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Onward and upward! something that you say in order to encourage someone to forget an unpleasant experience or failure and to think about the future instead and move forward.

My e-mail: jjmiller6213@comcast.net

Sunday, August 2, 2020

August?
Already?
I can remember sitting here on New Year's Eve and when the ball dropped, I thought, "What a great year 2020 is going to be!"
Well, Gezz Louise!  Guess I was wrong again.

The life interrupted Covid months.  How many now?  Five!  

I have managed to get out to the store a few times,  only getting a few things, because that mask gets hot and I get anxious.  I makes me go back to the feeling I had when my 2nd husband, tried to smother me with a pillow.  I thought I had rid myself of those memories, but....

I have a new genealogy to work on with another two waiting in the wings.  This is the weirdest thing, but at my nephews wedding, I was telling my daughter Karen that I needed a genealogy to work on to cure my boredom and give me a reason to get up in the morning.  That night, during my prayer time, when I was done, I just happened to say, "And oh yes, God?  Could you send me a genealogy?"
Three days later I was notified by, what is now my newest client.  That's the quickest answer to prayer I've ever received!
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I managed to get my grandson Stephen and new wife Carolyn's wedding sampler framed.  They were married June 6th, but their wedding reception is going to be August 30th, unless our governor decides to shut us down again.  I called Karen and asked her if the next time she in near-by, she could stop and pick it up.



Oh my!  Blogger has changed things up.  It took me forever to figure out how to get that photo inserted.
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So--who can I gossip about?  Merle and Pearl--remember them--my neighbors.  Pearl is into year 3 of sitting in her chair doing nothing.  They have once again retained a physical therapist to come out for home visits, but I know Pearl.  She will only do the least she can get away with and not do any of the home exercises they tell her to do during the week.  She loves just staying chair-bound and having her daughter and Merle run and get whatever she wants.

Their daughter lives here in the Park and she stops by everyday to help them get ready in the morning.  She is going back to work this next week.  So Pearl decided to hire someone to come in every day to help her get dressed and get fed.  She wanted someone for an hour.  The visiting nurses minimum time is 3 hours a day, at $25.00 an hour.  That's $375.00 a week!  So now Pearl is trying to get her daughter to quit her job and take care of her.  She hasn't even wondered what her daughter is going to live on with no money coming in from her job.
Merle escapes to his shed whenever Pearl falls asleep in the chair.  He mentioned to his daughter that he wished he had some "little cigars".  So she got him a couple of packs of Swisher Sweets.  He's a much happier camper now.  LOL
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Marilyn, my neighbor across the street, a bit to the right...whose husband died last year...has lost so much weight that as she was walking out to get the mail, her jeans fell right off.  She was doing fine before the quarantine, but now is using her cane and sometimes her walker to walk outside.

Jackie, my neighbor directly across the street, has suffered.  Early this spring she was out working in her gardens, as normal.  Now she is using a walker to get around.

It has affected all of us in the same way.  From not going to the store to walk around or getting out, our calf and legs muscles have become weak and our balance is off.  

Dar--you remember Dar?  Her Dad that lives with her just turned 99 and is in excellent health.  He gets around pretty good and still demands that she takes him out for a Dairy Queen every day!  Dar is the kind of person who had to get out every other day or she said, "I will just lose my mind!"  The quarantine just about did her in--mentally.  She walks 5 miles on her treadmill every day, so she's still in pretty good shape.  The other day, she was walking home from visiting Jackie and she saw a guy walking a dog.  So she rushed over to the dog to pet it and it bit her!  So she has been doctoring with that--antibiotics, steroids, etc.  Doesn't she realize?  You don't rush up to a dog that doesn't know you.  I don't even rush up to a dog that DOES know me--I let them come up to me.
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We did get a much needed rain today and more promised for tomorrow.  I woke up to the sound of rain--lovely--except it was coming in through my bedroom window screen all over the window sill.  It is nice though for the temps to be moderate enough to have all the windows and doors open--when it isn't raining in, that is.

Stay safe my friends in Florida and along the East coast.  There is a hurricane name Ass or something like that, that is coming at ya.

XX OO  Jude

12 comments:

  1. Yes, I think the less we walk or exercise the weaker we can become. This pandemic is hard on most of us, maybe all of us.

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  2. Glad all is well on your side of the state....as well as any of us can be during these weird times we're living in.

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  3. Enjoyed your post. Glad you are healthy and have a new genealogy to work on.

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  4. Hello blogger buddy. Yes, our new blogging software does some weird things. I couldn't REPLY for one whole day. Wanted me to approve my own reply. Thank you for blogging every week ... and remind someone to let us know if you are NOT blogging. A friend's brother was dead in his home for 5 days before she called the police (she lives in different state). She hadn't been to his home in 15 years and he had turned into a hoarder ... with dementia. Had 20 accounts open at the same credit union. Many, many copies of unsigned wills with different attorneys ... she has been working so hard to get things untangled ...

    Hooray for another project!

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  5. Hey, Judy! Good grief, New Year's Eve seems like a lifetime ago. So much has happened in 2020. Who could have ever predicted all this?
    Thanks for the update on all the neighbors. I was wondering about Pearl. It's sad. Of course, Dar is still Dar.
    That tropical storm is almost on top of us... will be soon. We're getting tons (and I do mean tons) of rain as I write this. It is flowing like a river across my front yard. The news tells us that a lot of people will lose power. We've done everything we can do. At this point, all we can do is wait.

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  6. The wedding sampler is beautiful -- instant heirloom! Good news about the genealogy! I have yet to wear a mask. xoxo

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  7. yes this has been so hard on everyone esp those who can not get out. What an awful story about your ex husband! I would not like to wear a mask after that either but glad that you do. Love your sampler.
    take care and so glad you have something to work on
    Cathy

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  8. Thank you so much for your blog. It is very interesting catching up on the people in your neighborhood.

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  9. WOW! I am amazed at what you have survived with your second husband trying to smother you with a pillow! Goodness! My first husband was awful but at least he didn't try to kill me.
    Love hearing all the updates in the neighborhood! Fascinating that you know so many of your neighbors!

    I'm reading your blog posts like chapter books! Internet is spotty here in the country but it's staying on for now!

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  10. That sampler's beautiful, Judy!
    It's good to hear news of your neighbors again. I think this "social distancing" has really gotten most people down in some way or another. Figures Dad's father is doing better than all of us. ☺
    Oh and that "ass" hurricane brought us several tornados and gave us several inches of rain along with 49 hours of no electricity! We spent one night in a motel because of the oppressive heat we were/are having while the power was out. We both think we're getting too old for this tornado weather. The tornadoes decimated a motel and 7-11, and the DMV, as well as private homes just down the road from us. A nearby county in NC had it much worse, with two deaths. But, we are fine and thankful.

    Are you working on another cross stitch piece?

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