Holiday

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Hope you have a good one.

I'll try to blog soon.

I'm still here

Sorry, I haven't posted in a while. We finally have our walk in shower installed. It was finished on Tuesday. We had to wait until Wednesday to use it. Mom and I both took showers in the morning. When I went to sort some laundry, I noticed there was water down the basement. Ron took a shower but we didn't notice it leaking. We called the people that installed it and the plumber came and looked. It seems it wasn't a plumbing problem it was a wall problem. Thursday the guy that installed the drywall and fiberglass walls came. It looked like some of the caulking shrunk up. He re-caulked it and said to try it today and see if it still leaked. Thank goodness, it seems fine now. It's great to have a shower again.

Things are still crazy around here. We had a couple of unexpected appointments for Mom. Hopefully, things will settle down now for a while.

The leaves on the trees are really beautiful here. A lot are falling off already. Before you know it, it will be Halloween. Where has the time gone? Ron's got the garden all taken out and the marigolds. I never did get more mums to replace the ones I lost from last year. I did have one that came up though.

I'm starting to do some Christmas shopping online already. At least I have all my address labels for my cards done.

I hope to write again soon.

P.S. If you haven't had a mammogram this year, please go. It could save your life.

Register

If you are not registered to vote, you have until October 6th to register to vote in the Presidential election in our State. This could be the most important vote of your life. No matter who you vote for, please vote. These women fought for our right.

http://vodpod.com/watch/463965-history-women-activists-suffrage

Corky

Corky went to the groomer's yesterday for a bath and brush. Supposedly, he has no fleas. We shall see.

Fleas, et al

I think we have control over the fleas in our home . On Sunday, we tore the living room apart and vacuumed everything. I washed the stuff I could in hot water. I also vacuumed the other rooms. Thanks to Sue, we bought the capstar at the pet store and that seems to have helped the dog. We're taking Corky to be groomed tomorrow. Ron went to Mom's house with a spray he bought and sprayed her whole house. Hopefully, that will take care of the fleas over there. If not, he'll probably try it again before we have to take more drastic measures.

Nothing much has been happening here. We are starting to adjust more and more. Next Thursday is Mom's doctor's appointment so we will find out the results of the tests.

Viki Downer

Did you ever just have one of those days, months years where nothing goes right? I haven't been on the blog because my computer was in the shop for a week. I got it back yesterday. I needed a new hard drive and Windows re-downloaded. You know how you are supposed to back up your information? I didn't. I lost tons of stuff. I've got programs to re-download. One of my CD drives wasn't working but the technician couldn't find anything wrong but sure enough when the computer was home it isn't working for me.

Today, our one toilet was leaking. Hopefully, Ron fixed it. Then we found out my Mom's dog has fleas. We'll have to get some flea stuff. Who knows if we will have to bomb (not literally) the house.

Mom went for the sleep study test. She also had the oxygen test. We haven't heard any results yet but go back to the doctor on Sept. 12th.

We made arrangements to have the bathtub taken out and a big shower put in. The stuff is being ordered but we have no idea when it will be installed.

Viki Downer signing off (I promise to try to be in a better mood next time)

tomato thief

Some of our big tomatoes have gone missing. We couldn't figure out what was taking them. Tonight Ron was sitting on the back steps and yelled for me to come. Up in the tree, was a squirrel chomping down on a tomato. So, the mystery is solved. We found out who the culprit is. This is the first time in the 22 years we've lived here the squirrels have ever stolen our tomatoes LOL.