Good morning ladies. Gosh I am tired of hot and sticky weather. I wouldn't mind a break of about 20 degrees or so for awhile. We were at the hospital for Jack's catscan yesterday morning and the tv was on in the waiting room. The Today show was on with the weather and his weather map had the whole country over 85 except for around the Portland area and that was upper 70's. We were over 100 degrees for most of the day yesterday. It was plain miserable to be out in it. I hate to think what our utility bill is going to be like this month. Our AC runs practically 24 hours a day. When it is so very hot like it has been, the temp gets up to around 77 in the house if we have it set at 71.
We now sit and wait on his catscan results. We got a letter yesterday from his Cardiologist that said there was a mass on his right lung so now I am back to worrying as Jack said this pneumonia thing was the top of his left lung. I just would like to know so we can go to the next step if there IS something wrong. He smoked for 25 years so that is the main reason I am more than a little nervous. Boy, when something like this happens you get scared on a lot of levels, the health issues, financial issues, etc. Ahh well, I just have to hang on until they read the results.
Jean: We do have professional pool cleaners that come twice a week, but they don't clean the "grounds" around the pool. I agreed to keep things picked up and put into the trash because I am not on the board, but I have been given a key to use anytime I want. I walk the perimeter of the pool and pick up stuff people either leave or trash and dump it into the garbage cans. There are two nice cans with snap down lids, but the lazy jerks can't seem to walk that far to put in their beer bottle caps or their empty water bottles. That's besides the socks, shirts, hair things, watches, rings, and on and on I find that they leave. I brought the watch and rings home and still have them in a drawer here but all the other stuff goes in the trash. My son insists we go to the game no matter how awful they are so I think we will probably split the parking cost. I told him to be prepared to leave early because it is a hat giveaway that day and I want SOMETHING for the money I spent on the tickets!
Besides that, it is an extremely old ballpark with really narrow seats and they kill my legs/hips to sit in them even when I have lost weight. I bet it will be a tight fit for my poor son, who weighs about 230-240 and is 6'6" tall. He is going to be totally squished into the seat and the row. I already told Jack I get dibs on the end seat so I can at least stick a leg out to keep them from getting numb.
Ok, here is your laugh for the day, but at the time, I was mortified and very very upset. I had a load of laundry in the dryer and I was, as usual, doing two things at once. I had opened the dryer door to see if the clothes were dry and they weren't quite but the stupid screws had come out of the top of the dishwasher again and the thing had tipped forward on Jack so I went rushing to help him. We got the thing screwed back into the countertop and I went back, shut the door on the dryer, and restarted it and went back to finishing up wiping down the countertops, stove etc. The dryer was thumping, like when you have tennies in them. It must have gone around about 4-5 times when I heard a YEOW-MEOW and said, "Oh my God!"
and rushed over and opened the door. Butterscotch was tangled all up in the clothes in the dryer. Poor thing probably thought he was on an amusement park ride!
After it was all over I just sat and cried. Jack kept telling me he was ok, but all I could think of was what if I had shut it and we had left the house. I would have killed him! Moral of the story is A: Don't leave the dryer door open and B: Check the dryer before starting it if you do!
I better go girls and do my morning choirs. Jack will be home late this afternoon as it is his PT day.
Have a good day everyone.
Faye
It must take you awhile to change purses! 
I have one that is made out of snake skin. *shudder* Bob sent it to me when he was in Vietnam. Needless to say it has never been used and has been packed away for 37 years! Thanks for sharing the recipe -- it sounds good! 
in Iowa!
Shows you how my mind goes!!!! 
I also hope Stan's personal care assistant is aware of the time schedule now. 
I hate waiting for people to show up! 
Could you sell the tickets on Ebay? What would happen if you didn't clean up the pool area when you are there? Is anyone hired to check/add the chemicals, etc.? When we lived in a condo, the lawn care, snow removal, and pool/club house expenses were included in the monthly maintenance fee.
in Iowa!