I had an awful night last night. I went to wash my hair and got terribly dizzy in the shower. After that I dried my hair and headed down to bed. But I got to feeling worse when I tried to lie down. So then I went in the family room planning to rest sitting up -- but the TV was driving me nuts. Marilyn was asleep on the sofa in the family room ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I went with sister Sue to see "The Greatest Showman," the 2017 American historical period drama MUSCICAL film directed by Michael Gracey and starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya ( Read more... )

Marilyn's knee seems worse and is giving her terrible pain. And she just didn't feel well today. So she took a sick day and stayed home and mostly stayed OFF her leg. I'm not sure if that's going to be enough. She still might need to see a doctor ( Read more... )

My friend June and I spoke briefly. She just had a root canal on Monday and is still suffering pretty bad. Little wonder: It took two and a half hours for the dentist (specialist) to do it!!! And the very negative part??? She's had this SAME TOOTH worked on twice before! The other guy did it once, then she complained and he tried to do it again. ( Read more... )

Total aside: Marilyn and I were sorry to see Venus Williams lose at Wimbledon. But we were pleased to see Roger Federer win. Another year, another Wimbledon ( Read more... )

First off, it's 81' in the house right now, and I'm sweating bullets. I just changed out of one set of clothes because they were soaked, and now I'm sitting here soaking another set. Oh well. I did turn on the AC to give myself a much-needed jolt of cool air, but it's not much help so far ( Read more... )

Marilyn went with Jeff to Multnomah Falls this morning (while I was still in bed). She'd warned him they would need an early start if they were going to climb up to the top of the falls.

For those who probably don't know it, Multnomah Falls is the most visited natural recreation site in all of the Pacific Northwest. They have more than 2 million ( Read more... )

One of the two overhead light bulbs has gone out in this room (our upstairs office) and it's difficult to see. (sigh) But I'm just too tired to replace it tonight ( Read more... )

First off, I (FINALLY!!!) stuck the oil -- we have around 150 gallons. That's probably LOW, which is no surprise in light of how COLD it was in December and the first half of January! In the past on rare occasions when we had especially cold winters, we've had to order oil a second time. I'm going to watch it very carefully for the next several ( Read more... )

Before I get into the BAD news, I do need to mention the GOOD news! Yesterday my insurance renewal papers came in the mail. I'm looking these over, and see that for the VERY FIRST TIME I can actually do this process online! I was pretty excited -- but nervous, too ( Read more... )