The Great Spring Storm of 2011

A little hail damage, a broken gutter, and perfect makeup!

A close up of the different sizes of hail!

Can't really see the cracked windshield.  It was a scary drive home, but I had to check on my Domino!

Hail Damage!  My first!  Merry Christmas Insurance Company!

After all that, not a scratch on my Avon face! Thank you Suzanne.

Dementia is the Long Goodbye-AND IT SUCKS

My Grandmother has Dementia/Alzheimer's, whatever you would like to call it.  I would just as soon call it what is really is...EVIL.  It is a cruel way to live your life.  I have only learned a little about dementia since Granny was officially diagnosed.  I know there is no cure.  There is not nearly enough money being spent on research.  It affects all races, color, creed but chooses to feed mainly on women.  Am I going to have it?  There is just no way to know.  So they tell me to make sure I do the daily crossword and learn a foreign language.  They say just do something to make your brain think.  What are they talking about?  My brain thinks every day.  That's how I live and work and even do the simple things like get dressed in the morning. 

My heart aches most nights when I talk to her.  I do my best to call her every single day.  Sometimes twice a day.  Each time I do it's a new adventure.  After I do the usual explaining of who she lives with, how they are related to her, there is a lul in the conversation.  We chit chat about small things like what we ate that day or what trouble our cat has been getting into lately.  Then she starts to cry, almost uncontrollably and tell me that she misses so many things.  She can't seem to tell me what she misses and I can't help her.  I just sit with her and cry with her.  I reassure her and tell her I love her and that we will never leave her.  That's the best I can do.  Then I go cry myself to sleep because my heart is breaking.

Video Taken from a Street Car in San Fran 1905

Most brilliantly set to Air's La Femme D'Argent.  Check it out!  Wild!



Credit: Youtube from CleaverB
The first track from Airs' Moon Safari album, accompanied by scenes from a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area. Remarkable footage of the turn of the century lifestyles in California.

Made by cleaverb!
The video is CC no rights reserved. You can download video from the www.archive.org . Search for " trip down 1905 " without quotes.
I used the big 330MB(145MB mpeg) version,but you can download other formats.

Husband Celebrates Miracle as 'Brain Dead' Wife Wakes Up in Hospital

DARWIN, Australia -- A woman who was diagnosed as being brain dead has recovered three days after her husband begged doctors to put in a breathing tube before switching off a ventilator at an Australian hospital, the Northern Territory News reported Wednesday.

Gloria Cruz, 56, underwent brain surgery after a tumor was discovered when she suffered a stroke on March 7 and was rushed to the Royal Darwin Hospital in Darwin, Northern Territory.

Doctors told her husband Tani Cruz, 51, the case was “hopeless” and she would probably die within 48 hours following the surgery.

After two weeks, a breathing tube was inserted in Mrs Cruz's mouth and the ventilator was turned off. Hospital staff were stunned when she woke from her coma three days later.

Read more here.