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Beau Wann, Jr.
Hello mine Waltripians...long time no forum...It has been an eventful if not hectic and frantic, stressful and downright worrisome time this past Setpember and October. We are finally moved into the new old rent house. One of our waltrip friends found it and arranged for us to stay here whilst we wait on ye olde plantation house to be built. Of course now it has decided to rain, so that further delays things...boooooo! Hows that for an early boo for halloweetnd...
We cant buy rain for 5 years, and now we cant get rid of it. Oh well, guess we're on someone elses schedule and plan!
Been a heck of a time trying to get internet service to verk here. Cant get AT&T DSL here, so we have to have comcaste (I added the e for good measure). It has gone down a zilllion times. We call em up, and "press 1 for english" Press squat if you hate this system....My beloved has spent several hours a night on hold or talking to someone in india..."this call may be monitored for quality and training..." yada yada yada...I doubt they would monitor an automated call...if so, what for? To hear me cussin um whilst I am on hold?
I take over in the day time, and get someone with an accent...I can only understand 25% of perfect english, and none of the lady that I talk to...I think she is french...it sounds good and sexy, but no practicality to it atall! I just generally say "ok" or, "the onliest light on is the power light", or "no change"...this last time, methinks, she got er done. Got all them lights, plus I did understand her to say she was giving us "bigger"? or "better"? service, since we were having such problems. Oh, I forgot to mention the old modem broke, so I had to go to comcaste and get another one. But, it's up and running now! ! !
We have alot of our things, those things we thought we'd need, still in boxes. Some has been put away, but it's like a scavenger hunt looking for stuff. you see something and remember seeing it, but when you actually need it, you forget which box you saw it in! "Uh hun, have you seen my pants"? says I. "Which ones" Diane says. "Oh, you know the ones, they call them cargo pants now, but we use to call them army pants, you know the ones with all the pockets" says I. "What color" says she. "the greyish/brown ones, I guess that would be olive drab" says I. "You mean like the ones you're wearing"? she says with a evil teacher grin!
You know, I hate a smartalleck wife! ! ! She better watch out, I'll trade her in on a much younger and prettier model...I have the number for The Stepford Wives! That'd probably be the only way I could get a new wife, hire a robot!
The cats are semi-adjusted from 3500 sq ft down to 350 sq ft. Big Oliver not so much. He growled for the first two days straight. Him being a low talker, it sounded sort of like an angry electric can opener. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...we have never heard him do that. I asked the owner if the previous tenant had any animals, or did someone die here, and was assured that neither was the case! I guess he's sort of over it, although, he did think outside the box and peed on the floor. Lucky it is tile. I guess he was just confirming his displeasure with the new accomadations. He seems to be more settled now.
Katy and Peaches, the little old ladies of the bunch, are still on thyroid and high blood pressure meds, and still spitting them out when they can! Annie bob has found lots of hiding places to leap from to scare the bejeebers out of everyone. Well, of course everyone but me....well, there was that one time in the middle of the night she had opened up the dirty clothes hamper and layed in wait for the first unfortunate victim to use the powder room...I had a hard time putting the shower curtain back, and rolling all the toilette paper back up, but other than that, all turned out ok...well, cept for the teeth marks on my big toe...
Friday I noticed someone else had peed on the floor, but too much for a cat, and this had blood in it. Cleaned it up, and then saw cooper do it again. HE NEVER EVER HAS EVER PEED IN THE HOUSE...THIS WAS SERIOUS... Called the vet and they said bring him right in, so I did. They probed and poked and xrayed and took cultures, and found no crystals or stones, jkust an infection, to which he is now taking antibiotics and pain meds for. The blood has gone away, and he seems to be resting comfortably on his couch.
Now, if that wasnt enough, my lungs have started their semi-anual trek to the ER. Starts with a cough, then shortness of breath, then no breath at all...then it's ER time. Still in the cough/shortness of breath stage. I use inhalers, but dont want to get too dependent on. Just saw in the Houston Pravda that Inhalers have increased in price...duh, there's a real shocker! Right?
Ok, whats the score now? Two cats get 5 pills twice a day, and one dog gets 3 pills twice a day, and one big baby (I hate cough syrup) gets cough syrup a couple of times a day, whether I need it or not! Why cant they make it taste like chocolate malt??? Oh bother! My beloved is a saint, is she not. She never utters a discouraging word after having to shove pills down ssome ungrateful animals sharp tooth mouth. Well, cooper is easy to give meds to, just coat em in peanut butter! Of Course she has to nag the person that needs the cough meds..."sweetie, did you take the cough syrup"? she says..."Uh, I was just gonna do that now" says I..."I set that out for you two hours ago" she says...
Trying to get use to a new place is rather tedious sometimes, not to mention perplexing. For instance...we set up our bed in the dining room. Why not in one of the three bedrooms, you ask? Brothers and sisters, I am glad you asked that! I dont know...nah, the reason is we have filled he other three bedrroms with boxes and stuff...mostly stuff! And to keep the living area, small as it may be, free of clutter and livable, I put everything in the bedrooms! It is set up expertly, as only an expert like me can set up the aforementioned! Anyway, there is a 6 lightbulb chandelier hanging over the foot of the bed, to which I might add that I have bashed my head on it a gazillion times. I tried to tiewrap it up, but it must weigh a gazillion tons. When I turned on the 6 light bulb chandelier, the room went nuclear with white light. I noticed the lights dimmed in the rest of the hood. I shut er off, and waited for the bulbs tocool down...when they did, guess what I found? 6, count em 6, 100 watt bulbs. I cannot imagine using a 100 watt bulb in this day and time, let alone 6 in one fixture! ! ! ! The cfls will give you 100 watts of light on 23 watts of power. I changed em out to 25 watts of candle bulb x 6. Hells bells, thats enough light. I cant see anyway, light or no light! If youre wondering why I havent paragraphed, the ding dang thang wont let me, so I just gotta keep on keepin on! DOES ANYONE HAVE DENNIS HANSELS PHONE NUMBER? I HAVE 7 ACRES OF HAY THAT NEEDS TO BE CUT AND HE CAN HAVE IT IF HE WILL JUST CUT IT. OR ANYONE OUT THERE THAT NEEDS 7 ACRES OF HAY...IT'S ALL YOURS. I know Dennis is always having to buy hay for his cattle, and trying to find some for a reasonable price is hard to do. I noticed it runs from 8.50 to 16.95 a bale. Ok, guess it's time to watch Diane give the cats and dog their pills. Sooooo, keep the sun at your six, if you can find it...your ssix or the ssun, either one...your frien and brother-in-class attila the hun gry
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