Patio enclosure

We had the guy come last week to discuss getting the porch enclosed.  We are getting a 3 season patio enclosure but we're only doing half of the porch.  We had a figure in mind what we would be willing to spend.   To do the whole porch would have been double, yikes!!  I'm very, very excited about it.  It won't be done until sometime in August but I'll be happy to have it for the fall. 

We will eventually get some kind of flooring done and get some furniture as well.  I'm not sure if we will still do that this year or next.

Also, the enclosure will be from the driveway side to 16 feet which we will not have access to the back door.  When it's done, we will have to go through the patio enclosure to get inside the back of the house.  We will have to get new steps put in to get into the back door, ha..

Saturday Centus #60

It's Saturday Centus again - in a nutshell, Jenny Matlock gives us a prompt from either herself or a guest submitter and then we have to write 100 (although this week is only 60) or words less related to the prompt (the prompt doesn't count toward the 100 words) Then link it up to her blog. It's open until the following Saturday, so that means you have all week to participate by either reading or writing.  The prompt is in blue.  http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus

This is a continuation from last week.  I'm not sure how long I'll be doing this, ha... 

Frances had to get the property in order before she did any investigating.  She went outside and started raking leaves in the cool fall weather.  In the stone of the cottage, she noticed a tiny piece of paper sticking out.  It was difficult to get it out but she did. 

It was a letter.   Dear John it started.   It was from Vivian...

Mom

Mom had to go to the ER twice on Sunday.  On Friday, she got a skin tear on her leg.  The nurse wrapped it up and all was well.  Sunday a nurse called about 4 p.m. and said the bandage wrap was all bloody and they couldn't get the bleeding to stop so they were sending her to the ER for stitches.  The doctor at the ER said the skin was so thin that they couldn't put stitches in.  He ended up putting some medicine on some gauze to get the blood to clot, wrapped it up and put an ace bandage on it.  They took her back to the nursing home.  Around 9:45, the nurse called again and said they were taking her back to the ER because it was saturated with blood again.  She got there around 11:00.  The same guy was there.  He ended up putting stitches in but put them a little bit further from the actual skin tear and also put some steri strips on.  We left mom around 1:30 a.m. and she was waiting to get a pressure bandage on and then there were going to take her back.  I don't know what time she got back.

I slept until around 11 a.m. on Monday.  I talked to them at the nursing home and they said mom was doing okay and she wasn't bleeding.  On Tuesday, the nurse practitioner is going to take the pressure bandage off and see what it looks like.  What a night. 

Saturday Centus #59

It's Saturday Centus again - in a nutshell, Jenny Matlock gives us a prompt from either herself or a guest submitter and then we have to write 100 or words less related to the prompt (the prompt doesn't count toward the 100 words) Then link it up to her blog. It's open until the following Saturday, so that means you have all week to participate by either reading or writing.  The prompt is in blue. http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus

I haven't done Centus for months but I thought I'd jump in again.  Not that I have anymore time and I'm all caught up but I missed doing it.  So we'll see how it goes.



Frances was excited about the cottage she had moved into.   It was the home she always dreamed of.
With the insurance money from her late husband, she had enough money to purchase it.

She was making her first fire and noticed something within the stone.  It was a photograph.  On the back it said Wilfred and Vivian - so sad.  "So sad; what does that mean?" she thought.

The cottage had been built in the 1800's and by the clothes; she could tell they were from that era.
She could hardly wait to start investigating what happened to Wilfred and Vivian. 

Random thoughts

1.  Last Saturday when we went to see mom they had bell ringers there.  That was the first time I've ever seen them.  It was beautiful. 

2.  We finally ordered some railings for our front steps.  They should be put up in a few weeks.

3.  I did it... I've written on the blog before how I've always wanted to enclose the back porch.  Over the years I've gone back and forth thinking it would be too expensive.  I'm finally going to find out.  I have someone coming on Monday to give us an estimate.  Oh, how I hope it's not too much.

4.  I finally bought my yarn for Christmas.  I've gotta get going.

5. Cool, hot, rain, cool, hot, rain,  pretty much sums up this spring.  It can't make up it's mind, ha.. 

Mom

We took mom to the ophthalmologist (the one I go to) and he's going to do the cataract surgery on Mom.  The first one will be in July and if all goes well, he'll do the second one.  Her vision now is pretty much down to nothing.  Seems she has lost peripheral vision is both eyes as well.  She won't see perfect but she will see better.




Her new roommate - what can I say, ha.  She's not friendly, complains a lot and yells at whoever comes to help her.  I've said hello to her once and she ignored me.  Oh well, maybe she will get more friendly as time goes on.

Men behaving badly

Is there some kind of mindset with men politicians in Washington that they can get away with behaving badly?
How could they not think they are going to get caught  for goodness sake @@.