Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Tuesday, July 7 - WHOOP!

Well ... it's a bittersweet "whoop!" We sold George's truck on Monday, which is a good thing for us financially, but George was sad to turn over the keys to its new owner. The only consolation is that it has found a good home with someone in "the family." Kevin is an Aggie, class of '92 (if I'm remembering correctly!) who lives in Austin, and traveled all the way to Katy (twice!) to find the truck he was looking for! My neighbor's daughter, Missy, lives in Austin and works with Kevin's wife. When Missy heard that Kevin was looking for a truck, she mentioned that we had a truck for sale, passed along the information, and the rest is history! This is just another example of one of those "god-things" that happen in our lives. Pieces just seem to fall exactly in the right place at the right time! So, thank you, Missy, for making the introduction, and Kevin, we wish you safe travels! And, maybe we will run into you in Aggieland!! As for George, I told him we are not giving up hope of him driving again. It is just taking him a little longer than expected to get on his feet, but when it does happen, we will get him a truck that will be easier for him to get in/out of and something not quite so BIG!

Monday, July 6, 2009

Monday, July 6 - Red, White and FLU!!

Hello everyone. We hope each of you had a fun-filled, safe 4th of July. George & I had our most boring ever, and it's all my fault! I got sick on Friday with flu-like symptoms ... congestion, fever, body aches ... so we did absolutely nothing. I didn't want anyone around us to catch what I had, so we stayed in and watched a lot of tv and ate whatever was on hand. No bar-b-que or fireworks for us; very disappointing holiday weekend. Lindsay was brave enough to come over and help with her dad Saturday morning, and she also transported me to the 24-hour clinic so I really hope and pray she doesn't come down with this stuff next. I'm sure she will be fine; her good heart will keep the bad germs away!! And, we want to give a "shout out" to Ike Lucas who is recouperating from knee replacement surgery. Maybe Ike and George can do their leg exercises together in the coming weeks! And speaking of George and his therapy, I do believe the "pep talks" he had the week before did some good. His therapy sessions went really well last week and he even asked me to help him get to the pulleys in the kitchen yesterday so he could do his arm exercises. Hopefully the new trend will continue!!