Time and Life !

So I see my last Blogg was in March... Here we are at the end of July...  holey junk, where does the time go they ask?!  Into life....

From March to here in the Reader's Digest condensed version - Started college full time for the summer session; truly two sessions and as I discovered the hard way, each session is a 15 week course packed into 5 weeks. Because of the fourth of July, the first session was mostly packed into four weeks !!   After 23 years of being away from college, this is no way to test the waters to see if college is something you want to do again!!  But, once i understood what was expected and fought the HUGE learning curve of on-line computer assignments that went with the in class presentations - I hit the ground running and seemed to have fared well - so far. Still in the midst of session two...

At the end of May, we had a seventy foot tall maple tree jump over from the neighbor's yard and give our house a hug!! Oh, full reach around, close contact, very intimate, I love you kind of hug !!  Yup, in on over around and thru the house. Five rafters snapped in the attic, walls shifted, siding damage and a loss of power for seven days !!  Here we are now, two months out and we might be getting the work of repair started next week !!

Uncle Ray is living with us now. For a simple explanation, his son, who he used to live with, made some bad choices so now he is here!  Cool universe thing happened - when we found out he was coming, we thought that he might need a car to get around, makes sense. Driving down the road and here was an old Crown Victoria (cop car) for sale at a used car dealer. Kyle and I stopped to investigate and it turns out I knew the salesmen from about 20 years ago!  The car is from Pa. and is great shape!  Price was perfect and why would you not get an old cop an old cop car ??  Perfect !!  Everybody in he house and all the neighbors are very glad Ray is back !!  He too has COPD so we are off on another challenge.  Quality of life being the prime concern here, very glad he moved !!

Off to the cardiologist at the beginning of the week, seems the ticker was acting funny, but after an EKG and chewing a nitro pill - doc says he doesn't think it is my heart...  OK, rock until you drop then !!  Who knows.

Most of all, it seems that this blogg is like a friend I miss and seem to have neglected. While some of my friends go for months and months without talking, we always catch right back up again. This feels different - I need to talk to this friend !!

I know there are questions floating from prior blogg's and I hope to get to those soon. Time and life Man, time and Life.....  in part of the reconstruct of the house, we got a new electrical service installed. Also the barn power was wiped out - so now I have a new service to the barn as well. I am hoping in another step in all the repair work, that i can get up to Verizon and get a stronger modem to kick this signal to the barn - if in so doing and with getting the barn cleaned up again (don't think barn with cows, think barn like carriage barn with wood shop and man cave) it will give me back some safe haven and hopefully more time for the blogg!!

Oh, new computer for college - do these computer manufactures all live in China or Korea and have itty bitty fingers ??   Geeze - I can type 90 words a minute and end up with four extra characters per word thanks to my REAL man sized hands.... ( in quest of new key board soon - or maybe one of those voice recognition software thingies )

Time and Life !!