. When they are out looking for food the birds disappear into the trees and bushes and do not appear
again until the hawks disappear. Exactly what I'd do.
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There are Hawks near where I live too; not as close as they are to you but I see them circling in the skies sort of near where I live. We have quite a few tall pine trees around our community. I don't know if they live there or not.
 
New shingles are on the roof. I couldn’t get out and take a look today but maybe my
son will take a gander at it tomorrow, architectural shingles, they say. Glad to have
that almost behind me.
 
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I pulled a big boo-boo a couple days ago, a big one. I bought groceries through Shipt to be delivered between 1:00 and 2:00 the next afternoon. I didn't get my groceries but got an eMaill the grocery order had been cancelled. I thought "now, what the hedll?" It seems I didn't pay attention to the AM- PM marker. They had tried to deliver my groceries in the wee hours. I was embarrassed even no one was around to
see I was.

I'm on track to get another delivery this late afternoon between four and five p.m. (hopefully). You have to pay attention to your p's & q's, whatever that means. I use both Walmart+ and Shipt for groceries in order to keep imposing so much on my son.
 
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I pulled a big boo-boo a couple days ago, a big one. I bought groceries through Shipt to be delivered between 1:00 and 2:00 the next afternoon. I didn't get my groceries but got an eMaill the grocery order had been cancelled. I thought "now, what the hedll?" It seems I didn't pay attention to the AM- PM marker. They had tried to deliver my groceries in the wee hours. I was embarrassed even no one was around to
see I was.

I'm on track to get another delivery this late afternoon between four and five p.m. (hopefully). You have to pay attention to your p's & q's, whatever that means. I use both Walmart+ and Shipt for groceries in order to keep imposing so much on my son.
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Join the club!

Rule number one: Don't tell the kids! ;)
 
Went to move my bird feeders to the back yard but the ground was too hard to stab the the slender
steel pole in the ground so will wait until it rains some. Didn't realize the ground could get that hard
in such a short time. Not a bad looking lawn back there but has a little bit of wild grass growing in it.

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There is no hurry to feed until cool weather comes along.
 
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I'm getting a little old to maintain two forums. I'm even having trouble ordering my groceries. It's making me ugly so I must give up one.

I have looked to the night skies to see which way the stars are aligned. Gazed into my crystal ball after finding it in a closet down the hall.
I have consulted the boards and looked under the bed. I hugged my mirror after it said, you handsome devil,
why do you roam, settle down, this is your home.
Or something like that.

Here's my new shingles:
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