A BREEZY SUNDAY

It has been windy all day here. It rained most of the night. I am glad it had stopped raining before I went to Church.
I thought I better write something since I have not written in so long. Nothing real exciting to write about. My eyes are doing good but it looks like it will be a month before I get glasses. I got my flu shot Saturday at Walgreen's. A lady was waiting for a prescription and was telling me all about herself. She has Arthritis really bad. She had been on Naproxen for sometime and it finally caused internal bleeding so she was in the hospital. After she got out of the hospital she fell and broke her arm. She said she doesn't really know what the doctor is going to suggest for her Arthritis. She says she has so much pain that some days she can hardly walk. I didn't even mention my eye surgery. Sometimes I need to hear those stories so I know I am still doing good. I do fuss about being old but I have nothing to complain about really.
Wednesday Donna said she was taking me for an eye test. At first I didn't know what she was talking about because I didn't have one scheduled. Then I realized she meant the SARC pool because she wanted to see if I could read the numbers on the key and the locker. At first I did my usual fussing because we had not been there for awhile. The SARC center was closed awhile in September and also I was getting my cataract surgery done. We did go and I cannot believe that I could not read those big numbers before my surgery. The numbers are tone on tone and I just couldn't see them. They were so easy to read Wednesday. The Catract surgery is amazing.
The one fun thing we did this month was go to the Fall Stash Dash (Quilting shops). On Saturday, October 2nd, Donna, Marge (our neighbor) and I all went. We left at about 10am and did not get back until around 7pm. The weather was great and we just had a great time. We went to seven stores. We went to Port Townsend, Paulsbo, Bainbridge Island, Kingston, Silverdale, Port Gamble and Sequim. We had lunch in Kingston. At each store you get your "passport book" stamped. You sign up for drawings and you get a free "fat quarter" which is a quilting square. Each store gives you part of the directions for making a quilt from the fat quarters. Donna got the directions but we are saving our fat quarters for our Quilting Retreat in November.
Most days I am still walking with George and Marge and Donna if she isn't teaching. We have to take Missy for a walk. Missy gets excited about seeing me now. I have been walking the parks without my walker. I am still a little leary about walking up and down the hills by the house without a walker. I will work on that.