First off, here is a pic from our dinner last night at Gametime that I forgot to include in the last post....
Sunday, September 15th., 2024…… A pretty quiet Sunday. I was feeling pretty good from the jump yesterday. Randy said he was good too. Fun day. The kids and I went off to Appletree for breakfast before they headed back home. I think he said they would be stopping one day to ride Alsea trail and then go down the coast. Like I said, pretty quiet day. Cathye went off to church and I watched races.
Monday, September 16th., 2024…… The weather has been turning a bit these last few days. The mornings have been in the 50s and we are getting some showers. That helped the grapes though! They are delicious! We have been cutting some and taking them to give to friends at class. Sweet corn is also in here so we have been getting ears from local sellers. Hermiston Watermelons are about done. They are from Hermiston Oregon, out in the Columbia River basin. They are still coming down with them for local sale but now use a smaller truck. They are the best and are very tasty! Cathye’s cherry tomatoes are also going nuts! We go out and pick some fresh every day!
Tuesday, September 17th., 2024…… Cathye was feeling good so we
headed off to our workshop this afternoon. We have been talking about giving
the group a name and we were all asked to come up with our choices. I brought
several to the group and they chose one of mine. Our little group is now called
Late Bloomers! We all liked the name since our Club theme is strawberries. I
found some clipart that shows strawberries on the vine in bloom that we liked. We
also discussed getting badges and I was asked to come up with a logo and talk
to the badge maker up in Beaverton. Back home later, we had dinner and settled in to watch tv. Cathye has expressed interest in seeing the Harry Potter series. We watched the first one and she really enjoyed it. I have all of them on dvd so we can watch more later.
Wednesday, September 18th., 2024…… Since both of us have lab orders
from our doctors, today we headed off together to the hospital to get that done.
After that, we went to Kristi’s for breakfast.
Later this afternoon, I headed off to Corvallis to my appointment. When
I was doing a follow up with my gp, she asked how things were. I mentioned that
I was still trying to get some answers about my lack of smell. So, she gave me
a referral to an ENT office and that was today. The dr. checked everything and
didn’t see anything alarming but also nothing that would cause this to happen –
except some smaller than normal nasal passages and just old age. He wants to
put me on prednisone for 5 days and also wants me to do an MRI just to
eliminate tumors and such. Very rare. Problem is, I don’t want to go into a
tube! Even with a sedative, I don’t think I can do it. Waiting to hear from
scheduling to discuss further. Once I got home, we were in for the day. But
later, we did get some exciting news. Corey and Vikki facetimed Grandma to let
her know they were pregnant! Don’t they know what causes that? Anyway, happy
for them since they have been trying for a long time.
Thursday, September 19th., 2024…… Haircuts
today at 10:00am, so we headed off to breakfast at Kristi’s beforehand and made
it to Dianne’s place with a few minutes to spare. After that, Cathye would be going off with her
friends to Silverton to celebrate Cathye’s, Lona’s and Judy’s September
birthdays! But, as it turned out, a couple of them weren’t feeling well, so it
got postponed. We would find out a few days later that Lona has covid so that
turned out to be a good choice! Later, we planned to head over to Albany to
meet the 7:50pm train from Portland & pick up Josh and Tait who were coming
in to celebrate Grandma’s birthday with her. Turns out their train was super
late and wouldn’t get in until midnight! Since I had to do that special
pre-surgery shower before bed, I stayed back and she went alone. The plan is for them to work from home
tomorrow while Cathye stays with me during surgery. I expect to be released
early afternoon, and depending on how I am feeling, I will go to dinner with
them.
Friday, September 20th., 2024…… HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATHYE! It was a busy day for both of us! It was my
scheduled ablation surgery day. When they called to schedule, this was the only
day that I could get in. So she was ok with that. We will make it work! After I
got up and did the second shower and got dressed, we left for the 6:30am
check-in at the Corvallis hospital. Turns out this would be a long day. I got
in the prep room and was in the operating room around 8:30am. I won’t go into
the details but everything went well. Just went on longer than they had told
Cat. So, she was more than worried! But, after I was out and in recovery, Penny
stayed with me because I needed to rest and make sure there was no bleeding and
I could walk ok before they would release me. Meanwhile, Cat went back home
where the kids were. Corey and Vikki and family came down to celebrate with her
and Josh and Tate. Given the numbers and the time of day, they decided to forgo
going out and instead they ordered pizza. Cathye also wanted to work on her
special project with the grandkids. She had seen a video on Facebook about a
person putting fabric paint on her arms and then hugging her grandchild.
“Something to remember me by,” she said. “Hugs from Grandma! She bought 7-8
sweatshirts and Corey, Josh and Tait got theirs today! It was really sweet to
watch the video. Here are a few pics of that and the day for both of us…
Saturday, September 21st., 2024…… I am feeling pretty good this morning. I still have bandages on the two areas on my groin area where they inserted the lines. They said they were able to go in via the venus veins and not the large arteries in the groin. So, maybe the area will be less sore. I am bruised in that area and will remove the bandages later today after we get back from seeing The Cascade Chorus performance this afternoon. I also plan on going to our Club dance tonight. I know I am not allowed to dance, so we will just visit for a bit then head back home.
Ok, it’s later now. We went to the
chorus performance. It was really fun. The group up here is small but they put
on a pretty good show and the quartets were good too. I got used to going to
see barbershop in California where Ken is in his chorus (Orange Empire Chorus).
Turns out that one of the guys up here said he knows Ken. He said when he was
down visiting in SoCal, he was lucky enough to guest sing with the Masters of
Harmony, one of the top choruses in the world. He also knows some of the Orange
Empire guys and said he thinks he remembers Ken. I had called a number on their website and I
think I spoke with a gentleman named Bob Martindale. Might be him. Anyway,
Cathye enjoyed the show. They had a feature guest quartet (Timeless) who were
really good and had an exception lead. They said they were singing at District
coming up next month. Best of luck.
Here are pics from that part of
our day…
Later, we headed over to the Club
dance. The Lebanon Square Circlers dances from September to June, and this was
the first dance of our season. We didn’t stay too long but it was fun to visit
even though we didn’t dance! Home and tv
later. We watched the first half of the Golden Bachelorette. I was happy to see
that they chose Joan from the Golden Bachelor. She was our favorite last
season. Cathye enjoyed seeing all of the senior gentleman vying for her
affection! It will be a fun season! We
cut it short because we were both pretty tired from the day.
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