Posted 5-6-20 Hi all! I hear robins and squirrels outside my home office window serenading me loudly this fine (early) morning. Thanks for sitting with me for a couple of minutes this morning. 🙂 Some days I wake very early and have a lot of time and others, like today, time is short. Today I…
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Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 53: Gimme 5!
Posted 5-5-20 Happy Tuesday, all! Happy Cinco de Mayo too! It is also Giving Tuesday, a day set aside for people to give to organizations that they appreciate. I very seldom ask for money for our agency (and I would never ask for it for me), but if you feel compelled to give, here is…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 52: May the 4th Be With You, Regardless How Things Go
Star Wars Day, 2020 Happy Star Wars Monday! May the 4th be with you this fine Monday morning! May your lightsaber be green and your grasses be greener! May 4th has unique meaning to me for a couple of reasons beyond the pop culture reference that has assumed the date in the last few years….
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 49: Stressed Out
Posted 5-1-20 Hi all! Happy May Day!! The weekend is much closer than the end of this article will seem. 😉 Hope and trust you are ok. 🙂 In the Ozarks, we are looking at sunny weather the next two days with highs in the high 70s/low 80s…then the required thunderstorms Sunday as payback for…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 48: The One With a Pandemic in the Applegate House
Posted 4/30/20 Hi all! Happy 48th day of being “in the hole”, Shawshank-style…a.k.a. in lock down from getting to visit loved ones in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. You may be plus or minus a little in the number of days, but you certainly feel the same pain. What particularly saddens me is the…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 47: Rest
Posted 4-29-20 Howdy all! A heart-filled Hump Day to each of you! What a month it has been! Between working from home several days a week, working around 65-70 hours a week keeping up with disaster planning for 17 counties/10,000 square miles, also serving as I.T. Director for said counties, serving alongside friends at the…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 46: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Posted 4-28-20 No time for a number post today! 🙁 Just a quick post today as I am jam packed with scheduling today. Yesterday, at 3pm, our Governor Parson announced his Show Me Strong Recovery Plan. Under this plan, most businesses will be allowed to open freely, but with social distancing guidelines in place. One…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 45: Is He Going to Stop at # 427? Nope.
Posted 4/27/20 Hi ho, merry old souls! Happy Monday, 4/27 to you! While I have about 12 or 13 articles started on other topics related to memory diseases, I am going to fiddle around with numbers a little more. I am still keeping track on the Shawshank Redemption Re:Dementia days because it helps (?) to…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 42: The Famous Number 424
Posted 424 (to the fancy, this is called 4/24/20) Welcome to Friday! Or as we used to think of it, the weekend! Woot!!! Get out your shoehorns with me…we are going to plow through some number references in our little number series and lard them up into some thoughts about dementia again today. 🙂 Off…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 41: The Number 423
Posted 4/23/20 We go marching on this fine Thursday, amongst the madness of today’s life and within the confines of my little series on numbers banging around in my head. 🙂 Today, my Number Du Jour is 4/23, or Gregorian calendar’s very own April 23rd. I shall reduce said date to its simplest format: 423….