Aaron had heart surgery today.  He had Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.  It caused his heart to do extra beats or something, it was electrical in nature.  They had to go in and "zap" his heart and basically burn the heart muscle in a couple of places to get it to work properly.  It went well and he is okay now.  It is scary to have someone you love so much have heart surgery.  No matter how "minor" the doctor says the surgery is it is still major to me. The condition was not causing him any problems right now but the doctor said his was serious enough that it would definitely cause some problems when he was around 50 or so.  Better to take care of it now rather than later.

I watched the kids today and last night.  I had planned on taking them to Jill's friend's house today but Otto got very worried about his dad when he found out he was not coming home today.  I just couldn't send him off to another house when he was so worried.  I canceled my choir practice and decided to keep them again tonight.  Tomorrow I will take them to Bible study and they will head home in the afternoon or stay with Hannah while I go to my dentist appointment.  It is no problem.  Love these kiddos and I think it is better for Otto to stay with grandma than with a non-family family tonight.  He is such a little worry-wart.

Sigh. English.

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques for my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it to say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
It's rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
It's letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

Margo Roark

I watched Daria and Savva today while their mom was at a meeting.  She was meeting south of downtown so the kids were here at the "city house."  We went to the zoo.  It was so fun to watch them, especially Savva.  He would get all excited and wide-eyed when he spotted a new animal.  Then he would start jabbering and say, "meow."  It seems as though he thinks all animals say meow.  Even the elephants were meowing according to Savva. 

The meerkats were a favorite and so were the elephants.  They have two young, not baby but still nursing calves and they were playing.  They were splashing in the water and rolling in the dirt and they were almost wrestling with each other.  They would run and fall down and the other one would plow into them and roll around.  They were having great fun with each other.

I was looking up some information on Trafalger Square and hit enter on my search before I got square typed in.  It took me to Trafalger, Indiana.  Located about 20 miles outside of Indianapolis it appears that the most happening thing in Trafalger is that it is home to the transmitter for WTTV-TV.  Their high school is named the Indian Creek High School.  The home of the Braves.  I wonder if the massive population of slightly over 1000 will bow to political correctness and abandon the mascot of a First American (at our last foray into Pueblo-land we were informed that not only is the term Indian not allowed, Native American is also going out of vogue and many prefer the term First American).   Maybe the good people of Trafalger don't care about political correctness.  Now wouldn't that be wonderful.  It would make me want to visit Trafalger.

Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large raging, violent river.

Needing to get to the other side, The first man prayed: "In the name of God be gracious unto your servant and grant me strength to cross the river."

Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about 2 hours, although he almost drowned twice.

After witnessing that, the second man prayed: "In the name of God be gracious unto your servant and grant me strength and the tools to cross the river."

Poof! God gave him a rowboat and strong arms and strong legs and he was able to row across in about an hour, although he almost capsized once.

Seeing what happened to the first two men, the third man prayed: "In the name of God be gracious unto your servant and grant me the strength, the tools and the intelligence to cross the river."

Poof! He turned into a woman and promptly checked the map, hiked one hundred yards upstream and walked across the bridge.

My short hair is back!  I am feeling like myself again.  I gave the long hair a good year's try and nope, it's just not me.  And my hair is so much happier to be short.  I can just feel it bouncing with joy.

Today I was told I was "Aunt Betty" from Garrison Keillor's stories.  I think it was meant as a compliment but I'm pretty sure that Aunt Betty is a crazy lady.  I'm going to have to find a recording or book with her in it to fully understand what I'm being compared to.

I bought a chair today.  A chair for one of our bathrooms.  Everyone reacted with "A CHAIR FOR THE BATHROOM?" but I have to admit that it really is nice.  A nice place to sit and put on your socks or rest your tush if you are avoiding people (although I never do that by hiding in the bathroom, I just leave... lol).  I think it looks nice too.  It's orange.  And I have green rugs.  The tile is brown.  It looks good.  And I like it.  So there!

Cora and her kiddos came down to the new house and checked it out.  Daria kept saying... wow, they live a LONG way away.  Yes, it is.  But only for three days sweetie, only three days a week.  Grandma couldn't handle it for more than that.

A positive today after yesterday's discovery that no CAT-5 wiring or telephone lines in the house worked.... we actually got the fridge delivered!  Yay for cold food!  If I had any food in the house that is.

Hannah and Chris found out the gender of their baby.  Hannah went for her ultrasound and everything looked good.  She had the tech write down the sex of the baby on a card and seal it in an envelope but not tell her.  The tech didn't even write it in the report so the Dr. wouldn't slip up and tell her.  At dinner that night they opened it together so they would be surprised at the same time.

It's a girl!

They are naming her Margaret.

I needed grandkid therapy today.  And dirt therapy.  I got both.

The situation with the house is not good.  Pretty sure we will end up in arbitration or court over it.  Today I actually cried over it, the last straw and this camel's back is broken.  To give you an idea of what we are upset about here is a picture of the floors.  Now remember they are new floors and they messed them up.  They admit they did.  They did it while we were in closing.

So I came home after they didn't show up to repair the floors and played with grandkids.  Fergal and I helped his mom and dad build a new garden bed.

Run Fergal Run!

And then I decided to take some pictures of my yard.  The azaleas are especially full and beautiful this year.

Guess who is getting oranges this year!  Yay!

The Phlox is in bloom.

My azaleas are really full this year.

This bush has so many blooms it's hard to even find leaves.

Pretty pink azaleas.  Azaleas are about the only time I like the color pink.

Busy bees.

Gerbera Daisies playing in the sprinklers.