Checking in Back in CHARLESTON!

Polly and our niece, Elizabeth, leaving Louisville.

Polly and I are both back in Charleston together for the first time since June 11th! I got back in town last Thursday and Polly pulled in this afternoon. With all we have been through this summer it is amazing we have not both gotten as big as cows! Polly has lost about 6 pounds this summer which is  great with all she has done for her parents and our niece. As I wrote last week, I was up to 224 and am back down to 218 this morning.

Mid-Summer Check up!

I am a truck driving FOOL!

Well it has been a long and interesting summer so far. I have been in Pickens for much of the summer helping my mother and father in law. Then Polly and I went on the road from Pickens to Louisville to Topeka and back the last 8 days moving our niece, Elizabeth. It is time for me to do an assessment of ME!

There are some things I have done well and some not so well. I would grade myself as follows:

Stinking Thinking!

Garvin, Effie, Polly, Mike

I took my father-in-law, Garvin, to what might be his last AA meeting Thursday night. Garvin has not had a drink of alcohol in over 28 years and I have gone 26 years 3 months and 9 days without a drink and I have not had one today! We went to the Pickens Hillbilly AA group. A small group that was all guys that night. There was a total of 6 of us, including Garvin and me. I would never reveal the identity of anyone in AA, but I have no problem letting people know I am a grateful recovering alcoholic. I hit what I consider a 'high bottom' on alcohol with my lone DUI on March 31, 1984.

Latest Log Entry

514
218.0
bran flakes/half banana/silk (195c), 2 eggs/jalepeno/pork (260c), jello/blueberries (60c), low carb tort/turkey/spinach & NS popsicle (180c), Sesame>burger/slaw/pimento cheese&toast points (est. 850c), Cold Stone Ice Cream (910c), bran flakes/silk & NS Popsicle (200c) Total Calories-2655
rotator/bar twists/ shoulder
45

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