I'm such an idiot

Saturday we took off for our mountain house around 4:30. Yesterday I didn't ride my bike as I had planned but moved the green sofa from 168 Galax Loop house to our new house with Marty and Tamara. The sofa is a sleeper so it was really heavy.

The kids really wanted to fish so we drove around looking for live bait on Sunday.  All the places that carry bait that were withing 30 minutes driving distance were closed.  So I had the kids start digging in the dirt in front of our house for worms.  They found small worms and lots of centipedes.

Later Tamara and I took the kids by the police station to get a fishing license but the police guy wasn't there. He was supposed to return in an hour so we hit the beach and played cornhole and the kids played in the sand.

After an hour the police guy still hadn't shown up so we went ahead across the street to the pond near the trash dump to fish without a license.  London caught one little sunfish so we surmised that it was too hot to fish in the middle of the day and returned back home.

We returned home and I laid around in the LazyBoy recliner we had temporarily relocated on the back porch.  I drank 2 Mike's Hard Lemonade Black Cherry Malt beverages and then Tamara opened a bottle of sparkling white wine and we were feeling pretty good.

The kids found more worms so I piled the kids in the golf cart and I put Atticus in my lap and let hm steer all the way to the Police Station where we finally got fishing licenses for the kids.  We then went to the kid's fishing pond and the kids all caught fish - some sunfish and small bass.

 The sun had gone down and the fishing was good but the light was fading fast so I had to drive the cart back to the house - it doesn't have lights and it was pretty dark- an adventure to say the least.

Being a Sunday I had to work the next day so I tried to figure out how I was going to get my bike back home in my small BMW.  Convertible cars come in handy at times!

I arrived home safely after a cool summer night's drive down the mountain.  I really enjoyed hearing all the cicadas singing.  That is one of my favorite sounds.  I opened the door to the house and walked into the fourier and closed the garage door behind me and I still heard the loud cicadas inside the house.  Well, the front door was wide open.  I had been air conditioning the great outdoors and inviting anyone into my house for over 24 hours!

I ran upstairs and got the Glock and checked all the rooms and closets for possible uninvited intruders - none to be found.  I then noticed I heard water running.  Then I remembered that I had put the hose in the fountain to fill it up on Saturday before we left.  I had forgotten to turn off the hose so the water was running over 24 hours as well.

I am such an idiot!

Atticus quote of the day

Does Duck Commander sell fishing poles?

Sick wife

I am concerned about Tamra. If today is her birthday and she's sick. She has a sore throat and think she has a virus. She commonly has a problem with having no energy in sick makes it worse. I was hoping that we could get her to go out tonight to celebrate her birthday and have a nice dinner somewhere at a restaurant. But she doesn't have any desire to leave the house when she's sick.

Still sick

It's been almost a week now and I still have nasty phlegm and congestion with a cough.  I don't have a fever anymore. My fever subsided after the second day.

Came down to Charleston with the family to celebrate Kayla's graduation.  Greg came down with his kids and his doctor friend Jeff and his daughter. We all hit the beach yesterday and had a big time.

After the beach we came back to the hotel and swim in the pool for another couple of hours. And we went to the graduation party and had Frogmore stew.

During the party of course the kids ran around playing football and got lots of exercise and energy out. We came back to the hotel and the kids swim more before went to bed. Needless to say the kids were completely worn out by the end of the night.

Right now I'm sitting here at the pool once again wanting Adrienne swim and Atticus and London fighting each other with the swim noodles.  Tamara is cleaning the room getting ready to leave.

Atticus baseball

Last Saturday Atticus hit a great home run and drove in three runs.  Unfortunately it was not enough and his team lost.

Sick - yech

I started feeling a little bit iffy last night.  This morning i woke up and felt pretty nasty - headache (I only get them when I am really sick), cough, congestion and fever.  I think I have a cold.  What concerns me about is is my low white blood cell count.  I was at a 2.4 a couple of weeks ago when I went to the oncologist.  It still isn't normal.  They can't tell me why it isn't normal.

I have had a full body CT scan to look for tumors which showed nothing.  I have been to Duke Bone Marrow Transplant Center and the doctor there told me I had something that was just taking me longer to recover from than the standard textbook scenario.  That was over a year ago.  

Now I am thinking about the possibility of having some type of autoimmune disease but my oncologist tells me that there is not a direct way to test for that.  I am not really showing any symptoms of an autoimmune disease.

I just hope I recover from this cold quickly.

Baseball

Atticus plays on the Startown Landsharks.  He plays 1st base.