Day +27 - Highlights

Sunday August 12, 2012
Quail Run RV Resort Lot 15
Wesley Chapel, Florida

 

I have to fess up.

Our days are becoming pretty mundane with this never ending heat and humidity.  Not enough has happened to blog about every day so I’ve grouped a couple of days together.   This is a good thing in that it means David is doing well or at least is doing as expected.  It’s a bad thing in that we are both becoming bored with having to be inside so much of the time.

 

BUT there are some highlights -
Like bandage becomes band-aid

 

 

 

On Thursday the big bandage comes off the central line area and on goes a little band-aid. Big improvement He can now take a shower with no plastic cover up required and no gauze bandage to get wet. Much easier. Just like “normal”.

 

 

 

 

 

And a postcard for the mirror.

The other highlight of Thursday is the arrival of another postcard for the mirror.  If you don’t know what this is all about you must have missed the end of this post. Check it out and join in this effort to amuse the ‘stuck in one place and bored’.  J  

Whoo Hoo two postcards!

 

 

This one comes from Deb Blodgett. Thank you Deb!!  It’s from a very very favorite place of mine especially for the summer, Chautauqua NY.
I spent 9 wonderful weeks working there several summers in a row.  If you have never heard of the Chautauqua Institution,  go to this link because you have really missed out on one of this country’s greatest places.  

 

Starting in late June this small Victorian town on Chautauqua Lake becomes a summer culture camp for adults and families.  It is just impossible to explain what it’s like.  You really have to be there.  The country’s oldest book club started at Chautauqua and is still running, They choose a book for each week of the “season”, discuss it that week and the author visits to talk about the book.   Chautauqua has  a resident ballet company, a resident theater company, a resident symphony orchestra which performs in a 5000 seat open air amphitheater,  where there are also topics of discussion every day of the week. Each week is a different theme.

There is a music school, an arts school, day camps for children, a sailing school, a great movie theater and on and on and on.   CHECK IT OUT.

Thanks again Deb!!

 

If life is restricted, food becomes even more of a highlight.

 

On Friday it’s time to refill the pantry.  I spend $80 in short order at the grocery since David isn’t with me.  My favorite way to shop – stick to the list, in and out.  With all the fresh veggies we make a pizza for dinner.

I’m a no more than 3 toppings per pizza gal.  I like to be able to taste them individually if possible.  So you can see whose pizza this is.  It’s a wonder the thin and crispy crust could hold it all up.   This is a vegan pizza with no cheese and no oil.  Crust made from spelt flour with only water and yeast.

 

 

And   ANOTHER  Postcard for the mirror!

 

Judy Graves really wanted us to feel cool so she sent a postcard from Alaska.  She’s not actually in Alaska, she’s in Mt. Holly, N.C.  But she hoped to take a 6 month trip to Alaska in 2013.  I hope she didn’t send me her only inspirational postcard.  Thanks so much Judy.  This one is really COOL to look at!   I think I’ll just sit and stare at it and think glacier!

 

 

Today’s routine is the same as all the other days.

It’s Saturday but it could be any day.
I’m up at sunrise.  It’s 75 degrees outside already.  I go running.
About the time I get back from running, David goes out walking.
He gets back about when I’m finishing my weight lifting.
We have breakfast.
David sort of tries not to nap, sometimes he does not succeed.
We noodle around – read that as watch the Olympics, read blog posts, read blogs, read books, sort through papers and bills.
Time for lunch.

After lunch David walks again.
Tries harder not to nap.  Does not succeed

 

It’s the same as other days, except as you see from David’s nap, today we get at least a short reprieve.

 

In the afternoon the clouds get dark. 

 

The winds pick up.

 

The temperature drops over 10 degrees.   Look at the time.

  

 

YEA!!!   I can’t believe this.  I can sit outside in the middle of the afternoon.

It doesn’t rain actually until after dinner.  And the temperature doesn’t get this cool even then.

The mail has become a highlight the past two days so we’re optimistic for today too.   After his walk, David stops by the mailbox.

 

Abby’s Card FINALLY arrives!

Abby, David’s niece,  has had a very difficult time sending him a special card.  She sent it to the hospital but it was delivered the day after he was discharged.  And even though we were told that all mail would be sent down to the clinic since ALL patients go there every day or every other day for several weeks after discharge. 

But Noooooo  they didn’t send David’s mail to the clinic they sent it back to the sender.  We have no idea who else may have gotten things returned.  But Abby was very anxious for us to get this card SO she resent it to us here at the park and it FINALLY arrives.

It’s the second big event of the day (cool temps in the afternoon are definitely a big event).  Abby has sent not only a great card, with multiple address labels on the envelope, poor thing.  We’re SO sorry Abby.  BUT inside are 3 lottery tickets.  Two scratchers and a POWERBALL.   Oh boy…..I email Abby to tell her the card arrived and promise to share when we win big.

 

 

Drum roll…….scratchers first.

 

 

No matching numbers.  Oh well……….on to the next one.

 

 

scratching so fast the camera can’t keep up.

Well not SO (spicy) hot actually….oh well!

 

The Powerball really is the big deal.  This ticket was for July 25.   You can see how long it took poor Abby to get this to us.   I look up the winners on line.  He does have one number out of 6 but unless that’s the Powerball number you are out of luck.  

 

 

This is actually why we don’t play the lottery.   Those of you who follow the blog heard me say the first thing I’ve ever won was in a give away on The Good Luck Duck blog.  I won TWO boxes of space bags.  I thought maybe my luck had changed with that win.  But apparently not.  Or maybe this is David’s luck.  The card was addressed to him.

In any case, thank you Abby for going to so much trouble to provide us with such a FUN piece of mail.  It really was a big highlight of the day.  Even if David doesn’t look  like it.