January 8, 2011

Right out of the “chute” today, we were BUSY! We’re up early and, you guessed it! Mamaw is cleanin again…hope she finishes up before she works her fingers to the bone…and as she’s workin she’s thinking about that “little oops” the lady made at Office Max and tells Poppy she’s thinkin about not even goin over there today. He thought that was a perfect solution—after all—it wasn’t Mamaw’s problem that it happened and they got the company comin and she insists on bein ready. So she picked up the whole shebang and put it away till next week when she REALLY has the time to make sure its all in the right order before she goes back. You can bet she’ll be givin em a piece of her mind too…well deserved.

Poppy made contact with John Swanson so he’s comin with the pickup to go get the file cabinet. Now we are waitin for Mike and Stacey to get here so he can help. So I had all kinds of young men at my feet and it isn’t even noon. When they got back, and as they are carryin that HUGE thing through the big sliding doors in the basement, I played it safe and watched from the top of the stairs. Boy, those guys are STRONG.

They had a bite to eat (just junk food) and the men got ready to leave the house to get to Valley West. Poppy is checkin Mike’s eyes today to see if he was gonna need new glasses. So when they left Mamaw started putting some of the food together in preparation for tomorrow. And she had her own boo boo but she swore me to secrecy. Come and visit me and I’ll whisper it in your ear though…As she’s workin the phone rings—it’s my Poppy. He says he wants to run the new equipment on Mike’s eyes and it’s at Merle Hay so they were goin there. That is wonderful! Mamaw can get her mess cleaned up and all will be well.

Yep—he needs new glasses—they’re gonna be ready around 6:00 p.m. so they hung around and visited till then. I was so exhausted from all the work Mamaw did that I supervised—and walked the floor lookin for “treats” that I just fell asleep. In fact, after the fact they told me my Ozzie was out and I missed him. Now did ya hear me?—I WAS TIRED!!!

In the kennel and off they go with the promise to be back later to roll some balls around the table. They went to get Mike’s new glasses (boy is he HANDSOME in those) and Mamaw showed Stacey a swell shop she thought she and her mother might enjoy and then off to Nick’s for a cocktail and dinner.

Happy as larks they walk in the door and it didn’t take them very long to open a bottle of Moscato, grab a couple of beers and head for the basement. I went along with em cause I just knew we were gonna have a blast! We did…lots of teasing and givin advice all around. Poppy and Stacey beat Mike and Mamaw—5-4 games. Then Poppy didn’t want to play any more and Mamaw says that’s cause he didn’t want her “Allison Fisher pool arm” to get goin.
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Long day—wonderful day—best hit the rack—Regina and family are comin to join us tomorrow…