Posts Tagged ‘family’
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Our first full day at dawned with me sleeping with the back wedge we bought to relieve the pain in my lower back while traveling (I have a hospital bed at home but we can't travel with that!). We had ordered some juice and coffee the night before and it was delivered while I was still in bed. Grandma got out of the shower, threw on a robe, and opened the door for delivery. She'd put on a Princess robe before opening the door. The robes provided by Princess looked nice but didn't quite do the job. As grandma said, "They're one size fits all provided you're small".
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Handicapped accessibility seems to be the current buzz word with respect to travel. As many disabled people know it is often ignored and frequently misunderstood. Princess is an exception. We found that they really did an exceptional job especially when you book through a Princess representative as we did. Just be sure to inform them that you need to book a handicapped stateroom and book early (the handicapped rooms on a cruise tend to fill up fast according to the disabled travel agent we met on the cruise).
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- Water over the wetlands trail
Another week of gloom (and doom?) here in the Pacific Northwest. Fortunately we had no rain last Sunday so grandma and I were able to get outside for awhile. Grandma took me to a local wetland's park which was interesting. In spite of it being so wet that the boardwalk trail was impassible in spots we managed to spend enough time outside to recharge my mental health.
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Hard to believe I know. I can hardly believe it myself. Time doesn't march on inexorably; it simply evaporates leaving behind a residue full of memories, emotions, and past regrets !! Just yesterday we were married and now two children and two grandchildren later we are celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome 2011. We look forward you what you have store for us. Grandma Oddball is ready for the new year as you can see from her inner child pictured here. Let's hope that her inner child doesn't melt away too fast !
It's been an eventful month. Well, for that matter, it's been an eventful year but I'll just stick to the last month or so. During the month's course several things struck me as amusing, interesting, significant, and, on occasion, sad. I'm not sure my leaky brain can remember everything but I'll try.
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Lions, tigers and bears, heck they're nothing. We saw dragons, dinosaurs and flying pigs when grandma and I went to the fair. It was a rare good day for me with no nurse visit scheduled and no MS attack to bedevil me so we decided to just take a chance, pack up the wheelchair and go.
The trip also gave me a chance to field test my new camera system and eliminate a few more bugs in the system. The system worked “fairly” well and I'm posting a photo and video record of the trip (click on a picture if you'd like to see more detail). You'll have to tell me in the comments what you think of the effort.
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Have you ever been scared? Not movie scared but scared by incidences in your life. I have and it was some most unpleasant experiences. Mostly I got scared for my wife and children but on occasion events affecting me would scare me but usually not at the time. When the events occurred I would usually just get mad at my own stupidity. It was only later when I realized the consequences that I would let the potential outcome scare me.
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My son was emphatic, his patience growing thin at the slowpoke ahead of us. Traffic was thick and blowing a horn would do little good but that cuts no ice with the young. I think he may have wanted to just hear the horn. This trait repeatedly surfaced over the years. When I first started using a cane he got a big squeeze horn and attached it. I couldn't really use it since I only had one useful hand. Later when I was confined to a wheelchair he complained about the wimpy horn on the chair. If I listened to my son he would have installed a big aah-ooga horn.
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“Are we there yet”?
The youngsters plaintive cry echoed down the the train's observation car causing more than one head to turn and smile. (more...)
