STILL HOT !!!!!!!

Hello All, Physical Therapy over. Glad. I still do exercises two times a day but they are not hard--just time consuming. I do have better range now. I am glad. Amy and Jan for the last 3 Fridays have spent most of the day helping me clean out closets and drawers of unused and unwanted items. Now when we do decide to move to smaller "digs" it will be eaiser. I can not believe how much comes out of the closets, under the beds and shelves. My o my it feels good. They even haul it away for us. I owe them big time. I would guess we have at least 4 more days to really get done. Some days I am sure we are ready for independent living or assisted living even total living. There are so many different ways to go. I guess we are not ready yet. We will know when the time is right. We have lived in this house (which we built) for 40 years. A lot of living has gone on in that time and a lot of memories. But the memories will linger as long as we can remember. We are both getting very forgetful. Can"t remember anybody's name. Jan said she is like that way too. Off to France for her next week. I know that will be fun. Keep those blogs coming. I do enjoy so much knowiny some of the things you are doing.

Sweetly Be
Ma-Maw--Betty Boop

P. T.

O how it hurts!!! I do hope it is worth it. Physical Therapy is taking a lot of time and with SILVER SNEEKERS also and exercise two times a day--o boy. It is still so hot that anything you do is no fun. Jan and Amy are coming this morning to help me cleans my closets. I should feel great then. Wish you were all here to take some of my junk to your house. Hate to throw it away. Such a part of me. I should not be such a "pack rat" I will tell you how it goes.

Betty Boop (MaMaw
Sweetly be.

BACK HOME

Hi! It is hard to get back into the "REAL life". SILVER SNEAKERS" was hard. Got my PI appointments set back up too. I am still cooking fresh veggies I bought from the coast. The corn is still good. And peaches make my oatmeal real good. Finally caught up with washing clothes and ironing. By the way-- have I ever told you that I love to iorn clothes? I even iron T shirts!!!. Crazy. some people would say.Love to cook too. We had fried eggplant last night. I made up a way to add a new twist to it. So good. Had corn on cob, yellow squash, sliced tomato and cornbread. We are still eating too much. Must come down a little. Must run and get this day on the road to real life you know.



Sweetly Be
Betty (MaMaw) Boop
P.S. I went to pick up my pictures at CVS and I had turned in film that had never been used. Now I was so mad at myself. The ones I had taken were sitting here ar home laughing at me. Oh well that is Par-for-the=course for me lately.



Dot

HOME

Back from Gulf Shores. Very surprized at how beautiful the beaches were. Clean for the most part. What was sad was the lack of people. We almost had the beach to ourselves. Good but a little sad too. Not many crowds in resturants and stores. Not much traffic as usual. We had a good time 20 in all. The best food yet. Man thoses cooks are getting better and more creative and so many are interested. No resturant has it better. I did enjoy the Oyster House for lunch one day with my three girls. Another tradition and one I look forward to. We had plenty of good seafood all week. Seeing Jacob Parker, Andrew and Liam was the highlight. I can"t believe how they have grown and how much fun they had in the pool. But for all the fun we had it is mostly for me the time together that counts. Family is so important to Truman and me. May you all carry this tradition on for many years to come. Being connected, yet living your own lives is what I wish for.

Sweetly BE
MaMaw

SHORT HAIR

Well hello again. Or should I say finally. I told my hairdresser that I wanted a "beach-cut" Well I got one!!!! I will have a couple of weeks to grow it out a little. I have been so busy taking care of myself lately. I went to my knee surgeon last week because I was not walking very well. My range of motion was not good. He recomended physcial therapy for four weeks --two time a week. O boy I remember the first time after surgery. Well I went to another place to take it. It is so much better than the first place. I have never known they could have so many kinds of machines. For an hour and half I am really put through it. I have SILVER SNEEKERS the same day and it is almost too much-plus I do exercises two times a day at home in between. If this does not help a lot I am going to be disappointed big timme. I got my Gulf Shores list from Jan and am ready to "bag it up" Make the chile and take the cat to the Vet to board her. Wait --I gave all our suitcases to the Good Will. Paper sacks? Maybe. Any way I will make it.

Betty Boop
MaMaw

HOT HOT HOT!!!!!!!!!

Long time--no post, sorry. Everyone else writes such interesting things. Mine sounds so dull. I did have a little escitement on Friday last week. I attended my 66th High School Reunion at the Colonial Country Club. Sixty five out of over 300 was not too bad. Of course some were spouses or guest. Still we looked pretty good in spite of the walkers and wheel chairs lined up by the wall. And Fathers Day with Linda visiting. Good food at Jan and Tommy's house. Everyone is talking about Gulf Shores for us. We really hate to give it up and I think we will try to wait and see. Hope we can go-would not be as right somewhere else. But we could bend a little just to all be together. By the way Truman got a new American Flag for Father's Day from Amy. Does anyone know how to burn the old one? Not much else to tell--so see you later.

Sweetly Be
MaMaw

ROSES AND OTHER THINGS

Well it is about time. I decided to write again. The roses are beautiful in my garden. It is so hot and everything else is having a hard time. Maybe we will get some okra soon but we could not make it with just parsley (which is doing GREAT), Not good news about the beach trip. How about the mountains. Maybe we will work that out. We must get something going. Thanks to Jan and Amy (those girls like to go) we will have a plan soon. Maybe a change will be good. I always say change is good and we need to know how to bend a little. The main thing is to be together. I don't know of many families who enjoy each other as much as ours. Do you?Off to get the cat checked for blood sugar. Yes I am still dealing with that stuff. Hope she is making progress. She is as tired of it as I am. See you soon.

Sweetley be,
Betty Boop