Sooner or Later…

So sorry not to have written sooner but under the weather aptly describes the way life has been going.

**Grandbaby boy spent three days in the hospital with a virus. The fever would be moderate in an older child but not in one only four weeks old. Lots of weird diapers, up-chucking, and pedialyte. (cherry is not good in the diaper sense). He is home now - after a full battery of x-rays, scans, pokings & proddings. Official word: “He Has A Virus”. 

Whatever the “virus” it is going around our area. Fevers of 100-101 F, tired, irritable and blah. sometimes throwing up or the other end. It lingers a few days, disappears a day or two and reappears. This is one that must simply be waited out. Seems rather early for this type of virus though.

**One of the department workers at dh’s place of employment is off on medical leave until the end of the month. dh has been working 6 days a week and is very tired. The list of things to get done to move is not getting shorter but the days are. Frustrating that a man can work his buns off and Uncle Sam gets first shot at the check.

The new place has two meters - one for the house & one for the shop. Sensible. We turned on the one to the house to clean and discovered the water pump is through the shop. DH has lights now.

**My oldest friend in Arkansas is in hospital in Memphis. A few years back she went off the deep end relationship wise & divorced the man who loves her deeply. We haven’t seen a lot of each other but still get along fine. Like most women around here who sooner or later find a loser, she found hers. He likes his fists until she had enough. Seems she tried to move him out of her house. He thanked her with a .45 to the face then turned the gun on himself. She called 911 herself. Latest word is that she is now thickly wrapped up in the hospital but able to write to communicate. His life support was pulled. Stupid. Nine months pregnant she weighed 95 pounds - it isn’t very Christian but if someone had to die I’m glad it wasn’t her.

**DH’s grandmother is in the hospital in intensive care with fluid building up in her lungs. It doesn’t look good. She is nearly 90 and has been ready to go for awhile. Still is one trip I’m not anticipating.

**Chickens have a new trick–flying over the fence. Molly girl, the black lab half puppy, loooves to greet them or at least try.

And through countless hours of practice the rooster has perfected his crow. Hee hee several of the kids at the daycare next door stand at the fence and practice with him. Bet their parents are wondering where that came from! lol

**I have a grand summer cold. It is a better cold than most as I spent one day cleaning out from under the beds in the kids room. Nothing improves a cold like crawling with the nose two inches from fifty year old carpeting. Generic musinex is good + lots and lots of water. All I have to say is Puffs…with lotion…

Looking on the bright side, this cold has now made it hard to notice the yellow-stained-in-two-corners-carpet in the family room of the new place. Thank you & Thank you & Thank you to Grits for vaccuuming that room in preparation for further cleaning. I could blame it on hillbillies who don’t know better but the previous owner was from California. I’ve heard of ammonia being a good cleaning agent and have a diy attitude, but isn’t that a bit over the top?

**What is it about boxes that thrills children so much? And why are toys the most fun after all the bits are together next to their packing box? Why do 1 year olds insist that a shelf must be entirely empty? Does the floor look cold without a thick covering of books?

**Into this mess knocked the DOD (Department of Defense) to do Nikos background check interview. Pardon the moving mess. Underneath the toys, boxes, pillow and blanket forts, and other newly discovered old toys the floor is vaccuumed and swept. Don’t mind the computer room - the baby thinks the floor is cold.

It went well. Nikos was born military. Has wanted to be a soldier since he was five years old. Hard part is finding neighbors who know us and have seen him living here. See we live on a corner. On the corners of this + are: us, a baby headstart, a headstart, a bank drive through. Next door to us is a Methodist church, Behind us is a Church of Christ, last building on this block is the parsonage for the Methodist church. Across from us (at an angle) is an older retired woman. We know her a bit, her daughter and granddaughter. We keep to ourselves, mostly and so does she. Good arrangement and we get along fine–but does make it hard in an interview type situation. What busy teenager spends time visiting with the new retiree across the street? But she got what she needed and he should be cleared soon.

We are under the weather but if nothing else is true, weather is always changing. Hoping for some sunny days soon. Guess I’d better upset some cardboard ships and load them up with new, nonhuman cargo. Sniffle, honk, honk, honk….coming aboard!!!