I'm considering....

... discontinuing my weekly posts.

I started doing the weekly entries when I was in a major health crisis, and was trying to keep loved ones far away informed of the step by step process of fighting cancer.

It was easier than multiple phone calls all saying the same thing, especially because I am just not a fan of talking on the phone.

Now, I find it difficult to think of things to say in my blog from week to week.... and I only know of one person who actually reads what I write.

If there is more than one of you out there, please leave a comment, and leave your thoughts on my going back to only posting when something important happens.  

Thanks!

We had a beautiful week this past week.  It was so much cooler that we could open the screen doors in the mornings and let the fresh air in.

This was fortunate, because it was this past week that our air conditioning decided to go on the fritz.

Thankfully, the service call fee was all we had to pay, because the technician said all it needed was a cleaning.

Phew!

I got out and walked every day, and never got one heat related head ache!  Yay!

Today, we are going to go see Pop, and hope that he's awake.  It's so frustrating to go all the way up there and find him sleeping.

We usually reward ourselves with a margarita and some nachos at a restaurant that we like,  so that helps a little.

Anyway, I have a video of the Union Pacific 4014 steam engine that I hope to be able to show him.  He probably doesn't remember me telling him that they rebuilt one, and it's in steam again, so this will be all new for him.

EDIT: Here's what I posted on the Union Pacific Steam Club page after we visited Pop today:

My father-in-law is 88, and lives in a memory care home. Usually, when we go to see him, he's either asleep, or mostly incoherent, due to his unique form of dementia.

I downloaded the video my nephew took of the 4014 blowing through Wheaton, IL, as well as the night time picture my brother Cole posted earlier, and we went to visit Pop.

I found a picture of the 4023 in one of Pop's train books, and we looked at that picture while I told him about the restoration of the 4014 (again).

Then, I got my lap top, and played the video for him, and he just busted out in the biggest smile I think I have ever seen on his face. He was totally engaged, and lucid, with us for those few minutes.

He even commented with the critical eye of an artist on the beauty of the "sleeping giant" picture.

It was such a gift!!

Thanks, Ed and crew, and everyone else who brought the Big Boy back to life.

We live in OKC, and hope to see it ourselves some day!

Anyway.....We got the chores and yard work done yesterday, so there is nothing else pressing to do today.