Happy Birthday Charles!

June Kellum  (FaceBook)

Today is my husband's birthday!

Happy Birthday, Dear Charlie, Happy Birthday to you.
(This was St. Patrick's Day)

Love,
June

 

We will be going out for a nice dinner a little later.

 No party this time! 

He got lots of greetings, gifts and phone calls, though! 

Hmm...wonder what's for dinner...remains to be seen. We have no set plans about that.

Happy Birthday, Dear Charles!

Junie

More skin surgery for Charles...

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Yesterday Charles had another appointment for skin surgery,this one on his ear. In the past he's had several such procedures done on his face, arms and hands etc. They are usually classified as precancerous...but sometimes NOT.  This one on the back of his ear was one of the more serious types and after the cutting out he had to have a small skin graft from a section of his face just in front of the ear.  He hasn't felt well today but, hopefully, will soon be on the mend.

The place where we have to go to have these things done is more than 40 miles from our house, (maybe 50) so it's a long day.

This was our beautiful fall sky yesterday. I took this when we arrived at the place...

The waiting room was comfortable and welcoming.  I liked this statue and our flag in the main waiting area.

They also had a coffee machine and cookies for the ones left to wait.

After a second trip back...after the cutting and testing...Charles was finally finished and ready to leave!

... Rescued me just in time, too, as another old lady had just started into  what looked to be a political tirade with me!  Whew!!

On our way home, we decided to stop for dinner at a restaurant we both love. Actually, this is one of the two  'Stump knockers' restaurants that we visit when it's convenient. One is located in the town of Inverness...this one of yesterday is near Hernando, right  next to the Wichlaccochee River!  This is a beautiful setting ; ideal for a Catfish/Seafood restaurant!

 

This is what the Catfish looks like!

Great!!

 

And this is our favorite - fried mushrooms!

After our meal, we took a few minutes  looking around the property outside by the river!

One of these days we're gonna take a riverboat ride up that lazy river!  Charles promised!!

Love

Junie

Midweek Blues~ (for 4-27-11)

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*go here for more Midweek Blues posts*

My husband and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner at Red Lobster! Our meal was superb, as always!

  This dessert was the crowning touch - and served on this blue plate, makes it a perfect selection for a Midweek Blues post.

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Some other non-blue pics from our day!

My son got this picture of Charles and me as we were about to leave for the restaurant.

 

This is what we both chose for our dinner. Yummy!

~Lobster tails,shrimp,scallops -stuffed mushrooms -cheese biscuits -salad - cole slaw~

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~Our main celebration for our anniversary was on Easter Sunday, with most of our family here. We had a wonderful time together~

(a few pics of that day, I will post later)

Junie

Catch-up post and feeling sad...

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Well, I tell you, it's lonely around this place these days...with my sweet Tiger gone.

 

  Lucy and Tiger had become good pals and little Lucy seems to miss him. I know animals feel similar emotions that we humans do, but I hope not as long and not as intense!

 Tiger and Lucy

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These were in Feb 2011

Lucy

Tiger

General

...To make things worse for Lucy, General has taken to spending a lot of time at Chris and Joy's house...OK- My son's house is here on our place...This whole property is about 4-1/2 acres...Our house is at the front and theirs is on the back half.

I haven't seen General at all today, and while I don't mind for myself

(because Chris loves that cat)

I feel sorry for little Lucy.  I'm thinking I might get Lucy a new kitty sister if I can!

Life is sad!

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Lately I have had overwhelming spells of sadness and  restlessness...and nights without much sleep...

Too many things happening of a worrisome nature...Just life doing it's thing...but sometimes it's hard- especially when things overlap as they have been doing for me recently. You barely get accustomed to one new upset or change  and you're faced with yet another! The  poor sleep I'm getting is probably the worst thing going right now for me...and I hope I can  improve on that.  Today I went shopping (a big grocery shop trip) and on the way home I almost dozed off driving. I actually crossed the center line...scared me a lot!!

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OK-On a happier note:

 

Yesterday evening I suggested we go out for dinner and we asked Tina to go with us.

It was a happy couple hours spent with our girl. We went to Applebee's and we all enjoyed it a lot.

The food was excellent and not expensive.

(always a good thing these days)

This is what I had... a Cajun shrimp and pasta dish...and we also had this Spinach-Artichoke dip with chips! These are 2 of my favorite things!!

:)

If I could have a good meal like that every night, maybe I could keep smiling!

;)


Love,
Junie

Red Lobster Birthday Dinner

Charles took me out to my favorite restaurant for my birthday dinner ~ 'Red Lobster!'

Everything was just excellent! We both had a combination seafood platter and shared the  stuffed mushrooms and those yummy cheese biscuits!

  I've been wanting me some Red Lobster goodies for awhile!  Lol - Now  this will hold me for a bit! 

Charles gave me a pretty bracelet  and also got me some more plants for the garden!  Those blue flowers are the new ones. (can't think what they're called right now but they are a good plant for here; bloom almost year 'round!)

The new bracelet  is the one on the bottom in  close up picture!  It's pretty but doesn't show  in detail in the picture!

It was a happy birthday for me...and there will be more  celebrating  on Mother's Day- with all the kids!   :) 

Some  pics  of us:

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Tomorrow I have a follow-up for the bone density exam that I recently had done ...I hope it will be a good report! ...At least I can report to the doc that I have started a walking program...well- I ' sort of ' have, anyway! :)

I hope I don't show any additional loss in height! Gee whiz- I wasn't THAT tall to begin with! I'm doing all the things they tell me to do... I take the once a month bone meds...also extra calcium every day!

Sally Field says, " I've got just this one body and this one life...!"

 Well- Me too, Sally!  

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OH!

And thanks to you all for the many Happy Birthday wishes for me!  :)

Goodnight,  all,

Junie

My Birthday Music!

Today my son decided to give me my birthday and Mother's Day gifts early. This was because he will be working on my actual birthday and, in fact, we don't intend to all get together until next week on Mother's Day! We will combine the 2 days as we usually do with so many special days coming along.

I don't mind stretching out my birthday...:) So I was real happy to get all this cool stuff from Chris today! :)

This is his gifts for both my days combined!

( He knows his old mom pretty well, I'd say!)


LOOK at all this neat stuff!!



If you click on the picture you can see better what they all are!

I haven't yet had a chance to listen or watch any of these but hope I can soon!


Tomorrow we are invited to my sister and brother-in-law's house for a birthday dinner.
I'm looking forward to that!

My actual day is Monday - 05-05-41! Yes! If you do the math you'll know for sure I'm no 'Spring Chicken!' Not that any of you had any doubt of that, I'm sure. haha

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On some birthdays of the past I have been able to play little fantasy games with the numbers...You know- reversing the placement of the numbers... For instance- on my 51st birthday I could switch the numbers and pretend it was 15 instead...and 52 could change over to 25... Birthday 64- would be 46...

...Well- this birthday I think I will just stick with the real numbers...because 67...in my fantasy game - would turn out to be 76! :)

Lol - Truth is- they are all just numbers-so why worry about them?

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So on my REAL birthday Monday, Charles is taking me out to dinner ~ Red Lobster- my favorite place to eat!


Junie

Our day today...

We are enjoying our company. They arrived just in time for dinner last night and we had this ...a rotisserie lemon-pepper chicken dinner. My sister and her husband here in Ocala came up too, and brought some pies for dessert! We all had a good visit and the food was yummy, too!

We got together again tonight but this time we all met at a restaurant...all us old folks... and my girls, Tina and Allison joined us! It was at a steak place but I had a chicken meal. I don't often eat steak!


Here are some pics of all of us! The ones opposite C. and me are my bro Ray and sister-in-law- Frances. Next to me is my sis, Joy -and her husband Mike is across the table from her. That's Alli and Tina at the end of the table.( in one of the group pics my sis Joy is unseen, there behind me! :( Sorry Joy!)

























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Earlier in the afternoon our neighbor, Michelle, and her sweet little baby girl stopped in to see us! Ariana is a very cute Pirate ... all set for her first Halloween! :) She's such a happy baby-always with a big smile on her little face!
( Can you tell I looove babies?)
























Update on Tina:

She was told by her doctor she will not be able to return to work for another 4 weeks!
Is healing well, so we're thankful... The rest will work out...


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I am making a trip with my bro and SIL tomorrow to visit a sister in Lale Placid. That's about a 2 hour drive south of us. It will just be a day trip for us . Charles is unable to go as he has 'cowboy stuff' already on his agenda for tomorrow! :( Wish he could go with us!

...Anyway, what I need to do now is get to bed and hope for some good rest for tomorrow's trip! I never feel rested these days!




Love,
Junie