Weather isn't for the dogs!

It's a little cooler here today but it's still hot out. Too hot for dogs to be outside. Oh, and people too.
Speaking of dogs, our friends, Annette and Roger, living in MI have the cutest little dogs. They sent me some pictures of them. One is one of the dogs sleeping with Dylan. Their kids are like our grandchildren. Dylan is only 15 and is working repairing golf carts! He saved his money and bought a paddleboat. Kayla is busy with her sports at school. And playing with her little cousins.
Here are some pictures that we got from them. The picture of the couple is of our friends Pat and Russ. We love them dearly too! They've been here visiting us several times now. We're waiting for the Villerot family to visit us!!!

Wiggles Concert

Saturday, Jamie, Dallas and I got out of the 107° heat and went to see The Wiggles at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie. It was spectacular! We were in the tenth row and could see everything really well. Dallas was a little antsy when we first sat down and waited for the show to start. There were a lot of little kids her age there. We got stickers so while we waited for the show to start, we stuck them all over Dally's legs. She didn't leave them on long but thought they were funny. When the Wiggles came on stage, she froze! She was in awe to know that they were real and not on TV. After the first half hour, she came to life along with the other kids. They were all dancing in the aisles. She even went down in front by the stage. I took 123 pictures but only put a few on my blog. Her 'sticker legs',The Wiggles, Dallas in awe, Dallas in the front of the stage and Dallas dancing in the aisle! It was a good afternoon.

Postcrossing

While checking out blogs, I found a real interesting hobby on a blog. So I checked out the website and I joined it today. It's called postcrossing. After you register (free) you request an address and send a postcard to the address. It tells you about the person that you are sending the card to. You can send up to 5 postcards to begin. I have two addresses to send cards to. One person lives in Finland and the other in Germany. Wow! I'm excited about this. When they get their card, they put in the number on the website that was given to you and you wrote it on the card. Then your name will pop up when someone requests an address!
I'll let you know how it goes. If you want to check out the website yourself, it's http://www.postcrossing.com.

Joyce's Chemocap blog

Please check out our blog for our Joyce's Chemo Cap Project. There's a lot of interesting things in it. I'm sure you'd enjoy it. It's joyceschemocaps.blogspot.com. Enjoy!

Blogs and rabbits

I've been looking at other blogs and found that it is really interesting to see how other people around the world live. One of them really inspired me to add to my blog. And I thank her for it! So I've added my library to show books that I really enjoyed. Oh, there are many more that I haven't added yet and those that I don't even remember the titles.

On the downside! I think there's a naughty little bunny eating my new plants! Two plants were really nice and even had flowers on them. The other day I went outside and one of the plants had nothing but a few sticks! I knew it was a rabbit from experience with my plants in Michigan. I put something on my plants that deter rabbits. This morning the plant next to it was in the same condition. I have to find where he's getting under my fence. Everything else looks good. And my little hummingbird is in the yard all the time now.

Knock Out Roses

If you want flowers at good prices, this is the time to buy! I bought 4 Knock Out rose bushes today at Lowe's for $6.00 each. And I bought some holly bushes for $1.00 each. I already planted them along side my house. I wanted plants on the sides so one side is taken care of. I'm still waiting for my lilac bush to come from MI Bulb. Now I have to find some myrtle (not the crape myrtle) ground cover for some areas outside of my fence.

Meanwhile, it's going to be 102° today! Time to stay in the house for the rest of the day...oops, gotta get diapers, cat food, hair conditioner and probably a few other things. I'm waiting for the mail to come too. I'm expecting the Shaka Zulu movie that I ordered. I had it on tape once but a girl borrowed it and you'll never guess! Right! I never got it back. She quit working with us and never brought my movie back. I love the series that was on TV. And I'm waiting for E.T. for Dallas. She's been watching it every day but I have to return it to Blockbuster.

So my question for anyone is: When can we start potty training Dallas? And should I buy some training pants for her now? She's 23 months old.

102° OR MORE!

It's hot today. Denny, Jamie, Dallas and I went to Lake Lavon because we discovered a beach there. It was nice. There wasn't a lot of people there. In fact, besides three women and their boys, we were the only other people. Denny sat under a tree. Jamie and I stood in the water watching over Dallas. When we left, we went to Wylie and ate at the same restaurant we ate at Saturday night. Then we went to a candy store and bought four different kinds of fudge. Before you think that we're all going to have to get new clothes, we only bought 1/4 of a pound each. We went to a nice little 'women's' shop. Denny bought Jamie and me each a nice ring. So, in spite of being a really hot day, it turned out pretty good. At least the beach is close to us so we don't have to go far. And, I'm going to bring my fishing pole there! I have to go back to the restaurant because they have homemade pie and I have to have a piece of coconut cream! Oh, the restaurant is called Ballard Street Cafe.

Speaking of low pants

I saw this picture on a blog while I was looking through the blogs and thought that this picture was so cute. I don't know who the boys are but I had to save the picture.

Senior of the future

I saw this cartoon today and just had to put it in my blog. I've seen some weird looking seniors sometimes at the senior center or out in the public. Some women with really big wigs, men with their hair combed over, men with tatoos on their arms from their war days, women with facelifts where their lips almost meet their ears but after seeing this cartoon in the paper, I thought about the young people that are walking around dressed all in black with piercings and tattoos on every visible (and I'm sure 'not visible') places of their bodies, either bald and tattooed or hair every color that you can find in a Crayola box. I never thought about what they would look like in the future. Can you just imagine the senior centers of the future? The only thing the cartoon doesn't show on the senior is his pants hanging down to his knees with underwear showing. God forbid the seniors of the future will wear their pants like they do now. It's going to be hard enough for them to walk when they're old. Not only will their legs be bent from age but their legs will be bent from trying to keep their pants from falling below the knees. Anyway, I liked the cartoon and just had to share it with you. Any opinions on this post?

99° Today

It's a warm one today! I worked in my yard but early before the heat got higher than 90°. It was already in the 80s. I pulled grass around my flowers. We actually had some rain yesterday. I was doing a good job on the grass except I had a little helper that was dropping the grass on my head. By the time I was done, there was more grass on me than what I even pulled. How did that happen? Dallas pulled grass that I didn't want pulled! But she left to pursue other trouble, like pulling my flowers! She loves balls and has over 10 of them in the yard. But she'd rather annoy Grandma.

I went to pick up yarn at the chemo center yesterday that a patient bought for our project. The cancer patients are so happy to get our caps. We're over 2500 now.

Today I have to 'sew' Jamie's extensions in her hair. I'm not a pro so she'll have to take what I can give for help. Hey, I think I'll look on the internet for instructions. I use the internet a lot to find things. Every time there's an argument here, I look it up. The big argument now is over Brett Favre mispronouncing his name. Denny insists that his name is pronounced correctly. How can you pronounce a 'R' before the 'V'? I say it should be pronounced fav-ray.
Oh well, I guess there are more important things to worry about. Denny's friend lost $350,000 this week in his funds. Scary, isn't it? We don't know if we should take out our little bit and put it in savings before we lose everything.

Time to look for instructions now.

Computers drive me crazy!!!

The last few days have been driving me computer crazy! I've had the problem of internet 'crash' for a long time and hate it. Then the other day, my sister's emails came without her name and it was all a bunch of letters with her words mixed in. Very frustrating. And none of my mail was going to my friend, Vivian. I thought she was in the hospital or something because she didn't answer my mail. I finally called her. She didn't get any of them. So after trying different things and trying to contact help, I gave up and closed my Incredimail because I didn't have the problems in the regular email on Internet Explorer! It cleared up my email but I liked Incredimail. But, now I can't open my music provider, Limewire! Ohhh, the frustration. So I have to take it out on my blog to bitch. There, now I feel better...well, not really. But I can pretend.

On a good note, I watched a special on Natalie Wood last night on TV. It was really good. I wish they'd bring back some of her movies on TV instead of the same movies like Dances With Wolves, Shawshank Redemption and a few others. Oh well, maybe the TV networks are having the same problems with their networks that I have with mine!

Back to Natalie, I didn't know that she had a real fear of being in water! The weird thing is that she was in water in a few of her movies. And then she drowned. That's still a mystery.

So, last night was the Country singing contest which there are only two good singers, tonight is the best talent show, which is interesting. Sure isn't anything on TV this summer. I can't wait until the fall shows start! Except I don't want fall to get here any too soon.

That's all, folks!

Those ugly red wasps! Ouch!!

It was nice out this morning before everyone got out of bed so I went outside to do a little gardening. I need to pull the grass out of my ‘expanded’ garden space. I was working in the corner under a spider web. I didn’t see any spiders and I wasn’t going to bother him anyway so I kept pulling grass. All of a sudden, I felt a sharp jab in my arm. “Oh no, a spider got me!” was my first response. I knew it had to be a black widow or a brown recluse. But a big red wasp flew around me so I knew what got me! I put peroxide on it and looked on the internet to see what to do. Nothing! Unless I had a allergy. It sure hurt and it still hurts. Right now it looks like a real big vaccination. I don’t know if there’s a stinger. I guess it will work it’s way out.

So this afternoon, I went outside. (after we returned from the Plano parade which was a flop to us. I love bands and there was only one band. I wonder what happened to the three Plano High School bands.) I pulled weeds around our trees in the front yard and planted four of my ‘distressed’ plants. The distressed plants in my back yard are doing great! Nice purple flowers.

It’s funny but when I turned 40, I happened to have my doctor’s, dentist and eye appointment . Each asked me my age. When I said 40, they all said almost the same thing:
The Doctor: Well, things start happening when you turn 40!
The dentist: Well, your teeth need a lot more work after you turn 40!.
The eye doctor: Well, when you turn 40, your eyes start getting worse!
ManOMan! I should have told them that I was 39. They probably would have said that I was in good shape.

So today a funny thing happened when I was digging and planting. My neighbors were leaving. The man next door (I don’t know his name because they are Muslim and they all have long names) came to the front and asked me if it wasn’t too hot for me to be working in our heat. I told him that I’m used to hot weather and don’t mind it at all. He said “I just thought that I would ask because a lot of people when they get your age some times they get sick or something happens to them. I laughed and told him that I’m fine and if I start to get tired or overheated, I go in the house and rest and get something cold to drink. He left and I started to continue my work. Then I thought ‘Well, this is a good time to take that rest and get something cold to drink’. I’ll do the other side later.

This was my 4th of July.

Distressed flowers and my friend Shirley

I had a good garden shopping trip today. Yesterday I had to get one brick to finish off the edging around our trees in front. Jordan came over and laid them for us. What a good job he did. It was just too much for Denny to do in this heat. So, while I was there, I saw a big rack of plants that were 50% off the marked down price because they were ‘distressed’. I got four plants yesterday for $1.50 each. So today I went back and got 10 more. Now I have to plant them! I have to figure out what side of the house has the most sun. Oh, all of the plants are perennials.
They don’t look distressed to me. Oh well, I’ll talk to them and that will perk them up!

Yesterday I was going to send a birthday note to one of my dearest co-workers, Shirley Cook, that I worked with at Meijer. We both took the early retirement. Well, she beat me to sending me a note. She is so funny. When we worked together, we sat next to each other. I know that she’s a couple of years younger than I am but I don’t know how many. She’s a very pretty woman and you would think from looking at her that she would be really dignified. NOT! She is just a barrel of fun. One time she found a dead mouse in her garage that the insides disinagrated so it was a hollowed out mouse but it looked so real. She put the mouse on my desk for me to find when I got back from training a new person. When I got back, I had a pointer in my hand. I saw the mouse, cried out “eeeeeeek,” took the pointer and flipped the mouse off from my desk. Our supervisor, Colleen, happened to be walking by and the mouse hit her! She screamed, everyone came running and we all had the biggest laugh after Colleen picked herself off the floor! Just kiddin’. She was fine. I waited the rest of the day for her to bring Shirley and me empty boxes and be escorted out the door. It was always a scary thing to see. If a supervisor walked by with an empty box to someone’s desk, we knew it was to put all of the team member’s personal belongings in. Then we’d gossip the rest of the day to find out why the member was fired.
Shirley would bring things in to identify from our childhood days. She brought a roller-skate key in one day and, of course, the young people didn’t know what it was. Do you?
We had fun. We started a lot of cute things like everyone bringing in a picture of themselves when they were young and hanging the picture by their desks. It was really cool to see how people change in just a few years.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July. To everyone who reads this, I hope you had a very happy 4th!

Medicare

Well, I'm officially a senior citizen now. I'm covered by Medicare since June 1, 2008.
Here's my story about my doctor problem. Denny and I both had the same doctor. When he became eligible for Medicare, the doctor told him that he doesn't take Medicare so Denny had to find a new doctor. Well, time was approaching for me to be eligible for Medicare. I mentioned it in my doctor's office and was told that he now takes existing patients for Medicare. Wow! I was happy. June 1, 2008 I became eligible for Medicare. I went to the doctor's office on June 2. Guess what! He does take Medicare. There's a However! I would have to pay the doctor, then get reimbursed from Medicare and THEN submit my claim to Blue Cross to pay the rest! No way can I do that. Can you imagine paying for a physical? We're talking $500.00 or more! So I had a dilemma! I don't like the office that Denny goes to because they don't answer the phone but you talk to a computer! And their office is always so full. Well, I went to a lecture at the senior center about something and the doctor was so good. His name is Mark Lee. He went to UCLA and used to be a geriactic physician before he became a family physician. I asked him if he takes new patients. Yes! I asked him if he accepts Medicare patients. Yes! I asked him if I would have to pay up front and be reimbursed. He said No. So I'm going to have him as my physician. I'm glad that problem is solved! So now on to other problems, like gas prices, war, presidential election. Eye-yie-yie!

Sometimes the internet drives me crazy

I had my blog all written and then I got kicked off the internet. It does that once in awhile and it makes me sooooo mad. Anyway, I'm starting again.
My Michigan friends finally have nice weather. It was cold and wet there for awhile. And we were in the 90s. But, I'm not complaining.
My flowers are looking good. I have a lot of new flowers and I'm half way done with the border.
We got bricks to put around our trees in the front yard. Denny even carried some of the bricks from the truck. He starts cardio-therapy next week so maybe that will make him feel better. He feels bad because he can't go to Michigan this summer. Not only will he miss because of his therapy but it would cost us an arm and a leg for gas to get there. And Michigan's gas is higher than ours. Michigan's prices are the highest in the states, after California. I feel bad for people that have to drive a long way to work and only make minimum or close to it!
Denny and Sue brought a trampoline over for Dallas. As soon as they set in down, she ran to it and started to jump on it! I'm sure she's going to be a gymnist or anything that involves jumping. She watched divers on the swim meets on TV today and went wild when they were jumping on the board and then diving off!
She's starting to say a lot of words now. Denny's going to have to watch what he says now!!

Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch

We went to the wildlife ranch yesterday. It was a lot of fun. You get to pet the baby Kangaroos and a monkey sat on my shoulder. It's a great place to take the kids.
And on the way home, you won't believe it but I saw a car like the one I've been talking about. So we turned around and Denny confirmed that it is like the picture of the car that I entered into this blog. Except it was covered with rust. I want to go back sometime and look inside. Funny that I would see one so close to us. One time I was looking for a picture for my sister. It was a picture that my mother had on her wall. Well, after looking for years, I found the picture, bought it and sent it to my sister. Can you believe that after I found that picture, I found around five more? So maybe that's what's going to happen now. I'll find 5 more cars like mine. I can only wish.
It's really hot outside. I pulled weeds this morning before it got hot and I'm so glad I got it done with.

More on My Car

I was worried that I had lost the picture of me and my car but I found it today. It was taken on June 15, 1961. It was the night of our Commencement Exercise for graduation from Union High School. Oh, to go back to those days, just for awhile but not for good.

My first car

Do you ever wish you had your first car? Have you ever dreamed that you parked it (when you had the car, like at school) and now you're trying to find it?
I wish I had my first car again. I wish I could see a car like my 1953, two tone green, stick shift, two door, hardtop Plymouth. I don't think it had a name to go with it like Fury (which wasn't made until a few years later than 1953). Just plain Plymouth. My dad paid $350.00 for it and I had to pay him every week until it was paid for. It was 7 years old when I bought it.
I've looked for the car for years. One collector told me that I'd never find it because there weren't many made of that year and model. I remember when I had my car that there was only one like mine in Grand Rapids, MI. I saw the car a few times in downtown Grand Rapids. So, I keep looking in movies, while on the road and on the internet. I found one the other day that except it had four doors and my car had two doors. Anyway, I sure wish I could sit in the driver's seat of my car again. I loved that car. I had to get a new motor in it one time because I didn't learn that you're supposed to put oil in it! Duh! Hey, I was a 16 year old girl. Give me a break!
Here's an almost picture of my sweet little car!

Denny has an ICD

An ICD- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. He went to a heart specialist who sent him to another cardiologist, Dr Blatt. Very nice doctor, by the way. Dr Blatt told him that he needed to have the ICD because of the signals he was getting from Denny. Age and weight were obvious. Sugar diabetes was another. But the way Denny has been getting tired, short of breath and legs feeling like lead convinced Dr Blatt that Denny needed it in case something happened to his heart. Oh, not to forget that his heart was only functioning at 35%! The unit would be implanted in his chest and would shock Denny if he was going to have a heart attack. Dr Blatt doesn't like to do the implant until a heart catherization is done. He said that it wouldn't make sense to fix something unless everything else was fixed first. So Thursday Denny had a catherization. Dr Klein was the doctor. His attendent came out to tell me that it was done and Denny is a very lucky man! There was 95% blockage to his aorta! That's a big blockage! There wasn't very much empty space in the artery! The inserted a stint. That done, Denny had to stay overnight to await the next surgery. Friday morning, Dr Blatt inserted the ICD. The surgery went smoothly. The nurses said that he snored very loudly and that they had to fight with him a little. Dr Blatt told Denny that he cannot believe he didn't collapse with a heart attack before this week. And Denny had umpired 4 games last Sunday!
He came home yesterday. No lifting over 5 pounds, no driving for two weeks. He has to be on Plavix and cannot miss one pill! He'll have to have the ICD checked every three months. But he's fine now.

And today is our 45th wedding anniversary! In 1994, Denny was in the hospital for our wedding anniversary. He cheated death that time and now again.

Here's a picture of him in the hospital and another picture of Denny and his nurse, Jaymie. Everyone at Plano Medical Hospital was so nice. She was very nice.

In the diagram, you can see where the blockage was. There's also a thin line by that artery. That vein is 70% blocked and he has another blockage at the bottom of his heart but they didn't have stints small enough so they may do it at a later time. The doctor said that those two weren't as important as the one they did.

Friends

I found out yesterday that an old friend from MI passed away. She was a year older than me. She's been ill for quite a while. She had something like Alzheimer's but her brother-in-law said that it was worse than Alzheimer's. I don't know what can be worse.

On another note, I got an email from another old friend. Well, he's not old! I should say a long time friend. Gary Keizer and his wife, Kathy. It sure was good to hear from him. He got our address from another friend that hasn't written to us in ages. I'm surprised that he still had our address.

Denny and I went to the cardiologist Thursday. Denny is going to have a fribrilator installed in his chest. No worry! It's just to prevent something from happening. His heart is only working at 35%. We think that it has been working at that percentage since 1994 when he had his big accident. He's doing good, umpires every day, in fact, he umpired 4 games today. He can still do everything he does now. It's just that if something does go wrong, the fribrilator will shock his heart and knock him on his ass! Those are the words the cardiologist told us!

I walked 3 miles after I got home from the movie today. I have to start walking. My knee is really messed up and I'm sure that I'll have to have the surgery that I always swore I'd never have done. I go on medicare June 1 so I'll have better coverage, in case I have to have the surgery. I've had the knee pain for 8 years now but it's getting worse. I have a real fear of any kind of surgery since our neighbor at Sandy Pines had rotor cuff surgery and is brain damaged because of the surgery! So much for routine surgery!

Our weather is just gorgeous. Dallas is just loving the weather, running in the sprinkler and going to the water park. I'm loving all of my flowers. Some have bloomed and some are getting ready to bloom.

Trip to Choctaw casino

What a trip! The casino has a new policy of giving out cards while the people are on the bus. And since we were the third bus in line we had to sit on the bus for 45 minutes waiting for one of the casino staff members to pass out cards on our bus. Then they were running up and down the aisle calling names. So you'd think that would be the end of sitting on the bus waiting? No! Every trip we've gone on, we're told "If you're not on the bus at 3:00, we'll leave you there because the bus will leave at 3:00". This is stated at every trip. Well, two ladies didn't show up and we sat there for another 35 minutes while they looked for them. At one point, I saw the two ladies walk by our bus. They stopped at our bus and were told that it was the Allen bus. They walked on. They didn't seem to care that we were all waiting. They've been on the trips numerous times before so the excuse that they can't speak English didn't hold water. I think the words 'bus and 3:00 should be understood at any language. And to think of all the times that I was so worried because Denny would show up at the bus at 3:00. I was so afraid that we'd leave him. Well, no worry anymore. It's an idle threat!
The trip, once inside the casino was fun. Linda and Theresa did a wonderful job. We felt so bad for them because the brunt on the problems fell on them. I don't know if the trips are worth going on. The last trip we had to wait because there were some women that couldn't make it back to the bus and we had to wait until the other bus went to the restaurant to pick them up.
I don't know if the liability falls on the city if something happens to someone that can't walk and falls. On the casino trip, there was a man, by himself, with a walker and he has Alzheimers! He doesn't attend the center so it would be hard to find him in the casino. Oh well, at least he was on the bus on time.

Election day, association meetings, artists and flowers

Today is election day for mayor of Allen, TX. The present mayor has been mayor for 12 years. Since there isn't a limit for mayor, he could be mayor for a long time. I think that a change is needed. Not that he wasn't a good mayor but when someone holds a job too long, they can get too comfortable. We'll see.

We had an association meeting the other night for the community we live in. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough people present so the meeting was canceled. We were still able to ask questions. A lot of people asked questions. My concern is with neighbors around us that have large dogs and they put them outside late at night and very early in the morning. I love dogs but not barking when I'm trying to sleep.

Here is a cool picture of MC Escher. He has some really different work. I thought that this one was really imaginative. I should be so talented.

I went to Lowe's to get a few flowers for my front yard and found out that a lot of them were 1/2 off so I bought a lot of flowers. I have to take a picture of my yard but I'll wait until more of my perrenials bloom. I love summer!

African (or Butterfly) Iris

There are some beautiful flowers at the senior center that I couldn't identify, even after looking on the internet. I asked Susan Campbell, the Allen City landscaper and she told me that they're African Iris'or Butterfly Iris'. I found them on the internet after I found out what they're called. They're called Butterfly Iris' because the flowers look like butterflies sitting on top of the plant. The flowers last for only a day but bloom all summer. I tried to find some for my yard but couldn't find them. I asked Susan where I could get them. That afternoon she brought me two plants. And they're blooming in my yard already. That was so nice of her to add to the beauty of my yard.

Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch

Denny doesn't have to umpire Saturday so we're going to go to the Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch. We've never been there and it looks like a fun trip. Dallas saw the pictures of the animals and got excited. I think she's going to have a ball!
I'll take plenty of pictures.

What was named the Texas dish back in the 1880s? Can anyone give me the answer to this question? I haven't heard of this until today and I wonder who else knows. Now, you lose a point if you have to look for the answer!

Tornados, rainclouds and storms

We had more storm warnings last night (17th). The clouds were beautiful. One thing about Texas is that whether the sky is cloudless and blue or cloudy and gray, it's beautiful. I think Texas has the prettiest sky and I do believe that Texas has the biggest sky. Well, isn't everything bigger in Texas, even the sky? The funny difference that I find in Texas storm warnings and watches from Michigan warnings and watches is that in Michigan, if there is a storm coming, the watches and warnings are flashed across the TV screen. Here, in Texas, the shows are all pre-empted, even if the storm is miles away. We had only weather reports from 6:00 pm until after 10:00 pm. I'm sure glad that Lost is still being repeated or I would have missed the show! We had a good rain but the hail was all southwest of us. They had hail from the size of a pea to the size of a golfball, to a baseball and even a softball. The hail was like a rolling snowball that got bigger and bigger.
Today the sun was shining brightly and you wouldn't know we had a storm last night. I love Texas!

Clouds and tornados

The clouds were beautiful April 17, just before the tornado warning sounded. One thing about Texas that is different than Michigan is the weather updates. In Michigan, we were used to having the watches and warnings flash across your TV screen. Not so in TX. Our local stations pre-empted all the shows from 6:00 pm until after 10:00 pm. Some of it was interesting but a lot was repeated. There was a lot of hail that varied from pea size hail to baseball sized hail, to softball sized hail. The hail was like a rolling snowball, it kept getting bigger and bigger! Fortunately we didn't get damage in Allen like we did with last weeks storms. Some of the cities southwest of us were hit and a lot of windshields were busted. I was getting ready to find a car wash to hide in so my car wouldn't end up looking like a blue golfball. I didn't have to, thank God.
Texas has beautiful skies, whether the sky is open and blue or whether we have storms. Did you know that Texas has the biggest sky? Well, anyway, that's what I think. Everything is bigger in Texas, including the sky. I love Texas.

I dreamed that I died and went to the Antique Mall

I love antique stores!! Denny and I always go to antique stores when we travel. I see things from my past that remind me of my mother and when I was a little kid.

The antique mall in Allen is such a great store. Rebecca, who works there, is so friendly and nice. Today when I was there looking for buttons to sew on my chemo caps we were talking, as usual, as I was checking out. I mentioned that I was looking for buttons that I didn't have to pay a lot for for the caps. (She already knows about our project.) Anyway, she took me to her booth and told me to pick out a bag of buttons for my caps. No charge! How nice is that! The store is such a good place to get something that you've always wanted, just browse around to kill time or get nostalgic for the days gone by.

If you've never gone to an antique store, you're missing something great! Try it and you'll see what I mean. Antique stores are little previews of Heaven.

The Rolling Stones

Sunday, the girls and I went to see the new Rolling Stone movie. It was like being at a Stone concert. I was motivated! I downloaded their songs and I'm going to (privately with no one around)dance like Mick Jagger every day. I'm bound to lose weight. There isn't an ounce of fat on his body. He is the most energetic person I've ever seen and he's 60 years old! While I was watching him run around the stage, I wondered if he has the same problems everyone else his age has, like high cholesterol, diabetes or high blood pressure. I bet he's really healthy from all of the exercise he does. He should have a program on weight loss and exercise. He'd make millions. Not that he'd need the money.

I can see Johnny Depp as the pirate when they'd show Keith Richards. He modeled the pirate after Keith and he sure did a good job. Love that guy! I'm talking about Johnny Depp, not Keith Richards!

The movie was a little too long and we thought that it was going to be more of a documentary but it was mostly their concert. So I can tell people that I went to a Rolling Stone concert. Not live but front row seats!