Sunday, October 27, 2013
Most of October 2013
October 1-24...What a busy month it has been! We kept very busy packing up all our stuff to move into the motorhome. Our trip to North Carolina to take care of the grandson got canceled due to the government shutdown. Brandon & Kat's classes in Leavenworth were canceled! We could have still gone to visit but we decided we still had a lot to due to get ready to go south.
On the 4th we took the motorhome in to Martin's RV to have the motor replaced in the jacks. Dad came back from the farm and we went to dinner at Borrie's in Black Eagle.
On the 10th I went back to the dentist due to increasing pain in the tooth that I had a root canal/crown on in Mexico last Feb. Well, he x-rayed it and determined that it was abscessed. We made the decision to extract it so I had to start antibiotics and come back on the 15th to have it removed. It was a difficult extraction (of course) so I had a lot of pain afterwords...in fact still having problems. I went back on the 22nd and he said it was probably a 'dry socket' so he packed it with Clove Paste and sent me home with more. At this time I am still packing it as it is the only thing that gives me relief.
On
the 11th we drove out to the farm. We stopped at the courthouse in
Chinook to get Mike's 'carry license' but the person wasn't there to
fingerprint him. I guess it will wait until next spring. We
attended Tyler's football game in Harlem that night. It was a bit
cold but fun! We spent Friday afternoon at Howards house helping
Gita go through some of his stuff so they could take it back to
Seattle. We also took some stuff to storage. We took a few more
jewelry pieces over to Denise's shop in Turner on our way back home
on Sunday afternoon.
On the 16th I took Dad to his hearing test. Denita and Steve came to Great Falls that day to attend Tyler's football game in Chouteau. They stayed overnight with Dad. Doug & Fran also came to town as Doug had an MRI on the 17th on his lower back. It's sounding like he may need some surgery to fuse some discs. Also on the 17th we had a meeting with Jodi at H and R Block to find out some tax info. We decided that since we are now leasing out condo we will no longer be doing our own taxes! We all went out to the OP for dinner that evening.
On the 18th we received very tragic news that my cousin, Jay Bickford was in an accident at work. Him and another guy were trying to reposition a cherrypicker on a flatbed. It tipped off the flatbed throwing them both out of the bucket. Jay fell 20ft and suffered severe injury’s- head, ribs, lung. Surgery was done on him to stop internal bleeding in Butte and then he was air lifted to Missoula. He died of his injuries that evening. He had just celebrated his 46th Birthday the day before. It is just so hard to believe he has been taken from us.
On the 21st we moved into the motorhome and parked it at Dick's RV park for 3 nights. We needed to be able to put the slides out so we could go through everything. We found more 'stuff' to put in storage. We were also waiting for a sensor for our jacks (somehow they didn't have that when they installed the motor). Well of course the part didn't come in so we will be leaving without it and they will send it to us.
On the 23rd Doug and Fran come to town and we took them out for dinner at the Willow Creek Steakhouse in the Heritage Inn. Steve Keller was playing at the Blue Max lounge so we ended up eating dinner there but with the dining room menu. Fun!
It's Oct. 24th and we pulled out of town at 1115 am. Destination – Butte KOA for 3 nights. Jay's funeral will be on Sat. and we will head south on Sunday.
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