VAL VISITS
Granddaughter Valerie came yesterday and left today. She was the focus of attention at Kiwanis because the speaker told about their Camp Courage that counsels troubled kids and she said teachers like Val were the ones who saw how troubled kids react first. And Val is leaving Thursday to fly to Maryland to work for the first time as a counselor for a camp for inner city Baltimore kids at a camp on Chesapeake Bay. She will be there for a week paying for her airfare and expenses. A friend of hers runs the camp. She thinks it is sponsored by the Methodists. She brought me a memory stick with all of Lou's computer files from her computer and from all of the floppy discs that she preferred to store her files. It will be a challenge to any researcher to retrieve all of the files. One set is AOL files that I wasn't able to open using AOL. Of course most were created with WordPerfect but she has files from others in Word and I don't know what else. There are a lot of letters and manuscripts in the archive and I appreciate her doing all of the hard work to copy every disk.
Yesterday I had my annual physical more than a year from the last one with Lou. We don't see the doctor but a very efficient PA takes care of us. A very nice looking young lady and last year I was too embarrassed to let her do the digital prostate exam, but this time I cancelled going to Lubbock to my urologist because it is 210 miles and many hours for a quick digital exam, so I let her do it and she was very good. I now have no secrets. After my EKG exam she gave me a form and a baggie with a plastic container. I asked what that was and she said a fecal sample that she took earlier. I told her she was sneaky but good. I will get the lab and X-ray results in a couple of weeks. The main thing we did was change my blood pressure medicine. She said she was limited by low cost and I said I could afford the best so she said there were a lot of options then. She gave me two months of samples of Diovan which Mark says is the one he is taking. It is supposed to have fewer side effects like this small cough I have. After probing, punching and listening to me she said I was in good shape. I then ate breakfast at Town Crier, bought groceries at HEB and picked up my cleaning. I forgot to take the recycle stuff.
My new deer feeder quit working. The control went blank. So Val helped me replace it with the old one that Roy returned to me Sunday. It is working great with a good battery in it.
I think I finally got the raccoon video to post. Show him working hard to remove the deer feeder lid, unsuccessfully.
Granddaughter Valerie came yesterday and left today. She was the focus of attention at Kiwanis because the speaker told about their Camp Courage that counsels troubled kids and she said teachers like Val were the ones who saw how troubled kids react first. And Val is leaving Thursday to fly to Maryland to work for the first time as a counselor for a camp for inner city Baltimore kids at a camp on Chesapeake Bay. She will be there for a week paying for her airfare and expenses. A friend of hers runs the camp. She thinks it is sponsored by the Methodists. She brought me a memory stick with all of Lou's computer files from her computer and from all of the floppy discs that she preferred to store her files. It will be a challenge to any researcher to retrieve all of the files. One set is AOL files that I wasn't able to open using AOL. Of course most were created with WordPerfect but she has files from others in Word and I don't know what else. There are a lot of letters and manuscripts in the archive and I appreciate her doing all of the hard work to copy every disk.
Yesterday I had my annual physical more than a year from the last one with Lou. We don't see the doctor but a very efficient PA takes care of us. A very nice looking young lady and last year I was too embarrassed to let her do the digital prostate exam, but this time I cancelled going to Lubbock to my urologist because it is 210 miles and many hours for a quick digital exam, so I let her do it and she was very good. I now have no secrets. After my EKG exam she gave me a form and a baggie with a plastic container. I asked what that was and she said a fecal sample that she took earlier. I told her she was sneaky but good. I will get the lab and X-ray results in a couple of weeks. The main thing we did was change my blood pressure medicine. She said she was limited by low cost and I said I could afford the best so she said there were a lot of options then. She gave me two months of samples of Diovan which Mark says is the one he is taking. It is supposed to have fewer side effects like this small cough I have. After probing, punching and listening to me she said I was in good shape. I then ate breakfast at Town Crier, bought groceries at HEB and picked up my cleaning. I forgot to take the recycle stuff.
My new deer feeder quit working. The control went blank. So Val helped me replace it with the old one that Roy returned to me Sunday. It is working great with a good battery in it.
I think I finally got the raccoon video to post. Show him working hard to remove the deer feeder lid, unsuccessfully.
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