Deflection

We did receive snow showers today with the temperature getting up to 34 degrees, but, with no winds, there was not much of a wind chill, and it has been overcasted.

Mom seems to be doing better, but I am not sure want the major cause is at this time. Physically, she is for getting about her cane, and, with the improvement that I have seen in her, I am not sure that she needs it any more. Therefore, to use it, I am just letting her decide. From a mental point of view, it seem like she is not living the state of fear like she was when I move into here. Time is still irrelevant to her, and she like to fill in the time with trips to the bathroom or kitchen. I have been taking her on rides in the afternoon that take her past her parent’s house and she always knows the house. Regarding the fact that she wants to go home in the afternoon and into the evening. The trips seem to be help with his issue, since she actually gets to see her childhood home. It is hard for me to know if the medication is making a difference, since I do not see much of a difference with it or without it. But I will keep trying.

When I stopped to see the banker for a loan on my new house just over a year ago, I had enough of a down payment for the house and I could borrow the rest of the funds, but I was worried about the economic environment. Also, at that time, the price of materials was increasing and hard to find. lt was going to make it difficult to build the house in nine months with the materials shortage. So, with mom health concern, I opted to delay my house for a year. But now things have really changed.

It appears that price of materials has are not increasing as they where, with the cost of lumber decreasing. But the interest rate for mortgages is increasing everyday with no end in sight. I am sure that I cannot afford my new house at this time. If I would have only built it two years ago, but that could have problems now, too, with the buying power of my monthly retirement funds gone (everything has gone up in price).

The future does not look good at this time, with the expectancy of interest rates increasing. The discussion is if the interest rates will climb to 10 percent. Everything seems to be in a dilemma, and it will be years for this mess to sort itself out, when the campaign promise was to reduce the number of fossil fuel cars on the highway even if it destroyed the economy. This is exactly what is happening.

On a positive note, my teeth are much better today. The upper tooth does not hurt and the lower one does from time to time. So, hopefully, I missed the issue with a dead nerve.

Roger