Bad News

Good morning. The crickets are chirping like crazy again. I went out to my mother's for a short bit this afternoon. Didn't stay long because she had a doctor appointment in Muncie at 3:30 to go over the results of Sunday's pet scan. They found the origin of the cancer. It started in the esophogus(spelling?) and stomach. This time they didn't even discuss treatment plans. Not really sure why. My Aunt Pat called me this evening and told me. She went to the appointment as well. My mother has been on Morphine and several other meds which is making her very loopy. When she talks, you can't understand a word she says. She can't move around without assistance. Today, while I was there, she was sitting at the kitchen table. Her bra was laying there. She kept trying to wrap it around a small stack of mail, and she had earlier tried to wrap it around her water glass. With these meds, she has no idea what she is doing. The doctor took her off the Morphine, so hopefully, she'll snap out of it.

On my way home, just after I turned the first corner, there was a big white animal dead in the road. When I got close enough, I saw that it was a rabbit. I stopped the truck, got out and picked the bunny up and moved it to the grassy area on the side of the road. As I was getting back in the truck, a car pulled up beside me. The old guy driving said, "that was a very, very sweet thing you just did." I told him that I knew the rabbit was already dead, but I couldn't stand the thought of somebody else running over it. It turns out, it was the old guy's rabbit. He has had several killed on the road this summer. Not sure why he doesn't keep them in a pen. After a couple of miles, I started taking pictures of an old house and old barn. The same barn that I posted toward the beginning of my blogging, with the different manipulations. When I got out of the truck to take the picture, I heard a screech and looked up and saw a hawk taking off from the tree it had been perched in. I hurried up and changed lenses on the camera, and the pic above is what I got. Not sure, but I think it's a Red-tail hawk. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I later went uptown and took a few shots of some of the old buildings. The building above was built in 1896. It is not occupied now, except for a small store-front on the left corner, just a realty company. Supposedly, the rest of the building is no longer safe. I was told that is used to be Montgomery Ward, and it had 3 floors to it. I remember it as Val discount store. Which later moved out next to Marsh, became TGY and is now Alco and Save A Lot.
This is the old Hartford Hotel. You probably saw a picture of it on Lori's blog a couple months or so ago. Only the first floor is used now. The front is used by the county, and the back is a florist.
This picture is a close up of the second story window toward the front of the building. If you go back up to the other picture, it is the window on the far right, with white across the bottom. If you look at this pic closely on the right side, you can see one of the old chandeliers still hanging.
This is the smallest Praying Mantis I have seen yet. He is only about an inch long. He was just chillin' out on a pine cone in the tree in our next-door neighbor's yard.And last, but certainly not least, I finally accomplished getting a shot of a hummingbird. I took it out my kitchen window. The feeder is hanging from the soffets of my roof about a foot away from the window. I removed the screen so I could have a good shot, when I actually got a shot.

Gonna head to bed now. Please keep praying for my mother. She needs it now, more than ever!

See ya tomorrow.

Love Ya

Lisa