58º with 30 mph gusty winds from the southwest here in Clarinda, IA at 2 pm Wednesday. We had a thunderstorm during the night, but only had 1.02" of rain without any wind damage or hail that had been predicted.
We drove about 1,700 miles between La Feria, TX and Clarinda, IA by going eastward to Cape Girardeau to visit brother Don & his wife Vicki in a care facility.
We parked our travel trailer about 2 miles from the Chateau Girardeau facility they live, at an RV Campground, traded vehicles with the Diamond's so we could easier get Don & Vicki into their car for outings. They have gotten more feeble, both now using wheel chairs, and moving ever so slowly.
After Vicki did some shopping at Walmart in Jackson, with Phyllis's help and with it raining, we decided to pick up lunch at a drive thru at Culver's and went back to Vicki's apartment to eat.
We took them to the 11 am service at St. Croix Methodist Church Sunday morning and took them back
to eat at their respective dining rooms. Vicki is on main floor and Don is on ground floor some distance down a hall. We visited with Vicki later in the afternoon before going out for a bite while they ate. On returning, we went down to Don's and brought him up to 1st floor to Vicki's apartment and just started to set up to play dominoes in her lunch area when there was a storm warning causing all people to go to a center hallway. We were there about an hour before it was dismissed. There were several tornados that struck south of Cape Girardeau.
Played one game of dominoes. Don seemed more alert and kept up with the game well. Vicki, on the other hand was a little foggy and needed prompting often.
Don was non-committal as we pushed him to the elevator and then back to his room. He has to have help getting up from bed, putting on his shoes, and when he is in the bathroom. He isn't able to take his slip-on shoes off and when I left him he folded into bed with his shirt, pants and socks on. I spoke with the lady on duty and she said she would take care of him. When we went to pick them up at 10:30 on Sunday morning we found Don sitting in his wheel chair at the end of the hall near his dining area waiting to eat at 11 am, having no idea it was Sunday and we were taking them to church.
Many tears from Vicki when we left, telling her we hoped to be back the weekend near the 4th of July and possibly brother Darrell and hi son Jonathon would be there then also. We may slip down in a month or so for a short visit if it works for us.
Spent much of Tuesday unloading the pickup and trailer. Still have part of the pickup to unload today. We brought 50 lbs. of 1015 Onions and 25 lbs. of sweet Texas carrots home. Takes a while to get situated every time we move. Set up a new WIFI with T-Mobile and have it running.
