Tipper

Well, it's been a rough "Bump in the Road" but sometimes that's the road we are on !!
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My Honey after bring me home from the Hospital and almost a good nights sleep  went and brought us home a surprise:
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This is Tipper, an 8 month old Kitten that needed a "New Home",  so my Honey went and to my surprise brought her home and I was greeted with some awful sounding "Meow" !

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Look and you can see she is "Grey" except for that White Tip on her tail, SO, she became Tipper ! There is also some white on her neck below the chin but we were not going to call her "Chesty" ! 

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She likes to watch outside, or peek around corners or just get into my lap,  it was fun after spending the past few days being in the Hospital twice in 1 week.  I now have a "Lap Sitter" to help bring my Blood Pressure down !

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The main area of Snow is now just what is left from what was plowed from the street.

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My Honey on the phone while I was in the Hospital for the 2nd time in 1 week talking to the Doctor !

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This is my "Veterans Shawl" that was presented to me on my 2nd visit to St. Joe's in Syracuse. It was presented as a Christmas Present by the Young Volunteers at the Hospital to the ICU Heart Patients who were Veterans !

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So far I have 13 Heart Stents, 12 in the Heart and 1 in the neck and hope that is it but if I need more I will get them !  

Hopefully I will not need the Surgery on the Myro Cardial Bridge I have that is also causing issues !

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Don't Forget. Remember our Vets !!!

Trip to St Joe's Hospital

Well, I might have over done it or the cold got to me but short of breath, light headed and back and jaw pain I went to my Local Cardioligist Dr. Ashraf, after an EKG and exam I was sent to St. Joe's Hospital in Syracuse, Thankfully it was 40 degrees, bare roads and being December 23rd not a lot of traffic.
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Arrived and St. Joe's was expecting me, I am a repeat patient and was assigned to Dr. Cupoto who has done Catherizations on me !
 He put my first Stent in years ago !.
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Dr. Caputo who is a terrific Doctor and a friendly outgoing man with a lot of compassion !

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All prepped and relaxed for the Catherization Lab. It took very little time to get the ER Room, Blood Work, they pulled up my chart and away we went.

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The Catherization and Heart room area are all Brand New, and Awesome! In I went, was sedated, awake and they came in and went right to work to get to the Heart thru my arm.

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This insertion of a 8 inch plastic Sheath into the Artery in the wrist allows them to access the Heart. They allow you to watch the whole procedure on a 6 foot long TV if you want to watch or they Blind Fold you,  I now watch, they ask questions while doing the Cath as some place hurt and you have to tell them or they will put pressure in an area and ask if you can or can not feel it, I had all my Stents checked and my "Infraction Ejection" checked.

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In the red circle was where the blockage is, they find this spot by injecting a contrast solution and looking around.  Below the red circle the bump is a expanded "Stent" from a prior blockage. I had a 90% and 10% Blockage.

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This after the placement in a 90% blocked LAD Artery and a 10% blocked Stent I am back in the room, this is a new procedure to stop bleeding from cutting into an Artery !

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All Bandaged up, had to spent Monday Night in Hospital and My Honey slept in a "Sleeping Area" right in my Room !

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This is my arm and the Hole they went thru to get to my Heart.

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Christmas was quiet, lots of Bed rest and Recliner Time watching the Birds and now I have to go to Cardiac Rehabilitation in about 2 weeks or when Dr. says it's OK.

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Glad to be Home,   Don't forget our Vets !

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Quiet Time

Not much going on, it is the Shortest day of the year and "The First Day Of Winter" !   We have came up from being BELOW ZERO to now all the way up to 16 Degrees !
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This is one of my 4 :Jades",  a (Crassula), This was taken this summer and they all were not doing very well !    Not a lot of Growth !

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I like Jades because my Father grew them, his were large and sit in windows in the cellar while I was growing up !    Good Memory !

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When we moved into our New (Old ) House in Deferiet I took some time and trimmed, repotted and gave the 4 Jades some much needed attention !

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My Honey is getting ready planning where her Wavy Petunias are going to be planted this spring !

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Lst Years flower Bed My Honey planted, she plans changing it this coming Spring after winter !  We are already early looking at seed and plant catalogs !

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Right now the Jades are full, green and growing nicely in the Laundry Room with a southern window for light.  They are doing OK !

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My Honey has them shoveled out so now it is Time to bundle up put on a Mask and go outside and fill the bird feeders and suet feeders  after I clear off the foot of snow !

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Don't forget our Veterans !

Surprises

We were quietly having Coffee watching it Snow again sitting in the Kitchen and My Honey happened to look out the window and said; Look, Deer !  Sure enough there were several Deer on the back lawn !

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Sure enough there were 2 nice Does wandering around the Fire Pit and Spruce Tree !

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I zoomed in and over in the Tree Line quietly walking down the edge was another deer, a Doe quietly eating !

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Looking out the side by our Garage there was another Little Doe heading towards the driveway !

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Another Bigger Doe came sneaking around and looking at me looking at her !   Der Hunting Season Ended up here Sunday, these Deer were now out moving around from Hiding !!!!!

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We are truly Blessed !   

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Don't forget our Veterans !

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Family Christmas Dinner

As the family got older and expanded a little about 7 or 8 years ago we took the Grandson and Granddaughter out for Dinner for their Christmas Present.  Well, it seems the older ones wanted to join in so a nice dinner became the Present We gave the Family !
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This year, (2019) there is me, My Honey, Daughter Sabrina, in back Son in Law Ed, Grandson Brent, Grandson in Law Aaron, Granddaughter Shannon and Great Grandson Aiden !  Great Evening and meal !

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Last Year, (2017) was same except beside My Honey is my Ex Wife Donna, Missing is Grandson Brent and Great Grandson Aiden is on couple months old !

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This was (2016) for Christmas Dinner !

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Above is Christmas (2015), we had a Green Christmas and it was very warm !  An addition was My son Jonathan was home from Oregon for Christmas !

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Above was (2014) and all the pictures were taken at Art's Jug in Watertown, Missing a couple years !

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This was one of our Group Pictures at the Granddaughters when there was 9 of us  before the Great Grandson came along and Keri was missing !

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. A few years back we had a pretty good crowd at our Daughters when Jonathan came out from Oregon with his Girl Friend Keri.

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All in all it was a nice evening and another Great Meal at Art's Jug for Christmas !

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Don't forget our Veterans !

Giving Back

We are truly a "Blessed Couple" !       Home, Family, loved, not bad in todays society !

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Today is our yearly Trek to the Carthage Center Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for our "Christmas Party" !   There are roughly 80 to 90 residents who live or stay here for different periods of time !  Some this is their Home !   We have visited here for a long time as My Mother Lived here in her "later years! These are last years Pictures, (2018).

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My Honey with Alice, Anna Mae has known her for years, Alice lives at the Nursing Home, very sharp and lovely lady !

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I am visiting with Pat, Pat is from my home Town little village of Edwards, her son and I had a band in high school !   I graduated with her Daughter from High School,  Every resident at the Home got a Present they asked for and some personel items also, they were asked what they wanted for Christmas, Pat wanted a sweater and she got one along with other items.the Nursing Home got a list for us !

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The Village Church's an some business's and individuals all donated money, all residents were bought a given a present last year !  This is my Girl Friend Evelyn !!!

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We sang, Prayed, and mingled with the residents and plan on doing it again this year !

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My Honey went door to door to visit and give presents to those who could not make it down to the community room, this is one of my wife's dear friends, sadly she will not be here this Christmas !

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The Lady in the Red Shirt and in the center is the main lady who gets this all together starting in October every year to make sure every resident is visited, given a present and has lots of treats and food !    The staff last year was awesome in helping out ! Sadly some residents in this picture are no longer with us !

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The room was Packed, the 2 side rooms were also full of Residents, Visitors, Staff and food and refreshments !

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We finished with a Song, a Prayer and well wish's for a Great New Year ! Our Group loved the opportunity to be able to "Give Back" !

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We need to remember our Veterans !  

North Country

Found my missing Post, here it is with an addition !
One thing about living in the North Country, if you don't like the weather, just wait 24 hours as it will change.
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Looking out the front window My Honey is shoveling the walk for exercise as we got 7+ inches of Snow !

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And the weather did change, we got some "Southern Breezes" and lo and behold there is the grass!

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The back yard and tree line with the 7+ inches of Snow we got !  It snowed for 2 days and temps were 3 above zero !

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After the "Southern Breezes" came thru with the heavy rains we have our Green Lawn back, our Temps were up to 51 degrees and it was nice out,  some difference between the 2 pictures !

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But tomorrow, (Wednesday) it is supposed to drop back down to about 10 degrees and a storm coming in !!!  (Yup, we got the storm) !

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Today we went and picked up a new (Old) wooden table and 4 chairs we bought off from "craigslist: up in Castorland. We got them home, and now after much bull work taken the other table and chairs to the garage and then new (Old) set is now cleaned and polished and in place, made it just before the storm hit, white outs, winds, cold temps!!!  

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My Honey is resting as she gave Blood today on the American Legion Blood Drive, she gives blood about every 8 weeks! 

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The Pictures of the Green Grass above from yesterday, there now white again !     Storm dumped snow and drifts !

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Snow came back !!!!!!!  Oh well, it will all be done with in 4 months !   LoL !!!!

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Don't Forget, Remember our Veterans !

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Holidays !

Here comes Christmas, We are celebrating it in our "own house" this year, we are excited about it.
Because of allergies we no longer can have a real spruce tree so we use artificial tree.  We had one tree we would take to Myrtle Beach or Florida we had for years.
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We did go bigger with our tree this year and have started to decorate after we have put all the outside lights up !

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We have started to put the Christmas Tree up !

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Looks like it's gonna be a "Merry Christmas" !

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With Christmas up here comes "Snow", and we did get snow, about 7 inches of the White Stuff!  My Honey is cleaning out the Bird Feeder out front.

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The back deck Platform feeder and My Honey with the Yard Stick and over 7 inches of snow that fell !! 

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It is a quiet Sunday, Great Church Service and relaxing !

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Don't forget our Veterans !!!