What's Going On

Saturday night we had 4 visits from bears, and they made a real mess. Joel and David went out to pick it up. We have had quite a few bears in the neighborhood since the fires. They are looking for food.


Monday 7-23-12, in the morning at 7:30 and 59 degrees.

This morning at 2:42 Joel's camera took pictures of a young bear in front of the garage. There was no trash for them to get into, so didn't have to clean up.

I was typing for our email when I saw a bear down the road by the house next door. I told David and we went to see where he might be. A neighbor was out putting his trash out so we visited with him for a while. He said he saw the bear grab a pizza box out of a trash can across the street and take off with it. His wife came out with more trash so we met her and visited some more. In a few minutes she said there he is. He was standing there behind a house looking at us. He took off and went back behind the house. In a few minutes we saw him down by the end of the road going across and before he got back behind that house a little dog came out barking like crazy! The bear kind of reared back and then took off with the little dog barking at his heels! I got a picture of him close across the street, but wasn't able to get one of him leaving with the dog.

It's Monday evening at 8:45 p.m. and 66 degrees out. We went to see Aunt Shirley yesterday at Buena Vista. We were about 25 miles from there when the van started acting up again. We had to open the windows, because the systems shut down when there is a problem. Luckily it wasn't too warm. The voltage on the battery was low, but we decided to go ahead and go for it.

 Aunt Shirley misses Uncle Philip, but is doing pretty good. She is very skinny as usual, but she says she eats well, and she thinks she is starting to put on some weight.



Uncle Philip and Aunt Shirley have watered their lawn by flooding it with water that comes through town from the Arkansas River. It runs through a ditch and they block it off for a time and then it goes right back to the ditch and on through to the river.

David, Ellis, and Joel were looking at the ditch and Ellis fell in the water. He gasped cause it was really cold, Joel had ahold of his hand. We had a nice visit, and Ellis got to play in the water in the lawn, just like our kids used to do.


On the way home the battery started out fine, but as we got going it started loosing voltage again. We turned off all the extras and the lights that are always on and that did the trick. This morning I took the van back to the shop where they had replaced the alternator on Friday. They checked it and the alternator was not working.  It will be ready on Tues sometime.

The therapist was here for Emmett today and they are keeping him on the oxygen for at least another week. They did decrease the output, so he is doing better.

Tuesday Evening.
This afternoon the garage called and said they got the alternator back in and everything seemed to be fine. However when he tried to start it up the second time, the anti theft system kicked in and it wouldn't recognize my key. He had me bring in David's key, and it worked. The mechanic wasn't quite done making sure everything was in working order, so I came back to the house. They called again around 6 and said it was ready, but we were getting ready to eat, so will pick it up in the morning.