Chris wants me to write my blog right now, and it's not quite 4:30p.m., and I usually do it at night. But I'll go ahead. He is not feeling too well, he is on a bunch of medications and they upset him. But I might as well get it done now. Today I did the washing, and while it was in the washers, I went to the mild exercise class for the first time in over a week. Fortunately it isn't hard work, so I did it OK while the clothes washed. I put them in the drier, and it wasn't long until they were done. I came back up to the apartment ,and then I sat down and went to sleep in my recliner. I woke up in time for lunch at 1 p.m., and I've been up since then. We talked to Carla and then to Kaye. Carla and Rex are leaving on a vacation, and they will stop and see Kaye and their new house on their trip. She had to hang up and take another call, so I didn't get any more details about their trip. Chris has opened the window, and there is big train going by and tooting it's horn to clear the way. I hope we won't have this much traffic going by in our location in the middle of Calif, when we go up there when Karen and Terry move up there next year. There's also a freeway close by, here, and there are constantly cars on it. We don't usually open the windows for just that reason. But Chris isn't himself today, with all the medication he is on. But I said that before, didn't I. Anyhow, We are getting along pretty well. The renters are moving out of our house, tomorrow, so we will have that to look at soon. I'm in no big hurry. With those two little kids running around there, I can imagine what it is like now.

Kaye has been here a week, and I have been busy with her, and completely forgot my blog! Now I will try to catch up a little. We didn't do anything that Tuesday, after she got here, except have dinner and settle down for the night. The next morning after breakfast she and I drove down to the beach and watched the waves a while, then we went to the Carlsbad Library and checked out a couple of movies. But you had to use batteries to run them, so we didn't look at them. We also brought fish tacos back for lunch. Chris was feeling better than in the morning, and we talked and she and Chris worked with the computers until dinner time. The next day was similar, except Kaye and I didn't go out alone, it was all together in what we did. We talked a lot about her new house and looked at the pictures. I'm so glad she and Kyle have moved in, and she is certainly happy with the move. Stellan and Sara and Caden have moved into their old house in Burbank, and it seems to suit them. The rest of the week has gone on similarly, with our discussing our fixing up our house in Oceanside, and eventually selling it when Karen and Terry move to Orrolo Grande. Whether we move into it while we are fixing it up, is the question now. Should we, or shouldn't we? Things are complicated by the fact that neither of us is in good physical condition. Maybe we should just fix it up and sell it..Kye left today on the 1 p.m. plane, and we went from the airport, with Karen, of course, and Chris had his eye injected again at the Kaiser offices in San Diego. We came home, and now it's bedtime again.

First all today, I must correct some mistakes I made in yesterday's blog. It's true that Kaye is coming tomorrow, but instead of our going down with Karen to San Diego to meet her, Terry will go instead. It seems that Chris' doctor appointment is not tomorrow, but it is on the day Kaye goes back to Richland! So it should work out that day, too, that Chris can get his eye injections when Karen drives Kaye back to San Diego, and we go along ,too. We haven't done anything important today, just our three meals, and straightening up the apartment, so Kaye can fit in when she comes tomorrow. I did finish reading Karen's book on perfumes since "BC" times until now. It's interesting, since besides to text, there are great pictures to illustrate each period in time. We also watched a movie on TV, called "Becket" that we ordered from Netflix. I remember seeing it once before, but I had forgotten many of the interesting details. At first we couldn't get the picture on the TV to work, when we were just watching local news. But it was fine when we watched the movie. By the way, Kaye's new address is 667 Tanglewood Drive, Richland, Wa. 99352 . I just found that note on my desk.

This morning I put the clothes in to wash, and while they washed, I went to the Gentle Yoga class. I expected Chris to join me, but he didn't get there until I was back in the laundry room. But we did get the clothes washed and dried in time to meet Karen to drive down to the beach for lunch. She insisted on bringing all of the lunch for us, as a sort of celebration of Father's Day. It worked out fine. Later we drove down to the Kaiser clinic, where we had appointments to see Dr. Donahoe. He prescribed more tests, which I am not crazy about. But I guess we will go ahead with them in a week or two. Kaye is to arrive on Wednesday, and Karen and we will meet her in San Diego. Chris has an appointment to see Dr. Dick about his eyes on that day at 4 p.m. in San Diego, so we will meet Kaye, and then go to the doctor's. We will have to wait a while, but we can visit, so no time will really be lost. Thank goodness it's summer, and the days are long, so we can come back here in daylight. I did say the days are long, but time seems to fly by, as though they were very short. I just noticed that the sky is getting dark already, and it's only 8:20 p.m. right now. It's time to start to think about going to bed. So, I guess I will start my ritual.

After all my worry yesterday, today has been much more relaxed. I realize now that we don't have to do anything in a hurry. Karen has evidently a good house painter, who has been painting her house, and we can hire him as soon as the renters move out. She is coming over tomorrow and we can talk about the job the man is doing on her house. Terry is back from Arroyo Grande, but he has spent today in bed. I guess the work on the house up there has been a real strain on him. I hope he recovers OK. This morning we went to Church, but we stayed only for the Sacrament Meeting. We saw some friends, and that was nice. That's the trouble with moving again, we will have to make new friends. Fortunately they have a church close by Arroyo Grande, and we can make new ones there, and also in the senior community where we will probably live. It is smaller than this one, only about 50 retired people living there now. There are about 250 here. I am still reading in the book about perfumes, and it's really interesting. I didn't realize some of these scents we enjoy now have been around since 5000 BC! I'm up the 19th century AD now. They have someone here who will polish the ladies' finger nails about once a month. I missed this yesterday, so I will have to do my own. Fortunately I do have polish here I can use. It just takes time, and I can do it in the morning. It's dark now, and by electric light it's hard to get the right amount of polish on each nail.

We still haven't made any decisions about when or where we will be when Karen and Terry have left for Arroyo Grande. Of course that will be about ten months from now, so we have plenty of time to make up our minds. We went for walk this morning after the fog lifted. It was only about a block and then back to the Villas. But at least my legs took it well. I think I am recovered. We will see Dr. Donahoe on Monday, and see what he thinks about it. We had a long talk with Kaye this morning. She will arrive here on next Wednesday for a week's stay. I'm sure we will enjoy that. I'm looking forward to her visit. She is in the new house now, and she should be more relaxed than she has been lately, waiting for it to be finished. Maybe she can give us some good ideas on how to fix up our house so it will sell. We would like to get a good price for it. Karen's will probably sell much faster, since it's in a better neighborhood than ours. Karen should be happier up there, where her daughters are closer, and their families, too. And Karen likes the central coast. I have spent most of the day reading the book, "Scents of Time, " all about perfume over the years. I still have about half of it to read, but it is interesting to learn when all the perfumes originated. It starts in Ancient Egypt and goes to the 21st Century. I didn't realize some of them had been used so long ago.

I still haven't come to any conclusion about whether or not to move back to our house. I do know, though, that whatever the final decision is, we have to get it cleaned up and ready to live in. After the people move out on July I, we will have to decide that. It looks all right from the outside, but I guess there are things we have to do to it inside. It will need painting , according to what Karen and Carla said about it when they went to see it while Carla was here. The back yard will need help, I saw that when we were over there some time ago. And if we decide to move back there, I'm sure there will be things to do inside, too. Living here is easy, but I think we can do things to fix up the house if we are living there. We will have to see what the other family members think about that. We are no longer independent as we once were. We will need some help, but not the total care we get here. Roy, our house help when we were in the house, came to see see us today. If we do move back, we will ask him to help us again, if he has the time. He is a good friend now, and I think he would come if he can. To get back to our condition here; I think we could take more care of ourselves, if the business will allow it. As it is now, we go to the dining room three times a day for all our meals. We could easily take care of at least the breakfast and lunch here in the apartment, if it were allowed. I will have to see about that. Kaye is coming down next week for a visit, and we will enjoy that, I'm sure. Karen will be out of town part of that time. Terry isn't' here now; he is up at Arroyo Grande, supervising the fixing up of their house there.

Today we got up at the usual time, had breakfast, and were back in the apartment when Carla called. She told us she had dropped Brittany off in the station in Fullerton where she had left her car when she came down by train yesterday. Then Carla was at the L.A. airport, waiting for her plane to Eugene. Just now we called her, and she got home OK. As her dad said, she was busy, and just forgot to call us. So that was all right. We didn't do anything spectacular the rest of the day - just went to the meals, and took a walk all around the compound. I have spent a lot of time thinking about whether or not we should move back into the Oceanside house. There are a lot of reasons either way in deciding that. There is no point in our hurrying to get it sold, just fix it up, either to sell or move into. I wonder what is the right thing to do. Chris leans toward moving back, and I just don't know. We have moved so much, that I have gotten used to the idea of forgetting the house we were living in, when we moved to a new location. That's what I did about this house. Now, my feelings are all mixed up. If we go back, will that be the best idea, or is that all wrong? It will take me a while to get that settled in my mind about it. I hope it doesn't keep me awake tonight.

It has been a very good day. We went through the usual routine in the morning, and then Carla arrived. We enjoyed her coming, and had a good visit. Then she went to visit her uncle, Al Barthez, and she had lunch with him, and then she met the train at 1 p.m. and picked up Brittany, who also had come down to visit. We had a great afternoon with them, and then we all went to Karen's house for dinner tonight. Terry was in Arroyo Grande, so he wasn't there to visit with. But Karen and her cat were just fine to visit with and have a good dinner, as usual. Karen even served the last of my birthday cake which she had saved, and served with ice cream. It was a very nice evening. Afterward Carla drove us and Brittany back to Las Villas , and we were locked out! There was a fellow member here who had come down for his mail, and he let us in the front door. We came back to the apartment, and Brittany finished some things she had put on Chris' computer, I don't know what that was, because I was visiting with Carla. In a little while she and Brittany left, to go back to Karen's for the night. Carla said they would try to come back to see us once more, in the morning and then drive back to Fullerton, where Brittany is going to the University. Then Carla will leave there and fly back to Eugene, Ore, where she and Rex live. We talked to Kaye, too, so it was nice that we had connection with all three daughters, and a granddaughter.

It has been a different kind of day. After breakfast I went downstairs and read the paper, and then after lunch I started to go for a walk, and Carla came back. She and Karen had been to San Diego, and after being held up by a huge traffic jam, they went to check on the records at the bureau that had the papers about our house and the discripion that had checked out our owning 9 acres of land, along with the house in Oceanside. Of course they found that wasn't so on the official records, and someone had just goofed up on saying we did. With that straightened out, we can go ahead with fixing up the house and selling it as soon as the people in it move out. And that will be at the end of the month. Later today Carla went with us to our two banks and added her name to our accounts, so she can handle them if and when we can't do it ourselves. That solves a problem that we would have if Karen left here, and we were alone and unable to do it ourselves. And Karen and Terry will leave for the Arroyo Grande house as soon as they sell their house here. This evening Karen, Terry and Carla are going over to our house and check out the condition of it and the grounds around it. We will be waiting to hear what they have to say about it. The man and his wife who rented the house are the younger brother and his wife, of an acquaintance of Terry, and Terry feels sort of responsible for whatever condition the people are leaving the house in. That's an awkward situation to be in -- neither Terry nor the older brother is responsible for whatever has happened there.. We are waiting to hear whatever they (Karen and Terry and Carla) will say about it.

June 14. We got up and went to breakfast as usual. Then I went downstairs to find a newspaper to read. Then Karen called, and said that Carla was in Fullerton visiting Brittany and would be down to see us this afternoon. In the meantime she suggested going down to the beach with her for a short visit and to enjoy the ocean. So we did, and it was a nice visit with Karen, the first since she got back yesterday from Arroyo Grande. Karen brought us back to the apartment, and went home. In a little while Carla arrived. We visited a while, then went to lunch. Carla wasn't hungry, and just had a drink while we had lunch. Afterward we came back to apartment, and Chris told Carla about our monetary situation and showed her our records. We went to dinner later, and then went back to the apartment and continued going over our records. Carla will take care of things for us from now on, and with that in mind, she is going to San Diego tomorrow to find out exactly what what are the records on our house in Oceanside. The people renting it are moving out at the end of the month, and then we want to fix it up and sell it. There is still a problem of deciding if we will move back there while we clean it up. I hope not. I personally, would rather not move until it's time to go to Arroyo Grande.

Today we slept in an extra hour, but we were still able to get breakfast here. My legs are are getting better, I scarcely have pain during the day, and nights are better, too. My new medication is running out, so it may be that they are really getting better because of it. We will see what happens tomorrow, when it is gone. Chris went for a walk around outside the buildings here, but otherwise we didn't go anywhere. We didn't go to church, it was a little too much, since we would probably have to drive ourselves, because I didn't think to ask if the driver here goes to Oceanside, where we are still members. We were happy to have Bianca come to see us. She came late in the day, but she stayed to have dinner with us, before she had to go back to her medical school. This coming week is full of exams for her, so she couldn't stay over with us. I'm sorry about that, but she has to do what she must to get her medical degree. Her next schedule sounds horrendous, classes in New York, Michigan, and I can't remember where the rest of them are. We both hope and pray that things will go well for her.

Today we didn't do anything spectacular. After breakfast we discovered that Chris' cell phone wasn't working. We talked to Kaye about it, and she told us how to fix it. But we couldn't seem to do it, so we drove north on Jefferson, until we came to a shop that has nothing except cell phones. The first man we saw fixed it right away. We stayed around a little while longer and looked at new cell phones. We didn't find anything I liked better than I already have, so we left. Back at the apartment I read the morning paper, and Chris saw the news on the computer. He had a little nap until lunch time, and then we had lunch, and came back to the apartment. He had another nap, and I guess I must have also, because I don't remember doing anything else, except watching Rick Steves' two-hour special on Greece and other countries in that part of the Mediterranean. I enjoyed that; it is a good substitute for going there in person, at my time of life. On my travels in Europe, I never did get farther than France and Italy, and that was something I regretted. Now I don't have to go there in person. Carla will be coming down next week, and then Kaye on the 23th, and Karen comes home tomorrow. So we are looking forward to those occasions.

It has been another quiet day here. After breakfast we took some clothes down to the laundry and got them washing. I got a newspaper from the office and read it while the clothes washed and again while they dried . Chris came to help me, and we had them all back up to the apartment by noon. While I was there as the clothes washed, I saw the instructor of the Simple Yoga class, and I told her we would soon be back to the class, as we got entirely well again and have the strength for it. After lunch we watched "The Sound of Music" that we got from Netflix. In the middle of it, I went to the beauty shop on the second floor and got my hair done. There was a substitute operator, and she didn't do as good a job as the regular one, but it will do, I guess, until the regular woman gets back. We talked to Kaye today, but not the other two daughters. I guess they were busy with their own problems, and didn't need to hear about ours. Karen and Terry will be back from Arroyo Grande on Sunday sometime. Terry's granddaughter graduates from UC Santa Cruz tomorrow, and they will go to that, then drive back to Arroyo Grande, then drive to Oceanside on Sunday.

We have spent another quiet day. We went to all three meals and that was the only activity. We have rested, taken our medications, and watched while the janitors were here to clean up some spots on our "white" carpet. After they left I found, as the sun faded this afternoon, more spots they missed while they scrubbed the living room. Oh well, we will probably get more spots before we leave here, to follow Karen and Terry as they move up north. There's another problem we have to solve; the people renting our house have two dogs, and we have had two complaints from the neighbors there, that the dogs were a real problem. One thing we are doing right away, is to give the renters notice to be out by July 1. We raised the rent, and they seem willing to go now. But our problem is whether we will stay here while the house and yard are cleaned up before selling it, or if we should move back in the house while it is being cleaned up. I can't make my mind about that yet. We would have to get someone in to help us, like get groceries and prepare meals. I doubt we can drive safely to do all we will have to do at the house. And someone 90 years old drives a car, and gets in a wreck, I'm sure the 90-year-old will be blamed for the wreck. We will have to think this through the rest of the month, and decide how we will handle the cleanup of the house.

This won't be much of a communication. I feel tired tonight, and I don't have much of anything to say. I have gone to the meals today, and brought them back to Chris. He doesn't feel well, and preferred to stay in the apartment. I also went to a meeting for people with poor vision, hoping I could get some new ideas for Chris. But there wasn't much said about it; the speakers seemed more interested in selling people magnifying gadgets. I didn't get much out of it. I have spent most of the day in the apartment, and Chris hasn't felt well, and that was also a reason I stayed here. Tonight I feel tired, and I will go to bed as soon as I've brushed teeth, etc. Dr. Donahoe's office has tried to reach me, but I couldn't get through to them before their office closed. I don't know what he could have told me more about my physical condition, I'm still getting over the pneumonia, I guess. And my legs are sore.

This morning we went to breakfast as usual, and then we got ready to go to see Dr. Donahoe. Then we went downstairs and I read the newspaper, and we talked to various people there. Then, when it was time, Joe came up with the limo he drives to take us to the clinic here in Carlsbad. We got down there just about in time, and soon were in the doctor's office. He checked over my record, and looked and my legs, mainly around the ankles, where the inflammations and pain are. Then he came to his conclusion; I didn't have enough blood. So, he gave me a new prescription, and we got it filled in the pharmacy. We called Joe, and he came with his limo and drove us back to the Villas. We were too late for the regular lunch hours, so we ordered sandwiches which we ate in our apartment. In the rest of the afternoon we watched TV and then went back to the dining room, where we had our dinner. We sat with some new people, and the man and Chris talked almost all the way through the meal. They seemed to be interested in the same sort of Calif. history, and what each did during his working years. The man is about 20 years younger than Chris, and they got along fine. The woman and I didn't say much. There was not much we could find in common. The rest of the evening we have watched some TV, and now it's bedtime. First, though, I'll mention the program we watched. It was about the Mayan culture in Mexico and Central America. They have managed to crack the code of the writing there.

This morning we went to breakfast, and then instead of going to the Gentle Yoga class, we came back to the apartment. Karen came over, with a prescription for me that she couldn't get the other day. Since the housekeeper was coming here, we went down to the lobby and sat there a while and visited. Karen is going back to the house in Arroyo Grande tomorrow, and she is taking some things, so she and Terry can stay there for a few days at a time, to keep up on the renovations they plan for that house. Terry will fly up there later in the week. She left, and we went back upstairs to the dining room for lunch. Then back at the apartment I napped and Chris worked at the computer, trying to figure out our books and deciding what we should do. Carla is coming down next week, and she is good at that sort of thing, so I am looking forward to her ideas for what we should do. After dinner tonight I read some more in the book Carla gave me for my birthday. It's written by a member of the Relief Society's General Board, and she has some interesting ideas.

Caden

This is Caden at his soon to be home, coloring with his "Bomma" or it sounds like "Bolla" or "Baha"his word for me. At end he asks to "Bolla car?" then does the sign for and says drive car...

We have spent a quiet day. We went to breakfast, and then came back to the apartment. My legs continue to give me trouble, with a skin problem of some kind. And the sort of little headaches, that come on one side of my head and then the other side. I told the doctor last time, but he didn't say anything about these things. He just had me take blood tests and an EKG. Tomorrow I go to San Marcos for another blood scan; I can't imagine why, I did it just a few days ago. The nurse who called said that clinic would be open, even if it is Sunday. Then we have appointments on Tuesday, June 8. with Dr. Donahoe again. This afternoon we both napped a little while, and then we talked to all three daughters, and also to Brittany and to Race. Kaye said they would be out of the old house today, and Race was cleaning up the yard, before Stellan and family move into the old one. I am so glad Kaye is having a new house again, and I sincerely hope they can stay in this one a long time. When we talked to Carla, she and Rex were painting the house they bought on the beach. I don't know what they will do with it, rent it out, I guess, and then maybe move to it after Rex retires. I forgot when I talked to Brittany to ask her about the things she left in the storage shed at our house in Oceanside. We are thinking of cleaning up that house up and selling it when Karen and Terry move to Orroyo Grande next year. There's no point in our staying here when they have left the area. Karen has found a retirement place in the same town, and I guess we will move to Orroyo Grande, too.

I'm still resting up, to get over the pneumonia the doctor diagnosed. His office nurse called today, and they want me to take more tests, this time at the San Marcos clinic. She said they were open over the weekend, and Karen said she can take us, or just me, on Sunday. But not on Saturday. I hope they are right, and the blood taking clinic is open that day. It's better than going to San Diego, so I hope it works out OK. We go back to Dr. Donahoe on the 8th, whatever day that is, I don't have a calendar here to check that out. I just found out, and it is Tuesday. And I don't know how I changed the printing on this, but I will just go on. Today Karen came over, and she agreed to go to the clinic in Carlsbad and get us a prescription. They didn't have it, so we have to wait until Tuesday. It was Cozar. We just had dinner, and it's not settling well, so Ill close here and go lie down again in the recliner.

When we got up, I showered and then I put a cream on my lower legs, since I was out of the lotion the doctor had ordered. And I have had problems all day with pain and burning sensations in my legs. I have used pain tablets, and I can see I must use another one as soon as I'm through writing this. When we go to the clinic tomorrow, to have some tests done over, I will try to get the lotion the doctor ordered for this condition. I can't remember what it was, but the pharmacist may be able to help me. If not, I will go directly to the doctor's section and ask for a nurse who may be able to tell me. The doctors don't work on Wednesday afternoons! Chris hasn't been feel well, either. He went to breakfast, but he skipped lunch. I brought him decaf coffee and a piece of toast. I noticed that over the day he ate the toast, as well as drinking the coffee. Tonight we both went to dinner, but neither of us ate a lot. My leg was bothering me, and Chris had trouble breathing. He is better tonight, and I hope it lasts. Tomorrow we are invited to lunch by Karen. I'm not sure what that entails - maybe it will be at their house, and maybe it will be a restaurant, or lunch at the beach. I hope it's a nice day for it. Did I write yesterday that Carla is coming down this way in a couple of weeks? It will be good to see her, and hear about their new acquisition, a house right on the beach, in Bandon. Terry's granddaughter, who just graduated from college, will "sit" their house in Arroyo Grande, and be there when people come to develop the yard, and whatever else they plan to do to the house. She will stay until she gets a job somewhere else.

This morning we went to breakfast, and after that I went down to the coffee shop to read the paper. Then I came back upstairs, and we got ready to drive to the Kaiser Clinic where we had appointments with Dr. Donahoe. I did the driving down and back, because Chris' eye hasn't recovered yet. The doctor diagnosed pneumonia, and gave us new medications to fight it. We have to go back again on Thursday, and I can't remember just what it is for, maybe more tests, we will see. I do know we have to go back on the 20th, I guess to see if we are cured. In the meantime, we have new prescriptions to take. We talked to Kaye, and she is resting at their new house, and she does sound a little better. I think she should go to a doctor, and I will say so tomorrow. I can't think why Kyle hasn't taken her in before now. I'm glad, though, that they have enough furniture moved in, so she can stay there. It will be more cheerful for her in the new house. We also talked to Carla, and she got the files Chris sent her. With his eyes bothering him so, I'm glad she agreed to take on our accounts for us. Kaye had been doing it, but she isn't well enough now to do it. And I am not smart enough anymore to do it. Carla is coming down to L.A. to visit Brittany on June 14, and then she will come down to see us, too. That will be nice to have her here. It has been a while since we have seen her.