TURNING OLD.....

Seems every day is the same.....the world has turned into masks and rubber gloves.  I went to the dermitologist today....had to have my temperature taken and my hands washed down before I could even get into the building....then stay 6 feet from the person that checked me in and then  find a chair six feet from anyone ...did get to see cute dr Powell.....he bio-ed a place on my arm and burned off a half dozen places on my face.....tomorrow my boob Dr.....been a long three months for me.

The TV....computer and I-pad have saved my life ......during this stay in place.....order.  My nails are a mess and I went in last weekend and had them start me on the road to 'GREY HAIR'......This whole ordeal has changed me into the old lady I have tried not to be......I am enjoying my front porch and my Patio....thanks to the help of my girls planting and putting new furniture together. The little humming birds are so fun to watch....I guess these pictures about cover my exciting vacations.

PEEK-A-BOO.....

This picture made my day....Don locked up in re-habe.....Pam took his mail over to him and could not go in of course......I guess the windows are nailed so they just open a little.....but Pam had her mask on and Don didn't' have his hearing aids in so and had a big bush between them.....he is not happy about being locked up and I don't know for how long it will be.  Toni is in another place because she tested positive for CDV19......And is waiting for a back and neck operation....then who knows where they will end up.

WHAT GOES ROUND....COMES ROUND!

MEMORIAL DAY....

Memorial Day was a busy day around the country....parades.....flags ....speeches....and remembering  all those who made our country free.....For me it was just another quiet day.....but in my heart I miss all the brave people who made it a nice quiet...safe day for me.  The cemetaries are covered with flowers .....flags and baloons.....each family remembering their own.

My sweet Brayden came to town to work on his project and we had lunch together......I miss my roommates.

DEAD HORSE POINT....

Cannot count the times.....since I graduated in 1950 and went to BYU.....that I drove by the sign of Dead Horse Point....always wondering if we would find dead horses there....well on a trip to Colorado last week.....Leslie and I finally took an hour and drove up to see the view from the Point.....nice drive and finally seeing what is in my back door after tripping around the world .....The sign draws you in....curious  I guess.

Had a fun after noon with Pam today....we found a restrauant that would let you in to sit down and eat....the world is opening up....then up to the Cook's houseing  area....they have built some great homes and I am proud of them,  Yesterday Sherrie spent the afternoon with me....we took a trip to Costco.....yes we got toilet paper..... and grabbed some lunch at Wendy's and ate on my patio.....they were off to Lake Powell for the Memorial Day celebration..Been so great to have company and doing some shopping these two weeks.

ALPHA AND OMEGA

Jim and I taking five on a pretty bench.....the headstone of one of our cousins...Freda Louise Yeomans.  She died of cancer like her father Uncle Fred Yeomans.  We put flowers on 18 family members in this little town cemetary.

GONE FOR 50 YEARS

MOM'S GRAVE STONE

REST IN PEACE....

DAD's gravestone......

WHERE I WAS HATCHED.....

Just visited my home town and checked  out my street......and there is grandma and grandpa Goff's little house.  They have changed the fence and painted it....but this little house is where I was hatched!!.....and my three little sisters.....Until I was 7....this was where we came for a summer vacation and to get acquainted with the Goff Cousins.  I loved the swing on the front porch....and the chickens out back.  As you can see I came from a very humble begining....held together with love.

ROAD TRIP.....

JUST LIKE THIS PICTURE OF BRAYDEN AND LIBBY AT LAKE POWEL.....

So enjoyed Leslie and my three day road trip......down to Montecello  to see Jim.....was going over the list of family in the cemetary where we put flowers for Memorial Day.....My great grand father....Danial Goff...grandparents Jim and Lilly Goff....parents Hazel and Dick Yeomans...Uncle Lester and Pauline Goff....Uncle Walter and wife Josephine  Goff and their children....Bobby, Jimmy and Dorthy.....Russel Goff's two babies.....Bob Yeomans and mother Verna Jane and Daughter Freda Louise  Yeomans.....Linda Sue Yeomans....then to Cortez, Colorado we put flowers on Dixie and Odis Northcott and daughter Rachelle.....All  people we love and miss.

Jim has a cute house full of antiques and a fun backyard on the golf course with many fun birds.  We really enjoyed looking back on growing up......

DAY BY DAY....

Things can really change in three months......I cut my long pretty nails.....and am letting my hair go grey....probably won't recognize anyone at church if we finally start going again!  In fact I feel lots older than three months than I did three months ago......not getting my retail therapy in everyday is begging to show also.....but life goes on.   Miss seeing my old friends.....of the good ole bridge playing days....but feel those days are over for me.....Don and Toni still hanging on...Toni has been tested positive for the viris and is waiting for a neck and back operation....Don is his same old mean self to the children and hospital people....so sad.

GETTING OUT.......

This so brings back the memories of raising my three girls.......In fact now and then I still find myself  doing it on a sudden stop.....poor kids with black and blue chests.

Took me two days to recoop from my road trip.....Ken spent Monday afternoon with me......then today Sherrie surprised me and spent the afternoon with me....She was waiting for Darren to get in gear so they could drive down to Page for a week on the boat with the Baines......We did Costco which I had not been in for about three months.....plenty of toilet paper and paper towels...no lines....got some lunch at Wendy's and came home to eat it on the patio......picked up Ken and had a fun visit.......children so make your life worth living.  Been windy for two days and is suppose to storm tomorrow......enjoying my patio and beautiful flowers.  Tomorrow....Pam and I are going to do something....haven't decided what yet!......still wearing masks and gloves,,,,but nice getting out!

RETAIL THERAPY......

OH.....WELL SAID!

My whole life has been Retail Therapy......it has been my savior many times over the years......I go up and down the isles and that is my exercise......smiling and visiting along the way has been my social life....and I have found many treasures I didn't need.....but what the heck?  I have found a few good receipes for beans etc. from nice people who shared with me.  As soon as my hands grip the handle of a shopping cart and those wheels start going round......I enter my therapy zone.....No .....I don't always buy something.....but I now know what is new....what is the latest.....where things are......if I ever need them.....or not!  Now and then you hit a good sale and can start your Christmas and Birthday's shopping.  Until I can get back to the "good ole days" when just getting out......for no reason.....but to get some exercise......some social life.....and maybe pick up a quart of milk or a loaf of bread.....my life is on ......stand still!

My cute  cancer Dr. Lloyd never heard of this and said she had fun telling everyone about "Retail Therapy".......

LOOKING BACK......

Looking back over my 88 years.....this is so true.  Leslie came up last Tuesday and stayed all night and we took off Wednesday morning for a little road trip to see baby brother Jim in Montecello, Utah for a couple of nights.  We spent many hours looking back and laughing about our growing up years in Mancos.....and what wonderful parents we had.  I guess we were poor.....but never really knew it as we never went hungry or barefooted.....and all our friends were in the same boat.  We went to Mancos and put flowers on all the family graves and reminesed alot.....visited Jim's friend and his X wife who made us cute Trump 2020 face masks.  I hadn't seen Tami for many years.  Then to see our home which had been painted blue and see Grandma and Grandpa's house where Leslie and I were born...... Yes, we spent most the time looking  back and realizing how lucky we were.......Jim's wife left and he has a fun place full of rocks .....his love.....bird feeders and antiques.  There is nothing more important than siblings.  I feel sorry for only children......Les then went to Orem to spend three nights with Mike and Kathy......and enjoy her grandkids.....I am sure the girls thought Leslie and I would get lost....but surprise....we made it there and back safely.

STILL WEARING MASKS AND GLOVES....

DOESN'T SHE JUST KNOW HOW TO PUT IT?

I don't think any of us mom's would trade those days for anything....Yes, we were busy and always tired...but not to tired to pick up or drop off one more person.....Just think of all we learned in those years....and good kids remember all those times and repay you with love and patience for being old and slow and deaf and forgetful etc. that comes with old age..... 

I am so tired of this covid19 stuff ....follow the lines in the stores....stand in line for everything,,,,,no toilet paper or hand sanitizer....who would have known.  No one being able to go to work or movies or sports.....no school...no church.  I know this too will pass....but when?   Looking forward to Les coming up for a few days and a little road trip to see baby brother in Monticello....then on to Mancos and put flowers on our family graves next week.

GRANDMA......

No matter if you have one child or ten.......this is a question that always comes up in every family of those who are lucky enough to have their mother's around after she is not needed to baby sit or tend the dogs.   Thing is...what goes round comes round....sooner or later.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

I love this.....My mom was the greatest example of a mom and grandma and I smile alot when I think of her.....I hope my grandchildren remember my daughters in the same way.

My three girls made this Mother's Day the best.   Pam planted the pots on the back porch for me.....Karrie and Scotty picked up the patio furniture and put them together and hauled away the old stuff and yesterday Sherrie and I went to Lowes and she bought flowers for the front flower beds and planted them for me.....what more could a person ask for?I can want for no more......Sherrie and Pam called and I am going to Karries for dinner.  I wish a happy mother's day to everyone with kids.

GREAT KIDS.....

YESTERDAY A GREAT DAY......

Redid my patio yesterday.....Scot and Karrie picked up my new Patio furniture and helped me redo my patio.   Scotty great on putting the furniture together and carry off the old stuff and the boxes....Karrie helped me stage it and I love it......Pam planted my flower pots ....we filled the bird feeders and bird bath and the founttain.....looks great and I am so excited to enjoy the summer out there in nature......Such a fun and neat Mother's day gift and Sherri is planting the front flower beds for me......Such neat girls....Mothers Day with great kids .......makes me a lucky mother.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.......

What a day????

My fire alarm has been peeping for a week and finally I ask PAM to borrow her big ladder.....She zipped over it with her ladder to take care of it........Well after several hours of even going to the store to buy good batteries....she gave up and left her ladder to the sky leaned on my wall....later that after noon......arrives Robbie.....who hates heights......to get it fixed for Gram.....after facing the heights with me holding the ladder....SURE.....he hoped he had it fixed....NADA....their was still a beep.....SO We changed the batteries in the office....in the hall...in the security system and still......there was a beep from somewhere.....Rob would not give up.....so dectective ROB....cornered the beep in the pantry by the washer and dryer......as he cleaned off the top shelf in the pantry he found the treasures I had brought from my last condo.......and low and behold he found three monaxide detectors in a plastic bag from madrid st I had brought with me five years ago when I moved in planning to install here....one of them had a battery that was low.....sooo it was telling us!!!!  I think if I had been his wife instead of his mother in law...... it would have ended different.....but he was very sweet and chalked it up to demention on my part!!!!  He had me throw them in the garbage can for the garbage to contend with....Hey it is....what it is? those thing cost money and you never know when you will need one?  I love my son-in-laws.......

GREAT NEIGHBORS.....

My neighbors are the greatest.....They just knocked on the door with some great geraniums that are only a dollar a piece....Sher wants to plant flowers in front for my Mother's Day......so was thrilled. Honh offered some dinner and Suzanne bought my taco's for lunch.  Yesterday Hilda brought over cheese cake from her Sunday dinner and the list just goes on......I do some mending and hemming for them....but when it comes to cooking.....nada.

Filled my bird feeders and can't wait for the humming birds to discover them....also got a new bird bath....see how clean the birds in my neighborhood are???  I love summer and am so ready to enjoy my patio and new furniture.....and looking for a fire pit.  One problem.....getting rid of the old stuff...Another week without my roommates....been a month now....Bray still waiting to hear when he can go back to work at Park City......Salt Lake pretty well still shut down......Oh Happy Day?

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO

HAPPY CINC0 DE MAYO......

SUZANNE CALLED AND SAID WE HAD TO GO GET SOME TACOS FOR LUNCH TO CELEBRATE THIS BIG HOLIDAY!!!!  We drove up to Taco Bell and got in line with a dozen others wanting to celebrate today.....then drove home and ate on my front porch.....you never get to old to hang out and celebrate something???

Yesterday I went shopping for Patio furniture and AT HOME found a nice little set I could afford.....called Scotty and ask him to get them home to me....his folks had his truck in St George but he could tomorrow....now to put them together....anxious to get rid of the battered stuff I have had for many years....filled the humming bird feeders and the bird bath......Pam planted flowers in all the pots...so really looks nice.  Now to find a fire pit and I will be done with the patio....Didn't take me long to spend my income tax refund!

MAY HAS ARRIVED.....

With May here we are suppose to start opening our country again......My first big outing was Thursday......Pam took me to Smith's to buy flowers and a stop at Big Lots looking at Patio funriture......just pushing that shoppping cart made my day....I have missed my retail therapy a lot! I now look forward to being able to have manicures, pedicures and get my hair colored again....they should open soon....of course we will have to wear masks most the month or two. I have become parinoid about going anywhere and so need some exercise......the viris at my age would not be fun and I have three girls protecting me......maybe over protectng me......but I love them for caring. Another very quiet weekend.

ZOOM FAMILY ON BD.........

Every day I learn something new!!!!  Never did I believe I would live to see the time my whole family could apppear in front of me at once and we could talk back and forth.....this was all my family but Will.......wishing me a happy birthday...number 88. Zoom and Marco Polo are taking the place of a phone call now days....such a great world we have.......other than the viris.