From the time we are born we are making memories.   Our first friends are family and cousins.   Then we go to school and make new friends and more memories.  Eventually your world enlarges and you start High School, begin dating,  start driving and find many more friends.   During all this time you share moments with friends.  Some times good—sometimes bad—-sometimes just hilarious.   But these are all memories that we share with our friends.  Eventually we graduate and life goes on to the next chapter in life.   We get married, go to college, or go away for a new wonderful job.  We have children and all of a sudden we are involved with the rat race of life.   Our friends are forgotten in the past because we are so involved with the present.   Life is eternal at that point.   Their is always tomorrow.

Well a few years back, in fact quite a few years ago,  one of my old school friends looked me up.   We shared some fun times in high school, and because of Lori I met Rich.   We enjoyed the next 2 years getting together, reminiscing and just enjoying some good times together again.  Then she developed Cancer in Oct and passed away before the New Year.   It was so fast.   Rich and I were so glad we had the several years to enjoy our friendship with Lori and her husband.   She left this earth way to young.   Another chapter in life had come—-and gone—-several years after that Facebook has now come along.    It took me awhile to sign on…..lol…..I started looking for classmates from school.  I found a few and have been enjoying some long distance friendships on fb.  It has been great to reconnect.  Were all grown up now.   So good to reach out and share our life experiences.  Their is that special bond that we all shared in school.  Memories that only we can share together.  All of a time—-a place—-No matter if we shared it together, we all lived in the same time, the same era, and the same town of yester-year…

I was looking for one girl in particular, Diana.   We went to high school together.   A small group of us would always go to her house at noon from school.   She lived only several blocks away.   Her mom always made us feel so welcome.  Diana’s dad, Ivan always stopped at this little place in town called the Cheese House.  He would buy cold cuts and cheese and bring them home.   We would eat all their food, lol, and head back to school.   At Christmas I received a present from Ivan.   I was dumfounded.   “”ME””…..Ivan knew I loved Chocolate Covered Cherries.   He took a box and wrapped each one and stuffed them down an empty wrapping paper tube.   It was so funny.   Ivan did that for at least 3 years.  Now this was a gesture I have never forgotten.  Its just these little things that one never forget that seems to mean so much.  Such great memories at their house.   Well I found Diana’s FB account, but unfortunately, she had just passed away from Cancer also.  I found out she had just been back in town to visit her dad when I started thinking about her.  I felt so sad.  So close to finding her and I was never able to see her after the first several years out of high school.   She and her husband had moved to Texas and raised her 3 girls.   I turns out, that she had stayed in town for the first 10 years after Graduation.   I only lived 20 minutes from her.   We were so wrapped up in our lives, we never thought to keep up our friendship.  I friended her oldest daughter and sent her some pics and things.  We have kept up a friendship because of her mom.   Well Friday was a great day

Two of Diana’s daughters, Tammy and Kathy, had come to see their Grandpa Ivan.  He has been very sick and not doing so good.   I decided to go and meet them.   I have been going through things and found my wallet pic of Diana.   Her graduation pic.   Also a black and white pic of our graduating class and a Centennial Edition of the School yearbook.  It contained all the graduation classes since the school district was formed to when it was consolidated.   These are things that I don’t need anymore.  I decided those were things the girls would enjoy.  So I went to see them and Ivan and his wife Vivian.   It was so nice reminiscing about old times with Ivan.   I finally met Vivian and most of all I was able to meet the girls.  It was almost like the circle was finally complete.  The void was finally filled.  They are such wonderful girls.  Diana would be so proud of them.

Diana’s Grad. Pic.

Ivan is in his late 80s now.  He is not doing that well, but it was a great visit.  His memory is still sharp.  His wife Vivian is a wonderful lady.  I have been friends with her on fb but this was the first time I met her.   They are so in love.   Her live revolves around taking care of Ivan.  Her love is such an inspiration.  As I was talking with the girls, I kept having flash backs of talking to Diana.  Their is some of their momma in both of them.   Beautiful girls, on the outside and especially on the inside.  What a blast from the past.

It was time to leave them, I decided , their was one more person in town to look up.   Now the town I was in, is only 30 minutes from me, but I never go their.  So I went to Karens house.   I worked with Karen, when I was just out of high school at a garment factory.  Karen also started working their just out of high school as her mother worked their too.   Well Karens mom was home and came to the door. Nellie is in her 90s.   Amazing….  She looked fabulous…..Her memory is just like yesterday.  Sharp as can be.  We had a lovely visit.   Karen was out walking.    Finally I left and found her walking the street.   She was so supprised.   We talked for about a half hour and have vowed to get together next spring when we are back.   In the mean time, we have friended each other on fb.  What a great day it was.

Life seems to just consume our days.   We are always worrying about tomorrow.  We never take the time to see today.  One needs to slow down.   Think about our friends from the past and the present also.  As we get older, It seems that I think about the past, and wonder what has happened to some of the people that has touched my life.  Where are they now.  Facebook has made it so easy to find and reconnect with old friends.   If you can today—-Take that time today——Look up someone from the past.   Do it before its to late.  If they leave this earth before you do, you may be the only one to replay those memories.   Wouldn’t it be GRAND to be able to visit and talk about old times with them?…..Its such a Great feeling to rekindle those feelings of youth.

Do It today…………..Before its to late……….Add another chapter to your book of life…….

“”LIFE IS NOT ETERNAL””

All weekend it has been rainy and cloudy….Finally the sun is starting to shine but fall is in the air.   Tonight is the first possible freeze.   So everyone has been warned to cover their flowers.   I thought I would post a pic of my favorite tree in the front Yard

The last fall we live in our house…Notice the MH ready to go in the driveway….

This is the Family Tree.  This tree came home with me in the 80s.   I was taking my mom to Iowa City to the hospitals and I would go to Walmart.   I was pretty poor, and we had no trees in the yard, so I was buying bushes and trees that were reduced in price because they half dead or because it was end of season.   This tree was even transplanted twice.   Well it came home in the trunk….Such a beautiful tree it has turned out to be.   It is the tree the kids love to climb.  Weve taken lots of pics with the kids in the tree through the years.

Halloween ….All dress in their costumes…

All 5 grand kids in the Family Tree

Cassidy….She can be so cute when she wants to be…..

Soon all the leaves will be gone….and we will be in Texas when the snow starts to fly…..yeaaahhhh….

Well, Wed was Dentist day.  Tue started out as normal.   Went to work and got off.   Knew I wouldn’t be eating hard stuff for a few days, so I went to Hyvee and bought some soup.   Cheddar Broccoli, and some other stuff.   Bought my last meal…lol..at the Deli….They had Roast Pork Loin special with 2 sides.   So I bought 2 for supper for Rich and me.   Well I got home about six and found 2 messages on the phone from the Dentist office.  She was trying to contact me about how I was going to pay the remaining balance.  “” What Balance“”.   I called and left a message…….” I don’t know what you are  was talking about.   Everything should be taken care of”…….   The second message said….”” it is 4 o clock and we close in 30 min.   If we don’t hear from you , we are forced to cancel the visit”””   WHAT!!!!     Blue Cross had already paid one check.   So just didn’t understand it.   The next morning I got ready and just before I left , I called again and left another message….”” I don’t understand what the problem is, I am coming anyway, I don’t know what else to do.””……I drove to Tammy’s, and waited for her to come home from work.  I had a prescription of 4 pills for Xanax.  I took 1 and brought the rest if I needed them per instructions.   Now let me tell you.  I don’t take drugs, so 1 little mg. of  Xanax is alot for me.    Well lets just say i didn’t really notice it like Tammy did.  lol.

When we got their and walked in, I definitely was under the influence.  lol.  So Tammy says.   I locked eyes immediately with the office girl.   Went up to the desk, oblivious that their were other people sitting in the office also.   I asked her, did you get my message.   Well after a little conversation, I found out.    MY INSURANCE WAS CANCELED WHEN i WENT PART TIME.  ….. OMG….I was in shock.   They only reason I went part time was so I could keep the insurance.   and I might add, at their suggestion.    They needed $1700 before they could proceed with the appointment.   Well I called HR immediately and she was on Vacation.   So talked to the other girl.  She was shocked also and agreed I should have it.   She would follow through and find out what happened.   She said what are you going to do?  I said, “”I don’t know, guess just sit here””.   Finally Tammy told me “”Mom, please talk quieter””.   Well didn’t realize I was so loud.   I just sat down and put my feet up on the chair next to me like I was at home and started calling people on the phone.    Must have been a sight.   I think Tammy was embarrassed.  lol lol.   So long story short, I finally thought, ya know,  I must have this done today.  So I told the girl to put it on Rich’s charge card.   Then I just sat down and waited.   Finally after about an hour and a half they called me in……………………

And then it began……..The needle came……over and over….finally no more pain….yeaaaaa…..my eyes were shut…..then the pliers….the pressure…..the pushing and pulling…..Heard one go SNAP…..Then the drill…..and more drilling…and more drilling……finally the thread…..Then the new teeth…..OH gosh…What a mouth full.   Then they put some goop inside and put them in my mouth and I had to wait 10 min.  while it set up…..It was squishing out the back….Then they took them out and carved the excess off.  It is a soft material that is a cushion on the upper pallet and gums.  Finally after arriving at 8:30, we walked out of their by 12……..Whew…..I still had to be carefull how I walked.  I could never be a druggy…..lol….I have no tolerance…Guess I would be a cheap thrill…hahaha.  Started my pain meds when I got home.   Did a lot of napping.   But oh how I had to keep wiping the blood from my lips….Yuck.   I think I slept from exhaustion.   Didn’t feel to bad the next day but my jaw was really swollen.   Thur. nite I had to take the teeth out.  It was just to much.  Friday, I got up and looked in the mirror and….. OMG,…..  I was bruised under the eye and down by my jaw.  That is the side I heard the pop….I bet he broke the eye tooth when he was pulling it.

Day one…no bruising

Day two..Bruising appearing

Day three…Under eye and bruising got really dark on the jaw…

Ive been eating my soup,  Rich brought home Chicken Pot Pie from KFC.  Yum..and of course Rainbow Sherbet.    But do you think I will probably lose some weight?…Probably not…Monday back to remove the stitches, HR will be back and will get this mess staightened out. Work on Tue.  Early Halloween…..Here come the jokes…..hahaha…..But, you have to laugh at yourself.  I gave it much thought about posting pics, but decided……WHY NOT…Ya just  have to laugh at yourself..Gotta just wait now and see what happens….

Beautiful Maple Tree at my sons house…..

Last weekend, we camped with our group, Cenois Prairielanders.   We started out on Thur. nite.   Rich got home about 7, and we hopped in the MH and left.   Of course we also took Kitty.   This is his second camping trip and he did so good.  He was scared at first but he actually walked around some.   He is getting more curious all the time.

Kitty checking out the scenery…

Kitty was even starting to Play…

We knew we wouldn’t make the campground before dark, so we stopped at a McDonalds truck parking lot.   That is the beauty of a Motorhome.   But it is a good think to read signs too.  The small sign said as we drove in,   No parking overnite.  Prohibited by the town ordinance.   Oh well, we took the chance and parked anyway.   I was waiting for the police to come knocking at 2 in the morning, but all was well.   In the morning we got up and had breakfast at a restaurant about half a block away.   On we went to Peoria, and stopped at an RV place and filled with propane.   We had to have propane to run the furnace.  The weather is getting pretty chilly.   On we went to the campground.   This was the first time to Kentuckiana .   What a fabulous campground.   It is so geared to the kids and a great family atmosphere.  We met up with all our friends from the Cenois Prairielanders group and met some new ones from the Great River Ramblers.  There was a total of 9 coaches.   It was a nice group.   On Friday nite, the campground served a free Chili supper.  You had your choice of hot or mild chilli, crackers and a piece of pie ala mode.    OMG, They had pecan pie.   It was So so good.   Saturday the ladys took off to a Tea Room in Mackinaw. It is called “The Garden Gate”.   It is such a cool place.  It is a renovated old Railroad Station.  The rooms are all packed full of so many gift ideas, all decorated for Halloween and Christmas.   The coolest thing about it is the meal.  They are known for serving their meals on a 3 tiered serving rack.   If you order a soup, entrée, and dessert it comes served on this cool beautiful rack that is placed in front of you.

We shopped and then stopped across the street at the “Porcelain Berry”, which is full of so many wonderful things, from jewelry, clothing, purses, to home gadgets.  We all returned and had a great time and all spent money…..lol…How can you not….

The men did their own thing.  They went to a Modular home manufacturing factory…..HomeWay Homes….They have tours every Saturday at 1.  They seen a house built from scratch to finish.   They can built about 2 homes a week and sometimes more.   After that they went on down the road to the sales site.   They had 2 complete homes on display for everyone to go through.   Sounds so interesting.   I would really like to do that to.  I love touring homes, especially seeing how they are built.  After we all got back to the campground, we rested a bit and then drove to Minier for Supper.   It was just a small town bar and grill.   But guess what the specials were?   All you can eat barbeque ribs and Prime rib.   Well I had the prime rib and Rich the Ribs.   OMG.   So so full.   Back to the campground.   The one really cool thing about this campground is, every Saturday nite they have a country singing group.   We went back and sat through the first half and then time for bed.  All that food really did us in.

The next morning we all had breakfast together.   (more food)….lol….It was really a chilly weekend so we eat our breakfast on Sat. and Sun. at the Campgound hall.

Here are a few more pics of the campground. They have 2 really pretty ponds for fishing and just pleasure.   Also several gazebos scattered around and some beautiful flowers.

After that we hightailed it home.  We left at 10:00 and had to be in Spring Valley Boat Club around 1……It was Mileys 6th birthday party.   We made it and even made the taco salad that I always bring.  That seems to be the kids favorite thing for me to bring.  Tina always throws great birthday partys for the kids.   This year Miley picked the theme Frozen for her party.

The Birthday Girl

She always gets so many cool presents… If we were only 6 again.

Ed had a Pinata outside, and talk about fun…The kids had a blast.

Miley with her sack of candy and the Frozen Pinata

Austin trying to hit the Pinata

Oh wow…..the Pinata broke…The kids went crazy trying to get all the candy…

Heres a few more pics that are so darn cute, I have to add them….

Mileys friend Paige bought her this hat …It’s just like hers…..They so cute….Best Friends…

Tammy and her kids…..Cassidy, Cameron, and Carly

Granpa and Cassidy…He was tickling her….

Little Carly in her new silver vest

Carly loves her hat…..She wouldn’t take it off…

It was such a busy weekend but so much fun………Another week closer……

Today is a gloomy day.   It started with the pitter patter of rain drops on the skylights in the kitchen.  Fall is coming and the leaves are falling.   The temperature is dropping and now it is jacket weather some days.   Unfortunately, the furnace came on last weekend.   Just no break in paying out to good ole Ameron.   But on the bright side, we are heading for a camping weekend tonight, or maybe in the morning.   Rich comes home from work tonight and we will see how he feels.

When we first bought the Motor Home, we also joined the National Club, FMCA.   (Family Motor Coach Association).   They have many clubs throughout the U.S.   The local club not to far from us invited us to join.   They have monthly get togethers and camp for the weekend.   We joined and found it to be so much fun.   They are the greatest group of people.   Fun loving and young at heart.  This weekend is the last campout of the year.   Lots of things planned and of course…..Always Great Food…..I will surely take lots of pics and share next week after were back home.

Only 6 more days to D-Day…..Teeth Extraction…..Next Wed.    Please all think good thoughts for me……LOL…I admit….I AM CHICKEN…..But they did give me prescription for some good meds…..So hope all is well.   And that brings me to the subject of this blog……LASALLE MISSION CEMETARY….

Carefully excavating the grave sites.

When I first went to the dentist I knew of the history next door.  This whole block was originally just trees weeds grass, just basically deserted.  It had been used a pasture for the last 100 years.   A Veterinary bought the corner lot to construct a new state of the art animal clinic.   Much to his surprise, he found out after he bought it, their was a cemetery on his land.   This Cemetery is the Lasalle Mission Cemetery located at the corner of 24th and Chartres St. in LaSalle Illinois.  Originally dedicated in 1840 by the Catholic La Salle Mission church, was in use until roughly 1857.  Many of these people had died of cholera.   According to state law he had to strip all the top soil and investigate each grave shaft.   If he would build on the property, all remains would have to be relocated to another site.   This was done over the course of a year, with the help of one and then two archeologists.   Much help was given by the community.   Many volunteers came and helped.

Eventually all remains were bagged and later buried.   The roughly 1,130 remains from over 900 grave shafts were re-interred in St. Vincent Cemetery, La Salle.
“Everything we got, artifacts and all, were in individual bags and they’re in the ground,” said funeral director John Hurst, who has been involved with the relocation process.
The remains were divided among ten vaults laid side-by-side near the southern edge of the cemetery property along North 2979th Road. The lots were provided by St. Vincent Cemetery Association.

The angel overlooking the Cemetary

Bishop Jenky from Peoria Diocese

The new Monument

Julie Pinn laying flowers

The simple stone to mark the spot until the new memorial stone was added later

http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/lost-cemetery-proves-costly-dvm-building-new-practice

http://newstribcom.cmititestbank.com/articles/news/local/default.asp?article=023CD6FC043BF46FD7F419F44649449072DA6143E96AABBC

Roughly ten months after human remains were found at the site of the former La Salle Mission cemetery, those early residents were blessed in their new grave site at St. Vincent’s Cemetery.  Bishop Jenky from the Peoria Diocese  and 2 local priests, came and performed the Rite of Committal with Final Commendation before a group of nearly 40 people for the re-interment .

A new Monument made from a granite slab was placed later at the burial site.  I weighs approximately 2,500 lbs.    The monument in the La Salle cemetery along St. Vincent’s Avenue is inscribed:
“The memorial marks the site where the remains of Irish and German immigrants and pioneers were relocated from the La Salle Mission Cemetery. The La Salle Mission Cemetery, located approximately one mile to the south and west of this memorial, was in use between 1840 and 1857. Many of those buried here died of cholera. The re-interment took place on April 28, 2012.”

This was such an interesting story.  I included several sites that you could do some research.   The Ancare Veterinary Clinic did build their new office.   Next to them is an empty lot and then next to the lot is where my dentist built his new office.   One of my questions to my dentists was,  Are you sure you got all the remains?   I don’t want one of the spirits coming and guiding your hands while I’m getting these teeth pulled.   lol.   Well his answer was, their wasn’t any grave sites on his property.   But he did find old fence posts.   He laughed of course, and my other response was, those poor pets that are boarded on the Vets office.   The People go home at night and leave the pets all alone…..spooky…..My dentists said that the spirits just come up and play with them at night and keep them company….lol….He has a great sense of humor….Well, long story short……Turns out that their wasn’t any openings soon for the extraction, so I have to go to Princeton to his other office next Wed.    so …………..GUESS I’M SAFE FROM THE SPIRITS……..

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Nice and warm with rays of sunshine. But fall is in the air.    That darn grass just keeps growing.   Tomorrow we have to mow and bag it.  It just keeps growing with all the rain and nice weather we’ve had.

But the best news is………….I talked to the RV and Mobil Home Park that we will be staying in this winter.   Its OFFICIAL….We will be Workampers this winter……Yahoo……….  I will be working in the office….yahooooo….and Rich will be Maintenance.     So excited.   So after Thanksgiving dinner we will be leaving and heading south for the winter, down to Harlingen Texas.    It is in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.   Not far from Mexico.  Rich officially gave his notice at work yesterday also.  So by the end of the month, he will be retired, and waiting for his first SSI check….Never Dreamed that this day would come.    I’m still working my 2 days a week, but it is so nice now to get up in the morning and not rush.   It won’t be long and it will be like this everyday.   Rich can’t wait.  They are working him so hard.   The company that he works for hauling the US mail is so short on drivers.  Wouldn’t you think in this day and age when everyone is needing a good job, they would be able to find good employees?    It seems not.  Some of the ones they do hire are really questionable……. lol……But soon he will be free also….lol…..We will be making another trip to Social Security to sign him up and then his Medicare starts Dec 1.    Unfortunately, I have to buy some gap insurance when I quit work as I won’t be 65 until next Aug.  But that’s a small price to pay for ……FREEDOM…..

We still have so much to do.    I keep selling stuff on the FB garage sale sights and have been doing quite well.   Cleaning out all the stuff in the house is just unimaginably difficult.   Not that its hard to part with it, but what to do with all of it.   But piece at a time.   I did manage to get all my sewing stuff consolidated and packed into plastic containers that fit in the cabinets in the bedroom.   It was so much easier than I thought it would be.  Now I am getting to all the drawers where I stuffed all the things from the kids growing up.   They contain the report cards, school papers, diplomas, baby books, jewelry from when they were born.    Time now to get each kid a tote and start separating all these things.   I have also found clothes that I saved from when they had baby pics taken.  Blankets and pics that I embroidered Their name and birth date.  Lots of things I haven’t seen in years…..What pack rats we are….lol….I feel like a Hoarder…

Also yesterday I took my sewing machine out to the MH and sewed my curtains.   I just had to have curtains to make it homey.   Rich really didn’t care or understand, but when he wasn’t around, I ordered valences from Penneys and put them up….hahaha…..I usually get what I want.   I just do it my way…..lol……I had to have them to make it look like home.   I took the ones from my dinning room and put them in the Bedroom.  So now I’m happy.   Now the ones I ordered from Penneys I liked but they didn’t have a header at the top of the valence.   And I might add , they were to long.   So Easy Fix.   I folded them over and sewed a nice substantial header at the top….and they are also shorter now…They look more like valences than curtains.    Now I’m really happy….lol…They look much more  professional….

          We love the colors blue and red….Love those bright colors….

These are the bedroom curtains.    Could be brighter but they were recycled from my dining room.

Thur. was another dentist day.   I tried on the new teeth.   They were really brite.    Like a flashlight?.  Well not that bad.    ha-ha….The dentist agreed with me , so they are going to tone them down another shade.  So I have another try-on again before the grand finale.    They gave me a prescription for Xanax to take.   Only 4 pills.   Take 1 an hour before the procedure and bring the bottle incase I need more…..hahaha…..Ill be in Happy Land…..I’m liking that…..Never been their before….Now I can see what its like to be a Druggie ….haha….Tammy is going to take me, cause obviously I can’t drive myself.  lol.   This I’m sure is going to be quite an experience for me.   Rich said I have to learn a whole new way of eating.    Wonder if this will help me shed a few pounds?    Some how I think NOT.   Nothing helps this body.   Too Late.   ……….Until Later………

Well another week has gone by. Another week closer to winter and another week closer to leaving and starting the new life of fulltime RVing.  Tomorrow I have to go back to work and put in my 2 days of imprisonment for the week. Oh well, it is giving us insurance for now. Thursday is another appointment to the dentist.  I think it is a tryon of the real thing….lol.  The DENTURES…. and then in Oct., out with the old….and in with the new….grrrrrrrr. Kind of scary…Just give me drugs..
This weekend I had several things happening.  For one a Wonderful Person passed away.  I never met Tina, but I went to school with her father in law, Russ.  Her husband, Willie and his sister Jamie, went to school with my kids.  Plus I work with Jamie now.  Tina passed away from cancer at 37 leaving her husband and 2 little kids.  She was originally from Russia. Her wake was Saturday.  Her life is such a wonderful heartwarming story of inspiration and love for family.  I must share it but with permission from Willy.  They are having a Celebration of her life later so I hope to share her story later date.
Later Saturday night, my son gave a party for his girlfriend Brandy. She turned 40.  He likes to do everything big.  So they hired a band and backed the drop deck trailer into the back yard.

                                                       How Brandy loves to Karaoke

Everyone had quite a good time.   Even the little kids.   Their was plenty of food.   Brandy made Italian Beef.   Rich found a huge Slicing Beef Roast in the freezer.   Already precooked and seasoned.   We don’t know where it came from, Imagine that. ….. lol…. So he cooked and cut it into slices and put it in a roaster, filled with Aus Jois…..I made Taco Salad.   Everyone just loves it, and a cheeseball and another dip.   Another first……Brandy and Scott asked me to go make a beer run at 11pm.   Imagine that….His Mother getting his beer?….   The sober one had to go for beer…Another first for me….

Scotts Harley had a bad tire on the back, so he decided to do a burn out to blow it up…..silly…but entertaining……After 2 different trys….It never blew…but lots of smoke and noise.  

The little kids had fun watching but were really tired by the end of the night….

Cheers to the 40 year old…..Happy Birthday Brandy….

I tried to get a good picture of Brandy and Scott, but he wouldn’t cooperate.   He kept making silly faces….He doesn’t like to smile cause he has dimples….lol…I used to point them out to everyone, when he was a kid.   I guess I must have embarrassed him to no end as a child… .. lol……Ive marked him for life….The things parents do.   But……..since he wouldn’t cooperate and smile, Im just going to post all the pics I took …………..

Sorry Scott….lol….

Well time to do some more work as to cleaning out….Have done some good deals selling on fb these past weeks.   Cleaning out a lot of stuff.   Now today, I am going to work on my sewing stuff.  Rich found some plastic containers that will fit in the upper cabinets in the bedroom.   So now I need to go through my sewing supplies and consolidate.    So far I have bought 4 containers, but room for more………………….lol………………..Always room for MORE…… Until next time…..

First thing I want to mention is, if you look at the top, I have added other pages. I finally figured that out.  Wow, I’m actually figuring out how to design this page.   ALL BY MYSELF!!!…..Amazing…At the top you will see titles….Home…About…Family…Little Beaver… I have added Family and Little Beaver…If you click on Family, you will see a slide show of some of our favorite family pics…Little Beaver will be pics of the Motor Home, but haven’t added those yet. I also think I will add a page called ….Crafts…I enjoy mosaic crafts and some others. So I will be adding some pics of my past projects. So check these pages out and stay tuned for the rest…lol

Well this morning I ventured back to the dentist at 8 am….so early….but it was time for my impressions….lol..whew…Glad that is done…but wasn’t as bad as I thought. I remembered before, they put all that gobbledy gook in your mouth and you had to wait 15 minutes for it to harden. “Just breath out your nose” they say. In the mean time, your nose is running and down your throat it goes, lol…You can’t swallow for fear your choke. So you sit their stone quiet. I tell myself. “Relax, Calm, Breath slowly, through the nose, slowly, its almost over, relax, calm.”…..Over and Over and OVer. In the mean time this big ass tray filled with gobbledy gook is filling your mouth to overflowing, and they have your mouth and lips spread out so huge….It has to harden before they take it out….Finally at last its over…spread the mouth wider and pull it out after it has hardened and sucked on to the teeth…or the teeth that is left…lol.. When Rich had his done, They had so much Gobbledy Gook packed in the teeth tray in his mouth, He said it was ready to run down his throat. He wanted to gag….Yuck… Well guess what. They have now invented a new faster drying gobbledy gook….Really wasn’t so bad. Less than 5 minutes, it had set and out it came. She was fast efficient and very nice. Second visit…score…A+….so so far not to bad.  Have all my dates set in stone now till the …GRAND FINALE….

Last Monday was Labor Day, and what an AWESOME DAY “WHY” cause I had it  “OFF”  My first Labor day in years that I haven’t been working.  It felt so good.  I kept telling myself, this is what the future will be….NO MORE WORKING ON HOLIDAYS…  Rich and I went to Toluca for their Annual Labor day Parade.  I grew up in Toluca, and the Labor Day celebration was the ultimate for the year.  I was comparable to Christmas … The carnival came to town.  The greatest time ever.  The only thing I hated was,  we usually started school the Wed. before, and the teachers still gave us homework on Friday….WHY….This was the biggest weekend of the year…..  No time for homework!!!!…..  My oldest grandson Cameron has been ridding his 4 wheeler in the parade for several years.  Not to advertise for anybody, but just to ride.  lol…He lives about a half hour from Toluca… This year, now that he is 16, he has been making lots of friends out of town….including Toluca.  They are all MUDDING friends…lol….They all go to the river and get their vehicles stuck.   Crazy isn’t it.  He rode his 4 wheeler in the parade and 2 of his buddies rode their mud infested trucks….lol…Cameron even had 2 girls on the back of his 4 wheeler.  It was a nice parade.  Hardly any floats though.  Mostly , Marching Bands, police and firetrucks, tractors, old cars, and the Shriners….They always put on a good show.  Their were 2 awesome Semis, pulling grain trailers.   They were painted a beautiful PINK….It was in honor of Cancer.   Too pretty to use on the job…  The most unique vehicle was a tank.   A water tank.   It was at the end of the parade, and it was shooting water into the crowd.  It would swivel back and forth and shoot water way out.   The guys on each side had water hoses and shot at the crowd.   On a “HOT” day, what a way to end the parade.

The Water Tank

Old Antique Firetruck

Awesome Pink Dump Box

Pink Trailer, advertising Cure for Cancer….

The Shriners…..Calliope in the back

Shriners in their little cars. …They have some great formations. They are in Toluca every year

Cameron and his mudding friends

Cameron and his Girl…………..friends………………lol

It has been raining this morning, but now it is over.  Sun is starting to shine.   I have to get some laundry done.   The dryer broke over a month ago.  Why fix it, or buy another.   We’ll be leaving soon.   So time to go hang out on the line……Who doesn’t like cardboard feeling towels?…lol…At least nothing shrinks this way…..till next time…………..

I really hate dentists. I have always said I would rather have a baby than go to the dentist. Now that should tell you something about me.. Haha…CHICKEN SH—- I have a partial on the top and now I need a full set on the top. I am living on borrowed time, not only because several are bad and ready to cause trouble and of course, when I quit I will not have dental ins. So I only have an open window of 8-10 weeks. I have known this since last year. I prepared by having money put in my Flex account. I was going to start this in January. Well that’s where common sense ends. lol…..

When I was a Kid , I had the dentist from HELL…..I think he was in a relationship with the devil….OMG. I was so scared of him.. He caused me so much pain. I remember during my check up for Freshman year, he found 7 cavities….OMGGGGGG….Now back then It was just one cavity done a visit. So for 7 Fridays, I was to go after school and have them fixed. He was evil! What ever makes a person become a dentist. Why do you want to look in another persons mouth. Rotten Teeth, Bad Breath, Bleeding gums. I have never understood that. So my dentist would pretend to be friendly and then it all went to HELL….He put that sucker in you cheek to suck out all your saliva. Then he proceeded to drill. OUUUUCHHHH………..Hellllllllllpppp….He would hit that nerve. Then stop, have you sip some water. the sucker would suck it out, and then back came the drill….Over and Over Again….I would just hear that drill whine and whine and drill….Ohhhhhhh. The Pain of it all. So for 7 Fridays I went after school. By Monday I started worrying again. Now one of those Fridays, I made the decision not to go. I told my mom I forgot. Haha…I got caught in a lie…She knew better. So what was worse. Facing the Wrath of your Mother or the Evil Dentist. So that obviously made an impression on a 14 year old. It has stayed with me ALL of my life.

So through my whole adult life, I never went unless a tooth abscess , and I looked like I had a softball in my mouth. The pain that I endured…Silly Isn’t it. I remember once when Rich and I wasn’t married very long I was crying in the bedroom. He told me to go to the dentist. Noooooo….Suddenly the pain stopped…Wow, did I feel great. and then I felt my cheek grow. What an ugly sight. lol. So went in the next day and he lanced it. Went back several days later and he pulled it…It wasn’t that bad, but with time, the old feeling came back.

So the time came for the partial. It had to be done. I was eating a large Pretzel with Tina in the car. Well my front tooth broke off. She looked at me in shock and started laughing at me. All I needed was a chicklet. It would have filled up the hole.. I took some advise and went to a wonderful dentist. I was so scared, but all went GREAT. Well Now this time has come again. Ohhhhh No…..My dentist just left the area. I heard that the replacement was horrible. That’s all it took. Im not going back. So decisions had to be made. I was going to go to Aspen Dental. They are new by Walmart. My insurance plan covers them. And then I got the paper listing all the dentist on the plan. Would you believe they have 18 dentists. OMG, You’ll never know who you will get. and no offense, but at least 15 were foreigner’s. lol. I couldn’t pronounce their names. So, NOPE, not going their. Well we have a dentist that just built a new building. I stopped in last Friday. Their day was over, but they took me in for Xrays. I am now on the way to new teeth. lol..Impressions next Thursday already. But at the beginning of the visit, she asks me. “What kind of dentures do you want?” What? “What kind are their”…Well she came out with all these dentures. She tried to sell me on the ones that are put in permenately. They put titanium implants into you bone. OMG. The looked like large screws that went up your gum into you bone. They needed to put in 3 or 4. Well Guess the Price………….I’m not Rich….I only married a Rich…I’m actually poor……….$3000 an implant. that’s $9 to $12000 before you even get the dentures. Wow. So Of course I went with the traditional big ass plate in the mouth…Ill probably gag a lot till I get use to them…lol..but I will live with it. So that is going to be my near future. Grrrrrr ….but I keep telling my self…IT HAS TO BE Done. Next visit, Ill tell you about the COMFORT MENU….lol….

Tomorrow is Labor Day, The last official Holiday. Then all kids should be in school now. Rich and I are going to Toluca for their parade. It is only about 20 minutes away. I grew up their and graduated from Toluca High School. My oldest Grandson Cameron, is over their now. Him and his friends love to play with their 4 wheelers and vehicles in dirt and mud. So they are going to be in the parade as the mud boys I guess. I told him he should have washed it. He said Noooooooooooo, that’s the point. Its the MUD….So hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow, even though its predicted.

This is Cameron last winter…. He loves his 4 wheeler.   But it seems to be broke down more that running.