Mother's Day

I had a nice Mother's Day. I got flowers and a cute photo of Savannah. Monica's family and Tammy's family came and we had a BBQ. And of course John and Kathy were there. I wish my family could visit more often.

This and That and the Cats

Randy got a clean bill of health from the Dr. It was just his diabetes that was the problem. He is having problems with sugar spikes and the medication he was on was causing him to get gas and bad diarrhea. The diabetes was also causing him to lose weight. He is on new meds now so hopefully that will help.

We have a stray cat that has come here and of course Randy has taken to him. He is really cute and is a tabby. He is not neutered and I don't want him in the house. Some of Randy's cats don't have good litter box habits and he I have to clean up urine a lot of the time mostly from Bud and Annie. Things have to change here before I will let him get another cat. But for now the cat is outdoors and Randy visits him on the deck and of course he feeds him so he will probably never leave! We have to buy pads for the places that those two cats urinate and I have found some good odor remover but I am afraid with all these cats that my house and rugs are going to be ruined even though we do clean up after those cats the minute we know anything has happened. I know Randy would probably pick the cats over me if I asked him to get rid of them.

Bud was really sick for a week. He didn't eat or move. He is really skinny and is a very special needs cat. He looks like he should have up and died a long time ago. We both thought he was a gonner and was preparing for his death and deciding where to bury him. Then he slowly got better and is his old weird self again. He really does have nine lives! He still looks so skinny. He is not going easily into that good night.

One Sigh of Relief

Randy's CT scan came back normal. We don't know yet about the blood work they did. He will see the Dr. tomorrow and I hope we find something out then. He is doing much better though.

News

Not much is new. Randy went to the Dr. and had some blood work done. We don't know the results yet. He went yesterday for a CT scan of his stomach. It was sure a mess with his Medicare getting this all approved and stuff. He had so much trouble finding a Dr. He found a Dr. in American Fork and they said they took his medicare but I guess they don't have it set up to do that yet so anyway he had to get another Dr. and so far we really like him. I dread getting on Medicare because of all the hassle it is to go through. I hope we get to the bottom of his medical problems soon however he is feeling pretty good right now.

I hope that we will be going to Idaho and Yellowstone in a couple of weeks.

Life's Complications

Well, we did go on our first RV trip and Randy was sick but we kind of had a little fun. We did have to replace a tire on the trailer though because the rubber came off one of them. So Randy said we should just replace all the tires as they were all pretty bad. That makes me mad because if I had known the tires were bad I would have gotten the price down a little more on the trailer.

Randy has been a little sick with his usual IBS syndrome and his blood sugar. Today it was much better though. He has a Dr. appointment on Friday and I hope they do tests to find out why he has to suffer with these problems all the time.

I have had trouble with my stupid lan line phone from Comcast. Sometimes when people call they can't get me and it says I am not taking calls which is not true. I called Comcast and they don't know why it is happening. I am thinking of just using my cell phone and getting rid of my lan line phone altogether. I am also going to get a different internet with MSTAR using Randy's account and just get a router for the two computers.

The cats keep us busy and they are very expensive to feed and care for but they are our family. We were going to go to Bear Lake on May 8-12 but now we probably change and go to Contessa's graduation on the 21 and then on to Yellowstone Park in our trailer. Randy has never been there.

Old Times, Good Times

Last night I watched some of our old family movies. Boy how the time flies. Watching them was bitter sweet. Looking at the kids when they were little only intensifies to me how much they all look like each other. Tammy looked so much like Savannah. Marty really resembles Chevy more than I thought. Those were happy times when all the kids were so young and innocent and having so much fun doing ordinary things like going to the park, Lagoon and birthday parties. I wish I had hung on to everything more closely because now it's the past and I wish I had cherished it more. Those were happy times but sometimes hard times but never to be forgotten and I very glad we had those times.

Our Moab Trip

Unfortunately, our Moab trip was not as good as we had hoped. The weather was great but Randy got sick and couldn't even eat the whole time and the tread came off one of the trailer tires and so we had to buy a new used one. Randy had turned the fridge upt too hight so everything got frozen so it's a good thing he didn't want much to eat.We did go to Dead Horse Point and to Arches though and tried to see as much as we could. I sure hope our next trip is better. I hope we have learned some things from our try-out trip to Moab. We will be going to Bear Lake next month

Here are photos of us and of our trailer and Suburban.

Elantra Photos

These are photos my new Elantra. I like it because it saves gas.

Again after Three Years

My colitis is acting up again; after three years. So far I have it under control and hope I do not have to be hospitalized. I was planning on company on Saturday but had to cancel because of the colitis. Every time I plan something, it seems like things always get stopped for one reason or another. I hope it is under control because we are going camping next Monday to Arches National Park in our new travel trailer.

Four Years Today

My Alex passed away four years ago today. I can't believe I have been without him for so long. I am going to the cemetery today and tell him how much I miss him.

His life was just too short.

Big Changes

Well, yesterday I traded my van for an Elantra. I am getting almost $6000 back because the van was worth more than the Elantra. The Elantra is brand new. It is metallic blue. The van was too much vehicle for me. But I sure will miss that van with all it's features and comfort. And Randy bought a used Suburban to pull the travel trailer with because we just decided old Brownie wasn't really up to it. So we certainly don't need a Suburban and a van. The Elantra will get much better mileage than the van. The suburban will get bad mileage because it has a big engine but we will only use it for camping and use the Elantra for everything else. I will soon post photos of the new vehicles. The Suburban is a 2002 and was a really good price for Randy to afford. We thought of getting something newer and in diesel because even though diesel costs more, it gets better mileage when pulling a trailer. But the amount we saved by buying the Suburban was $9000 so the difference in mileage will make up for in the savings of the purchase price.

As for Brownie, she is still here. She belongs to Randy and he is probably going to sell to Marty for the amount he has paid for it so far. Brownie has new windshield wiper blades and a brand new battery. So I guess we are really crazy these days with all the things we have been doing.