CHANGING CLOTHES

 MADISON, ALABAMA

Good evening from chilly Alabama.  The day was a bit chilly for most of the day.  I found out that my warm weather design body did not fare well with the 56 degree outside temperature. So I had to add some layers to be comfortable.  In the process of layering myself for the cold outside temps, I found out I was severely lacking in colder weather clothing. Since I cannot just hop into a vehicle and run to Walmart I have to mail order the new required clothing. In the last 18 years I just coupled the trailer to the truck and drove over to the warm weather for a few weeks.

But now that is not available so I will being doing some winter clothing shopping by internet. The weather here does not normally get really cold, snowy or cold so I will not need much. But this old body let me know for sure I need more cold weather clothing. So that is the situation for a day or two.  Have a great Sunday folks. The weather here is nice but chilly. OFM

Attempting New Post

 Here it is 10-16-26 and more posts did not post. So this is just a try it post. Things are dong well here so there is not real big trouble.  Hopefully this posting will stay posted.  See you again soon I hope. OFM

Monday Report

MADISON, ALABAMA

Not much exciting happened. I just colored a nice scene and placed it in storage  in hopes of learning to post it in the near future. Other than that it was work on new techniques of art using colored pencils. The joy was nice since things went well. The assisted living facility I am in  kitchen staff did a good job of feeding us today with nothing fancy just well prepared solid food. And there you have a detailed report of a normal day for the OFM.

Blog Entries Gone

  MADISON, ALABAMA

Good morning folks. This morning I had three blog entries disappear from the last few days. I know not what is going on but will be monitoring the situation carefully.  See you folks later today  after the little rain squall they called a hurricane gets clear of the area. 

Five New Ones

 Good Morning.

Today the OFM has new coloring books coming in and they are all about sea life situations. It is a new adventure in coloring for me.  At least part of the pages are undersea scenes which I have never tried before. It is a bit exciting to try out a new style of scenes to attempt to bring to life. 

Hopefully my attempts at putting pictures into the blog will finally be successful in the near future. It has been an irritation to not have pictures to show places and things like I did in the past. This dementia disease does make some things a lot more difficult but I am still trying to learn again in spite of it. Please hang in there.  OFM 

OUCH

 MADISON, ALABAMA

Good morning from old sore head.  I had a mean migraine attack yesterday and my little bitty brain is still sore this morning. However I am recovering just fine and ready for something to get happening again. It has been a very slow time since the last blog entry but things have been OK in general. So what have I been doing. Just smearing colored pencil lead on papers.  Not much exciting but a friend or two and I have a good reason to visit and gripe about things. When your big complaint is your scrambled eggs needed a little bit more cooking time this morning then you have a great life going on in my opinion.

In the mean time get going and have so extra fun this next week. I will certainly be trying to. Bye.

JUST CHECKING IN

 MADISON, ALABAMA

Just checking in but nothing is happening good or bad. Just eating well and getting lots of sleeping in.   Be happy and have fun. OFM

SATURDAY NITE

 Madison Alabama

Here it is Saturday night again and not even a little bit of juicy news to report. The OFM is still getting his exercise walk in every day. The weather has been cooling down slowly but definitely a lot nicer for day time exercise walking.  My body really likes the half hour spritely walks. Now that we are cooling down for the fall months most of the daylight time is decent for outdoor exercise walking.

On the Assisted living front, the OFM is heading up an effort to get more folks into the coloring of predrawn pictures from Coloring books to help keep the older minds active and resistant to brain troubles like dementia. The response is not high yet but is slowly growing each week so far. 

We even furnish the coloring supplies so there is no cost to the participant for supplies to participate. It at least gets a few folks heads out of their TV. That is a good thing.

That is all the news of late so go have some fun outdoors before winter attacks us. OFM.

RING BINDERS

MADISON, ALABAMA

The OFM was sitting on the back pack patio after supper tonight talking with his friend Art when the back door jumped open and out rushed the facility manager. Art and the OFM both jumped out of our skin nearly.  Then she stopped and asked if I would like to have some excess ring binders.  After we got our senses  back the OFM said yes mam.  Then she took me inside to check them out. There was about a dozen ring binders of a couple sizes she needed a home for for free. The OFM thought for a fraction and said yes I would take them.  I save the pictures I color in ring binders and I was definitely in need of a couple of binders.  Eleven of them followed me home of various sizes.  She was really glad to get rid of them and I needed a few. My talking buddy took a couple of them, Then I took the rest of them. Now all I need to do is carefully find out what to do with most of them. Three of them were put to immediate use but the rest will need a new home soon. So soon I will have a free ring binder festival and see if anyone else wants some.  And that is about the bigest excitement we have had here in a month.OFM

SPECIAL PIECE OF PAPER

 MADISON, ALABAMA

There was a nice event here a couple of days ago the OFM did not get to go to.  He had a delirium attack that day right after lunch and was down for the count the rest of the day. The next day he was informed he was awarded an award during the event by the powers that be.  It was a nice decorative award to hang on his door or wall.

The award was for THE CREATIVE CANVAS AWARD  for the help the facility gets from me for helping to commemorate important events by designing announcements notices and other things like that for events etc that happen here.  It was a very nice experience to receive it.  That is a pretty good highlight to a plain jane life like I live. the OFM.

NEW COLORING BOOKS

 Madison Alabama

Good morning.  The big excitement yesterday was the arrival of two new coloring books.  These are some of the nicest done coloring outlines I have seen and  I am really looking forward to putting them to use. Now if my brain would only allow me to put pictures into the blog to share them it would be a lot better. Have a great day. I am headed to the dining room for breakfast. OFM

STILL HERE

 MADISON ALABAMA

Still here and not a thing to write about happening. Health is fine and nothing going wrong but also nothing happening to tell all about. But I am still looking for things to write about.  Go have some great fun for me. OFM

HALL WORK

 MADISON, ALABAMA

I got the word from the boss lady this afternoon that the hallways will not be getting new flooring. So this afternoon the folks who were taken from their rooms so the foundation work could be performed will be moving back into that area.  That should finish the big work trouble for now. Maybe things will get a little better organized for a little while. As far as the OFM goes there was very little real bother for him during this mess and he is thankful for that. Otherwise things are just like normal by nightfall.  So the old routines are in charge of our life again.  Have a good day folks. OFM

FLOORING WORK

MADISON, ALABAMA

The flooring installers seem to be doing a very good job of installing the new flooring.  The flooring the owners decided on is vinal  light colored that looks like a nice  wood floor.  We are wondering if the owners are planning on re doing the two long hallways that run between the apartments.  That is about it for excitement out here. Have a great day. OFM 

IT FINALLY HAPPENED

 Madison, Alabama

I was sitting down by the dining room just digesting for a bit. But that suddenly ended when it was announced that the new carpet crew was starting the replacement process and we had to clear out of the  area and head back into our living quarters for the night. It would have been nice to get a bit of notice just for peace of mind.  Any way the workers got right to work removing old carpet and getting busy with something that makes a bit of noise. But it is not too loud and I will soon be heading to bed. It is lucky I am in a room almost as far away from the noise as a person can get in the building. Now if we had an idea of how long this will take it would be nice.

Other than the above it has been a very calm almost boring day. I got in a bit of coloring, ordering more coloring books, two nice walks around the neighborhood.  Soo there is all the excitement for the day. Have a nice night, OFM

NOTHING IN GENERAL

 MADISON ALABAMA

Well here it is Sunday morning and the OFM has had a nice breakfast of two strips of extra crisp bacon and a double bowl of Cheerios. A clear pretty morning outside and nowhere to go. But the body is alive and ready for some mischief if possible. The old Dementia is progressing slowly right on schedule but the OFM is kicking it in the teeth to let it know the fight is not over yet. Not much action around here but for using up colored pencils on coloring book pages and taking nice walks around the block. So folks get out and have some great fun for me.  OFM.

Delays

 MADISON, ALABAMA

Good evening. Today has brought us to some delay for unknown reasons.  The flooring project has shown no sign of activity at all. The foundation repair had absolutely no activity inside or outside today.  But our meals were good and the failed AC trouble has been fixed so that is some good news. Nothing else happened worth mentioning. This is definitely not a dynamic lifestyle.  Have fun. OFM.

PACKING UP

 MADISON, ALABAMA

HOWDY FOLKS.  We are now in the completion of details phase of the building foundation effort.  Most of the equipment is now gone but the large holes in the inside floor still have to be filled and sealed. The outside area that was dug up is about half filled and should take less than a day to finish up rebuilding the "yard work" along that side of the building.  A few shrubs need to be replanted and a bit of leveling done.  I was unable to tell what is left to do inside but the clean up will take a good while.

And to add to the fun the new flooring project is supposed to kick off tomorrow with new flooring in the dining area and then over in the large recreation is due to get new flooring. So we have a few days more of disrupted living to handle but so far it has been very minimal troubles.

That is all of the excitement from here for now. Have a great week. OFM

SOME SUCESS

 MADISON ALA.

To my surprise the AC company folks got most of the AC in the affected part of the building working today. They were definitely very busy beavers for most of the day.  That section of the building was running most of the AC units by about 2 pm. They were having a little trouble  with a unit in a hallway and another in another location I did not hear about until late tonight. But everyone should be reasonably cool for the night.

The OFM just mostly stayed out of the way and reported on time for meals. He is not too good at missing a meal.

That is all there is to tell about today.  OFM.

EXCITEMENT TODAY

 MADISON ALABAMA

It was a nice calm hot morning when I went for my 30 minute walk after breakfast.  The birds were chirping and a nice gentle breeze cooled me gently. However the facility was all excited. The foundation repair folks have the other wing of this facility closed of from the rest of the building.  They are drilling 8 inch diameter holes in the concrete floor through to the supporting dirt area.  Some how (and I have no idea how) they drilled into the cable giving that wing of the building electricity for that side of the building AC. So my wing is still staying cooled but the dining room and gatherings room is not getting cooled. We have not been told any status of when that error will be repaired.

If we are lucky this will be the only real mess during this repair of the building, but I doubt we will be that lucky. Have fun folks, I am. THE OFM