Another Sunday, Come and Gone…

Sunday, took Dad to church.  A lovely service at the local Catholic Church of Divine Savior.  They have a really great music ministry and a wonderful Father Carl gave the sermon.   I enjoy Fr. Carl’s sermons because they are good and also because Fr. Carl is from Ireland and he usually has an interesting way of looking at things. 

Dad found his way around the church during communion.  He sometimes gets lost and can’t find his way back to our pew.  I told Dad- Good Job!  He smiled, knowingly. 

Dad decided to supervise the work from the patio with Kaitlyn (above, Left). 

After wards we arrived home and every one else was busy cleaning up the yard after Tropical Storm(TS) Fay So Dad and I changed our clothes and starting helping too.  Dad and I stuck to the light work, picking up Palm leaves and carrying them up to the front of the driveway (see pic to right).  DBL and Brody did all the heavy work.  Like mowing and repairing the screens around the pool.  After wards my shirt was wet with sweat and I headed too my room for a nap.  Every one seemed to wrap up their work in short order. 

Later after a short break of watching the Olympics and other movies/ shows, we went as a family to a local restaurant called “Coconuts”.  It’s right off the beach on a deck.  We noticed right away that they have a lot more sand now after TS Fay.  Grandpa and Brody ordered the same dish “Fettucine Alfredo with Shrimp (on Left).  DBL

got the Buffalo Shrimp Salad, DS got a Chilpote Chicken salad, and I ordered the Grilled Tuna Salad.  Sorry no pics of the Tuna Salad or the Chilpote Chicken Salad.  They were very delicious!

 

DBL is a member of the “Clean Plate Club”.  ( – :

After dinner DS and Brody chased down a hermit crab with my camera and watched it dig a hole, by crawling down, digging out the sand.  turning round and pushing the sand out of the way.  Any way quite a process.  Sorry no photos, too many photos already! 

And then we headed home.

I believe I can fly…

I believe I can touch the sky
Today, was another crazy day.  No schools today because of the flooding.  No senior care for Dad for the same reason.  I finally made a dash out of the house in the afternoon to run to the library.  Needed to return some books.  The library was closed, so I dropped off the books I’d finished and kept the ones I wanted to renew. 

I think about it every night and day
In the evening we made a trip to Disney’s Epcot.  We had reservations for 6:10 pm.  We were a little late and they sat us after a short wait.  Dinner was at Tokyo Dining.  We had a very nice dinner.  Started out with a tuna roll as the appetizer.  I also had miso soup, my favorite!  And then we all had different entrees.  Mine was shrimp tempura.  It was delectable, the veggies and shrimp.  But it was delicious, and very relaxing.    The prices were reasonable.  They didn’t seem any higher than a similar meal in Mountain view, California (for those of you who remember I just moved here from California).  

Spread my wings and fly away
The only bad news is that Fay had dumped water all over Disney’s Epcot during dinner.   We all decided on a Disney’s rain ponchos for our after dinner-attire.  It was raining hard.  We don’t get rain that hard in California.  It’s truly amazing.  You get drenched down to the skin.  And then we walked around the park awhile and stayed to watch the fireworks show.  Which was as rewarding as it is every time we go to Epcot.  The rain finally ended right before the show.  And we headed towards home. 

I believe I can soar
For Dad this entire event was just another day in our vacation.   When he’s walking in the rain, he think’s he’s back in Korea during the war, marching in the mud.  And when he see’s the Fireworks with his family, he is grateful that we all can see such beauty.  And so am I.

I see me runnin’ through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly

Many thanks to Disney and R. Kelley for the use of their lyrics. 

Movie Night

Well, after sitting home all day and waiting on Fay.  The rain started again in the afternoon.  By evening, our community band rehearsal was canceled.  So we ate dinner and packed up and went to see a movie at a local theater.  DBL and DS saw Mamamia.  They enjoyed it a great deal.  Brody, Grandpa and I went to see the clone wars.  I’d give it maybe 2 out of 5 stars.  I didn’t really enjoy it.  Brody loved the battles.  Grandpa forgot he saw the movie about 2 minutes after it was over.  On the way into the movie, Dad picked up a small bag of popcorn.  He only offered me some popcorn twice; not 25 times as he did the last time we went to a movie.  After our movie was over, we needed to wait for DBL and DS who were in watching the end of Mamamia.  So Brody was ready for second dinner and Grandpa (not to be outdone) ordered another bag of popcorn.  (Reminder:  Dad has zero tolerance for sugar or carbs.  It makes his blood sugar soar and adds to his senility.)  So as we’re paying for the high priced movie food, I’m trying to wrestle a bag of popcorn away from Dad.  All said and done, it added up to was a horrible, embarrassing scene.  I apologize to the girl at the counter and explained that Dad was a diabetic.  And then I added, “Of course we were only doing this to entertain you.”  She did laugh – probably out of politeness. 

I did allow Dad that bag of popcorn, temporarily, only to tease it out of him later.  I traded him the bag of popcorn (he’d only eaten the top inch of the bag) for a couple of snow capps.  He gladly made the trade.  Then I threw it away before the sugar police showed up (DBL & DS).  My diabolical plan worked! 

At that point I tried to get Dad to play some Hoops with me at the arcade or perhaps Air Hockey. Because any type of activity is good for someone with diabetes; but Dad wouldn’t play.  He just sat there and rooted for me as I played Hoops alone and later air hockey with Brody.  My first set of hoops I made 15 hoops (with out really trying) The second set of hoops (when I tried to make the hoops) I only made 2 hoops.  (The story of my life).  Later Brody talked me into a game of Air Hockey.  Which to my chagrin, Brody won 7 to 6.  I hate losing air hockey.  After that Brody talked me into the Dance machine – I’ve always wanted to try this.  I love to dance.  So I gave it a shot, beginner level.  And the machine told me I did a great job.  I laughed it off and told the machine it wasn’t too bad itself. 

Then DS and DBL showed up after their movie ended and we all braved the 30 mile an hour winds of tropical storm (TS) Fay as we ran out to the car.  We were drenched.  TS Fay  who had stalled just off the coast of Florida.  We were only experiencing the outer rings of the storm as we were miles away from the eye. 

Fortunately for us, we have not experienced the flooding that other parts of our county has received. 

Since getting home from the movies tonight, I hear a green frog (Often found in central Florida) croaking outside my window.  It sounds a lot like a duck quacking.  The frogs are bright green and a little smaller than the palm of my hand.  Very pretty.  My guess is that it’s their favorite type of weather -wet.

Rain, Rain, rain, rain.

Well, didn’t it rain, children.
Yesterday as tropical storm “Fay” approached it was raining as I woke in the morning.  It continued to rain and the winds continued to increase through out the day.  We went from Tornado Warnings to Tornado Watches all day.   At 1 am I went to bed and the rain and winds were continuing.  This morning, early, the rains stopped and the day was calm.   It seems “Fay” had passed us in the night and was not doing a uturn on the western shore.  I ran to the store for supplies yesterday during the storm.  Filled up my gas tank.  I felt like the locals in the storm thought I was a foolish northerner, stocking up in a small storm like this.  I filled the trunk of the car with bottled water. 

God’s gonna send the waters from Zion.
Odds are that “FAY” would run out of steam while she was on land.  We’re hoping that “Fay” would not make it out to sea again and pick up some strenght on the ocean and then to turn around again and blundgeon us again with her rain and winds. 

He’s good raise his Heaven up higher,
Senior Care was cancelled yesterday and today.  Dad sits in his room listening to the news turned up so loud, there isn’t a place in the house we can’t hear it.  Once and a while he’ll wander out of his room to see if there is life on Planet House, we try to amuse Dad and he always ends up watching TV in his room again later on. 

It’s gonna rain. (Well, it’s gonna rain.)
We’re just watchin’ and waiting on “FAY”.  I’ll let you know how she’s progressing.