so here's the events of today:
today is my sister suzy's birthday. happy birthday, suzy-q!!! she's 42 today. i think all of us have called and sang her happy birthday. i wish i could be there with her celebrating. she and some friends are going out tonight if she is up to it. she told mom she wasn't feeling that well earlier. she's still working through the detoxing thing with the fibromyaligia (sp). she's supposed to be going to the specialist this month so that will probably help.
dad is having knee replacement at the end of this month. actually he's having it the day before his birthday. he has had problems with it locking down on him. the surgery is overdue for him. he probably should have gotten this done 5 or so years ago.
he has this old ford f-150 truck that he has hung onto for years. it's all rusted up and needs some minor work. he has kept it when he has stuff to haul off or he doesn't want to mess up his car. various people have stopped at the house from time to time offering to buy it. well, back to earlier, he was out trying to get it cranked up to move it back beside the house. it was sputtering and carrying on and finally cranked.
all of a sudden my mom said he was moving fast across the yard. he flung open the door and asked "where's the fire exstinguisher? my truck's on fire!" we jumped up and mom got the fire extinguisher and handed it to him. he headed back out with me following. i saw him toss the fire extinguisher and he yelled "get the hose!". before i could get there, he was dragging the hose across the yard. he hollered at me to call 911. as i was talking to the 911 operator, a policeman happened by. he asked dad if he wanted the fire department. thankfully at that point, he had gotten the fire out. he told me to cancel the 911 call. whew! the excitement!! what happened was the truck backfired and spewed gas back up in and caught fire. thankfully it didn't really do much damage. he said he thinks he ready to sell it now...lol. he said at least there are some salavageable parts and he can get a little bit of money from it. whew!! the excitement!!
janelle has 1 month and 1 day until she reports to college. she has to be there on august 13th to start cheerleading practice. we'll be moving most of her stuff in at that point. i'm excited and sad all at the same time. she's going to have such a good time at college and grow and learn and meet all kinds of neat folks. but i'm sad that she's going to be away. i know i'll cry when i leave there on friday evening. they have this thing called "the big hug". it's when the parents say good bye to their kids. fortunately i'll be going up for the football games from time to time to watch her cheer. she won't be able to come home very often, but i know she'll do well. she will be so busy that she won't have time to miss being home.
well, i'm going to go now. i'm not even going to say i'll try to write more soon...lol. who knows when i'll be here again.
