From A Wide Spot In The Road

I have changed my mind. Occasionally I need some place to sound off or talk to myself
and this is the only place that can be done. The place is open again for business. So
can you lope or can you trot, do you hear me or do you not, dear diary.
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I spent all day yesterday doing paper work for the VA. I’m not finished but taking a break.
They want to know my exact income and exemptions, like the irs does. That sort of thing is no longer easy for me to do. Today I have spent the day in bed.

I went to bed at ten thirty last night and awoke at three fifteen this morning. I had left my iPad
in the living room. I got up and into my wheel chair and took myself into the living room,
fetched my iPad, turned up the heat a few notches, all in th dark, without getting my oxygen
tube wrapped around my wheel on the wheelchair. I read til seven-thirty, slept til nine. I’m still in bed and have not taken my morning medication, which I will get up and do shortly.

I was served coffee and then breakfast in bed this morning. You might say I am a kept man.
I will hopefully finish all this paper work tomorrow which was all caused because Metropolitan
Life reported my wife’s annual retirement twice for the year 2020. We didn’t any secont payment
so now I have to prove it. Anyway it’s a worry. An unneeded one.
 
How annoying @drifter. Paperwork, records, etc. are my worst nightmares. I think I'm done with it all now. I hope you get yours settled soon.

Have your stores run low on groceries and other items? We're not too bad up here....unless snow is predicted, then everyone rushes out to buy food they don't even need.

Keep well.
 

I just learned I’m losing my house keeper I have two days a week. She is not making enough
money doing housework so she is going into something else. She has a degree to teach from
university of Oklahoma but says teaching does not provide enough money to live on. I wish her
well. My wife really likes her because they converse and she is the only person my wife has to talk to except her son and me. She needs a friend but we never made friends here and that is my fault
and I regret it, but too late now. We are both decrepit. Anyway it is what it is.
 
RadishRose said:
How annoying @drifter. Paperwork, records, etc. are my worst nightmares. I think I'm done with it all now. I hope you get yours settled soon.

Have your stores run low on groceries and other items? We're not too bad up here....unless snow is predicted, then everyone rushes out to buy food they don't even need.

Keep well.
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Yes, there is a shortage of everything, whether you shop or order them online. It’s hard to replace what you need. And I don’t think it will get better any time soon. Like this pandemic,
it is going to be an ongoing thing. I have bought seventy masks and shared with my family.
There is a national shortage of N95 masks. I bought twenty the last time but could not find anymore like I had previously bought. I finally found some packaged fifty so I got those. But all the grocetry stores look like they are going out of business.
 
drifter said:
I just learned I’m losing my house keeper I have two days a week. She is not making enough
money doing housework so she is going into something else. She has a degree to teach from
university of Oklahoma but says teaching does not provide enough money to live on. I wish her
well. My wife really likes her because they converse and she is the only person my wife has to talk to except her son and me. She needs a friend but we never made friends here and that is my fault
and I regret it, but too late now. We are both decrepit. Anyway it is what it is.
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So sorry you're losing your house keeper, but don't despair, you'll get another one.

You were wise to stock up on masks. I just have the regular pleated paper ones. Last year when I tried to get N95's I could not. They were all reserved for medical providers. So, I mostly stayed home, which I am doing again. At least I have my doggie.

I agree with you about the pandemic lasting a long time.
 
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Yep, I’ve got another. Not the days I like and two less hours a week but beggars can’t be
too choosy. Haven’t met her yet but she will start next week.
 
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Good morning, world. Awoke early, around four am, grabbed my iPad and read the news on a number of channels, enough to know no great catastrophe has befallen the country. Then I
dozed off and on till nine am when my beloved brought me coffee and a few minutes later, breakfast. That’s what I’m doing now, eating breakfast. I’m having a plate full of donut holes
and a couple of Potter’s hot sausage patties, and coffee. What can I say? Life is good.
 
I have three great grand daughters. The youngest is a high school student in the
Austin area. She’s a soccer player. My oldest recently enrolled at Texas Tech. Idon’t know
her field of study and I doubt he does either. My middle great grand daughter got out of high school two years ago. Shhas a beautifulvoice and has enjoyed singing in her church. She slso
suffers migraine headaches I did. rom age fourteen till i was forty-four. I m reading a
library book an FBI agent who became famous as an a profiler

That book reminded me of my middle great grand dughter’s plans for college. She is going to
enroll at Texas State University and study Crimnology, thinking to become, if possible, a
police profile. To me that sounds interesting and fun. I yhink she will be glad and proud she
chose as she did.
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drifter said:
Thunderstorms late tonight with rain, wind and hail then cold tomorrow, possible snow and cold.
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I heard about wicked weather for you folks and south east too. Be careful please.

You made me laugh when you said your great grand daughter may not know what she is studying! I'll bet she's as smart as the rest....I think your whole family is smart!

How is your home helper/cleaner working out?
 
My dad tried to hire someone to vacuum a little here and there but the gal never showed. Sometimes the neighbor next door comes over with food for him and vacuums. Helps me to worry less about him.
Good to see you.
 
Odd. we had another new gal start yesterday morning. She was supposed to be back today
But this morning the agency called, said she would not be here today because she no longer
Worked for them as of yesterday afternoon. She had been fire.
 
We did have thunderstorms between one-thirty and two am and another wave an hour later.
No hail though but strong wind gust.
 
Drifter’s grandson said that Bill passed away, on Tuesday, March 29th, and I wanted to just let everyone know about his passing. Both Drifter and I have been members on this forum since 2013, and it is sad to lose someone whom I have known (online) for this many years.

I know that he has not been well health wise , for quite some time; but he was always in such good spirits, and had interesting things to share and wonderful stories that he would tell all of us.
He just bought a brand new iPad, and was getting used to using the new one, so that his wife could listen to audiobooks on his other iPad.

I don’t know what else to say, and just wanted to share the bad news.
I am just sad.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
Drifter’s grandson said that Bill passed away, on Tuesday, March 29th, and I wanted to just let everyone know about his passing. Both Drifter and I have been members on this forum since 2013, and it is sad to lose someone whom I have known (online) for this many years.

I know that he has not been well health wise , for quite some time; but he was always in such good spirits, and had interesting things to share and wonderful stories that he would tell all of us.
He just bought a brand new iPad, and was getting used to using the new one, so that his wife could listen to audiobooks on his other iPad.

I don’t know what else to say, and just wanted to share the bad news.
I am just sad.
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Oh no! I am so sorry to hear this Yvonne. I enjoyed communicating with Bill (Drifter) and often worried for him.

I feel so bad. I'm sorry for your grief as well.
 
RadishRose said:
@Happyflowerlady, how did our friend pass? I know he had very bad lungs. What it Covid or some otherwise pulmonary failure?

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I am not sure, but it sounds like he either passed in his sleep, or right after he woke up that morning. The person who notified me only said that he “died in the morning, upon awakening”. He didn’t have covid or any other health problems except the ones he has always had with his lungs and heart, as far as I know.

He was cheerful, and seemed to be feeling normal, the last time he posted on the other forum we were both on.
He had posted that he was still playing his harmonica, and that they had just got new help for around the house, since both he and his wife were not able to do much anymore, and she was almost blind as well.

He did have family close that were helping out, so that is good because his wife is definitely going to need to be cared for right now.
Prayers for Bill’s family are always a good thing, too…..
 

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