Multiplication Errors and Other Embarrassments.

 Multiplication Errors and Other Embarrassments.

 

Went to Aldi’s this morning to pick up some veggies and fruit. Always look at the price of a pound of butter while there. So, picked up a case of butter to put in the freezer. Thinking that the case had a layer of four by three packages, my math did not compute to the total. Since then, had to rethink the count. Eight packages times three is twenty-four, times $3.59 per pound equals $86.16. Thought my total was pretty high, but now it makes sense. That doggone stuff is expensive—especially buying a case at a time. Oh well. The freezer is very accommodating. My math, not so much. Sigh.

 

An older man came up to me in the fresh veggie aisle and asked if I was ready for my dirty joke of the day. You might guess my answer: Do you know why passed gas smells so very terrible? It is so that deaf people can enjoy it as much as the rest of us! Know my daughter thinks it is funny that old men come up to me and tell such things, but you can bet she would have been embarrassed to have been with me. Told my brother what happened and he reminded me that the old man leaned over to his wife in church and said, “I have passed a silent one. What should I do?” “Put new batteries in your hearing aids!” she said.

 

Now that we have that silliness out of the way, Sterling reminded me that Granddad Pollard called Sterling a “wood butcher” rather than a carpenter. Sterling now has created a 24-inch seat on a rocking chair that he believes would have held up our Uncle Leonard at his heaviest! Asked him what he planned to do with the rocker and he hemmed and hawed around and said he might just put it on the front porch. No one he knows is that heavy or wide anyway.

 

Sterling’s friend George was discharged from the horse-pital yesterday. They did not have to do an angioplasty or anything drastic. He had some fluid around his heart that is no longer a problem. He has just let himself get too tired and run down according to my brother. It is quite difficult for those living alone to always take care of themselves as well as they should. Sometimes it is just easiest to ignore things like real food and planned meals or drinking water on a regular basis. Men have more problems, generally speaking, of actually eating and drinking the way they should than women—or so it seems. Most women are in the habit of cooking once a day anyway, but left to themselves over a period of time (as widows), they cook less and less and tend to stay alone or away from friends and neighbors. There is a good reason we should check on older folks who live by themselves and not just because of falls and such. Those of us who have pets are sure to get up and feed the critters at least once a day. Mine demand it rather sweetly, but demand they do! Feeding ourselves may be as simple as sharing a serving of chicken with the dogs or scrambling a couple of eggs, but do it we must. Mom had dementia and nearly starved herself and Daddy, too, but as soon as they were getting regular meals in the nursing home, they got much healthier looking. Think this old woman would rather make meals to share with the dogs than have to live by the routines of a nursing home!

 

Trying to figure out who to call to ask about how to get the entrance to our roadway widened when they start work on our section of road about to receive part of that $7.5 million! We have a 90-degree turn off of the highway that is quite dangerous if folks are rushing home from work in the evening. Have tried to figure out if TXDOT or a city office is the place to call, but have no idea. Guess it will be like shooting in the dark either way. Maybe we will be blessed to get the right person to talk to about changing it.

 

Simply not going to look at any news this weekend. If one side of the world decides to rip holes in itself or its neighbors, it won’t be anything new. Shaking my head won’t help, so will just pray that those in positions of leadership will be blessed by God to do what is best for the world and all those in it. Let us pray for this world and all in it that the world may be blessed with the peace that only God can give us. Let us give the respect we can to those that God has allowed to be in authority. Even Christ, when reviled and condemned, showed respect for the authority that came from God.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.