Friday April 23 2010

Today I had PT and breakfast with friends I am sitting here thinking about what to write.  I'm going to tell about Scott S. People that know me know that Scott and I work together at RS Designs and I consider Scott my best friend also I do not know anyone as good as he is with Software,  That means that he is much smarter than me and fun to work with He looks like an ageing hippie but we met when I went too KVCC he was in my Calculus II class One Hundred years ago.  Scott had hair down to the middle of his back and he came in 5 minutes late every day which showed a poor respect for the class and instructor.  So he was off the list of people I would ever talk to or try to meet.  The next class was Calculus III that is a hard class the time we were doing a very difficult part I looked back and found Scott missing for the whole week.  He showed up just before the test on that section and he did very well that really made me upset how was that possible?  At the end of that class somehow we went to Pappys for a get together since we had been together for so long This was the whole class but not Mel who was better then the rest of us.  When we got there one brought a girl Friend that was to young to go in the back room so we moved to a cottage on a lake that night was one of my best memory's from KVCC.  Scott showed up and filled the room with incredible story's and laughter the best night ever.  Of course I had to realize how cool Scott was and what a fool I was but I can take it.  Scott came in late in Calculus II because he had swimming just before and had talked to the professor ahead of time.  When he missed a week he went to South America to help his brother who was dodging the draft, to build a house.  A year latter He showed up at MTU and we started a very close friendship.  We have worked together off and on from 1978 to today.  This is to help show it isn't good to prejudge people.

 

Sharen and I are doing very well of course waiting for the other shoe to drop but I will continue to trust God for the final outcome I am capable of whining but I will continue to trust.  Please continue to pray for us and may God continue to Bless us all. 

Hello from Ralph and Sharen. Monday April 19 th

I'm just going to wander around for a while and see where this goes.  Sharen's cold is improved she was working on our yard this morning I will have to stay weak until the yard is done.  My second day on my 5 mile paper route I was coming back from the wilts which was the south end of my route I put the papers on their kitchen table some times got a cookie still unsure of the route at the half way point this dog came charging out but I wasn't concerned he was in a fence but when he hit the fence line he cleared it by a foot.  So the race was on I stood up and pedaled as fast as I could and I kept a few feet ahead He seemed to stop at the end of their property which was a hike.  small dogs you kick big dogs you have to out run as a paper boy you got allot of exercise. 

 

The Wilts as I said were at the end of my south leg of the route Louie had started Med school the way the story goes he stoped school and designed medicine and made a route to deliver it sad to say he was told to stop by the FDA when they got started.  Before he stoped it seems he made a large batch which lasted until he died at 104 years old.  Its a good thing they stoped him or we would have been over run by old people.  He had an old Buick which never got above 20 miles an hour people would have to watch for him as some times he would just stop in the road.  Many story's about him but he was a good man and he made a letter writing lap desk which I still have.  They made money at a farmers market with stuff made by Mrs Wilt Louie would just watch.

 

My mind seems to be working better but Sharen continues to remind me I am not as smart as I was that must be a wife's job to judge.  Things continue to be well we have to go to Ann Arbor once a week for testing and give me a chance to see my old nurses.  They do blood work we see the Doctor he scolds me about falling.  If I need blood they do it and then I sit for 4 hours getting ECP then home by 6:00.   I moved my PT to Kalamazoo twice a week.  God continues to bless us beyond believe not sure how this will end but it is in Gods hands.

April 17th and the living is easy

Sharen and I continue to enjoy our new house , Sharen has reachieved a cold from somewhere and is not up to babying me so I have to do things on my own.  How far the great has fallen I have to make my own coffee,  and get up and find books on my own etc.  I continue to feel weak but I am feeling very good.  I got to take a header trying to bring my breakfast and a fresh cup of coffee to my favorite  chair my head did a triple  bounce  on the left frontal lob which wouldn't be to bad but I ended up laying in my coffee and sugar flakes.  Sharen had to get out of her sick bed and get me standing someday I should make a video of this operation and post it to help other people but that will be a distance in the future.

 

I am from a very small town in Michigan called Kalamo.  When I was a in filth grad I got a paper route it was 5 miles long and memory tells me I had 30 customers,  If everyone payed I would make $5.00 per week but everyone would never pay so I would continue to try to collect during the week.  You must get enough money to pay for the papers by Tuesday which was $10.00 and what was left was mine or $5.00.  I had to run a bill at the Kalamo store to help pay for my mallow cups that was a good investment if anyone remembers mallow cups came with a money card which entitled you to bye mallow cups.   There wasn't a barrel stove in the store but that would have fit perfectly when I got to the store I was half way around my route so I would stop and shoot the bull for a while to see what was going.  Interesting people I met were the Tinker Brothers they would come to Town every few weeks in an early ford could be a model B but not sure.  The boys were not married and from the looks of them they would change there bibs once a year.  So they would sit in front of a heat source and chew tobacco all winter and toward spring they would come into the store and the front of there bibs were stiff with tobacco drool there face and beard were packed full of the same tobacco also there was an Oder that would require opening the door when they left for clean air.  From my memory I think they were strong Democrats and people enjoyed making political fun when they were around they had developed interesting language skills could there be a more perfect place for a young man to spend time.

 

Please continue to pray for us and may God continue to bless us all.     

April forth how is this posable I noded off end of Dec opened eyes and its April

Not sure how to start this I will wander around for awhile to help fill in the blanks.  We had an appointment last Thursday but they checked me out and put me in the hospital.  They think I have an infection in my blood so they are filling me with bags of chemicals and how I feel it could be working.  I could get out Monday or Tuesday.  I requested by Tuesday afternoon so we can get to Scott Noethe's funeral. when I heard he was killed it was like blow to my stomach.  It was a good funeral with a meal served after for  family and Friends get together.

 

Looks like they fixed the infection so I am feeling better.  Sharen and I have moved into our new house its very nice right in the middle of a forest that wasn't there when we got the land many years ago.

 

May God continue to bless us and keep praying for us.

April forth 2010

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