ANOTHER STIRRUP AWARD!
Lou got a phone call this afternoon telling her that she has won the Stirrup award for the best article in the Roundup for 2008. Her story was "The Grandmothers" of the Western Frontier in the April 2008 Roundup. Her article tells about the strong women who lived in the West and Lou cites many authors including Elmer Kelton who wrote about strong women. Jane Gilmore Rushing was the primary author cited and in one paragraph Lou writes 'Rushing had written two novels before she realized that a strong grandmother or grandmother-to-be starred in all of her fiction. She recognized that she had created a template for describing strong women like her Grandma Adams, who settled the Western frontier and raised children who themselves would become the solid citizens Rushing described later in her memoir, Starting from Pyron.' Lou won the Stirrup award for 2006 for her article on Tom Lea. So with two stirrups she can ride straight ahead.
Lou had company today. Lydia came to clean the house while I went to Kiwanis and bought groceries. She tried to feed Lou who didn't eat breakfast this morning. She was so concerned about being constipated and after I gave her a Sennalax with her pain pill last night that she took another one last night. She wanted another on with her oxycontin pill this morning. So sure enough she now has diarrhea. I was hoping that she would have an appetite. I did get her to drink half of an Ensure when I got home.
This afternoon as Lou was talking to Candy Moulton editor of the Roundup about her award Dr. Sylvia Grider came in from Bryan. She had called from Cross Plains where she had stopped to exercise and look at the stained glass windows in our Methodist church. She was delayed a day coming to see us because a homeless man had damaged two stained glass windows in her church St. Andrews Episcopal in Bryan and it was her job to get them taken down to be reconstructed. She brought food. Every time she comes she brings a quiche, this time ham and asparagus plus my favorite and chocolate meringue pie. Lou finally ate a little food some quiche and pie and a little of her applesauce. Sylvia will be here overnight and maybe till Thursday. She and Lou co-authored several books.
Thank all of you for your prayers.
Lou got a phone call this afternoon telling her that she has won the Stirrup award for the best article in the Roundup for 2008. Her story was "The Grandmothers" of the Western Frontier in the April 2008 Roundup. Her article tells about the strong women who lived in the West and Lou cites many authors including Elmer Kelton who wrote about strong women. Jane Gilmore Rushing was the primary author cited and in one paragraph Lou writes 'Rushing had written two novels before she realized that a strong grandmother or grandmother-to-be starred in all of her fiction. She recognized that she had created a template for describing strong women like her Grandma Adams, who settled the Western frontier and raised children who themselves would become the solid citizens Rushing described later in her memoir, Starting from Pyron.' Lou won the Stirrup award for 2006 for her article on Tom Lea. So with two stirrups she can ride straight ahead.
Lou had company today. Lydia came to clean the house while I went to Kiwanis and bought groceries. She tried to feed Lou who didn't eat breakfast this morning. She was so concerned about being constipated and after I gave her a Sennalax with her pain pill last night that she took another one last night. She wanted another on with her oxycontin pill this morning. So sure enough she now has diarrhea. I was hoping that she would have an appetite. I did get her to drink half of an Ensure when I got home.
This afternoon as Lou was talking to Candy Moulton editor of the Roundup about her award Dr. Sylvia Grider came in from Bryan. She had called from Cross Plains where she had stopped to exercise and look at the stained glass windows in our Methodist church. She was delayed a day coming to see us because a homeless man had damaged two stained glass windows in her church St. Andrews Episcopal in Bryan and it was her job to get them taken down to be reconstructed. She brought food. Every time she comes she brings a quiche, this time ham and asparagus plus my favorite and chocolate meringue pie. Lou finally ate a little food some quiche and pie and a little of her applesauce. Sylvia will be here overnight and maybe till Thursday. She and Lou co-authored several books.
Thank all of you for your prayers.
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