Sadie, Sadie, Shady Lady

I finally had the mobile pet grooming come and do Sadie and I love the way she looks.  Someone recommended the schnauzer cut but I like the puppy cut.  Cameron took 2 1/2 hrs with her.  He said the older dogs he goes slower with and lets them rest.  She was very happy but tired.  He mentioned four different breeds he could see in her.  I think it took him longer because he was parked in front and others  asked him about his service and really liked what they saw with Sadie.  So, it was good for his business parking in front!!!  It is expensive though but a much better experience for her than sitting in a cage at the salons most of the day.  The Petco moved out of their Center St location which necessitated this.  And he said yes, she is getting grey!!!!  She is such a happy dog, she is a pleasure and she does not bark but knows how to let me know what she needs.  I think it is funny that people always call her puppy and want to pet her.

 

Updating My Dresser

The person who bought my dresser and bedside tables is a refinisher, restorer and sell for profit gal.  Lovely person and she loved my 60's pecan wood furniture but wanted to update it to light for these modern times.

This is what she did and she has the three pieces for sale at $1400.  I hope she gets it.  That is a lot of work!!!  I like the way the dresser looks a lot better than the original.  Very classy!

 

Sisters with Carole W.

Jeanne's daughter Carole and her friend visited Jeanne today and her friend took our picture together.

 

Georgia is 103

 Today we celebrated the birthday of this lovely lady at Treeo, who actually turned 103.  She is still sharp as a tack and ran an escrow office in Sacramento until she was 92 after retiring 4 times!!!  She has gorgeous clothes, still wears heals and beautiful jewelry.  She has really raised the bar at Treeo.

The Anderson Girls

In 1934 our Dad left Utah and began managing a Karl Johnson store in Glendive, Montana.  His brother Lorin was managing a Karl Johnson star in the neighboring town of Miles City and had secured the jobs for both of them.   They were department stores and the brothers would later buy them and rename them Andersons.

We followed by train in May and I was 15 months and the depression was raging.  We also had two older brothers Dick and Dave and Jeanne, Marilyn, and myself were always known as the Anderson Girls.  Carole would follow in 1938 as another Anderson Girl.

The first picture was taken across the street from the first house we rented, right near the big bridge, and this was a sweet little park.  Mom looks pretty classy in her Tam.  And we were all well dressed.

The next picture is taken at Treeo, a senior residential home, in Orem, Utah.  Jeanne has lived there about 8 years, I followed last year, and Marilyn joined us the first of June 2022.

 

My Indoor Gym

 My indoor gym.  This works really well for exercise while watcing tv, etc!!!  Maria sent it.

Sunshine Every Afternoon and Sickness and Wellness

I love the way the sunshine comes

 in, in the afternoon.

 

So I ended up having the croupy cough for 3 and 1/2 weeks but NP Walker had sent me to an ENT to see if I could get better breathing in my nostrils.  I had a deviated septum operation in the 70s and I had cancer twice on my nose so the nostril was small.  Dr. Robbins said surgically he could do something but he wanted me to try Flonase for 3 weeks first.  I told him I thought I should not take inhaler except saline and he said it is a steroid but you can take it every day for the rest of your life and it will not harm you.

Guess what, taking flonase every night has been amazing.  I can breathe, I won't need any apparatus to help me breathe better!!!!!  However, because of the cougth and I was tested for covid twice and it was not covid, just a virus, I am staying away from the dining room and crowds.  I have not been attending church but watch it on Zoom.  Then I got a UTI and my NP. Jessica Walker has transfered to Park City so I had to go to Insta Care for a prescription and it did not finish the job so I went back and the put me on Cipro for another 5 days and cleared that up.  Then as had happened before I got thrush after all the antibiotics and I am clearning it up with Genitian Violet.

I am still staying away from the dining room (pick up my food and bring to room) and crowds such as activities and church.  I am trying to build up my immune system and I am sleeping well and eating less though I do consume desserts and sugar....  I do need to get a new specialist under Dr. Jones, I believe, before I can have my spring checkup.

I have had angina 3 times and my legs ache sometimes and I am sleeping more, that may be because of the aortic valve but I do not want to have the TAVR done.  

I have been told more than once now that it does not prolong your life that long and other problems can happen.  I found out that Bill Hayford had it done in 2015 and died in March 2016 anyway. 

So I am trying to walk twice a day with Sadie but sometimes only do it once.  I am sleeping well.

I also need to wash the windows of the patio doors.

Happy Birthday, Janet, 89 Years Old

I find if I move my puzzle in the daytime to let the light in I can see better.  And actually it is good at night, too, because there is a light directly above!!!

 Actually to celebrate my birthday this year I bought a Marie Callendar Strawberry Rhubarb Pie.  I baked it early and then shared it with Jeanne later in the day.  It was delicious.

Better Place for Jackets

When I moved into Treeo I put all the jackets in my bedroom closet and out here by the washer and dryer I put a vacuum and other stuff like that.  Today I found it is much better to have the jackets out here and find other places for the vacuum etc.  I still have my laundry soap and garbage bags, etc. out here without a problem.

 

Shopping Without a Car

This is the first time I went shopping at Smiths since I sold my car.  It is very easy to take this red cart from the laundry room and fill it with all my groceries and then check out and come home.  Smiths is so close.  I do not take Sadie with me, though.

 

Beautiful Sunset

 

Christmas 2021

1000 piece puzzle was Santorini!!!!

Sadie loves her bed!

 

My Puzzle Set up

 

My wonderful present of nice sox!!!!

Christmas Day I woke with a croupy cough and it only got worse.  There was a guy at our table the week before and I caught it, whatever it was.  Sick for Christmas, bummer!

More Christmas, 2021

Three of the Christmas Presents from Maria, Amazon 

Michael cooks his own Christmas Dinner!!!

First Time Late?

Jeanne and I have been listening to Church on Zoom but decided to go to regular meeting today.  She said she was dressed and ready and would go down to the shuttle to be there at 10:15.  I said I would try and make it but I had fallen asleep and it was after nine when I woke up.

I did get there just in time for the shuttle but Lee told me it was full so I got a ride over with another lady who was taking her car.  I waited for the bus to unload at the church, until the end, and then found out that Jeanne was not aboard.

I rode back with Lee and found Jeanne upstairs all ready to go.  She said she had had to go to the bathroom just before leaving and by the time she got finished it was too late to catch the shuttle.  I said, "We may as well go as we were all ready", so I took her down to where my car was parked.  It was quite late by then but as the car was covered with snow, that took more time to clean it off.

By the time we got in the foyer the sacrament was being passed but the bread had already been offered so we didn't get to do the sacrament.  So by the time we got in there, it was 5 to 11...25 minutes late.

Jeanne said, "First time for everything!"  So she had never been late to church before?  Probably.

First Christmas Present, 2021

Maria sent a very interesting box of gifts from Amazon.  There is the Santorini Town 1000 piece puzzle of one of the favorite places I traveled to.  Five sox which are so comfy.  Elderberry gummy pills.  Licorice Caramels!!!!  Linen Spray for bed at night.  Hemp cream is supposed to take pain away.  I am trying that out on my leg first and then my left arm which still aches from lifting something too big.  A very nice assortment of things I love!!!  Thanks Maria and Johnny.

 

Snow, Glorious Snow!!!

 

Turtle Cheesecake

These are the kind of desserts they sometimes serve here at Treeo and the reason I have gained almost 20 lbs since I moved here.

 

Brazi Bites

A quick home baked treat!!!

 

Mountains Viewed While Walking

I try and walk Sadie twice a day for 15 minutes each time.  The view of the mountains lately has been covered by clouds and snowing.  Sadie would like to walk faster.  She is always looking back and me and wondering why I have to walk so slow.  I have taking her off the leash as we head to back of Treeo just so she can run, run, run.

 

Covid!!!

Jeanne was acting weak and so Steven took Jeanne to her doctor on Oct 21.  Among other things she was tested for Covid and it came out positive so she has to quarantine for 10 days. 

 Sunday night her 

oxygen was low so Steven took her in and she perked right up.  However, they kept her at the hospital for a couple of days.  

Treeo would not let her back in so she then had to go to Heritage Healthcare until 10 days are up.

At the hospital they said she was the oldest Covid patient and the healthiest Covid patient.

I also had to quarantine for 5 days and then test negatively which I did, two days in a row.  Steven had brought me the tests.  On the Friday when I talked to Jim Pratt he told me that a lady across the hall from Jeanne had tested positive but she was moving out so her children took her home.

J