I have become a bird watcher. A small bird, perhaps a sparrow, built a nest in the spider fern on the backporch. The four eggs have now hatched into baby birds. The mother has a ritual she follows each tine she goes to nest she follows same procedure: bush, plant on porch, nest, wind chimes, another bush. She chirps at nest; then wnen to final bush, she chirps, then sings, chirps a different kind of chirp more like locusts. Then she disappers until she does the whole thing over again.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Insurance Dilemma for Us Old Folks
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 2:14pm
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I'm at home obsessing about why the union is going to force anyone over 65 to have their insurance coverage as primary even though it will roughly cost $500 more a quarter for adquate coverage. Medicare will be secondary. You can hardly say I work full-time in the film industry, This is most disconcerting as I don't want to go from one coverage to another every quarter. It's a full-time job changing anything with medicare and the supplements. Besides, I haven't forgotten that my insurance was cancelled two years ago two weeks before my 65th birthday and I had to scramble to get coverage from Medicare B and supplements. I went two months with no coverage but Medicare A. Surely there is a good use for these obsessions . Maybe I should start a company, "I will make all your Medicare and insurance calls."
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I'm at home obsessing about why the union is going to force anyone over 65 to have their insurance coverage as primary even though it will roughly cost $500 more a quarter for adquate coverage. Medicare will be secondary. You can hardly say I work full-time in the film industry, This is most disconcerting as I don't want to go from one coverage to another every quarter. It's a full-time job changing anything with medicare and the supplements. Besides, I haven't forgotten that my insurance was cancelled two years ago two weeks before my 65th birthday and I had to scramble to get coverage from Medicare B and supplements. I went two months with no coverage but Medicare A. Surely there is a good use for these obsessions . Maybe I should start a company, "I will make all your Medicare and insurance calls."
Flu Shot and More
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 9:02pm ·
Hello world, I had my flu shot last Monday (2010) in case you were wondering. I was immunized against whooping cough and diptheria in 1943 and small pox in 1948. Oh yes, and I had mumps in 1946, chickenpox in 1948, then measles with complications of pneumonia in 1949. Along with all the children in America, in 1949 I had my tonsils and adenoids removed. I forgot to ask my doctor on Monday if I needed any boosters in 2010. I surely don't want whooping cough in 2010! Oh yes, and I weighed 102 when I was 16. Thank you, Mom, for the detailed baby book except you forgot to record the polio shot and the time I had scarletina in 1949. I'm sure it's in one of the other three or four baby books you made for me. I am glad to know I had no ill effects from swallowing a bobby pin in 1956 before they had rubber tips on the end, back when we curled my wet hair with bobby pins. Gee, what would my life have been had I had whooping cough in 1947? Sincerely, An American survivor of childhood diseases
Hello world, I had my flu shot last Monday (2010) in case you were wondering. I was immunized against whooping cough and diptheria in 1943 and small pox in 1948. Oh yes, and I had mumps in 1946, chickenpox in 1948, then measles with complications of pneumonia in 1949. Along with all the children in America, in 1949 I had my tonsils and adenoids removed. I forgot to ask my doctor on Monday if I needed any boosters in 2010. I surely don't want whooping cough in 2010! Oh yes, and I weighed 102 when I was 16. Thank you, Mom, for the detailed baby book except you forgot to record the polio shot and the time I had scarletina in 1949. I'm sure it's in one of the other three or four baby books you made for me. I am glad to know I had no ill effects from swallowing a bobby pin in 1956 before they had rubber tips on the end, back when we curled my wet hair with bobby pins. Gee, what would my life have been had I had whooping cough in 1947? Sincerely, An American survivor of childhood diseases
PS I had German Measles when I was 25 and pregnant before the German measles vaccine.
Miss America
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 10:39pm ·
It's amazing Miss America is still around after all these years with a few changes such as bikinis, now in Las Vegas and in January instead of September. In college when we first got back to our dorm in September, you'd hear the tv in the living room with the Miss America pageant on and lots of young girls and their dates watching it or you'd be there watching it too. Back then no one had a tv in their rooms so we all watched the same tv programs from Miss America to the assasination of.President John Kennedy.
I.once met a Miss America though I didn't know that at the time. She was a neighbor and brought me some homemade jam. We chatted a bit, and I remember asking her what she did with her time. She replied that she had four children, and they kept her busy. I had a five year old and a new baby so I guess I was having one of those days where I was seriously wondering if I'd have a life beyond diapers. I wish she'd told me about her background as a pianist, but maybe those were years she had put it aside as I too was doing. Neither did she mention her past as Miss America of 1953. She was just another mom raising her kids in Macon, Georgia bringing a new neighbor jam.
It's amazing Miss America is still around after all these years with a few changes such as bikinis, now in Las Vegas and in January instead of September. In college when we first got back to our dorm in September, you'd hear the tv in the living room with the Miss America pageant on and lots of young girls and their dates watching it or you'd be there watching it too. Back then no one had a tv in their rooms so we all watched the same tv programs from Miss America to the assasination of.President John Kennedy.
I.once met a Miss America though I didn't know that at the time. She was a neighbor and brought me some homemade jam. We chatted a bit, and I remember asking her what she did with her time. She replied that she had four children, and they kept her busy. I had a five year old and a new baby so I guess I was having one of those days where I was seriously wondering if I'd have a life beyond diapers. I wish she'd told me about her background as a pianist, but maybe those were years she had put it aside as I too was doing. Neither did she mention her past as Miss America of 1953. She was just another mom raising her kids in Macon, Georgia bringing a new neighbor jam.
Road Hazard
Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 8:39pm ·
ME: Excuse me (to the woman who is standing across from her husband in the aisle at Kroger both leaving no room for someone to get by.)
WOMAN: Why don't you back up and go that way (pointing to the far end of the aisle from where I've just come.
ME: Because Im going this way (no emotion or voice inflection, pointing the way my buggy was facing almost at the end of the aisle after all the salad dressings and condiments.
She moves to open up a passageway in the aisle so I proceed just around the corner to finish shopping.)
OTHER CUSTOMER (behind me): A little friendliness would be nice.
WOMAN: Isn't that the truth.! She was so rude.
OTHER CUSTOMER: I meant you, honey. You were so rude.
(Her husband never says a word.
Desserts for Teachers
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 4:49pm ·
A room full of fabulous desserts at school, Teacher Appreciation Day! I managed to work a few berries and a small piece of gourmet dark chocolate into my Southbeach Diet plan. I am still thinking about all those beautiful desserts I left behind though, free at that. But do I really want to trade my 11 lbs weight loss the past 3 weeks for that beautiful piece of chocolate cake, pie, cookies, mousse, cheescake, candy and so on? Maybe! Wait a minute, the doctor just called and said my cholesterol is now perfect. Okay, no, no, no sweets today. The joy of being nearly 70!
A room full of fabulous desserts at school, Teacher Appreciation Day! I managed to work a few berries and a small piece of gourmet dark chocolate into my Southbeach Diet plan. I am still thinking about all those beautiful desserts I left behind though, free at that. But do I really want to trade my 11 lbs weight loss the past 3 weeks for that beautiful piece of chocolate cake, pie, cookies, mousse, cheescake, candy and so on? Maybe! Wait a minute, the doctor just called and said my cholesterol is now perfect. Okay, no, no, no sweets today. The joy of being nearly 70!
The River
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 2:08am ·
I can't stop thinking about the rising water of the Mississippe River at Cairo, IL. The engineers will breach the levee within a few days if water gets much higher. There's mandatory evacuation of the spillway now. Our farm isn't far from the levee and is in the spillway on the Missouri side. I just can't conceive of the farm that's been there my whole life possibly being underwater. It holds memories of a lifetime from blackberries and chickens to the hayloft and chiggers. The barn was taken down, the house burned, grandparents, aunts and uncles deceased. It's just my sister and the cousins and the land now. I guess I will say a few prayers this weekend, especially for Cousin Joe who now farms the land for us.
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