Lisa Goes Home

Richard left this morning to visit his daughter and grandkids.  It was his oldest grandson's birthday today.  He is seven years old.  Carol and I had breakfast before Lisa was up.  When she got up she began to clean again.  She went into the bathroom and was there a long time.  We thought that she was having a problem in there.  Carol hollered but not very loud, "are you okay" the answer was, "yes."   It turned out that she was cleaning.  She cleaned the tub, floor, basin, walls, and toilet.  The tub was as clean as the day that I put it in over twenty years ago.  

She went to Fillmore to get some ice for Carol's ice pack.  While there she bought a broom, some cleaning supplies, and dry mop.    She mopped the kitchen floor.  Before she left she filled the slow cooker with dry potato soup.  She put some ham in it.

Richard came home a little after five.  He seems to be feeling a little better.

Carol seems to be feeling a little better.  She gets up and does the washing.  She also unloaded the dish washer.  I have been helping her with the her physical therapy which she is to do several times a day.  She says that she wished that she never had the knee operation and she wasn't going to do the other knee.

The weather has been cool.  

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Scrubbing Lisa

 I was up early and set up my lap top at the west end of the kitchen table.  I turned on the kitchen light to see without brothering Lisa who was sleeping in the front room.  Richard was up soon and waited in the recliner.  After a while Carol was up and went into the bathroom.  She said that she slept pretty good in the bed that we fixed for her.  She was able to get into bed and out of bed without any help.  I helped her dress and forgot to put on my mask.  She turned on the TV and we watched some news.  I had my old fashion bowl of mush,  Richard boiled some eggs.  He shelled one of them and gave it to Carol.  Richard fried a perfect egg for me.  Lisa was the last one up.

I fed the cats and the kittens.  The three little kittens were really hungry.  They would rather eat than run away.  When their stomachs are full, they ran away.  Lisa asked for a stepladder.  

She worked all morning cleaning the kitchen.  She removed everything from the tops of the cupboards and washed them.   She removed the papers that kept the off the dust.  She washed and washed some more.  She cleaned all the cupboards fronts and doors.  It wasn't a simple wash over, but a deep cleaning.   We watched President Nelsons talk to the people of the world on gratitude.  He asked everyone to list something each day on social media that they were thankful for.

This afternoon I mowed up all the leaves that had fallen after I mowed three weeks ago before the big snow.  I dumped them in our compost piles.  One is getting pretty big.

This is how the back lawn looked after I finished.  The other lawns looked the same.

Carol went to Fillmore for physical therapy.  I helped into Lisa's car and Lisa drove her there.  She was pretty tired when she got back.

Lisa made tacos for supper.  They were really good, but the shells were really brittle making it difficult to eat them.

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Another Trip to Nephi

Lisa spent the night with us.  She fixed breakfast with eggs and toast,  I drove to Nephi again.  Richard drove to see the unemployment office.  

I went into the hospital and met with a couple of receptionist.  I told them that I was there to see Carol.  She was going to lead me to her room.  I explained that I had been at the dentist last Thursday, he tested positive to Covid.  After she consulted with several people and doctors I was told that I couldn't see her.  While I was waiting, Richard came in.  The employment office was closed.  I pleaded my case.  Eventually she took us into another exam room and again we were told that there was no way that we would be able to see her.  We went out.  Richard got in his car and I got in my car and drove home.

When we got home, Lisa drove to hospital in Nephi.  I put on my work close .  I wanted to empty the truck.  The battery was dead.  I put the on the charger and left it on for over an hour.

We went to the post office and got the dump key.  It didn't take long to dump.  We then had lunch.  The wind has been blowing pretty hard. 

I got a picture of some changes at the greenhouses.  This is house four that is set up for LED lights.

Lisa came back home with a huge supply of food and a box of things from some or our grand kids.

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Fixed Lawnmower

 Up early again this morning.  Turned up the thermostat and showered.  Read from the Book of Mormon,   Fixed breakfast of old fashion oats and fried egg.  Richard had Cheerios.   I left Holden at eight

I took this picture of the east entrance of the hospital.  This is not our car.  Our car is in the bottom right corner.  

When I got there she was not in her room,  I asked someone if they knew where she was.  He said that she was in therapy and would be back in forty-five minutes.  She was back in ten minutes. Carol was doing a lot better.  Still a lot of pain, but physical therapy last night and again this morning.

Carol had a melted cheese sandwich and I had Chinese chicken.  It was pretty good.    I left when Carol went to her afternoon physical therapy.  I got stuck behind five slow moving trucks at Mills wasn't able to pass them until I got over the hill and could see down to Scipio.

I drove to Fillmore to get the tire pressure fixed,  but because of the warm weather, it fixed itself.  I got a couple of small quarter size batteries at Ropers and went to Penny's to get a new part for the lawnmower.  The guy there didn't sell me a new one,  He fixed the old on and didn't charge me anything.  On the way home Jim Stephenson called me and informed me that my dentist Jim Larson has Covid.  He fixed my teeth on the sixteenth at noon.  I will be tested to see if I was infected.

I put it on the lawnmower and gathered up all the leaves. 

I dumped a lot of times.

And made quite a large pile.

I called Carol and told her about my dental experience.  

Lisa stopped at the hospital to visit Carol.  She is going to spend the night here.

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Made the best soup

The Hospital at Nephi

Last night, Carol bathed and washed herself with the soap.  That was the instructions before she have her knee operation.  She couldn't eat anything, but she did have a little water with one of her pills.  I made some mush, but didn't have time to fry my egg.

We left Holden at seven to be there by eight.  My impression was that at eight we would go for the operation.  That didn't happen.  Carol was tested for Co-vid and the test was negative.  We had to check in and then after an other hour we were in an exam room where she scrubbed again and put on a hospital gown.  At that time the nurses hooked her up to a lot of monitoring devices.  I think we waited there for a half hour.

Carol didn't want any photos of her.  I took photos of where she was.  The above photo is of the wall where the headboard would be.  Some of the instruments are on the wall.

The bed with the TV monitor laying on the bed.  

An information chart.  Pain scale, phone number

Three nurses came in and got Carol out of bed.  Using a walker and the guys hanging on to her she slowly walked out the door into the hall.

She went about twelve feet and was to tired to go further. The put her in a wheel chair and pushed back into her room.  She was more comfortable in the chair than she was in bed.  She still in the chair when I left at four.

I drove home with the cruse on eighty.  Richard called and asked about Carol said that he was at the hot springs west of Meadow.  There was a group of three truck going very slow up the hill.  I had to break to avoid hitting the back one.  At the top of the hill I met the sun so bright that I couldn't see a thing except the sun.  I braked some until I got over the top and went down the other side.

The guys covered three of the greenhouses.  House four, five, and six.

It was dark when Richard showed up.  We had supper of warm ups.

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Eric, Lisa, & Emi

I was up early this morning and read from the Book of Mormon. Carol was up a little bit later.  Eric, Lisa, Emi were up much later.  I took care of the two chickens and then watched the three wood working shows.  The got up and fixed breakfast.  Bacon and eggs and bread were fixed.  They put the dishes in the dish washer.  After breakfast we visited and watched TV.

Eric drove me to the post office.  Why you may think?  His car was parked in front of the garage and I would be able to get our car out.  Eric brought his lap top and worked at the computer. 

Around two we had lunch.   Lisa brought ham and cheese and  and bread.  we made sandwiches.  We were extremally happy that the spent some time with us,

I should have been taking pictures while we were eating and while we were visiting.  I got this phot of Emi relaxing in the swivel chair that Lisa and Eric got for us years ago.

Carol is having a operation on knee Monday morning, the day after tomorrow.  Eric and I gave Lisa a blessing.  I anointed and Eric sealed the anointing. 

I wanted a selfie before the left.  I asked of a facey.  I don't know if that is a real word.  The spell check rejected each spelling try. ie. Facey, facee, facei   faceie. All I needed was a capital letter.   

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Delta Planer

 I found some redwood in my stack of lumber.  I wanted to plane it so the red would show.  I ran it through the planer and did pretty good, but it was gouged some.  I ripped it in half ending up with two flat pieces. 

One was thicker than the other. I ran the thicker one through the plainer until both pieces were the same. 

I cut into four equal pieces and mitered both ends at 45 degree.  I was making a pencil box.  I should of taken some pictures of this process, but I forgot,  I ended up with with a fairly nice box.

I watched a couple of You Tube videos to see if I could fix it.  It said to clean the rollers.  With clean rollers the wood would go through with out stopping or slowing down.  The rollers in my machine did not need cleaning.  The front roller was damaged.  I took it off and it is in the above photo.

I carried the planer and put on the back of the truck and it is going to the dump when the snow melts some.

The birds got fed again.  They eat a lot of hen scratch.  d

I watched a video that showed a good way to use sandpaper.  I taped the sandpaper to the smooth workbench and pushed to pencil box back and forth.  I used a small brush to remove the dust.  It looked like a new piece of sandpaper;

Lisa, Eric, and Emi brought some food and we had supper together.   It's been along time since we have seen Eric.  They are staying the night with us.

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