well gosh we have not had a chat in a looong time...so let's get right to it.....
the holidays have come and gone..and I am hoping that for you it was a good time..sometimes that is hard with this old masto hanging over our heads as well as other problems that occurs in everyday life
Thanksgiving was a snap..daughter brought everything and all I did was deviled eggs and made a fruit salad..granddaughter came with her family so we had a really nice time...and yes we did sit around the table...table sitters us...
then Christmas came and it was quiet......
you see the first of the month of December I finally gave in to the fact...eye surgery was a must...now I know what you are saying...but I am a coward...plain and simple...coward redbird...regardless of all those...it is a snap..nothing to it...coward redbird...
but gentle eye doctor assured me...he was going to take excellent care of me...so we did it...and it went well..
HOWEVER...
gentle eye doctor did not tell me about the new exercise program that he had planned for me...now here is the deal.....
put these eye drops in several times a day....OK says I....
don't drive car....OK says I
don't lift anything heavy...OK says I
don't bend over....instead you must SQUAT.....what says I...squat like in the exercise squat...squat???
yes says he...
now keep in mind that this 80 yr old lady who will soon be 81 had no plans on learning to do squats..but I did
now this is a new part of life for me..do you know how many times a day someone bends over...for all kind of things...well think about it...
BUT I am trying to be a good patient (ha)...so I am sweeping the floor..squat to put the dust pan to sweep up dirt...no no no not me...I just lifted up the corner of the rug and sweep that dude right under it..works for me...
but we have gotten thru it finally....my right eye seems just fine but the left one is sorta dragging it's feet but gentle doctor says it will catch up...
THEN...gentle doctor says it is time for you to pick out some new glasses...so back to the glasses room he takes me...Now Ms. Willie is smiling ready for to help me...and she says...see anything you like...oh no..Ms. Willie does not know how hard it is for me to make a choice...(daughter calls them options)...I am the person who finally chooses one and then thinks I might should have chosen the other one..but finally we pick out a pair and I am pretty sure that I like them...or was it the other pair...no not those...that one...see what I mean..
now just so you know that J C Pennys reads our blog....now you know how I have complained and moaned because the "fat lady catalog" uses size 3 models for their clothes trying to make us think that we will look just like them...well they announced that they now are using...larger models for fat ladies clothes..I have not seen that yet but that is what it says...right in my big paper...
and another wonderful thing that was in my big paper....that an Indian tribe here in Oklahoma is involved in raising butterflies...we have I think something like lots of tribes in Oklahoma and it was one up in the northern part of our state...but who would not like to visit a butterfly farm..
and if you are a reader of my stuff...you know my long and defeat of making biscuits..from scratch ...from baking mix...people have sent me recipes from all over the world..BUT I am just so bad I have given it up...canned ones for this table...HOWEVER you might also know that I love watching cooking shows..and contest... one of the really neat ones is one for children...up to age 12....so I am watching this show and having so much fun...these kids are amazing...and one little boy is from Canada and he is eight...you read that correctly...8...so now this little boy is making some big dish...something with baking..and he forgets to put the baking powder in it....oh no he says..I forgot...hummm oh I know I will MAKE BISCUITS...8 yrs old and he did...and they looked great and I guess tasted good as he made it to the next round...NO I do not want his recipe...I was happy for him...canned ones for me..
and you know the story of the yard cats...Ranger and the twins...who are now all grown up...Ranger because it looks like he has on a mask...like the lone Ranger and the twins are Chubby and Tubby...now all of these cats are fat and shining pretty cats...BUT they are all tomcats and they have always gotten along regardless of that..you remember that Ranger raised the twins while their mom was out catting around...
WELL...Ranger has decided that it is time for the twins to leave home...but they do not want to...so they have been having a few spats in regard to this..Ranger has been spending lots of nights OUT ..somewhere and since we are a small town we don't have a bar etc...but he sure come in daylight CRANKY...Chubby gets on top of the roof when he sees him dragging in home...and Tubby just wants in the house...so this dispute is still on going..
and another thing that happen since we talked...our 18 year old refrigerator went on the blink..nothing last any more..daughter says I will buy you a new one...look and see what you want...so son measures because the space is just so big...now we were not desperate we had a little "college dorm" one we could keep stuff crammed in...but we took all our information and went shopping..
now we have no appliance store in our town so that means up to the next one...and we go into the ONLY appliance store...wow...not friendly people here..no sales from me..
on to the next store and I will tell you it is a small sears store...kinda use to be an order store but they have appliances large ones...
so we are strolling thru the fridges...and I am pretty upset as the prices are all so high...and THEN...we came to this fridge sorta sitting off to it's self..with a sale price on the door...new but the ice maker does not work..but for me that is not a problem..so after much discussion with son and daughter...we purchased this one...it's just the right size etc...
now we are a happy bunch...really a bargain...everything great and the delivery man came left it and took away the old 18 yr old one...
now after having this fridge now for about 3 weeks I can tell you that it is "possessed" yup it is..it makes all kinds of strange noises...sometimes it hums...sometimes it clacks...sometimes it clatters...and for me..I am waiting and will not be surprised when it speaks..son mentioned to me that...mom have you noticed our new fridge has a personality...humm says I "possessed"
I must tell you that I have turned over a new leaf for the new year....it is called ...Lazy...want to take a nap..go for it...want to work jigsaw puzzles all day...go for it..talk to my friend Mary from "across the pasture" do that too...and of course watch Ron Mary's hubby put up all this wonderful outdoor Christmas decorations..and if you want to sit in the nest and just look out the window...that is allowed..so as you can see...in the famous words of my grandson...."I have been busy doing nothing"
so what have you been doing...
redbird
the word writer
"getting old is not for wimps"
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