WDM, IA - Rarin' To Go

And, today is my brother’s colonoscopy. He’s read all the instructions, followed all the rules and is ready and rarin’ to go. - in more ways than one.

We got up at 7:00, got ready and a bit packed and headed on down for the continental breakfast. Hardly anyone else was there. We actually got into this room during a break in the action. Last week was the girls’ softball tournament and next week is RAGBRAI, both of which will fill these rooms and every other room in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

The plan was to meet Jack in the lobby of the motel, after he had dropped his truck off at Roger’s Tire across the street for the motel. They will put on his 4 new tires while he’s in the hospital and we can pick the truck up afterwards. Nothing like split second timing. We met, packed the car and took off for the hospital where we waited for a short while. Then Jack was in his gown with the gaping back and in his own personal waiting room. (In Des Moines, they gave me 2 gowns, one to put on with the gape in the back and one to put on like a robe to cover that huge gape.)

He’s terribly impatient but finally they came to get him. Soon he was back asking when they were going to do it. Surprise, Jack, it’s done. Obviously, he was still under the influence of the powerful drugs which kept him sleeping and pretty mellow for a while. We’re going to find out what those drugs were so we can use them also. A mellow Jack, now there’s a Christmas present to die for.

Obviously, he did not want to go public with these pictures so we picked some of the best. No gaping gown pictures, no snoring pictures, no groggy pictures. Just plain old family pictures.

We dropped him off at his house to sleep and relax while we tooled back to Lug’s home where Gary was set to pull weeks in Lug’s old garden. He doesn’t use it any more and, with our drought, the weeds have run rampant. Meanwhile I spent time splitting yesterday’s cake into manageable chunks. When the party was over yesterday, we still had 2 huge sheet cakes left over which we had all put into Lug’s freezer. He loves his sweets but even he probably wouldn’t eat 2 sheet cakes worth of sweets. I took them out, cut them into sections, put them into plastic containers and put them back into the freezer. He’ll get out a small plastic container sooner than a huge sheet cake. Oh, and did I mention, that we took some home also. Actually, he told us to.

I also took some cake to some friends in exchange for 15 ears of corn. Can’t wait for dinner tomorrow.

I then went to Jack’s, took him out for a lunch, got an extra salad for Big Gar and went over to Lugs. Gary was done with the weeds and it was time to head back to Des Moines. We pulled in about 7:00, unpacked the car, showered and relaxed for an hour or two.