I spent 3 or more hours outside under the veranda by the cement pond.
Had my supper of cheesy beef mac and a roll with raspberry sherbet out there.
My water jug with me,it came in handy.Plus coffee and iced tea with my supper so was glad when I got back inside our humble abode if you get my drift.
Temperature was about 82 today.
My face is cherry red and people ask the same question... to much sun?
I have to go through the drill telling them no it wasn't the sun but those chopped up tomatoes I had with my salad Sunday night.It was a mistake eating those tomatoes because my forehead started stinging as they where ate.
I knew it was wrong from the beginning but that didn't stop me.
Greed and self centered behavior had taken over.The only one I was thinking about was me and my wants my desires.
Nothing can be hidden.Everything is revealed in the end.This will be no different.
So the story begins.
7 years old,Big Springs Road,at that time it was called the country then,LaGrange,Georgia.
For some reason my folks had been chosen by the little church we attended to be the ones to keep can goods for people who where in need.
The cans where stored under the kitchen cabinets.
This a good place to stop and express my opinion about something.Those cans where rusty and most where missing labels.The Bible said give with a cheerful heart and give to God your best first fruits.Story was a husband and wife gave but not their best and God struck them down.I think those rusty no labeled cans might fit in that category.Was it their best or what they wanted no more?
Ok off my high horse.
My sin is just as bad,no better or worse they are all equal.
Did I mention applesauce?
Loved that stuff when I was a kid.This is where the two stories meet.
Those rusty no label cans got the best of me and when a treat was wanted you guessed it applesauce hunting I would go.Yes looking in the cans designated for the needed.
Shame on me taking food out of the hungry's mouth.
You know what till this very day every time I see applesauce that is what is thought of.
A nurse said the other night that Alzheimer's is not inherited it is airborne.She might be right.
Not looking forward to that day at all.
I don't mourn very much these days when someone passes away.It's not that I'm cold hearted I just see it as being set free of all this earthly commotion we have to put up with.
Those that are so sick and in pain,so lonely,so confused,so brokenhearted,so scared...you get the picture.
God in Heaven there has to something better for them.
You think something is heard.Something is seen out of the corner of your eyes,a dark fleeting shadow.
It is real,not your imagination.
You did hear something.You did see it.
That feeling of being watched.
Hair on the back of your neck rising.
A cold chill down the spine.
Be very afraid.
We have been warned of this.Consider our self lucky as things that will come will happen have already been presented to us for all who will read, prepare, believe.
Evil walks this earth.All of the vile demonic acts that the mind can imagine are happening right this moment.
Here at the OFH(old folks home)they check our vitals quite often,bp,temp,pulse.
Seems night time is the most regular time for checking room 31 usually just after dozing.
Maybe the reason for that is we are most relaxed.
Well sometime last night I was awaken,time for vital checks making sure we are amongst the living and not one of those walking dead zombie folks,we have'm here and maybe one day soon will write about them.
60/40 was my bp,second check was even lower 53/over something.
Feeling okay ?Yes I answered.
Since I was talking and coherent no need for a trip to the ER or as the nurse said morgue.
Going to check it again around 7 am she said.
She did and guess what?
This time bp was 163/70.Way to high for me.
Since it was about time for morning meds no action was taken.
I was alive,talking,joking around and most of all hungry for breakfast.
Later on in the day I had the pleasure off seeing the eye doctor.
When did doctors get so young,she looked every bit of 18.
My visit lasted only a few minutes.
Now get this she took a pair of tweezers and took something called plugs and put them in the inside corner of each eye.
I have heard of tire plugs,chewed a few plugs of Bull of the Woods tobacco but never of these eye plugs.
After thinking about this curious I was.
Seems they prevent watery eyes.
Maybe this will be good.
I tend to be sentimental about some things and when alone the tears can flow easy.
That is why I avoid any singing of Gospel songs when people come here and sing.
If you wonder what living at the old folks home is all about compare it to daycare not for your children but for your parents.
There are many similarities.
Diapers don't separate the young from the old.
No teeth can be a problem.Some have to have pureed food like babies who eat food from a jar.
Temper tantrums.You have heard of the terrible twos wait till the naughty necked nineties start.Why old folks get the urge to take their clothes off in public is a mystery.
By the way the day you walk or more likely are rolled through the front door of the OFH(old folks home)you just leave your modesty at that door.Just about every Nurse and CNA has seen my hiney by now.It's nothing personal.
Old folks can be mean.
Don't think cause we are old some of them won't hurt you.They scratch,kick,bite(well some of them)and take swings at you good as any two year old.
If they where furry and cuddly and make cute little sounds maybe I would feel different.
Never has a snake hurt me.
Several times they have scared me.
Once as a little boy I almost stepped on a rattler that was coiled up ready to strike.Most likely I would have reached down and picked it up but Daddy seemed fit to use extreme prejudice on the snake with a garden hoe.
One close encounter with a snake we met up and I guess it was just as scared of me as I was of it.It ran one way and me the other.
Hunting one fall with Daddy,leaned up against a tree,slithering over the brown golden orange leaves I seen a big snake headed straight for us.
Daddy I see a snake.
He never seen it,he out run me back to the car,by the way he had a gun leaving his little boy to catch up with him.
Aunt Lema was bit by a rattler picking black berries and almost died.
Maybe that fear of snakes is inherited.
I think facing a bear would be more pleasant than facing a snake.
Guess what we had for supper today...think real hard you can do it...take a few minutes to think about your answer...you are a genius Einstein...chicken legs.
I read with interest about a truck loaded with frozen chickens that wrecked recently.
Abandoned at birth raised by a woman you called Grandma who wasn’t any blood connection.
On your own at 17 living on the streets of Ohio.Eating out of dumpsters,sleeping in cars.
A forced abortion by family.Given a plane ticket to New York City alone you traveled fighting all the way till the end of baby Jonathan’s life who you loved and wanted.
I think, no ,I know that part of your life never left your presence.Till the end that guilt and pain was always with you.
Then the fire that took away your husband’s and brother’s life that October night.
Your two girls and son where your life.
What I will always remember about you was that smile.Each time I seen it you reminded me of a precious innocent little baby that I wanted to hold and protect.
Women on choppers Not messin with them Women on choppers like to fight Kick hit and bite Women on choppers Leave them be Women on choppers They are kinda cute to me
Thick sliced crispy bacon,fried egg,grits and a biscuit.
The type of breakfast us Southern boys grew up on.
All that was missing was crispy fried hash browns.
But I have a complaint.
Here at the old folks home renovations are being made in the kitchen.Think it is finished but have to wait on the Fire Marshall's inspection before being used.
So for the past week or so our food is coming from the hospital that owns this place.
My gripe.
The hospital sends over by chuck wagon this thick crispy old fashioned real honest to goodness bacon.
I love it!
When the kitchen here starts back up we will most likely get that thin fake chicken bacon.It will be a disappointment after that real bacon.
Is the hospital serving their patients and residents at the other old folks home they own this real bacon and we get the fake stuff?
Now I know how the redheaded stepchild at a family reunion feels like.
New green shag carpet is down and the maroon painted walls drying as I speak.
The mirrored ceiling and glass revolving disco ball add atmosphere to our humble abode.
A new microwave/Mr Coffee maker/fridge combo sure makes it convenient here in 31.
By the way Orville Redenbacher is the official popcorn of room 31.
Those 60 inch hi def TV's mounted above the ceiling of each bed is what the kids call"the bomb".
As I soak in the giant hot tub sipping on a margarita eating a taco the view of the Atlantic ocean takes me back to my sea faring days but that is another story for another day.
Talking about the weather.Ice,snow is being predicted for the great state of Georgia.
After the fiasco of two weeks ago no chances are being taken.Schools in northern part of the state are already closed and it's only raining and above freezing right now.
Snow is one thing but ice storms are another.They are no fun.
Heard on the news about the snow storm of a couple weeks ago people up north were in awe how it was handled down here in Georgia.
What you have to remember is this,snow is so rare here we are not equipped for it.Maybe up in the mountains of Georgia they have snow plows and such but not around here.About the only thing that is done around here in these snow/ice events is bridges and over passes are salted down,that is all.
100 degrees summer temps with 95 % humidity,floods,earthquakes,tornadoes and hurricanes we deal with cause the South is use to them.
Snow/ice we are not.
So don't laugh,don't judge.
We didn't when 900 plus people died in Chicago a few years ago during a heat wave one summer.
This morning for breakfast I got the real stuff...bacon not that stuff called chicken bacon.
Thick,crispy I almost wanted to call it strick-o-lean.
Same way with sausage real is what I like and want not that turkey or chicken substitute supposed to be healthy for us stuff.
One day in the future a study will be made and the results will be this turkey and chicken this and that is what's killing folks.All those baby chickens and little gobblers being pumped with hormones and steroids so they grow faster can't be good for us humans.
Look at it this way would you rather have a real diamond or one of those cubic zircoinas ?
A grown man,same age as me,acting like a spoiled little boy.
Watching TV yesterday and it wasn't on his channel and moan and groan he did.
Seems for once he didn't have control all day of the remote.
People where watching other things beside replays of women's basketball that we bare because he likes it and might I add most of the time he is asleep holding the remote.
I know I'm a bad man but him being denied control of the remote I enjoyed.
I half way expected him to bust out crying,he does that a lot really if life doesn't go the way he wants.
He couldn't take it and finally just took the remote and watched his program without asking please,may I,or do you mind.
The sounds,smells,attitudes of some people at the old folks home you get use to.
Sounds of grown people in their second childhood,crying,pouting,confused and just very pitiful.
The smells you can only guess.But what can you do.What peeves me off is not the smells but the attitude of some who work here.I'm sure they don't pee perfume and I bet their s... does stink also.So enough of the holier than thou mind set.
I must say in fairness some of the best people ever work here.I tell the CNA's daily how much I appreciate them.Without them I would be up that creek without a paddle.
Some should not be here.This is a job where you have to be compassionate to people and if your heart is not in the job you should not be working here.
A feeling of sadness like a damp blanket covered me.She was lost,not knowing where she was or why.
I noticed her a few days ago and at first thought she was a visitor till I noticed a bracelet on her arm that locks doors automatically if you try opening them.
Dementia is a cruel disease.
Several here are in the different stages of it.
My Mom suffered with it for years.
God there must be a purpose for this and all other suffering but that reason why escapes me.
These folks using those blue tooth gadgets talking on their phone confuse me.
Are they talking to me,someone else or themselves?
It could be me they are talking to so I better listen,no it's someone else and I'm being rude listening,no they are just crazy people talking to themselves quick hide from them.
Thinking fast is a thing of the past for me.Sometimes I see and hear in slo mo.Names are my biggest problem.Can't get them out fast enough.But give me time the name will come to me.
Laying here in bed last night,the call button system out,that's how us residents let the Nurses and Cna's know something is needed,my mouth felt like cotton.I had been eating honey roasted sunflower seeds and I was thirsty for a drink of water and my container was empty.
Dozing off thirsty thinking how a sip of water would be so wonderful.
Around midnight I woke up and reaching for my container it was still empty and I was even more thirsty.
Dozing off again but not for very long and I made a bad choice a few more handfuls of sunflower seeds I snacked on.
Awake,thirsty staring at my water container in the dark room lit by the street lights through the open window I seen it.
Ice in the water container!
Cold delicious refreshing life saving water.
My life was good again.
Thank you unknown life saver for that cool drink of water.
You are the smell of honeysuckle in spring
You are the smell of burning leaves in fall
You are the cool breeze on a summer's day
You are the howling wind on a winters's night
NJ governor caught up in George Washington Bridge gate.Maybe it should be caller Revenge gate.That's all it boils down to.Governor mad at mayor for non support in his Presidential campaign.One Lady did die because of all this silliness.Charges for that in my humble opinion.
Republicans desperate.Saying NJ governor not as bad as President and Hillary.
Rodman in Korea running his mouth.His good friend is Kim Something Whatever or as I call him Crazy Little Fat boy the one who had his Uncle executed.Nice kid huh.
Weather.Everybody got some.
Food.Chicken everyday some sort or fashion or another.
I'm just blank on what is interesting to write about.
Ranger Texas Jr rolls into the room and proceeds to turn his rap box on loud and rolls on out.
That's about as rude and inconsiderate as grabbing the TV remote without asking please may I and changing channel to some women's basketball game or the same ole program we all have seen over and over so he can tell everyone what's going to happen next.
Thank goodness I have headphones and can drown out this silliness at night.
Funny thing is he is dead asleep soon as his head hits the bed.
I was watching TV yesterday and a commercial for tacos came on.
These yuppie tree climber broccoli eating types riding their bicycles were rushing to this taco stand for what they exclaimed was the best thing since sunlight on a dreary dark day.
Turkey tacos.
Yes my fellow fat boys they done gone and ruined a good thing.Turkey in tacos of all things.
Now all the sheep of the world will follow suit and no more beef in tacos will be allowed.
Folks that was a commercial and those people were being paid to say those things about turkey in tacos and it was the people that raise turkeys paying for all that propaganda.
It's not true that turkey tacos are refreshing and healthy they are trying to fool you my friend.
Think for yourself free thinkers of the world think.
Why is it when someone quotes what the Bible said to be true they are ridiculed and when someone"comes out"with something that the Bible condemns they are touted as heroes?
Gone are the days that everyone had this little hand held Star Trek communicators that we cuddled like our new born child.
Every woken moment is spent checking for missed calls,emails and Facebook updates from our friends.
This texting thing got out of control back in 2013.
People driving,walking while texting.I'm so glad that was just a fad of the past.For awhile I just knew our DNA would be mutated and the need for vocal cords would be like now not needing the hairy bodies of our caveman ancestors cause they figured out they could buy warm clothes at Walmart.
Yes no need for cell phones in the year 2014.
The folks that still have and use that old technology risk being called nerds.
New Year Resolutions:
1.Don't cuss Walker Texas Jr. silently when he rudely takes control of the TV.
2.Don't cuss Walker Texas Jr. silently when he fusses with the old folks who can't find their room.
3.Don't cuss Walker Texas Jr. silently when he turns his radio on full blast at night.
4.Send WGN TV a thank you email for changing the time they show Walker Texas Ranger...I won't be up that early and will miss it yesssss!
5.Learn to like chicken,chicken legs baked,chicken legs fried,chicken pot pie,chicken goulash for lack of a better word,chicken legs smothered in gravy least I think it's gravy.
6.Steamed carrots and broccoli ...no way Hosea ain't touching that stuff.
7.Take up smoking and drinking.
8.Just testing if you are paying attention with #7.
9.Try being a cool person instead of the redneck I am.
10.Last but not least tell you happy 2014 and I love you!
Someone must have invested in chicken and carrots heavy at WGHS.
For 8 days chicken was on the menu in some sort of way or fashion.
Carrots,steamed carrots are served almost daily.They get creative on how they are served.Sometimes you have to look for them cause they are hid but carrots will be there.
Here is a broom sweep the floors for that free meal.
That's what a Georgia Republican congressman wants those po youngins to do.
Shame shame shame.
Why are you Republicans dead set on hurting the people who can least afford it?
Grandma,Grandpa scare them by saying they are going to lose their Social Security that they worked for,the kid down the street who is hungry cut those food stamps,your neighbor who is disabled deny their disability,veterans who you lie to about how they will be took care of for the sacrifice they made for this great country. Yeah those are the folks you pick on.To you they don't matter.
Let's give taxpayer money away to those countries that could care less about us or bail General Motors and Chrysler's out along with big banks.Those are the people you Mr and Ms politician work for.
So Mr and Ms politician here's your broom if voters have any sense you will be needing it on your next job.
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