Friday, October 29, 2010

October 28 2010 more Kalamo stores

gI continue to get well and stronger Sharen and I can still tolerate each other even with 24/7 exposure so things continue to go well.  My sister Laural came over today on her trip to the cemetery to clean up the plant litter and check everything.  She started at our grandparents.  Then our mom and dad in Kalamo I think that was the complete list.  I never thought of cemetery decorations and who took care of them.  One of the years that I went North with Chuck Butler for our fishing trip He mentioned how he had a  long list of graves he would take flowers in the cement pots to. Now that he is gone I wonder if someone has taken over that list? 

I will regale  you with a story that proves how famous I was in high school we put together a singing group called the Random Brothers the three members were John Callahan, Mark Peirce and my self John could play the guitar I would pretend to play my guitar which I still don't know how to play but Mark and I could sing we would go to a lot of old folks homes and the biggest event was the maple syrup festival in Vermontville we were so proud but as I think back most of the rest of the entertainment was much better then us.  The last gig we played was in the  Kalamo Church mostly family members and a few friends our entertainment still wasn't that great but one song we did was the Old rugged cross and Mark said look at your Mom and she was crying this still affects me. We were not that good but it was good enough My Mom.

we continue to need prayer for continued healing and May God continue to Bless us all.

        

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Hello again October 16 2010

Just wanted to add to my BLOG.  Today is Saturday and My Sharen is with Jessica making the rescission better.  I am sitting in my electric chair in my bathrobe with a warm blanket over my lap so life is tough God continues to bless us and we continue to Bless him.

Today I want to cover a serious story when I started my blog I covered the birth of Jessica and  Sonya but I never wrote about My Debbie's birth.  I'm not sure of the times but I remember being awake a long time waiting for the birth to take place and all the nurses were smiling and finely the time came and Debbie started to arrive but when she popped out she was completely white and only uttered one peep and nothing else.  So the medical team kicked in and started emergency procedures the first step was oxygen  which they started but I heard air in back of me so I turned around and found the hose not connected which I fixed as soon as I found it.  Then thy tyred to listen to my babies hart with a speaker bok that would scream when it got close from feed back so I told them to turn the speaker away for the microphone so we got a weak heart beet.  A quick decision was the Debbie needed blood so the nurse ran for universal blood and the Dr. called for a baby Dr. next door.  I can't remember the name but when the blood got their he went for the belie button but his hand kept shaking so the first Dr. took his hand to stabilize it and the put blood in.  I watched the whole thing and was surprised how much I wanted her to make it before I watched the show I thought since I had never seen the baby if she didn't make it no big deal but when she was born I watched with a horrible feeling that she might not make it.  After the blood she pinked up and they sent to Bronson Neonatal unit and Sharen went to her room without our Debbie which was hard.  Debbie was in the unit for 10 days I think with a bill of around $10,000 which today is a good deal.  Our Deb is around 30 and has two kids and a real blessing to our life's.  Take that you other 2 kids I never wrote this about you.

We continue to be blessed by all the parers we receive and by Gods guiding hand.  I Pray for him to continue blessing us and you.         

Monday, October 11, 2010

October 11 2010 Here comes another blog entry

What to say, my health is the same as yesterday so that's been covered.  Not sure if I had talked about our new home, when it looked like I would survive Sharen and I decided we would need a single floor small home.  When we bought our land many years ago we got 2 10 acre plots and built our first house on one and let the other just set now we seem to have a full forest so we made an opening and built a small house 30 by 30 with a loft over half of it's a perfect home for us and the good news is that our son in law  Garett acted as a contractor and they started the house in October we moved in in April.  We used the foam insulation which is very good so heating is very low cost I would recommend this type of insulation and get a son in law like Garett. 

I spent my youth in Kalamo try and find it on a map that would be a good exercise some of  the people were like you would expect not normal.  I had a 5 mile paper rout with 30 customers which is if everybody paid on time I would get $5.00 a week which just covered my mallow cup bill.  My first collection would never be complete until I get most of the collections during the week people still owe me.  For one week it cost $.50 so it was hard to raise that much money I got the you need to ask my wife or husband who wasn't there at the time I collected.  This was my first experience with business maters. 

How sad I can't remember if I have put this in my blog but Louie Wilt and his wife Katey.  Now as the story goes Louie went to medical school not sure if he completed but he learned to make an elector and started selling it with a wagon around the state not sure when the FDA shut him down but it seems he had plenty of stock as it lasted most of his life.  He lasted to be 104 his wife died at 75 so maybe the elector was better then the FDA thought.  there house was 1 mile from our house south Katy sold cookies and stuff at the farmers market to support the farm I always put the paper on their kitchen table and I could find cookies  The rummer was it was mostly alcohol so who knows but if you used the road between his house and Belleviue  when you top a hill on the other side Louie could be parked or driving 10 to 15 miles per hours with his Buick.

God continues to bless us and you to if you want it..     
         

Sunday, October 10, 2010

New blog 10-10-10

What cool date so I needed to do a new blog hope you can find this.  My last blog was from awhile ago so I will try not to repeat but bring you up to date.   I have had 3 bouts of C-diff which is a normal bacteria in most peoples bowels which most body's control but when you get to many Anabaptist and it kills the natural protection and it attics you when it hits your body collapses to the  floor and you have lost all mussel control and I had to be lifted into the car to get to the emergency room and admired the last time for 2 weeks then Sharen got me out I had no strength but Paul and Neil were there to Carrie me in this shows how God is always there for us.  After 4 weeks I am almost back to normal I can walk with my Cain and most of my strength has returned. Enough about me for now but I never get tired of talking about ME.

I would like to follow up on the Tinker brothers they would stop at the Kalamo store and I would be there as I said in the past at the end of winter the front of their bib's were completely caked with dried tobacco  drool if you wanted to you could bend it and it would snap.  I'm not sure  why I went to their house when I got there the door was open and they were setting there with 2 pigs running around like pets and  they were not cleaning the floor any better then their bib's.  Something to think about they were able to  support themselves with their farm with no outside help.  One of the products they made was maple syrup and brought it in to trade for feed but Chuck who ran the feed mill discovered he had to much already as he had watched their process.

May God continue to bless us all.