My Sister Is Here!

Kim and Kaelen are here!

Debbie and Zack (not Josh) picked them up at the airport around noon today. I was at work until 1:30, so they beat me home. 😊

It was a rainy day today, but who cares? 

My niece is here! 💗

My sister is here! 💗

Dad 420: Waiting for Planes and an Automobile

(Company is coming! Enjoy Dad's post! ~ Tracy)

 

Derf Here! Another very hot, humid, muggy day of summer. Rainy day predicted for tomorrow. Need the rain. Just wish all rain would come between midnight and 4 AM. Never happen.

 

Well, tomorrow will be the day we have been waiting for all summer. Kim and Kaelen will be flying in from Illinois. Joe, Kelsey, and the person we are waiting to meet will arrive by automobile probably on Saturday. That would be great-grandson Bode. Then on August 5th, Zachariah (Bode's dad) will fly in. He will then travel back with Joe, Kelsey, and Bode by automobile. That will be on August 14th.

 

One week after their visit, Spouse will report for surgery. We are still on schedule to have her left arm removed as her stroke makes it useless and painful. Prayers still welcome.

 

Hope Deb and Josh remember to pick up Kim and Kaelen tomorrow. Happy days are here!

 

Until next time!

 

Toodle Pip!

 

Derf!

My Sister Is Coming!

Kim and Kaelen will be flying to Maine this Thursday. Joe, Kelsey, and Bode will be arriving by automobile sometime this weekend. Zachariah will be flying in the following week.

We are all looking forward to this visit by sister Kim's family. It will be the first time that Mom, Dad, Josh, Lew, and I will meet Bode in person! I can hardly wait!

I love my family, and I am so very excited to see them all. 💗
But this is what I really want to shout from the rooftops:

MY SISTER IS COMING!!!!! 

A Lovely Evening

Lew and I had our annual summer get-together with my friend Carmen tonight.

This get-together consists of a walk on the beach, dinner at the Clambake, ice cream, and a lot of gabbing.  :)

Carmen and I usually have lunch together a couple more times during the year, but our summer outing is our favorite. It’s fun that Lew joins us for it, too.

A lovely summer evening!

Lew's Logbook: One Out of Four Ain't Bad

(And adding "touch" would make it two of five! Enjoy Lew's post! ~ Tracy)

One out of four ain’t bad.

As most of Tracy’s readers know, I lost my senses of smell and taste several years ago. I had a cold, they went away and never came back.

I finally went to a hearing specialist on Monday. No surprise that my hearing is not good. I have a severe loss in the higher frequency ranges and I’m marginal at the lower end. Now that I have official confirmation of what I already knew, what do I do about it?? That is the million (or should I say 6,000) dollar question. The place that tested me was encouraging me toward the $6,000 option but I felt like I was being sold a time-share. I just couldn’t do it. I’m still trying to get into the VA system but that hasn’t happened yet. I’ve been told by many people, including my doctor who worked in the VA system, that Uncle Sam will buy hearing aids for me. We’ll see.

I went to have an eye exam on Friday. I am told that my eyes are very healthy and, with my contacts, I have very good vision.

So to summarize, I can’t smell, I can’t taste, and my hearing is bad. But my eyes are doing fine.

As I said, one out of four ain’t bad.  😊

The Annual Celebration Trifecta

I stole the "Trifecta" title from my sister Debbie; she used it in a Facebook post today. 😊

Today:

1. Anniversary #18 for Lew and yours truly. Happy Anniversary, Sweetie!
2. Anniversary #22 for sister Debbie and brother-in-law Glen. Happy Anniversary!
3. Birthday #80 for Dad (a.k.a. Derf). Happy Birthday, Dad!

Dad's milestone birthday warrants a little more coverage on Mainely Tracy. So, once again, I will steal from my sister's Facebook post. (I did not ask permission first, so perhaps she will sue me.... Ha ha!)  The two photos she posted today:

Our handsome father, a few short years ago....

A more recent photo (yesterday!) of Zack, Dad ("Papa" to his grandkids), and Josh

A Good Buy

Lew and I went to Best Buy yesterday so Lew could get a new laptop. His old laptop was running slower and s..l..o..w..e..r and s...l...o...w...e...r.  (He had had it!)

We didn't pay Best Buy to set up the new computer for us. We just brought it home, box unopened. (We paid for the computer, of course!)

I remember how much trouble we had with Windows 10 on my all-in-one computer when we first got it, so I was a little nervous about what might happen with Lew's new machine.

I needn't have worried.

Lew fired it up last night, and the lovely Cortana assistant voice guided him through the whole setup process. It was nowhere near the trouble I had with my computer... not even close. I'm guessing some of the kinks have been worked out of Windows 10 since we bought mine. (It figures.)

Lew is happy to have a new laptop, so we should be all set technology-wise for a while now. Hooray!