Phases

Today marks the half-way point in Woody's cycle three of his chemo drug study...Day 14, Cycle 3...so one phase. Then tonight the moon is in its crescent phase and the bottom picture of the mushrooms seems to be mimicking the the shape of tonight's moon phase. Then the middle picture shows a moon flower at its fullest phase!

Woody got up early and went to work, he walked at lunch (it wasn't raining when he started, but it wasn't long till he was walking in the rain), he came home, he helped Graham with this week's spelling words and played a game of Chinese Checkers with him (I got the Tiddly Wink Challenge!), we ate supper, and he has relaxed in his recliner reading. We did go for a short walk this evening...just around a couple of blocks this evening...maybe a 1/2 mile.

Today was a red-letter day for little Esther (2 year-old granddaughter). This was her first day of school at Grammy's Montessori. Fun! Fun!

Cough must be better!

Woody came upstairs this afternoon and said that he was planning to walk to the Post Office and did I want to go with him. Well...that is a pretty long walk...more than a three-mile round trip and we have been either not walking or sticking pretty close to our neighborhood this past week due to my allergies and my cough (or rain), so...I wasn't sure. But I did go and we had a really nice walk and saw lots of interesting things...like: pristine streams of Tullahoma (shopping cart in stream), lots of interesting mushrooms and fungi, part of Tullahoma's historical district, horses, steeples, interesting places to rest during a walk (chair in a ditch?), signs to entice us to buy southern delicacies (fried bologna biscuits...ick!), a leveled Sonic (no strawberry limeade for me!), a couple of rather steep hills, a pretty espaliered fence, bird sanctuaries, etc. I will admit to being very glad to get home and take off my shoes and flop on the bed!

Our Sunday started out pretty much as usual...we both went to Sunday School. Woody taught the 6th and 7th grade boys class. We came home, had lunch, Woody watched a DVD and I did a bit of sewing, and then we went off on our walk. At the moment it is storming again...at least we found a dry time to take a walk! Woody is downstairs reading. Nice Sunday!

Another Day, Another Dollar

Today has definitely not been a normal Saturday for Woody. He did get up early...but instead of going for his usual long Saturday morning walk, he went to work. I can't remember when he has worked on Saturday...it's been a very long time. He worked a full eight-hour day. He stopped at the library on the way home. After he got home, he read Joy LOTS of stories. We did go for a walk, after we ate supper...we increased our walk a bit...instead of just going around our block, we went into the next subdivision and went around one of their blocks too...so maybe we went 1/2 mile. I'm still coughing some...maybe the cough will end...one of these days! Woody is now relaxing in his recliner watching a DVD that he got at the library.

We have had more rain today...but today's temperatures have seemed more pleasant...more fall-like...today hasn't felt as close with humidity as yesterday.

Tonight's picture shows a major accomplishment in Abigail's life...she learned to ride her two-wheeler without training wheels this week. Hooray for Abigail!

Day 11, Cycle 3

Woody got up early, went to work, walked at lunch, came home, relaxed and read, and ate supper. After supper, we both went next door to take care of our neighbor grandchildren for about an hour. Woody read stories to the four oldest and I rocked the youngest. I also managed to take a few pictures...imagine that! Woody is reading now. We have had another rainy day in Middle Tennessee...very muggy outside...71 deg. F and 100% humidity presently...and it isn't raining with that 100% humidity! You can just about cut the air with a knife!

Day 10, Cycle 3

Rainy day here in Middle Tennessee. Looks like Hayden (our granddaughter Erin's cat) found a good rainy day activity and is pondering his next play! Of course, if you look closely, you can tell that this picture wasn't taken on a rainy day...but still it is a good suggestion to do on a rainy day...want to take on Hayden's challenge to a game?!

Woody went to work early this morning as usual, walked at lunch, came home, tried to give Graham some shortcuts with his math problems (not sure that Graham quite caught on!), relaxed, worked on his Sunday School lesson, ate supper, then we went for a short walk around the block...I'm still coughing despite the rain washing some of the pollen away. It is definitely hay fever season here...and I have a good case.

Day 9, Cycle 3

The colors in the "Beaver Dam Monet" are changing...definitely you can see that Fall is coming to Middle Tennessee.

Woody has pretty much had a same 'ole, same 'ole day. He did get to walk at lunch, but our evening walk got rained out.

Historical Reenactment

This is the one year anniversary of Woody's bicycle accident. Our neighbor grandchildren decided to reenact the scene...they drew around Nathan and then drew in Goosey's (what the grandchildren call Woody) features(I'm wondering if he was smiling that much that day!)...even drew his compound fracture on his left arm close to the wrist. Graham got out his bike and various cars and trucks that would make a scene close to the way it was that day. The white car represents the car that caused the accident. I bought two flavors of ice cream and we all had a party celebrating the fact that Woody survived the accident.

Woody got up early and went to work as usual, walked at lunch, came home and relaxed, and ate supper. Then I had to stall about our walk, due to waiting on a call from the neighbors saying that they were ready for Goosey's surprise. We headed next door when Abigail called, looked at the reenactment, ate ice cream, and then went on a short walk...just around the block...easing me back into our walks again. We are hoping that the rain we had earlier will settle some of the pollen. I'm still coughing.

Woody said that it felt very good to only have to take his blood pressure pill today!

In case you don't know the story about Woody's bike accident, our first blog that was posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 will fill you in...here's the link:
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