Not a good Christmas

 

Yes I was in the hospital during Christmas. Christmas eve was spent looking out the window of my hospital room. I had not planned on being sick, but the Coronus hit me like a ton of bricks. I found myself not being able to get out of my chair. Kris finally had to help me up and I tried to get to the bathroom, but my legs gave out and I felt weak all over. 

Then I found myself on the floor of the bathroom not being able to get up from there. The ambulance was called, and I took my first ride ever. I had never been in an ambulance before, nor have I ever been in a hospital before. When I was overseas, I was airlifted to a field hospital and put in a ward, but it was nothing like a civilian hospital. This was not like anything I had experienced before. 

The nursing staff was so nice, and the food was really good! 

I felt really bad because I had ruined Christmas and Sherrilyn's Birthday! I will have to make up for it as soon as I get well.

We have moved Christmas off until January 25. We all will get together to celebrate it along with Sherrilyn and my birthday.

Overall, I feel good now and I believe I am on the mend. I look forward to better days...

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Just looking back at some of my artwork

 

It has been sometime since I have picked up a paintbrush. I really do not have anywhere to set up a studio where I am. I hope to get located somewhere I can.

I have not made much money off the sales of my paintings, but I do make enough along to replenish my supplies. 

I have been doing more watercolors in the past. I have been using 140 lb. paper that has worked well for me. I try to keep the cost as low as possible. 

My plan is to show my art as soon as we get relocated back west of here. The only outlet close to me now is Gladewater but they are not having any shows now. 

I have purchased a new Cannon camera that I plan on using to acquire some new photos to paint. The weather here has been a little too warm for me to paint on site. With the camera I can snap a picture and then take it back with me to paint later. There is nothing better than to be out in nature enjoying its beauty...

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How I miss my Colorado home

 

Just can't tell you how much I miss my Colorado views! I had one good time painting all the beautiful sites that I saw in the mountains. There is just something about the mountains that made me want to paint almost all the time. 

I know that I am not a master at this art. I do know that it sooths my PSTD. When I am painting, I am there and in many cases I was there. 

Not that Texas doesn't have beautiful landscapes they are just not as majestic as the landscapes I saw and painted in Colorado. I have painted landscapes in Texas and enjoyed doing so, but when you are sitting in an alpine valley looking up at 14,000 ft mountains it really takes your breath away!

I will probably not see Colorado again until I die, and my ashes are taken to Big Meadow. But through my paintings I can return there...

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Christmas lunch with our old set team

 

We try to get together each year to visit and reminisce days gone by. So many of our members have passed on. It is sad that our numbers are getting smaller and smaller. We enjoyed the time together and hope to do it again... 

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Thanksgiving gathering

 

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No turkey...enchiladas

We made the decision to do a Mexican Thanksgiving this year. No one really wanted to have to cook all that food and then have to turn around and clean up the mess. So, we went out to eat. Now Mexican was not the first choice but being that all the other restaurants were booked for the day Posadas was the closest and had available space for our crew to eat. 

We had a good time and catching up with some of the family that we have not seen in some time was well worth the travel time. We had to go to Lendale Texas being the most convenient for all. We had plenty of good food and room to seat everyone.

We sure missed those kids that could not attend this year. I know that they would have enjoyed us...we are so much fun!

After our meal we all went out front for pictures and spent some more time catching up. We all have so much to be thankful for. I do hope that we can all gather again...

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Christmas is here

 

Decorations are done

Our main man does not need the ladder

Here it is Christmas, and we are decorated and ready. We wont be here for the holidays...we will be traveling to our oldest son's house for that. We are planning on having our entire family this year and our little house wont hold everyone. We have had all of them in Christmas past, but it was a struggle.

Kris will be going into on campus housing the first of the year. I don't know if I will be able to take him not being here with us. We depend on him for so much. All our items over 6 ft off the floor will no longer be attainable. I just hate to call him to come home and get our cereal boxes down off the top shelf.

We will be here in this park for several more months. We will not leave even though Kris is packing up. The prices here are so great we just can't bare to go anywhere else. Really, we both love our home site. It is so quite here and most all the stores are accessible within a short drive. I have the pond just across from me to fish. They let you keep a reasonable amount for a fish fry.

I already have my Christmas gift for this year. I got a new HP computer and am using it right now to post this journal entry. I have been amiss in posting due to my old computer being slow. It is nice having a device that goes faster than I can type. So, I hope to be more forthcoming with posting...

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Once again we have moved to a new home site.

 

With Kris starting school in Marshall Texas and not being able to secure campus housing we decided to move there. He is going to stay with us until he can move into a dorm there. He has been told that there would be availability in January so we are planning on staying here until then.

It is really nice here we have a fishing pond right across from us and I can just walk down and wet a worm there. It is a catch and release, but we do have a store down the road that sells fish!

We do miss the kids east of us. They are about 2 hours away which makes it hard to drop by and visit. Thanks for video chat we can see them...almost a good as a in home visit.     NOT.

Yesterday we drove over to Shreveport and did a little gambling. We are only 45 minutes away...which by the way is dangerous! Sherri and I had a good time and believe it or not we did not spend too much. I think there might be more trips...

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Today is Jennifer's birthday

 We were so use to living next door to our daughter it was hard to be away from her! We have relocated to Gladewater Texas so we can get Kris in school and in doing so we had to leave Jen and her bunch in Terrell. I know that she will have a good day even if we are not there to celebrate with her. We hope to be moving back close to her and Jason as soon as Kris gets settled...

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Kris started school at TSTC

 Yes Kris started school today after many trips to Marshall to sigh him up. I had forgotten how much paperwork is involved with  getting started. He is getting some help from grants and the VA. Me being a veteran will help on the tuition. He has elected to live at home for the first semester. He wanted to get use to the program before he committed to living in campus housing.

We have located our home close to the campus so he wont have too far to drive. He is planning on getting a job after the first week or so. This way he will be use to his schedule and can get a job that will work with it.

Sherri and I will just hang out here for the time being and then when he gets settled in the dorm we will be moving on. Where?...not real sure but just like the rest of our lives it will be an adventure...

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This is the time to catch up on my journal

 

Kept the grandbaby

Franki started back to school

The storm blew the back fence down

Sherri and Kris took up a new sport

 

We have been moving quite a bit since Kris has been preparing for Tech School. He will be staying with us until the dorm comes available. 

Before we left the last park where Jennifer and her kids lived we kept Dakota, Sarah's baby. We were the live-in baby setter and loved it. But now we have headed east to Gladewater where we are staying at the Antique Capital RV Park. We are waiting for an opening at another park closer to Marshall where Kris will be attending school.

Franki, another granddaughter, graduate to sophomore this year and  we got some pictures of her on the first day of school. We are proud of her. She is very athletic...she plays basketball volleyball and runs track. Not sure if she will be playing baseball this year? 

By the way I forgot to mention that at that park we had a very bad storm come through. We were vey lucky that we did not have any serious damage to our RV. Cant say that about our back fence which was blown down. They have not rebuilt it according to Jennifer. We had to move her RV to another location so they could build the fence. It is much quieter where we moved her. She is much further from the highway now and closer to the pool.

At our new park Sherri and Kris have found the pool table. This is their new sport. I have to admit that I am taken with it also. To bad at our new park which we will be moving to there is no pool table. Maybe we can find a nice Pool Hall near by...

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Yes Kris graduated...I'm a little behind in posting it

Would not look over to see us !

Sure look sad

I could not be prouder

 Mom and I were so happy to see our boy take possession of that diploma after all the years of sending him off to school.

Now he is off to TSTC for 19 months. He will be studding diesel off highway mechanics. That means he can work on any type of diesel machinery. A friend of his took this at TSTC and was placed in a job right out of school. He travels all over fixing all kinds of diesel equipment from earth moving equipment to diesel generators. 

We will be praying for Kris and look forward to his success...

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