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| A beautiful model in Gerbing gear |
Who wants to buy Gerbings heated motorcycle gear, size small, $50.00? Ron really, REALLY, REALLY REALLY needs to update that on the BMWMOA site. HAHAHAHA! Yes! Would someone please buy the heated gear? The girlie and BMW are not included.
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| Ron's petite salad |
28 Feb, Monday, the last day of this too short month, and then it is TOMORROW. After our appointment with Dr, Wendy, eating at Jasons Deli, Cynthia dropped Ron off at the library to do research, she got good news in a second opinion about her RX from an eye specialist. Ron enjoyed his hours at the library without need to leave soon until the librarian suddenly announced that they close the genealogy section at 5 PM. Ron photographed most of the book pages that he wanted. One of these days we will see if his photographs are clear enough for OCR to work well. We returned to feast at Jasons Deli again. The Ukraine situation is overwhelming.
27 Feb, Sunday: First I lOVE you of the week !! We celebrated Blaire’s second birthday with family after worship and brunch. Ron walked after dark and carted dirt to fill one of the holes that we occasionally stumbled into.
26 Feb: Ron gets points for first written I love you of the day. SURPRISE !! Cynthia and Roxanne are off to do girlicure things giving Ron a day without adult supervision. And he spent the entire day transcribing a couple of Wilkes County, Georgia wills and looking for others.
25 Feb: What happened to our lovely warm Texas winter - another cold day forecast today. After trimming flowers, Ron continued getting things organized for our departure on 10 Mar. Cynthia interrupted to check her Rinker/King manuscript before it was sent to the publisher. That was good thing, because the last half of the manuscript was in footnotes. Whew. The manuscript is off to the publisher and the cover chosen. Ron weighed in today at 175.2 lbs, so tomorrow he can go to buy pretzels, especially since he walked twice today and carried dirt to one of the ruts he filled with compost earlier this winter. Finally after the evening walk, Ron was able to again work on James Lea.
24 Feb: It is not supposed to be any warmer today. It isn’t either. Cynthia lost her condo key. And she didn’t quite make the three point turn in the tight drive of the storage unit. Jon is going to see if rubbing compound will take the tan stucco off the bumper. Apart from WWIII beginning in Europe, 10% inflation, and threats to tax our pension plans, life is good. A woman at the fitness center said she loves watching us, because we are so obviously in love. She nailed it! Cynthia hauled a load of clothing to the storage unit, picked up dry cleaning, and mailed old photos to be restored. The rain on the plain means pain, it’s too cold and wet for Ron’s second walk. Serendipitous that, because Ron found a deed recorded in 1771 that showed that a James Lea had bought property on Richland Creek in 1760 from Lawrence Vanhook, a perfect match to Lawrence Bankston information.
23 Feb: Lazy day at home, especially since the temperatures were so cold that even the chronic hyperthermic was chilly on his two walks. The short periods of drizzle did not improve his walking experiences either. One of the bigger bucks had antlers worth 8 points and wasn't skittish. At least Ron was able to write the five Christmas cards to send to people without e-mail ... and he caught up with the last two taxable items $0.48 interest from one bank account and $0.22 for the other. It is going to be hard to make those stretch far enough to cover expenses until next year.
22 Feb: Off to fitness training. Feeling fit, too. Great workout! We are thankful for our torturess, Erin. Cynthia had lunch with Pastor Diane while Ron walked. Then we shopped for groceries (winding down since we need to consume EVERYTHING by March 10th). Amazing how time flies for the last three weeks before any year-long travel.
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| Cynthia's sister & family |
21 Feb: Dr. Wendy continued needling Cynthia’s improved feet. We rejoiced at the thought of going to Jason’s Deli to overeat at their salad bar. Cynthia sneaked in a tiny gingerbread muffin. We raced home to clean the condo for Laurie’s arrival to fit Cynthia’s dress for the Rambo Reunion in June. Laurie made Cynthia’s wedding dress. Ron went for his walk when the girls started fitting and went for a second walk at dusk. It is fun to walk after sunset because the deer are far less afraid and sometimes let Ron walk by within six feet of them. And today is Cynthia’s sister Merrilee’s heavenly birthday. Beautiful picture of her family.
20 Feb, Sunday: We are exercised and oatmealed, have worshipped, and enjoyed brunch with Merry & Bill, and Jon & Tina. It has been an exceptional day. Ron walked and did Sudokus. Our daily sameness is really boring unless we are traveling. (Gosh, the things Ron discovers only because he occasionally updates the blog. Ron thought that we have been having fun working non-stop on James Lea.) Cynthia added a Preface to her book; as soon as Kathy W sends the Foreword it is gone to the publisher. Disappointed that it was declined by NGS, she is determined that 35 years of work will be in print!
19 Feb. The clock ticked 5:34 PM. And all we have to say about that is we had a great day, we are well-fed, exercised, and the Condo is CUHLEEENN! Ron walked early; Cynthia is still pondering walking, because her foot complained after tearing through the house with chemicals to disinfect everything. Oops! The clock tocked (ticktock) 6:14 PM, Ron is going for his second constitutional. Cynthia will shower for church in the AM.
18 Feb: By one PM we are well fed, exercised, and sudokued. Ron has walked, Cynthia organized the Swedish Colonial Society Luncheon for 12 June in Essington, PA, also did eye exercises, read a chapter of the book, Rigged, by Mollie Hemingway and she proudly accomplished walking 2.6 miles, that included a walk on the marina point. Ron, while writing an e-mail, just hit upon an excellent idea and title for a best-selling book, "Things We Do to Enjoy Our Aging Bodies." Oh, oh! This sounds really racy! Yeah, race walking.
17 Feb: Days get longer as they race by like a bullet train. Ron makes our fitness trainer laugh until she gets a stomach ache. But she still gave us a challenging workout. Ron walked to the lake, and is hardly working on the James Lea book Cynthia has the King/Rinker manuscript ready to upload to a self-publisher as soon as the Foreword arrives from Kathy.
16 Feb: Another tomorrow, awake, exercised, oatmealed and sudokued. Ron is resuming James Lea edits while munching frozen mango and veggies. Cynthia, in the meantime, Upped her exercises to include those found in the book, Do You Really Need Eyeglasses? And she included some exercises for bone spurs found on numerous google sites. Also, she is organizing drawers and clothes to pack for the March 10th departure. Also, she is preparing a manuscript for publication. The new hearing aids are great!
15 Feb: Another hour with our favorite torturess. We will let you know if we survive. Oops, Ron forgot (as usual) that we don't see Erin this week. Instead, Cynthia had her new EarLens hearing aids (click here) installed and is quite pleased with being more able to hear now. Ron spent the day reading his favorite self-help book, "Do You Really Need Eyeglasses?" Perhaps that was recommended to me by Linda centuries ago in Santa Fe.
14 Feb: HAPPY Valentine's Day !! And Smooch to my beloved SmoochSmooch. It was a good day for our favorite Dr. Needles, and the acupuncture helped Cynthia's feet. Then we pigged out at Jason's Deli as usual and ran errands on the way home. Now Ron is debating eating more or not while he works on James Lea again.
13 Feb, Sunday: Another Tomorrow, and a nice message from another substitute pastor. Pastor Diane has laryngitis. Ron continues working on Cynthia's James Lea book. Cynthia's research on the internet highlighted the advice Dr. Margolis had given: ice that foot. Apparently, bone spurs are actually calcium deposits instead of bone, and they can be reabsorbed into the body with ice and exercise.
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| Charlotte is TINY, grandmother happy |
12 Feb: Another Tomorrow. We enjoyed meeting great granddaughter Charlotte today. Expect to see photos soon. And we were surprised in the evening to discover that we had invited granddaughter Samantha, husband Adam, and baby Noah to Valentine's dinner. Noah is quite the inquisitive, solid little seven-month-old. He already knows all about food: if he sees anyone else put anything into their mouths, he wants some and pursues it. His parents are going to have to themselves give up anything that they don't want him eating. Baby Noah pictured, and Deceased grandpa Scott, with Noah’s uncle Steven, and Cynthia.
11 Feb: Another morning of exercises, oatmeal, and sudokus. Now Ron is eating frozen mango and veggies preparatory for his morning walk to the lake & back. Today promises to be a big day, with both a shower and laundry scheduled after the evening walk. Cynthia is forced to focus on genealogy projects while her foot heals.
10 Feb: Here we are, home again after fitness training with Erin. Ron makes her laugh! Ron spent a couple of hours reading "Who's My Daddy?", a tale of DNA discovery that his MIT buddy Joel suddenly embarked upon after a DNA test revealed that his sister was a half-sister genetically. Ron is experiencing a real change in his telecommunications now that Cynthia is trying to let her body heal around the bone spur so that she can walk again without pain. It can't happen soon enough for her, but the pain persists whenever she wobbles the foot in unfortunate directions. Ron is walking and talking with an expanding circle of his friends since he is walking and talking alone mid-day and early evening. Cynthia's new glasses are getting quite the workout doing sudokus.
9 Feb: Inactivity is hard on the scale. Cynthia was Four pounds up after ten days without walking and the scale groaned. Ron’s scale was happy. (Yes, we use different scales. Cynthia's provides lower numbers; Ron's was hidden amongst his stuff in the storage locker.) Lots of errands were completed, Cynthia’s reading glasses arrived.
8 Feb: Happy Birthday Roxanne! We were early arising, exercising, oatmealing, and off to fitness training. Home again, home again, jiggity jig, and back to computer projects. Cynthia sent the Rinker wills to be printed, confirmed the videographer for June 12, and now completed the schedule. Sudoku break!
7 Feb: Already !! Where does the time go ?? Monday, acupuncture, Jason's Deli, computer projects!
6 Feb, Sundy: Early to rise, off to worship, then brunch with family, but only Roxanne and Jon joined us for her birthday celebration. Everyone else called in sick. We spent the day in the house. It is amusing to see Cynthia becoming interested in difficult sudokus. Ron walked to the lake at sunset to enjoy a lovely, rippling, reddish lake view. His compost burial site looks nearly smooth and level now.
5 Feb: The forecast isn’t changing any time soon, but if we want to survive, we will be forced to venture forth to get bananas. The cold continues to Sunday, albeit a warmer cold with less wind - 49 degrees and 1 mph wind now - Whew. We are engrossed in our computer projects, taking breaks for Sudokus. Cynthia "likes" sudokus, but she doesn’t like losing. But, today she did a really hard one without help from the genius. How do we get so busy? This is more fun. Ron procrastinated until after dark to venture forth again to bury compost and then walked to the lake and back.
4 Feb: Forecast is for a very cold day with a high of 36 degrees with 15 mph wind too. My friends up north would love to see such temperatures !! Interesting to notice the cleaning frenzy that ensues when Cynthia's feet aren’t hurting. After a day of sitting, Ron finally ventured forth for a long walk to the lake which was not even really cold. However, as soon as he turned around to come home, the wind chill ramped up to frigid, even for our chronic hypothermic. His decision to postpone compost burial by a day was a good one.
3 Feb: Fooey, Ron had a short description of driving to the exercise session because it rained all day again. Then Cynthia drove off for pedicure and manicure leaving Ron to enjoy computer activities. Somehow Google lost it. (Yeah, blame defenseless Google.) Dr. Wendy told Cynthia that your body is similar to babies . . . except that your body signals pain when it is unhappy instead of crying, and if you ignore it, it sends more pain, and if you continue to ignore it, it can send even more pain and more and more ... Sooner or later, it will win, and you will have to figure out what your body is demanding by sending all that PAIN. Once you correct that problem, the pain will diminish . . . until you resume the problem behavior.
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| bird's eye view of Ron's bald head at refrigerator |
2 Feb: After visiting Dr. Wendy and Jason's Deli, we returned to Dr. Margolis’ office to retrieve the new eye glasses Ron left there Monday. Oops. Putting frozen blueberries into plastic fresh blueberry containers in the refrigerator seemed a great idea until we found blueberry juice all over the bottom of the refrigerator this morning. Oops2. Dr Wendy's needles today were more effective than yesterday's cushioning. And now that the pill alarm is sounding, Ron is overdue for his walk, sadly without his beloved weefee for several days to come. Oops3, big, fat, wet raindrops cut the walk short after only two blocks. And the rain is continuing at 4:30 when Ron decided to Google overlarge photos in a PDF. Wow, what an excellent solution. Google certainly knows a lot.
1 Feb: Feb is another month for lovers. Therefore, here is the first written I love you! Smooch! Ron was surprised to see an empty bag, five pounds of frozen blueberries, empty !! Are we going to need to take Cynthia to the hospital to have her stomach pumped ?? Ha! Cynthia transferred them unbeknownst to five one-pound containers in the refrigerator. But the bag of grapes did disappear in three sittings. It is a cloudy day in SE Texas. We are off to fitness training. Because of mist, we didn’t walk to the lake. Sadly, Cynthia's foot is no better. Ron is prepared to add thickness to the cushion.
