4:48 a.m. - Today I am 60 years old...that number is just hard to comprehend. Yes, I'm fat. Yes, I've had both knees go through knee replacement surgery. Sure, my hair line continues to recede and it's pretty much all gray or white. And yet, I'm still surprised at the number...it just doesn't seem right. All the "time flies" expressions and warnings that no one really understands or believes when they are younger...they are all TRUE. Time does fly! So bring on the 60's, I guess. There isn't much choice is it?
Yesterday was a great day! Rather than exercise with a walk or on the bicycle, I decided to start whacking weeds. I got this brain fart idea while soaking in the hot tub. Neighbor Brandon purchased an excavator and worked on clearing the ditches, so I guess he motivated to work on the east-west ditch. The weeds had gotten too high to mow with the mower, so I thought I would break out the antique weed sickle and try to tackle the job. And the sickle fired up and ran, but I would only get about a pass around, and it would die. It seemed like it wasn't getting something - air, gas, something. So while I was already covered in grass, I decided to break out the Stihl and do what I could by hand, and every 10 minutes or so I would take a break and try to figure out the sickle. Thank goodness I remembered I was supposed to meet someone at IC Elementary, so I paused that weed job effort to get cleaned up and head that direction. In the meantime, I decide that when I got back home I'd try to replace the spark plug and see if that helped the sickle. The meeting I had at school was with Amber's aunt's sister, and she had four yearbooks for me to look at from Reynolds High School. We had a great visit about all the traveling she does, and I had a chance to learn A LOT from the four yearbooks that she loaned me. I learned that there is a lot of historical factual information in the yearbooks, so now I have a fourth source of info - The Reynolds Press, people/graduates, the BOE meeting minutes (that I haven't even touched yet), and past yearbooks. I ended up posting three different postings on the Facebook History Group page, and they were all hits. AND THEN I learned that Mrs. Hasson and Mrs. Kline had digitized all yearbooks from that first one in 1939 until now. WAY TO GO MRS. KLINE! So I shared that link on the Facebook page, and that was a hit too!
After getting home in the afternoon, I tried to tackle the sickle again, and it worked. I wasn't sure of the spark plug that I got up at the hardware store, but I inserted it in the sickle motor, and that dang thing worked like it was brand new. Of course it was the hottest part of the day, but I was able to wack down the entire back lot (except for a little of the east west ditch that I need to finish up trimming. (That has to be done by the Stihl.) When that was finished up, I cleaned up the sickle and then tried to clean up myself, and I headed inside to have some supper that Amber made and spend some time with Kollyns. Karrigan stopped by later, and after she left, I watched a movie - The Sheep Detectives. It was light-hearted and fun to watch!
And on to today. I have interviews to complete at IC Elementary, and then apparently there needs to be a "party" because someone turns 60. I'm not sure who all is coming, but I hear there will be pizza. Oh, I love me some pizza. So let's get through today and everyone telling me how old I am - which apparently is true - and "keep swimming".
Things to do for School
- AMPLIFY delivery schedule for July 16 - 11:15-1:15
- get display project completed
- finalize placement of schools on district map
- periodically add to the RR group history report
- periodically check on mail at post office
- update attendance each week in SDS
- send any IEP notices to Mrs. Saey
OTHER THINGS
- call eye doctor about refill
- order cat food - did July 13
- talk to mom about taking care of Bella
- eye drops and meloxocam
- grease wheels to camper
- clean slide rails
- remove any unnecessary weight from camper
- get correct measurement of the correct wiper slide material
- order slide wiper conditioner
- visit Caleb
- get Amber's bike fixed
- mow the yard
- spray weeds
- spray Creeping Charlie
- finish paying knee medical bills and get reimbursed
- use Dick's gift certificate
- a hood light switch for the Ford
- July 18-27 - Trip to Branson, MO (and Strawberry, AK) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D3BB0_IuwRs0WDKqm1Euor9WUH84SeF1DIwKi7OWeS4/edit?tab=t.0
- July 28 - Bus Refresher Course
- July 31 - Adventureland trip
- Aug. 3 - WCOA Banquet in Macomb
- Aug. 27 - 7:30 a.m. - Appointment with Hussain at ORA Moline
- Nov. 5 - 10 a.m. - Milan Optical
- What/Where is South Buffalo Prairie School and for that matter West Buffalo School and East Taylor Ridge School? ugh.
- Friday Tidbit on the RR History Network Page
- March 11 - 10:25 a.m. - ORA Moline - Consult
- April 1 - 1:45 p.m. - ORA Moline - MRI
- April 9 - Walk in labs at Tr
- April 15 - Dr. Wang pre-op physical (surgical clearance) 8:45 a.m.
- April 28 - 9:40 a.m. at ORA Silvis
- April 30 - 10 a.m. - Milan Optical
- May 4 - surgery on left knee at Trinity Moline
- May 5- returned home from hospital
- May 6 - home recovery
- May 7 - home recovery
- May 8 - home recovery - visited ICE for about an hour - 9-10 a.m.
- May 13 - 8:45 a.m. Post-Op Appt Hussein
- May 15 - 8:20 a.m. - ORA PT
- May 18 - noon - ORA PT
- May 20 - 8 a.m. - with Brandon; 9:20 - ORA PT
- May 22 - 9 a.m. - ORA PT
- May 26 - 3:20 p.m. - ORA PT
- May 27 - 9 a.m. - ORA PT
- May 29 - 8:20 a.m. - ORA PT
- June 1 - 8:20 a.m. - ORA PT
- June 3 - 8:40 a.m. - ORA PT
- June 5 - 8:20 a.m. - ORA PT
- June 8 - 9:20 a.m. - ORA PT
- June 10 - 8:40 a.m. - ORA PT
- June 12 - 8:20 a.m. - ORA PT
- June 16 - 10:20 a.m. - ORA
- June 24 - 9:00 a.m. - ORA PT- Cancelled
- June 25 - 9:25 a.m. - ORA appt with Hussein
