A Day Off... Sort Of

Last week I made plans to take today off from work. I had a 7:00 appointment this morning to have blood-work done (in anticipation of next week's routine check-up), and I decided it would be a good day to get other personal things done.

Lew drove me to my early morning appointment, after which we went to IHOP for breakfast. We got home around 8:15ish, and I got working on the paperwork/phone calls I had planned to complete. I finished all of that by 1:00 p.m.... Phew!

After lunch, Dad and I went up to see Mom. He was able to schedule a half-hour inside visit today (still with masks, partitions, supervision, etc.), and two visitors are allowed. So I took advantage of the opportunity. It was nice to be able to talk with Mom without having to stand outside in the cold!

I did a few more organizing-type things when we got home, and then I splurged by finishing a novel I had started reading a few days ago. It was a good way to wind down from the busy morning I'd had.

I enjoyed the break from my regular weekday routine. Back to work tomorrow!

Marching On

An interesting weekend of basketball, football, a dinner outing, and bowling!

Dad was able to watch two of Zachariah's basketball games. A win Friday night followed by a loss on Saturday night. Lew and I had dinner at some friends' home on Saturday, so Glen and Debbie watched the game with Dad and provided the technical support for streaming the game. 😊

Saturday afternoon we watched nephew Zack's college football game. He originally wasn't going to travel for the away game (a limited squad due to Covid), but he ended up going! He's pretty much on the sidelines this year as a red-shirt freshman, but we did get to see him go out on the field to help an injured teammate. As for the game itself.... Well, let's hope for a better outing for the Black Bears next Saturday.

Today Lew and I watched the finals of the national championship for junior bowlers. These teenagers already bowl at a professional level. They were exciting to watch.

The weekend wasn't all fun and games (pun intended). Did the usual chores of laundry and catching up on some paperwork. Also tackled a teensy-weensy bit of our decluttering project. (We'll get there.)

A great week to you all!

Basketball, Football, and Bowling... WI-FI!

 Lions, and tigers, and bears... oh, my!

Dad (a.k.a. Derf) has blogged about watching Zachariah's basketball team play. Zach is the coach. Dad is able to watch because of the modern wonder of live-streaming over the Internet. There were three games this week alone: two home games on YouTube and one away game on NFHS Network.

Nephew Zack's college football team starts a six-game season tomorrow. (Spring schedule instead of last Fall because of the pandemic.) The games will be live-streamed on FloSports, so I subscribed to the service for a year. We will be watching at noon tomorrow!

Because of the FloSports subscription, we also can watch qualifying rounds of PBA tournaments. When I say "we" I mean mostly Lew, since I am at work during the week when most of these rounds are bowled. (Tournament finals are usually aired on Fox or FS1, so we set our DVR to record those.)

Streaming.... It's a wonderful thing. Lew told me to mention the machinations that I go through to set up the streaming in our household. Apps and subscriptions and logins... somehow I make it happen.

Let's go, Maine Black Bears!

Dad 556: Cold, Cold, Cold

(Dad writes today. Enjoy! ~ Tracy)

 

Derf Here! Not a bad day today. Yesterday we had about the coldest day of the winter. The wind was around 50+ miles per hour. It was cold out. The coldest day of the year. Today reminded us of what is coming… Spring!

 

The doctor and I are trying to save my big toe on my right foot. I think that my foot problems are a result of being a diabetic. X-rays showed no bacteria in my big toe. So I'm taking oral antibiotics for a few days. My prediction is the toe is going. I hope not. I'll keep you posted.

 

I visited Mary Lou today for an inside visit. She was tired but she stayed for the full half-hour visit. She is doing well and is very social with the other residents and workers. I'm going to guess that we will be visiting and touching for the first time in about a year soon. It's been a long, long time!

 

Have been watching the high school basketball team from Rock Falls, Illinois. Bode's dad, Zachariah, coaches the team. Tracy sets me up to watch the streaming. Enjoyed all the games, but I enjoy it the most when he wins.

 

That's it.

 

Until next time!

 

Toodle Pip!

 

Derf!

A Very Cold and Windy Day

The title of my post says it all.... Today was a very cold and windy day.

Things I am thankful for:

• Heating oil for the house
• A warm bathrobe for the early morning (and evening!)
• Heated seats in my vehicle...
• ... and the remote starter
• Warm clothes
• Warm food
• Our bed's heated mattress pad, which I am going to use right now!

Be sure to stay warm!

The Pooperia Panel

Lew and I are making progress on our decluttering project, but I often feel like I'm just moving things around instead of really decluttering.

I say this because today's biggest accomplishment involved adding something.

Lew put together a dividing panel for our back room upstairs. (See picture below.) It provides an extra level of separation from what is in the area underneath the window behind it.

And what is in that area? Well, our indoor cats gotta go somewhere!

The Pooperia Panel

Little Notes

Dad uses yellow paper to hand-write his Derf post each week. Then I get it entered into the blog, making some editorial changes along the way. Dad wrote a little note to me regarding yesterday's offering:

"Do your magic Tracy!"

A couple weekends ago I was sorting through some books and came across an older edition of Streams in the Desert that my grandfather had given my grandmother in the 1940s. I have read an updated version of this devotional book, so I decided to read through this older edition. Look at the note I saw on today's entry:

"Fred, Jr. had appendix out 1948"

Two observations:

My father has been appendix-free for 73 years.

The practice of writing little notes in the upper left-hand corner is hereditary.