Day +20 – cooking tomorrow??

Sunday August 5, 2012
Quail Run RV Resort Lot 15

 

Up this morning and out running in 80 degree temperatures.  YUCK!!  Same old routine follows running.   I then clean the jacks, bring in the slides, bring up the jacks.  Everything works fine after sitting for a month so I put the slides back out, jacks back down and re-level the coach.  Only thing that should have been done is to run the generator for a couple of hours with both ACs on.   I’ll put that on the list for tomorrow mid day when the temps are in the 90’s and no one is outside.

 

After I have finished today’s “chores”,  we do one of David’s favorite things, go out to breakfast.  I drive us over to The Breakfast Nook in Land O’ Lakes Florida.  I thought Land O’ Lakes was in Wisconsin.  Or is it Minnesota since they are the ‘land of lakes”.  Or did Wisconsinites or Minnesotans come to settle in Florida and name this place after their home?  There is a pond next to the restaurant but it’s no lake.  The Breakfast Nook is only about 10 miles from Quail Run which isn’t in an area of lakes that I can see.  Guess this will require some investigation if I want to know the answer.  Or maybe my Florida readers will tell me.

Anyway The Breakfast Nook is a cute restaurant with lovely outdoor seating.  Sitting outside on their patio, we have a very nice breakfast.  Total bill is $16 for two including tax and tip.  There is even a self described ‘Balloon Artist’ working for tips entertaining children until their food is served.  Our waitress introduces herself as Perry, which I think is an unusual name especially for a girl.  I don’t think I’ve ever known a Perry other than Perry Como and of course I haven’t ever actually met him.  J 

 

But check out the name of our server on our bill.   Could her parents really have done that to her on purpose?  Or did she choose it for herself in her foolish early 20’s??   Since I hadn’t thought to bring my camera, I use my phone to take some pictures to post here. 

 

On the way home David insists on stopping at Advance Auto to get an AC recharger and a quart of oil for Ruby.  We sit in the 90 degree sun with the hood up while he tries to figure out what he needs and how to do it, going in and out of the store multiple times.  Should he really be doing this I wonder?  He isn’t wearing gloves.  I comment.  He shrugs and does the excuses routine.  He’s not adjusting to or accepting this new reality very well. 

As most know, I really hate shopping and auto parts stores are probably at THE very bottom of my list of places in which I ever want to spend more than 5 minutes, but since I am the chauffer I have to take the client wherever he wants and stay as long as he wants or needs. 

After all this, it isn’t clear that the AC needs any charging so he’s going to check it again tonight when it isn’t so unbelievably hot, Ruby isn’t on asphalt pavement and he has gloves on.  

An hour later, we are finally on our way home.   A short breakfast outing has taken the entire morning.

When we get back David is not surprisingly exhausted and naps for over an hour.  It is now 2:00 and he has had no walks, done no spirometer or PT exercises.   But IF our AC is low, we are prepared. 

While he naps, I spend my time trying to do what was no problem at all yesterday - get the pictures off the phone so I can use them on the blog.

But after spending 90 minutes trying to get those pictures off my Verizon Droid and onto my laptop the same way I did yesterday’s pictures of the cranes which gave me no trouble at all,  my frustration level is at about 150% and I am about to blow my top.   The pictures are clearly on the phone, I can see them in the Gallery and in the camera.  But they are not in Photo Transfer.  The Crane pictures I deleted from the Gallery yesterday are in Photo Transfer.  So I select today’s pictures from the Gallery and try to move them to Picasa or Photo Transfer.  That results in the pictures that I had deleted from the gallery yesterday being moved not the pictures I actually selected.  Is this possible??

I finally get today’s pictures onto my laptop by emailing the photos to myself.  My guess is until I can figure out how to get the pictures that have been deleted from the Gallery to be deleted from Photo Transfer or someway to delete them directly off of Photo Transfer or I delete the Photo Transfer app altogether from my phone, I might as well forget using it as a camera.  

It really isn’t possible that everyone else has this much trouble using a droid as a camera is it??  I mean I see people doing it all the time.  Do they just email photos to each other or post them on the infamous Facebook and that’s it?   Ok enough of my irritation.LLL

So here is a hard won very short slide show of David and others at The Breakfast Nook.  Be sure to check the server’s name.  J

 

 

The later afternoon goes a little more smoothly.  After his nap, David has some lunch and watches the Olympics.   Carrie calls to chat for a bit and I grumble to her about his not having walked or done any PT or the spirometer and my getting tired of having to prod him.

After talking with her I call my dad who is doing about the same as always.  It starts to rain and the temperature drops so I go outside and read sitting under the awning.  This is one of my very favorite things to do.  I love sitting outside on a porch or covered patio while it rains.   And doncha know that while I’m out there, David amazingly, for the first time in days, does 10 rounds on the spirometer hitting the top on most of them.  You don’t suppose he heard me not whispering on the phone do you?  J

We while away the afternoon on our separate activities.  As evening comes on, I make some wraps for dinner and a milkshake for David.  I do the dishes and go back outside.  I love when it’s in the mid 80’s or cooler here and I can be outside even if only to sit.  David goes for his one and only walk today.  I hope he’ll be more diligent and self motivated about walking and increasing his walking time.  Since he left the hospital, he seems to have lost his determination to do these things he needs to do.

Karen and Al are out walking and they stop by.  They say they’ve seen David and he’s walking and talking on the phone.  Shortly he walks up.  Then Jo Beth comes by walking Grace who isn’t interested in being social at all.  She is totally captivated by the smells in the grass by our patio.  

 

We chat until it begins to get dark.   When they leave, David resumes Olympic watch and I finish the blog.

 

At day’s end it turns out that although he had a slow start in the morning and a bout with his intestines, it’s been a good day for him indicated strongly by his need for only one nap all day long.  Sets me to wondering how soon can I put him back to cooking???  That’s not in the list of things his doctor says he can’t do.  Maybe breakfast tomorrow???  J