Blue Eyes?

By some trick of lighting Reesa's eyes appear very blue here when they are still the navy blue of all baby eyes.

The Oliver household is just in survival mode these days. Eddy's dad has been in and out of the hospital at Calico and last night we had to take him back. My dad goes to the doctor, I believe, today in Mountain Home. He REALLY plans on having the catheter removed! Whether that is a reality is something that I'm glad not to be there for. I was there last week for everything else and I could really develop a phobia for hospitals. Over the past year and a half, I have either been a patient in or visited 7 different hospitals. Let me tell you, they all smell the same!!!

I have been trying to slowly clear my own yard of the branches as there is no one else to do it. Eddy leaves at 6 something and gets home at 6 something! Add in feeding to the schedule and Eddy has to depend upon me for the news and weather report, something he really hates to turn over to someone not quite as junkie about those issues as he is.....I get 15 min of speaking time in the evening and morning if I am lucky. I am 1000th on the list of importance on answering his cell for my call, so if you're thinking that you want a decision made by the Oliver household right now and you always thought that I should be CEO, then call me now. I'm getting all the current say so!

If I could complain, why does it seem that all major appliances conspire to fail together? My washing machine jumps around my laundry room like a coked-up space vehicle and no amount of balancing helps. The dishwasher has decided to form some kind of union, being a Maytag also, and will only work only one setting if I sit beside it and press my hand in a certain place. NOW, my oven element has gone out on top of everything else.

Sach, Codi and Reesa will be here this weekend for her first trip to Fulton County. Stay tuned for video.

I need to go now and take pictures of the puppies as I need to start the campaign to disburse them among the unsuspecting of the area.

later

It is so hard to imagine that it has been so long since I have blogged here. Our lives have been turned to a different setting since the ice storm. I haven't seen Eddy long enough to even say , Hi. This week they have gone back to just the co-op employees handling everything, but they will work 10 hour days for who knows how long. We really do not need any wet snow, or more importantly, wind. That is asking a lot of the weather channel at this time of the year. I haven't even thought yet about cleaning up my own yard as there have been others that needed me worse like mom and dad. We have also had one of those times in our family when there has been lots of sickness and surgery. Dad has prostate cancer and his surgery was 2 days ago. They employed some space age cryo -freezing the area affected, I believe. The key thing will be watching to see if dad decides to follow post-op instructions or not. Scar tissue is not a pretty result of too much too soon after surgery.
We are headed to Bentonville this weekend as Jake is flying in from New York to see Reesa for the first time. The trip over will be the longest time that I have spent with Eddy(awake) since January 26!

A wild and crazy time

This ghostly image is about all I have seen of Eddy through this wild and crazy time. I am soooo glad to have my surrogate companion, my computer, back on line and humming cheerfully in the background. Jamie and I were discussing which item we would rather have, a tv or computer, and, for me, a computer comes in first, hands down.

I guess there needs to be some background filler to this story. Last week, we were were blitzed with an ice storm of epic proportions. At some points in the surrounding counties, Eddy saw ice as thick as coke cans clinging to miles of swaying and sagging power lines. Of course the physics of this phenom soon snapped 1000's of poles as far as the eye could see. 1000's of people are still without power and will be for weeks to come. We have been declared a national disaster area and are existing in a state of emergency. Fortunately the weather cleared and the temps warmed or lives would have been endangered from the cold. We are expecting 60 degree days for the next week and that will help. However, next weekend we could have severe weather, (storms) and that would set us back again into the stone ages!

Law and Order is about to come on so more later. Tomorrow I have a hair appointment to get this mess colored and trimmed then I'll blog on other sites with pics of the ice.
later