BUSH DIARY APRIL 1999:
4-5: Tim's sister called wanting to let him know that his brother, Paul, had been admitted to the hospital in Portland with a massive heart attack. Got in contact with Tim on the computer and the drove early the next morning to Albany and rode with Carolyn to Pendleton. They stayed overnight and by the time they got to Pendleton, Betty called and told them that Paul had died after being transferred for an attempt at open heart surgery. Tim just called from there this evening. He has not been close with his brother for some time but it is a troublesome time for the family.
I also received word at work that John Morrow the former SSMH hospital administrator had died April 8 while ANMC in Anchorage. He was only 52 but he was overweight and his life style was um, ah, indulgent shall we say. He was a very nice man, a sharp administrator. I am glad he got to have a couple years of relaxation in Barrow.
Monica is back from Florida and Monday we will all play catch up.
Recap of ten days in Oregon April 1999. I flew to North Bend and was med by huggy hubby Tim. We rested one day and drove 12 hours to Emmett, we overnighted at Mom's house.
She gave up her bed for us and Tim was appalled that the hostess would give up her bed. I finally talked him into sleeping with me in her bed with much spluttering of "That's not right, I wasn't raised that way". G-night hon.
We picked up a U- haul truck the smallest one but it was far too large for what we were hauling. We took a day bed, Mom's old Sears table which she had refinished about 25 years ago, a farm auction treasure. It is nice, has four chairs and three leaves. Also packed up four storage bins of assorted stuff including angel collection.
I also got Grandma Horn's old butter churn with paddle. I remember her telling me that churning butter was like "marking time". I was never quite sure what that meant other than it was boring. It now sits in the front hallway and serves as umbrella stand and loose change holder.
We got all that packed up and we drove back another 12 hours to Coquille and O joy of joy, hit rush hour traffic in Portland and it took us 45 minutes to drive the 205. Ugh.
We got all that stuff unloaded. Tim turned in the U-Haul and the buggers would not give back the 80 dollar security deposit because we had driven FOUR MILES OVER our estimated mileage from Emmett to Coquille. Bastids!! Mom and I played Scrabble a lot.
Charles, Leslie, Anthony and Jasper (the Dalmatian) drove up about noon Friday and we talked them into ditching their motel reservations and the kids took the north bedroom.
Charles is too long for a Queen so we plumped up the mattress pad with blankies and he slept on the floor. Anthony can get into anything. He is tall enough to get the door to the attic open and we have to get locks for several things before Christmas, the door and the laundry chute.
We had a nice visit with them and they called when they stopped in Shasta and emailed us when the got to Sonoma. All went well.
We went shopping at Schroeder's and Sons. I spotted a pair of matched little sofa's sleepers and I asked for a cash discount if I took both of them. So the lady knocked off a hundred bucks.
During that time we managed to get the queen sized mattress shoved up the stairs and I am very happy to announce that we have beds upstairs in the bedrooms and couches downstairs in the living room.
Mom to to see the kitty Tim decided to adopt. She is a young female and quite pregnant so there will be kittens soon. She purrs like crazy. Her name is Jubilee.
Our oven works. Mom and I gave it quite a work out with making tamale pie and pesto and pasta and other stuff. Also gave the horrible metal sink a work out as well as the washer dryer. I washed everything that have mailed down and just had a blast being domestic. Even chatted with our neighbors.
I had used one of my Alaska Airline tickets to book a flight for mom so she took an airplane ride home.
Tim took me to the airport Wednesday for the 6 pm flight and everything went smoothly. Got into Anchorage and overnighted at the Sheraton. I attended the State Medical Record meeting and was given the Distinguished Member award. Thank you. You get stuff like that if you are not distinguished so much but that you performed a job for several years that no one else wanted to do. Yep, volunteering is a good thing. Looks swell on the resume.
Got back on 5-1 so time to close April, g'night folks.
4-5: Tim's sister called wanting to let him know that his brother, Paul, had been admitted to the hospital in Portland with a massive heart attack. Got in contact with Tim on the computer and the drove early the next morning to Albany and rode with Carolyn to Pendleton. They stayed overnight and by the time they got to Pendleton, Betty called and told them that Paul had died after being transferred for an attempt at open heart surgery. Tim just called from there this evening. He has not been close with his brother for some time but it is a troublesome time for the family.
I also received word at work that John Morrow the former SSMH hospital administrator had died April 8 while ANMC in Anchorage. He was only 52 but he was overweight and his life style was um, ah, indulgent shall we say. He was a very nice man, a sharp administrator. I am glad he got to have a couple years of relaxation in Barrow.
Monica is back from Florida and Monday we will all play catch up.
Recap of ten days in Oregon April 1999. I flew to North Bend and was med by huggy hubby Tim. We rested one day and drove 12 hours to Emmett, we overnighted at Mom's house.
She gave up her bed for us and Tim was appalled that the hostess would give up her bed. I finally talked him into sleeping with me in her bed with much spluttering of "That's not right, I wasn't raised that way". G-night hon.
We picked up a U- haul truck the smallest one but it was far too large for what we were hauling. We took a day bed, Mom's old Sears table which she had refinished about 25 years ago, a farm auction treasure. It is nice, has four chairs and three leaves. Also packed up four storage bins of assorted stuff including angel collection.
I also got Grandma Horn's old butter churn with paddle. I remember her telling me that churning butter was like "marking time". I was never quite sure what that meant other than it was boring. It now sits in the front hallway and serves as umbrella stand and loose change holder.
We got all that packed up and we drove back another 12 hours to Coquille and O joy of joy, hit rush hour traffic in Portland and it took us 45 minutes to drive the 205. Ugh.
We got all that stuff unloaded. Tim turned in the U-Haul and the buggers would not give back the 80 dollar security deposit because we had driven FOUR MILES OVER our estimated mileage from Emmett to Coquille. Bastids!! Mom and I played Scrabble a lot.
Charles, Leslie, Anthony and Jasper (the Dalmatian) drove up about noon Friday and we talked them into ditching their motel reservations and the kids took the north bedroom.
Charles is too long for a Queen so we plumped up the mattress pad with blankies and he slept on the floor. Anthony can get into anything. He is tall enough to get the door to the attic open and we have to get locks for several things before Christmas, the door and the laundry chute.
We had a nice visit with them and they called when they stopped in Shasta and emailed us when the got to Sonoma. All went well.
We went shopping at Schroeder's and Sons. I spotted a pair of matched little sofa's sleepers and I asked for a cash discount if I took both of them. So the lady knocked off a hundred bucks.
During that time we managed to get the queen sized mattress shoved up the stairs and I am very happy to announce that we have beds upstairs in the bedrooms and couches downstairs in the living room.
Mom to to see the kitty Tim decided to adopt. She is a young female and quite pregnant so there will be kittens soon. She purrs like crazy. Her name is Jubilee.
Our oven works. Mom and I gave it quite a work out with making tamale pie and pesto and pasta and other stuff. Also gave the horrible metal sink a work out as well as the washer dryer. I washed everything that have mailed down and just had a blast being domestic. Even chatted with our neighbors.
I had used one of my Alaska Airline tickets to book a flight for mom so she took an airplane ride home.
Tim took me to the airport Wednesday for the 6 pm flight and everything went smoothly. Got into Anchorage and overnighted at the Sheraton. I attended the State Medical Record meeting and was given the Distinguished Member award. Thank you. You get stuff like that if you are not distinguished so much but that you performed a job for several years that no one else wanted to do. Yep, volunteering is a good thing. Looks swell on the resume.
Got back on 5-1 so time to close April, g'night folks.
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