Father's Day 2017

Picking up where I left off, I had a very nice time at Kevin and Renea’s.  We celebrated Kevin’s birthday and both Kevin and Renea’s dad’s fathers day.  Kevin fixed ribs on the grill.  He made ribs with bones and county ribs without bones.  I had the country ribs.  He used a new bar-b-q sauce on them and they were great.  Renea fixed hash brown casserole and baked beans.  We also had rolls.  For dessert we had confetti cake (Kevin’s favorite) and brownie cheesecake.  I had a small piece of each. 

 

After supper things got a little hectic.  Ryan took Renea to the emergency room.  She was having pain between her shoulder blades and no one knew why.  Ryan took her because Kevin had drank a few beers and didn’t want to drive.  Kevin cleaned up the kitchen, and I helped with the dining room.  Kevin and Stephanie went to the garden to pick a few veggies for her to take home.  Dillard and Janet went to their home in the back.  I came home.  Kevin did send a couple of country ribs that were left home with me.  I will have them for supper this week. 

I will mention here that Renea is doing fine.  It turns out she was extremely low on potassium and they gave her several units before she came home.  Kevin took off work Monday and Tuesday.  Monday he spent at the hospital with her.  Tuesday he brought her home.

 

I would also like to tell you a story about Kevin’s bees.  Sunday afternoon Kevin, Stephanie and I were sitting on the back patio while Kevin was grilling.  At one point he notice what he thought were bugs all around one of the apple trees.  He decided to go check and found that bees were swarming.  It turned out that the bees left one of his hives and were swarming on the apple tree.  So, he put on his bee keeping gear, got the boxes that the bees travel in, an went about putting the swarming bees in the boxes.  He actually had some many bees he had to use two boxes.  Now he will wait a few days to find out if he was able to “save” them. 

This picture is of the bees swarming on the branches of the apple tree.  Stephanie took a video, but all I have is a picture that Kevin took.   I stayed on the patio and watched.   That big black "blob" is all bees.

Another situation that happened on father’s day had to do with Lola.  Lola is Kevin and Renea’s black lab.  Shortly before I went over to their house Lola had a seizure.  She was just coming out of it when I arrived.  It took her quite a while.  Then, while Renea was at the hospital and Kevin was home, she had another one Sunday night.  Both of them were really bad.  So, Monday while Kevin was at the hospital I checked on both Lola and Copper to make sure they were okay.  Tuesday morning while Kevin was at the hospital with Renea, Stephanie took Lola to the vet.  

I have been told that she has a tumor on her brain which is causing her seizures.  She will gradually have more seizures as time goes on.  For now they will be taking care of her and keeping her comfortable and giving her plenty of love.  This is so sad.  She is such a sweetheart.