took quite a few in this last visit to my parents' house, and uploaded some that have been sitting on our camera for awhile...
so, the new ones are in photos/2004-aug, the older are in photos/2004-mayjune, and photos/2004-july is going to stay the way it is, with just four pics in it (from the dead body in the suv incident), i have already linked to those pics, so, it is a bit late to change it...

anyway, i will comment on some, but not all of the new pics, so, to see them all, follow the links above...
more importantly, this will be a two-part post... i am posting one part and miss mary is posting the other, so, be sure to read her post as well... (i will remind you of this again at the end of this post, btw...)


firstly, from the mayjune subdir, the laserdisc turtle...

i cannot find this image on the net, oddly enough, so, i took a pic of it on our tv... for those not in the know, laserdiscs that only used one side of a disc had this turtle on the other side, as the message in the pic suggests...

and now on to the more recent pics...


this is the view from my parents' back yard... these are the sorts of pics that make me crazy that i still don't have a real digital camera...

the reason i went down was to help out while my mom was in hospital, all the pics from the hospital are in the photos/2004-aug subdir and are labelled "GCRMC" (gerald champion regional medical center), but, here are a few i wanted to comment on...


she did not have a private room like dad did, and there was usually someone in the other bed... that can really ruin your day... one was a woman in moaning pain, the next was a woman with gasping-for-air attacks... mom does really well in the hospital and surgery, so, at times we were more concerned about the person in the next bed...


the smoking patio... i have spent much time here during my now two hospital visits... smoking is not really allowed on the grounds of the hospital anywhere, but, this is where staff sneaks away to and a nurse pointed it out to me during my first trip...
you get to meet staff and other family members who are visiting, so, needless to say, you hear some very sad stories...


this is mom on the last day, waiting to be released... she had her gall bladder removed (same as dad did back in march) and, as usual, bounced back remarkably... she's a real trooper...


waiting to be released is boring... they say you are leaving today, then you have to wait for paperwork to be done...

i think that was all the ones i wanted to comment on, you can see the rest of the pics at the links at the top of this post... or just go to our photos, which are all grouped by date...

i was there about two weeks and miss mary was there with me for the last week or so, and, on our last day, we went to white sands national monument and took a couple pics...
as i said above, this is a two-part post, miss mary will tell the white sands story and show the pics, it was her first time there and it was a magnificent experience...