Monday, September 29, 2008

Catching Up

Well, I took a little time off from blogging as I was wearing myself out during the day time and too tired to think clearly when it came to writing my blog so I did not. So let me try to compress the last few days into a quick blog.

Friday I met with the guys and after that I went to Fred Meyer to pick up a prescription for Kathleen and while I was there I picked up some Cheerios, shredded wheat and bananas for myself as I had run out of my favorite breakfast food.

It seems like that was all I got done that day at least I cannot think of anything else I did at this point in time, so whatever else I might have done it must have been rather insignificant.

Saturday I had a bad headache and my hip was bothering me, but one of the guys had said that he needed to get an antenna for his TV and I said that he could have ours. It had been up on the roof for about twenty years and we had not used it for over ten years. Kathleen had asked me to take it down several times but it was one of those things that I just never got around to doing.

So after four or five trips up a thirty-two foot ladder and another five trips down to the basement I finally had it down. I had to take the antenna down, the rotor, the two poles and two brackets attaching it to the side of house. It probably took me as long pulling the wire for the rotor through the basement and up through the living room floor than it actually did to take the antenna down.

I think that must have been all I accomplished Saturday I know that I rested quite a lot that afternoon. I think I went through two shirts that day as I had worked up a couple pretty good sweats.

Sunday I went to church by myself as Kathleen could not wake up and get herself out of bed. in the afternoon I took out some more of the boards in the bathroom; the only ones left are the ones that I will need to take the medicine cabinet out and take the toilet take off to get off so I will wait until we take the toilet out and the vanity and medicine cabinet and then do it.

I also removed some more of the metal tiles that was behind the boards. After I cleaned up the vanity counter a little I started to put all the bottles and things from the vanity into boxes; I filled up three cardboard boxes and two plastic boxes with all kind of things, but the vanity and all the shelves are now empty.

The only thing left in the shower is my soap and shampoo and the only thing left on the vanity is my medications, shaving stuff and my tooth brush and paste which I will leave there until next week when we start the destruction.

Today after breakfast I raked the leaves from the front lawn, took the garbage and yard debris up front for tomorrows pick up, pruned the roses and trimmed the apple tree so that I could fill up the yard debris container. After I finished that I went inside and rested for a half our or so.

By this time it was a little after 1300 so I made myself a brat on a whole wheat bun and the left-over Bush's baked beans and then decided to finish pulling up the linoleum from the bathroom floor. That took an hour or so and after sweeping up the mess and cleaning up I took a nap.

Then tonight around 1730 one of our friends called and wanted to know if we wanted to go to dinner with then down at the Marina Fish House on the Willamette River. We sat out on the upper deck. It was really nice sitting outside in the breeze and enjoying watching the boats go in and out of the marina. There were sail boats, jet sleds, kayaks, dragon boats, and yachts.

Then after we finished eating we took a walk along the river front and saw the Spirit of Portland take off on its dinner cruise. We finally got home a little before 2000.

So today I had a pretty busy day and now I am tired so I think I will call this caught up and this a day!

4 comments:

Sue Albert said...

I didn't realize anyone still needed an antenna. I thought everyone had to digitize by next Feb. or use a converter. What a job that was for you!

Your dinner and walk along the riverfront sounds so relaxing. You should do nice things like that more often.

Keith is not unconscious anymore. He asked for Kimberly, so she got back in to see him. That's about all I know.

Have a great day!

Bob Roush said...

That is why he needed an antenna because he was not on cable and I guess that his rabbit ears would not work with the converter box.

I would love to walk more but it seems like most of the time Kathleen or I do not have the energy to just go out and do it.

Kathleen usually has a hard time walking and lately so have I. Another reason we do not do it more often is because Kathleen has not been able to get her meds correctly; last week for a few days she was doing really pretty good but the last few days she has not even gotten dressed.

I had heard that Keith was waking up but I had not realized that Kimberley had not been able to see him during all that time. I had heard from April after if first happened, but I have not heard from her for quite a while.


Thanks for the update! How is Mom doing? is she getting out for walks and enjoying the fall weather?

Give her our love,

Bob

Sue Albert said...

I wonder if Kathleen is on too many meds. It sounds serious that she does not feel well enough to get dressed.

Mom has good days and bad days. I try to get her out every day for a little while. I know she will be cooped up most of the winter. She does better when she gets out and does something. Sitting around seems to make her more sleepy. So, I try to be a social director and keep her active.

We took a drive today to see the fall colors. The leaves are not really turning here yet, so we drove into the hills southeast of here and saw some color (maybe 20%). It is less than 10% in our neighborhood.

I hope that you and Kathleen are both feeling better. Bill's hip is pretty bad. He uses a cane sometimes. We have tickets to see Beatlemania on Saturday. I hope the walking will not be too much for him.

Bob Roush said...

Our weather here has been rather warm in fact Sunday and Monday it was close to ninety degrees and today it was in the mid-eighties.

The med that gives Kathleen the most for her thyroid and getting the dose correct. She needs to divide her pill into thirds which is difficult and sometimes it is a little over and sometimes a little under.