July 2017

July 2017 -Wow!  Guess I really am NOT very good at this since it's been over 4 months!  I really don't know what I've had happen that I even want to write about.  We went to see Mama this past weekend.  We're now going about once a month.  oh! I did finally book a vacation!  It's for the week of the August 9th and yes, we're going to Hilton Head again...this time Sea Pines, so at least that will be a little different.  It's a 3 BR villa in Plantation (#503).  I got the price down to about $1050...with 4 bikes, a grill and 2 gate passes.  I do want Mama to come for a little while, but I am not sure at all about Leigh and Melinda.  We went with them to a new place called Cheddars - the food was good, and I had a drink called a Pain Killer.  Jeff ordered it for me.  Greg had one the day before & said it was good.  It had toasted coconut around the rim of the glass so was very sticky!  We were having a pleasant conversation...Mama was saying how it was good that she hadn't had a panic attack in a while, when Leigh just starts bombarding me with how she called her every 5 mins. and called her mother when Greg had the back surgery (in Tampa) about a month ago.  She was talking really mean and talked like Mama wasn't even there.  I didn't know what to say.  Mama tried to say that that wasn't the way it happened - she says that Leigh didn't call her at all when Greg got out of surgery so she had to call her mother because Leigh wasn't answering the phone.  She says that Greg told her not to.  I'm not sure what to believe.  We really need to talk to Greg - not like Jeff did & talk to her about the situation.  Jeff says she feels slighted and that my Mama had no right calling her mother.  I wish they'd just let it go, but of course Mama won't.  When we got back from dinner we noticed that we couldn't get on line, then checked the phones & they were all dead.  So we walked outside to see if the phone line was connected and noticed that the pecan tree had lost a huge limb.  We'd had a bad storm while we were out.  Mama and I called AT&T and they said they'd be out before 2AM.  Of course, that didn't happen.  I tried calling her phone on my way home from & it wasn't working yet.  Just now calling her & they finally came & fixed it but said that the other line was the cable & she has to call Comcast. Anyway, Greg & Leigh are going to Aruba so they probably won't go.  I also don't know if we can take Melinda's constant jabber.  She & Leigh are both on controlled drugs for pain (Leigh is on Percocet and Hydrocodone).  I'm not sure what Melinda is on but she's talking about getting an implant - some kind of stimulator.  Jeff doesn't really want anyone to come but it would be nice for Mama to get away.