SGI

 It's been an awful week at SGI. On a positive side for SGI the hurricane hit Texas and Louisiana and not Florida. On Tuesday Beth (the turtle lady) husband Brian drowned trying to rescue two people at the beach. I'm just so heartbroken for Beth. When I was following the emergency and saw that a first  responder had  died I thought surely it can't be Brian. He's the only first responder I know on the Island.  Beth was the very first person we met at 300 Ocean Mile and she's been such a good friend.

 Last night there was a fire on the island and two people died, the old principal of the school and her brother. 2020 has been such a year of tragedies.

                                          Beth giving the boys a lesson on turtles.

Five months of weirdness and still going strong

                                

I made it 20 weeks without missing a single day of walking a minimum of five miles and then I started feeling bad and broke my streak.  

This week I walked my 10,000 steps 5 days so that's an improvement. I had the echo cardiogram last week which was normal. I got the first of the bills for whatever the heck my problem is. $11,000+ for the ER visit. Wow! I just met my deductible.

We've had really great renters in 512 for the past 4 years but they are moving back to Idaho. His company told him he will be able to work from home permanently so they decided to move back to Idaho where they can buy a house for a reasonable amount of money.

Sean is working on building his own computer. He's learned a lot looking up information and finding out how much all the different pieces cost.

Khloe is truly a snaggle toothed little girl with all her missing teeth. There is nothing cuter than little kids with missing teeth. Soon she will have her big teeth too big for her little face:) Maybe her's won't be as big as my kids. There teeth always looked so huge until they were around 12.

Strange Week

Yesterday I was feeling really crappy, my chest hurt I was tired and short of breath. I wanted to go to the post office and mail a box of books to Khloe but I was too tired to get dressed so I disguised myself in my nightgown with a floppy hat, mask and sun glasses. I could have been any homeless woman at the post office. I wanted to go to the library but I was too tired. My echo got cancelled because insurance hasn't approved it so if I need it I will probably have to go get another COVID test. This Pandemic is still going strong. Utah's numbers are coming down but schools are opening soon and the crap is going to hit the fan when that happens. Today I started magically feeling a lot better. I walked my five miles. I did it very slow but I did it and I didn't get to much out of breath. I haven't used an icepack or taken any advil today. It's weird cause last night I felt so bad. Hopefully whatever it is that has been making me sick is passing. Now I'm not sure I even need the echo stress test.

Sean wants a long board so he is practicing his piano.

It's been 104 and 105 a couple days. Don and I had talked about getting some sort of air conditioning unit for our bedroom because it's so darn hot.Catherine had bought four and wasn't using one of them so she brought it over. I liked it and paid her for it. If the kids magically decided they want it they can buy another one. This one was just sitting under a bed. Our room was nice and cool. It kind of sounds like a hotel with an AC going on and off all night. This morning as I walked downstairs the house kept getting hotter and hotter. The main AC wasn't cooling. I called Manwill who had done our heater they said they'd come tomorrow after noon. I called Catherine's guy and he said he would come after lunch. He had it fixed before it got to 80. Our air conditioning is 20 years old and is living on borrowed time but hopefully it will limp through to fall. Our fabulous renters the Pierces at 512 are moving to Idaho at the end of the month so we will have to get new renters.

Quick fix. I still haven't seen the bill but the house is cool. A new AC is like $4600 which is less than the beach AC.  We did just buy a new dishwasher this week and last week I got Carter a new floor, dishwasher and toilet so I want to postpone the new AC as long as we are staying cool

I spent sometime with my little CASA, COVID makes visits creative.

 

Time for July:

I spent approximately 3 hours online with him this month

I sent a couple postcards from Fla (yes I went to Fla again! I'm supposed to be there now but wasn't feeling well)

15 minute butt call with Foster mom when I was trying to look up their address to mail postcards

I dropped off a handmade (by a friend not me) stuffed toy at his house

If all else fails maybe he can do standup. I thought I'd share a couple of his jokes from one of our facetime calls.

Where is a safe place from zombies?

The living Room.

What do you call a magical turd?

Poodini

 What do you need after you have bean soup for dinner?

A gas mask

What do you call a bear with no teeth?   

A gummy bear

Why shouldn’t you fart in a elevator?
It’s wrong on so many levels

Why was the apple so grouchy?

Because it was a crab apple

Why did a take the pirate so long to learn the alphabet

Because he spent so long at C

My plan was to watch a movie online with him via zoom but he just wanted me to watch him play Legos and listen to him talk. So that is what we did. His memory is just amazing. I was looking up jokes online while he was telling them and I would start to tell a joke and he would finish it. I think the kid knows every corny 8 year old joke out there.  I asked him about the stuffed toy I gave him and he told me he really liked it and named it Fluffy. He said his mom put it in the basement because he was bad. He then proceeded to show me the holes he had put in the wall in his bedroom. Yep, I would call that behavior pretty rotten. I knew from talking to Rosie that he had to have two COVID test and that he totally freaked out. I told him I was tested for COVID this week and that I didn't like how it made me feel. He told me he threw a box at the people who were doing his.

He spent about an hour telling me about the Titanic and showing me how to make a Titanic Lego ship. He is a Titanic expert. I was pleased that I was included in the one lifeboat he had on board and survived the iceberg and sharks. Did you know that when you are one on one doing nothing but watching a kid play the kid will still say "watch me?"   If I turned my head to the side he would want to know what I was doing and what I was looking at and that I needed to watch him. 

This month was kind of an interesting evolution in our relationship. Not sure how to explain it other than I survived the crash of the Titanic:)

  A couple online pictures below.  It was in the afternoon and he said "I'm still in my pajama's." I said "that's OK, I'm still in mine!"

 On a funny note I had hung up with him because Khloe was calling. I had Khloe on my phone and he was freaking out calling me so I answered. He wanted to know what I was doing I told him my grandaughter was reading to me and that really got him flustered. He had to go find a bigger book and tell me that he could read it.

Khloe was pretty oblivious to him and was reading me a western story chapter book. She did a great job,

Sean wanted to know what was for lunch today and I told him all the left overs from the food people have been bringing us. It looked like so much food it kind of made me feel sick. It was really nice of people to bring us food.