CLAY AND WATTLES

Bits and Pieces

There's a great sweet potato-pineapple pie recipe over at Blackberry Creek.

Today Matt asked me how I was at reading maps. "I can get someplace." (I didn't say I can get to the right place.) So regardless of how vague that was, soon I will learn how to relieve (for a few minutes at a time) the Dispatcher! Yes, the Dispatcher - the guy who sits at the dispatch desk, listens to the service and linemen communicate on the radio, looks at the outage system information and the huge digital map on the overhead screen, plus answers the phone. Thank goodness he qualified that by saying, "Not during bad outages." That would be much to his and every electric consumers' credit. So. Just a few minutes at a time... I didn't think I could be a "cashier" but I learned how to do that... Why, I'm just full of possibilities!

Oscar does this to the kitchen rug every night. I don't know why. He just loves to roll the rug up under him and then lay his chin on it. Caught!

I did go for a BP check yesterday and it was better. Dr. B wasn't alarmed. But instead of increasing what I was already taking, he changed it to another type - amlodipine (I think he said it's Norvasc). First pill last night; call him in two weeks to report the results of this one. I hope it works okay; it's much easier putting the one little pill in my weekly pill box than two - a.m. and p.m.

My Mama was a genious - I hate that she had to take so much medicine, but she could sort out a week's medications by size, color and shape in no time. Bless her little heart. She doesn't have to do that any more. Mama would have been 81 this coming Sunday, November 29. Praise God she doesn't have to wonder any more if she will make it through one more hot, humid summer. How I miss her, especially during the holidays.

And I must call Mama Nick much more often. Paul talked to her the other night and she wanted to know if I was there. She wanted to hear my voice. Somehow I can always make her laugh, and I love to hear her laugh. David is having Christmas Breakfast at his house this year; the CB is a family tradition and we always look forward to it.