Mcgrath sisters talk

  This week we've been using the phone to communicate rather that the blog, and that was maybe a good idea. I have visited a physio who has promised a program for me, although he feels it might be much less expensive if I were to join one of the rehab groups such as The Refit Centre or the 7 oaks Wellness Centre for accountability and follow up.  Probably a good point.  When I saw my doctor yesterday he thought the whole thing was a good idea.  The Physio and I also had a short chat about the Arousal Theory (one of my favorites)or the old saying about a body at rest staying at rest while a body in motion tending to stay in motion.  So he set a task for this week, asking me to walk 5-7 houses up the street and back, daily, which I did yesterday. I also spent quite awhile in the basement yesterday, foregoing my trip to Lorette.  I'm not quite ready for a drive that long, since my last tumble.  My hand sewing is quite large now, and I found it much easier...

  The thought of Fall coming to us right now hit me yesterday when we were walking the dogs at the South River Park where we take them  every ( most every) day for their walk.  The breeze was brisk and cool and the water pounded into the shore line. And the leaves floated down from the trees as if there were some urgency to cover the ground with a nice blanket for Winter. And my jacket was zipped up to the top to keep the cold from slipping in and further disturbing my usual great happy walk. And finally, back home and inside, i could feel the breeze coming in through the open windows and gently cooling the inside that for days/weeks had been stuffy and hot. That felt wonderful but not the thought of Fall also coming in through the windows at all.  The garden and its produce is showing its age as well and seems to be beckoning me to dig me up, take my fruits and pack me away for the Winter. Gosh, I am not ready for it...please give me some time...I plead. Today we pl...

  Hello to you both early Monday morning Getting mixed up with days and weeks seems the norm mostly. If I did not have my calendar posted on the fridge door to mark off each day as it comes, perhaps I would be completely lost. And one day just melds into the next and so on. Ain't life grand haha! Appreciated the comments on the purging of late. It will take for ages for me but the fact that I have started is a bonus. I may not have total consensus at this house, but nevertheless, it is my effort that counts mostly for me. Damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead ..maybe not so dramatic, but still it could describes the journey well. The yard takes up lots of time and effort. I need to prepare for Winter and not face another like last year with the rain and freezing off and on that produced lots of runoff and need to bolster my defenses. I have moved stuff piled up along the side of the house to leave it open to shovel the snow and keep clear so that the water in Spring will not run ...

  Getting ready to write this, I realized that I have no memory of Thursday.  I just asked David what we did, and he has no memory either.  Perhaps we were abducted by aliens for rude physical experiments  Well, there's nothing I can do about it. I do remember talking to Cathy on the phone.  That may have been the highlight of the day.  Getting my days confused is a minor problem compared to confusing my weeks.  I seem to be living one week ahead of myself and have been for most of this month.  Thank Goodness for calendars and my BuJo. But, I remember yesterday (Isn't that a song title?).  Gail arranged a coffee meeting with Dick and Vivian from Pinawa, then she, herself was almost 45 minutes late.  David was there and held his own.  It was a wonderful visit.  We've all vowed to work at maintaining the contact.  They are well. He has slowed down quite a bit, but she is still trucking along.  Like the energizer bunny a...

  Not a good start to a post but it is the way I feel. I took Jim to hospital emergency this morning at 9am. He just couldn’t breathe.  We left just after 2 pm☹️. He got a prescription for water pills since it seems he has water on his lungs. The long wait became a joke to everyone waiting. It seems that if you go outside or go home for a bit of food you loose your place and have to start over. We finally got to see the doctor she told us how she was torn in 7000 directions, and then had to take a call. She came back, asking questions that were already in his file, and had to take another call. She came back but went to see another patient!! Finally she came back and prescribed water pills. As we left I called out to the other patients waiting and said “ we won!”  They all laughed cause we had been talking for so many hours. So my day saw nothing accomplished. Lucky got a walk and that was it. But it is amazing how sore and tired you get sitting on hard hospital chairs fo...

  That is the best blog message yet...we should try to describe life as it is. Would you ever believe me if I actually did ...haha! The comment about "bags of stuff to the Thrift Store" caught my eye. Yesterday I took the plunge and went into my clothes closet and tore it apart and had clothes flying all over the room with hangers going one way and pants going the other. It was time..long overdue actually. I could not move any of the apparel hanging in the closet as it was too packed and the hangers just would not move anymore. And since I have lost weight this past year, most of the clothes were no longer fitting well. I was tieing up pants at my waist with rope to keep them from falling down for heaven sake  (real classy eh?). And I did not need the work clothes I had still - suits and dress blouses and blazers. I tried on all the pants but with most of the blouses and tops I just took a good look at them and decided which pile they went into. Two bags went yesterday to th...

  Yesterday. it was up and off to the doctor's office for a 6:30 appt. to get David's ears syringed.  We had been a little late to bed Sunday evening, and were slow getting "up-and-at'em",  which meant a hurried drive downtown.  David went straight up to the office, while I paid for parking and visited the washroom.  Evidently the Dr. questioned him about how he got there and where I was.  Once home, it was eat breakfast and go back to bed, for me.   I slept for another two hours, then got up and spent most of the day sitting in front of the tv, although I got about an hour in the basement.  Took a good look at the piece I've been working on and bowed to the inevitable.  It was rolled up and thrown in a garbage bin, and I felt a load off my shoulders.  Then I took another look at the low contrast, pastel coloured pieced quilt that I have been working on, off and on, and decided to put a couple of days work into that.   As ...

  My lazy do whatever you want day on Thursday turned out to be a last minute hit to every store in town grocery shopping trip.  We visited 4 different grocery stores Thursday afternoon looking for small tinfoil potpie tins as D avid had decided he would prefer apple pies to apple crisp.  No such luck but we found miniature loaf pans that were just about the right size, for the crisp.   Friday was laundry day and my hour long massage.  There were a few minutes left at the end of the hour, and she gave me a foot massage.  Oh! Heaven! Saturday we did make Apple Crisp, but only one batch.  David decided that there would be no sense in making 15 small desserts for the freezer, as he probably would never eat all of them. Then we went for our weekly shopping trip.  A bit of an anti-climax as there were only a few things on the list.  Unfortunately, apples weren't one of them.  The apples I was given are not in very good shape.  The r...

  ...stay inside and do cleanup. Actually over last few days I have been having some fun in the dining room and front room starting to sift through stuff and generally trying to tidy. Little chunks at a time is my MO. If ones looks at a job with a broad lens - it seems impossible but to break it up into small workable tasks...it seems less impossible haha!  I just finished dusting (washing) off the Grandfather clock of our fathers making. For so long i have had it stopped just because it was not easy to access regularly to pull up the chains but hopefully now i will be able to get it working again. Do either of you wish to have your clocks working again ...my question mark keeps coming up with the French etude (É) How do I get rid of that..any ideas É Sunflower Festival today downtown today.  The whole Main Street closed and over 100 vendors set up ...and yet it pours rain, continuously, and it booms with thunder off and on and our lights flicker off and on. What a shame ...

  Not so busy lately and we've been enjoying a couple of lazy days.  That's going to change though.  In Lorette, one of the ladies has been sharing apples off her tree--lots of apples.  She wasn't there yesterday but her apples were, and the other ladies were discussing how they were using the apples.  They're quite small but very tasty, and most were planning to make and freeze Apple Crisp.  I have 3 plastic grocery bags full, and have used some for Dr.  Phil (It takes two by the time they're cored).  David asked for small individual apple pies.  This would involve buying tin foil pie plates, peeling, coring and slicing a lot  of apples, and then my nemesis--making, rolling and cutting to make pastry, although I suppose I could by pot pie shells.  That would probably supply better pasty than any I could make.  So--I asked David if he would accept Apple Crisp, and he agreed.  I still have to buy individual tin foil pans, a...

  Today I took myself to a new Hair Salon and with an appt for 1 pm, entered with some anxiety but soon relaxed and felt right at home in this new environment. And I came home excited and thrilled to have a nice, soft, curly permanent hair style. Just what i wanted and just as i had envisioned it to be. Very very satisfied and content with this stylist and will definitely be going back there. It took me a long time to make the transition from the previous stylist who retired last December, to find this place in South River. Every day when we pass by it to take the dogs for their walk, I had never thought of pursuing it further as a potential place to have my hair done. Long weekend and the weather is supposed to be ok. I just came back from taking the dogs for their night walk down to the Lake where the Market is set up with music and food and vendors set up. The place was packed with people wandering around or eating, or down at the beach and in the water. Also this weekend the Vi...

  I'm learning new tricks.  Paid my bills on line today.  I didn't know I could do that.  It makes life so much easier.  I wish I had tried a long time ago. I also placed an order for a quilt book that I've been trying to order for about 3 weeks, spending a couple of hours at it yesterday.  I had thought that I had actually placed the order, and that it was supposed to arrive today, but all I got was the templates for the piece. Earlier it was out to Lorette, including dealing with the construction mess at Deacon's Corner. Had to deal with it last year as well.  But I enjoy that group so very much, and it's the only meeting I have most of the time. Sometimes the day consists of several small wins, and that day is worth celebrating.