Sick

I feel like crap. Sore throat started 5 days ago. Got antibiotics on Friday, that didn't help. Had fever (102) and chills all weekend can't swallow, one tonsil is 2x as big as the other, white spots on throat. Saw the Dr. today. Got script for a different antibiotic to start tomorrow. Now I have heartburn.

Good news. Lynn says I have lost 54 pounds, ( thought it was 51) Blood pressure is down, he decreased meds. OK I'm done b****** now.

Thanks for listening

Triva

While we were on vacation we stopped at a restaurant at Foote Site Village, called Desi's It had pictures of old movie and TV stars all over the walls, and I mean ALL over. One of the pictures was of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Roy's sidekick, but none of us could remember his name (I said Dale Evans but they said not the other guy) . We remembered that he drove Nelleybell, but not his name . Charlie said Pat Butram. That sounded close, but not just right. I didn't have a chance to look it up til this morning. You can find the answer at classic TV westerns. Before I tell you the answer, did you remember who it was?

Ok, Roy's side kick was Pat Brady.
Pat Butram was Gene Autry's sidekick and may years later was on Green Acres.

Of course this brought up other Side kicks and other shows we used to watch on Saturday morning. Does anybody remeber Jingles Jones (Andy Devine) I also found out that he also played "Cookie" in some Roy Rogers movies. How about Sky King, and of course the Lone Ranger, and Sgt Preston of the Yukon. What others do you remember? Let me know either in the comments section or on facebook.

Back from Vacation

We, Charlie and I, just returned today from 6 days at Tawas point State Park.
Spent time with my brother, sister and brother-in-law. Didn't get to spend time with the younger members of the family because they all had to work some of them couldn't come until last night or today and Shonda couldn't come at all and I had to get back for an appointment.

Having grown up and vacationed in Michigan, I have been to alot of places, but some how missed the Tawas area.Tawas is a nice park, right on Tawas point, so you have the bay on one side of the west side of the park and Lake Huron on the East. There a The campsites are pretty wide, but not very deep, and it was pretty crowded even though there were 10- 15 sites open each day.

The weather was good, it rained but not until evening, yesterday was absolutely beautiful.

Charlie and I went up the coast and stopped at to Iargo Springs, this is a picture of the steps going down to Iargo Springs this is a picture of the stairs going down to the Springs, and the sign.










These pictures are from the overlook at Iargo (by the way Iargo means land of many waters)











There were even more steps down to the river from the lumberman's monument that we visited yesterday.











I also got a some decent pictures of the lighthouse and the sunset. If I ever decide to start
painting again I may use them as models.

Chicken Fat

Hey it’s only been a week since I posted last. I'm doing good.

Most of the time I agree with Jenn, usually what I do doesn’t seem to blog worthy.

I lost 4 pounds last week, but gained 2 over the week-end.

We have been having a discussion at work about exercise and fat etc.

I remembered a song called Chicken Fat or Go you Chicken Fat go (by Robert Preston) in the early 60’s for the President’s council on Physical Fitness.

Only 3 of us say they remember it, but I thought would share with all of you. Just for fun

This is the first one I found, just the song and a power point presentation

This one kind of what it looked like when I was in school, except that we only had 12 kids in my class. I am not sure I could do the whole 6 minutes now,

But I probably could do this version

This version the little cartoon just makes me laugh. It reminded Jean and I of a dance we used to do call the

Stuff

It's been a month since I updated. Time certainly does fly. Haven't updated because I couldn't decide what to write about.

Here is a picture I took at Tom and Kathy's on the fourth.

Chris, came from Switzerland. We took him up to Houghton Lake to see Dick. He spend several days with his friend from school, Joel, and spent 3 or 4 days here.

Charlie spent the second week in July at the Eaton County Fair with the 4H girls. They did pretty well. A couple placed first in their class. One of the girls who had never done this before with a horse who had competed once or twice, but not a fair placed 8th, and one of the girls placed 2nd on one of her events. It was a looong week from Saturday through the next Sunday (9 days). I worked all week.

Then Charlie took Chris to the Airport on the 22nd.

Other news. I have lost a total of 40 pounds so far, and I walked 3 miles last week and yesterday. A few months ago, I had trouble walking a block.


The corn is starting to tassel and here is some I thought were kind of nice cool of new silk.


















Took a camera on my walk this evening, actually I took the camera to take pictures of things I noticed yesterday but did not have my camera with me.