HORSESHOE BEND

11:58:17 PM EDT
Hearing 70's-partly cloudy-very high winds

        

               My mama and Danny

This being Mother's Day, of course Dorris and I made a trip out to the nursing home to see mama.

We found her bent over, intently looking through her small bedside table drawer...The room was dark, but she didn't seem to notice or care....

She was 'busy'... searching for something.

Don't ask me what she was looking for, because I don't know...

 She didn't either, when we asked.

We turned the light on in her room and led her back to her recliner, so she could sit down and look at all the cards and gifts we had brought to her.

Mama's short term memory is fading fast....We can tell her something and five minutes later she has forgotten.

It was same way with the gifts.

The conversation went like this.....

"Who gave me this necklace?"...."Dorris did mama."

"Who brought those flowers?"...  "We both brought you some mama."

"Who brought me this drink?"..."Carlene did mama."

"Who brought me these hair bows?"..."Dorris did mama."

"Who put the feed in the bird feeder?",..."Carlene did mama."

And so it went....over and over......and over again.

Time after time we patiently answered her questions.....

Time after time, she forgot.

But you know what the first thing was that she said to us, when we went into her room?

" Well, I am so happy to see you both.......

  "My first born girl and my baby"

    I will always be "her baby"

            You see......

A MOTHER'S LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDS.

I THANK YOU LORD FOR MY MAMA.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

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11:47:42 PM EDT
Hearing sunny-80's

The repairman came today. He had to order a part for the refrigerator which will put him having to come back next Tuesday...if the part comes in.

Amanda had her sonogram and I got to see my grandson make a fist and kick his mama with his little foot while they were doing it!  Everything was fine with mama and baby.

Afterwards we both had to get some lunch since it was already 1:00pm and neither one of us had breakfast.                

                        

            NOW  GUESS WHAT AMANDA DID?

                   

                    

Today; after the sonogram, and after we ate lunch.....she went to have her hair cut off so she could donate it to Locks For Love.......where they make wigs for people undergoing chemo and radiation!

                   

They got two locks that were over 13 inches each!!!  I am so proud of her.....You have to know Amanda.....she LOVES her hair.....but was willing to give it away for a good cause.

                   

                         That's my little girl!

 

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

 

 

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12:37:51 AM EDT
Hearing 80'S/ SUNNY

         

             Look at the clouds Sunday

I am so disgusted.... My refrigerator is not working....AGAIN. It has ruined a gallon of milk...and we all know how much that costs now....not to mention other foods that are in there.

When the repair man came the other day, he replaced the ice maker with another one. Now my refrigerator has stopped cooling. I have been through this two or three times now....the ice maker dies and then the refrigerator. I just bought this refrigerator new in June of 2006. I feel like crying....

I am so tired of this. I just got off the phone with service repair and they can come tomorrow sometime between 8:30 and 5:00...and of course I have to take Amanda to the doctor tomorrow.....( please pray we get a good report)

 Get this...the service people only come on TUESDAYS....so if I am not here tomorrow...it will be another  week. 

I just wrote Sears an e-mail...I am hoping I will get some help on this.

Why can't we get good quality items anymore??? My last refrigerator lasted for many, many years....not giving a bit of trouble....except for a little rust.

      

        That's Kelvin on the other side.

We all went fishing Sunday at this local pond...I didn't catch anything...but I sure enjoyed myself.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

 

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11:44:56 PM EDT
Hearing sunny-low 70's

        

              My 'Peace' rose (taken today)

I got a birthday alert today in my emails....It came from Birthday Alarm and was sent to remind me that Lahoma's birthday is May 6........

Lahoma had a journal here in J-Land and I came to know and love her...just as I have so many here. I cried when I read that it would be her 40th birthday....

You see Lahoma died last Christmas from cancer .....she never got to reach her 40th birthday. I went up to my bank and bought some Relay for Life footprints in memory of her and Kim.....not much I know...but I felt truly honored to print their names on those footprint cards....

Honored just to have met two brave women that helped me to go on with my life at a time when I thought I couldn't; when they were fighting for their own....They were so courageous....so loving....We can not forget them.

Me, Amanda, Kelvin and Dorris went to see my mama tonight. She was doing okay and we stayed a good while talking to her. She is getting more and more forgetful...She was trying to remember the birth order of her children and couldn't without help....and her short term memory is just that; short term.

We had to keep telling her that Amanda was pregnant. Every time she saw Amanda's stomach, she would ask if she was pregnant! lol Dorris gave her a little flashlight that she loved and I took her homemade cookies and magazines...We always try to take her treats when we go.

I had to have the repairman again for my refrigerator ice maker. He took the old one out and replaced it...and It is still not working right... I am going to have to call them back it seems.

I will give it a couple of days and see if it gets cranked up right...but right now it is only dropping a few cubes at a time and not nearly as often as it should...I am so disgusted about it all.

Well tomorrow is another work day, so I best get to bed...Hope you all have a great day tomorrow...THANK YALL SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE FOR ME...

GOD BLESS YOU ALL

 

 

 

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10:50:07 PM EDT
Hearing 70's- sunny-breeze

       

             My Lantana last year.

I just planted my tomato plants a week or so ago and look what Amanda found on one of them last week!!!      

        

  The name of it is "Bush Goliath".

Amanda and I went up to the house and started cleaning some of the stuff up around it and in it. Whew....you would not believe all the trash that we got up...Amanda got tired quickly, so I told her to go sit down while I finished up.

After I got through with the inside rooms, I went outside and got up allot of the old sheet rock that had been thrown out...I threw a lot of stuff in the garbage can outside....and when I got through filling it up...the lady next door who runs the children's nursery brought me their outside trash can! She even helped me fill it up, bless her heart!

Needless to say...I wore myself out up there.

Kelvin has started painting the railings on the front porch and they are  going to look so good when he gets finished. He has redone all the plumbing and pipes...replaced the kitchen sink faucet...built a hallway to the (only) bathroom so you don't have to go through the bedrooms to reach it...just to mention a few of the things that he and his dad has done so far. Next he has to find the leak on the roof and then we will hopefully start the inside painting.

Here are the railings:

Amanda is doing okay....still being sick to her stomach allot...but otherwise okay...The baby is moving more and more, and she has finally started getting a noticeable pooch in her stomach!

Bless her heart she is also swelling in her feet, legs, face...Thank goodness she only has May and June left...I am trying to talk her into getting her hair cut before she goes into labor! lol Yall please keep praying for her and the baby, okay?

Well..I think I am getting off here and going to bed.....my legs and feet are swollen and I need to put them up a while.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

 

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11:52:03 PM EDT
Hearing 79*-SUNNY WITH WHITE PUFFY CLOUDS

       

Thank You Lord for was another beautiful day. A wonderful breeze had the white puffy clouds floating across the morning sky as I walked the pups....And with the sun shining so brightly, it was easy to see that spring has finally come to Georgia.

I have been working all day....First thing this morning, I stripped all the beds and began washing all the bed cover..Then in between all the washing and drying, I took the curtains down in both mine and Dan's bedrooms. I cleaned the windows and dusted the blinds before I put new curtains back up.

Next, I vacuumed and steam cleaned the carpet in Dan's room....and got him to put some of the stuff he doesn't use out into the shed (that we can finally get in to! ) lol

I washed and dried 8 loads of cover and clothes! Whew! Afterwards, I took Dan to Wal-Mart with me to get a few items...While there, I also had to have my oil changed, a new air filter put on and new windshield wiper blades installed....Man, I sure miss Danny doing this for me.

When we got back home, I decided to give all the pups a bath.....

Afterwards I had to hop into the shower because they soaked me through and through! lol

So here I am right now writing as I have finally stopped working......

Oh there is plenty left to do.....but it will have to wait....

'cause I am going to bed!

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

 

 

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11:51:57 PM EDT
Hearing sunny-80's

         

              My azalea in the front yard.

I am so sore and tired I can hardly lift and move my fingers to type this.......Yesterday I helped Kelvin,and his mom, paint the underside of the house and also part of the front porch...My niece Charity and her husband Chris came over after church and helped also....        

          

This is me and my shadow looking at the front porch I finished for Amanda. The temperature was in the 80's and there is no shade on the  porch yet, so it was really hot out there on her.....She did 98 % of it before her feet started swelling so bad, that I made her go  sit down and prop her feet up.

We worked up there from lunch til nightfall.....and at the end; Chris cooked us some hamburgers and hotdogs on a homemade grill...( Some concrete blocks, a wire oven rack with tin foil on it and ready to lite charcoal!) Boy that was a good supper...we were all starving by the time it was ready too.

So I was already tired from yesterday....but today I am truly worn out.....You see I did something today that I have put off for over two years....I cleaned out the old wood shed in my back yard.....The shed that Danny had so filled with stuff that I had to take the door off to get in there.

Danny was a " Let's keep it; we may need it someday " kind of person....He kept everything...

And after today; I sincerely believe that the man kept every nail, bolt and screw he had ever had since we married...and the squirrels WERE KIND ENOUGH TO SCATTER EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM ONTO  THE FLOOR!

Once; about ten years ago.....he let me get in that shed and clean it out for him....I had it so neat and organized....A year or so later, I kinda knew that he was cluttering it up again...and even offered to clean it out again for him..but he refused....and just kept saying "maybe next month....".well we never did get to "next month"...so I just stopped mentioning it.

Well......I got up this morning finally with the determination to tackle that shed....If I had known what I was getting into...I probably would have just burned it down. I started around 10:00 am and I finished around 8:00 pm. I still have some stuff laying in my yard that I will have to get rid of tomorrow. I made one trip to the recycle center today.

I had the intention to rent a dumpster from our trash collectors, but after I found out it would be 395.00 plus a delivery fee and a pickup fee.....I decided "No Can Do".

The rats and squirrels had been in the shed before me and they left thousands of eaten pecan hulls behind. The floor was covered with them and every time I made a step, it crunched loudly. I was so scared that I would run up on a rat. Dan got out there and helped me...if he hadn't I would still be out there.

I have been buying hoes, shovels, paint brushes,pans, rollers...and I found three hoes, three shovels, 4 new paint roller paint rolls, four paint rollers,and numerous other things that Danny never could find.

At one point, I broke down and just cried....I was so tired and every little thing reminded me of him...I have one more shed to go through...It won't be tomorrow because I have to take Amanda to her OBGYN....

I am hoping that this shed will not be as bad as this one was......

I am just glad that I finally got it done and  it is over for the time being.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

 

 

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12:50:49 AM EDT
Hearing sunny/70's

       

Have you ever gone back and re-read some of your first entries in your journal? I did tonight...and there's a lot of stuff that I had forgotten...until tonight.

One of the entries was about me and Danny going to the High School football game after I got off work....I read that I was very tired, but in the end was glad that I had went; because of all the good memories it brought back......

I also read that Danny was still holding my hand at the football game after over thirty years of marriage. I am so glad that I went with him. 

I find myself being so lonesome for his company.....just to hear him talk to me, to be able to hug him, and have him hug me back...I miss that so much.

I picked Dorris up and went to see Mama Wednesday. She was about the same...She never fails to ask me when I am coming back. I took her some snacks and a small bottled coke....which she loves. I filled up the bird feeder that I placed outside her window way back when she first entered there. She loves watching the little birds eat and is always so happy to see me fill the feeder up for them....Reminds me of how she use to beg people to eat when they came to her house....she was always so happiest when folks would eat!

Amanda is doing okay so far....still getting sick after meals but not as often. I know I have to wait for this grandchild of mine to get here..but I am not being patient about it! lol I can not wait to HOLD him and SEE him...I already LOVE him.

Well...I need to go to bed, if I am to get up in the morning to go to work...

So I will have to see yall later.....

Yall stay safe

      &

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

 

 

 

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8:31:36 PM EDT
Hearing sunny-windy-unseasonably cold

   

Dogwood blossoms from trees that Kelvin planted!

It has been a beautiful day today...a little windy, a little chilly ...but beautiful none the less. I planted my flowers in my hanging baskets and when I was done with that... I went ahead and planted my tomatoes in my big containers...I have three plants...a bush goliath, a big boy and a beef master....Now I find out that it is suppose to freeze tonight...:-(  Guess I will have to bring them in or something.

Kelvin finished my closet and it looks so good! We were able to go to Home Depot and have the paint matched up to the original color of the walls...which was amazing....So I spent most the day painting it and today I did a few touch ups and it is now finished!

I love the doors!!

I took this side picture to show you how he blended it in with the back wall...Didn't the paint match good??? Doesn't it look like it was always there???!

My ceilings are tall, so he even put me a place to put my blankets, bedspreads, etc...something I have never had before! YAY!!!

Well, I best get off here and go get my tomato plants and bring them in!

Thank yall so much for wishing my brother a happy birthday...he will be having some surgery this coming week....so please keep him in your prayers...Yall have been so good to me.....I love yall.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

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1:55:12 AM EDT
Hearing sunny-chilly-windy-40's

          

  My Big Brother Frank holding my Chihuahua; Coco

Today is my brother's birthday....He is 65 years old....I know this because he is right at 10 years older than I...he having been born in 1943 and I in 1953....So it is easy to keep up with his age... as long as I can remember mine! He is my oldest brother ( besides Buddy...who is older than he, but is a half brother by law... but a whole brother in my heart! ).

I love my big brother sooooooooo much.........He has been there for me when no one else has....When Danny died; he stood right there with me....staying at my house for days, until he was sure I would be okay.....He lives over 500 miles away from me...so I am sure it was hard for him and his wife to be here that long, but he did it.

And when it came time to go to the funeral home and pick out the casket and plot and such; he was right there with me....guiding me...advising me...but not pushing me....

When it came time to go into our church for the funeral....during the commotion and confusion; I somehow lost sight of him...I remember that it was pouring down rain....lightning and thundering.....and I remember standing on the front steps of the church with the funeral director.....and he saying;..."Carlene...we have got to go in now"..and me not budging until they found my brother......

You see.......he is my back...I know if I fall; he will be there to catch me......and I knew I would not be able to hold up through that funeral if he was not in there with me....so the director sent everyone to hunt him ...and of all things; they found him trying to get his van windows up...they had mysteriously quit working! As soon as he was by my side..I told them...."I am ready now." Looking back I guess the funeral director was as relieved as I was that they found my brother...considering that we were right in the mist of terrible rain and lightning!

My brother has worked hard all his life......as a young boy, he worked at a dairy milking cows. Then later, as a teenager, he joined the army  and served over in Korea. After his tour of duty in Korea, he got stationed at Fort Knox where he met his wife....(she was the best thing to ever happen to him.)

So he ended up living in KY. and working for the Post Office until he retired. ( He was given many, many awards while working at the Post Office. )

You know.....I may feel so sad and depressed and down and out......and I may worry about everything and anything.....but there is one thing I do not have to worry about....I know without a shadow of a doubt that my big brother loves me...and will be there for me....I know that he will never hurt me...I know that what he tells me is the truth, I do not have to worry about him lying to me or on me........

He was raised right along with me...on HORSESHOE BEND ROAD...Just a poor little rag-tag barefooted boy from the country....

I love him so much and respect him for all that he has accomplished in his life... He fought and worked hard so many years for the life he has now...a life that proves he was not only a success, but also an honorable and decent man.

Just goes to show....no matter how you are raised...or what life throws in your way......in the end; it is all up to you.

My big brother proves it!

HAPPY 65th  BIRTHDAY MY BIG BROTHER!!! 

          I  LOVE YOU!

 

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

 

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