On Saturday it took four of us to change Laura's tires to snow tires. Chris had to just direct because of his arms. Laura and Jan were doing quite well and got the first one changed when we decided Teresa needed to get some experience changing tires since she didn't have to do it in driver's ed. So Teresa helped us change the second one with Laura instructing where to put the jack and Mom helping loosen and tighten the lug nuts when Teresa had trouble. See what fun we would have missed if we had gotten Jonathan to do it as originally planned.
We also got Christmas lights up with Chris cringing at how I moved the ladder and how I did things but they are up. We even got Mary and Joseph and Jesus and a star. Today we went for a walk to look at lights but not many were up yet. Jan also decorated the inside of the house today except for the tree. That will have to wait for another day.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Hurray for days off of work.
Monday was spent catching up at home and trying to clean up the multiple piles everywhere. The biggest goal was to clean out the office a.k.a. Jonathan’s old room so that Laura has a place to sleep when she comes home. We actually found the floor and uncovered the futon so Laura we are ready for you now. We also sorted through stacked up mail and renewed our yearly health and life insurance benefits through Kaiser. After multiple loads of both dishes and laundry we are getting more presentable.
About 8:00 pm we decided to head out to Winco to pick up a few things. Teresa has decided this is a cool store. She was disappointed I didn’t let her make her own peanut butter but I told her someday I would and she would just have to look forward to it. She says that is now one of her many goals. Lol We were only buying a “few things” so I didn’t think I would spend enough to get the turkey for $.18 a pound but at the check out counter I realized I qualified so went running back to get yet another turkey for my freezer. (I now have three so far.) We then headed over to Ross to check out a few items I had previously scoped out. That is another of my favorite stores in town. Of course you all know how I love a bargain. Lest you think I have totally switched loyalties I did also support Safeway earlier this week and also got some good deals.
Longview Surgical Group had a staff meeting at 5:30. We had pizza and had a pretty good meeting. Two doctors came this time for the first part. Usually it has just been the staff so it was good to have them there. Longview Surgical is in the midst of starting a satellite station in Vancouver. It has been going on for about 6-8 months. It is a complicated process but seems to be going well. We hope to recruit two new surgeons just to work in Vancouver at the new Legacy hospital by summer of next year. So there is lots of room for growth. So far our doctors are going down there on a rotating basis. We will also be getting a new Physician’s Assistant in January. They do a lot of assisting in the OR and are a big help to the group as a whole. We currently have one PA.
Today our home group is serving a meal for about 35 people that are taking a parenting class through the city of Longview. We are providing cakes that Teresa made and some pop. The group is serving a baked potato bar and salad and fruit and cake. There will also be about 10-15 of us that will eat. There is no kitchen so it was more of a challenge to decide what could be transported easily. We have two new couples that have joined our group in the past two weeks so that is exciting. One couple is older but plays in a Christian band out of Gresham in a similar style that Chris’s old band did. He is going to spend some time with them this Thursday. They also collect antique cars so he shares a few interests with them.
About 8:00 pm we decided to head out to Winco to pick up a few things. Teresa has decided this is a cool store. She was disappointed I didn’t let her make her own peanut butter but I told her someday I would and she would just have to look forward to it. She says that is now one of her many goals. Lol We were only buying a “few things” so I didn’t think I would spend enough to get the turkey for $.18 a pound but at the check out counter I realized I qualified so went running back to get yet another turkey for my freezer. (I now have three so far.) We then headed over to Ross to check out a few items I had previously scoped out. That is another of my favorite stores in town. Of course you all know how I love a bargain. Lest you think I have totally switched loyalties I did also support Safeway earlier this week and also got some good deals.
Longview Surgical Group had a staff meeting at 5:30. We had pizza and had a pretty good meeting. Two doctors came this time for the first part. Usually it has just been the staff so it was good to have them there. Longview Surgical is in the midst of starting a satellite station in Vancouver. It has been going on for about 6-8 months. It is a complicated process but seems to be going well. We hope to recruit two new surgeons just to work in Vancouver at the new Legacy hospital by summer of next year. So there is lots of room for growth. So far our doctors are going down there on a rotating basis. We will also be getting a new Physician’s Assistant in January. They do a lot of assisting in the OR and are a big help to the group as a whole. We currently have one PA.
Today our home group is serving a meal for about 35 people that are taking a parenting class through the city of Longview. We are providing cakes that Teresa made and some pop. The group is serving a baked potato bar and salad and fruit and cake. There will also be about 10-15 of us that will eat. There is no kitchen so it was more of a challenge to decide what could be transported easily. We have two new couples that have joined our group in the past two weeks so that is exciting. One couple is older but plays in a Christian band out of Gresham in a similar style that Chris’s old band did. He is going to spend some time with them this Thursday. They also collect antique cars so he shares a few interests with them.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Happy Birthday Chris
We are coming to and end of the festival of Chris’s birthday. We have had lots of celebrating. It started last week in Renton with JonTon and Laura. We continued yesterday with a party at the Cathlamet Fergusons. Linda and Ruth and Larry also joined the fun. We of course enjoyed a fabulous dinner with everyone contributing something. The traditional gift giving included a neat little chest for Chris to put his stuff in by his chair in the living room. Chris also received some spending money which he spent this morning on a surround sound system from Wal-Mart for the living room. At this very moment Chris and Teresa are trying to hook it up. It is a much more complicated procedure since Chris can only use one arm and the entertainment unit is against the wall. Teresa is doing her best to follow directions and Chris is not so successfully trying not to use his right hand. I am hearing such things as “You said to do this…” and “I don’t care what I said put it in this one….” And “this is not gray it is white” “ no it is definitely not gray.” There are a lot of other colors being shouted too such as red, blue, and black. I am trying to say far away.
Today we went garage saling in the morning and then drove to Long Beach to see a quilt show and some interactive Lewis and Clark bicentennial exhibits. We saw people from the Corp that have traveled together reenacting the expedition since 2003. They have been sleeping in tents and riding in boats etc. We listened to a talk through a hand held radio while going through a large tent that had murals on the walls of the tents. And we saw lots of displays. Many were in tents, others were in an Elks building which was much warmer. They reenacted the men lining up for their daily ration of whiskey. They received apx. 4 ounces in order of their rank and number and had to show that they had drunk it all and prove they hadn’t saved any for later (to add to other rations thus getting more of a buzz from it.) It was very interesting. We ended the trip with a dinner at Doogers in Long Beach. It was delicious. Now we are home safe and sound.
Today we went garage saling in the morning and then drove to Long Beach to see a quilt show and some interactive Lewis and Clark bicentennial exhibits. We saw people from the Corp that have traveled together reenacting the expedition since 2003. They have been sleeping in tents and riding in boats etc. We listened to a talk through a hand held radio while going through a large tent that had murals on the walls of the tents. And we saw lots of displays. Many were in tents, others were in an Elks building which was much warmer. They reenacted the men lining up for their daily ration of whiskey. They received apx. 4 ounces in order of their rank and number and had to show that they had drunk it all and prove they hadn’t saved any for later (to add to other rations thus getting more of a buzz from it.) It was very interesting. We ended the trip with a dinner at Doogers in Long Beach. It was delicious. Now we are home safe and sound.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
A scary drive home
We spent the night and all day Saturday with Jonathan and Tonia and Laura this weekend. We celebrated Chris's birthday and mostly hung out. We did go shopping a little also and got some christmas shopping done. We were a little bit later leaving the mall than we had hoped and started the drive in the pouring rain. It was hard to drive in the rain but it was okay. After stopping at the rest stop it actually stopped raining and I was glad. Suddenly we came to a halt on the freeway. We were 4 miles north of Centralia. We eventually saw a tow truck and two police cars go by as we for about an hour. Finally as we were slowly moving we saw a very large tow truck. We realized several trees had fallen along the side of the road and partially across the road. For the next 30 miles there was a lot of debris on the road and mostly on the sides of the road. It even smelled like fresh cut trees. Evidently there had been quite a storm. We were thankful we didn't have to drive through the storm and that God had kept us safe.
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