Memorial Day... Plus

On Mon. Memorial Day, because of the rain we decided not to spend $20.00 each for Abbey Road and wait for next year. Turns out the rain did hold off. Other than a sprinkle and we may have been ok. Instead Trent and I went to The Falls of the Ohio. It was really nice we walked a little bit of the trails. And went out on the rocks by the water looking for fossils but had no idea what we were looking at. We had more fun sitting up under the trees leaning on the rocks watching and listening to others who thought they were looking at a creature 3 million years old who knows maybe they were. But when a 5 yr. old keeps yelling here’s one!, here’s one! I wonder. ..




We did see a few fossils but we don’t know what we were looking at. One man was real nice to point some things to us like the coral that was the easy to find.



I was trying to be stealthy and sneak photos of these guys. I hope they weren't actually planning on eating any of the fish. I wouldn't want to eat anything that came out of the Ohio River





The trees were quite amazing. Those who know me well know I love trees and am weird that way. I just love a beautiful tree. Well these poor old trees were very determined to grow! Just look at those roots!!

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Tues. night we had Kevin and Lauren over for dinner. MissaAnn has church group on Tues. so missed having her. Usually I make from scratch especially desserts but I bought Toll House Brownies with Peanut Butter in the middle. GO BUY SOME RIGHT NOW!! You can read the rest while you eat the brownies. I’ll wait......................……..tola loo………….. Arn’t they AMAZING?!?!?!!!!!

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Today is my day to go to the Marriot and swim. Trent usually goes with me and reads. It’s a relaxing place too. It feels and looks very much like being on a cruise ship. That’s it for now…………

A little Tour

I still find it odd that I wake up in Louisville Kentucky. And that I can then ride in the car for 13 miles about 20 minutes, and be in Indiana and spend the day reading a book at the Falls of the Ohio. I see things like funny brushes bolted to the sidewalk outside of doors made for brushing off snow and ice before you walk in. Drive through Chili spots like burger joints. Oh, and they put cinnamon in their chili and put it over spaghetti People here plant to grow big lush gardens of…. Are you ready for it….. Butter Cups! LOL we mow those down in Texas! Not that we don’t love them and have a very fond place in our hearts for them from childhood. But we have always known them to be “weeds”. Well, except for the year Melissa talked Kevin into not mowing a big circle in the back yard so she could keep a flower garden. Oh yeah, it was pretty yellow, white, and pink, all dandelions and butter cups and such. Well we let her keep it for a while.




In the map above, MissaAnn, Trent and I live in Douglass Hills the dot above the “s” in Hills. Kevin and Lauren are 3 miles to the left (west) along the gold line and are where the “t’s” are in Matthews. We are 11.4 miles from the Airport by its code letter “sdf”. And 12 miles from Churchill Downs located below the y in Shively. Now my little reading corner is only 13 miles and across the river right where the top of the L point to. Well there’s your little tour with an over view. It’s not a big place as you can see nothing is far or takes long to get there. And the road way system is easy.

Happy Renters

We have just had a new contract on a house and will have our tenant move in soon. She believe she will be much happier here because it is sure to be much more quite than her last home. Why? Because she was next door to a “Motor Cycle Club”. Now this may be a fine establishment with great guys and gals. Don’t go growling Mr. bikers I just mean wow, that would be some kind of noise to have so many bikes coming and going. And we are perfectly happy to have the rent too. Now for the business side. This will be full pay which means sec8 will pay it all we will not have to collect any rent. Yippie ki yi aye.

chit chatting

Well, I must say. I spent some time with the new world of twitters. I have decided they have work to do to catch up with Facebook and other sites where people have been keeping up with each other for a while now. I can’t see the advantage to Twitter over Facebook as far as keeping up with family and friends. Twitter is a fun way to get a lot of info from a lot of sources at one time, that’s facebook. I have friends and family from all over the world sharing quick notes to pictures albums and other fun pieces of flair on Facebook. Now for the Blogger I Thought this would be a way for people to just go to a site and read what is going on with out having to join anything and I could just write whats going on post pictures and get repsonses back. simple.

May 18

Louisville, KY * Today Fair 69° /Tomorrow 46° 79° / Wednesday 54° 85° /

Today we woke to find we had a frost last night. Yep, a frost! It's turned out to be a very pretty day of about 70. I have been outside weeding out the bed where I have put Blubonnet seeds. I know have the leaves but no blue flowers yet. I will post those for sure as soon as they bloom, if I get any this first year out of them.


My diet is really tuff. Oatmeal. That's it, oatmeal. I have at least one Boost every day and at least one V8. This is because that's been about the only thing I seem to do well with and I want to be sure I get enough protein and veggies. I ate a turkey burger with no topping except some home made guacamole and one scoop of peach cobbler when we had Kevin's Birthday. It was a simple and fresh Guacamole (which by the way I am suppose to be able to eat) and a simple ground turkey burger. I missed church Sunday and I am still paying for it today.

I have done well with my daily walks, I am doing 2.0 miles a day. Working on the upper stength still and that is so much harder for me. I can't seem to get beyond 3 pounds. I feel better when I get this done and I stay away from food. Just need to be sure I don't get to a point of weakness from no food. so I need to still work on what I can have. That has not been easy as so far it seems like it has been nothing. I bought soy milk today and eggs I am allowed egg whites so I will try scrambled egg whites to add to my list of Boost, V8, Oatmeal. I'm grooving now.

Kevin turns 24 can you believe it!

Wow, it really does go so fast. I am so proud of the man he has grown to be. This lovely lady in his arms has brought even more love to our family. The two of them keep us laughing. What Joy!

Been so busy but not much to say. Derby was great. I will have pictures and a post on soon! Keep checking in. love to all!

Had a waonderful walk along the waterfront. Sat at Fest - A - Ville and listen to music. Then we took a long drive along River Road on our way home. . . A very nice Saturday.





The temp. has been so pretty. We have had the air turned off and the attic fan on so the house has been a nice 71 however Melissa stays at an excact 60 degrees downstairs no matter what time of year it is.

Crohn's Disease

The latest in medical news….. I have Crohn's Disease. I have been dealing with IBS diet restrictions and what the Dr. gave me as a lit to go by leaves nothing to eat. No dairy except egg whites, No meat except white meat poultry and fish, No sugar, No sugar substitute. Ahhh the list goes on.






We had sleet today and was really really cold. I can’t wait until Friday we are to get into the 80’s!!!!!!. Finally we should stay up around 70’s and 80’s and only have a few days in the 60’s for our highs.

I am so excited

We will be picking up Mom Metcalf from the airport on Sat 4/11! We will have her here over Easter and her birthday! I'm just sorry it won't seem any warmer than Christmas was. Well, yes it will, but still very cool with some rain. Hopefully all flurries will be gone by then. We were hoping for good weather to go out and do more.

Second It's DERBY TIME! I have been going over all the festival events and making our calendar. This is so big here, those in Houston think the Rodeo is big? uh-uh New Orleans mardi Gras uh-uh the kids are out of school the whole week of events go all day every day and they begin with worlds largest and best firework display and show. (Second is Macy's 4th of July) The day starts with the Thunder Air Show at 3pm and goes to 9pm. Then there is a week of amazing, crazy, anything you can think of contest and shows. From Bed Races where teams sign up to build and race beds to golf tounements.

Here are some pictures of last years Thunder

Above and below are both of the 2nd street bridge that crosses from Louisville Kentucky to Indiana - you can see the light of Jeffersonville IN. on the otherside on the picture above.

It's Springing with snow

I woke up this morning and saw some trees had some green on them. Some of the red buds and cherry blossoms were trying to make their appearance as well. Then when I got back from my appointment I saw the news, we are in for sleet and snow on Monday. Yeah well it snowed last Easter too. We really don't get all the way out of this until the 2nd week of May.

OK I have promised some Spring Pictures. Don't have them all on the computer yet but here are some of my favorite The Tulip Tree. This tree is amazing and pictures just don't do it justice.

OOPs, Doctors Tied a Slip Knot

This will be our new family portrait as old parents!






We have just found out we will be having a b buh ba baby! Seems the like 21 years after my tubes were tied you would think things were safe.

Well this proves other wise.

7 weeks 6 days March 28, 2009

Please leave comments on what you think!

Rain Rain Go Away

It's been raining for a few days and we have more in the forcast until Tuesday. I guess that will be good for the plants and flowers. But it keeps it too cold. It's still in the 50's. I am really ready for August when we finally get some 80's around here. Wow what I would do for a beach right now!



Taken while we were in St. Thomas the "S" is messed up but it was warm and the sand felt soooo goooood!

Changing to Spring

Today I got the Spring/Summer décor out and put away Winter. I changed the curtains and bedding and now the house looks like Spring and I’m ready for Summer and warm weather. So, now let’s hope we get warm weather soon and no more snow. Last year some of you may recall we had snow on Easter Sunday. I have been told they have had snow on Kentucky Derby Day too – That’s in MAY!!



I wore myself out pretty good so for dinner Trent is simply going to help out with Grilled Cheese, Apple Sauce and Smoothies. I love to buy frozen fruit and put some in a blender with ice and wahla. Sometimes add fruit juice and or yogurt too.


Hope everyone is doing well.

They're out for blood

Today I will go back to the hospital to give them more blood. More? Do they really need more they take so much when you are in there to begin with. They need to run more test on why I am always in pain and why the colon is irritated and inflamed. Good news this last removal of polyps was not cancer.

I plan to take some pictures today of what is the beginning of Spring. So I will post that soon.

Spring?

As of 7:44 this AM today it became Spring. It was 34' outside and we have no leave on any trees. We do have daffodils in bloom. That seems to be the only sign of Spring. I am really ready for warm weather and color. I put Bluebonnet seeds in the backyard so we will see if we get a bit o Texas up here.

So what else is going on... today is physo therapy it really helps I am down to only twice a week now. Dinner tonight, Fish Fajita's mmmm. White fish cooked in lime juice with lemon pepper and cumin. wrape in totilla with pineapple salsa, fresh pinapple minced puple onion and seeded and minced jalaeno'.

Mulch Dump

After the storm there were a lot of limbs and whole trees that came down and needed to be cleaned up. One day we had a tree service come to the door and ask if we wanted free mulch. So we of course said we could use some. We told him we just needed a little and he could put it on the drive way. We now have no idea how we are going to get rid of an entire dump truck size truck load of mulch. Kevin was here when we went out and saw they had come and he took a picture because he thought this was funny and wanted to share this amazing image with his friends. If you can picture a driveway and see one half of it covered and piled higher than a car. You got the image. This load we bigger than our PT Cruiser!

We had a few nice days in the 70's so we got some of the yard work done. We have covered all of our beds with at least 2 - 3 times as much as you would normally put and still have a pile the size of a small car.

Though we had a few days in the 70's we will go down to freezing tonight and will stay in the 50's for the high all week.



I promised a picture of Brandon’s find of an icecicle that was over 4 feet!!

Winter 2009

The snow is very pretty and we still get excited over having flurries. Our big snow this year made for some trouble as we had lots of ice as well. So though it's very pretty untill the trees start to break and the power goes out. We were without power for 4 days. That means we were some of the lucky ones many were out for weeks.

On my way to the Dr.'s office, I drive down this road. Sping and Fall along this road are just as breath taking.

In the Hood

Crosswalk downtown you can't really tell the length here. But even though they look long, can you believe these ice cycles are 12 - 18 inces long.

Thought this was funny. That is a cargo ship going down the river. "Do they need to ship snow to Ohio?"

Then the fun

became work for

too many people

The artsy side of Louisville

Louisville has proven to be a fun place to live.

Here are bike racks downtown