I finally had to pack up the Christmas cards and put them away to enjoy next year. Opal Pittilo would have liked the red cardinal ones.
January is half gone and my scales still read the same. Oh, I guess I forgot that after I made the resolution there was something I was supposed to do to make it happen.
When one person tried to talk to me about gun control, I froze up! Both sides have good points. All manners of guns hung in the stairway when I was a kid. I passed them several times a day. I knew what each one was used for. My husband raised our boys to be hunters and I know they all have guns in their homes. It’s the assault rifles that make me nervous.
What would be the use of them in a private home?
Some of the advice in hearing aide literature is, don’t let the hearing loss go on for so long that you become used to the silent world. It will be so much harder to return to the noisy world. I realized that I had done just that. I prefer the silent world and live there a lot. I don’t drive without them because I often have a kid in the car and also, I need to hear ambulance and police sirens.
But, I have limited hearing in one ear and “feel” a lot of things - a car coming behind me; the draft of air when a door opens; the floor quits shaking when the dryer turns off; the feel of my feet crunching in the snow Christmas Day;
the giggles of a child as we shoot each other, around the corner with Nerf bullets; and the two big dogs getting excited when I pull in the driveway. I can hear and feel rain running off the roof as I wait for the school bus. Wish I could hear it more often!
I may or may not have dementia, but tell me why my mind goes suddenly blank every time a bank teller asks me for the last four numbers of my Social Security number. Then, I always have to start at the first of the numbers in order to come up with the last four. And names seem to have been erased from my mind, so if I don’t call you by name, please realize I do know you!
Have you noticed the tree destruction along U.S.
Highway 62 where they are preparing for utilities being moved and new paving?
Progress marches on!
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Editors note: Edith Lammey has been a resident of the area for nearly 40 years.
She can be contacted through The Times at 451-1196 or [email protected]. The opinions of the writer are his own, and are not necessarily those of The Times.
Opinion, Pages 4 on 01/16/2013