Ronald and Donis Great Adventure

 It's that month again.  Granddaughter is still happily married.  My breast surgeon says everything is ok.  Daughter had to sell her house, but her brother found her a manufactured home in a gated community and she's settling in.  Living alone is all new to her. The fact that she qualifies to live in a senior community is a little rough on me, though. Ron managed to get in a garden this year and took loving care of it.  We've been supplying cucumbers to whomever wants them, green bell peppers and green hot peppers have been coming in pretty steadily and the tomatoes are really turning the garden red.  It's one of my favorite times of the year.  I almost become a vegetarian between what's in our garden and what we get delivered from "Market wagon".   We were naughty children today on our trip to Sam's Club.  We bought a jar of M & Ms plain, peanuts and peanut butter plus a jar of Skittles.  Time to hit the exercise bike on a...

It's goodbye 2021 and hello 2022.  We're looking forward to a better year than the past.  August wasn't our favorite month though it started out pretty good.  Our oldest granddaughter got married.  It was a nice quiet affair in her father's (our son) backyard.  Her brother got his license and preformed the ceremony.   The next week was my visit to the hospital as an outpatient.  It's the first time I've really been inside the hospital, so all was new.  Ron got to come and stay the entire time.  A lot of our friends had more serious hospital, but their spouse had to wait outside the hospital for their release.  I've recovered fine and in time to fly out to Arizona. Our daughter's husband has had a series of ailments and spends a lot of time in the hospital, so this time wasn't expected to be any different.  But it was.  He died August 29th, 4 days before his wife's birthday.  She's not doing well but that is expected....

 Just as our world headed back to normal another strain of COVID 19 popped up and it's back to wearing masks indoors.  I'm back to staying away from the grocery stores to keep myself clear for upcoming surgery.  I've been told that it will happen as  scheduled because it's necessary (C).   The positive results is that I will be able to play the accordion, I couldn't before surgery.  

 We're back in Illinois with two shots in our body that we didn't have when we left.  We did the two week wait and added two days and flew home.  The plain was pretty full and I made the mistake of sitting in the middle seat so someone took the window and slept most of the way via hogging the arm rest.  I'll learn, it may take me awhile but after this second time, I think I'll remember. Got to hug our son and daughter and then a grandson and great grand daughter.  What a nice feeling.  I wish there were more but, oh well. Life is still pretty much the same as it has been.  Sometimes I go to the grocery store with Ron but sometimes I don't.  We still go out for a late lunch/early supper on date day.  Before we left last year we went to Syl's for our anniversary dinner and were the only customers and today we went to Pagoda for our date day and we were the only sitting customers.  I'm going to miss the quiet where everything gets back to "...

 We made it back to sunny/hot Arizona.  It's been two weeks since we arrived, so we're presuming we're COVID 19 clear.  We were in three airports and two crowded planes to get here.  We bought our non stop tickets early to get a good price but in the mean time they changed the non stop to a switch planes in Vegas.  Vegas was the worst of the three airports.  First of all, it was crowded. Second it appeared they were trying to upgrade the eating choices but stopped before they were finished.  There were a lot of fast food signs but blocked from admittance by plywood barriers.  Third and most important to us we had to fast walk to, what appeared to be, the other end of the airport in order to catch our flight to Tucson.  We made it with only minutes to spare before they called out numbers.  Both flights were full or very close to being full except for the middle seats left open by Southwest Airlines.   It appeared everyone was we...

 I'd like to list all the beautiful places and friendly people we saw this summer but thanks to covid19 the list is short. My son came to visit on Saturday mornings but he kept 6 feet away from us and wore a mask.  My daughter came to visit a few times but she had her and her husband's health to deal with so that was her priority. We talked to our retired neighbors but only waved at the ones who still work every day.  Since the neighborhood has it's share of dogs, we met several face to face.  Gibby has a great memory so when he sees one of us outside he runs across the street because he knows he's probably going to get a treat unless his mean mommy says no.  Rocko is getting old and isn't doing much running and he never cared for any snacks.  The poor dog across the street the other way is tied up all day and barks at anything/one that walks by . . . the entire time their walking by.  The one next door on the other side is only out on a leash and only...