1/19/2015 10:43 AM
Good morning. It is
about 10:45 am and we’re doing ok this morning, but went a little crazy in our
eating patterns – see chart L
We talked to Linda for about an hour and a half 8-9:30 am
and then we started our cleaning tasks including getting us into the shower and
dressed. While talking to Linda we
updated our chart. The girls had been
here overnight on Saturday, and we didn’t have access to our computer to finish
Saturday or Sunday. We learned how to
use the recurring dates I believe, but will take more time to wipe out all the
bugs … sometims we get an odd duplicate.
We are finding that if we miss a day, we have to mark the task complete
a couple of days, because it advances to the next day and we don’t want to be
behind. There should be a master button
to move things ahead that didn’t get checked in a day, but I suppose that
wouldn’t get the user to check his days to see when time will clear for the
task. I don’t want to complain because
we are liking the system a lot including the part we are doing now where we
leave a task for writing for the day.
Makes us feel good to not need a big blog entry, and we’re still
thinking of copy/paste these entrys to the blog. Depends how much is straight cleaning and how
much we an note other things and thoughts going on during the day. It does seem like a good in-between play and
real writing.
Rich is now in the kitchen and he’s making his breakfast –
thinking its some kind of ham, egg, and cheese sandwich – at least according to
the sounds happening in the kitchen. In
about ten minutes we have someone coming over to check the furnace – just general
check
1/19/2015 11:52 AM
AHA! The heating guy
is here. It is a younger guy, but he
seems to know what he’s doing. He’s
quiet though. I tend to like them when
they are more sociable. We put Dakota’s
leash on our chair so he stays out of the way – that’s becoming standard. We just finished eating too … we had a couple
pieces of ham, and then something from Rich’s vegetable tray. We tried giving Dakota a baby carrot, but
he’s not having too much to do about that.
Poor dog much more interested in the ham. We took a couple of pictures of him – because
he didn’t want to come in from the sunroom .. let me get those.
Isn’t he a good looking dog!
He’s so content out there. Not
sure if he’s going to like the heat of the summer temps, but it wouldn’t
surprise if he hung around more outside.
We’re going to have to get used to keeping him more out on the
porch. The sunroom is fine, but I think
he gets more involved with HIS space if he can be out on the porch. He seems pretty good at laying up there as to
his spot, but will come in if we go out to the sunroom. We posted these pictures to our site for the
place we adopted him from. I like to
keep them updated and I like watching the progress and bonding of some of the
other dogs adopted from their place.
This is the place at Gregory, SD.
AND, we have one more picture to show, hold on….
Isn’t this picture adorable?
It is Ame my 13 year old Granddaughter.
Both of the girls did an overnight on Saturday and were here until about
9:30 pm last night (Sunday) Maury had to
work of course on Sunday and although sometimes the girls stay home or have
other activities on his weekend, this time WE got to have them. It was a pure delight. For the most part the girls just hung around
… Isa spent most of her time on the computer – my big one, and Ame spent a good
amount of time in the girl’s bedroom.
BUT, after a while on Sunday Rich turned on the fire and Ame came out
and sat on his recliner, and then she got the idea to sew this hat. I LOVE it.
I think the character is called, “Nepeta.” The project took about 4 hours of pretty
concentrated time – mostly after dinner and it was just finished as her dad was
coming in the door. She will finish it
with the eyes, nose and she has a good idea how to do the horns. I don’t know if she will unsew and sew them
into the hat, or if she’s going to do a headband. We’ll see.
The girls were dropped off at their mothers last night. Word is she got a new sewing machine. I’m not sure if Ame will be using that or the
old one, but anyway it’s a good deal
that her mother is encouraging the sewing too.
Ame showed me the picture of a top and pants she made – it was her first
time on the sewing machine and we’re entirely amazed. The tricky part of the hat was that we had to
sew four panels to get it to the right side, and Ame decided that she wanted
the inside to be lined with the material that was on the outside. It’s a really nice finishing touch. I love how darn cute she is. She told me about the general picture of what
is going on. She belongs to a group called,
“Cosplay.” Basically, people take ideas
from the anime, or other media characters and they sew the costumes, and then
get together with others doing the same like at the conventions that Ame is
going with her friends. She’s got a lot
of good comments coming back for her doing so much especially as a 13 year old. I think its very encouraging. I also think that her mother has a lot of
creativity so Ame has good creative genes on both sides. I reminded her that my grandmother – her
great great grandmother was a seamstress.
I love that part of the continuity.
We also talked about maybe in college taking courses in like theatre
production. I don’t know if she wants
real work in another field – at one point, she really wanted to do something
with the study of wolves, so this might stay as a pastime. But with her kind of interest, talent and
ambition, she’d really have a lot of fun with theatre production making of
costumes and maybe scenery. I hope and
will encourage that she joins the drama group in high school. AHH they have plays twice a year at Main West
where she’ll be going. Maybe she could
get a jump at it right away and really learn from some of the older
students. She has that kind of quiet,
but assertive personality. She’s grown a
lot this year.
Ok, maybe at this point we’re just going on, but it was
pretty gosh darn cool working with her.
She would either have the idea and would pursue it, but this time she
was flexible enough to consider our points of view … she always though decided
for herself and she did the COMPLETE sewing of the project. Isa spent again most her time on the computer
which is like 6 feet from where we were sewing on the machine, but she was
close enough to pick-up anything she wanted, but far enough to focus primarily
on the computer. She does stuff with
online Barbie dolls, Club Penquin and watching someone coach/play one of the
popular games. There’s in-between stuff,
but she’s REALLY focused. I know I was
supposed to get her moving through other things, but I love to encourage the
ability to concentrate.. We did ask her
what she learned toward dinner time, but she hadn’t figured that out. I will like it more when she gets past
Barbies, but it seems she’s picking up lessons on relationships. Let it go gramma!
Rich is gaining as much information as he can from the
heating guy – he’s full of a LOT of information … I know Rich likes to learn
about the place and that’s a credit to him.
My question? When the thing stops
working, how much is it going to cost – from the sounds of it $2-2,400 for labor
and material. For the time being we have
to worry about a $130 coil that is going to soon need replacing. We’re good to go though. YAY … guy just left and my question to Rich
was – if you are going to vacuum that thing RIGHT before the guy gets here, did
you leave TOO much dog fur in the vacuum?
He put it on his will do sooon list.
We’re really impressed because he did things over the weekend like fix
the shower curtain, take out garbage, AND screw all the chairs tight as regular
maintenance. I know he isn’t feeling
100% due to most likely his bursitis, so I thought that was valiant effort.
Hmm, about this time though we’re thinking we really have to
go face the sewin room. I don’t like to
be in the back when people are here in the front – especially because Rich is
further out in the study. Hmm, another
thing though was that we were going to walk the dog. Maybe it’s a good idea to do that and THEN go
to the sewing room for the rest of the day.
It is about 12:30 pm now, so plenty of good time J
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