Thursday, July 24, 2014

Busier than a Kat...lately bees got nothing on ME!

Sorry I have been busier than a...bee! You thought I would say one armed wall paper hanger or busier than a gopher on a golf course!

Any way tomorrow night I will begin my 13 hour journey to Ebensburg, PA! I decided to take a suit case because when I stacked up all my medications...well lets just say I decided to take a suit case, just an overnight bag.

I found a sweetheart that will pick me up at 6:30 pm and take me all the way to the downtown Detroit Greyhound Station (she is starting this trek from her house in ANN ARBOR) and come back and get me on Monday morning at 7:00 am for $50.00!!! Parking my car would be more than that!

OH and she will take all of my garbage bags out so the kids will not be tempted to be little farts! Already Princess Twinkle Toes can get into a sealed garbage can, get things out of the Kitchen sink and open my drawers in my bureau in the bedroom (I watched her do it!) that's when I call them little farty cats and Lucky Doodle Bug will follow right behind waiting for the spoils!!!!

So if  you do not hear from me for another few days...what am I saying I am taking this laptop with me on a 13 hour route one way and 15 hour route home! See you all on "De Bus"...

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Poetry and Prayer...

I had a very thoughtful and prayer filled day and this popped into my head...


My Time, His Place



With what seems like lightening speed, time flies by,
The world as you knew it is gone, in a flash, in a sigh.

And all you really catch are glimpses of life here and there,
Sometimes the picture is pure delight, others deep despair.

Yet if you slow down and let God have the reins,
Relax and lay back, learn to read His simple signs.

His picture comes into frame, with His help we can see,
Where our future and place in His ministries is to be.

On this Earth with all of His creatures we can act the fool,
This place where human likes to think they can control and rule.

God will lay down His law, with His power, with His utter grace.
To survive, watch for Him to tell us where we belong in His place.

If it is to be a guardian of His garden, His Eden this place called Earth,
We must learn to Love each other, as He has Loved each of us since before our birth.


Copyright ©2009
Kathleen E. McQuillen, Jr.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

McSummer Fest 2014...

I talked to my cousin Kathy McQuillen...yes we have the same name, how kool is that! Growing up neither of us knew each other but there are more similarities than just our name, she has an immediate younger brother with the same name as my immediate younger brother! She and I are both two years older than the aforementioned brothers... 

Anyway she will be picking me up from the Greyhound Bus stop in Ebensburg, PA on Saturday the 26th of July at 9:05 am, and taking me right to our cousin Sharon's house to freshen up for the family reunion!! I will stay with Sharon and Skip on Saturday night and they will take me back to Ebensburg on Sunday evening around 5:00 pm and I will be back in Detroit at around 7:00 am Monday. Twenty four + hours on the bus for ten or so hours with my family, are we dedicated or what. I love these family reunions this will be our third since we all connected 4 or 5 years ago!

I am taking my Virgin Mobile 4G wireless adapter for my laptop with me so we will have wi-fi while at the reunion party and will be able to Skype with family members that cannot attend. We will be at the Portage Pennsylvania Volunteer Firehouse though it is the Portage Firehouse it is located in Cassandra! 

A few years back a friend of mine drove me to Portage for our first reunion and the motel we stayed at...The Cassandra Railroad Overlook Resort...was right next to the building that we found out in the middle of the night was the firehouse! Alarms blaring and sirens screaming my friend Patrick shoots up out of his bed standing in his boxers and ready for a round like a fighter. I gently told him everything was okay and just lie down and get some sleep...this is after driving 9 hours straight through! Another lively adventure with me...

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

De Bus!! De Bus!!

Well today was pretty productive. I scheduled my Matrix nurse for August this is a free service provided by Health Alliance Plan Senior Plus, my supplemental health insurance plan. Every year they send an R.N. to my house to go over my medications, take my vitals and talk about changes in my over-all health. I also called back the nurse with prescription modification. Let's see if I can't get my medications cut from 27 to something more reasonable! And yes, 27 scripts and they all keep me alive!

Then I found a map showing where the Greyhound Station on Howard Street in Detroit. I put myself on street level and virtually walked around and found a parking area that has a  6 foot fence around it and someone in a cashier kiosk. The best part is that Howard Street Lot A is across from the station and Howard Street Lot B is kitty corner to the station which if I can park there will be maybe one city block of live walking. Oh this is gonna be a fun trip, I hope the seats recline...a lot!

Oh and the most important things..the kitties have started using the Cat Genie! NO MORE cleaning a litter box!!!


Lucky Doodle McQuillen

Twinkle Toes and Lucky Doodle McQuillen
Twinkle Toes McQuillen

Monday, July 14, 2014

Boring or well needed?

Ahhhh a quiet day, sleep and catching up on recorded TV, something I had been neglecting. There are over 21 recorded shows to watch and at 45 minutes per 1 hour show...yikes! See you all later on the flip side!!!

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Mostly Mundane...

Well I know some of you may be thinking how could yesterday be topped! Now let me tell you this really is pretty usual for one of my more mundane mishaps.

 Last January I came home from my annual trek to see my friend Glenn Shakatko and his wife Sandra in Phoenix (another real fun adventure for another day) and I had been expecting something from UPS when I thought to myself, lets look out back. Actually, I said it to the cats not to myself.

Anyway I go to the back door and low and behold there is my package backed right up to the door, and as many of you know storm doors open OUT so I could not budge the door NO, because in Michigan this past January 2014 was one of a very...how should I say...accumulative snow! I got angry, which is so out of character for me, I shoved the door and to my utter surprise it opened and I lost footing in the snow slipping off the porch and into my...wait for it...wait...BLACKBERRY BUSH!

 Wearing only my nightgown and mother nature! Yes another youtube night for my neighbors, I thank my lucky stars it was 3:00 am and everyone but myself was asleep in the complex, I hope. So a few bruises and many, many scratches and no pun intended raspberries later I am still alive! So for another day I will tell you about the time...

Saturday, July 12, 2014

My Gardening Adventure!

I bet your day was not as action packed as mine! I had purchased some Black Raspberry bushes and they finally came, so I soaked the bare root canes in cool water and took them out back and laid them out how I wanted them Durnham here, Heirloom there...and started digging whoops a few ants better go in and get the ant spray trudge into the house! 

I come back out and spray the ground...dead ants kool! So I dig in again and what is this why are all these bees flying around my head? OH OH OH and ants crawling up leg, I grab my cane and the ant spray and start spraying and swatting soon it calms down. 

Back to planting rats butt I forgot to take the tape off into the house we go to get a knife...come back sit down and dig into the soil again only to find I hit the mother load the ground is WHITE with ant eggs, larvae and wait a darned minute the bees are back only they are not bees they are hornets one got me in the neck (I am highly allergic) get up swinging and spraying again (this has got to be a youtube moment for my neighbors!) 

I give up planting thank my lucky stars I was done but did not water them. Came inside and fumbled through the drawer full of "Ut Oh Kathy Did It Again" to find the benedryl, phew I have a full unopened box of 100 kool! Wait they expired in July 2011 off to the laptop to go on line...to be continued!