July has been a busy month, both at work and at home, and I am glad to see it go. It’s been rough going back to work this month after being off for almost six weeks recovering from surgery. And then the sciatica started up about 2 weeks ago. Aagghhh! The pain from that is […]

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Both of my sons have had bouts of sciatica, Kevin having it the most seriously for the past ten years. Well, now it’s my turn. Started with pain in my right hip on Sunday that is radiating down my right leg. Nothing seems to help the pain other than pain killing meds. I’m taking ibuprofen […]

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It’s 1 pm on Saturday and I am ready for my houseguests. The house is cleaned, the guest bed is made up with fresh sheets and the food is ready. I still need to wash off the table out back, but it is just too damn hot to go out there right now! I’m impressed […]

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The temps have reached over 100 degrees for two days now and it doesn’t look like there will be any let up anytime soon. Clouds formed over the mountains and I could hear thunder out the back door. But no rain here. I’m sure there was rain to the east and the news clips on […]

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I guess this is the year for visitors from around the country. This is a good thing since it will be awhile before I will feel like doing much traveling anywhere! Tomorrow my sister-in-law, Mary, (Tom’s wife) will be here for the evening on her way home from visiting her grandmother who lives a few […]

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Decided to write this post tonight since tomorrow may be too busy to do any updating. Patrick and Veronica will be over for a cookout and swim tomorrow afternoon and I’ll be busy in the morning get things ready outside and making potato salad. I went to the grocery earlier today and picked up a […]

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Just got off the phone with Charter…ALL their services are officially canceled!!! The service rep asked me why I was canceling and I gave her a brief description of my problems and then told her to check my service record. After that I had no problem getting everything stopped! And I’ll be getting a refund […]

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Yesterday proved to be very productive even though I didn’t really do anything all day. The Verizon installer showed up mid-morning and hooked up my phone/DSL line. And the technician from DirecTV was here mid-afternoon to install my new satellite dish and DVR. And Vanessa helped last night in getting my internet service online as […]

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