ThursdayOn way home from vacation. Will update this later. A lot of problems as well as good times.

Tuesday – Sis woke up feeling very bad today. It was almost like she might have had a mini stroke. She got to feeling better after a few hours. We didn’t go on the tours that were scheduled. Later we drove around Galena, IL a little bit, then ate in a Chinese restaurant called the Beijing Buffet.

This evening the auction was held at the family reunion at the motel. That was a lot of fun. We got some homemade currant jam, apricot jam, rag pickles, and homemade mincemeat, as well as a few other things.

Me and Sis - taken shortly before the auction started.

Monday – We went on tours of a farm and toy museum in Dubuque, Iowa, and a doll museum there. We went out to the Field of Dreams site and had a picnic lunch.

Sunday – We got to the motel in Galena, IL late this afternoon.

We all had supper together in the motel meeting room.

Remember the Pokey and Gumby figures? Well, I felt like one of them yesterday afternoon when I went for x-rays at the hospital. The woman kept rearranging me in positions to take the x-rays on a cold metal table. It hurt and was hard to lay in some of those positions. Then she would say "Hold your breath". Once she forgot to tell me when to start breathing again. I was so sore when she got done that I could hardly walk, even with the cane. Sis went and brought the car up to the door so I didn't have to walk to the parking lot.

We stopped at Chick-fil-A near there and got a sandwich and coffee before going back home.

Now, I guess the doctor will call after he gets the results.

Time for a little catching-up.

Sis took the kittens in for their final shots Monday. They each weigh between 3 and 5 pounds now. In October we can have them spayed or neutered.

Tuesday – I went to the doctor this morning, as I am still in constant pain and having difficulty walking. He wants me to go have x-rays in the next couple of days on the lumbar region. In the meantime he prescribed a muscle relaxant pill to take at bedtime and gave me some samples of Celebrex to take once a day for a couple of days. I’ve heard so many warnings on the Celebrex ads that I am afraid to take them. The muscle relaxant did help last night. I slept pretty good for 5 or 6 hours.

SundayWe didn't eat out today. Sis fixed homemade chicken and noodles. Yummy!

SaturdayWe ate breakfast at Cracker Barrel, then stopped for a few items on the way home. I stayed in the car and let Sis do the shopping - too hard for me to walk that far.

I'm still hobbling around with the sciatica and haven't been online to post much. Yesterday afternoon wasn't as bad, but today have a lot of aches and pains again. Getting old sure isn't for wimps. The golden years are more like the rusty years. lol

We are getting some very much needed rain. It is 8:45 a.m., but so dark outside my office window that it looks like late evening. It started raining shortly after I got here this morning and has been raining heavily most of the time since then. Lots of rumbling with all the thunder, but I haven't seen any lightning.

"Thunderstorm rolls across S.A.
Posted on 07/11/2012 by Robert Kolarik

Water pools in a driveway on Avenue E downtown during the rush-hour rainstorm. (Robert Kolarik/Express-News)
A storm bearing lightning and heavy rain lumbered its way across San Antonio this morning, just in time to create rush-hour headaches.

Streets quickly filled with water, and traffic was brought to a near-standstill in some places. One motorist crawling south on U.S. 281 said by cellphone that the rainfall was “like a hurricane.”

A high-water rescue call on O’Connor Road was called off after the motorist reportedly pushed his car out of the water.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Bexar County until 11 a.m. The weather service said it expected the storm to produce 3 to 4 inches of rain across the San Antonio area.

The storm moved across the city from the north."

Today is quiet. We went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast, then came home and I did my laundry. I am in as much pain as I was last week so I rest for 10 minutes about every hour and I am using a cane and taking pain pills every six hours. I sure hope this gets better soon.

I finally have the pictures of my car now that it has been repainted. I've posted some of the before and after pictures.

AFTER PAINTING:

BEFORE PAINTING: Lots of peeled off paint and some surface rust. The rust was mostly on the roof. There was also a dent on driver's side and some scratches on the passenger side that don't show too much in the before pictures, but they were quite noticeable. The man who painted the car did a really good job.