Why I haven't posted

I haven't posted since Sunday because on Monday I went to the ER and have been in the hospital until late afternoon yesterday.

I'll spare you the details but I had blood where it shouldn't be.

I felt fine.

No pain and no discomfort.

Just some, as yet unexplained blood.

Lots of tests. Liquid diet. Cameras inserted high and low. No definitive diagnosis.

Symptoms gone.

Have you ever been in a hospital for four days and three nights while you felt fine?

I read two long books and watched more TV than I have in years.

I wandered the halls for exercise and was glad I was in the wing I was because people were yelling from bed in the other.

I got to know all the nurses and nursing assistants quite well. One nurse where I was before and after a procedure that had me put to sleep was the daughter of a couple in my last full time church. We had a great talk before I was drugged and after I woke up.

Many of those who served me told me I was their 'favorite patient'.

I guess nursing someone who feels fine is easier than nursing people who are sick and in pain.

But I'm home now--with a couple of follow up visit in the near future--and ready to write to you, my friends, about stuff other than my 'feeling fine' hospital stay.

 

First snow

 It snowed this morning in Cheshire.

First snow of the year.

Not much, just a dusting, nothing to measure.

But it means that winter is here.

I hate winter!

I love the rest of the year.

Spring, when things come to life.

Summer and the heat.

I love the heat.

People say, "hot enough for you?"

And I always answer, "no, not nearly!"

And fall, with cool nights, good for sleep, and warmer days, great to be outside.

But winter?

Not for me.

Bring it on.

I'll survive.

I Haven't written much

I haven't written much over the Thanksgiving week.

My mind was on other things.

But I did hear about the report of a think tank is Stockholm, Sweden called International Institute for Democracy, that gave the US a rating of  'democratic backsliding'!

In the Pilgrim Holiness Church of my early childhood, "backsliding" meant people who were "saved" were losing that level and 'backsliding' into sinfulness.

Given the events of the last President (he who will not be named here) and what's happened to our unity since Biden was elected, this is no surprise.

The 'big lie' about the election still resonates with a sizable amount of the population.

The Anti-Vaccine movement flies in the face of science and common sense. Even though 'their president' and all at Fox News are vaccinated!!!

The Republican party is full of people in Congress who call Muslims 'terrorists' and put out videos about killing AOC.

Democracy in the US is, I repeat IS IN DANGER.

We must do whatever we can to restore sanity in our country.

Biden is trying, but people not taking the vaccine and inflation caused by world shipping issues, aren't helping him.

Pitch in!

Defend Democracy at all cost--ALL COST!!!

Please....

 

 

It's over

My favorite holiday is over and done for a year.

Mimi and Eleanor left this afternoon for upstate New York where they've lived during Covid.

Most of the turkey is gone, but some dressing and gravy remain.

Probably to be thrown out soon.

I love kids and grandchildren being here--but the refrigerator gets so full I can't handle it and our orderly home gets disordered.

So, as much as I love it, I also love Bern and me getting back to our orderly, ordinary life.

But I have much to be thankful for.

Much!

MUCH!!!

Hope you do too....

 

Life is good

Mimi and Eleanor arrived today about 4.

Tim comes tomorrow.

Having our daughter in the house where she became an adult is amazing! 

Having her daughter her is amazing too!

Life is good.

Life is so very, very good.

We should never forget that.

Never....

Thanksgiving

Mimi, Tim and Eleanor come tomorrow until Saturday.

That's enough to make me Thankful.

We'll Zoom with Josh and Cathy and their big girls at some point.

Our old friend John will come to dinner.

A small group, but a great one!

I fix the dressing--it's not 'stuffing' since it isn't in the turkey, do the  before dinner cheese and snacks, set the table and pour the wine.

Bern does everything else--and beautifully.

I love Thanksgiving...more than Christmas, I think.

All of you--Have a Happy, Happy One!

 

The Rittenhouse verdict

I don't agree with it. I think it was wrong. I think the judge was too much leaning toward the defendant.

But as the President said, disappointed in the verdict, we must support the justice system.

No one should walk away free after killing two people and wounding another with an illegal gun at 17!

It makes me want to take guns away from everyone!

It makes my skin crawl.

It makes me against the right to bear arms, which was, at the time the Constitution was written, meant arms to defend the country from foreign aggressors, not to shoot people on the streets of Kenosha.

Will we ever come to our senses and drastically limit guns?

Probably never.

But we should.

We really should.

This trial proves that explicitly.