5
Nov

Fall

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Well Fall has fell in Possum Kingdom. It has wound up South Greenville Sports Fall Softball and it was a fun season with a couple of great coaches and I am so proud of Abigail, she had some great hits this year with two home runs. Justin and his mighty Yellow Jackets have finished their season in Aiken County and finished 3rd in the county. I am so proud of what he has accomplished and what his team has accomplished.

We had our Fall festival at church on Monday and I did not know that many people could fit through the gates to get in Possum Kingdom, we had a great time. I ran the hay ride, a trailer behind my Gator and it stayed busy until we closed the ride for the Trunk or Treat. When they turned all those rug rats alose for the candy well I will say that I am glad I was behind my Gator.

Chief and I are looking forward to some future therapy visits as we will be on one Monday at Carolina Behavioral Health and they really enjoys us coming to visit with them.

Well I better get in the bed so I will be ready for Sunday School at 9:30 in the morning. I hope you enjoy your day of worship with God almighty. I look forward to the next time we meet.

God Bless You,

Pel

9
Oct

October in Possum Kingdom

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Well October has started off with a busy fall schedule.

Chief and I went to Greer Monday evening on a therapy dog visit and going to Carolina Behavioral is such a blessing because the folks there really appreciate us being there, we know because they tell us and we can see the smiles. Tuesday afternoon brings a softball game and of course the discussion of the evening was, why did you not bring your math book home. Of course you know us Medlocks so for punishment I refused to stop at Pete’s Of Piedmont to eat with some of the team. However I did have to celebrate her home run hit with 2 RBI, so we stopped at the drive thru at McDonald’s for an ice cream. Wednesday I had to make a trip to Anderson to my lung doctor to see if I was still sick. NP Hall state that she could no longer hear the pneumonia but I have to keep my regiment going for another week and I have to return for a lung x-ray in a month. During the examination she did observe a bruise on my left back of chest area and of course there was a discussion. I then explained that last Saturday we had a cow to give birth to a healthy bull. Well for the ones of you that don’t know it is not a good idea to have to more than one bull in the pasture and besides that a steer will bring more at market than a bull will, so when we have a bull calf born the calf will get banded. Daddy will usually catch and band the calf within the first few hours of the birth, as was the case this time. Daddy went down in the woods by himself to band this calf, he placed a rope on the calf and about this time the mama cow had a real problem with this so she charged Daddy. Daddy retreated backward as the cow rapidly approached him and then Daddy fell backward on the ground stopping just short of a large rock behind his head. The mad mama cow with her head down in the charging mode stopped just as her head reached Daddy’s chest, so close he could feel her but she never hit him. The mama cow then retreated back to her calf. Daddy then decided that since they was just behind Meleeda and Anthony’s house he would get Anthony to come and help keep the mama cow off of him while he banded the calf, this was a good theory but it quickly turned to a bad idea. The next idea was to call fat boy, me to the woods to help distract the mad mama cow. Keep in mind she is really mad by now. Abigail, Rebel and I arrived on the gator to handle this mad mama cow. I got my stick and walked over to the cow and tapped her a couple of times, she acknowledged my presence by dropping her head but it was not a greeting and after a short snort she came after me like a blow fly after a honey wagon ( septic truck). She hit me with her head as I was retreating backward which did speed up my backwards momentum and then I quickly decelerated as I struck a couple of small trees just prior to falling to the ground, losing my hat and shoe and coming to rest in a gully. The mama cow then very quickly returned to stand by the side of her new born calf. Daddy has now made an upper management decision that was if we could get the rope off the calf the calf could remain a bull. I was still trying to get the leaves out of my hat and shoe and gasping for a quick breath and was able to utter a few words of wisdom saying, I had her distracted why did Y’all not deal with the calf while I had the cow down here in the woods. Daddy and Anthony both felt I should have kept the cow occupied longer. We of course had changed our goal now from banding the calf to just trying to turn him a lose. I walked back toward the cow and she acknowledged that she was ready for round two, I too acknowledged that I did not want leaves in my hat and shoe again. Abigail also acknowledged that there were things at the house she needed to do so she left the woods for the house. We made other moves to try to get the rope off the calf but the mama cow did not take kindly to any of our motions. I then got on the gator and drove around to the other side of the cow and calf and place the gator between me and the cow, she only looked on. I parked the gator and walked to the back and as I cleared the rear of the gator she heard a voice in her head that said “Get Fat Boy” and here she came so as she dodged the gator and some trees she was lured down in the woods a few feet, but long enough for the rope to be removed from the calf. By now you have gotten wrapped in this story and forgot where I was headed with all of this. It was the fact that NP Hall saw the hide that was scraped and the bruise on my back and she wanted to know what happened. I told her the cow was trying  to shake up the pneumonia for me. She did not think that was a good treatment plan and even put me on restriction from being propelled backwards by a cow and stopped by a tree, of course I’m in favor of that. I figured that I should not excite her with any other questions so I kept my mouth shut about Justin’s game later on that day.

I got home from Anderson in time to get ready, pick up Daddy and then we went to get Abigail from school and hit the road for Justin’s ballgame in Graniteville, SC. We enjoyed the game and of course the privilege to watch Justin coach his team, the game did not turn out how we hoped but we enjoyed ourselves. The next big dilemma of course is where we should eat. We had eat at a Huddle House the last time and I just did not want to eat there again so we drove on to Edgefield and stopped at La Fogata which was in an old Hardee’s building. We opened the truck door and right away recognized the odor, it was that of chicken liter, we then observed a trailer parked in the rear that was a poultry transport trailer, it was empty of poultry but there was no question that the poultry had been there. The food was great and the smell did not find it’s way to the inside but waited outside for us. We then made it back home with out any other events.

Thursday started out kind of slow and tired but the day went well and ended up the afternoon with a 6:00 PM softball game. The girls played a good game and I agreed to the traditional supper at Pete’s Of Piedmont and the Tilapia plate is just awesome.

Sunday morning I had the honor to combine my Sunday School class with the Spiritual Workers class and our main focus for the lesson was, be sure if you say it’s in the Bible be sure it is. We were privileged to have Rev. Jimmy Smith to preach at church this morning and evening, we enjoyed worshiping God together today.

Well another week gone and as I close this post I have just observed that it is 12:10 AM so a new week has begun. I hope you have an awesome week, smile at everyone you meet and let them see the love of God in you.

God Bless You,

Pel

If you meet me and forget me you lose nothing……

If you meet my God and forget Him you lose everything…….

29
Sep

5 Years Ago

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Well most of you don’t know this but 5 years ago today I retired from Anderson County Arson Unit. Today was much like that day 5 years ago, I just had a quite uneventful day. I am proud of my time I worked as a dedicated Anderson County Fire Commission employee. I am so proud of the 27 fire departments in the county because the fire commission may have not waved good bye but the the fire departments and firefighters sure did. I have lifelong friendships that were forged and nothing can ever break them. You know one of the great things is when I retired 5 years ago I only had about six months left to live short of a liver transplant according to the doctors. I now wonder how many bets were lost as you can tell I am still here, in other words I am not writing from the grave. I will have to say that my new job, Mr. Mom is the best job but the pay not so much, kind of compares to my pay as a public servant.

Well the pneumonia is better but still here, I was however able to go to Piedmont this afternoon to watch Abigail play softball, they tied and played a great game. I am looking forward to going to North Augusta Wednesday to watch Justin’s team win again.

I am going to say good night now I think the game and travel has wore me out so I am headed to bed.

God Bless You & Good Night,

Pel

26
Sep

Happy Fall

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Well I know this is late, but not really! I wrote a post Saturday night but forgot to push the post button at the right time. I looked and looked but could not find it anywhere so I will combine Saturday’s post with this one. I first of all bragged about those Tigers.

Now all of those numbers and everything else is old news now so I won’t give you all that information again, I will just tell you how great them Tigers really are. Oh yeah I am sure you have not heard but that school that has a yard-bird on the side line got lucky on their game Saturday also.

On to other things happening. Well this mess called pneumonia is something to deal with. I feel worst now than I did last Tuesday when I went to the doctor’s office, but they say I’m doing OK. I called this morning and said I feel like, well just say the white stuff on the top of chicken poop, by the way do you know what that white stuff is?? Homework question! They told me I needed to give the medication a few more days to work,  really good pills I guess at nearly $17 each. Looks like the pills would call me and tell me I am doing better but anyway I took the last one this morning hopefully soon I’ll get that call and tell me I am better.

You know good true friends are hard to find but I sure have lucked up in my life to be surrounded by such good true friends. Just one example as I have been sick and trying to keep Abigail active has been a challenge for Claire and myself. I carried Abigail to softball practice but did not feel like staying so I came home and got a text message and it said one of the moms would bring Abigail home, Claire was busy late at one of her patient’s house, that was great news that I did not have to go back after Abigail. When the mom got her home she then explained the other arrangements she had made for Abigail for the next couple of days, she said she knew I would not feel like doing all the traveling and she is right.

Claire sure has been extra sweet to me while I have felt bad as she has been so busy with her really sick patients but has made sure everything was just perfect for Abigail and I. She has worked so hard she is still doing paperwork now so her patients and me are taken care of. I Love You, Sweetie.


The night has drawn near an end, I have woke Chief up and made him move twice and he has still not made it to his bed and Samson is just wishing we would be quite and close his crate so he can’t hear Chief snoring. I have watched the news so I know all the bad stuff that has happened today and drank my glass of Happy Cow Butter Milk, prescribed by Farmer Tom. I guess at this point there is nothing left to do but go belly up for a few hours and get ready for another day.

One last question on your journey today did you take time to tell someone about Jesus and how much he loves them. In your daily prayer ask God to give you a long crooked patch so you will have more chances to share the love of God with more people.

God Bless You,
Pel

If you meet me and forget me you lose nothing…………
If you meet my God and forget Him you lose everything…….

22
Sep

Rainy Days In Possum Kingdom

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Good Evening Everyone,

Well I guess if you are going to be sick, be sick on rainy days and you won’t feel as lazy for sitting around in the house.

Well I have been good at following most of the directions that has been ordered, I was grounded for Abigail’s Softball game on Tuesday and Justin’s Football game on Wednesday and guess what happened, both of them lost their games. As most of you know that since my transplant I have had some issues with my blood sugar. The numbers were coming down and things looking good until this week. I have not cheated much on my diet and have eaten very little of the things I should not, but yesterday after a good breakfast and eating nothing else at 2:00 PM I check my levels and it was over 400. I called my doctor and he said for me to stop the Prednisone and I did and my levels are dropping slowly. I have figured out one thing the Prednisone was working on the pain because the pain is coming back. If I am not a lot better by Friday, tomorrow I am suppose to call the doctor’s office, not sure what to do right now.

Well I guess I should say good night because Chief is resting so well I don’t want to wake him.

God Bless You,

Pel & Chief