Sharp's Travels

Cheri and I both put in a bad night. Cheri got up in the night and went out on the couch to try and sleep. I have been awake since 3:00 am. So we were a little slow getting going today. This morning we took a stool sample over to the hospital for Grandpa. Thought all we had to do was drop it off. It turned out we had to wait to be called to the desk and have paper work filled out. It took us 45 minutes to get this done, nothing is simple anymore. This afternoon Bud Avery and I went for a motorcycle ride. We put on 120 miles. It was a lot of fun as I hadn’t been on a ride for over a month. We rode north to the Russell Stover Candy outlet store. It is the largest candy store I’ve ever been in (had to by some candy). Cheri work on a folder of the things we did for the Wisconsin Pot Luck and we will give it to the people that are going to put on the pot luck next year. It was after dark before we got our evening walk done.

I took Grandpa for his follow up doctor appointment at 8:30 am. He has to have another x-ray of his head. The first one may have showed a problem and needed another one to be sure if there is a problem. The hospital will call us with an appointment. We got back home at 10:00 am. At 10:45 am Cheri and I went to the Rec Hall to start getting things ready for the Pot Luck. Ken and Eileen came shortly afterwards. By the time we got the tables set up and brats boiled and fried on the grill it was 1:00 pm and time to eat. Everyone did a short bio and we played a couple of games. There were 29 of us from Wisconsin. By the time we got every thing cleaned up it was 4:30 pm when we got home. Every one had a good time and plans to do it again next year. Cheri and I did our evening walk and called it a day.

I took Grandpa to the back doctor for his 9:15 am appointment. He got a good report from the doctor and doesn’t have to go back for 6 weeks. Late morning Cheri and I went to Wal-Mart to pick up the brats and buns for the Wisconsin Pot Luck tomorrow, also picked up medicine for Grandma. We spent most of the afternoon updating Grandpa’s medical history on the computer. I also canceled the new camera that I had ordered; it’s been a total of 6 weeks since I order the fist one. I had ordered one and waited 4 weeks and checked on line and saw it at the same place $30.00 cheaper, so I canceled and reordered. It has now been two weeks and tried to call them and was on hold for 10 minutes. I figured something isn’t right about this place so I canceled. When I get a canceled confirmation I will order from some other place.

After church 6 of us went to Arby’s for lunch. About 1:00 pm Cheri and I went down to Ken and Eileen’s to put together a list of things we need to do for the Wisconsin Pot Luck on Tuesday. We took our evening walk and need a jacket, as it was a cool day. The rest of the day was spent reading and watching TV.

It was a gloomy damp day with some wind, rain, no sun and a high of 61 degrees. Cheri did cleaning, laundry, baked a lemon pie and a chicken casserole for supper. I played lazy, read and watched TV. This evening at 9:00 pm Grandma called and said Grandpa was having chest pains and need to go to the hospital. So we took him in, they did blood work and chest x-ray. They found his blood pressure was high, when that came down they sent him home. We got home at 11:30 pm.