Fred's birthday.....

September 14, 1949with Georgie Bumb

with Mark Troedson

At noon today Fred & Cathleen, Georgie & Joanne boarded the Bumb jet and took off for Canada, Victoria and Seattle for 8 fun filled days

Sister Clarice for a visit...

Obamacare...

I wonder what Ronald Reagan would think of Obamacare!!! I'm sure he would oppose it...here is a quote from a Reagan speech, where he referenced a quote from the socialist and former six-time presidential candidate, Norman Matoon Thomas.
Thomas said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” Although Thomas was quoted in 1927, many of us waking up to the encroaching juggernaut of our socialist government must realize just how correct he was in his prediction.

Is this what is happening to us??? I hope not...I hope we will figure out our health care problems without the government taking it over completely.
We should fight to keep our health care system free of government control. The Obama health care plan would lead to other forms of socialism.

from the internet....
"Obamacare means treatment rationing, so getting Grandma plugged in in the first place is the greater peril."

"The problem with government health systems is not that they pull the plug on Grandma. It's that Grandma has a hell of a time getting plugged in in the first place. The only way to "control costs" is to restrict access to treatment, and the easiest people to deny treatment to are the oldsters. Don't worry, it's all very scientific. In Britain, they use a "Quality-Adjusted Life Year" formula to decide that you don't really need that new knee because you're gonna die in a year or two, maybe a decade-and-a-half tops. So it's in the national interest for you to go around hobbling in pain rather than divert "finite resources" away from productive members of society to a useless old geezer like you. And you'd be surprised how quickly geezerdom kicks in: A couple of years back, some Quebec facilities were attributing death from hospital-contracted infection of anyone over 55 to "old age." Well, he had a good innings. He was 57."

Click Here: Check out "Mark Steyn: Unplugging Grandma isn't the problem | life, expectancy, health, say, good - Opinion - OCRegister.com"

Well your father would not be here if Obamacare had been in place in 2002, when he first had his open heart 5 bypass surgery...nor in subsequent years, for the pace maker and just recently the 3 stents!!!!!!.

Julie & Marie still here..Tom finished wall....

2 days of swimming and just hanging out with us and Mary...

It look great...just how I imaged!!!

Cassie, Robert, Julie and Marie for a visit...

Cassie Tuttle dropped by for a visit with Mary...brought a delicious big pan of spaghetti and fresh new green beans....wonderful dinner..thanks Cassie!!! Robert came by for a visit and left Marie and Julie to stay all night...they kept Mary company.
Nice warm swim in pool..oooohhhhh good!!!
Annette and Elizabeth at the beach house with Susan for the week end.

finishing the retaining wall...+

not quite finished

Carrie came for a visit...

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More visitors later on...
John, Robbie and Bob

757 West San Carlos....busy artist....

Sam didn't think this was grafitti!!!! I think he liked it!!!
me too....

1st day of school St Thomas More...

The last "first day of school"
Julie first day of school...kindergarten

Annette's class

Martin in middle left

Michael in middle

a welcome vistor...

Annette came over to visit Mary and brought lunch and a lot of other goodies. Chicken and potato salad and chicken and rolls.

Mary said "it is so good to be around people...makes me forget the pain!!!"
















Dad and I took off and picked up 2 rattan swivel rockers that were advertised on craigslist.
They are perfect.

Mary came home today...

We picked her up around 11:30 a.m.

finishing the wall...

to finish it off a short broken concrete wall will be built

the "room with the view"

Just got back from visiting Mary in the hospital..took our dinner and ate part of hers...the food is so awful so we took her steamed vegies, yogurt and grapes. She looks great but still is much pain.

with the "pain button" clutched in her hand!!!

beginning the retaining wall...

Tom, from ST More School is building the retaining wall...the first day he had his son help and today, Saturday his daughter, who is in Marie's class at school helped. They did a beautiful job. Guess who had to help!!!!

Getting old from Fred

Getting Old

YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING "MARVELOUSLY MATURE" WHEN.....

1. You and your teeth don't sleep together.

2. Your try to straighten out the wrinkles in your socks and discover you aren't wearing any.

3. At the breakfast table you hear "snap, crackle, pop" and you're not eating cereal.

4. Your back goes out but you stay home.

5. When you wake up looking like your driver's license picture.

6. It takes two tries to get up from the couch.

7. When your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.

8. When happy hour is a nap.

9. When you're on vacation and your energy runs out before your money does..

10. When you say something to your kids that your mother said to you and you always hated it.

11. When all you want for your birthday is to not be reminded of your age.

12. When you step off a curb and look down one more time to make sure the street is still there.

13. Your idea of weight lifting is standing up.

14. It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired

15. Your memory is shorter and your complaining lasts longer.

16. Your address book has mostly names that start with Dr.

17. You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going.

18. The pharmacist has become your new best friend.

19. Getting "lucky" means you found your car in the parking lot.

20. The twinkle in your eye is merely a reflection from the sun on your bifocals.

21. It takes twice as long - to look half as good.

22. Everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt - doesn't work.

23. You look for your glasses for half an hour and they were on your head the whole time.

24. You sink your teeth into a steak - and they stay there.

25. You give up all your bad habits and still don't feel good.

26. You have more patience, but it is actually that you just don't care anymore.

27. You finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

28. You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't even remember being on top of it.

Mary's surgery

Was supposed to be at 10:30 a.m but was postponed til after 3:30 p.m
It was a more complicated job than they had anticipated so we didn't get news til after 8:30 p..

Annette's remodel job...

Monday we went over to see what progress they had made. The washer and dryer has been moved...both closets have been completed and the wall between the apartment and Annette's house is up and finished off. Looking good!!!!

a fun visit...

A busy time on Sunday with Dan and the boys...they are so lively and ran all over the back yard. Matthew proceeded to get all wet at the drinking fountain and had a great time!!!! Came in the house to cool off...

hide and seek with Daddy

raiding the frig...