Deflection

It was up 85 degrees today, with the wind flowing. I can remember twenty years ago, and I would have had a headache all day long. This time of the year was bad for me, with headache, since I could easily had twenty days of headaches per month. I think that they call that chronic headaches. Since I was up by Lake Superior, maybe this will not feel like an endless summer, like it has during the past summers.

As for those of us that live in the mid west, it is vegetable season. Every meal is fill with fresh vegetables. I can remover going to my grandparents and having vegetables right out of the garden for each meal. Tonight I put sweet corn on the cob, new potatoes, and large shrimp in the pursure cooker and it made a tasty meal. I have found that the best way to cook sweet from is in the pursuer cooker, since it hold the taste of the corn. The shrimp give the meal a different taste that make it a nice meal. I do not believe that mom was real hungry tonight. she ate the corn, but not much of the potatoes or shrimp. Tomorrow night, she might eat the whole thing. One never knows how these dementia people are feeling from hour to hour.

It is a quiet night for me. Since I have gotten back, it is kind of hard to establish a social life. Since I was living at mom’s house when I left Whitewater, I guess that I really never had one at that time. But I would go out with them for Friday night fish fry. As for now, with my mom’s dementia, it is a case of picking the fried fish up from the restaurant. How things change over time.

When I drove around town, I feel like there are a bunch of ghosts. The people that I remember, especial one that I looked up to that were my parent’s age, are mostly gone. My mind thinks about the names of the people that lived in the city and the houses that they live in. Others do not even live in the same house as I remember. By coming back after forty years, it probably affects me more than if I would have lived through this type of transition on a day to day bases. As I have been thinking, I could write an assay series on retirement. Is it what was expected? Or, is its different? Or, is it affecting me different, since I have moved away from Iowa? But one has to remember that a social live was difficult moving into cities where I did not know anyone. There seems to be a few good topics here to write about.

Roger