ButterflyLois

Amputee life before and after...

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

~ They Cleaned My Yard!~


I mentioned yesterday that Carl was out doing his yard. By
himself.. He rode his lawn mower and raked.. I looked again
later after I posted and Carl was raking MY yard.. then I
looked again and his wife, I don't know her name, came over
and helped him.. My back yard looks really nice thanks to
them.. I thanked them before they left.. Even Penny noticed
this morning how much neater it looked out there without
all those stinkin pine cones... Trees are a good thing, but this
kind is just not good for a yard.. Well it is if you don't mind
constantly cleaning up the ground !...
Thats Carls house in the background...the big 2 story one...
Penny came today but we didn't go outside as I had planned.
Its been drizzly rainy and I know that ground is soggy. My
tires would get all icckky not counting my chair.. That's NOT
good... I did a stupid last nite which could have been a big
BADDIE.. I washed off my joystick and I didn't pay attention
that I had increased the speed.. Well, Ive turned this speed
up to 3 and I have to be super careful.. because this chair
MOVES now, let me tell ya.. I had put the speed all the way up,
which is 5.. Just as I hit the knobbie to move and the chair
started I saw the speed was all the way up...that's NOT good..
I bet this thing would go 60 miles an hour full speed.. so.....
Luckily I was in the middle of the kitchen when I wiped this
off so there was nothing around me to run into.. but when I
hit that knobbie this chair was off like a shot.. and I stopped
so fast that I almost fell out. I had to grab on to the arm
rest or I would have.. Cant you just hear me calling 911 to
come help me back into my chair that I had fallen out
cuz I was speeding? :-) Ya, I'm a SPEEDIN' GORGEOUS
WEEBLE :-) Like the road runner.. "BEEP BEEP!".. I do have
a horn but it sounds like a smoke detector and if I hit it
the boys just cringe.. They hate that sound.... Power chairs
are a good thing but you have to be careful... My poor door
ways are proof of that.. :-)

Penny made us manwich for our lunch today.. Its pretty
good and fast to make.. With no fast food places here
at all we fix our own lunch now.. Well McD's is 13 miles,
either way, to Centreville or to Coldwater, be nice if
they put one here. They do have a deli type snack
thing at the gas station just down the road, Ive tried
it but its nothing spectacular.. Ive been hungry for
some ribs and sauerkraut.. Just sounds so good, with
mashed potatoes, been ages.. Hard to make for just
one though, but I usually freeze what I don't eat.
Easier for lunch.. The photo of the Meals on Wheels
is of Chris.. Yesterdays lunch from there was the
best I have had in AGES!! They had a cucumber &
onion salad..with vinegar and oil.. Good? well I wish
they had sent MORE of it.. It was great..

Seems I always end these posts talking about food,
but since ive started to post earlier its around my
food time now.. :-) So, that's where this SPEEDIN
GORGEOUS WEEBLE is headed.. on SLOW speed,
to the kitchen to have a manwich.. Wanna join me?
Y'all have a good one now, Y'hear? love ya and THANKS!
Always, Lois ****

"God Bless You", is my prayer today,
I'm honored to call you "friend".
I pray the Lord will keep you safe,
Until I write again...

3 Comments:

  • At 9:29 PM, Blogger MaryC said…

    Wonderful Lois so many great pictures of your neighbor cleaning your yard...you are blessed my friend.
    Bob wanted to know what your pine cones look like, could you take a close up pictures next time...then I will show him.
    Trying to get ready for the DDS, I know there is a bit of tooth still left on the back bottom gums and it stay sore all the time.I was hoping it would come up by itself.
    Going to make a nice trip out of it, it about 70 miles from here...it's bast on our income.
    There will be three of us going, Sharon going with us, she is the one that lost her husband in Jan this year.Patsy will be doing the driving,she lost her husband Dec 2007.
    Speeding not good for you Lois,any way to block that high speed...I don't want to have to call 911 for any reason my friend.
    God bless you Lois and keep you safe.
    Mary

     
  • At 10:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My guy has a Permobil C500 which is a Swedish power chair. It has a switch which disables the toggle while you clean it. We some times go to the main shopping street in Little Russia, or when the weater is nice to the beach - it is about 3 bloks to the beach - he meets his 91 y.o. mother at a beach shelter and they talk

     
  • At 12:06 PM, Blogger Lois said…

    Hi Mary,
    Hopefully no more will fall..lol but if they do I will have penny take a photo..

    I dont think its adjustable speed. maybe it could be but I have no idea, I would think it would be since many are in power chairs that high speed would not be good.. Ive never tried 5 im afraid to lol :-)

    Nice sunny day today..good to hear from you Mary.. more pics on thursdays post.
    Love N'Hugs,
    Lois ****

     

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