Tomorrow's Lunch

One of these was tomorrow's lunch:



See the spot on his head? That's what's called EVIDENCE!!!


It was homemade butternut squash soup. It was so good.

I love you Pellet.

Technology Has Arrived

I'm thinking that this post is going to bring home exactly where I've been living for the past almost 6 years of my life (the middle of nowhere, where everything works "the old way")... but then again, maybe not, maybe what I'm about to tell is not a standard out there. So either way here it goes:

I went to see the local doctor this afternoon because I've been having a sharp pain on my wrist for almost 3 weeks. I go in to the little exam room and the nurse comes in to take my temperature, blood pressure, etc. She has a mini laptop where she enters in all the information as she gets it from me.

Then the doctor comes in also with a mini laptop and she also enters stuff into it. Finally I realize what's going on... they have electronic patient charts!! WOW. So by then I am in awe, so I have to comment on it. I tell the doctor how it's so neat that they keep everything in the computers. She looks at me and shrugs her shoulders (in a polite manner, she wasn't rude) and said something along the lines of: can't imagine it any other way.

Hmmm... not sure about civilization out there but that type of technology is just not a normal thing in Eatonton, Georgia.

So finally I go to leave and they give me a prescription:


Yup - they printed it from their electronic chart, with an electronic signature and everything.

P.S. - the doctor says I have tendinitis...

Odd Looking Things

I was wondering around the shoe store today and came across these:



Wild.

The wildest thing is that I tried them on and they were actually very comfortable. They are just very very very funny looking when they're sitting on a shelf.

Barbecue on Friday Night

Pablo and I had dinner at a place in Putnam County called Andy's Barbecue, also known as "Andy's".

Before leaving the house, I called the restaurant to find out if they are open tonight (since restaurants and outlets in middle Georgia close at random).

Phone rings, girl answers the phone:
Girl: Hello!
Me: Hi is this Andy's?
Girl: No, it's Sarah
Me: ... .... ... sorry, I mean "Is this Andy's Barbecue?"... ... ...

We took the back roads -



We got there and had the best barbecue ever. We are now stuffed like Thanksgiving turkeys. The decorations of the place were like a Cracker Barrel, but authentic. Yes, I took pictures.

Hard Headed

Before Norm left for work today, we had a conversation that went something like this:

Norm [looking at the weather forecast]: They are calling for severe weather this afternoon.
Fern: Yeah, that's what's been on the radar...
Norm: It looks like it's going to be pretty bad. How about you give Pellet some Ace (doggie anxiety medicine) so he doesn't freak out as much. (Pellet FREAKS OUT with storms)
Fern: It will be OK. He won't need it, we'll be alright.

Well guess what... I didn't give Pellet the Ace and he's been barking for the past hour and a half - straight.

The phenomenon is that if Pellet is in his cage before the storm starts, he'll ride it out as mellow as ever. If he's caught not in his cage, he freaks out until the storm is over (however long that might take).

I put him in his cage a couple of minutes ago thinking that he'll relax (at least he won't be running around the house like Fred Flinstone... he doesn't get traction on the new floor) but that hasn't worked. I thought about taking a video of him and the barking and posting it on here but then I thought about the reader's/viewer's ears and decided against it...

I think I'll give him the Ace now, it looks like we have severe weather for a while...

New Name

We laugh because Spanish speaking people have a hard time pronouncing Norm's name. They pronounce and write "Nor"...

Today we got our phone book. There's a section where the listing is in numerical order. So we looked up our phone number (which ends in 1910) and found this:

Long Due

Blogging has been long due (things have actually been going on, our lives have not quite stood still...) along with the blogging being due were the dogs' baths (we have to shamefully admit).

Today all the stars lined up and we were able to bathe the dogs. We even had a photographer! Pablo has started working in Warner Robins and we get to see him often! We went from seeing him about once a year to once a week - which is great!



We should be back to our regular programing after this short blogging break...