Today is the day...

Jolea will say good-bye to her island home and Jeff will zip off to a backpacking adventure in Europe. I'm sure they partied hard last night, so they (the boys) will sleep on their flight, I think Jolea is like me, she stays glued to the window to see what she can see below. Perhaps get some aerial shots of Hurricane Hannah.

I took this picture when I was flying back from St. T somewhere over the Turks and Caicos islands. I like to take pictures from the plane then when I get home I get the globe (yes kiddies I use the globe!) and I find the land masses on the globe. I'm just a Geography geek!


















See that bare green hill right in the center of the picture? Not the island in the foreground, the hill on the very populated larger land mass. In the bottom right corner of that green hill is the Villa Olga (it may be the little white dot), where Jolea lived. Good-bye Villa Olga, good-bye Doug and Jill. Good-bye Pippi Longstocking...



Jody had another shot yesterday, on top of already feeling REALLY bad from the Friday chemo treatment. He was quiet lethargic when I came in from work and he just wanted to go to bed, didn't want me to make him any dinner. I went on to my investment meeting, didn't plan on it taking so long, and when I returned he was a little better but very nauseated. Still he didn't want to eat anything. He said that eating made it worse. Is this common? I worry about him not eating. He's already loosing weight, that's why I keep force feeding him chocolate ice cream. And I've reintroduced Dr. Pepper into the home. He later became sick to his stomach and said that he was beginning to feel the effects of the shot and was dreading it. He says that at times he can feel his heart beat through his bones, like a hammer pounding his whole body.

He's sleeping quiet soundly this morning, but there's no telling how much sleep he's had all night. He is normally such a light sleeper, but now any little sound or even movement in the room will wake him. I may have Jolea just bunk in with me in our room and give Jody full reign of the house and any sleeping spot he desires, just so he can sleep.... the guest room, couch, office bedroom or recliner. I can't imagine not being able to sleep... I'd go nuts without my 6 hours.

Well it's time to get ready for school, it's raining (Gustov is here, kind of whimpy...) so there will be a lot more cars to unload this morning, but no outside recess today. Gotta go stand in the closet for awhile... and rethink the outfit choice.

Shoot a little prayer out for my traveling twosome.