Visiting Day

I did quite a bit of visiting today. I had talked to Barry on Monday and we decided to get together for lunch if we could as he was working this week in Centralia. I called him this morning and he was free so I headed up. First, I stopped by the hospital to see how Marie was and what had happened with the evaluation Tuesday. She has at least another week before she is discharged. I had a nice visit with her until it was time to meet Barry. We met at the Olympic Club for lunch and had a good time. Barry said "Hi to everyone". Afterwards, I stopped by and visited the Stedhams for a while and looked at Bob's new plane's cowl. The knee held up fine today and I can get in and out of the car with no problem. Up to this week, I had to slide across the seat to make room to get my leg in. Sometimes, I would have to grab it and help it along. I am sure glad that is over.

Good Food

This morning as I was making breakfast I threw away a banana that was kind of black (well really black) and I don't like them! Vera said to put it in the freezer and she would make banana bread. We went up to see Marie this morning, still no word on when she gets discharged. After a nice visit with her we went to lunch at Skippers. All of a sudden Vera jumped up and went over to the people in line, turns out she saw her brother and his wife. She invited them to sit with us and we had nice visit with them also. After we got home I took a little nap and then was going to head out to the shop when the sky opened up.


It rained, blew and hailed before it was all over. When I finally made it out to the shop, I worked on the Eurofighter and a GPS that quit working. No luck on the GPS, it is going into the garbage can! When I went in this evening the house smelled great. Vera had made the banana bread. After it cooled, I had a piece and it was great. The picture shows the first piece I had, followed by a second about the same size. I'm supposed to take my pills with food so I had an excuse!

Since I am talking about food, I could not resist putting a picture of the hamburger Vera made us for lunch the other day. Boy were they good!

Hiking Walmart

But first the rest of the story! We had been planning on seeing Vera's sister and finding out how the arrangements were going for extended care. Vera got an e-mail from her niece that her brother Leonard was in ER and would probably be admitted to the same hospital that Marie is in. He was the first one we visited when we got there. After visiting him, we headed down to see Marie and met her about half way being taken up to see her brother. So we went back for a second visit. Afterwards we took Marie back to her room and visited for awhile. We made a list of things she wants for her room at the extended care facility and headed out to take care of the one thing that needed to be done today. When we got back to the hospital, my knee was swollen, so Vera ran in to deliver the copies. When she came out, the car would not start. I finally located a loose battery terminal, but none of the wrenches in the Blazer would fit. By twisting it I got it tight enough to start. I decided to stop at the Chehalis Walmart and get the tools I needed. Wouldn't you know, the tools are in the farthest corner of the Walmart Super Store. I had quite a hike to get them. After we got home I sat down to ice the knee and watch some TV. Of course I fell asleep and woke up well after the time we wanted to leave for James' baseball game. We rushed around and headed out. We made it with about 15 minutes to spare before the start of the game. We got a good parking spot for the motor home up on the street. We were sure glad we took it as the weather was cold and wet.

James after fielding a grounder and about to put the runner out. He played a good game tonight.


I think that this hit was a double.


James talking to some friends while waiting to bat.


The game was called for rain after the top of the 4th inning. Because they played the 4th inning, James' team won 10 to 3. He is friends with the first baseman for the other team so they were clowning around after the teams congratulated each other.

We visited with James and Michelle in the motor home afterwards and then went to Papa Pete's for dinner. It was nice ending to a busy and sometimes stressful day.