From A Wide Spot In The Road

It seems the shooting in Honolulu started when a lady tried to evict a 69 yr old
Man from his home. He stabbed her, then shot two officers and set the house
a fire. He died in the fire. Both police officers died. Four other house burned
and several others were damaged. Don’t know about the woman who was stabbed.
 

drifter said:
I’m glad you got the snow and not me. You’re in the northeast where snow is more
or less expected. I’m in the south where snow is something one should read about
In a book. When it snows here it makes things messy; we don’t get enough to be pretty.
Do youlike snow?
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Actually, since I got old, I like snow a lot less. It is pretty though.

When I was a kid, I loved it! No school, sledding all day, snowballs, etc.

I knew someone in OK who told me they do get ice storms sometimes. That's even worse! I hope you won't get the next storm coming through next week.
 
I called Triple A this morning to send someone to jump-start my car because the battery was down. They couldn’t start it so i’m waiting on a tow truck to haul the car to the shop. It seems his is going to be an all day affair.
 
drifter said:
A day in my life makes me wonder what I am doing on a forum. Every day is the same. I am not house bound but there is little I can do outside the house. I do still drive a little in town but nobody wants to ride with me. My wife will ride to the grocers with me once every two weeks or so but I think
She feels she is risking life and/or limb when she does. I understand and try to drove in a way she does not feel threatened.

When we ge to the grocers, I am out of breath from the walk from the car to inside where the electric carts are parked. After a couple of moments I am breathing better and can unplug the cart and stuff the cord into its storage hole.mshe gets a cart and I follow. We aways have
a list. I get some of the groceries and she gets part of them. I try to get th needed items furtherest
away so she dorsn't have to walk so far. We get help taking the groceries to the car. The hardest part of grocery shopping is getting them from the trunk of the car to the kitchen. We have a cart my wife uses sometime when we have lots of groceries. But unloading them exhausts us. I am always out of breath and my blood oxygen drops to the low seventies.. It is about the hardest thing I do. My wife then puts the groceries away after a rest. We are both stressed.

The remaining part of the day, she watches TV. I spend time on the computer or reading. Sometime I watch birds in the back yard for a while but that is usually in the early morning after daylight. She cooks, I do the dishes and clean up the kitchen. She does the sweeping and mopping. We have hardwood floors.. We have street trash pickup and she carries out the trash most often because my doctors have told me not to do so. We help each other but my wife gives a lot more help than she gets.

Where am I going with this? There's little doubt I'm getting too old to be out in this big wide world with out adult supervision. I might say anything. I might embarrass myself. My drivers license expires next month, I think. What if they don't renew my license? That's why I bought the bicycle. Should have known I couldn't ride it. I was hoping I could. But that was irrational. My thinking at the time was,' I can always donate the bike to GoodwillI or the Salvation Army.' I should have bought a three wheel bike or tryke. My question is or was, did I have enough breath and energy to peddle the thing. I could sit on it but could but could I make it go. I think some in the family probably questioned my sanity. I do wish this section of this forum had a delete button. Any good "Diary" has a lock button so it can be hidden from public view. ince I can't hide it or delete it, what can I say about my irrational public broadcast, about spilling the beans all over the floor with no rug to sweep them under, or no broom to sweep them up?

To be continued.
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Delivery service
 
It was cool, wet, and windy this morning. I slept late. Just before noon I went back to bed, took a short nap. Had a meatloaf tv dinner, a cup of hot tea, now sitting at the computer a while, reading, writing, and playing softly on my harmonica, and thinking.
 
drifter said:
It was cool, wet, and windy this morning. I slept late. Just before noon I went back to bed, took a short nap. Had a meatloaf tv dinner, a cup of hot tea, now sitting at the computer a while, reading, writing, and playing softly on my harmonica, and thinking.
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It's great that now we can sleep late, then sleep again and otherwise waste the Day away.

But often I get scared because I wasted another precious day. Like I did today.

What happened with the battery, @drifter?
 
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You mean Battery? I starter the car yesterday and drove it a few blocks to the store. I'm planning on driving it again tomorrow. It does need to be driven some to build up the charge in it. I'm assuming if i drive it once in a while it will be alright. I think the battery is alright but needs to be started and run a while or driven occasionally.

I'm wondering if anyone else had trouble logging on here earlier this evening. I couldn't log on for a couple of hours or so. Just curious.
 
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Okay, let's turn the page. I have two grocery sacks full and running over
With donations I am going to take to goodwill. Each sack held an old iPad
I was donating. This afternoon I dug into one of them and pulled out the
Older mini-iPad, the one I kept by my bed. I missed it and it is the best to
read kindle books on and to take notes. I'm keeping it. I set it up again
this afternoon. Don't know when I'll get those sacks to good will. I started
filling them before Christmas. Well one of these days.
 
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I need something I can become totally absorbed in. What do I like to do. Over the years I have had two or three hobbies, things of interests I become involved with. One was photography, another was writing, a third was working. The question is, what can i do now?
 
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I went grocery shopping today for the first time in weeks. I also drove to Van’s BBQ
for some bbq beef strips. It is something my wife can eat and offers us both a change
of pace in our diet.
 
What would have happened if I had not got out of Dodge? It's simple. They would have done what they have done in the past, they would have killed me. I did what I had to do and look what happened, I landed in this hell hole. The only thing I can do is run...

If the bleeding would stop maybe I could get my courage back, maybe I should see a doctor. Son there ain't no doctor in this town. There's not even a vet. Well, what do you do when people get sick, Citizen? Why, Mortel, you die or if you have time you make your way back to Lamesa, where they have a doc, but I've seen much better medical care from vets than old doc Russell. How far to Lamesa, friend? Too far for you Mortal. That blood ain't coming from buckshot. And that's bad. Yeah, I know it's bad. I can't even sat a horse no more. Yeah, I know its hell, Mortal, but if you can't ride, Lamesa is forty-seven miles right down that road, and you get there by putting one foot in front of the other. Don't think you'll make, Mortal. The pain might get so bad you lay down in the dusty road and die.

Don't worry, someone will come along sooner or later. They'll haul you on down to the old doc's place. Not much traffic on this road, but sooner or later you'll get a lift...

The last thought in that old man's head was, 'help me, somebody.'
 
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And they did. Although the old man didn't hear their approach, he was stretched out on the wagon road, unconscious. When the riders saw that he wasn't shot, they tried to revive him. Successful at last, they gave him water from their canteens.

"Where am I, he asked?"

You are on the road to Jerico. Jerico, Texas. I thought I was going to see the doc in some place named Lamesa. Well, yes, the man said, Lamesa is on the other side of Jerico. Jerico is a wide spot in the road you understand. Can you climb up behind me? Good man. We're going your way. A few more hours and you'll be good as new.
 
So sorry. Was trying to describe some of my own problems and decided I could not say or describe some of
my own symptoms and decided I didn't know how in a nice way. But never mind. Since I travel around on the computer,
I will share some of what I discover if I may use this diary as sort of a journal. For instance, on January 25th began the
Chinese New Year. It's the year of the Rat. And during this happy time, the Chinese are experiencing this terrible unknown
Pneumonia out break that that has stricken over seven thousand and killed hundreds. China has asked it's military to
pitch in and lend a hand in isolating and stopping this terrible disease which has already spread world wide. So, more to
come on the Chinese New Year.
 
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People visit SanfangQixiang (Three Lanes and Seven Alleys), a local scenic spot in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 19, 2020. The historic street of SanfangQixiang in Fuzhou is adorned with Spring Festival couplets, lanterns, flowers and other decorations to greet the coming Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, which fell on Jan. 25 this year. (Xinhua/He Canling)

This was publishedin the New China News Agency and the photorapher is He Canling.

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People select flowers at SanfangQixiang (Three Lanes and Seven Alleys), a local scenic spot in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 19, 2020. The historic street of SanfangQixiang in Fuzhou is adorned with Spring Festival couplets, lanterns, flowers and other decorations to greet the coming Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 25 this year. (Xinhua/He Canling)
Three Lanes and Seven Alleys is a huge market and shopping area in Fuzhou.
 
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Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2020 shows the commemorative stamps themed on the Year of Rat in Paris, capital of France. French postal service company La Poste issued two Year of Rat stamps in a ceremony here on Saturday to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. This year's stamps are designed by Paris-based Chinese artist Chen Jiang Hong. The first pane of 400,000 stamps depicts a rat with a lotus and the second set, containing 325,000 copies, features a rat bride based on Chinese folklore. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)


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PARIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- French postal service company La Poste issued two Year of Rat stamps in a ceremony here on Saturday to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.

The initiative to issue Chinese zodiac stamps dated back to 2005. Each year the French postal service company celebrates the Chinese New Year by issuing the stamp featuring the year's zodiac animal.
 
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Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2020 shows the commemorative stamps themed on the Year of Rat in Paris, capital of France. French postal service company La Poste issued two Year of Rat stamps in a ceremony here on Saturday to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. This year's stamps are designed by Paris-based Chinese artist Chen Jiang Hong. The first pane of 400,000 stamps depicts a rat with a lotus and the second set, containing 325,000 copies, features a rat bride based on Chinese folklore. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)


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PARIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- French postal service company La Poste issued two Year of Rat stamps in a ceremony here on Saturday to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.

The initiative to issue Chinese zodiac stamps dated back to 2005. Each year the French postal service company celebrates the Chinese New Year by issuing the stamp featuring the year's zodiac animal.
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These are just as beautiful as they are cute!
♥
 
drifter said:
You mean Battery? I starter the car yesterday and drove it a few blocks to the store. I'm planning on driving it again tomorrow. It does need to be driven some to build up the charge in it. I'm assuming if i drive it once in a while it will be alright. I think the battery is alright but needs to be started and run a while or driven occasionally.

I'm wondering if anyone else had trouble logging on here earlier this evening. I couldn't log on for a couple of hours or so. Just curious.
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A long drive is the best way to fully charge the battery, short drives won't fully charge it. Electrifying information - I know. ;)
 

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