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4/15/23

By pwsadmin / April 15, 2023 / Comments Off

A foggy early morning on the mountain. I get in my truck to take a ride.It’s five am-ish. Still dark out. We live at the top of the mountain, and it’s foggy.The lower on the mountain I drive, the thicker the fog. I reach the bottom. Driving about 25 mph., headlights on dim, a duck…

Finding Otis

By pwsadmin / April 6, 2023 / Comments Off

“Otis.” I decided on “Otis.” I got up a little after 4:30 am today. With my Spinal Cord doing its usual thing and shocking the fire out of me, I decided to go for a drive and maybe grab a drink at the gas station.I decided to let “Tommy the Dawg” sleep and go by…

Bye Bye Spring Break

By pwsadmin / April 3, 2023 / Comments Off

Spring Break is over at our house.We had two weeks of it.One Niece was out the week before last, and the other was out last week.So, I got a break from driving one Niece to and from school. This morning, though, that all changes.The regular schedule starts back today. Yesterday, I made Breakfast for lunch.Breakfast…

Tommy The Dawg

By pwsadmin / March 29, 2023 / Comments Off

“Tommy the Dawg” is so dang smart. I’ve driven all over this mountain with him at my side, and in the beginning, I would say the words, “Hold On” when going into a curve or making a turn, and he learned to “hold on.” He did this by taking his head out of the window,…

Spring and Tommy

By pwsadmin / March 8, 2023 / Comments Off

Spring is in the air.Trees are beginning to bloom.The Sun was out.The Sky, Speckled with its Clouds, was beautiful; It smelled beautiful.The High was 79 out today. “Tommy the Dawg” and I have gone on four or five drives the past two days. He loves it.And I love watching him love it. I roll the…

The Three Fellas

By pwsadmin / March 4, 2023 / Comments Off

The country. I’m driving past fields. Fields and fields of fields. I’m coming up on two homes—one on each side of the road. At precisely the same time, I see people open the front doors of their homes.And at that time, one little dog comes out onto the porch of one home, and two small…

3/4/2023 – Early Morning

By pwsadmin / March 4, 2023 / Comments Off

I woke up at 3 in the AM this morning. I inspected my wafers for Lenny and Squiggy and decided I needed to go ahead and change the wafers before going back to sleep. Every three days, I apply a new wafer, but sometimes they don’t even last 24 hours. “I just changed these things…

2/23/2023

By pwsadmin / February 23, 2023 / Comments Off

I’m dressed, my meds have been taken, and my Derby Hat is on my head. Earlier this morning, I got mom to take Niece Number Two to School.That allowed “Tommy the Dawg” and me to go for a drive. I’ve been slowly taking longer and longer drives with Tommy each day to get him accustomed…

2/9/2023

By pwsadmin / February 9, 2023 / Comments Off

“I watch Andy Griffith too!” One man says to me. “Are you a moon man?” Another man asks me. “I’m Elvis Presley; Meet my son Michael Jackson.” Huh? I open my eyes.“Well, that was a messed up dream,” I say out loud. “Oh well. At least I’m still in my bed.” Tommy raises up and…

2/8/2023

By pwsadmin / February 8, 2023 / Comments Off

I got up out of bed this morning around 6 AM. “Alexa, turn on Barney.”“Alexa, turn on Andy.” I got my bearings and wandered into the bathroom to take a shower.I had to change bandages and wafers. Afterward, I sat at my laptop and looked out the window.The sky was one big cloud—off-White.The “Alexa” device…