Sandra's Sunday Saga - 200 "O" Rings & a 2nd April Fool's Day

 

Some of you might remember I fasted for lab work, on the WRONG day, on Tuesday. I found out because I saw April Fool Day on blogs.

On Wed, The Real Lab appt day  after starving for the five hour wait, we get up early I hit the road at 8:15, with only 1.5 miles to the office.

Let My Second April Fool day Begin!

First Slow Down, was the School Zone a few blocks from home has cameras that take a shot of your car and how fast and auto sends a ticket for $125.00 to your mail box. First Slow Down.

Second Slow Down, as I crawled past the school, looking ahead, orange cones were being set out, making 2 lanes one lane, setting up to Trim Trees.

Third  slow Down was 2 blocks further, where more orange cones were making the other side one lane drive only because the power company was putting up new POLES.

The trip was slow but good, blood drawn and happy, I rushed to the car and locked myself in with AC running and grabbed the baggie with 3 cubes of seriously sharp cheese, and 2 pieces of French bread, and a bottle of Beano.. Ha ha and TWO cups of ready to drink COFFEE in insulated bottle.

I sat and chewed and sipped and ate in the park lot. I was starved because we get up at 3:30 and I had to go without anything but water because I could not drink the one cup of coffee allowed when blood fasting, because I must eat bread before I drink coffee. my appt was at 8:40.. just sayin

I pulled out and about 6 blocks away, where they had been putting out cones, was a 

Slowing to full stop, I sat staring at the cute young man ( 70 years younger than me) holding the STOP sign in front of my car. First in line I waited for the other cars winding their way through the orange cones, one lane only.  

I remembered Ann's post about RAK I read about her  Random Acts of Kindness. That made me remember my RAK post, that a smile is free and everyone on the planet can read it.

When the with the STOP sign, lifted his lips to the walkie talkie, and turned the sign to SLOW, I beamed a 3000 watt smile and wiggled my fingers at him through the windshield... His face broke into a killer smile and he wiggled his fingers back at me and as I SLOWLY drove between the cones, I thought, he is probably wondering if the lady was one of his grandmothers friends that he should have recognized.

But Wait There is More, 3  blocks further was the 2nd row of cones, yet another STOP, but Yay, I could avoid it by taking the next left to the other street, which is where I needed to go, because on the seat beside me was the pipe out of the pool filter that needed "O" rings and the target of my next stop.

(I have no reason to hurry, except Bob is home with the dog, I left him in the back yard, pulling the poop pump into pieces, and he falls over if you look at  him, and thoughts like, he is laying bleeding in the hot sun and I need to get home)

Gleefully, I turned onto 51st street and 6 blocks away? ha ha ha another construction site with cones.

I finally pulled in the parking lot of Hardware Store and came to a full stop. 

in the middle of the road was a loaded semi, it was full and there was an adorable little Fork Truck unloading. PHOTO above was taken after I shopped, that is my car, and the fork truck was done, the truck pulled out and I could drive out the driveway.

I smiled at the fork truck and waved, he waved back, I smiled at the man who told me which aisle to find the "O" rings, I smiled and laughed and joked with the man I asked to help me find the one that fit the thing I had in my hand and he smiled and helped me and said you can Buy 5 of these that I am pretty sure will work at 5 dollars OR you can buy this box of 200 "O" rings for 10.99 and it has all the sizes and you will not have to come back to get the right ones if this doesn't work out.

DONE and DONE and The Pump Is Done and doesn't spray water anymore and we will never have to buy "O-rings" again. Bob was thrilled with the box. I was thrilled my blood was on its way to tell me if I will live or die and My Big 2nd April Fools day was over. 

I found a similar electric fork lift to show you just how cute it was and I forgot to take a photo. 

How Big is your curoisty bump

 

not perfect, you will need this to aid in your imagination of my story

I have a curiosity bump the size of the empire state building. If I were a cat, I would have died by now.

The background above is the view out our window on the world that we watch if we are awake/alive.

Episode 1:Sitting with laptop, bob with tv remote, beau asleep, I heard screaming sirens and more than one, I jumped up to watch out the window and as it got closer and LOUDER, and GONE in a split second were the TWO FBI/CIA Tahoe's, and One City cop so close they were almost touching, a harmony consisting of 3 sirens, the big black chevies had blue flashing dash and under the headlight flashing blue light. EVERY CHASE I ever saw in the action movies I loved, played in my head and I sat down with laptop and went to the County 911 calls that are there for all to see. NOTHING Showed. 

these questions were in my mind. Does the Big Black Tahoe use Federal 911? who told the cop to come with them?  I never found the reason, no news anywhere. How could I search? I still want to know. 

Episode 2: While walking Beau in Bray Park at 7:09 still not quite daylight, 2 of the new White ad blue Suv's they now drive, came rolling about 30 mps in the 15 MPH park with no sound, but both had flashers on top, sides and rear, doing the same thing as the first cars, but silent. I said, since they are leaving the park, I assume there is nothing going on in the park, we can finish our walk.

the minute I hit the door, I went to the 911 calls and there it was. what a disappointment. under reason for call out, police incident, no details, and the address was vicinity of 2 streets that are far enough away they would not get there for a good 4 minute. I still want to know what happened. Nothing on the news?

Episode 3: In the above photo, behind the tree there is a porch, I saw the woman come out and put up 3 helium balloons, blue and white, and a lot of other decorations and a large cardboard sign hanging on the wall. I could not read it... I got my 60 zoom Nikon and through the window read the sing to bob. it said, Welcome Home, Mom and Dad and baby Josiah.

I said to Bob, they have another baby, I did not know she is pregnant, their other baby is 18 months old. Glad its not me. There are five adults in the house. Bob doesn't care. I had to know what the sign said

HOW BIG IS YOUR CUROSITY BUMP? WOULD YOU DO WHAT I DID? NOW THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT 911 WILL YOU USE IT?   ANYONE REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO JIMMY STEWART IN THE MOVIE REAR WINDOW?

Sandra @80yearsoldtoday

 

1944                                                   1946

 1960   1990

                                       

2006

2020   2024

                                              

How did I get from 1944 to now so quickly? 

I used to scramble each morning, with 2 boys and a part time job, I could clean and dust and do laundry and have it all done in one morning, in time to get them down for a nap and watch a soap opera, of which I can no longer remember the name.

Somewhere in the years I gained a 80 pounds from 1985 to 2006 and lost 70 of those in 2017.

These days, I have to pick a chore and do one each day and on a good day 2 per day.

 I also use a fake, feather fiber duster because its quicker and easier.

I can no longer reach the top shelf in the kitchen, or reach the light bulbs in the bathroom or on the fans without taking my life in my hands and standing on something to make me taller. 

the why is somewhere along the way I went from 5'6 to 5'4 and still shrinking.

Its a new day, its a new song, it a new ME

 

Sandra @ 80 years old today, and as of now you can't even sing, and "many more" at the end of my birthday song. 

I am including the first creation because I disliked it and did the one above. 

But for posterity sake, before deleting I chose to show it