Sean drove me down to my brother Ken’s to get my van which he had inspected. It still had a bunch of sleet/snow on it, so Ken and his pal knocked it off-Sean did a little. He’s not much on pitching in. I swear I didn’t teach him that if you get my drift. We gave my nephew Kenny his presents for his upcoming 11th birthday on the 23rd. He liked the rock and roll t-shirt we found for him at the Gap store (he only wears short sleeved shirts) and a little cash. I also made him an Art Trading card and he liked that too. I forgot to photograph it. I have one for Tori all made up for her 8th birthday on April 11th. Then Sean played Playstation2 with Kenny and I talked with Tori while she watched The Disney Channel-her eyeballs were glued to it. : ) Tori and Colleen went to a rollerskating event and Sean and I stayed to visit with the two Kens a little longer. Ken got out the video of when he was cleaning an engine that he had taken out of my Ford Montego back in 1983. He was only about 15-16 yrs old. Then there were footage of him in his prized 1964 Ford Falcon (I know a lot about Fords) and he was peeling out making the tires spin and the exhaust filled the air. The guys got a good laugh.
Ken said he was worried about my mom too and the quality of her home life, said she was pale with black circles around her eyes when he saw her on Friday. He and his pal walked around her yard (after they plowed her driveway) and also saw some damage on her house and her shed roof caved in from all the sleet/snow’s weight. He said he’d fix up the outside but not the inside. I knew I’d have to persuade her to get rid of things. Ken said mom is so stubborn. Makes you sit back and look at your own acquired stuff-speaking of which…
…our basement is a bit discombobulated as Brian spent the day making a path for the furnace guys. Some of my neatly stacked Christmas things got moved here and there. I was going to postpone them coming as I thought we had more to move. I see a few more things that may be in the way. We acquired a lot of junk
stuff in the last 20 years. Oy.
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Must be the springtime air or something – I’m also seriously thinking of undertaking a massive “pitch it” action here. I’m just so tired of all the junk everywhere. Maybe after my midtern, I’ll take a day off work and make a couple of dump runs….
I’m sorry your mom is causing you and your brother a lot of worry. I hope the two of you are able to convince her to take better care of herself – no easy task, I know.
Take care, and have a great week!
I too hope everything works out with your mom. Getting old sucks! I was just thinking that I have to go through my closets and get rid of stuff. I am pretty good with some things but for some reason I hold on to clothes. This time I am going to be ruthless! Sorry to hear that the camera from ebay didn’t work out. I’m alway leary ordering stuff like that the ebay. Most of the cameras I buy from there are vintage ones that I pay a max. of $50 bucks. I’ve been lucky so far. I just wish getting film developed wasn’t so expensive!