Well, we don't have much longer before the first day of Spring is upon us... I will be one happy camper for sure then I can try to walk outside with the lady that comes to care for me for two hours a day, five days a week.... Next week the kids are out of school for Spring Break so I won't have to take my grand daughter to school, I can sleep another hour before the lady come at 9 am to help me do things.....

Just to see sunshine each day instead of snow and rain with very high winds will be a big change for our weather here... I be scared to try walking since I hurt myself on that trip to Vegas... My paralyzed left side just don't want to carry me along the way any more... But I have to get outside to keep my walking ability going...

I can imagine how any person feels that suffers a second or third stroke, that really would slow me down... As it is I have to use my scooter with my left side being paralyzed I can't operate a walker with one hand!!!! In fact I went back to using my quad cane for walking from the garage out to my car, it feels safer than my single point cane because at times I have to turn it a loose so I would be dropping it at times if it didn't stand by itself...

I hope the rest of this year passes pretty fast and my healing up doesn't slow down, I'm so tired of being in this situation having a lady to come in to attend to me and fixing breakfast at 9 am... But what else can you do when you need help doing things??

I doubt if we are going on any more trips soon because the closest casino we like is about 5 hours away in Shreveport but there are others just across the state line of Texas in Louisiana.... I know my wife loves to play the penny machines and she can play at any casino I'm sure... I play the quarter machines mostly but at times I will play the dollar machines just not very long... Seems like putting 2 dollars in the machine at one time makes me lose my money too fast....

So with the quarter machines I only lose 50 cent putting in 2 quarters at a time... Most of the machines now you can play quarter, 50 cent or a dollar but you drive yourself crazy wondering which denomination to play... Just when you should have played a dollar or two you play a quarter but sooner or later you will get a jackpot payout if you play long enough...

So hopefully I can spring into action pretty soon on a weekend get away to the casino I just wish I had better luck playing the machines than I do now... I go primarily for my wife to play since she works every week and every other Saturday at the bank as a supervisor of the tellers!!!

Then I guess before too long we will be taking that long trip to her hometown of New Orleans to visit her family members...