November News

My dear OLD dad turned 75 in November. Loretta and I threw him a surprise party, and surprised he was! We had a fairly large number of people there and they all took some time to say a few nice things (and other things) about him on video. I edited them together and posted the results below.

By the way, this video is not on YouTube but on MotionBox.com. I am testing it out. The quality of video seems appreciably higher, especially with the darker scenes.

If you have about 13 minutes, and you know my dad, give it a view.

Rough Start to the New Year

Loretta took a fall outside while carrying a double armload of stuff. With her arms full, she was unable to break her fall. With the wind knocked out of her, she was in a lot of pain and needed help getting up. It didn't take long to decide to get her checked out at the ER.

You know how emergency rooms are. We got to spend a lot of quality time together waiting in all the different waiting places they had for us. A few times we took a break from waiting and got some x-rays taken and spoke to the doc. Her ribs are just bruised, but she did break a bone in her wrist - her navicular certain to be exact.

Loretta has a temporary splint and will get a cast soon; most likely tomorrow. She is on Vicatin and has already discovered the need to watch her food intake while on that drug.

Snow Birds Flew the Coop

Mom and Dad started the new year off by leaving the Great White North. They left for Florida today and the weather helped them leave any regrets behind. The temperature was in the low twenties when they left...And they left in a hurry. So fast, in fact, That about four miles down the road they pulled over and called me.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Tom?"

"Yes. Calling back so soon?"

"We kind of forgot to bring Rambo with us. Could you bring him out to us?"

Anyway. We got to say good-bye one last time.