I'm currently sitting at my computer as Lita and LyAnna are in the bathroom. Lita is getting ready to take her back home to her mothers. Her mother, Aimme, has once again kicked Jeremy out of the house, which don't surprise anybody. Aimme has once again snuckered Jeremy into letting her borrow his truck and she told him that she sold it in a auction. This sort of thing will never end. Jeremy and his whole life is much like the Harleys in the fact that it's a constant soap opera.



Christopher got married on 12/31/08 to Jamie Scroggins. She has a three month old baby named Callie Rae. Christopher joined the Navy and two weeks into the basic training they told him that the Lasik surgery he had would prevent him from completing the training because they require a six month waiting period before joining. They are in the process of sending him home according to his wife. We haven't talked to him so there isn't much more info until we do.



It has been a pretty cold winter and work has sort of been cold but slow. We had a lot of rain in November and most of December and there was plenty of overtime to be had for those who wanted it. I had three weeks off during November so I missed out on the opportunity if I had of wanted it.

Finally, back to the journal

Well, it's been forever since I've logged anything here. Mother finally succumbed to cancer, dementia, and pneumonia and passed away September 21, 2005. I miss her but I don't miss the awful state she had gotten in. She just seemed to have left us long before that date because of her loss of her senses. I know she wouldn't have wanted to been treated like the invalid that she had become if she was in her right mind. I watched her last moments on earth as she passed away in the hospital bed in her mobile home bedroom. She had been in that bed ever since the third  time she was in the hospital, which was probably a few months. She had to have round the clock care for around a year and a half. I felt like I had aged 10 years by the time it was over with because, right or wrong, it was basically left up to Lita and I to manage everything. Lita was a life saver for me because she really came through. I can never repay her for treating my mother with the care and love she displayed.

Many other things have happened since my last entry, too many to try and remember. We extended the patio and added a hot tub and it's really nice. I bought another truck, a 2003 Toyota Tundra, extended cab with 25000 miles on it. I love it. Christopher bought himself, with out help with signing on the loan, a 2006 dealers model Dodge Charger and Lita took over his 2004 Grand Prix. She sold the Oldsmobile to Charlie Schrimpsher at Shaw Enterprises. So, we are three nice vehicles now.

We still see and go with Vaughn and Pat a lot. We went to Florida again in May and just recently went to Gatlinburg Tn together. We seem to enjoy each others company more and more. I'm glad. Leslie and Lori are both pregnant and are expecting little girls very soon now. Christopher moved back home from Florence a good while now and was working for Sears, then Holt's pest control, and now he just got hire full time for the Athens police force. He had been a reserve for about a year now. Jeremy and Amy have a baby girl they seem to be doing ok, for the moment. Jeremy has a decent job it seems and is doing good with it, so he says. We'll see. Sorry, but I have seen this same scenario before but I am hoping for the best.

I have been off from work for four days because of falling on our patio concrete steps last Monday night. Our drain stopped up going to the septic tank and it was raining and as I wasstepping out bare footed on the back steps my feet slipped out from under me and I landed on the steps on my back. If felt as though I broke it for about a minute. I have been to the doctor twice and still it hurts. Hopefully it will eventually heal.

I will try and be more vigilant writing in this journal in the future. We'll see.

Tuesday 11/16/2004

I got up early this morning and went down to mother's to cook her breakfast. I got back home around 7am and spent most of the day cleaning up around the house, mostly concentrating on the utility room. Later in the day Lita made a pot of chicken stew that I split up in containers and put in mother's freezer. I also helped Lita make a big pot of chili for us. I am going to stay at mother's tonight I guess while Lita goes to the sleep clinic.

Monday 11/15/2004

I started a week's vacation today. Note that on this date I called and dropped Christopher's Gold's Gym membership. He is going to a different gym. I am going with Lita today to a sleep clinic.

Yesterday Lita and I went to Wal-Mart and bought groceries for ourselves and for mother. We got her fixins for Chili and Chicken stew. I made the Chili and split it up into small ziplock containers and put them in her freezer.

Went with Lita with Sleep Clinic doctor to initial consultation. He set he up with a over night sleep sudy for tomorrow night starting at 8:30pm.

Sunday 11/13/04

Well, it's been a long time since I've added anything to this journal. So many things have happened. The most major is that Mother has gotten very helpless and we are having to pay someone to stay with her a lot of the day. Right now we have Kay Harrison, sister to Danny Burrough, hired out.

Lita has had some medical problems which include a form of Lupus. She doesn't feel good most of the time. Jeremy has moved back here after Amy left him and filed for a divorce. She also called the police on him before he moved back and the arrested him for possessing stolen property, according to him.

I have started losing my hair, mostly in the crown area, and I am using Propecia and Rogaine to try and keep it as long as possible.

This is Saturday and I went early this morning to stay with mother. Kay took over at a little after 3pm. Mother wears depends diapers and won't go to the bathroom and pee unless someone is there. It's really a problem.

Christopher and Lauren came to the house this evening before they go to a gathering called a Pike fest where there will be a big bond fire somewhere out in a field or something. Christopher is working part time at Dillards in addition to going to UNA. He is in his junior year.

Wednesday 5/12/04

This day starts my vacation. This weekend we go to Florida with Vaughn and Pat for about eight days. Today I had Hermas Jones bring me a load of topsoil. I started working early in the morning and the only break I took was to go to the Co-op and get some grass seed and wheat straw. I didn't finish until after 5pm. I just about killed myself, especially my back. I'm sure I'm going to pay for it for the next couple of days. Regardless, I got the dirt spread around the padio and the grass sewed and the straw spread. I'm hoping I don't have a drainage problem now but if the grass grows, I think it will really be pretty. I sloped the dirt up to the old well concrete and if it does right, it should really look better.

Linda had her surgery on her colon today and Lita spent the day at the Decatur General hospital. She had some cancer in her colon but the doctors think they got it all.

Sunday 5/9/04

I haven't posted in quite a while and lots of things have happenned, too numerous to try and recount. One thing we did do is have a concrete padio pad poured and today we had a big cookout on this Mother's day. We had Pat, Vaughn, Leslie, Mac, Jeremy, Amy, Logan, Danielle, Ms Owen, and Christopher. Lauren came by a little later in the day. We cooked hotdogs and hamburgers and mainly had a real good day.

Earlier in the week Mother's air conditioner went out and she stayed us a couple of days. Charlie Schrimsher repaired it friday and we took mother home saturday. Also saturday, Lita and I worked most of the morning on the padio site. We went and got a half yard of pea gravel and spread it between the padio and sidewalk. We also went back to town and purchased a padio table and chair set and a padio swing. It's really starting to look nice.