No Doydie, you are not an etc... because
you visit me almost every day..Thanks

Hi Frog.

Sally I would love to actually visit you and sit under that tree. and look at that body of water int he distance. It is beautiful

I wish all of us could sit and visit under that tree and look at the water. It sounds so relaxing and fun.

Doydie!!! What body of water? We just have Rivers down here in
SW Ohio. The Great Lakes/Erie are up Nawth.

I'm here too, Sally. The heat is really doing a number on me. My legs feel like they each weigh 500 pounds. I'm just staying inside for the most part.

another etc. checking in-

my disabled kid sister (we raise her) is off for the summer. Needless to say she sucks up a lot of time. Like young kids she feels she does not have to do anything and should be entertained non stop. Remind me again when school starts back up...

That and heat is zapping me anytime I venture out of the house. I may just be the palest person who lives in a beach town

How are you doing??

Hi Sally. I've been busy with a potpourri of things, and taking naps on the couch between activities, usually 2 or 3 out-cold naps because of the heat. Yes, hot here too in northern New Mexico, too much sun, so I have to wear my Solumbra clothing every time I go out. Which is also a little hotter than I like, to have to be covered up so much. I am sun sensitive as well as heat sensitive. I live here because my son and grandkids live here, and my late husband wanted to live here part time to be near them...but a fire and consequences made us full time here. the climate is actually good in some ways because the air is crystal clear except when we have forest fire smoke. No smoke so far this year....I will evacuated again (fourth time) if I have to.
Praying for no smoke this year.
I have been working on my medieval genealogy when I have a moment, and when the printer is working. Found more stuff from a genealogist who is interested in that 12th century ancestor, Eschyna de Molle, who was married 3 times and each time she married founded a new dynasty. I had not heard about the Douglass/Scot dynasty, but obviously they are "half siblings many times removed", a new facet of interest. Their descendant Prince William of Gloucester had porphyria as I do...but then he was also descended from the Stuarts, who were famous for porph, so who knows which of his many lines gave it to him.
So, Sally, in addition to that I have been doing the usual housecleaning, paper filing, and recovering from removal of a large basal cell on the back of my leg which the dermo never found....Physician's Assistant removed it, and it had to have wound dressings changed every other day.
I too dream of a tree to sit under and water to view...as in my hometown of Seattle.

Hi Sally and Everyone,

I'm here in hot (90's), humid (70%+), occasionally rainy but VERY green, Georgia. It's so hot my dogs don't even want to go outside. Every outside plant is growing like it's on steroids.

Nursing Homes (Scratch that. Now they call them Skilled Nursing Facilities)

Yesterday my husband and I had two appointments to visit possible nursing homes for me. We started with a small, 6-patient, private home-turned-personal-care-home owned and run by a mother and her married daughter. The owners were great. The ranch home was older - probably 1960's - sort of like "The Ranch That Time Forgot", but it was neat and clean.

The second one was a larger, circa 1970's, 120-140 bed, actual Skilled Care Facility. The place was bustling with people moving everywhere. Patients, doing what I describe as "spider-walking" down the halls while seated in their wheelchairs, janitors (Sanitation Engineers?) busy cleaning, sweeping, mopping. LPNs, CNAs, Activities Personnel, all busy, busy, busy doing their "thing" with, to, or around the spider-walkers.

We will be visiting several other places over the next few weeks, too. I'm making myself a diary of sorts to jot down their state rating, their rates, my first impression of each one, its plusses and minuses. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

I would gladly ask anyone who is interested, to follow me along on this journey. And share your personal experiences, if any.

Good luck and best wishes msblu1s, on your search.
You are one of my heroes here..

Sounds like you have the right approach msbluis. Hubbie has done karaoke in a place that is small and family operated and they truly treat all the residents like family. But my MIL was in a regular nursing home. It wasn't owned by a big conglomerate. Sometimes I think you have to watch out for them. yes, do got ot he sites where you can check citations, accreditations, reviews, family reviews, maybe even word of mouth. Go to them and notice the smell, what the residents are doing. Are there any activities like outings, cookouts, rehab and physical therapy, volunteers. My MIL was in one who did rehab to home and they had a kitchen where they helped people get around a kitchen and relearn how to cook. So they used this kitchen a lot of times for the residents to gather and with the help of the activities director regularly baked things. Look at their menu, hopefully they have one. Talk to patients and or family members. What is their ratio of nurses to patients? How many RNs and LPNs. What kind of pharmacy provisions, do they have to wait the next day for new medicines to start. In house physicians. A whole host of questions, most learned form my MIL being in a nursing home for about 10 years before dying. Oh, is there a hospice that treats patients there if needed. MILs did and they came on board the last two days and it sure made it easier on all of us knowing we had that advocate