Another wonderful month!

 Life in the old lane!  It's been quite a month.  We can start with the 7 doctor visits we've had this last month plus my wife got one trip to the Emergency Room.  Around here the ER tends to be conservative and unless there is really something going on they just tell you to go home and that's what they told her.  Maybe with a new prescription or maybe not.  Anyway, that was fun even if we didn't get home until something like 2:00 in the morning.  And now that it is close to the 1st of the month I'm happy to say that we have 7 more doctor visits/tests scheduled for July not including my wife's surgery.  Yes, she's having another ankle surgery to hopefully repair the one she had two years ago.

Then there are our 'children'.  I'm talking about people over 50 years of age but still they did have parents!  Don't get me wrong, it was great to see both of them and we had a good time talking up a storm.  Anyway our son was here for 3 days and a week later we had our daughter for two days.  Her visit was part of a business trip; his was just to check up on his mom.  My wife is having trouble walking and talking.  When she is on the phone especially her voice will kind of break up and I'm sure that motivated his visit.  We have no idea what's going on there and her doctor is no help either.  Her walking is going to change dramatically on July 2 when she has that ankle surgery!  Then she'll be confined to the wheelchair for at least a month and who knows how the walking will end up.  What the hell happened to taking the summer and seeing new parts of the world?  Oh well.  

Otherwise it's been a pretty normal summer in the Nevada desert.  Our daily high is usually around 100 F (38 C) with breezes in the 10-15 mph range (15 to 25 kmph).  That's the reason we have one air conditioner system for each side of the house!  Nights get down to 65 to 70 F (18 - 21 C).  If I fall asleep in my recliner and wake about 01:00 I can usually open the windows a bit.  Rain?  You've got to be kidding!  We haven't even had snow on the mountains for at least 3 months. 

So I've been sitting here at my computer reading the news quite a bit.  How the hell did we get that group of idiots running our country?  I didn't agree with Mr. Trump in his first term but I wasn't really worried about the way the country was being run.  Now I'm getting pretty close to terrified.  Is there a law or article of the Constitution that he hasn't broken?  I think Mr. Trump is bad enough but that collection of sorry jerks he has 'helping' him is what is worrying me.  Suppose he were to be found incompetent?  President Vance?  OMG!  And Vance would be run over by the other idiots in the cabinet.  Jeez!  It's going to be a LONG 3 & 1/2 years let me tell you!   Already you go to the grocery store and see the price differences; in another year it will be in everything from electronics to vehicles to gasoline to drugs.  And, of course, when the prices of 'things' go up; so will service items.  Already we have seen prices of lunch items go up or the item just disappears from the menu.  We used to think that $30 for dinner at the local casino restaurant was a lot; now it's $50.  And, trust me, that doesn't include wine or a tip!  But we'll see what happens.  I'm not optomistic.  

So that's our world out here:  aches and pains, lots of warmth and a bunch of idiots running the country.  Talk about wonderful times!  Hopefully I'll get back here before an entire month is up!  Take care & be careful.

Life in the slow lane!

 Well, it's been a while but I really don't have much of interest to talk about.  We are still hitting the doctors way too much and they still aren't doing much to help either of us.  My wife's ankle fusion surgery just keeps getting farther and farther away.  My doctor and the ER people just don't have a clue what's going on with me so that's kind of dull too.  My wife has been going to the gym and meeting with a personal trainer trying to build up some muscle since after the surgery she is going to be confined to a wheelchair for a month or two.  I've been going with her and using the treadmill and the back strengthening exercises.  Helping her in and out of that chair, bed and everywhere else isn't going to be fun for either of us!

I did come up with my own version of excitement.  I was walking over to the window to close the window blind at night and managed to kick the leg of a chair with the little toe on my left foot!  Talk about fun!  Well, it slowed me down some but not all that much.  I had a doctor's visit a couple days later so I asked him to look at it and he doesn't think it's broken or anything so it's just hobble around for a bit.

Yesterday we got up to 105 F so if you want to be outside you do it early!  We've had some weeds growing in our front yard so I decided to work on removing them.  I can only do about an hour a morning so it's taken me 3 mornings and I've still got some little stuff right next to the street.  Now it's time for me to work on the back yard but I need to wait until next week; our trash can is full of weeds with no room for trash!  LOL  This pile is about 20% of what I did yesterday a.m.  This bending over and pulling weeds at 76 years of age is no fun!

 There was one fun thing I got to see.  This guy was thinking of landing his balloon.

 I don't have any idea why but he decided that he needed a different spot so he moved on to the right (south) in the photo.

 He's not really landing in those trees.  He's in a place about 2 blocks past (west) them.  That whole lot is a weird thing.  It is an acre just like ours.  When we moved in there was a hole dug like someone was going to lay gravel and put in a foundation for a house.  The trees were MUCH smaller.  There is a well on the property and it's been pumping water to those trees for the 16 years we've lived here but there has been absolutely nothing done about building a house.  Weird.  

Anyway, that's all that's fit to print about life out here right now.  We can't go anywhere because of the constant doctor visits so if I manage any more photos they will probably be either weeds or balloons!  Take care and have a good time!