Mom's Story - Installment #21

Well, today it's been exactly two years since we lost Mom. I still find myself thinking of things I've got to be sure to tell her, or heading to the phone to give her a call. It's been a little easier this year - as long as I don't think about it too long - (this is probably not helping) but we miss her and wish she was still down here with us.

This is the last post of her story. I wanted to post it on the anniversary of her going home to heaven, and it worked out that way.

We're waiting for hurricane Ike to get here - at least what we're going to get of Hurricane Ike. There's a possibility of high winds and lots of rain, so we'll see what happens this afternoon.

We've had some adventures over the past week or so that I'll try to get busy and tell you about in upcoming days. Hope you enjoy the rest of Mom's story.

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In May Joan and Bill got two horses for them to ride. They ride whenever they can. We got a telephone call from Butch and Judy and they plan to come for a visit on the 29^th. of May on their way to Lynette’s surprise 60^th. birthday party.

On Mother’s Day we took Okla Kirkpatrick from my Sunday School Class along to the Catfish King restaurant in Idabel after church. We had a good dinner and Okla was glad to have a place to go as her family hat just been to visit so weren’t there on Mother’s Day.

Delores called and said that Sharon said that they were coming to visit the 9^th. or 10^th. of June. Joan and I went to Espye’s on the 16^th. to practice All the players were there and it was good to see all of them again.

May 29^th, 2006 Butch and Judy Schickert came here. We had a really fun time but it was just too short. Maybe they’ll come back again when they can stay longer.

On June 3^rd. Lacie came up to go riding with Bill and Joan. They spent most of the morning and a while in the afternoon riding. They left the horses saddled up as they planned to ride again after supper. I cleared the table and loaded the dishwasher, and the three of them went riding on a new road behind the church. On the way back, Joan’s horse, Blaze, got poked with a sharp stick and jerked back. Joan fell off and landed on a flat rock on her back. It knocked the wind out of her. Lacie rode Big Guy to the house and left him in the yard and got Joan’s car and went to get her. Bill told Lacie to take the horses to the pasture and he took Joan down to see Debbie, the paramedic who lives in the house by the creek where they used to live. She put oxygen on her face and then they took her to Mena Hospital to see if anything was broken. This was about 9:00 PM. The X-rays showed 6 cracked ribs and they sent her to Ft. Smith in case one punctured a lung. On Sunday morning Bill & I went up to see her, and she was full of pain medicine and couldn’t come home until they saw the doctor. Bill went back up on Monday and she came home Tuesday evening. She was really hurting but could walk OK.

The Adlers and Kannebergs came on the 9^th. and helped a lot with the food and stuff. Joan went to church on Sunday but didn’t play that week. The company stayed unitl the following Wednesday and we had a lot of fun. Sharon and Stan and Bill went fishing a lot, and Delores and Ed and I got to do a lot of visiting. Joan was getting around but slowly. She and Stan played music a couple nights and acted crazy. They made a cassette tape of it for us. They left on Wednesday to go to Gassville by Marty and Sylvia.. They called that they were home on the 18^th.

On Father’s Day Elicia and Phillip came up. They got here on Saturday. When we were doing the supper dishes, a big glass bowl that Elicia was washing slipped out of her hand and when she tried to catch it, it broke and cut her little finger bad. We called Debbie to come and look at it. She cleaned it up and bandaged it, and the next day it was really hurting her a lot. We went out to eat at Mena at the New China. Bill really like that place.

Ann and Kenneth from the singings brought over 2 five gallon pails of sweet corn to freeze. Bill and Joan went to his 50 year class reunion in Heavener, so we did corn the next day.

The week of July 15^th. – 22^nd. Bill and Tommy Phillips took a fishing trip to Colorado. They had a really good time and by this time Joan was well enough to do the feeding of the horses.

On July 22^nd. They took Gary Dupont on the helicopter to the hospital. He fell off a ladder and broke his hip really bad.

Shorty Howard called on Sept. 1^st., 2006 that Danny was in the hospital in Falls Church, VA on life support. She called on the 2^nd. that he had died. Nancy was there and she is going back to Illinois with her for a month or so.

Today, Sept. 9^th., Lacie came up from Texas to ride horses with Bill and spend the night. Around noon today 3 guys from the Octavia Fire department, Steve, and Norman, and Donald, came with a Booster Certificate plaque for their appreciation of what I gave the Fire Department in 2005.

I got news that Doris Donaldson had moved from Lehigh Acres, Florida to Milwaukee. She’s at Luthern Manor in Wauwatosa and is doing well health-wise.

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Well, that's the last that Mom wrote. In the following post, which I will post in the next few days, I wrote a Final Note to tell you what those last few days were like.

Thanks for reading along with me.

Joan