old recliner up in my man cave,

I am writing this from the comfort of my old recliner up in my man cave, with it in the reclined position, it is suppose to hit 101 degrees by Monday, outside of course, and I am alone except for Charley and my A/c is putting out 55 degrees at my kitchen register vent, so I am good. It is so quiet. Donna just left a couple of hours ago with her older sister Juanita and our granddaughter Nikki  headed up to Ohio to see their sister with Nikki in tow.  Neither Donna nor Juanita really want to go but they both say the same thing, that their sister isn't in the best of health and they would never forgive themselves if they didn't go see her and something did happen to her. They should be back on Monday or Tuesday.  

 Nikki is going to be a senior next year, she is 18 but if you remember she has a disability with learning and expressing her thoughts so she talks a lot in short sentences. It is a condition with a big long name that I can't remember. I just love her. We have fun together teasing and when I pick her up from school I am in a long line of cars going to the front of the school to pick her up and when I get to the front, I slide over to the passengers seat in my big old Cadillac and let her drive with the other kids watching and she drives us back to my home and stays till her mom Melissa gets off work to pick her up. She has a learners permit so it's legal and she does really good using turn signals and watching both ways, and she gets a kick out me letting her drive. One day we were on a back road and I asked if she liked to drive fast and she smiled and nodded yes. I said " OK , don't tell anybody or you will get me in trouble, Ok ? Nobody knows about this right ? She said ok. I told her to slow down then punch it,go ahead, punch it,  This car has a big engine and it's pretty fast. She did somewhat and was smiling from ear to ear as it accelerated. Then I told her to slow back down and watch out for cops. I wanted her to know what it felt like in case she had to speed up and would know what to expect in that situation. So in a few miles we were home and the first thing she did was run into Donna's sewing/work room and yells " Papa told me to punch it! Punch it !" Her whole face smiling like the Cheshire cat in Alice in wonderland.  Donna starts laughing as I hollered " Nikki, you wasn't suppose to tell! You said you would keep it a secret ! Now we are both in trouble"  We all just busted out laughing. Yeah, that is one of the good times. She knows she is "not normal' but isn't afraid to try to be as Melissa encourages her to reach for her limits and she played soccer and softball in school.  I bet she will have a good time with her "Meme" on this trip.

 

 I went to my Dr. for my normal 6 months appt, Mine was 140 /90. The Dr told me to get a machine and record my pressures for him,  lay completely off salt, stay away from hot dogs, hamburgers, tv dinners, eat a lot more veggies and walk a lot more than I have been. He wouldn't give me 6 months but told me to come back in 3 months and if it isn't at 120/70 then he wants me to go on blood pressure medicine. I don't want to. Period. ?  I don't know why mine shot up, last time it was 120/70 and I was so happy. I did slow down on my walking due to the cold weather. maybe  that had something to do with it?  Anyway, I hope so as Charley and me are back at it. I did almost 6000 steps yesterday. Yaa for me!I went to Amazon and bought the best one they had but it's not grateful to have a new home as it told me my pressure is about 145/ 92 . Stupid Ungrateful machine ! I checked Nikki's last night and she was 90/ 60 or something like that.  It must hate me. 

Dr. Buddy told me not to worry as his Dr likes people our age to have higher pressure so it pushes the blood through the veins better. Ok, nuff said about that.

I grew up on a home on Humboldt street in a city where I remember playing in the big front yard, I googled the address and found It is gone forever, tore down and a new house built and the big front yard is gone also in it's place is another house.I think I recognize the monkey ball tree we had a tire swing on in their front yard. I also tried to see if the very fine and soft grass that grew in the far corner near the telephone pole was still there. I use to love playing with my toy soldiers in that super soft grass that never seemed to get very tall over in that shady corner. But alas I can't tell in the picture.It is so true that time marches on ( why doesn't it dance instead? dancing is a lot more fun than marching) and waits for no man. Damn I am getting old.

 I am up super early this morn (4 am) as I was having bad dreams again and my dog woke me up, thankfully, when she decided to get up in bed and lay on my butt and between my legs as I lay on my tummy, then I really couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided to get up and get me a cup of hot tea in these predawn hours while my world sleeps around me. I have to admit I do like her cuddling to me but it makes it hard to roll over or change positions during the night. I would cuddle to Donna but she always tells me my body is to hot and I need to move over. This must be true as Rose use to say the same thing sometimes but let me cuddle anyway, well sometimes. I find it funny how my body can put off heat and Donna's bigger body doesn't. Maybe my body is burning more energy even resting and thus producing heat? I think so. Well at Charley dog likes my extra heat.

  Remember I take pills now the neurologist  prescribed, they slow some of my brain activity down (random nerve firings)  to help my tremors this is because my mind is so smart and active all the time that my big ole head can't handle it all and my body just has to move to burn some of the brain activity off. Yeah, that's it, just to much to handle, that's the story !!  Ha ha.

 We were talking the other day and Donna told me she can just sit there and not think of anything, nothing, just kind of zone out to speak and just relax. Well I can never do that, not think of anything? No way, I try and I start thinking of not thinking. I try humming like I see people on TV doing yoga and I start humming a tune or pretend to be a air raid siren or my mind starts thinking of me being a Guru on a mountain top with legs crossed just sitting there humming and waiting for someone to crawl up to me and ask "what is the whole point of life" , "Why are we living".  Not think of anything? no way, not me, to much brain activity going on. One day I might actually put it to use for a good cause or invent a perpetual motion machine or a battery that will convert the sun's energy to electricity and store it for use and never wear out or degrade over time, maybe one day I will do just that. Yeah, that's the ticket! That's what I will do alright ,but not just now, you see my coffee pot just stopped gurgling and the sun is starting to peek it's round red head up on the horizon so I need to go get me a cup of fresh brewed coffee. Soon as I get my girly dog out of my lap and get up out of this recliner.Yes my day is off to a good start. Just another day in paradise. 

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