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November 6, 2015

IT'S FRIDAY, MY FAVORITE DAY!!

It was a pretty good week. We had a deluge of rain over the weekend, but that didn't stop our one and only trick-or-treater. During a "dry" spell, little Taylor Kahrs knocked on our door with the cutest costume - a dragon! That is one thing I miss about living down here; we don't have any little goblins knocking at our door, so we end up eating all the Halloween candy ourselves!

On Monday, Dave and I drove into town. I had lunch with a couple of gals that I had worked with back in the dark ages - 50 years ago at the Oregon State Board of Health. It was fun to get together and reminisce about the way it was back when we were single and just starting out in the work force. I went to high school with Donna and we both worked with Pat. We hope to have lunch on a regular basis. While we were eating and enjoying ourselves, Dave had to run across to SE Portland and deliver Leanna's computer to get fixed. Her computer had a virus and she couldn't even get on line! A lesson here, be careful what you download from Facebook.

The weather finally broke on Wednesday and our work party got a chance to get caught up down in the park. We pulled weeds, transplanted a Lavender and Lily and dug up a very dead Rhodie. It's about time to wrap up the party for the season. The weather is just too undependable to plan any work outside. We will get together in December to decorate the park for the Christmas holidays though.

It was another trip into Portland on Thursday. Dave had his three-month checkup with his oncologist on his first cancer - the Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - and she was very pleased with his health. He won't have to come back to see her until February. It has now been 1-1/2 years that he has been in remission from that terrible disease. But, he still is working on his Prostate Cancer and will go back to see his other oncologist in a couple of weeks to get another hormone shot. His PSA level is way down but he still has to stop at every bathroom he passes. He is none too pleased about that and hopefully that will get better soon.

Dave has decided to rejoin the Riverbend Players Reader's Theater group and so they will be performing in a couple of weeks in Nehalem. The play has given him something to do and I am glad to see him enjoying it. The readers have been rehearsing for a couple of weeks now to get the timing down. I hope it works out and it is a big success.

So this is what is ahead for next week. We will be having the family down on Wednesday for an early Thanksgiving dinner. Lara, Leslie, Paige and I will be in the air on Thanksgiving Day when we come back from Florida. So we will be carving turkey and all the trimmings a little early this year.

Another thing that will be going on next Thursday is that our oldest granddaughter, Ashtin will be having surgery on her torn ACL - the injury she sustained while she was playing soccer. She will miss all this year of basketball which she dearly loves. So keep her in your thoughts and prayers next week as she undergoes this procedure.

I am counting the days before I leave for our trip to Florida. With all this rain and wind that we have had this week, I hear the sunshine calling my name.