Friday, August 29, 2014

James left for work quite early and asked me to take the papers down to Sheri to notarize for the sale of the house on Ithica Street to Kim & Brian.  I caught Sheri at home about five minutes before she left for work.  That was a little after 7am.  

Around 8am I left for the arthritis center for get my infusion, have blood drawn and to see Dr. Caldron's assistant, Tiffany.  I was going to meet Karen Schneider for lunch after my appointment but she called and said she couldn't make it.  As I was leaving the arthritis center, Karen was walking in.  It seems that Lance has been suffering with gout and he made an appointment with Dr. Caldron.  Even though we did not get to have lunch together at least we had a nice visit.  I thanked her for my birthday present.

 Thank you Karen!

I finally took the plunge and got my membership at Costco renewed today.  I also got the Costco credit card which has no annual fees and gives discounts on certain items. I even got a free membership which I am giving to Sheri.

  I bought a bag of ice and loaded up my ice chest with ham, pork chops, roast, BBQ beef, and chicken fetuccini.  I got James some Alpine bread and headed out of town.  I was making good time until about 30 miles before getting to Payson when traffic came to a complete standstill.  This was around 3pm.  The Scottsdale woman in the Mercedes ahead of me said there was a wreck up ahead and they hoped to have it cleared off the road by 4pm.  Traffic didn't start moving again until 4:30. My four hour trip turned into almost six hours!

Stopped in traffice for an hour and a half.

People were driving crazy, cutting in and out of traffic to make up for lost time.  When I got to Payson I had to stop at Wendy's just to take a time out and calm down a bit.  It was after 7 when I got home.

James, Seth, Adam and Alex had made it through Payson before the accident and they were on a Razr ride.  Darrel gets off work at 6 on Fridays so he was the only one at home.  I guess Trina got caught in the backed up traffic from the wreck and had to stop and wait for awhile with all the kids in the car.  She stopped at Wendy's in Payson too just to get the kids something to eat and let them stretch their legs.  She got to the cabin around 11pm. James and I were already in bed.  I had hid the Calico Critters around the cabin for the kids to find.  They were so excited about them!

 The Hedgehog's

Mrs. Bunny and her two sets of twins.

The Chihuahua's

 The Squirrel's

The Koala's

The Cow's

The Pig's

 

 

  

 

Monday, September 10, 2012

I pulled weeds for two hours this morning outside on the south side of the house under the mulberry and silk 

oak trees.  

Before.  I forgot to take an after picture but all the grass,

weeds and leaves were gone when I was finished

At 10 am I had an appointment at Dr. Douglas's with Jackie to have my teeth cleaned and to have xrays taken.Things went well until Dr. Douglas came in and told me I had to have another crown and a cavity filled.  I told her I would be back in October. 

Laura and Cathi took me to lunch at Chompie's for my birthday.  What a fun place to eat.  Laura and I had the Asian chicken salad and Cathi had a chicken quesadilla.  The food was yummy.  I so enjoyed my visit with two of my besties. 

James went to see the pain doctor and to look at the results of his MRI.  While I was at Dr. Douglas's she said he needed to get permission from his cardiologist to get his teeth cleaned so I reminded him.

This afternoon I had an appointment with Tiffany at the Arizona Arthritis and Reumatology Center.  I like Tiffany.  She gave me another card to get my Enbrel for free for six months. 

On our way back to Vernon we stopped at the Bass Pro Shop so James could get some shoes with the $75 gift certificate the Braddock's gave him.  He was disappointed because they didn't have any in his size.
I bought some butter pecan syrup and a pancake mix.  We were home by around 9pm.