Did I tell you that I went to the ophthalmologist Thursday?
I did.
I didn’t need a change in my prescription. However, he said that he needed to make a change so that I would have a better chance of passing the eye test for my driver’s license.
He doubts that I would pass it.
My license doesn’t require renewal until next August.
We will wait. Lots can happen in a year.
But, as of now, the eye exam is “iffy”.
Fortunately, my driving record is outstanding so far in NC.
🙂 We’ve had several lovely, interesting mornings in a row in terms of animal activity in the back field.
🙂 I invited an animal-loving friend to come for breakfast this morning to watch it with me (no guarantees we’ll see anything good).
😦 It rained overnight and may rain this morning. Hopefully that won’t affect the animals’ appearance. They haven’t shown up yet, but I haven’t been seeing them until after 8:00.
🙂 Our daughter got her license this week and made her first “solo” trip last night. It takes a lot of time to get 50 hours of supervised driving.
😦 Dad is in the hospital again.
😦 Conflict with other family members hasn’t been resolved yet, in spite of our attempt, overlapping with issue above.
😦 I found out yesterday that my sister has some issues for which she needs to see the doctor, but as the only driving member of her family she is reluctant even to consider surgery, and thus even to see a doctor. (Her oldest is old enough to have his license, and mature enough to be responsible, but nothing has been done in that direction.)
🙂 The crows have come in, and I saw a hawk flying around, so it looks like the actors will be here as scheduled.
Cheryl, are there members of your sister’s church who can help with driving and other needs? How helpful has the local Body been to her in her widowhood?
😦 Don’t feel like doing a darned thing this morning. I hate days like that.
Nevertheless, I see a corner near my computer desk that is very messy, so I will tackle that. And then maybe I will “do the next thing.” And somehow get through the day and accomplish something.
🙂 We had a lovely time this week with our youngest daughter and her four children. The older our grandchildren get, the more difficult to find time to get together. We were able to have a fire and toast marshmallows, go to the fair, visit an underground mine, watch for meteors in the night sky. We were glad all the children got to see some. Since she was only here from Tuesday to Thursday, I think we did quite well. My husband and I usually host the pro-life exhibit at the county fair for a couple of hours. We managed to get that in at the same time.
😦 🙂 Husband’s jam group will perform tomorrow at the fair. I prefer the senior centers etc. It is way too hot to be doing this outdoors. Not unusual for performers, of course. The guy who arranged it cannot seem to get all the details straight, though, so it is rather a pain.
🙂 So appreciating the rain we have gotten. It was at night, which is when I think it all should come. 🙂
Chas, I have good vision and I wouldn’t drive that grade near Mumsee. I certainly wouldn’t do it if my sight was iffy. On the plus side there are plenty of volunteers to do it for you but most cars don’t have a brake on the passenger side.
Alright, got that corner cleared, plus under and around the two desks in the basement, and picked up down the hall from that area. I feel somewhat better now. 🙂
Lol, 6, I used to say that all the time after getting a room clean. I once had the children helping and when we finished one of my daughters looked up at me and said, “Don’t say, ‘don’t you feel better now?’ because I don’t.” Well, I DID feel better. Now if it would just stay clean longer when the children are still around. 😀
Some guy from Montana drove off of that grade on Monday. He rolled his car a few times and died. He may have been watching fires. You can’t do much sight seeing while driving that road. Well, Mike does.
Mumsee, there are places on the road from here to the Y that I have never seen. Someday, I’m going to let Elvera drive and I’ll look.
Like I said before. You need to keep your eye on that yellow line because the way your car is pointed is not the way to the road ahead.
I already ranted and raved. My father-in-law should be getting out of the hospital any time (nope that has now changed), and the situation with other family members is “let’s be friends until we can talk about it.” Good enough for now.
The friends who came by this morning were hoping to see birds fighting, but the vultures didn’t show up until after they left (and they did then briefly fight with the turkeys), so my friends saw deer, male turkeys and females with young, and lots and lots of crows, but no fighting. But they did get to see a newly hatched monarch caterpillar and also a big one about big enough to make a chrysalis, so they were happy about that.
My “photos of the day” were mostly insect photos (including a really beautiful grasshopper shot), but I also got a male cardinal in the apple tree with red apples.
🙂 Got lost going up and down and around and back through the narrow, winding roads of the Hollywood hills today, got as close to the big Hollywood sign as a car get get 🙂 Looking for the back way into Griffith Park, but it didn’t work. 🙂 We did pass by the street Louie Zamperini lived on (his house is for sale, $2 million).
🙂 Enjoyed a visit to the Hollywood & Highland complex — http://hollywoodandhighland.com — with Carol and then drove through Griffith Park. I have to say, she’s moved smack in the middle of a lot of fun and interesting places — a lot better than where she was in East LA.
😦 It is HOT HOT HOT today, breaking-records hot. It’s so hot that the cat is stretched out as long as she can be on the front porch.
My driving is usually excellent (don’t listen to cheryl). Except today when we entered a tunnel that required headlights, I turned on the windshield wipers instead, startling my poor passenger.
Cheryl – Lee has been a cook, & graduated from the Johnson & Wales culinary arts program. I can do many things in the kitchen adequately, & even well…until he is watching. Then I make stupid mistakes. So, I understand Donna quite well. 🙂
6 Arrows, I don’t know that my sister could really get much help from people in her present church. They’re very spread out geographically and I don’t think they’ve been all that helpful. If her oldest had his license, I would think their need for help might actually be quite minimal, since the oldest is a responsible young man and the children are all cooperative. But being in the country without a driver in the household is far from ideal. I’ve encouraged her to have him get his permit for just such a reason. Some of our family might be willing and able to help, possibly even including us. (My father-in-law has such fragile health right now that I don’t think we’d choose to drive a day’s journey away, unless really necessary, but we might be able to go for a few days.)
It’s interesting to read about your sister, Cheryl, because it points out to me the difference, yet again, between military families and civilian families. My son didn’t want to get a license either, but I told him “I cannot drive across the United States by myself. You have to.”
Of course he nearly killed us twice on that drive, but military wives spend so much time without a husband around, it’s really important a kid learn to help early.
This is the widowed sister, right? I’m surprised the son isn’t stepping up and asking to drive for that very reason. I thought my child was unusual in not wanting to get behind the wheel of a car . . . of course neither of his brothers got their licenses until they were 17 either. Our daughter, on the other hand, was itching for the keys at her 16th birthday.
On yet another hand, maybe it’s the added insurance cost. Three boy drivers under 21 nearly broke us . . .
Kathaleena, LOL, your daughter saying, “Don’t say, ‘don’t you feel better now?’ because I don’t.” 😀 Kids! I’ve heard similar moans and groans. 😉
Donna, we got lost today, too, except we were winding around on back roads in a very rural county in our largely rural state. We were on our way to a friend’s retirement party, but had not been notified by them that a bridge in their vicinity was out, and that we would have to take a different route to their house. I think we ended up on (or seeing) County O about three different times. 😉 Eventually we found our way there, but, unlike the return trip home, which was just over an hour, the trip there took almost two hours.
I think we probably got pretty close to California. 🙂
Cheryl, that’s too bad that your sister’s church doesn’t seem to be helping out much. Even if the logistics of providing transportation are difficult, I wonder if some in her church could provide financial assistance to get her son enrolled in a driver’s program. The cost of that can be rather prohibitive (at least in my area it is) for large families with a small income.
Are they (your sister and her son) possibly waiting for him to turn 18? In my state (don’t know if this is a state or a federal thing), an 18-year-old doesn’t have to go through all the classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction in a typical driver’s ed program, saving hundreds of dollars.
And then, of course, as Michelle points out, there is the cost of insurance for young male drivers. That could be another area in which I would think a church could step in and help a widow and her family.
I suspect my nephew would very happily drive. He happily drives the farm tractor to mow the portions of their five acres that are mowable (not in buildings, garden, or pond). But yes, insurance is super-expensive and they are also kept so busy working on their property, homeschooling, and helping other families from their church that I think she just isn’t sure when they’d make time for him to learn. My oldest brother said that he would have started his lessons when he went to visit last Thanksgiving had he known that was a need, but he didn’t think to offer. So he may well do so this year. (This brother, having lost a leg to a careless new driver, is very safety conscious about driving and developed a program to make sure his own children became excellent drivers.) I suspect this nephew knows he can’t drive until his mom says he can, and so he’s waiting on her to say he can.
I wasn’t eager to drive and didn’t get my license till I was 20. (Of course, that was also since I wasn’t allowed to drive the family car and, being limited to jobs within walking distance and not allowed to work after dark or on Sunday, I had a hard time getting my first job and thus didn’t save money for my first car until I was 20. That first job was McDonald’s, under a truly horrible manager, and they gave me very few hours since I was so good at accepting extra hours whenever they called me to work someone else’s shift–so if I didn’t get any extra shifts a given week, I might get stick with 6 or 9 hours, and even though I didn’t spend any money except to pay my mom rent and save money for my car, it still took a long time to save for a car at that rate. Somehow it never occurred to me that once I had my first job and had worked there a few months, I could go back to one of the places that had turned me down a year before and they were likely to hire me, and I could get more hours and a better work atmosphere.)
My friends and I were all eager to drive — my mom gave me a few impromptu late-night lessons before I took drivers’ ed (which was offered in high school back then).
I had my learner’s permit at 15, my license at 16 (OK, so I flunked the first time I took the road test), and my first car — a used baby-blue VW Beetle — at 18 when I needed transportation for college and my part-time job at Sears.
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Did I tell you that I went to the ophthalmologist Thursday?
I did.
I didn’t need a change in my prescription. However, he said that he needed to make a change so that I would have a better chance of passing the eye test for my driver’s license.
He doubts that I would pass it.
My license doesn’t require renewal until next August.
We will wait. Lots can happen in a year.
But, as of now, the eye exam is “iffy”.
Fortunately, my driving record is outstanding so far in NC.
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🙂 We’ve had several lovely, interesting mornings in a row in terms of animal activity in the back field.
🙂 I invited an animal-loving friend to come for breakfast this morning to watch it with me (no guarantees we’ll see anything good).
😦 It rained overnight and may rain this morning. Hopefully that won’t affect the animals’ appearance. They haven’t shown up yet, but I haven’t been seeing them until after 8:00.
🙂 Our daughter got her license this week and made her first “solo” trip last night. It takes a lot of time to get 50 hours of supervised driving.
😦 Dad is in the hospital again.
😦 Conflict with other family members hasn’t been resolved yet, in spite of our attempt, overlapping with issue above.
😦 I found out yesterday that my sister has some issues for which she needs to see the doctor, but as the only driving member of her family she is reluctant even to consider surgery, and thus even to see a doctor. (Her oldest is old enough to have his license, and mature enough to be responsible, but nothing has been done in that direction.)
🙂 The crows have come in, and I saw a hawk flying around, so it looks like the actors will be here as scheduled.
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Cheryl, are there members of your sister’s church who can help with driving and other needs? How helpful has the local Body been to her in her widowhood?
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NC? What about in Idaho?
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😦 LA wildlife: Ghetto bird is circling early this morning. “Come out, come out” …
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I see the QoD is “What about Idaho”?
They don’t have a record on my visit to Idaho. I was in Idaho once in 1965.
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😦 Don’t feel like doing a darned thing this morning. I hate days like that.
Nevertheless, I see a corner near my computer desk that is very messy, so I will tackle that. And then maybe I will “do the next thing.” And somehow get through the day and accomplish something.
Grumble, grumble, groan.
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🙂 We had a lovely time this week with our youngest daughter and her four children. The older our grandchildren get, the more difficult to find time to get together. We were able to have a fire and toast marshmallows, go to the fair, visit an underground mine, watch for meteors in the night sky. We were glad all the children got to see some. Since she was only here from Tuesday to Thursday, I think we did quite well. My husband and I usually host the pro-life exhibit at the county fair for a couple of hours. We managed to get that in at the same time.
😦 🙂 Husband’s jam group will perform tomorrow at the fair. I prefer the senior centers etc. It is way too hot to be doing this outdoors. Not unusual for performers, of course. The guy who arranged it cannot seem to get all the details straight, though, so it is rather a pain.
🙂 So appreciating the rain we have gotten. It was at night, which is when I think it all should come. 🙂
😦 Those who are losing their homes to fires.
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Chas, I have good vision and I wouldn’t drive that grade near Mumsee. I certainly wouldn’t do it if my sight was iffy. On the plus side there are plenty of volunteers to do it for you but most cars don’t have a brake on the passenger side.
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Alright, got that corner cleared, plus under and around the two desks in the basement, and picked up down the hall from that area. I feel somewhat better now. 🙂
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Lol, 6, I used to say that all the time after getting a room clean. I once had the children helping and when we finished one of my daughters looked up at me and said, “Don’t say, ‘don’t you feel better now?’ because I don’t.” Well, I DID feel better. Now if it would just stay clean longer when the children are still around. 😀
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Some guy from Montana drove off of that grade on Monday. He rolled his car a few times and died. He may have been watching fires. You can’t do much sight seeing while driving that road. Well, Mike does.
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Mumsee, there are places on the road from here to the Y that I have never seen. Someday, I’m going to let Elvera drive and I’ll look.
Like I said before. You need to keep your eye on that yellow line because the way your car is pointed is not the way to the road ahead.
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🙂 We had a thunderstorm to pass over my house.
It left 0.7 inch of rain.
It’s gone, but 7/10 is not bad for one event.
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still praying for rain here. It is desperately needed
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I already ranted and raved. My father-in-law should be getting out of the hospital any time (nope that has now changed), and the situation with other family members is “let’s be friends until we can talk about it.” Good enough for now.
The friends who came by this morning were hoping to see birds fighting, but the vultures didn’t show up until after they left (and they did then briefly fight with the turkeys), so my friends saw deer, male turkeys and females with young, and lots and lots of crows, but no fighting. But they did get to see a newly hatched monarch caterpillar and also a big one about big enough to make a chrysalis, so they were happy about that.
My “photos of the day” were mostly insect photos (including a really beautiful grasshopper shot), but I also got a male cardinal in the apple tree with red apples.
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Mike can drive it and play tour guide. I still have sore muscles from clenching them while he was driving and pointing. 😉
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🙂 Got lost going up and down and around and back through the narrow, winding roads of the Hollywood hills today, got as close to the big Hollywood sign as a car get get 🙂 Looking for the back way into Griffith Park, but it didn’t work. 🙂 We did pass by the street Louie Zamperini lived on (his house is for sale, $2 million).
http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-louis-zamperini-20150805-story.html
🙂 Enjoyed a visit to the Hollywood & Highland complex — http://hollywoodandhighland.com — with Carol and then drove through Griffith Park. I have to say, she’s moved smack in the middle of a lot of fun and interesting places — a lot better than where she was in East LA.
😦 It is HOT HOT HOT today, breaking-records hot. It’s so hot that the cat is stretched out as long as she can be on the front porch.
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My driving is usually excellent (don’t listen to cheryl). Except today when we entered a tunnel that required headlights, I turned on the windshield wipers instead, startling my poor passenger.
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🙂 Lots of butterflies in my front yard
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Yep, yep, yep, Donna’s driving is excellent except when she has witnesses.
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Cheryl – Lee has been a cook, & graduated from the Johnson & Wales culinary arts program. I can do many things in the kitchen adequately, & even well…until he is watching. Then I make stupid mistakes. So, I understand Donna quite well. 🙂
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6 Arrows, I don’t know that my sister could really get much help from people in her present church. They’re very spread out geographically and I don’t think they’ve been all that helpful. If her oldest had his license, I would think their need for help might actually be quite minimal, since the oldest is a responsible young man and the children are all cooperative. But being in the country without a driver in the household is far from ideal. I’ve encouraged her to have him get his permit for just such a reason. Some of our family might be willing and able to help, possibly even including us. (My father-in-law has such fragile health right now that I don’t think we’d choose to drive a day’s journey away, unless really necessary, but we might be able to go for a few days.)
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Karen, it sounds like you’re making excuses, I mean sticking up, for Donna. She needs friends like that with the mean people around here.
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It’s interesting to read about your sister, Cheryl, because it points out to me the difference, yet again, between military families and civilian families. My son didn’t want to get a license either, but I told him “I cannot drive across the United States by myself. You have to.”
Of course he nearly killed us twice on that drive, but military wives spend so much time without a husband around, it’s really important a kid learn to help early.
This is the widowed sister, right? I’m surprised the son isn’t stepping up and asking to drive for that very reason. I thought my child was unusual in not wanting to get behind the wheel of a car . . . of course neither of his brothers got their licenses until they were 17 either. Our daughter, on the other hand, was itching for the keys at her 16th birthday.
On yet another hand, maybe it’s the added insurance cost. Three boy drivers under 21 nearly broke us . . .
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Kathaleena, LOL, your daughter saying, “Don’t say, ‘don’t you feel better now?’ because I don’t.” 😀 Kids! I’ve heard similar moans and groans. 😉
Donna, we got lost today, too, except we were winding around on back roads in a very rural county in our largely rural state. We were on our way to a friend’s retirement party, but had not been notified by them that a bridge in their vicinity was out, and that we would have to take a different route to their house. I think we ended up on (or seeing) County O about three different times. 😉 Eventually we found our way there, but, unlike the return trip home, which was just over an hour, the trip there took almost two hours.
I think we probably got pretty close to California. 🙂
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Cheryl, that’s too bad that your sister’s church doesn’t seem to be helping out much. Even if the logistics of providing transportation are difficult, I wonder if some in her church could provide financial assistance to get her son enrolled in a driver’s program. The cost of that can be rather prohibitive (at least in my area it is) for large families with a small income.
Are they (your sister and her son) possibly waiting for him to turn 18? In my state (don’t know if this is a state or a federal thing), an 18-year-old doesn’t have to go through all the classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction in a typical driver’s ed program, saving hundreds of dollars.
And then, of course, as Michelle points out, there is the cost of insurance for young male drivers. That could be another area in which I would think a church could step in and help a widow and her family.
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Love the gps lady when she is entirely frustrated with you: “Continue to the route, Continue to the route, Continue to the route, Continue … “
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I suspect my nephew would very happily drive. He happily drives the farm tractor to mow the portions of their five acres that are mowable (not in buildings, garden, or pond). But yes, insurance is super-expensive and they are also kept so busy working on their property, homeschooling, and helping other families from their church that I think she just isn’t sure when they’d make time for him to learn. My oldest brother said that he would have started his lessons when he went to visit last Thanksgiving had he known that was a need, but he didn’t think to offer. So he may well do so this year. (This brother, having lost a leg to a careless new driver, is very safety conscious about driving and developed a program to make sure his own children became excellent drivers.) I suspect this nephew knows he can’t drive until his mom says he can, and so he’s waiting on her to say he can.
I wasn’t eager to drive and didn’t get my license till I was 20. (Of course, that was also since I wasn’t allowed to drive the family car and, being limited to jobs within walking distance and not allowed to work after dark or on Sunday, I had a hard time getting my first job and thus didn’t save money for my first car until I was 20. That first job was McDonald’s, under a truly horrible manager, and they gave me very few hours since I was so good at accepting extra hours whenever they called me to work someone else’s shift–so if I didn’t get any extra shifts a given week, I might get stick with 6 or 9 hours, and even though I didn’t spend any money except to pay my mom rent and save money for my car, it still took a long time to save for a car at that rate. Somehow it never occurred to me that once I had my first job and had worked there a few months, I could go back to one of the places that had turned me down a year before and they were likely to hire me, and I could get more hours and a better work atmosphere.)
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My friends and I were all eager to drive — my mom gave me a few impromptu late-night lessons before I took drivers’ ed (which was offered in high school back then).
I had my learner’s permit at 15, my license at 16 (OK, so I flunked the first time I took the road test), and my first car — a used baby-blue VW Beetle — at 18 when I needed transportation for college and my part-time job at Sears.
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The day Chuck turned 18, he was waiting on the front steps for the DMV to open. 😉
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I found another hand! Our insurance company didn’t charge extra insurance until the driver was licensed–so training was “free.”
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