A Year of Change

First off, here’s another comment from Annette,

Here’s a comment from Annette,

Annette says:

That’s a line from a Pink Floyd song for those of you that should recognize it. For the rest of you, where the hell are you? This seems to be turning back into a one sided conversation except for when you want something, like the continuation slide show! But seriously, some of you do comment now and then but how about contributing something to the conversation. Let’s try this one again, what are you all doing for summer? Anyone going on  any trips? Are you planting a garden? Anything? Give me something to work with here.

Now to the day, Jagger had baseball practice and went to Max’s house to play and take a bike ride, Ty went to Vinny’s and Lori worked her butt off. Me, I worked, drove, cleaned, shopped, paid medical bills (a daily occurrence) and then had the Harris’s come over for a bbq. They brought some ribs and a salad and I picked up a couple steaks and we had a smorgasbord type feast. We then sat around the fire pit and hung out while the kids played kick the can. Soon it was 10:30 and time to call it an evening.

Today Mom wants to go on a hike, I need to hit the gym and also have a new trigger installed in a pistol and make sure Mojo gets a walk too. I’d also like to clean up the basement a little more but we’ll see. That’s it people, send us your summer plans and we’ll do the rest!

God Bless.

70 years ago today was what is commonly referred to as D Day. The real name was Operation Overlord (bet ya didn’t know that!). More than 4000 kids, most under 20 years old, died, while 10,000 were injured in the initial assault. It was the first time there was an invasion over the English Channel in over 250 years. Just a bit of history to start off your day.

Today I need to leave by 6:15 so I can get to the gym for a quick workout and then make it to the warehouse by 7:30. Lori will need to take Ty to track and hopefully I’ll be back by a little after 8am. I’ll then get him at 9 and Jagger will probably sleep through the whole thing!

Yesterday I managed to clean off the basement steps and a bit of the mess down there in the afternoon. Today I’ll try to tackle a bit more of it. We’re taking a bunch of food to the food bank today in Arvada to try to help them out. I have some food that we just don’t eat as part of our supplies, as we rotate in and out the stuff we do eat and this was leftover.

The boys and I had a couple of errands yesterday and then I had some office work. I have a lot of office work I still need to wrap up that must get done today. Lori has a bunch of patients today that just don’t listen to the doctor coming in for re-do’s or infections. One lady didn’t follow instructions last Friday and didn’t take her antibiotics over the weekend and now has Mersa! They sent her home and she had to wait until this morning to go to the infectious disease center to get treated. Another lady went rock hopping or jumping from rock to rock in one of our National Parks a week after surgery and tore open her stomach incision! What are these people thinking? Why don’t they listen to the doctor? I guess some people just think they know more than someone with 12 years of medical school. Oh well, they get charged again so they pay double but the hard part for Lori is squeezing them in the schedule.

Time to run, there’s a slice of her day, what fun. Take care and God Bless. Hope everyone is doing well. I talked with Grandma Dixie for a bit last night as Lori was in bed by 7:30pm, hope you all in California are doing well. We’re going to try to figure out how to drive out for a few days once track and baseball are over, keep your fingers crossed!

That’s what the boys wanted for dinner. Jagger picked some up at the store earlier in the day when we went shopping. Lori and I had chicken breast and broccoli, now isn’t that interesting?

Of course before that there was a full day of work, some shopping, some cleaning, (I cleaned out the refrigerator) and Ty had track. Same story today, work, cleaning, track and  a trip to one place or another, oh yea, the dry cleaners at 7am!

We’re trying to decide what to do this weekend that’ll be fun and free. That’s our new mantra, fun and free! We can go to the Broadmoor and visit or stay at our friends house for the Tennis Pro Am or we can go camping in Steamboat or just stay home and hit the pool. I’d like to go somewhere but Lori is really tired.

Time to run as lots to do as I slept until 6am. Hope everyone is doing fine, God Bless.

Sorry for the late post but this morning the internet was down. I finally fixed it with no help from Comcast and we’re back up, obviously. The phones at Lori’s office went down yesterday afternoon and for all we can tell, are still down. She sat on hold for over 2 hours with their phone company which buys lines from a larger company. Time to switch.

Last night we had our game from 7:30 until 9:45. We ran late as once again, the lights went out during the game. Jag had a tough time as he was coughing and had to use his inhaler. I’m letting him sleep this morning as long as he can as he must have been up until almost 11pm. Thankfully we have no games until next Monday. Ty on the other hand, is already at Track practice. yesterday he was thrilled as he not only beat a kid in his class that is the self proclaimed best athlete, but he also beat one of Jagger’s classmates! He’s quite fast, our 10 year old!

Lori is in the shower, and I’ve got to get moving to go and pick up Ty and then get to work. Jag and I went to Colorado Springs yesterday and had a great meeting. I have lots and lots to do.

Take care and God Bless.

Today I’m off to Colorado Springs for an 11am meeting, then back home before heading off for a 7:30pm baseball game. Yesterday I took the boys to the pool for a bit in the afternoon but they didn’t stay long as it was apparently cold in the water.

Lori had another long day. This is a tough month for our household all the way around, I’ll just leave it at that. Ty has track this morning and Jag should have started swim team yesterday but we held him out due to his cough. We did make it to the doctor around 11:30 and 90 minutes later, after seeing the PA and a nebulizer treatment, we left. He’s on an inhaler now until we can kick the shortness of breath. Hopefully he’ll be ok in a few days.

Today would have been something like my Mom and Dad’s 100th anniversary. See Mom, I remembered! I still remember their wedding even though I wasn’t invited, ha ha. They were married at this church that’s still there across town near Cherry Creek and then I think took off for the Broadmoor Resort. I’m not sure but I think they took a helicopter, I’ll have to ask. Anyhow it was a special day as my Mom finally found the man of her dreams (and I finally found a dad) and she then had the life she so much deserved. I said I always knew Dad loved Mom as he not only married her but also had to marry us three kids! You see, he married four people, and he knew it, but that’s how much he loved Mom! Anyhow Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Hope all’s well and everyone is doing ok. I was going to dive into politics today as I’m just amazed at some of the things coming out of Washington but I’ll pass. I just have one thing to ask, how can anyone stand by this administration after what they did in the past few days. It was a sad sad few days for our Country. God Bless

Man the weekends go fast, it seems like we just finished up work Friday and here we are heading back to work this morning. Like I said before, we need a vacation!

Here’s a couple of comments,

• Eleanor Tafoya says:

  June 2, 2014 at 4:05 am (Edit)

  Why does my name and e-mail get removed all the time,if you do not want me to reply back just say so ,I am not doing anything different then I was in contact with you before. You do not want to upset Mother Nature, ha ha.

  I’ll email the continuation ceremony to you guys but don’t think we have the talent show and as far as your comments not showing up Eleanor, I don’t know what you’re doing? I or we don’t have any way to remove you so it’s something on your end. If you don’t see something show up, give me a call and I’ll try to walk you through it as computers can be challenging.

  Yesterday we had baseball from 10 until 1 and then rushed to Jennifer’s grandma’s house for a graduation party. We didn’t want to go but had to show up for a bit. Then by the time we made it home, I made one more trip to the grocery store, we made dinner and it was time for bed. Jagger has a bad cough down in his lungs so I guess I’ll be taking him to the doctor today.

  Lori’s off to work, lots of surgeries in the office today plus all her paperwork. Lots to do for me too. We both need about a week to catch up! Time to run as it’s 6:52 already, take care and God Bless.

Yesterday Jag and I and 3 of his teammates hit the batting cages at Unser Racing across town. They have a cool machine that actually shows a video image of a pitcher throwing the ball to the hitter. You can change the pitch, the speed, just about anything. We had it turned up to 66 miles an hour which is darn fast for 12 year old kids. The pros throw between 80 and 95 miles and hour with only a few approaching 100! That ball really comes whipping in there at 66, believe me.

Before that I ran to Boulder to get some veggies from my buddy who has the farm, traded for a new shotgun and then Jag and I ran to Cabela’s to trade the shotgun for another rifle and made $409 on the entire deal. Not bad for a mornings work.

Ty convinced Mom to get Netflix, at least the free 1 month trial. I’m personally over electronics but it’s cheaper ($9.99 a month) than having them order movies off tv which run about $6 a pop.

Eleanor, I did get your comment but all it said was “Did you get this?”

Today from 10 to noon we’re having an impromptu baseball practice combined with kickball and then we’ll grill some hot dogs for the kids at the park. I think we’re through with rain for a while, thank God. I’m sure we’ll be praying for rain not long in the future.

Time to run as I need to go get the hot dogs for the kids. They’re really coming together as a team and I’ve been putting together these fun times outside of practice which I think is really helping them bond. The Coach is super appreciative and happy as we all can see it. Anyhow, if you’re going to do it, do it all the way, right?

God Bless.

Well yesterday was a long day. Lori made it home around 7:45 after a nightmarish day at work, the boys played here and there and finished up at 9pm at Jump Street (a trampoline place) and I had lots of work all thrown in around everything. Lori is super tired, Jagger is still sleeping and Ty and I woke up at 6:30, which is late for me.

Grandpa Bob had some melanoma removed yesterday and is hopefully doing fine. Lori texted me a couple times during the day to get his number but I didn’t see the text until later in the day. Grandma Dix called me after I had finally seen the text and sent it but to play safe, she gave me Eleanor’s number which I passed on as well. Lori was in and out of the ER most of the day with an emergency patient so I’m not sure when she finally had a chance to call. She had a lady there all day with an unknown internal infection from a fall after a procedure that could be fatal so it was a big deal getting a diagnosis which Lori pretty much had to handle on her own. She didn’t actually have to diagnosis the patient but rather get the patient here and there and in and out of various tests and procedures all with no notice. Imagine getting a patient with no appointment squeezed in all over a hospital for a bunch of tests without the patient being scheduled. On top of that of course, you need to somehow get pre-authorization from the insurance company first when you don’t really know what your getting pre-authorization for! I asked her how she liked being a doctor when she finally made it home. This was a joke of course but is not far from true as her schedule and everything she has to deal with daily mirror that of a doctor. She does just about everything except the actual surgery. I took her lunch yesterday and she just got back up from the ER and had to rush to another docs office to beg, borrow or steal a strep culture as her’s were expired and the doctor ordered one as part of a battery of tests to rule things out. She and the PA were discussing how to treat the patient while Dr R was in surgery. I guess she took her down to the ER and had the doc come out and squeeze her in while her other patient was on the table (operating table) being turned for the rest of her surgery. Anyhow it’s a lot more than just payroll, taxes and managing the entire office. It’s a big job!

Today we want to go for a hike but both boys seem to have colds. They have coughs, stuffy noses and sore throats so I don’t know. I called off baseball practice yesterday (the coach was working and asked for my help) due to weather but might go to the batting cages today with 4 or 5 kids from the team. First though I’m off to Boulder to trade in a shotgun and hopefully make some money and pick up some fresh vegetables from our friend who sells them at the farmers market.

That’s about it, hope everyone has a great day, God Bless.