back from vacation

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

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

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

weekend fun

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

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...

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

"there were no other anglo-saxons there"

on music

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

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

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

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?

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

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!