Me and the hubby ran around Shreveport this morning trying to tend to some financial issues. Not sure if we got anything accomplished really but we did try to get some things squared away.

My Papaw has surgery tomorrow to remove some cancer from his ring finger and a small spot on his right temple. All should be well but you never know. I do know that if we don't get the cancer cut out of finger especially it will continue to eat away at it. It has taken me 4 months to get a doctor to do anything for it. Can you imagine what will happen if all this health care bill passes..ewwww. I think though I am going to switch him to going back to the VA for all his medical needs. I think he got better care there. I really don't know why he quit going but it doesn't matter now. I just gotta get him back on track with that. The Nursing home is saying we owe them money for his stay. I think they are trying to screw us because he was not supposed to be billed a thing. He has his Medicare and we signed him up for Medicaid. Medicare was supposed to pay for up to 100 days. He has only been there since November 3rd. I don't know how they are counting but that's not 100 days by my book. After the 100 days Medicaid was supposed to pick up the difference. So I am not a happy camper about all that...so it's looking like I might just bring him back home with me. I honestly don't know how I will do it but I will put my faith in God that he will provide me the strength and patience I need to care for him and keep my hubby and daughter's needs from being neglected also. It's a good thing church is tonight because I just feel the need to be in the House of God. I called my pastor earlier today to get some advice and there was not much he could tell me but it was good to vent to a neutral party. And he will pray for us. Prayer is powerful and we need all we can get sometimes.

Well somewhere I lost my point to my posting I think.

Here is my photo for the day. I haven't had a chance to get on it today but remedy that after church.

The "Dreadmill"

Ok...I know everyone has those mornings where something happens to ya right off the bat and it reminds ya of some silly/embarrassing moment in your past. Ah..the sweet memories..hahahaha. So I drag my hiney out of bed this morning, drown myself under the hot shower to wake up and think..ok..I am sorta ready to face the morning. So I go about getting dressed and drag on the granny panties..lol..and omg..there's something in them....I sock got folded in with them..tiny sock..big panites..it can happen. So I have this instant holy crap! what is that moment and then just crack up laughing...it was truley an insane sight. Because it was not really the sock it was the memory that the sock triggered. Totally embarrassing at the time but funny as heck now. Here I am in high school being all cool and everything and this boy walks by me and points to my leg...and the whole hey! what's that hangin of your pants leg thing. I look down and it's a pair of panties. I thought I had died and just went to high school hell. I was MORTIFIED. All in an instant I snatched them up and shoved them in my pocket. I suppose that's just what happens when ya dig your pants out of the dryer still asleep in the mornings. To this day I check pant legs for various items that try to hide in them. Look at me ramble, but it's funny how tiny things trigger such vivid memories and can just put you right back in the moment.

So here is me catching up on my P365 moments. I had a panic attack Sunday when I thought I had lost my pen to my wacom tablet. Luckily after hours of searching and poking about my desk I found that it had just fallen off and dropped into one of my photo boxes and was hidden under some pictures.

This is a typical Monday morning. Shaina flings on her hoodie and straps on the backpack ready to go. Ghost is usually not one to miss anything so of course he MUST hold down the breakfast bar for us.
And today's photo is of some strawberries that I thought would be a crime if I didn't put them in my shopping basket. Actually I am quite sure they would have committed strawberry suicide if I did not bring them home to enjoy.

Yesterday I was busy as a bee. I took my Papaw to the bank and paid some bills. Then I just drove him around for a bit before taking him back to the Nursing home so that he did not feel so stir crazy. I had an issue with the Nursing home about washing his clothes. I do them..but for some reason they took them to their laundry. That's not good because the majority of his shirts are 100% cotton and will shrink in their hot water that they use. Well after my small fit..his items were located and I brought them home and got them done up for him. It was also a very hard visit with him yesterday because while we were out he kept asking me to take him to his Daddy's house. You don't want to just say that you can't because he has been dead for years...so I just kept telling him that I did not know how to get there. I was just as a loss at even what to say or even not say. I did end up seeing him twice yesterday because I had to return his clothes. Even yesterday afternoon he was still asking for him and before I left he told me that his Daddy was coming to see him today. I just wanted to cry right then and there. But I just agreed and wished him a good visit.

This morning has been sorta unproductive for me. I got some laundry running but my kitchen is a disaster taunting me. I did get some of it cleaned while yakking on the phone with my friend Monica. I alway talk using my headset when I gab with her. I get to run my mouth and work on chores about the house. The other lucky folks that get me this way are my Mama, my friend Tracy and my son Christopher.

::Balinda::

During the summer I really enjoy the humming birds that come to our feeders. I am always so sad when they depart. My husband has hung a few seed feeders around the yard but he then neglects them. I decided at the end of summer to put one closer to house and placed it where I can view it from my bedroom window. It has taken over 2 months for the little birds to find it. I noticed a pretty cardinal on the fence a few days ago but since then I have seen nothing. So when I peeked out this morning I saw that it was truly found by the little things. I saw the beautiful cardinal and a couple of female ones on my porch post. The little brown birds you can barely see but I don't think it's a shabby pic considering I took it through my window and window screen.

::Balinda::