Four weeks! That's how long I've had this cough. It does seem much better since my golf partner on Friday told me she uses her Neti pot morning and night to clean her sinuses. I got mine out and started using it again and it does seem to be helping. I haven't had a choking cough since Friday night, when Arne and I were at Carrabba's for dinner. I'm sure people around thought I was choking on my food. Arne even wondered if he should try Heimlich maneuver.
I wanted our bedroom and bathroom painted so Arne started cutting in on Tuesday, Aug. 31, while I played golf. The next day I "helped" by rolling paint on the walls. Arne didn't think much of my job and said he preferred to do it himself and at his pace. I wanted him to hire a painter but he didn't listen to me. So...Arne painted every day and finally finished on Labor Day. He did absolutely nothing else for that week and did comment that he preferred the root canal he had the week before to painting. The walls do look beautiful. The color is Sherwin Williams Rainwashed. Now I have to get new curtains for the windows. We've been working with a decorator on window treatments for the living and dining rooms. The hardest part is picking out the fabric.
I've been playing beginner pickleball and signed up again for Coach Moe's free clinic on Monday evenings for the next three weeks.
In early July, Arne gave me a book on piano playing. The author suggests you pick out a song you like and learn to play that before moving on. I picked "Tennessee Waltz" and am still working on it. I can play the right hand by itself and the chords by themselves but when I try to put right and left together...disaster!! I printed out some exercises for fingering and do those during each practice. I'll give it a year and if I still can't play it, I'll...cry!
Made it to basketball practice this afternoon. I'm really rusty and missed most of my shots. It's just been too hot to practice hoops on the outdoor courts and we only get the high school gym on Sunday afternoons.
"School" starts again Sept. 21. I will be teaching English to the same Hispanic ladies I had in the spring. I will be teaching Tuesday and Thursday mornings until the ESL director finds someone to teach one of those mornings. So far, no volunteers have come forward. Guess I'll have to do some recruiting.
You have had those coughing spells before, trying to think of the restaurant that we all thought Sharon was going to bite the big one! Ha! I know they are not fun and hope you recoup quickly,sis!
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