Scattered Thoughts . . .

Thursday night, Sheila and I were relaxing at home and our Alexa Show started flashing light and sounding a notification sound...  I told Alexa to answer the call...  Miss Mackenzie was on the other end and had to ask us something.  Gee came into the room as Mackenzie asked if she could have a sleepover at our house.  Gee excitedly answered, "Of course you can have a sleepover with us!" So, Kenzie has been with us this weekend.  Last night we had some meatballs, pasta and bread for dinner.  We watched a movie or two.  This morning I made my pastry-style French toast with a side of bacon and Gee sliced up some strawberries to add to the French toast.  It was delicious! We have a big snowstorm headed our way and had some errands to run so we had planned to immediately head out after breakfast.  Mackenzie and I were ready before Gee so I shot a few photos of her...  here is one from that bunch... One of these days, I need to do a longer modeling session with her.  She i

Not a day goes by when I don't turn a certain way or lift something incorrectly or simply breath incorrectly that I am instantly slammed with spinal pain that is enough to trigger my body to involuntarily buckle at the knees.  In those daily instances, I manage to catch myself before hitting the floor.  This morning, I awoke with spinal pain in my lumbar spine.  I got up out of bed and instantly fell to the floor, a heap of red-hot nerves in excruciating pain... wedged between the wall, the nightstand and the little step-stool to help get in and out of our rather tall bed.   I've had a nasty cold...  perhaps the flu, I don't know which nor do I care...  for the past three weeks.  I still have nasty, thick phlegm running down my throat at night so I try to sleep propped up on three pillows to keep me from choking.  This helps me breath, typically, but it is terrible for my spinal injuries.  Anyway, the cold is still lingering, causing problems, and getting my abnormally ex

Back a month ago, we went to one of Lukey's hockey games at Stowe Arena.  After hockey, we all went to a local Christmas Tree farm to cut Christmas trees and then went out to lunch.  I'll write more and share more photos of the tree farm and lunch but this long overdue blog entry is about Lukey's hockey game. Lukey was in goal for this particular game and he did a good job.  It is funny, it seems like every time I started recording video, Lukey let up a goal!  I did happen to capture a few good saves by him but the video is a bit misleading.  He actually did have a lot of saves...  far more than goals scored against him.  Most importantly, Lukey had a great time in goal! So, here are a few photos from the game. At the bottom of the page, there is a short video too... It is difficult to spot at first but, in this photo below, Lukey blocked the shot with his right leg pad...  the hockey puck is blurred because