Beau Wann, Jr.
Howdy myne fyne waltripynes...just a short note...yeah? When have I ever posted anything short? Well, got our perfunctory and prescribed storm early this morn...got an eench (east texas for inch) of rain! Lots O thunder and lightning, huffin and puffin...
got most of the hill mowed Frahday! Wreaked havoc with the bunny and field mouse community..."watership down"...I suppose. hate like heck to disturb the little critter community, but, cant be hepped...
Decided to stop taking all drugs cept asprin via alka seltzer...codiene makes me itch, and tramedal (sp) is one hateful drug for me...makes me dopey, confused, stupider than I already am, and just weirder than skaditch. Read up on it, and instead of masking the pain, it works on the brain somehow to get a person to think that the pain is gone! All it ever has done for me is nada and bad!
Took a couple of alka seltzer yesterday and pain not too bad..then when I get busy I almost forget about it, cept for when I make a sudden wrong turn or jolt...then "katy bar the door"....(wonder where that saying came from)
Night time is the worst though, nothing seems to help...yet! Well, we will continue to woik on that.
Poor Diane, has to hear me bitch and moan and groan day and night...I try to keep it to a minimum, but sometimes it just gets the better of me, as pain is sometimes want to do !
To add to Dianes woes, her mom who is 86, fell in her driveway last week, and broke her upper left arm just below the shoulder joint. Too swollen to put in a cast, so got a tight sling. They put her on tramedal (sp), and it did the same to her that it did to me...confused, etc, almost like youve had a stroke...they got her off that junk and onto Tylenol 3, which I have, and just quit using, and she is doing better. Diane has been going to work, stopping and helping her mom and dad to and from, and then coming home and helping me.
I try to have everything done before she gets home, so all she has to do is eat supper and rest and relax!
sometimes I have it all done, and sometimes not, but not for lack of trying!
But aside from all the above, we're doing ok. Watch the lightning bugs at night, and the bunnies running to and fro, hawks flying about, little doey eyed deah scampering hither and yon! Try to do errands together, sure makes that chore more palatable. Share coffee and pastry and lunches etc...
Sometimes I wonder ifin we havent done a wrong thing, this house in the country ! This is something we talked about even before we were married, so it was a mutual dream I suppose. I kind of wonder how much I influenced her!
I'm 70, or will be in a few weeks, and my beloved is 60. My health has sure deteriorated over the last 5 years...maybe just a temporary thing! Seems like it's one thing then the next, But, we're not getting any youngerr thats for sure! Not a complaint, just an observation.
I know how much a lot of our classmates have suffered over the years, so I'm deffinetly not complaining, just yakin I suppose.
Saw one of my old riding buddies I went with on the ROLLING THUNDER ride to DC. He sure looked old...er...he is only 57! Roughneck in the oilfield... it shows! ! ! Still riding his harley, in fact a new one...beautiful those! ! !
They need to have a class in highschool about growing older ! Or did they, and I missed it ?
Ok, this was just a short note, and here I've yakked on and on about...getting old! I still wish nothing but the best for all our classmates, whatever the best that can be found I suppose ! ! ! Sometimes when you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember you just came in to drain the swamp ! !
Keep the sun at your six, (hopefully it will shine again) and ride boldly ride...
Your frien and classmate in law...olbeauwannkanobie...
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