Sunday, Mar. 02, 2003 - 11:33 p.m.
A new month already and it seems that February just started. Sat down tonight after supper and wrote out the checks for this month. Sure hope we start seeing a break in the heating bill next month! This has been a cold snowy winter. We had snow again on Thursday evening, not much, but it was such a pretty snow, sparkly, just like a Grandma Moses painting.
Woke up Friday morning to another snow, this time several inches. It was clinging to every tree branch, a pretty sight, but I am getting ready for some warmer weather soon, I hope.
Scott and Lisa came down today and we had a nice visit. They are looking for things for their bathroom redo. They also bought a computer so they will be busy getting used to it instead of their web-tv.
I picked up some pastel variegated yarn at Wally World …I do wish that we had a really good yarn store here, but we do what we can. I've been finding quite a few knitting and crochet patterns for baby afghans, and started on a feather and fan pattern, one that I had done many years ago and liked.
Also..DA DA…I got out the old Depression era quilt and put it back in the frames today! I was surprised at the quickening that I felt when I stretched it out and pinned it in. There's an interesting story behind this quilt. This top and another one were given to me by my grandmother, Mom Hughes, and they were made by a cousin, Mae, who I never met. The pattern is a Nine Patch, set together with pink and blue triangles, very thirties. I'm using a very flat cotton batting. It'll be good to get back to working on it again.
Just by chance I happened to see that a PBS special on Mr. Rogers was being rerun this afternoon, and I spent a very happy three hours watching it. I kept realizing that I had this permanent smile on my face almost the whole time.
Have just been talking to Mike on messenger. He had a pretty down day Friday, which is to be expected now and then, but was much better yesterday. He said this afternoon that Maria, his ex, came over and they laughed and joked about old times, happy old times, and the time that he carved all of their names on an old church wall in Greece, I forget where. Vickie was fixing chicken gumbo, and was really enjoying hearing them, she even taped it, so the other girls will appreciate it too. It's Mardi Gras and he said that Vickie and a friend were taking a little break and had gone out for a bit. She was home before we even finished talking. He calls her his angel.
He had the bone scan the other day, and the good news is that the lupron has shrunk the lymph nodes from 15 centimeters down to 10. He is also starting on eulexin, another hormone, to take up anything that the lupron might miss. The bad news is that it has already affected an area of his bones. He goes in tomorrow for the first of several monthly IV's to seal off the area of bone that has been affected. No mention of any chemo or radiation, that is much further down the road, thank goodness. They called yesterday and we had a nice long visit.
He really regrets the time that he lost in fighting this as it could very well have been cured a couple of years ago when he first got the diagnosis in Macedonia. If he would only have been here with family at that time, he might not be in the position he is today. But he knows that because he is here now, he is having the chance to get back together with his family, and he is cherishing this time. Says he is going to live every day the best he can and thank God for the gift of every day. This time is so healing for him and for the whole family.
I ordered a couple more books today, Julia's Hope by Leisha Kelly, a feel good book that I had read some time ago, and A Can of Peas by Traci DePree, I think about the same.
Also posted an inquiry on a forum about my Gr. Gr. Grandparents on my dad's mother's side. I have her parents of course, but not her grandparents, though I do have an area for them. I've been on a Bryan forum for several years and found so much information on there at the time I needed it, and am still getting emails now and am glad to be able to pass on any information that I have. I guess it's up to me to fill in the gaps with Grandma B's family next.
I do believe that I had better get this tired old bod to bed. Perhaps it won't snow tonight.
