I thought I would show a different photo of the goldfinch we were following the other day.  He did have a lady friend that he was with.
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We watched Iron Lady tonight.  I seem to end up feeling that so many movies are good, yet something is lacking or I want something more.  I know I felt like that about War Horse...I liked it but was really disappointed at the same time.  It as if there is no real meat to the stories.  I wonder if I am the only one that feels that way.

Or do you notice how so many of the newer movies has the noise so loud, one cannot hear what the characters are saying?  I get to thinking it is me losing my hearing, but then I see older movies and I don't have that problem.

I have been sitting watching the first season of Taxi...so far, Jim (Christopher Lloyd) has not made an appearance.  I can still watch the following video any time and laugh...notice how he wets the end of the pencil before he begins to write.  I must say this is one of the funniest bits ever....
 I have shown this before but might as well put it on here...maybe someone new will see it and enjoy it.

Had my Lorelei fix

 From a couple weeks ago

We went to see the kids today...cannot believe how long it had been.  We knew Lorelei's friend, Emily, would be there when we got there....and Lorelei is crazy about her friends and her cousins.  So, I told myself not to expect too much of a greeting.  I didn't need to worry...when we stepped inside, she was in the sunroom playing.

She looked up and saw that it was us and she yelled Marmaw! and jumped up from the floor and came running to us.  She hugged us and immediately wanted us to come play with her in the sunroom....which we did.  She played with us and with Emily. 

I learned few things from her....for one thing, she is going to have girl babies....according to her because, 'they're so cute, Mamaw!'  Yet she was talking to her little cousin that is just a few months old and she told us/him that he was so handsome.  This from a 3-yr. old...but she so loves him.  When he is napping and she hears him wake up, her eyes just light up.

She is learning to write her abc's and recognizes most of them...her imagination takes flight before we get all the way through 'writing' them.  Actually, her mom has these dry erase things...not sure what they are called.  But it has the letters printed, then it has where Lorelei follows dashed lines to make the letter. 

I am forgetting things she done today...but one her mom told me about the other day makes me smile every time I think of it.  They were out in their back yard the other day.  Lorelei tripped and fell over tree roots...she looked at her mom, got up, patted the tree and said , Sorry, Mrs. Tree!' and went on about her business.

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Well, that is it from our house.  I am so tired I cannot think straight.  

From the twilight zone...

I just thought I would do a little post as an update sort of thing. Not sure where to begin so I will just jump right in with saying when I started my blog break from this blog Roger was sick...we assumed with just a normal short termed flu. But since there is always something going on here, I was not going to mention it. I hate to be so boring...I was thinking give it a couple days and he will be okay.

But here I am mentioning it....he was sick for two weeks...fevers, chills, and sweats...with two visits to the doctor last week....he had his first night free of night sweats and feeling awful Monday night...this is after two trips to the doctor. He had ended up really dehydrated and low on potassium and sodium....anyway, Tuesday I said something to him about did he feel like he was getting out of the twilight zone? He said that described it exactly, but that he still felt boxed in....

We missed Easter with Lorelei...have not seen her since April 1....I have not been to the strip pits since some time the week before that. We did go for a short drive Sunday but I was too tired to enjoy it. I suppose the stress of it all. I was really thinking it was something besides flu. I figured he would end up in the hospital....thank God he didn't.

I have not accomplished anything I intended with my break from this blog...just could not settle in and work with worrying about Roger. Instead I have been spending a lot of time on Google Earth looking at photos...yesterday I kind of started feeling the return to normal. Hopefully I can get back in the groove and get a few things done.