March 2nd Totally catching up.

No excuse for not posting on the blog, just been busy.  First, the posting for February's plates:

Only saw 23 plus a US Government plate.  No Canadian Provinces.  In my defense, didn't travel too much this month.  mostly local.  

In other news, Bette is slowly recovering from her shoulder replacement surgery, she sees her Doctor on May 13th.  

Been busy planning the summer trip to Maine and Buffalo NY we will leave on June 1st, and will stop and see Tracy for a few days, as well as Steve and Wendy and the Williamsons in New Hampshire for a day.  Then over to Buffalo to see Lew and Mary Beth with several Baseball stops, then on home.  

Heard from Lander, looks like I will be teaching two classes face to face, on Tues. and Thurs.  if that works out.

We bought a smart tv for the bedroom, a 43 inch smart tv from Wal Mart and Cooper and Tony installed it.  Yay!  Only two things left on the master list left- an RV garage and to repair the back deck.  We've scheduled the latter with Shane, and the former we will do soon.  

We'll  be taking Tracy our old 50 inch tv, non smart up to her in NJ in June.  

Got good reports at all Doctors-  Yay!  

Believe we're now caught up!    JM

February 10th Moving along

Today, I set the alarm in error, thinking it was Monday- when we have an appointment with the rumatoligist.  Had to wait a while for that.  

Today, Tina ran to Wal Mart for us to fetch us some half and half, and tonight we are eating steaks and potatoes, tonight for dinner at 6 pm.  Tony is a good cook and we enjoy our Sunday dinners.  

As I said, next week is a fairly busy week, and we need to call Monday to get the RV fixed, We called Saturday- and we tried to jump start the RV,  but it appeared it is the starter.  We'll have to have the RV towed to Mercedes Benz in Greenville.  

Busy week ahead!

February 8th Off to the Doctors for Bette and me today.

Well, lessee first thing we did was take Buster to the groomers NOT- cause Denise was out with the flu.  So, we'll use Tina's groomer next Wednesday,  Next Bette and I headed over to our Family Dr. Dr. Stevens. Got a good report, he redid some meds and did blood tests.  He also looked at my rashes, and supported my visits with the cardiologist and the nurologist.  Then we started to jump start the rv, but after several tries, without success, he thought it might be a bad starter.  So now we'll have to get towed to Greenville to the Mercedes Benz dealer.  And have the warranty company pay for the repair.  After several days of warm temperatures and several days of record breaking temperatures, it will be colder tonight.  Down to 33 they say.  Which is close to normal.  

Got a letter from my department head about some concerns with several student complaints about due dates, and a concern about online teaching.  I wrote Professor Hester a reply, and sent her along a all class email about the due dates for the semester that I had sent out to the students and added to the content tab for the class.  
Bette is feeling some better, but today was a long day.  Her bruises are still there, and it pains her some.  Joanie Sheriff called tonight, and we got word Wendy and Steve Cole are headed down to their place in Coquina on Sunday.  She is relatively cancer free, or at least no spots are showing up on her scans, which is a good thing.  Bette is very happy we will get to see both her and Lew and Mary Beth McCaw and Kippy and Dan Kingston down in Florida.  
Lived up to my promise to keep up with Blogging!  

February 7th Still catching up!

Sorry for the delay in writing on the Blog-  been very busy taking care of Bette.  She's doing ok, but badly bruised up.  Also, sadly got word that Tioga George, and old blogger friend of mine, his old body just gave out.  Also got word that Gen. Leo Dulaki passed in Phoenix, he was 100 and used to play golf with dad.  I mentioned him at the funeral for dad and he was a close friend of the family.  We visited him when we were in Phoenix this summer. Glad we did that.  

Went to see Dr. Miller for a tooth filling which had broken on Wednesday. And went to see Dr. Sida the neurologist this morning. Got a good report from him.   We are having Sean and his crew power wash the houses today. And the storage building.  

Tomorrow is Dr. Stevens, the family Dr.  Then on next Monday off to see the rheumatologist- then on the 14th I have a colonoscopy.  Then I should be through for a while.  Have to see Dr. Sida again in 6 months.  

Tina took a photo of Bette on Snapchat and it was pretty comical. 

Lander classes are going pretty well- A few problems with Blackboard- but we're managing.
Also drove over to Abbeville and had lunch with Mike Bedenbaugh yesterday.  He was over to redo the Trinity Church.  Need to raise 3 million dollars.  

I will try to do a better job of daily writing on the blog.
Also, forgot the Hum app provided a weekly mileage summary for the week:

  

February 4th Still catching up!

Here is the plate report for February- didn't travel very much.  So not very many I'm afraid. Also no Canadian Provinces or Mexican states.  Hopefully I'll travel more in the next month or so.  

On other news- Bette had a successful shoulder replacement done- as an aside, been pretty busy taking care of her since Jan 31st.  She's been scaring me with some breathing episodes. But keeping a close eye on her. Be leaving shortly for Wal Mart for a sat meter for her and groceries for us.  Had dinner with Tina and Tony and the boys Sunday, and watched the Super Bowl.  Then mostly resting.  Went over to Lander for a discussion group- but no one showed up.  Also got a parking ticket taken care of and got a faculty/staff parking ticket.  Will try to post more often in the future.  Depends on what I need to do for Bette.  

January 29th Massive catch up!

No excuse, had the house painted, several Doctor appointments- and started a week of classes at Lander.

Since I last posted took three days to get the house and apartment painted-and one day for furniture placement.  Saw several Doctors, with good reports from all of them- got a colonoscopy scheduled for February 14th. Bette had her 76th birthday- went to the movies with Tina and saw Glass- the one guy should get an academy award for best actor- he did several different personalities.  As one of the trio of madmen.  Started my Lander tutoring at the library- very happy with the student I have- actually sisters- and it will be low stress.  Bette goes in Thursday at 0530 for her shoulder replacement.  Lander classes are going pretty well.  I have a couple of Chinese students that don't understand Blackboard very well.  Went shopping to Wal Mart- and Lowes where we bought an electric fireplace- it's been cold as hell recently- and the worst of it is yet to come- also bought a king size adjustable bed and had it delivered- also put the baseball rack back up- and I'm loosing a bag of goodies I had.  Went to Newberry and had lunch with Meagan and Shawn and Elias- Brandon unfortunately had a wreck with the Mustang- Pretty much totaled the car- Tina bought him a used Toyota from next door and will give him her Toyota-  lots going on! Tony cooked steaks for Sunday dinner last Sunday and Brandon and Lauren came over.  

  Will try to keep more caught up.  My bad.

January 14th and 15th Catching up...

January 14 and 15:

Started my Lander classes back Monday I had 101 and today I had a few not show up for class, I emailed them.  Classes went nicely.  Hopefully we can team up 343 quickly, se we don't have to stay this past week.  I sat down and chatted with Dr. Stevenson, who used to be my Department Head- and he suggested I talk with Professor Hester about coming on close to full time.  
January 13- Forgot to mention that Bette and I bought a full sized adjustable king bed for us.   It us to be delivered the 20th, and we will give our existing king to Tina and Tony, and they will give theirs to Copper.  Win / Win!  

Sunday, Tina and I went to see the movie The Upside- which was hilariously funny.  

Other than that, we went shopping a couple of times- and I went to the eye doctor.  Did well.