Our Week

Nothing much to report! 

Monday morning, Carl had a recheck appointment here at the University of  Nevada, Reno, with his endocrinologist or results of lab testing and his ultrasound of the neck and bone density results.  Found out that today, Friday, was his last day before he left the state for work and to live.  Ugh.  Carl has elevated calcium level and elevated parathyroid hormone levels in his blood, which can suck the calcium out of the bones and cause brittle bones.  Which the bone density scan confirmed.  So of courses this doctor doesn't want to recommend or send him for surgery or medication treatment due to the fact that the dr is leaving town and can't follow up!  !  We decided to try to get him referred through the local VA to their endocrinologist.  I have to take his lab and ultrasound reports to his VA primary care dr today so they can work on that.  I will be glad when all his care is through the VA.

We travelled to our son's home in Roseville, a two hour drive on Monday afternoon.  It was so HOT.  I kept saying, Satan called and wants his weather back!  Was close to 102 on Monday and Tuesday.  We went to our grandson Jackson's first practice on Monday late afternoon for his Fall Baseball team.  Again, HOT. Even in the shade, HOT. 

Tuesday Carl had an appointment at the Sacramento VA for his yearly dermatology check.  Everything was fine, a few spots burned off.  No issues thank goodness.

Wednesday morning I had an appointment with Jamie for a cut and color.. Nice to treat myself! Jamie and I always have fun and laughs and heart to heart talks.  Good therapy!

We drove home Wednesday afternoon after stopping at Starbuck's for a treat.  Even Prince had a Puppachino!

Yesterday, Thursday, we did a lot of errands after Carl's physical therapy appt and had a nice lunch out.  Later in the afternoon we had a painter come and spray stain on our wood fence.  We live in a HOA and are required to stain the fences every 3 years.  They provide 5 gallons of stain, we had to buy a couple more gallons since we have a lot of fence.  Money well spent to have it done for us, we aren't able to do these type of things any longer.  Carl was exhausted last night!

Our neighbor Will came over and installed the new shower head we bought for our master bath shower, the old one came from our previous home and developed a crack.  Looks nice, Carl was too tired last night to try it out, but he took a shower this morning and said it was great.  Thank you, Will!  We have been blessed with wonderful neighbors that is for sure.  So helpful to us old folks...

Today going for a mani/pedi this afternoon in preparation for our cruise in 4 days!  Need to finish laying out clothes and finish the packing by tomorrow.  So excited to cruise to Alaska!

That's about it.  Have a great weekend!

It's National Dog Day!

Of course, since I am the DOGMOM, I have to post a cute picture or two of Prince, King of the House!

Prince is very entertaining and always makes us laugh!  Sharing to Comedy Plus...Aww Mondays

PRETTY THINGS

I am not very crafty with blog post titles!  So there it is!  lol

Thought I would share a few of my pretty teacups today.  These were given to me over time.  Lately I have been a coffee drinker, but maybe I need to switch back to tea and use these lovely cups.

 

 This set is a family heirloom, it is marked Occupied Japan, so it is from the 40's.  If you hold the teacup up to the light, you can see a lovely Japanese lady.  Pretty cool and it always fascinated me as a kid.  Glad I have it!

These two teacups were purchased by me when we visited London in 2007.  Tea with the Queen!

 

 

These two sets were given to me by my sweet cousin Donna

Here is our suitcase dilemma for our upcoming cruise.  I know, first world problems.  Do we use the big heavy one on the right, and the other two, or do we just use the other two plus one more carryon.  Weight is the main issue as we are limited to 50lb per bag.  Oh well, we will figure it out.  Like I said, first world problems.

Sharing this with Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound.  Please stop by to visit the lovely Beverly and my fellow Pinkies!

I love your comments, thank you!

Boy, am I ready for FALL.  It is my most favorite season!  When we lived in Southern California, we really did not have SEASONS.  Living here in Northern Nevada since February 2016, I love the seasons.

Wikipedia:

Autumn, also known as fall in American English and sometimes in Canadian English,^[1] is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. One of its main features in temperate climates is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.

Here are a few FALL images to hang on to!

Enjoy!

Cruising Fun!

The only issue I really have with trying to get my blog voice again, is what the heck do I blog about?  How do some of you bloggers come up with posts every couple of days?  Maybe I am overthinking things a bit.  Anyway, let me know where you all get your inspiration from!

I thought well, I can write a post about some of our travels.  It's been pretty quiet here at the homestead for a while, we have made a couple of trips to our younger son's place this summer for a few days at a time, they only live a couple hours away so it's a fairly frequent trip for us.

We have a cruise coming up in 17 days, our first to Alaska.  Very excited about going and can barely contain myself, lol.  However, we did take a 6 night cruise in April, from Los Angeles to Vancouver, BC on the Norwegian Bliss.  We had a lot of fun, but it was too short!  We traveled with our friends Bill and Ruth, Steve and Bev, Frank and Mary Ellen, and Doug and Debbie.  It's always fun to travel with these friends and this is the 3rd time we have cruised with them.

We started out by flying to Los Angeles and boarding the ship on Sunday, April 28th.  The first day and night was spent trying to figure out where things were and of course, eating!

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Bill and Ruth flew to L.A. with us, they live nearby!

 

Debbie, Carl and Doug
 







Balcony Breakfast

Sailing in to San Francisco

The ten of us rented a Limo in Victoria, BC

Sailing into Vancouver BC

Steve

Steve, Frank, Bill and Doug

Ruth, Debbie, Mary Ellen and Bev

Vancouver Bus Station, yes, we took a bus

Customs check point

Yum, Beechers Mac and Cheese at Seattle airport

At the end of our trip, we ended up needing to find transportation to SEATAC airport.  After some crazy figuring things out, we ended up taking a bus from Vancouver to Seattle.  It was some unplanned stress at the end of our cruise, but it all worked out fine!  And then before we knew it, we were home once again...