first, please excuse the poor spelling. for those of you that know me or have been reading my other posts, please allow me just a phew lines to update everyone on my wife's condition. for now the cancer is in remition. she has to go every 4 monthes for a ct/pt scan to make sure it stays that way. the chemo has caused her to have nerve damage in her hands and legs. the doctor doesn't know yet if it will be perm or not. they put her on meds to try to help take care of that but otherwise, she is getting a lil stronger every day. there are still some bad days but not nearly as bad as she was having.

 ok, now for a lil humor at my expence. does anyone know that lil guy named Murphy? if so, please tell him I am looking for him and he isnt going to have a very good day when I find him. allow me to explain. last thursday, I had lost a set of keys. on them is my garage key. in what lil spare time I have lately, I have been wiring my garage and getting ready to pour the floor. I had searched high and low in the garage thinking that maybe I had layed the keys down out there. no luck finding the keys out there, I figured that I dropped them out of my pocket at work. called there and had 2 guys look for them where I figured that I would have lost them. again, no luck.

on friday, I needed to go to the bank to put some money in because I found a very cheap pick up truck that I wanted to get due to the fact that when my wife became ill earlier this year I had to get rid of my 2004. it wasnt a hard decision as the house (mortage) is a lil more important. couldnt afford to pay the truck payment and the house on only 1 income and besides that, I figured that when Joan is better and if she is ever able to work again, maybe I would be able to swing the payment on a good newer truck again. the truck I am getting for now is a 95 dodge dakota. it has high miles but it will get me by for a year or so. isnt in to bad of shape for the year and miles and aside from that, as I said its cheap. $1200. and yes, aside from running pretty good and being 4 wheel drive, it also has 4 good tires on it. 

now 4 my day on friday. the bank used to be open till 8pm. 7pm we went to the bank. got there only to find that it now closes at 7. it was 7:05 when we got there. I had taken a 5 gallon can along to get oil for my space heater 4 in the garage as I was out. went over to the gas station for oil, yes, as you might guess, the gas station was closed also. but wait, thats not the end of it. being in a very disturbed mood, lol, Joan had sugested that we go to another town about 10 miles in the other direction and get a burger. this place is open thursday through monday evening 7:30pm till 3am. they serve up the greatest burger you could ever sink your teeth into. they also have a burger thats called the screamer. unbelievable hot sauce that can be found no where else on earth. this place has been on the local news for the screamer. its only a small hole in the wall place. but awsome burgers. yes, as you may have guessed, they were closed for a week for vacation. so you see, that lil guy named Murphy that wrote some kinde dumb law, has nothing on me.

 I think he says something to the affect, what can go wrong, will go wrong. well let me tell you, its now wolfy's law. what can go wrong, is gonna go wrong. its just a matter of when. lol. it has been such an unbeliveable week, that as I think about it, I sit back and laugh and ask,"is it really possiable for any person to have such a bad week?"

the next time I say something dumb, like does anything ever go rite, I will think twice before I even get out of bed that day. lol. 

I'm sorry this ended up so long but if you sat there and read about my terrific week, thank you and I hope that you also had a good laugh at my expence. 

in closing, I would like to take a second once again and thank all of you for all of the very kind words of support that you offered so unselfishly during my wife's illness and you will never know how much it means and how much it has helped me cope with the whole deal. thank you all very much and God Bless all of you.  John         

          KNOCK'EM DOWN, JOHN!!!

                totempole at the great salt lake

wolfy1:

I'm willing to bet that those keys are hiding on you for a good reason. LOL

Are they peaking out at you from under say maybe a shop towel, etc. (this is from personal experience LOL). Having done this myself I know how bad I wanted to kick myself in the backside when I found them. Yup, right where I left them on purpose so I WOULDN'T  loose them. So Wolfy's Law applies to me as well.

 Boy you made me hungry for a good burger. So lunch will be at a local Pub with a great burger and cold Bud.

Glad to hear your wife is doing better.  Sounds like you could use a laugh.  Here is one at my expense and it involves keys.

A number of years ago (about 20), I was a member of the local rink board.  As such I had a set of keys for the rink.  I had to go to the rink later in the day, so I took my rink keys with me when I ran some errands before going to the rink.  I didn't have a washing machine where I was living, so I did my laundry at my mother's place.  I stopped there to drop it off, put a load in the washer and told my mother I would be back to finish it after I was done my errands.  Came back to wash another load of clothes and found my mother had washed the other load of clothes and had them in the drier.  I left and went to a meeting.  While there I found that I had lost my rink keys.  Hunted all over, the meeting place, my vehicle, went home and looked there, phoned my mother and asked if I had left them there because I couldn't find them anywhere.  I accused her of losing them when she threw my laundry in the machine.  I went to another meeting and while there I reached for the gum I always carried in my shirt pocket and found my keys.  Had to eat humble pie when I apologized to my mother.  She still han't let me forget this story.  

ok ok, so we are not going to talk at all about where I finally found those keys. LMAO.but I did find them. now, when you walk into my garage as well as my lil wood shop, there is a rather large brass hook hanging on the wall next to the door and it is now being a forced habbit kind of thing to hang my keys as soon as I pass through either door. lol. as for the shirt pocket thing, well if only you could know how many times I have not been able to find my cell phone. for some reason, it just loves to hide in my shirt pocket. have no clue how it gets in there. lol. BTW, have upgraded from life member. just waiting to get everything in the mail now. just wondering, are there any live chat rooms associated with the HCOA web site where we can chat real time member to member? sounds like a good idea to me. ok, gonna go for now. hope you all have a great day and God Bless.

wolfy1:

Several of us members Chat on Yahoo IM or Face Book to keep in touch and BS about subjects that don't pertain to the Club. You may consider one or both of those sites. On Yahoo IM we can talk or text each other via our microphone and speakers. I use a headset with a microphone. It's all FREE and you can call anyone here in the USA using the Instant Messaging (IM).

its truely amazing. monday it was another of those days. bout 10 am got a call from the farm asking if I could run for a load of rye seed. of course as always, I told them I would be there in bout half an hour. went 35 miles to the farm where I was going to pick up the rye. when I pulled onto the scale and got out of the truck, I noticed anti freeze leaking near the front of the truck. upon closer inspection, I found the new water pump that was only a month old, was leaking.that was ok. called the farmer and he said go ahead and load the truck. just make sure to take a couple gallons of water with me. so I went down the road to load the rye. I pulled in under what looked to be an auger that was more than antique.(at least 50+ years old) the truck was about half loaded when a pulley at the top of the auger decided it was time to retire. LOL. it landed about 25 feet up in the field. after I stopped laughing, I asked the operator if they had another auger. he pointed out an even older 1 that retired about a month earlier. with a lil convincing, he went to his shop and found a pulley that would work. with that all said and done I was on my way.

I recieved another call asking if I would go to Philly. without hesitation I said yes.I figured, who could have this many of those days in a months time? guess I shouldnt have figured. lol. I had left about 4:30 pm for philly. what should have been a 2 hour ride 1 way. well guess what happened next! as I approached the schuylkill expressway, it didnt take long to figure out that the Phillies were playing in philly tonight. lol. go figure! thats ok. I decided to go all the way down 476 to 95 north and go into the city the back way. first let me explain. the place I go in philly is about 4 blocks from the ball park. so the 476 thing had to be a good idea. I have done that a million times. yea, ok. not so smooth this time. half a million people besides me had also decided to take the same route tonight. all in all, to make a long story shorter, what should have been a 2 hour ride turned into a 4 1/2 hour ride. go figure.

I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes a good idea isnt as good as it has been in the past. lol. hope you enjoyed another of those laugh days on me. it sure feels good to be home. hope the phillies lost. sorry guys but GO METS.