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Best friends

My best friend scared me the other day.

I was outside lending an air pump to a neighbor when her eldest son hailed me.

As I walked over to him, he told me she was in the hospital!

I screeched “What?!”

He explained what happened. Tachycardia. Well, she’s had that before.

The next thing he said cracked me up.

He told me, “She said, darn, I didn’t beat my record.”

Her record is 222 beats a minute. This time she only hit 200.

I talked to her on the phone, she said she call me when I could come get her–they were planning to release her the same day.

However, I got antsy. I called her back and told her I was coming out and would sit with her until they sent her home.

And I did.

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Making connections.

     Love it! Reconnected with an old friend on Facebook yesterday. She used to live two doors down from me. One of her 2 daughters is my second God Daughter. I hadn’t heard from any of them in quite a few years. Last time I saw her and her husband was when I had to change flights at their local airport, had a two-hour layover, and they met me there. That was delightful!

     I’m not looking forward to my number one hardest work project of the year that is coming up now that the weather is getting nicer.

     I’m hoping to have a few people come by and remove plants which will cut down on my work a bit. Need to pump water out of the pond and figure out how we’re going to fill it in. 

     Yes, there will be either liner removal or slashing of the liner. I will pay any volunteers in good food and great appreciation.

     You all have a good one!

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Thank you Chuck!

 

     I have to thank Chuck for coming over and getting the furnace at the MIL’s house to run properly.   The man is one hell of a great friend!  I was afraid we were going to have to call someone in and pay through the nose to have it done.

     In spite of disabling pain from breaking his back–not once but twice, Chuck came down, found the problem, and corrected it.  Thereby saving us a bundle.  (Take a bow Chuck, you earned it!)

Old friends finally meet

 

     Years ago, I met Jackie online.  We’ve instant messaged and talked in chat rooms for ages and ages.  We even talked on the phone once or twice.  Today, we finally met in person.  We had a great time visiting over many cups of coffee.

     Gavin and Patty were ecstatic over meeting someone who knew all the right places to scratch them and didn’t mind a few puppy kisses.  Although there were a couple of times that I had to send the pups to their crates to calm down because each wanted the pets the other was getting from Jackie they were well behaved for the most part.

     I’m not sure if we were what Jackie expected but then I have no idea what she expected.  😉