Fall is in full swing and it's past peak here in the valley. The leaves are falling off the trees so fast. I can see into the woods again. But I'm not seeing any animals. Not sure why, but not one squirrel showed up for a few weeks after that big storm that knocked trees down. And when I did see one, he'd be off in a distance. And it's still that way. No squirrels, no foxes, no deer, no birds. Just a couple chipmunks, that were lucky enough not to get caught by the cats or rats. And soon they will be gone to their dens for the winter. Not to be seen till at least February.
Since I wasn't seeing any squirrels, and they were the ones I always fed for the past 17 years, I quit feeding all the critters permanently. The birds were in the middle of migrating anyway. I do hear a few Bluejays off in a distance now and then, or see a little Titmouse or Chickadee fly by. It is so quiet outside my windows now. But it is for the best. Now when I do get so sick that I can't feed them, I won't have to worry about that.
Since I have money left over each month now, I am buying myself a new laptop and router, so I can be anywhere in my apartment and still get on the computer. This chair gets uncomfortable at times when I have to sit too long. I should have it by next weekend. I'll have to get used to a touch screen and Windows 8, but I'm pretty good at catching on to new things. If I have a problem setting up the router, my cousin, Angie said she'd come over and do it for me. Tamara, on the hill next door, offered to help also. But since Angie is a computer tech, I'll let her do it.
I'm having a bad time with the cigarette smell coming into my apartment. It's real bad. Now it's in the living room area, when that woman in 204 smokes. It's in my bedroom too much. I've been choking and coughing so much that my lungs ache and my back hurts. I am getting so pissed off. I really wish I had somewhere to move to now. I wrote another letter to the landlord and he said he'd put notices on all the doors so no one can smoke within 20 feet of the doors or windows. but I haven't seen that happen yet. He even sent the girl in the office over with a brand new air cleaner. I told her to take it back. I already have a $400 one in the bedroom. They don't do any good because they pull the smells in from any crack. The ones that should be forced to have them are the smokers themselves! To keep their own smoke in their own apartments, and to clean their air a little.
We had another bad rainstorm on the 7th of Oct. The water came right into my bedroom again and caused a heavy mold odor again. I told the landlord that if he didn't fix something around here, I was going to call the codes dept. and health dept. and write to Rural Housing. He did send a guy down to get an estimate to do the job. Nothing was done yet and it looked like rain, so I called the maintenance man and asked if he could at least get that metal flashing back because all the water and mud were going behind it and getting inside. So Mark did come over the other night and dug the mud away and pushed it back and held it with a piece of wood and then he dug some dirt and built it up against the wall so the water would flow the other way. I've been trying to get them to do something for seven years out there. About 4 years ago, they did come and tear that piece out of my wall and replace the outside wall because there was two feet of mud up inside. But then they never came and finished anything, so it happened all over again. Now it's worse. Now they have to tear out my bedroom wall again and the carpeting also. That means I'll be disrupted for a few days. They will have to move all my furniture out to my living room. I'll have to sleep on the chair most likely.
The landlord keeps complaining that he has no money to fix things till the new budget after January!! I am NOT waiting that long!
I could move now that I'm not worried about the outdoor critters. That was always my biggest concern anyways. Sure wish one of my brothers had an apartment with a ramp. But they don't. The only good thing I have going for me, is I'm supposed to be dying from this cancer. But when?? I have lived too long as it is, from when the doctor's told me I wouldn't last a year.
The pains were starting to get worse in my tumor and liver area but they come and go and I ignore them. I'm still eating whatever I want and getting fatter. Who cares! But if I had known I was going to be living this long, I wouldn't have eaten so many chocolates..Ha! Ha!
We've had some beautiful weather. Clear, blue skies almost every day. We might get rain once a week.
Nina is doing okay but she and the kids have been sick recently. She never did hear from the state or get any money from her flooding. But she had already took out a loan to repair some stuff. She still has to get her cellar repaired.
The kids are in sports. Salena is in Field Hockey. Jessi is playing Soccer again this year. Jordan is in Varsity and he's playing football. I'm waiting to see this year's school pictures and Jordan's football one.
My sister, Debby, has to go in for surgery on her shoulder later this month. She'll be out of work for quite a while. She sure isn't looking forward to that again. She was in a lot of pain when she had the other one done a few years ago. Working at Remington Arms has done her in.
Jane broke a bone in her foot and is on crutches and can't walk on that for a few weeks. I gave her my shoe that the hospital had given to me when I fell and hurt my foot and toes that time, three years ago, when I broke my wrist. I also gave her a set of my crutches. Savey came over and got them that day.
Guess everyone else is doing okay. Never hear too much.
My daughter, Ginny, called last week and she has moved out of TN and living with some sort of religious group. Not Amish or Mennonites, but close. No TV's. But she does have a bed to sleep in now. She and her youngest son are there. She said she's eating good now. They all have chores to do and her son is being schooled now, which he really needed bad. She said he's learning fast too. The other boys are still with their father and they won't be moving where she is. She wouldn't tell me where, so I'm in the dark again about that. Glad to hear she has a bed and running water and heat now for the winter.
Guess that's all I can think of for now. Take care everyone, and enjoy the fall!
October 13, 2013 5 pm
My pet Parakeet, Gigi, passed away this evening at 7 pm. I held her for two hours and she died in my hands. She was such a good bird. So independent and tough. She could figure out things real fast. When I first got her, at six weeks old, her wings were clipped and if she'd fall to the ground, she would go right over to the Cockatiel's cage and shimmy up the legs to get to the top and then jump to her cage. She could figure out how to press buttons on her toy also. She'd use them when she wanted attention, if I was out of the room. It was so cute when i'd hear that button say, "Helloooooo", or "I love you!", or "Hello Bird!" It was as if she was talking to me through that toy. She loved it. She hadn't been feeling well for a long time. She'd be good one day and then the next, she'd be bleeding from her behind. On this last day, she was bleeding more and was very weak. I heard her fall off her perch at 5pm and went right over to get her. She was too weak to bite me, like she usually tried to do if I tried to get her. She didn't and let me hold her. I wrapped her in a paper towel and held her, so she'd be warm. I talked to her the whole time and petted her head gently. She had her eyes closed and I thought she had passed and all of a sudden she'd get up a bit. Just as she passed, she opened her eyes and looked right at me, as if to say goodbye. I cried so much. She was almost 13 years old and lived a long, happy life. She was always allowed to fly free and I never clipped her wings. She's flying free now! I miss her and sometimes when i walk into the living room, I expect to see her there. but her cage is gone. My daughter came and got it. Ricky is now alone. He will look for her sometimes. Even though he didn't like her too close to him, she was still a companion for him. So now it's just me, Ricky and Jasper, my turtle.
This was Gigi on October 9th.
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