The News is So Disturbing

I watch little TV and when I do I watch Prime at night but we had the news on a lot with the horrendous affairs unfolding in Israel. I am concerned for my neighbors who are at their home in Tel Aviv and for all the citizens of that area. I cannot believe the inhumanity to other human beings by these terrorists. And to see our college campuses praising them is sickening. It screams of Saul Alinsky’s manifesto to take over the world.  Also Paul Harvey’s “If I Were the Devil.”  Both things have come into being.  I pray for our nation and thank God I am 78. The rapid deterioration of humankind is more than I care to stay around to see. 

I have been home most of the past week. We played our Couples Shanghai which finally started up again after the lengthy hiatus caused by Covid. Ted won, I didn’t!  Nancy and I attended a talk by M D Anderson on nutrition. I didn’t learn anything I didn’t already know from Weight Watchers. I cooked pot roast, meatloaf and tortillini soup since we were home so much. 

Ted took our mantle clock to a new shop recommended by my friend Judy and the chime is now working again. The gentleman came out the next week and took one look at the grandmother clock and said “nothing is broken, it is out of beat, when the last guy replaced the suspension spring, he didn’t finish the job.”  He has heard the horror stories of our first repairman and said their over $800 estimate is BS.  Our mantel clock was bought in 1991 in Germany on one of our trips.  Our grandmother clock is 50 years old and has moved from OH, MI and FL to TX plus in town moves.  The clock was cleaned, oiled, put back in beat and is chiming away!  I missed my chimes for too long!

I had lunch with Jody before the weekend.  It has been way too long but Covid and other health issues have kept us from spending time together.  I enjoyed the visit so much!

Ted went to San Antonio on Sunday to shoot in the National Sporting Clay tournaments.  It gave me a chance to “get in gear.”  I met Nancy at her new neighborhood’s Happy Hour on Monday after checking carpet prices at Home Depot and working on my clothes for the cruise.  I had to turn up the hem on my two Lilly Pulitzer slacks I bought in Orlando.  But the big thing is I called the folks who put in our new wood floor last year to give me another estimate for new MBR carpeting.  

Before noon on Monday the salesman came with the samples, I picked out what I wanted, he gave me a price close, but a bit cheaper, than Home Depot and announced we were going to do this Tuesday!  I had to move the mirror, jewelry box, pants butler, lamp, etc. to get the room ready.  They were going to move the big pieces of furniture.  

Mid morning the two fellows arrived, asked me to identify the carpet as what I chose and proceeded to lay it and put the furniture back.  It was like 24 hours from start to finish!  They did another excellent job for us. By the time Ted returned late afternoon I had everything back in place!  He loves these serendipity moments when things are just done in his absence!  

Not much going on the rest of the week.  I am going to Sam’s to pick up my new glasses for the second time.  First time I was seeing double out of my right eye, one on top of the over.  Crossing my fingers that they get it right this time.  They moved the measurement by .2 after measuring my eye again.  Doesn’t make me feel warm and fuzzy!  

Falling Behind Again

 I haven’t written since my birthday.  And CeCe’s birthday too!

My friend Susan has a 10/3 birthday, so starting at Ted’s birthday on 9/27 to one week later mine on 10/4, we have 3 birthdays to celebrate.  So we decided to avail ourselves of lunch at Taste of Texas!  This is a superb steakhouse and quite famous in the Houston area.  The food is absolutely outstanding and we had an excellent afternoon.  

We let Tommy come along to keep the number even.  He is a 4th of July birthday so he gets to celebrate with our nation!

On Tuesday we rejoined our Shanghai group at the country club.  Neither of us won but I had decent cards most of the night.  Their special menu for us is down to about a half dozen choices.  I ordered a quesadilla and Ted had a burger.  They were both very good but I don’t know what caused the choices to be so slim.

I was to have a cardiologist appointment for a yearly echo cardiogram but they changed it to Halloween.  But I did have my eyes checked and needed a new prescription.  I told him I can’t understand those British folks on TV so I need new glasses to read the closed captions.

I went to Sam’s to order the new glasses, got my flu shot and upped our membership to Sam’s Plus.  It cost $65 to save $60 on my glasses.  Now I get all kinds of perks I felt were worth paying $5 for!  

I was tired on my actual birthday and begged off to the next day to have dinner at Saltgrass.  The filet was excellent and we both cleaned our plates. Fatigue continues to rear its ugly head periodically.  I was glad we waited. 

Friday our generator people were at the door at 8 am!  We were expecting them at 10 but this was the guy to mark gas, electric and sprinkler lines.  The rest of the Generac people followed and all in good time, it was installed.  At 1pm, on Friday, it came on, exercised itself for 5 minutes just like it is supposed to.

We went to church as usual on Saturday and drove to Conroe to Joe’s for some Italian food.  We hadn’t had any in awhile.  Sunday was Neighbor’s Night Out weekend and our block was meeting down the street.  We were to bring contributions for our military and wear red, white and blue, which we did.  We met a few new neighbors and talked with some old ones. 

Sunday was a laid back day spent mostly in front of the TV.  Our next door neighbors are Israelis and have a house in Tel Aviv.  They happen to be there now.  He told me they are ok but are trying to get home.  I am sure he doesn’t want to write too much info on how they plan to do that.  I certainly am concerned for their safety.  

I played Canasta on Monday and WON for the first time ever, not counting the times I came in last and got my $1 back!  

My CPR class at Lone Star College was cancelled Tuesday and I spent Wednesday running errands.  It was drizzling and not a great day to be running in and out of stores.  I got two tops to wear with my Lily Pulitzer slacks on our cruise, returned some Amazon things at Kohl’s and stopped at Dollar General for some gift bags.

I guess this didn’t get posted.  Old news now.  Sorry!

 

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