It's been a while since my last post but there hasn't been a lot of news around here. Rose has recovered from her Bells'd Palsy. She had some twitches of her eye for a while and food fell out of her mouth for a few days (which suited her cause she thought it helped her diet) but she's finished her round of prednisone now and seems fine.

Donald and Vita went off to there place in Florida for a few days. Rose, Shirley and I are scheduled to go down there and spend a week later this month and are all excited about. Shirley's niece, Yvonne, is driving Shirley's sister, Loretta, over from Louisiana to join us. She always joins us on our winter vacation. She makes our fourth for cards and relaxes, eats, chats, and just does nothing with us.

Pete and Janet left Arizona early this year and went back to cold wintry Idaho. Joe found it hard to believe they would do that but Pete told me they were leaving last Monday. Probably missing the kids and grandkids.

John is still working on this side of Missouri and going back to home (Lenexa, Ks.) on weekends. Jana said he had a couple interviews this week. I'm sure they will both be very happy when their lives get back to normal. John is staying with Chris and Shelly during the week and he really likes the dogs which he says Chris and Shelly treat like people.

Sabrina is going to be our new contributor to the blog but Margaret told me she's been in Mexico this week. We need some updates from some of our other contributors, too.

We may get to have Brayden and Jalen for a weekend later this month. Brayden will be five on the 12th and what he wants for his birthday is tickets to some wrestling event - WWE. Some of the same guys wrestle that wrestled when his dad was a boy and I'm sure they take steroids and some of it is fake but he and Jalen both love it. Scott picked him up from school the other day and asked him if he had thought of anything else he wants for his birthday. He replied "Yes, how about a trip to Florida?" "Out of the question" Scott told him.

I have an appointment with one of my neurologists on Monday. Attaching the electrodes to the surface of my brain didn't give them the results they had hoped for
so they aren't going to proceed with the brain surgery. The activity is coming from both sides of my brain so it would be risky to proceed and do both sides. I'll find out more on Monday what they'll try next. This is the neurologist that was born in the same place I was - only 18 year later.