Happy Sunday
36 years ago today was Thanksgiving Day and my one and only daughter was born.
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ReplyDeleteI was the only girl in my family for fourteen years. Five brothers by the time Paula showed up! Kinda funny thing to be diapering your sisters, lol!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed taking care of my sister insofar as I was able to. Didn't strike me as odd at all. I was eleven when she was born. Probably I was young enough to like the idea of a baby but not old enough for the mother instinct to have kicked in.
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ReplyDeleteSis is talking about getting a new kitty. I think it's too soon and have warned her that she may not be able to keep the new kitty just for herself. He/she may have other ideas. Of course, she's mad at me for saying so. But you have to think of these things.
ReplyDeleteJust ordered two more Barry Manilow CDs. One of them, "Singing with the Big Bands" I remember knowing about and being excited about. Made a point of watching him on Johnny Carson, but somehow I never got around to buying it. Can it really have been 1994? Can 1994 really be such a long time ago?
I'm so tired. Patty stopped by last night. I was very glad to see her, but almost too tired to enjoy the visit. Always so tired. It's possible that I'm anemic - don't eat very well, or very much. But I don't want to go to the doctor. Trying to keep my chin up...and eyes open. *grin*
Sis has decided against the new kitty. Agrees it's too soon.
DeleteMy YouTube channel has 80 subscribers, can you imagine? View count currently stands at 211,083. Mind blowing!
ReplyDeleteCat, we got our kittens 9 months after our Emma's death and in some ways it was too soon. We did it because they needed us, and we're not sorry. We are still healing even as we're rejoicing in our little cute kitties.
ReplyDeleteAlly's Mom wrote this afternoon:
ReplyDeleteThis morning Ally was rushed to the hospital in the back of an ambulance. Just before eating breakfast Ally went limp and was unresponsive. She was spending the night with Grammie and Grampa Schulte, so they called 911 and the ambulance was at their house quickly.
They remembered when Ally was unresponsive with us over a year ago, so they thought to make the EMTs check her blood sugar right away. It was 39. The paramedics pulled into the driveway soon after that and transferred her over to them. They gave her an IV and a big dose of dextrose. By the time they were off Grammie and Grampa's road Ally was coming around.
She ended up spending around 2 hours in the ER (her shortest time in the ER ever). The ER doctor called up to DHMC (He was very impressed with Ally's oncologist!) and we will need to call the endocrinologist tomorrow and set up an appointment.
Ally is doing fine now, and I think Grammie and Grampa are going to be okay too...she scared them something fierce. They did everything right, and we have a plan for her next sleep over.
Hopefully the rest of the month will be less dramatic. I will be sure to update after our endo appointment and when I know more about the procedure to take out Ally's port.
This evening we saw fire trucks next door. No scent of smoke, but there were fire folk walking around in our neighbours' yard with flashlights.
ReplyDeleteTurns out it was carbon monoxide! Everyone is okay (they have two little children too!), but we haven't heard yet what the cause was.
I missed yesterday? Must be beginning to lose it. Ain't middle aged dementia grand? :P
ReplyDeleteLovely photo yesterday, Listener.
We had snow flurries yesterday, though I didn't know till Patty told me last evening. Like I say, majorly out of it.
Bill, some twenty years ago I read an Orson Scott Card, Seventh Son. Enjoyed it but not enough to seek out more of his books.
I read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead when they first came out and agreed they deserved their Hugos. I was less impressed with Xenocide, the third in that series. Readable, but didn't really grab me. Between that and the topics he has chosen since, I haven't read any of his more recent books until the discussion group chose this one. I'm now about 40% of the way through, and as I think about it I am rather reminded of Xenocide. Card seems to be more into his world-building than his characters. And he seems to be presenting his world-building as a puzzle to which you gradually get more pieces. That's why I described the first couple of chapters as "weird."
DeleteWelcome back, Cat.
ReplyDeleteHappens to the best of us. :-)
Ally has a great support group! Bet they sure did get a honking big shot of adrenalin. Whew. All's well that ends well, indeed.
ReplyDeleteWe had a nice visit with Naomi, got back yesterday. Traffic was not too bad. Friday morning we passed the site of a horrendous [mostly] single-car crash on Hwy. 101; coming back in the afternoon they were just removing the last of the emergency equipment, six hours after the crash. Evidently caused by a driver falling asleep at the wheel while heading home from a midnight "Black Friday" shopping trip. Two dead, four moderately to severely injured. Everyone who survived was wearing a seat belt. Highway deaths in California up by almost half this Thanksgiving weekend compared to 2011, although there was no increase in drunk driving arrests.
Nice weather over the weekend, except for a bit of local fog Thursday morning. We got some pruning done today; the tulip tree was the big job.
We spotted either a very big mouse or a small rat in the garage just before we left Thursday morning; set traps upon our return Saturday. No rodent trapped so far. (I hope it moved on over the weekend; I'd rather not kill it.)
TTFN
--Alan