More Adventures, and Misadventures

This has been an interesting and busy week.  On Monday I had invited Almita & Rueben here for dinner, and Tony wrote saying he could come here on Monday too.  We figured the more the merrier, so that was the plan.  I made a yummy split pea and ham soup with the ham bone from our delicious Easter dinner.  Almita brought over some Hawaiian dinner rolls to have with it, and I made sugar-free peach jello with diced peaches for dessert.  It was a nice evening, and everybody got enough to eat.  Later, after Almita & Rueben left, I was helping Jim move back some boxes we store under the table (that we had moved into the bedroom to allow us more space for dinner).  I apparently pulled a muscle in my shoulder resulting in a painful spasm in my left trapezius muscle.  I tried to deal with it by myself for two days, but on Thursday I had to go to the local Urgent Care center, where we sat and waited 3 hours before being seen by a nice PA.  He ended up having the nurse give me an injection of decadron and an injection of toredol, and sent me away with prescriptions for a 5 day course of Prednisone, and another for 30 tablets of Flexeril.  I slept like a baby that night!  What a relief.  
 

On Wednesday Almita & Rueben took us birding.  It was a grand outing and we had a marvelous time, but some of the roads were rough, and I had to take a pain pill and a nap when we got home.  I will include a few pictures of birds we saw that day.
 




 

I can't remember the names of all the wonderful birds we saw, but the ones to the left are called stilts!  As you could see, Jim was having a good time too.  The last ;picture is just to show you what a beautiful area we were in, and it was a warm and perfect day too.  Later that day we went over to Almita & Rueben's RV for dinner of delicious cheese burgers with all the "fixins" and potato salad.  I brought a dessert of Oreo Ice Cream pie.  While we were there Almita showed me the first of four books she has produced of her photographs.  She CALLS herself an amateur, but her pictures are INCREDIBLE and the books are really AWESOME.  She let me bring home three of them, that we have been pouring over.  They are a marvelous expression of her passion for nature, and all the wonders of this great world God has given to us.  I could never produce anything as beautiful as these books, but we are very grateful she shared them with us.

Thursday night Jim sat down to watch TV in his easy chair, and it broke again, dumping him on the floor.  So on Friday we went looking for another, better chair.  

 We brought this one home, and set it out.  Before Jim could sit down, Millie was in it!  She decided it was a good choice, and Jim has had to move her out of it whenever he wants to sit there.
Right now, Jim is on the couch, and Millie is in the chair!

Today we went to play Candy Bar Bingo, and Diane and Steve showed up to join us.  The last two weeks we have had no luck winning candy bars.  Today we made up for it winning six bars.  It was a good day!!!  

I have a tip to offer to some of you RVers out there.  I read a recent tip about cleaning kitchen and bathroom faucets using water and vinegar.  I don't deny that the solution works, but I have another one that I use.  If you have dentures, and soak them clean with tablets like Polident or even the generic tablets from Wal-Mart, here's an idea to re-use the solution. In the morning after you brush and rinse the dentures, you can dump the solution into a sink half filled with water.  Using a soft cloth, you can clean the hard water stains off the faucet and knobs, and also clean the sink bowl.  
 
It's so good not having pain today.  Truly a good day, even though it has been overcast and it's going to probably rain all night.  Hopefully there will not be any rain on Tuesday when we travel up to Silent Valley, where we hope to stay for a month.  Since our screen room has seen better days, and is in pretty decrepit shape, we have decided not to keep it after we take it down Monday.  We have found a free-standing screen room we are going to buy next week, so that will be part of our next blog.

Take care and stay well..................and enjoy this wonderful world.