Did I show you this...

We came out of Walmart back in the summer and saw this in the distance...

Forgive me if this is a repeat.  We have Directv but one of these days I am apt to get so fed up with the rise in prices that I quit them.  I could go on a real rant here, but I won't.

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I told you the other day about Sean of the South...well, his little story was excellent today.  Go HERE to read it...I think the women will really appreciate it.

Hope you aren't tired of geese....

We decided to run to Super Walmart to pick up a few things there that our little Walmart doesn't carry.  We went through one end of the strip pits as we headed that way...



The day was actually just a gray day.  Just so much fog and mist...have your sound on to hear them.  You might want to try half volume to begin with.



My hands had started to try to tremble with the fist video I showed...I thought if I paused it would stop but as you can see they still trembled some.  It all happened so quick that I didn't even attempt to get my mono-pod out.



I so wish you could see them all in person...these videos just do not do them justice.  Down at the south of of this pond were several swans but so far you can barely see them with the naked eye.

 

From the strip pits

First this bird...I am not sure what it was.  I know it was not a vulture, and if it was a hawk, it was a HUGE hawk, but by the same token, if it was a juvenile bald eagle, it was on the small side.  Also, the underneath side was not white like most hawks. I have a hard time zooming in and tracking with my little point & shoot camera.

This is way down at the end of a pond...I was surprised this photo turned out even this good...again, trying to zoom in and track the two swans was difficult.

 I managed this capture as these swans passed over right in front of us.

 There were several Canada Geese...this group was near us on the north side of the road.

This is the pond on the south side of the road...and this is showing just a small portion of the geese that were up on the bank.  I have never seen the quite like this before.  I have seen them in the fields near other ponds, though so guess it amounts to the same thing.
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Roger's BP was fairly high again tonight.  I don't know why.  He had had a coughing spell right as I took it...I waited a couple minutes to take it and it was still 163/88.  In the hospital and rehab they wanted to keep the upper number 140 or below because of the fact that he had had the bleeds.  Again, I gave him a whole BP pill instead of the normal half a pill...it came down quickly tonight so maybe the whole pill was not needed.

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I have told some of my blog friends of the things Roger is having to relearn but haven't shared them in detail on here.  Simple things we all take for granted.  Things like telling the time.  He can read a digital watch, though sometimes numbers pop out of his mouth that are not what he means to say.    It is almost as if he just has to say something...but I can say not it isn't 3:00...and he will look again and say, oh, it is 1:00.

As for a clock with a dial...he is having to learn to tell time all over that way.  But is really improving with that.  As long as I don't ask him to do too many times in a short period. 

But don't ask him what year it is...he seldom gets that right.  

He cannot just sit down and read...he has to spell out words and then can usually tell you what they are.   But what is funny, a lot of times he can read longer words.  

He can write words a lot easier than he can print them, though he still has some trouble with a few letters in writing.  But nothing like when he prints.  And I have him print the alphabet most days. 

I won't put it all in this one post, but will continue to tell some of the things he deals with as time goes on.