Tuesday, January 25, 2011

It looks like I've not posted in a few days, or maybe I've got the dates wrong.
I'm too old to be childish, and too young to be senile.  I guess you'd say I'm at 'That awkward age', but I forget so many things, and I get busy and feel like I don't have the time to do all I'm supposed to.
When Barbara and I were going to go out on Sunday, the power steering on the red truck didn't work, so I parked it and took the smaller white truck.  I found out yesterday that the serpentine belt had come off and got all chewed up.  It happened because the water pump had gone out.
I called Ronnie to see if he could make the necessary repairs.  He came right away.  He's really good to take care of me.
He's got a new water pump and belt, and I think he's going to put it on this morning.
Barbara and I had a good time Sunday, but she bought all the snow houses in the antique mall where we shopped, and she's supposed to know that they're all mine!
I got a really cute 'drag queen' lamp.  It's got beads hanging down all around for a shade, and it looks like it belongs in a drag queen's bedroom.  I'm going to use it outside to cast light and glittery 'gleams' all around.  It keeps the wild birds away from the area where it's at, and they don't mess there.  I just love shiny things.
I was in bed all day Saturday with a sick headache that I couldn't get rid of, so it was a useless day. 
I think I know why I had the headache, but I'll not discuss it now, because someone reads these posts whom I wish to surprise.
The trip Sunday was to get some tile from a friend who I had bought from before.  She found another box, which (I think) will cover the floor of the bedroom in my Hut, put with the other tile I'd bought from her before.  I need to get back to working regularly out there.
Yesterday I worked at home in the morning, and went to town in the early afternoon.
I had lunch at the Down Home, then went to the Goodwill.  The ladies there had not heard about 'Cherokee's' son having an accident on Saturday night.  He had been drinking and doing some drugs, and was driving high speed, when he rolled his car (single auto accident) 11 (yes, that's eleven!) times, killing his passenger and severly wounding himself.  Cherokee is one of our volunteers at the Goodwill, and she and I are good friends.  I had seen her at the Family Dollar Sunday night when I was up there helping Joan.  Joan and I both cried with her, and prayed with her.  Joan got all the information so she could call her church (Sunrise Babtist) and have his name put on the prayer list.  He was up at the Goodwill on Thursday of last week.  Neither of the men were wearing seat belts.  He's likely facing multiple charges, if he lives.
I left the Goodwill and went to help Joan at the Family Dollar.
She's all nervous and frantic about inventory, which is tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM.
We were stacking and counting merchandise all over the store, and she and Elaine were the only employees in the store.  When Joan and I were sorting and reducing the shoes, we found so many wrappings, blister packs, and boxes hidden in them, where shoplifters had unwrapped their stolen merchandise to take it out of the store.  Joan says they like to leave the packaging in shoes, because it takes the employees so long to go through all the shoes to find them.
There's so much stolen every day there.  She taught me how to use the pricing gun and the little gun which holds 'softs' together in pairs.  I feel so dumb, but she loves for me to be there to work with her.
She told me the other day that she is given a budget, and she pays herself and her employees out of it.  She can't afford to hire anyone else right now, so she really needs my volunteer efforts.
I keep everyone laughing and the mood light.  I also see things that need to be done that the employees just don't see or don't have the time to do.  I'd rather work up there than be lonely at home.  All the ladies are so good to me.
I had found Joan two pair of jeans at Goodwill, and she was delighted to get them.
When we left last night, Joan paid for my purchases from the Family Dollar, so I came out well.
She needs to have her floors stripped and waxed, but that comes out of her budget, and I don't know when she will feel that she has the money.  I offered to stay late and help her do the floors one isle at a time, but she says company policy won't let her do it that way.
Lynn (Steve's sister) wrote me a nice e-mail yesterday, commenting on my blog (this one).  I read hers all the time, and try to leave a comment or write her an e-mail about something she's said.  She's had over 10,000 viewings on her site.
I wish I knew how to put pictures on my site.  It would make it way more interesting to my faithful readers.  It would also give Barbara something else to sneer about, and I know how important that is to her.
The sun is still not much out or bright, and I think we're supposed to get some more winter weather.  The ground is soft and muddy, so I don't know if snow would lay.
I'll have to get the birds ready for more bad weather this morning.
Another day.......