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| Dale, Ron (as Adonis), and Aldona |
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| Ron & Cynthia at The Oscars, a great restaurant |
24 Feb: (looking ahead) 10:00 appt with Dr. C., in the Woodlands followed by an appointment with ENT for new domes on Cynthia's hearing aids. After the drive to the recycling center, we will have lunch at Jason's Deli.
23 Feb: We slept a lot. Cynthia's bronchitis is healing. Ron has the recycling ready to go to the recycling center.
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22 Feb: lunch with Zoe and Jack, Fyn, Paul, and Cheryl. They served a Spinach salad with spaghetti squash made like lasagne without oil and served a delicious bean sauce on the spaghetti squash. Paul brought his home made sour dough bread. Yummy.
It was delightful to see Zoe and Jack's new home.
21 Feb: Ron's cousins enjoyed the visit. We don't cook, but they enjoyed going with us to the Yacht Club for a delicious meal by candlelight. We don't use or keep sugar or cream, but they enjoyed coffee plain.
20 Feb: Ron’s cousins arrive from Iowa.
19 Feb. We had a good night’s sleep, and the sore throat has improved. Congestion and cough, not! I am so thankful I went to urgent care. Ron is busy at his Mac, with his exercises to do. It is noon, and Cynthia completed her therapy exercises. What can I eat? A protein and veggie smoothie might be good. Walking will wait a couple days.
18 Feb: Ron was off early to get the motorcycle serviced. Cynthia will finish cleaning, get the emissions checked on the car, pay the tax assessor, go to the bank, vote, stop at the storage unit, and pick up an RX. Except! Her phone got a pop-up hoax, which is a little bit like a virus. Thanks to Chat GPT she deleted it. Of course, then everything had to be reset. Almost home, she realized she should have gone to Urgent Care when she was nearby and returned. She has bronchitis with two new prescriptions to take. We are tired.ZZzzzzzz
17 Feb: The grass is greening, pear trees are blossoming, and children are riding bikes on the sidewalks. Spring is in our steps. We have completed walk #1. Ron spent the day organizing his things Cynthia is helping by staying out of the way. She finished answering Lauren’s twenty questions and gave her two of her children’s favorite recipes for a cookbook Lauren is compiling as a family gift. It is difficult to type so much! Ron said reading and writing help prevent dementia. Whew.
16 Feb: How beautiful is the morning! 70 degrees. We exercised, ate, and took walk #1. Ron is typing receipts into his spreadsheet with much house cleaning awaiting. Cynthia is experimenting with making her lunch in a blender. Today, she added two kiwi fruits with skins, Isopure protein powder, broccoli, spinach, and a cup of yogurt. Not many people would like this, but it was a great way to ingest a lot of iron and Vitamin C. After walk #2, we reached a total of 3.56 Miles.
15 Feb: The sermon on the Transfiguration was marvelous. We had salmon at lunch at The Oscars followed by a great walk. 3.67 miles and almost 10,000 steps. Yay for us.
14 Feb: Happy Valentine’s Day! Lovely roses, a Valentine's card, and we had a great walk together to the trail! Cynthia is ecstatic that she walked for an entire 30 minutes without suffering during the walk or afterward. 2.58 miles
13 Feb: Walk # 1 is over, so is lunch. Ron is cleaning, organizing, and recycling, and we completed walk #2. 2.77 miles.
12 Feb Oh, boy! We are going to have guests. Ron started the recycling project by burying compost last night after his usual 4-mile walk. This particular compost burial was to fill in a hole on the breakwater path where Cynthia has hurt her back after the grass grows high enough to obscure the hole. We won't know if the hole is filed until the dirt settles next year. Ron has been so busy reading through Volume 4 to create the index that he hasn't updated the blog much at all. His first necessity is to list the favorite flavors at Blue Bell on the 10th.
11 Feb: Cynthia and granddaughter Lauren started a conversation that could become a book. Lauren opened the conversation by sending Cynthia 20 questions. The first one took her days to answer because it opened the door to a difficult time in her life. Lauren will respond and also answer the question.
10 Feb: Ever since Dr. Beim told Cynthia that he wanted to see her again in three weeks, we have been looking forward to our last trip this year to Brenham because the Blue Bell Cremery tasting room is located conventiently near Dr. Beim's office. After our medical appointment in Brenham with Dr. Beim we hustled posthaste over to the Blue Bell Ice Cream Factory. Mmmmmm! We were more relaxed and less frenic than during our earlier visits, so we only ate 11 scoops of ice cream. Ron's favorites were the pistacho, peachy peach, butter pecan, mocha almond fudge, and happy tracks; Cynthia's were the butter pecan and cherry vanilla (although she complained that cherry vanilla is supposed to be white instead of pink). Neither of us was impressed by the black cherry or the oatmeal creame pie. Afterwards, Cynthia opined that the ice cream and tasting room were too cold and that she actually liked eating Kroger's Premium Selection Amaretto Cherry Cordial at home better.
9 Feb: We are two tired puppies after riding the bike to a financial appointment, followed by Jason’s Deli and two walks. Addictive behaviors die hard; Ron has been an ice-cream-aholic all his life and has had the habit locked down for 16 years, but ever since he splurged following his cataract surgery, his passion has been reignited. He even enjoys the FREE soft serve cones at Jasons Deli and consumes four fairly large cones with his salads; he has even stopped ordering a baked potato to insure that he has room for all four cones. 3.59 miles.
8 Feb: We were delighted when a woman told us after worship how much she enjoyed watching our relationship. 2.85 miles
7 Feb: The weather is marvelous. We worked on computer tasks all day, took a nap, and we took two walks. Cynthia received many responses to the grandchildren's Valentine's Cards. Charlotte's dancing was a delight.
6 Feb: Last night we both slept well for an uninterrupted 9 hours. What a relief. Cynthia's epidural has kicked in and she is now full of p___ and vinegar. (Who me!? We walked twice today for a total of 2.96 miles. Woo! Hoo!)
5 Feb: Cynthia had a Women’s Wellness Dr. Appt; afterward, we had oil and filters changed (the Lexus Wellness session), followed by a delicious salmon dinner at the Pizza Shack before picking up meds at the pharmacy. Ron is helping Cynthia transfer data onto a spreadsheet in preparation for Monday’s meeting with a fiduciary.
4 Feb: We drove into The Woodlands today in chilly, windy weather to Texas ENT Specialists for Cynthia to get new earpieces (ear molds) for her hearing aids. It was a fun visit with an eccentric Mom. On the way to the Woodlands, we noticed a new Jason's Deli that we had never noticed before, just next to the Target and Research Forest Drive on 2854 (Honea Egypt Road). It was a good restaurant.
3 Feb: Hi Barb, Yes, we are neglecting the blog because Ron has nose to the grindstone trying to get Volume 4 ready to go to the publisher. He is now working on the index, which means he has to read all 400 pages looking for oversights, omissions, errors, typos, and other less-than-perfect details. Thanks for worrying about us. See Vol. II above
2 Feb: MEDICAL: Cynthia had an epidural in her SI joint. Ron had an echocardiogram that apparently indicates to the technicians that he is still alive. Let's hope the doctor agrees. The assessment on his MyMedical chart at UT Health agrees. So far, so good.
1 Feb, Sunday: We enjoyed worship at Grace Lutheran and lunch at The Oscars. Oscar is so good; he ordered salmon especially for us.
