Oct 9th
Alyssa is, once again, in pain but this time it's whip lash and aches all over her body. Hopefully, within a few days, she'll be back to somewhat of a normal life.
I went out into the yard to snip some Thyme and Sage from the garden when I happened to glance over to the right. I noticed the Easter Lily that PJ brought home from work at Easter time. It had 2 HUGE buds on it!!! I have to remember to tell PJ about it!

Oct. 7th
Alyssa had her epidural this morning. So far so good.
The wind is howling outside. There's gusts of up to like 50 MPH!

Oct 6th
Today I went around returning things to various stores. Dave was back from TX so he was with Alyssa for a good part of the day.

Oct 5th
PJ and I took Alyssa to get her epidural today. It turned out that it was the 'consultation' to get it. UGH!!! At least this guy gave a name to her problem. She has a buldging herniated disk. He's thinking the epidural will fix her up really well and she can get on with her life. Hopefully!
PJ and I went food shopping later.

Oct 4th
Today was Mike and Merrie's wedding. It was a beautiful day at the Westbury Manor. Merrie was STUNNING! The ceremony was really nice and quick! It was actually HOT out there in the sun!

Kris and John... happy parents

Judy, Lauren and Lew... I love that the bridesmaids can use their dresses again!

Andrea and Joe

John playing the bag pipes for Merrie and Mike

I have to send this pic to Chris. He went to school with these girls. He'd get a kick out of seeing them now.
Rebecca, Amanda, Merrie, Heather and Lauren

Merrie made her own wedding cake!!! It turned out so beautiful. The color in the pic doesn't do it justice though.

This picture I think is the funniest part of the whole day. While Merrie and John were dancing the Father Daughter dance, Merrie saw the waiters lift up the cake and walk really fast out the door with it!

We had a great time. Everyone was just so happy. It was great to be able to celebrate with them.

Alyssa did really good today. Scott was home most of the day with her. She's pretty mobile now but still has pain.

Oct 3rd

We were able to get right in to the Dr's office. They gave Alyssa a shot for pain and a shot of a high dose anti inflamatory. Hopefully these will do SOMETHING to help her. She'll get an epidural on Monday. By the late afternoon, Alyssa was able to walk to the bathroom holding on to the back of a chair. That's BIG TIME! PJ picked up Gran's walker from Mary's house on his way to visit Stan tonight. WHAT A GODSEND!!! Alyssa can move about a bit better now. I guess the shots are doing something. She was so happy to have the walker!!
Oct 2nd

Alyssa had her MRI today. She was having such a hard time walking to even get in the place! While there, she sneezed. That was BAD! After the MRI, we went home. As the day went on, Alyssa got worse and worse. By night time, she was in horrible pain. She could only walk to the bathroom by having a person on each side of her to hold her up. I called the Dr on call to see about taking her to the ER. He suggested that we try to wait until the morning and he will get her right in and give her 2 shots that should help. We chose that step. I feel so helpless when she yells or cries.

Oct 1st
I can't believe it's Oct 1st already! Where did the time go?
I got my hair cut this morning. It's always nice to chat with Vicki while she cuts away!

Sept 30th
Today was catching up on laundry day. It took forever because I had the blankets and comforters, clothes from our trip that were all now muddy!

Sept 29th
Today we slept late and kind of lounged for a while. I kept waking up thinking that I didn't put my sweatshirt on. I had a sweatshirt on 24 hours a day in Ithaca so I guess it was ingrained in my head! The sun was shinning. We set up the tents to dry out then packed everything away. PJ and I went for a walk at the beach. It was so windy. I guess the wind that we had yesterday (45 MPH) made it's way down here!
Mrs. Celenza sent us a cookbook that she wrote that has PJ's Grandmother's recipe for Superb Crescents which Stan makes us every year for Thanksgiving/Christmas.

Sept 28th
Scott ran from the campsite to the property and back while PJ and I had our usual coffee, bagel and muffin at Wegmans. After he came back and showered, we decided to drive to Seneca Falls to bring Scott to Sauder's Store, a Mennonite store. He had a blast. It was like being stuck in the 40's. We bought vegetables, spices and we each got a hero for lunch. We headed to Goosewatch Winery because they let you eat out on their deck without having to buy anything. We sat down and all of a sudden a few drops started to fall. I ran and took some pictures and we gobbled our sandwiches down. The rain started to come down harder so we decided to finish eating in the car.
This is my turkey hero. I only managed to eat 1/2 of it because I was stuffed!
This picture was taken when we first got there... nice fluffy clouds and a blue sky.

Within about 7 minutes, this is what was above us when we were eating in the car!


We left and decided to drive back to the campsite. It POURED!


Being that Taughnnock Falls was on the way, we went to the overlook, ran out of the car to peak and ran back in! The rain was coming down by the buckets.

The forecast was for heavy rains to continue throughout the day and into the night and rain tomorrow. We decided that instead of staying until tomorrow, let's just pack it all in and head home. So that's what we did. We got home at 11:00 at night.

Sept 27th
Scott wanted us to drop him off at the property so he could run back to the campsite (6.8 miles). PJ and I went to Wegmans to have breakfast while Scott ran.
Later on, Scott drove to Cortland to see Kerry while PJ and I went to the Naples Grape Festival. Chris always told us that we would love it. The festival is on Main St where he used to live. It was once again, another festival with tons of food... not much in the way of grapes though. There were a lot of people selling Grape Pies which we wanted to try so we bought one to bring home.

PJ noticed that the fire hydrants are all colored purple for the purple grapes.
We got back at dinner time and Scott had just gotten back also so we decided to go have dinner at Maxie's. They have great Crabcake and Oyster Po Boys!
It was cloudy but we wanted to show Scott Sunset Park being that we talk about it so much.
There were a ton of mosquitos there. Here's PJ swatting them!


The town came and cut down all of the trees and wild bushes that were blocking the view of the sunset. MUCH better! But now I can see someone falling down the cliff!