Saturday morning after having breakfast with Bobbe and Yvonne in Acton, we went back to Nancy's house. Cokesbury called to tell me that my Sunday School books were in, so I called my granddaughter Ashley and her husband Ross to meet us for lunch at Hedary's in FW. As we left the house I looked at Nancy's peach tree and it was in full bloom. I said that there was no way my peach tree would be in bloom. Today as we came back from church I checked my peach tree and there it was. One full blossom! I heard Neal Sperry say that there was a 99% chance for another hard freeze in the DFW area. We haven't had our Easter spell yet so I know that these blossoms will have to live, or die, in another freeze soon. Of course it hit 84 degrees today so what do I know?
We enjoyed our meal with Ashley and Ross at Hedary's. Ashley and I love the tabbula. She and I had the baked chicken while Ross and Nancy had the ground meat on rice special. Ashley looks great as they wait for their first baby to be born.
We announced our wedding date of April 17 in the February Flame newsletter and I reaffirmed it from the my position as worship leader in church today. And Nancy figured out how to comment on the blog today, so we may be hearing more from her. I will give her rights to post to the blog if she wants.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
WEDDING BELLS
I can't believe I haven't posted for a week. Sunday we checked with Pastor Worcester, he looked at the calendar and said that Palm Sunday would be an acceptable date for our wedding. We wanted to have it immediately following church. I made the announcement by email to both of our families, with a copy to our SS class. We immediately got responses from the SS class, and the next day from Nancy's family members. Nancy has already proposed a menu for the church dinner after the short wedding service because everyone will be hungry. Our church members have all offered to help because it will be the first wedding in our new church building.
Yesterday I got a workout with my legs. I have spent a lot of time sitting and when my AC repairman came to check out the AC at the Halsell House, I walked down there and stood around watching from 2 till after 5 and last night my legs let me know. But my exercises are keeping no pain in my legs, so I am happy. Allen Barnett is an electrician and found a lot of squirrel chewed wires that he repaired so now all of the outside lights work.
I chaired Kiwanis today after getting a hair cut and having my pickup inspected. We had a good program with Connie Kirkham telling about Project Graduation that she has run for 22 years. We had a good board meeting after and are looking forward to our Pancake Supper March 10.
Nancy and I are looking forward to April 17.
Yesterday I got a workout with my legs. I have spent a lot of time sitting and when my AC repairman came to check out the AC at the Halsell House, I walked down there and stood around watching from 2 till after 5 and last night my legs let me know. But my exercises are keeping no pain in my legs, so I am happy. Allen Barnett is an electrician and found a lot of squirrel chewed wires that he repaired so now all of the outside lights work.
I chaired Kiwanis today after getting a hair cut and having my pickup inspected. We had a good program with Connie Kirkham telling about Project Graduation that she has run for 22 years. We had a good board meeting after and are looking forward to our Pancake Supper March 10.
Nancy and I are looking forward to April 17.
Monday, February 14, 2011
NEW GREAT DOCTOR
Today I made the appointment I had to cancel due to bad weather. When Dr. Dan Munton found out I was an aerospace teacher at A&M he had to return a call to a local doctor that graduated from A&M in engineering, worked for NASA and then went in to orthopedic medicine. Turns out he was there after I left and I didn't know him. Dr. Munton showed me the MRI and explained how I have spinal stenosis with some nerve pinching and explained what they can do if it gets bad. Right now due to the exercises I have been doing I don't hurt and he said that by keeping up the exercises I will remain pain free. He sent me over to the West Texas Rehabilitation Center where a great physical therapist looked at the exercises and gave me new better ones.
We then went out to celebrate Valentine's Day at Lytle Land and Cattle Company steakhouse. We both had the sirloin special and enjoyed it. After a stop at Walmart to buy gas and hearing aid batteries, we got home about 4:30. With no nap I plan to go to bed early tonight, and try out my new set of exercises.
Nancy liked the doctor so well that she made an appointment for herself to get advice on her back and spinal stenosis she has been diagnosed with. We have to go back to Granbury to pick up all of her MRI records for him.
He also teaches SS class at a Baptist Church in Abilene. He asked how I knew and I told him I had read his bio before making the appointment.
We then went out to celebrate Valentine's Day at Lytle Land and Cattle Company steakhouse. We both had the sirloin special and enjoyed it. After a stop at Walmart to buy gas and hearing aid batteries, we got home about 4:30. With no nap I plan to go to bed early tonight, and try out my new set of exercises.
Nancy liked the doctor so well that she made an appointment for herself to get advice on her back and spinal stenosis she has been diagnosed with. We have to go back to Granbury to pick up all of her MRI records for him.
He also teaches SS class at a Baptist Church in Abilene. He asked how I knew and I told him I had read his bio before making the appointment.
Friday, February 11, 2011
FREEZE IS OVER
If the freeze is over why do I still have stretches of ice on my road? And there is snow left all around the well house. This morning I found my faucet at the well house was frozen. I had covered it but I guess four days below freezing got through the insulation. After a couple of hours with the sun shining on it, it worked with nothing broken.
Last night I again performed in the Centennial Players reconstruction of the land auction 100 years ago. This time we had a small audience at the Chili Supper sponsored by the Senior Citizens Center. The Centennial Singers performed two songs. The newspaper story left off that the play would be performed. The big thing was they were scanning photos for the record for the Centennial. I took photos of Carl and Mabel Halsell and one of Mabel and Katie Lou her sister. I will send info to the person creating the record about the Halsells and their teaching in Cross Plains and Cottonwood and Cedar Bluff.
I have been doing great with the exercises keeping no pain in my back and leg. I have been preparing my medical history on the computer to take to the new doctor Monday.
Last night I again performed in the Centennial Players reconstruction of the land auction 100 years ago. This time we had a small audience at the Chili Supper sponsored by the Senior Citizens Center. The Centennial Singers performed two songs. The newspaper story left off that the play would be performed. The big thing was they were scanning photos for the record for the Centennial. I took photos of Carl and Mabel Halsell and one of Mabel and Katie Lou her sister. I will send info to the person creating the record about the Halsells and their teaching in Cross Plains and Cottonwood and Cedar Bluff.
I have been doing great with the exercises keeping no pain in my back and leg. I have been preparing my medical history on the computer to take to the new doctor Monday.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
STUCK AGAIN
About 1 this afternoon I finally decided to leave the house and try to get the mail. There was still snow on the sidewalk. I walked very carefully. The upper part of the walk and garage pad was clear. I took the pickup to the mail box. The road had some clear spots on it, but in the shaded areas the snow was still heavy. I was able to cross the creek and barely made it up to the front gate. I got the mail and got back to the Halsell house, but there I couldn't make it up the hill. The wheels just spun. I backed and tried but finally left it there and walked back to the house. The snow was not icy. I walked very carefully and made it without falling down. Every year I have done this and always took a tumble.
When we got up this morning the temperature was 40 and rising. But it takes a long time to melt this much snow. Nancy is from Nebraska and assures me that she can drive in these conditions and will drive around the pickup to get to church tomorrow. The forecast is for more snow tomorrow afternoon but no accumulation. I hope to get the pickup back up the road tomorrow because it is supposed to be above freezing all night which should help clear the road.
I had one pipe freeze upstairs, but it thawed yesterday and I see no evidence of broken pipes.
When we got up this morning the temperature was 40 and rising. But it takes a long time to melt this much snow. Nancy is from Nebraska and assures me that she can drive in these conditions and will drive around the pickup to get to church tomorrow. The forecast is for more snow tomorrow afternoon but no accumulation. I hope to get the pickup back up the road tomorrow because it is supposed to be above freezing all night which should help clear the road.
I had one pipe freeze upstairs, but it thawed yesterday and I see no evidence of broken pipes.
Friday, February 4, 2011
PRAISE THE LORD, THE POWER STAYED ON!
Because I had used all the wood on the porch I was worried that another power outage would leave us too cold, we thanked the Lord when we didn't even have a momentary power outage all day yesterday. I had one big log in the fireplace and it produced heat into the afternoon. I still have a few small sticks of wood it the event that we had to produce some more heat. The temperature got above 32 about 11 this morning and things are beginning to thaw a little but I am not planning on walking on the icy walk to the garage to go get the mail. I talked to Sue and she told me that Nancy and I are in a photo in the Cross Plains Review this week. It is still in my mail box.
Because I had used all the wood on the porch I was worried that another power outage would leave us too cold, we thanked the Lord when we didn't even have a momentary power outage all day yesterday. I had one big log in the fireplace and it produced heat into the afternoon. I still have a few small sticks of wood it the event that we had to produce some more heat. The temperature got above 32 about 11 this morning and things are beginning to thaw a little but I am not planning on walking on the icy walk to the garage to go get the mail. I talked to Sue and she told me that Nancy and I are in a photo in the Cross Plains Review this week. It is still in my mail box.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
POWER OFF POWER ON!
This morning I got shaved and entered the closet to dress when the electricity went off at 8. I had kept the fire going all night so I opened the fireplace and started bringing in more wood. We ate cold cereal when we had planned hot oatmeal. We used our snuggies and spent the morning catching up on reading. As the house cooled off I built a fire in the stove upstairs to help keep it from freezing the pipes. The low temperature was 8 this morning, the high 17 and it is supposed to hit 5 tomorrow morning and not get above freezing until Friday. Today we didn't get below 55 in the house so we were comfortable.
The power came back on at 3 but continued to have short outages all day causing interruptions in the internet and TV that was aggravating. I was able to get some work done. I also brought into the house all the firewood on the porch so tomorrow I will have to face the problem of bringing wood down from the driveway. I haven't put my foot on the snow because I know it is ice and I will fall. I have every year. I may solicit my neighbors' help to move some wood down. They have offered to help. They were in worse shape that me because they only have electrical heat and were bundled up today. They also haven't gone to the mailbox or tried to move on the ice.
The great thing was watching the song birds. We had gold finch, purple finch, two painted buntings, doves, and several cardinals showed up. I can't open my back screen door to add feed but there is still feed in the feeders that they scatter on the ground. I wonder what they do for water. Do they eat snow?
This morning I got shaved and entered the closet to dress when the electricity went off at 8. I had kept the fire going all night so I opened the fireplace and started bringing in more wood. We ate cold cereal when we had planned hot oatmeal. We used our snuggies and spent the morning catching up on reading. As the house cooled off I built a fire in the stove upstairs to help keep it from freezing the pipes. The low temperature was 8 this morning, the high 17 and it is supposed to hit 5 tomorrow morning and not get above freezing until Friday. Today we didn't get below 55 in the house so we were comfortable.
The power came back on at 3 but continued to have short outages all day causing interruptions in the internet and TV that was aggravating. I was able to get some work done. I also brought into the house all the firewood on the porch so tomorrow I will have to face the problem of bringing wood down from the driveway. I haven't put my foot on the snow because I know it is ice and I will fall. I have every year. I may solicit my neighbors' help to move some wood down. They have offered to help. They were in worse shape that me because they only have electrical heat and were bundled up today. They also haven't gone to the mailbox or tried to move on the ice.
The great thing was watching the song birds. We had gold finch, purple finch, two painted buntings, doves, and several cardinals showed up. I can't open my back screen door to add feed but there is still feed in the feeders that they scatter on the ground. I wonder what they do for water. Do they eat snow?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
FEBRUARY FREEZE
The weather forecasters were right on. Yesterday we went to Abilene to run errands and were lucky to get out of town just before the rain blocked underpasses there. I called to cancel the doctor appointment for Tuesday morning and got rescheduled for noon Valentine's Day so we will celebrate with a nice meal after the meeting. We went to bed with thunder and rain got up this morning to find .4 inches of rain in the gauge, a temperature of 16 degrees and about two inches of snow on top of my firewood on the porch.
We had
I called to cancel Kiwanis. I tried to feed the birds out back but the screen door was frozen closed so I put some sunflower seeds on the walk at the end of the front porch. Lydia called to cancel coming and told me to sweep the front porch to get firewood. Even though it was cold the snow could be swept off. The concrete was still warm underneath. But immediately some light snow covered where I swept. I lit the fire and started bringing in some more logs. I will burn everything on the front porch before it gets back above freezing Thursday. I didn't even think about getting the mail. We have had a snow event every winter and I usually walk to the mailbox and every time slip and fall. With the pain I have been fighting I didn't want to chance it so I only walked three steps off the porch to sweep snow off the internet satellite.
I started the stretching exercises several days ago and have had no pain in my leg since Saturday. I served as worship leader again Sunday and had no problem on the risers. No pain in the trip to Abilene or today. We are thanking the Lord for having electricity service! Hopefully it will stay on during this spell.
The weather forecasters were right on. Yesterday we went to Abilene to run errands and were lucky to get out of town just before the rain blocked underpasses there. I called to cancel the doctor appointment for Tuesday morning and got rescheduled for noon Valentine's Day so we will celebrate with a nice meal after the meeting. We went to bed with thunder and rain got up this morning to find .4 inches of rain in the gauge, a temperature of 16 degrees and about two inches of snow on top of my firewood on the porch.
We had
I called to cancel Kiwanis. I tried to feed the birds out back but the screen door was frozen closed so I put some sunflower seeds on the walk at the end of the front porch. Lydia called to cancel coming and told me to sweep the front porch to get firewood. Even though it was cold the snow could be swept off. The concrete was still warm underneath. But immediately some light snow covered where I swept. I lit the fire and started bringing in some more logs. I will burn everything on the front porch before it gets back above freezing Thursday. I didn't even think about getting the mail. We have had a snow event every winter and I usually walk to the mailbox and every time slip and fall. With the pain I have been fighting I didn't want to chance it so I only walked three steps off the porch to sweep snow off the internet satellite.
I started the stretching exercises several days ago and have had no pain in my leg since Saturday. I served as worship leader again Sunday and had no problem on the risers. No pain in the trip to Abilene or today. We are thanking the Lord for having electricity service! Hopefully it will stay on during this spell.
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