Country Manor Visit

Well, I cooked out, I did Pork Steak with Jack Daniels Ole # 7 with secret ingrediedents in it and we had Pork Steak, Baked Bean and Fruit, great dinner,
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The next day got a call from the Office that I had left the grill dirty and a mess,  we live in Senior Citizen housing and there are 50 units here, some people have way too much time on their hands and went to the Office and complained, Oh well, sucks to be them....
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 I went over to Country Manor Nursing and Rehabilitaion Home and joined my friend Karl, (Gary) Blair for the bi-weekly sing session for the residents.
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I have a cousin Barb there who is a widow, a distant cousin Mary, also a widow, and I know about a dozen residents who live there.
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Above is Karl's Grandaughter Shannon, very good singer complete with Cowboy Hat and Cowboy Boots.
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as a matter of fact the whole audience was mainly women,  there are a lot of elderly genbtlemen there but they normally do not come down, just about the whole audience is in wheel chairs,
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We were joined by Karl's grandson Sam along with grandaughter Shannon.
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Finally Karl had 3 Grandchildren up singing for the residents, Karl, Sam, Paige and Shannon.

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There is rooms that married couples share and there is one couple there, he is a WW11 Veteran, he got shot at the Bridge of Remagen while fighting, he still has the x-ray of the bullet he took.  Great Guy, his wife tells it like it is in no uncertain terms and I love em!!
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The whole Community Room where we play was decorated as a country town and all the residents wore Cowboy Hats, scarfs.
We had a good time and so did the residents.
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Don't forget, remember our service men and women!

Where is Summer ?

Well, I am back at playing while I can,  I have done something to my right shoulder and and am having an MRI done on May 18th to see why I can not reach behind me.
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I met Karl, this is his middle name, his first name is Gary like mine, so Gary and Gary played for Carthage Area Hospitals Skilled Nursing Unit tuesday night.  Karl and I sang a few favorites for our audience.
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I sang out a few,  this Skilled Nursing is a step past Nursing Home, here you need more care, and are regulated more. I guess it's OK but I shudder to think this is where I might or probably will end up.
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We worked on the Garden some, we have a new garden and this thing is full of roots, big suckers, I can see why no one could grow anything.  We will see what we can do with it.
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Anna Mae digging out roots from this years new garden,  we asked to have the dirt replaced but it didn't happen.
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These are some of the roots we took out, big suckers, no wonder nothing grew for the people who used this garden before we got it.
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Roots are out, we bought Miracle-gro soil and put it in and will be planting soon.
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Weather has been rain and cloudy and the Temps have not gotten very far above 65. Did get a chance to Bar B Q a nice Pork Tenderloin.
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Grilling and Chilling !!
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Hope everyone is doing great!!! We are !!!

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Dont forget, Remember our Vets!

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F I S H I N G !!

Well, it finally arrived, everything fell into place and off we went FISHING.
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We drove up into Lewis County and checked out some back roads and drove into some truck trails and fishing access sites, we traded vehicles, we got rid of the Ole Ford F150 with the big V8* andf went for an import, thuis thing is fully loaded, even butt warmers, AC/4 wheel drive, sun roof, Navagation System with the lady that tells yopu where to turn, or which way to go.
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Anna Mae trying for Trout.
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I am trying for anything that will bite.
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We both just are enjoying the weather.
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Well we didn't catch anything, but we did have a great day in the great outdoors and got some quality time and also some exercise walking the shore line and thru the woods today.  Warm, sunny and up to almost 75 degrees.
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Grandaughter flew back to the Husband today and is home safe and sound in South Dakota.
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Lets not forget our Service Men and Women both past and present.
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Back at em

Well, it got up to 70 degrees today,  nice, we are staying busy and I got up the gumption to go and finally play at the Nursing Home on Tuesday night.  We had a nice crowd, we started at 6:30pm and they were a pretty lively crew that attended.
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In the Nursing Home where we play I have several cousing and a couple of distant relatives, they eat about 4PM, after dinner it takes a while to clean up the area and get folks either back to their rooms or settled in to wait for us.
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We are greeted warmly and eagerly as they all tell us they have been waiting for us to get there and they cannot wait for us to return in 2 weeks.
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We enjoyed playing, my right shoulder held up but did ache all night after playinh.
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The Granddaughter is home for a few days from South Dakota, we took her out to lunch at the Superior Rest. as she missed home cooking , this is a picture of her hiding behind her Grandmother with her brother Brent .

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She is a Beautiful young lady, a hard worker and makes me proud.
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These pictures are being used by BOVA Photography who is opening up a studio in Watertown and he needed some pictures to display so he asked our Grandaughter is she would pose for some and I think they came out great,  these are some that will be in his showroom hanging.
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She is married to a young man Stationed in the Air Force in South Dakota, he goes overseas quite a bit and she is just strating to adjust to this Military Wife business.  She leaves for South Dakota Saturday and we will miss her.

Well, its time to get ready for Friday Night Bingo here at the "Old Folks" home,  Dont forget our Vets.
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Where is SPRING

Well, today we had sunshine,  it was cool, I cleaned the bird feeders, went to the eye-doctors for some tests, and took honey out to breakfast, still waiting for some warm weather for FISHING!!!
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Hope everyone has a great week coming up.
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Never forget our veterans...

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WINTERS HERE !!!

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I thought we were going to get some warm weather but guess I was wrong, it has rained, gotten colder and this morning it snowed again,  this is another snow storm so this makes 2 since we have been home.
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Hopefully it is going to warm up, we did have the good fortune to see a nice red cardinal at the feeder, and we also got to watch a red tailed hawk come swooping in and snatching up one of the sparrows feeding.
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Well, this month is almost over and it has been so far a dry cold one to start but the end of thew month has been cold and wet with lots of rain.

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We were lucky and missed a lot of this storm.
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Never forget, Remember the Vet !

Back in the Saddle

Well, we are trying to get back into the swing of things, in between running to Doctors and specialists tonight I grabbed the guitar and went to meet Karl and Roger from the "Friends of God" and we played at the Carthage Country Manor Nursing Home for the residents.  
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We got right into some toe tappers and foot stomping tunes for the residents..
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Karl, Travis, Craig Singing "In The Garden", Roger and me playing.
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We did one from Randy Travis,  we sang "Three Wooden Crosses"....

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Karl and Travis providing music for Anna who came up and sang to the residents.

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Travis and Roger while we played "Long Black Train"....
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Anna came back up and joined us again to sing...
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We finished playing and the Lady from "Activities" came up and gave us a Certificate of Appreciation for playing every other tuesday night at the Nursing Home,  Travis in the Red Shirt is usually there with his father Mark who is always there but Military Duty kept him away tonight, on the other tuesday nights Mark, his son Travis above in the Red Shirt and anyone that wants to join in also play at the Skilled Nursing Unit.
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We had a good time, I got to see 2 of my Cousins who are residents and also several people who used to live here at West Side Terrace who had to go to a Nursing Home.
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COLD DISMAL DAYS

Well, we are home patiently waiting for some warmer weather, it is raining, cloudy, dismal looking and then suddenly the SUN peeks thru the clouds and shines a little then drops back behind the clouds...
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Trout season started April 1st but it was SNOWING too hard to go fishing...
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We have not even gotten a chance to go Bullhead fishing either....
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but, summer temps cannot be that far away....
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