Beneath the Wraps

--> Nearly every morning Roland gets up at 5:30.   More than not I’ll get up at that time too (provided I’m not already up – due to not being able to sleep in my room) as he needs to be to work by 7:00 (or at least it is the time he chose to be there) but does need to be to work on Wednesdays until 11:00. On Saturday we usually go to the Church to clean.   We try to be there by 8:00 (at least for this month) and then we have the garden at 9:00 (which changes to 8:00 next month – but I think it should already be at 8:00 and then changed to 7:00) and on Sunday he’s got meetings which generally   start at 7:00 or 7:30.   Roland’s usually up by 5:30   regardless.   But I like to stay in bed as long as possible – especially when I haven’t slept well the night before. I didn’t seem to have any troubles whatsoever when Jenna and I were watching one of her TV programs yesterday.   After missing practically the entire program (one I hadn...

I have been getting a few friend requests from people I don’t know.   Initially when I joined the names of your friends and their friends and perhaps even your friend’s friend’s friends, and I had the option of requesting friendship – but as facebook has been changed so many   times, perhaps the request just comes automatically?      I know only one person in Thailand and had received a request from another.   So I asked my son: Who is she.   He said he did not know her.   Why would someone from Thailand put in a request with a total stranger in the US?   I did not accept the friend request.   I checked the box that facebook provided.      I smile when I hear others comment about requests that they’ve received.   It’s actually nice to create pages for groups such as the ward or neighborhood watch or school, etc.   Sometimes it’s nice to be informed of activities that are goin...

Magnetic Clothing – also known as Jinx, Cursed and Gremlin clothing: certain shirts, pairs of pants, blouses, dresses, etc. that attract food or dirt within less than ten minutes after being applied to one’s body.   I don’t know that everybody has at least one article of magnetic clothing, but I know several people do.  I have possessed such articles since infancy, I would imagine.  Though I don’t actually remember any examples until my early teens: white cotton pants, comfortable to wear – attracted dirt like you wouldn’t believe.  If there were any spills, any marred areas that I may have brushed against, any food item within a ten mile radius – they would be attracted and adhere themselves (and I also believed multiplied in size) my white pants – until finally I was at the point of “Why bother?  Really?” Today it is the army shirt that Tony and Rochelle had sent me for my birthday last year.  Our washing machine has seen it more than my b...

    By no means am I a gardener.  Don’t know as I ever had the desire to be.  If I did, it was when I was younger.  Like grammar school younger.  And the sun didn’t seem to faze me as its heat wrapped itself around my body like an unwanted blanket – suffocating me.  I’d rather be indoors with the air conditioning and not pulling weeds in the garden.     It seems the wind has blown some grass seed into our garden.  And the miracle grow is doing wonders on the grass and the beans and peppers.  But the grass is not a part of our garden and so I have been pulling up blades.  I can dig up the roots (well, some of them) if they are in the isle of the garden, but if they are sprouting in the same row as the plants (or some still seeds) they can’t be dug up as well.       Every day there are blades of grass.  Everyday I tug at the blades and dig and rake. ...

Her last day of school was Thursday.  But yesterday she wanted to PLAY school - with real tests and real homework.  She wrote a story about aliens eating her homework.  I like the story this story that I found.  She wrote it last year. The Shoe and the Sock By Jenna One short evening sock and shoe met.   Sock asked, “Are you shoe?” Shoe said the same. Sock said, “Why do I always have to smell you?   You smell!” And shoe said, “Well you smell, too.” “I do NOT!!” said sock, “You do.” “No, you do.” “Getting angry won’t help,” said sock They decided to switch places. They said they would switch for a week. For a while they were living the life. Sock had become more popular as no one had ever seen her as a shoe before Shoe started becoming more popular as no one had ever seen a shoe worn under a sock before. Then things started going wrong.   Sock started getting holes and shoe felt   uncomfortable with a sock cover...

          I’m not really sure why I was the privileged one put on the mailing list for Alpine Ridge.  Perhaps I had made the request – but it would have been over four months ago.           I received a letter last month informing me that I would have the opportunity to meet with a director and nurse if I had any questions concerning mom.  I assumed that my three sibs would be getting the same letter.  They never did.           And just the other day, I received a calendar schedule for this month – first one that has come in the mail since January when we took mom there to live.  Really?  I remember asking about them back in March – but I never received a hard copy of one.  I did find one on the web and have looked at it and will still refer to it as I sometimes misplace my hard copy – but I am still puzzled at wh...

--> If the school should call while school is still in session, I’ll answer ASAP but if the school calls after school hours, I usually just let it ring until it goes to voice mail.   There have been a few times I’ve answered, but had wished I would have had the voice mail recording so that I could listen to the message again.   Usually it is either the principal or her secretary who leave the message.   Both have made announcements as though they mean it.   But yesterday I got the final message of this season.               The voice was less than enthusiastic.   Somewhat monotone and robotic sounding. It sounded like a school marm who had just been dismissed from teaching and at the last second had been asked, “Oh, could you do one final announcement before you go?”    It also had the feel of a spliced recording made from the 60’s on one of those old reel-to-reels. T...