hows come?

weekend fun~

2009-08-27T15:54:00.000-07:00

forgot to post

2009-08-21T19:14:00.000-07:00

turns out some of grandmas sweats got mixed in with papas clothes...

"i've got dorothy's pants on"

in the mail

2009-08-21T19:11:00.000-07:00

me: what did you get in the mail

papa: my ff'n allen notice

me: you're what?

papa: terms for my ff'n allen card- i don't even have a ff'n allen card anymore

me: ff'n allen? huh? do you mean ethan allen?

papa: yeah ff'n allen

overheard

2009-08-20T15:32:00.000-07:00

"i've got slippage"
- referring to his inability to remember things

"i'm watching a show about the saint andrews area"
Me: whats that
"you know out in california"
Me: you mean the san andreas fault
"yeah the saint andrea area"
oh well....

wedding fun

2009-08-17T14:25:00.001-07:00

so its been a busy year

josh & katherine just got married!

we went line dancing at pinnacle peak patio for the rehearsal dinner

papa got in on the action - his response when he sat down ... "that could kill me" but he kept us all laughing on the dance floor

i told him he had to give a toast at the wedding -- to practice i would say "i wish josh and Katherine"... and he had to finish his answers ranged from

"welfare"

"Merry Christmas"

"would hurry up and get married"

"your moms gonna be a grandma"??!! oh my!

you just never know what might come out of his mouth

i'm just thankful he made it to the wedding -- we went grocery shopping last week and as i was putting yogurts into the cart he blurts out " don't buy so many i might not be around long enough to eat those" oh dear! i told him it was not a good week to die and could he please wait...

in the end he had fun at the wedding

he even busted a move on the dance floor and raised the roof

at the bridal shower

with the groom

love this guy

papa strikes again....

2008-12-03T12:40:00.000-08:00

Oops he did it again...emptied a dirty dishwasher and said that dishwasher of yours doesn't work very well.

Ummm no... When it wasn't turned on it doesn't work very well.

Oh dear somethings never end...

But in other news we have lights and reindeer frolicking in the front yard.

Thanksgiving was fun we did the annual pull name out of hat to see who you are buying a gift for and for ole times sakes josh decided it would be good to include grandmas name (as the wild card).oh my ....

long time

2008-11-24T18:19:00.000-08:00

Its been a very long time.... Face it I'm a bad blogger. Papa is still quite hilarious. Now that cooler weather is upon us he's been feverishly trying to plant flowers out back...trouble is they keep dying.
He turned 93 last week we had a family party since he didn't want my suggestions of a bowling party skydiving party or trampoline party... So sad.
He's also managed to empty a dirty dishwasher a few times ... That's always fun when I get home to go looking for all the dirty dishes that have been put away as he tells me "I don't think your dishwasher works too well" yeah when it doesn't turn on it doesn't work too well....
We decorated the christmas tree last week...its beginning to look like christmas and papa has agreed not to shave until christmas...we are hoping for him to look like santa! HA!

overheard

2008-08-20T18:16:00.001-07:00

i ought to be a postage stamp you lick me so much... -said to wesley

whats a saucepan
a pot
whats a pot-
-a metal container you put soup in on the stove--

whats this about cleaning the mirror- where do i have a mirror?
--in your bathroom
you mean the window in the shower
--no ..the mirror
i dont have a mirror in the bathroom
--yes you do over your sink
what are you talking about
--the thing you look in every morning?

other than playing charades.. we've been busy -- we went out to california at the beginning of the month to skydive ... fun was had

and now papas gearing up to plant fall flowers-- if fall ever come for us...

this just heard

2008-08-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

-it looks like the dishwasher needs a massage...
-huh?
-massage thats another name for a cleanin
-oh ok??...

and also overheard tonight-

i like to grab papas chin and shake it ...tonight i heard his teeth a chatterin..

this guy is priceless

playin...and hidin

2008-08-01T21:18:00.000-07:00

papa and wesley both like to play toys...

the cryin baby and singin duckie..

wesley also love to kiss papa..but papas playing tough and taking protection

try as he might wesley just cant figure out how to kiss papa...

and so goes another night of fun and games...

on tv

2008-08-01T21:17:00.001-07:00

papas in his utopia right now...
he's watching a chinese western..

..UGH.............

wanna play

2008-07-23T21:23:00.001-07:00

Mama Mia

2008-07-20T08:53:00.000-07:00

We are off to see Mama Mia after church today.

In honor of the event I got the soundtrack and have been playing it this morning.

sorry its sideways -- can't figure out how to rotate it

beauty at 13,500 ft

2008-07-13T07:14:00.001-07:00

night time laughter....

2008-07-09T22:01:00.001-07:00

one of my fav nighttime games to play is tongue twister..

but its only fun once papa has taken out his teeth...

cracks me up everytime.....

and yes he did say it was ok to post this....

Fabulous 4th

2008-07-09T06:47:00.001-07:00

Our Fabulous Fourth

Papa says it was the best fourth he's had in his whole life...

We had a play pool and

water fight in the yard..

some got pretty wet ...
we also played a lil football
and enjoyed our new misters

Wesley checks out the pool

and checks out papa

relaxing for a bit...

the next day the kids came over for a sleepover and some pool time

relaxing after a swim

thats our weekend...

the unknown book

2008-06-27T10:17:00.000-07:00

papa was telling me about caregroup -- they studied the passage out of 2 Chaldeans?.?.?.?...

men, women & messes

2008-06-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

me: why are men so messy?

papa: God made em that way so women would be useful....

surgery day 1

2008-06-25T21:02:00.000-07:00

papa has his schnauz worked on today- skin cancer was removed and he's home resting... wesley is trying his best not to lick him--

we shall see how the bruising plays out.. hopefully it won't get to this stage again...

domestic bliss

2008-06-18T17:08:00.000-07:00

papa: isnt it nice im here so you can cook every night....

the finished product & a fun new look

2008-06-16T06:42:00.000-07:00

pap sportin a new look... doesn't he look like a combat pilot-in reality its a baggie for cleanin up the yard.. -thank goodness he humors me...

demo days

2008-06-12T20:12:00.001-07:00

demo days are again upon us... this time we are tackling the floor.. so out with the carpet.. in with the concrete.... and then wood to follow

on fruit

2008-06-12T17:31:00.000-07:00

me: you gotta a hard head

papa: like a watermelon... if its hollow its good .... you dont see that much anymore people knockin on fruit

as im reading this entry to him he thinks i say lard head...
grampa: you dont hear that term much anymore-- i used to call people that in the day

...oh the fun.....

catch phrase

2008-06-01T17:44:00.000-07:00

i've figured out grampa like to play games... trouble is he doesn't know he's playin em...

case in point - last night i asked him what he wanted for dinner..his reply.. um its big its round you bake it and it has stuff on it...

well with that reply of course california pizza kitchen was where we went...

he's also moved from playin in the sandbox to playin in the dirt.. more vegetation and dirt have found there way to our house..

back from vacation

2008-05-29T21:16:00.000-07:00

i was out of town for the holiday weekend-trip to louisville for a conference with my church~ with an unexpected stay over in chicago and freezing temperatures- grampa held down the fort and babysat the kid -- while i was gone i had a painter come and paint the inside main areas of the house.. it looks great

papa has been in rare form...

*in replying to what he read in the bible today

~paul's letter to the phoenicians
-turns out it was thessalonians

*in replying to me asking how his new haircut looked

~i didn't look at it, for all i know he could have scalped me

*while watching so you think you can dance

~these dancers today dance like i used to when i was alone
~i don't call that dancing all there doing is gyrating

*on home appliances

~when you say microwave you mean that item up on the top?

oh how i missed this guy-- so glad to be home

now if i could just get my voice back....

on traveling, being born & movies

2008-05-17T06:58:00.000-07:00

papa and his pal

playing toys on the floor

commentary on our very clean & organized garage-

its like the netherlands... Why's that? ... its just so clean, like Amsterdam

we had dinner at our favorite place the gilbert house- as we were leaving a couple came in the drove a 1916 ford model t - the owner of the restaurant & i pointed it out to grampa-- she said its probably like what you rode home from the hospital - to which

grampa replied i wasn't born in a hosiptal

me: then where were you born
grampa: darned if i know
me: huh?
grampa: you were lucky in those day to be born

we got home and i told him we were going to watch 27 dresses to which he says -"what do we do watch dresses?"

but he watched it and enjoyed it-- and now we are off to eloy to skydive-

heard today

2008-05-15T22:58:00.000-07:00

grampa: "some ologist called today"
me : "which one"
grampa: "i dont know i dont need doctors they dont do much for me anyway"

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driving home tonight

me: i gotta stop one more place before we go home
grampa: you gotta get yourself a drink?
me: no- just a stop
grampa: you gonna stop and take a snort?

if people didnt know better theyd think i was a drunk and a druggie with the drinkin and snortin goin on ...

a life remembered

2008-05-12T20:27:00.001-07:00

weekend fun

2008-05-12T20:07:00.000-07:00

grampa and i went to eloy on saturday.. we go cruisin down the highway with the top down and music playin-- this week we listened to bill cosby-- grampa laughed so hard he almost cried.. some favs were-- theres a nut in every car -- and kill the boy...

i still have yet to take a pic of grampa in the arab hat .. but dont worry ill get it soon .. we get some smiles and chuckles as we cruise about-- as the odd couple--

here i am sailing in for another landing.. not in jail...

also you can't see it very well but i got my new jumpsuit on .. pink stripes...

so that pretty much was our saturday we hung out in eloy till around 6pm and then came home and my friend janelle came over to visit-- we all ate outside around the new table and enjoyed watching the neighbor climb his roof to hang a pee-yada (as grampa calls it) for their lil girls birthday party

sunday was moms day and we enjoyed having the fam over with kwish, cupcakes, and wii-- grampa went bass fishin in the living room and snagged some fish -- oh the wonder of the digital age

ramblings of the day

2008-05-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

on lunch....
i had something i didn't want

on going to the store
i looked around for something i didn't know

at dinner
grampa: is that the sunday paper?
me: no, its friday - its the friday paper
grampa: oh i thought you got the sunday paper early

on referring to his brain
grampa: you can't do anything with an empty chamber
me: is that like a chamber pot?
grampa: yup

and tomorrow we are off to eloy to jump from planes... hopefully pictures will be coming ....

the newest desert plant and other things...

2008-05-07T23:02:00.000-07:00

grampas oldest grandson came into town the past few days.. he and grampa got to take a few day trips and see some more of az...

grampa got to go to cigar-o lake... or as we know it saguaro lake.. he had lunch out there and enjoyed the scenery...

today i sent grampa on some errands.. as recounted by him..

he went to starbucks to but some moocha powder (mocha powder)
he went to the gilbert house restaurant to order a kweesh/kwish/kwik. "thats a girl word i dont pronounce it" (quiche)

and finally at dinner... his comments on old celebrities & dying
"i can't remember all these people; they're hear, they're gone- i can't keep track of whose still here. and once they're gone they're gone forever"

on heritages & nationalities

2008-05-06T20:19:00.000-07:00

"there were no other anglo-saxons there"

on music

2008-05-06T20:17:00.000-07:00

while listening to Rascal Flats on dancing with the stars....
Me: "papa, this is country music"
Papa: "thats a country i don't know about"

from lunch today

2008-05-04T22:19:00.000-07:00

why would i go to the urologist for my nose??

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and on other fronts he bowled a turkey on wii bowling....pretty soon we'll have him on the senior circuit.. still working on his tennis game-- it was a blowout...

out to dinner with grampa

2008-05-03T22:44:00.000-07:00

at the italian restaurant... whats the fag-E-ol-E? (pasta e fagioli)

at the mexican restaurant... what are fa-G-tas? (fajitas)

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so we were talking about the rose tree at dinner tonight... to which i said "the rose tree is getting lots of new buds" to which grampa replies "what do we need to do ...get somethin to kill 'em"... huh i thought having new buds was a good thing-- but im a novice at this plant thing... turns out grampa thought i said bugs-not buds.....

i shake my head....

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pictures coming soon of grampa in his 'arab hat' as he calls... i got it for him so he doesnt burn his head when we go cruisin in the convertible

jungle life

2008-05-02T19:33:00.000-07:00

well we got a new rose bush and hibiscus tree bush thing tonight.. and today grampa planted sunflowers that if all goes well will be 4-12 ft high...

any more plants out back and i can swing from branch to branch around the whole yard...

thats hows come?

2008-05-02T19:31:00.001-07:00

so i showed grampa the blog tonight-- i told him it was a great place to capture all of his sayings and language butchering..to which he told me "i just have a different language than you" it goes back a generation or three... um ok-- not sure olde english could even understand him

busy busy

2008-05-01T21:35:00.001-07:00

We've been busy these past few weeks-
we got a new rug for the patio and more
seating under an umbrella...

grampa got his roses to tend to....

the grass has been mowed and the flowers are bloomin.. enjoy it before its too hot to be out in it,

and to relax grampa practices his driving skills with wii and mario kart

"thank goodness this isn't an actual driving test-- i'd lose my license" -grampa

to unwind from "rush hour traffic" grampa takes a swing at things...

senior aerobics...
he got a bit winded after swinging for 9 minutes...

but his hard work paid off...

he is the champion of the ring!

wii..

2008-04-27T20:42:00.000-07:00

grampa is a good wii bowler-- he smoked us this afternoon-- he may not be the fastest bowler but he can lay down a strike -- as he says, " even an idiot can be good at this" guess some of us are beyond hope.....

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in other news we have a backyard that is quite pretty -- we have had a major redo in the last week-- trees, bushes, citrus, and now roses and plants.. pictures coming soon ....

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and finally i had a hide speed malfunction on saturday .. and am still here to tell of it....

night all--

you say who?

2008-04-24T23:08:00.000-07:00

grampa went to care group (fellowship group) for the first time on Tuesday - he was telling me about the lovely house it was at and proceeded to tell me no one puts out a spread like reverend richardson... who??

favorite phrase

2008-04-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

i told grampa i was starting a blog to record his antics.. i told him the name of it was one of his favorite phrases.. to which he replied oh, "i forget?".. nope but at least he remembers that he forgets

pro-flowers meet...

2008-04-23T21:10:00.000-07:00

pro-verbs??

grampa woke up at 3am last night and got online to read pro-verbs... or proverbs as the rest of us refer to that book of the bible

why was he up at 3am?? well we went out to dinner last night and he took his insulin when we got home-- trouble was his blood sugar was a healthy normal 121 but he took his regular amount and caused his sugars to drop so much so that we pumped him full of sugar-- a piece of apple pie, 2 glasses of OJ, 4 sugar pills, and a piece of toast.... helped bounce his sugar up and kept him up-- poor guy...

life has its ups & downs....

2008-04-23T10:39:00.000-07:00

grampa needed to get some documents notarized so he went to ups... as in up & down-- took me a few to figure out U.P.S the store with the men in brown

grampa ran an errand awhile back.. he went to the oculist..... or as you and i would say the eye doctor

hows come

2008-04-22T23:34:00.000-07:00

grampa is often found saying hows come? -- hows come you don't want to go out to dinner? hows come my computer doesn't work? hows come?? not quite sure hows come-- but it makes me think of "cows come" every time...

how i came to have a roomie

2008-04-22T23:20:00.000-07:00

"if anything ever happens to grandma...i get grampa" these words begin the tale of how grampa came to settle in with me-- we had just come back from hawaii and i was talking to mom and said i get grampa -- at the time it seemed an unlikely outcome-- he had been in and out of the hospital a few time within the past months-- grandma hadn't been to the hospital in 28 years... but then 3/17 came and she left this earth and i got grampa.. what follows are our tales--