I have experienced many things in the last several weeks and months so now I just hope nothing unusual happens and the rest of the month will pass with no surprises of course we don't always get what we want! A couple of members are talking about the cool weather and we are still cooking here in Texas with 100 degree heat and better for 27 day since July!! More are predicted so between gas for the car, food on the table and AC bill money, I will be short for sure!! That's life nothing works out like we wish it would so just to awake to see another day is satisfying to me and knowing my family members are in good health!!

I'm back in therapy close to home after a long break! Some parts of my run down body seem like it is over worked while other parts need more working out to get the strong feelings back! I think therapy is the one thing we will always need with one side of the body paralysed from head to foot!! The only thing is in my case Medicare will only pay for so many sessions and that's it!!

I think I just got to slow down and not try to do so many things in a week but I always been a go getter except I know now I'm not that young any more!! I sorta hate to sit still too long I might get lazy I have cut way back on my eating habits and I lost a few pounds which was great now all my pants fit before I couldn't get some of them fasten!! I just have to keep thinking to eat less when I do less work!!

With a little neighborhood help from a neighbor I managed to build me a BBQ house in the back yard complete with a ceiling fan and electrical outlets for my small propane grill/refrigerator I have had for three years and never used sitting on the patio!! The patio is screened in with siding around the bottom but it was just too little for cooking!! The house I built is the same way to let the smoke out from the big barrel grill with a smoke stack exhaust!! Being from Texas I like to BBQ and cook outdoors!!

That will save my wife trying to cook in the kitchen in this high heat weather and it's not letting up!! Since I stopped doing the wounder warrior job I have more time to visit and do a little shopping and going to the Malls! She does the grocery shopping on the military base it's much cheaper there! One of the benefits of being retired military I guess!! It does stretch our dollars a little more buying there and no tax!!

This is a military town both active duty and many retired folks here! The homes were pretty reasonably priced when I bought 14 years ago!! I got 5 years remaining and I'll be out of debt since I took it to 15 years in 2003 a year before the stroke which turned out to be a good move!! So I'll keep praying for the Lord to keep blessing us then my wife can sit down although she doesn't want to do that!! She loves working at the bank something she has done all her adult life!!

Most of the active duty troops are back from Iraq and Afghanistan and the traffic is terrible morning noon and evening trying to get any place!! A lot of the contractors are still overseas making that long money with most of it tax free!! They are working on the roadways to widen them out to three and four lanes trying to move the traffic better but it's not working! They have signs up saying left lane for passing only nobody pays attention to them they just do 55 or 60 in the left lanes making the traffic crawl or stand still!! There are people and cars from all 50 states here and some of them can't drive at all but they got new shiny cars on the road!!