Elizabeth Cavazos

Elizabeth Cavazos

Lizzie has been part of the Magnolia family for over 20 years and she told me she would have 

 big news about the middle of April so I have been looking for it. A few days ago the news was forthcoming and here it is.

 https://rfkhumanrights.org/awards/human-rights-award

Elizabeth and her group of tireless workers have been the protectors of human rights and they are rightfully being rewarded and recognized for their efforts. Congratulations Lizzie!!

Miscellaneous stuff.

In Trophy Gardens there is a fox that has taken up residence. We are mostly surrounded by farm ground so we can get quite a variety of things to see and photograph. We are back in Iowa but I snipped this photo of our resident chicken from Facebook. I think it is a beautiful specimen.

When I spot photos that friends of mine have taken that are a step above the rest I snip them with Microsoft's handy snipping tool that is part of everyone's computer. Many people are unaware of its presence but I use mine all the time.  

This photo was taken in Florida by a friend I met in person for 15 minutes in Michigan. Jeannie Sparks is her name and she is a talented photographer.

  The photo below was taken by Zach Hiller on their acreage near  Jefferson. I think Zach has an artistic eye.

The view from my window.

Home Sweet Home

I am so very tired of talking about my health so I will try to keep the "health" portion short and sweet. I have had a few bad nights so today I worked on being seen again for an assessment of my UTI problems. Bottom line I was not given an adequate antibiotic for me. I am not pointing fingers at anyone because that is a waste of time and energy. Little short on energy these days. After much effort, I finally ended going to the ER in Jefferson at the hospital. They were efficient and quick and took blood samples with results forthcoming quickly. I think I was there a bit over an hour. Have a new med, was told not to continue with the one I had been taking. Their tests told me I was not in trouble- just pain. So I am once again feeling better and hopeful.

We got home Thursday afternoon about 1:00PM. We are taking things slowly making the move-in transition without killing ourselves or each other. Keri provided supper for us and we had a nice reacquainted time with Leo and Keri.

They came and activated my Internet this morning and oh my gawd is it speedy.

We had a great but short time with our Missouri kids. We went to Leo's art show and I took some pictures.  Most of these photos are self explanatory and they are untouched by me.

Little Leo's kindergarten teacher

 
Papa Butch returns to kindergarten- much different from when he was there!

Gary, Brad and Butch

 Brad had a branch fall on his head -14 staples!

 I was most impressed with Amelia's artistic eye.

Thackerville to Big Cabin

We had a good trip today. Highway 32 to highway 70 is a bit narrow for me but Butch thought it was fine. There was only 25 miles of the narrow stuff from Marietta OK to Kingston OK so we may do that again. On hwy 69 the roughest part is from Muskogee OK to Pryor OK. 41 miles. But all of 69 is 4 lane except through towns. Not nearly as bad as we remembered. It was a good travel day. Around Eufala there were 5 miles of construction barriers on both sides making for a very tight space. It took much concentration on Butch's part and as for me I just didn't look. We are in the Big Cabin diesel RV park and we have an 8:00 am appointment for servicing the MoHo before we head up to Peculiar MO.
Vanita OK is a small town not too far away and there is a restaurant that is famous and really, really good and has been for many years. https://clantonscafe.com/ It is interesting to watch how it works. They have 6 or so waitresses out front and I counted 7 cooks in the back, all male. Whatever system they have has worked since 1927. We have never had a bad meal there. We will have to wait quite a while for the MoHo so we plan to go back for breakfast.

What a start!

Saturday I knew I had a UTI and I had been treating it and hoping for the best because after all, we were leaving bright and early Sunday morning. At 3:30 in the morning I knew very seriously I was not going to be able to travel without medical help so I had Butch take me to ER. You cannot imagine how much I did NOT want to wake him up with this bad news but I was in a great deal of pain that I could not make magically go away They asked where I was on the pain scale and I said a 6 or 7. They took a urine sample., tested it and told me I had a bad infection. I told them I was allergic to Amoxicillin or at least I think I am due to my last visit to this same ER. Didn't want to go through that again. So they gave me a big old shot of something to replace it. Butch said it was HUGE. The nurse told me it would hurt to have the shot, but it would get me off on the right road to recovery. It did not hurt getting the shot but it did later. I was quite glad he had warned me and I must say I have had much worse pain than that. So they also said I must take another medication twice a day for 10 days and be checked out as soon as possible when we get back to Iowa. Now by this time, it is 5:00 am and I need to get a prescription filled. So we finally found a Walgreens in McAllen and got it filled getting back home by 6:00. Butch said we may as well get ready and go.  I was a mess as I had not had any sleep since 1:00 am, still in pain.  And Butch was going to be short on sleep as well. Butch assured me he could handle it. This is a guy who used to have to go out in the middle of the night to restore electricity and then go work a regular shift so I knew he was able and he has always been good about saying so if he didn't think it was a good idea. So off we go, headed north at 7:30 am.

I was absolutely no use to him. And then it gets worse! Everything was okay getting to our first destination except for a couple of traffic delays. We had reservations at Hof Brau RV Park near Marble Falls. We were so anxious to get there and finally be able to rest. There was no one in attendance and a sign said NO Vacancy and we drove around and it was full. And it was full of full-timers (people living in their RV). We had a RESERVATION! I plan to write a review and fully unload. It will not be pretty. So I found another one nearby and we checked it out but it was just a smaller and dirtier version of the first one. So we settled for the Walmart parking lot. We had stayed there before and we were both so tired it really didn't matter where we were. I went to bed at 6:00pm and stayed there until 6:00am. Worth every minute and I am feeling so much better. Butch slept well and long too.

Marble Falls Texas to Thackerville OK.
Today was a very pleasant travel day. Listening to a wonderful book by John Irving-A Widow for One Year. I like all his books. Good writing rises above the rest.
We have had supper, played a little at the casino and will soon be tucked in.