PETS

We were in Valdosta at the mall last week and saw something a little unusual. As we were parking the car a guy got into his pickup across form us. I could see something move in the back seat of the truck. At first I thought it was a dog, but all at once it was setting on the back of the drivers seat. It was a parrot! Not a small parrot, but one that was over a foot tall. I've seen dogs and cats in cars, but that was a first for a parrot.



Changes coming to Georgia. We have been busy the last couple of weeks with a couple of projects. Some of the them keep me busier than Vern. More on the projects later. If you have a chance check out this web site. www.5331talloakdrive.com/?look=mls

CHECK UP

Wanted to let you know how my check up with the Dr. went today. The irritation is better, but I can still see the white spot on my eye. I have to use the drops for 2 more weeks and see Dr. Peterman in 3 weeks.

We were in Valdosta last week and as we were leaving we heard sirens. A police car had traffic stopped, but we couldn't see any accident. About that time we saw some school buses leaving the high school. It was just a few buses, I counted 33. We could see why they stopped traffic for them. It would have taken forever to get them all out of the parking lot. The buses looked like they would hold 40 to 50 students. Just a few kids.

DOCTOR

In the 4 years we have been wandering we haven't had to see a doctor except in Iowa for our regular checkups. Well it changed today. The last couple of days my one eye has been a little irritated. Each day it seemed to get a little worse and being in the sun made it worse. Last night I was looking at my eye in the mirror and saw a cloudy film over the top third of my eye with a white spot in the center. (the good eye) It looked similar to when I would get inflammation of the cornea. When I got up this morning I told Vern we were going in have to find a doctor. He looked at me and wondered what was wrong. I told him and he grab the computer and went to our insurance web site and started a search for a doctor. It is scary to go to a new doctor when you have problems with your eyes and they don't know your history. The search came up with 27 names. Oh boy which one to pick. Vern read through all the info we had and picked a group of 5 doctors that was associated with a hospital. They also said they would take new patients. I called about 8:45 and got an appointment for 10:00. When we got there I had forms to fill out and then we waited and waited. When we finally were called back they told us the doctor had done surgeries on Wednesday and was seeing the patients for checkups today and was running a little behind. I was just glad he was working me in. We were impressed with Dr. Peterman and I would see him again. He looked at my right eye and said I had an infection in my eye and put me on an antibiotic and a muscle relaxant. He also checked out my left eye. After a couple of seconds he started listing off all the problems I had in that eye. While Dr. Peterman was making notes and writing out my prescriptions Vern was telling him about a problem he had and Dr. Peterman told him to hop into the chair and he would have a look. I have never heard of a doctor doing that before. He saw two of us and only charged us for one. Vern said he would definitely see Dr. Peterman again.

NO SNOW

The snowstorm that hit Georgia stayed north of us and we didn't get a single flake. We did get some cold temps. This morning it was 28* and windy. I go to the Y at 6:30 a.m. to work out for awhile. I was getting ready to walk out the door and Vern looked out and said there was frost on the windows of the edge, so I had to scrape windows before I could leave. Not my kind of weather. The last couple of days we were to have highs in the 50* and it didn't even get out of the 30s. It is better than single digits. :-)

FALLING LEAVES

It is so strange to have leaves falling from the trees in January. They started falling last week. Over the weekend we had some wind and it sounded like it was raining with all the leaves falling on the motor home. The ground is covered with leaves.



We didn't do anything new year's eve. I still wasn't feeling that great yet and was in bed by 10:30. Vern was in bed before that. The bad thing was someone was setting off fireworks. They did allot between 9 and 10 and then stopped. At midnight they started in again. I didn't need an alarm to let me know it was midnight.



I started back to the Y this morning. I was going every morning until we went to Iowa and when we got back I was sick, so didn't go. I use weights, weight machines, and walk on a treadmill. My trainer is there every morning to help if I need it. I go early in the morning and most of the time I'm the only one there, just the way I like it.