Monday, February 22, 2010

Oregon Reitters

Very good to see you on here , Mom. Thank you. This should be good therapy. Use both hands mom and take your time.
Happy belated birthday Louisa. Sorry that I forgot. To many things going on all at once.
Keep it up everyone. Let's make this blog A habit and feeling natural as a usable communication tool.

Next the next chapter in our vacation
Bob

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Msg from Mom (hunt'n peck so bare with)

Hello everyone,

Littlt by littleI'mgetting my life back even tho it's slow. This lap top of Jeff's is great. I can't get my wheelchair through the door to the office to use the computer so at least I am able to use this, with fingers of one hand. They have told me the last thing to come back are the fingers.

Willie our Pug has had some ear infection problems so besides gramps running me back and forth for therapy 3 days a week he's had to deal with Willie so he has had his hands full.
All for now.Love you all,
Mom/G'ma

Friday, February 19, 2010

oregon Reitters

Wow. I'm writing a book. Had enough Toni and Louisa? LOL
What with Kathy and i working different shifts. She's asleep when I get home I have nothing else to do but play games or text.

I love you all

bob

Oregon Reitters

Vacation , Part 2
Mazatlan was less interesting for us, but in part because of the shore excursion that we went on. We heard from a few other people on the ship that they enjoyed the port. We went to Rock island through an very old section of the town. Saw coconut groves. Ended up at a beach and an outdoor restaurant of sorts. Served Authentic local lunch, ( wish there was more of it) and had a day of relaxation on the beach, Problem was, that it wasn't a very clean area and we had people trying to sell tourist stuff standing between us and the ocean in front of us and continuously trying to sell us stuff. The longer the day went on. I went swimming and was opening my eyes looking around under water, ( knowing that i could do that from my navy days). After that my right eye started bothering me more and more. I thought that I had picked up some sand or something because when a wave would go over, the stuff on the bottom would move around. It was a sandy beach. I got back to the ship and went to the ships doctor. Got treated for a possible eye injury and infection. But it was so irritating that I didn't go out that night. the next morning both eyes were glued shut and my left was bothering me.
Sound familiar Louisa? Pink eye. dang
Well all for now. more to come
Have a great day
Bob



Thursday, February 18, 2010

Oregon Reitters

Vacation time;
Greetings from Grants pass.
After a year of saving and paying for a piece of it each month. We had our 2ND cruise with Carnival Cruise lines.
We went on a 7 day cruise to the Mexican Riviera. Left Long Beach on Sunday Jan 17 . It was a great trip but had some bad luck along the way. I had a cold going on for over a week before and Kathy caught it 2 days before. Kathy couldn't hardly talk for the 1st 2 days. By the 2Nd day we both were feeling better.
Then Port ta Viarta. spelling I'm sure is wrong. That place was great. First we went on a dolphin adventure. It was fantastic. The climace was each of us, side by side on our own dolphins holding onto there fins riding for about 50 feet. It was Kathys dream come thru.
After that the group returned to the ship and we took a taxi down town. It was great wandering around the shops. Tasting Taquila. visting and finishing the day on the pier at a small set up bar, drinking margaritas and mexican beer. Kathy had abit to much taquila and i helper her aboard. But it was a great time.
Next instalment, Mazatlan.
Good night
Bob

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Glad to see the participation!

Welcome to the latest blogging Reitter - my Uncle Bob! :) Can't wait to see what that old timer is up to these days ;)

Talked with G'Parents tonight, tried to finalize a few things for the Iditarod next month, everyone sounds really good. G'ma was watching the news and planning on doing a few exercises before bed. She sounds really good (and was glad I didn't go over to theri house while I had the flu). G'Pa sounded tired, but it was after a long day of all of his things he does so I'm not surprised.

Nothing much going on with me. Been blogging on my personal blog about the olympics. If you're interested - http://tonichelle.blogspot.com - I think I miss my journalism courses more than I realized I could! LOL

Night all!

From the Oregon Reitters

Hi everyone.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Little By Little

Sorry about not updating. Life is crazy these days - work is kicking my butt - so I am not doing much but playing simple video games so that my brain can just calm down.

Visited the G'parents today after church, G'ma was sitting in the living room watching the Superbowl. She looks REALLY good, but is still frustrated with how 'slowly' she feels she's progressing. She did a few of her exercises while I was there, but is relying on others to remind her to do them, and since it's a house of forgetful there, I have a feeling she doesn't do them often enough. But with everything going on you can't fault them for not keeping everything running smoothly.

G'ma shared with me that several of their fellow church members have come over to visit and help out around the house - mainly with cleaning. Thank you so much to their Church family at Change Point! God will bless you for your ministry to our family!

Jeff was cooking superbowl goodness when I got there, and g'pa was off delivering something to someone lol. Talked with Gpa after he got back about the Iditarod and if he was going to run the Tudor Trail Guard or how he wanted to go about that. Looks like we're going to run it in tandem this year (with Jim Steele's blessing of course - Jim is the head of that department of volunteers). Told him I'd do anything he needed. He's not sure he will actually make it down to the event, but I think it would be good for him (biggest concern is we don't know how to get gma INTO the motorhome as it's not big enough for her wheelchair and she's not strong enough to climb the steps). I'm sure we can get it worked out, though.

Anywho, like I said, G'ma is doing really well and she seems more like her self this time around. (She was constructively critisizing Carrie Underwood's singing during the preshow stuff) So it's going pretty well.

A bit from Tok

Well I thought I would drop a message to let every one know how things are here. Weather has been warmer then normal (not complaining), Jim had a snowmachine race in January he place 3rd in his class, I broke my ankle three weeks ago and had to have surgery on it. The kids are doing great, Trinity is playing hockey this year and Demitri, well he's still a typical little boy.
We will be traveling to Anchorage to see Gma & Gpa next weekend and I hope to be able to post abit about that trip when we come back.
To Toni hey your not posting:( Untell we get Jeff going good on this you are the eyes and ears. Oh and I wanna talk to you when we are in Anchorage abou this blog see if we may be able to make it a bit simpler for people to use.
To my dad & Kathy if you guys read this please leave a comment as I couldn't see anything you wrote.