2006 June's Adventures Lora's Journal

Sunday, June 18, 2006

We arrived in Florida early. The Welcome Center was beautiful. I love the Palm Trees and other tropical plants. We were all very sleepy. We checked into RMH at 7:45AM. 

(They had three beanie babies on the bed for them.)

We ended up at Arnold Palmer Hospital because Meadow continued to vomit and did not feel well. Marcus also Goa an ant bite plus his left foot swelled on top and got are and puffy. The doctor decided not to admit Meadow. He told me if she did not get better to bring her back. She had Ketones 4 in her urine. She also had a very low CO2 (8?). Marcus got a dose of Clindamycin & an RX.

We also gave him Benadryl. That concluded our first day in FL. Pokie had to check out the hospital facilities to make sure they were suitable.

Clindamycin is used to treat bacterial infections. This medicine may be given to patients who have had an allergic reaction to penicillin. Clindamycin will not work for colds, flu, or other virus infections.

Monday, June 19, 2006

On our first day at Ability & their Meadow met Roberta her PT. She is very good with Meadow. Meadow fussed a lot when placed in a position she did not like. She looked so cute in the little suit! We got some pictures. We went to Steak & Shake for lunch. It was our first day at Dr. Bradstreet’s office for HBOT. I got in the chamber with Meadow. She got in the soft tank. They gave her Baby Einstein DVDs to watch. She fell fast asleep. However, I thought my head was going to explode. My ears started stopping up and pressure shot like a sharp pin down behind my ears and my neck. I got on the walkie-talkie and said, “How long is this pain gonna last?” She told me to hold my nose and blow. The pressure was not relieved. Then I got hot and felt like I was having a panic attack. She told me to face toward the end where the air was blowing and once it was fully pressurized, the pain should stop. When it was fully pressurized, I felt better. I laid my head and took the best nap I have had in a long time. In the afternoon, we went back to the RMH and had supper. We ate vita, salad, & brownies. The kids played in the playroom and we went to sleep. We went to Melbourne Beach after therapy. The kids loved the ocean. They played in the waves and sand. Madison found some seashells. Meadow liked the water too. The kids got more beanie babies.

Meadow suited up for Therapy

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Madison woke up vomiting. She slept all morning. We went to therapy. Meadow was much better today and more tolerant of the therapy. She likes to jump in the spider. Marcus and I boxed with Hulk gloves. Madison lay on the floor on Elmo's mat and slept. Mom got in the HBOT Chamber with Meadow. I slept on the couch in the playroom with Madison. I little boy jumped up on top of me while I was sleeping and I thought it was Bucko! We went to RMH after all therapy because Madison was sick. The Belles & Beaus of Chiropractic Club of Orlando had a Hawaiian lei feast with chicken curry rice, salad, fruit delight, and a veggie tray. Delaney took Marcus for a ride in her wheelchair at the RMH.

Kids enjoying the waves at Melbourne Beach 

Meadow's second day of therapy

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Madison felt better this morning. 

 We took Meadow to their suit therapy. Marcus played on the game cube. We went to lunch at Olive Garden. We then went to HBOT. I got in the chamber with Meadow and took a nap. I still felt the pressure. I was not as anxious this time because I knew what to expect. We went to Andretti Thrill Park and rode on the go-karts. This man took us on a train ride. I did not think he was ever going to stop! We rode the bumper boats again, Marcus rode with a teenage girl, and Madison rode with a teenage boy! We had fun. Marcus played a game where he shot a rifle and a butt popped up with blue jeans on but you could see his crack! It was hot outside. The kids are making friends at RMH.

Day three of therapy

Thursday, June 22, 2006

 Today at Suit Therapy, Meadow was cranky. She woke up early this morning. Zach is the other child getting therapy from the other PT. She is from Holland. Zach is autistic. He is seven years old. After therapy, we went to an authentic Italian Restaurant. We ordered a pizza with spinach, mushrooms, and Pepperonis. Granny went into the chamber with Meadow today and Madison talked to Granny on the walkie-talkie. 

 After HBOT, we went to Dixie Stampede. We got there early and went through the horse stables. There was a white horse with spots and a big albino horse. Then we went inside. The lobby had a huge painting with a big buffalo and horses on it. Then we went to the carriage room. Mrs. Dixie played it again Sam performed. There was a magic show, too. In the main arena, we had a huge dinner. Madison and Marcus got a call (Meadow was announced up) to the arena for the Northside to chase chickens. Bucko was the first one to make it. They both got ribbons and medallions. After the show, the cast called us down for a VIP meeting for pictures. The girls all wanted to hold Meadow. We went into the center arena and took pictures. One of the crewmembers gave the kids coloring books. The host gave Meadow a ribbon like Maddie & Buckoes. They told me they were going to mail us a picture and they were all going to sign it. We had a good time!

Day at Therapy

Madison and Marcus at Dixie Stampede

The picture with the Dixie Stampede Group

Friday, June 23, 2006

 Meadow was worn out after her first week of therapy. We went to Winter Park and watched a live Marionette performance of “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” The owner of the Marionette Theaters was the man that played Howdy Duty and Bozo the Clown. We met them both. The show was good and we sat right up front. 

 Pinocchio’s Marionette Theater 

 A non-profit organization 

 Presents 

ALADDIN and the Wonderful Lamp 

Book and lyrics by David Eaton 

June 3, through Aug 26, 2006

525 S. Semoran Blvd. Winter Park Florida 

www.Pinocchios.net

Aladdin with Lora and Meadow 

Saturday, June 24, 2006

We went to the Orlando Science Museum and spent the entire day. 

 It had six floors. The first floor had a nature center with alligators and turtles. It also had Kids Town  (hands-on-Kids-center) we watched three Cinedome IMAX movies, Wild Safari, Greece, and Star Quest. We went inside Hugh's mouth and walked through the walls of the digestive system. We went through the Dinosaur Center. There was a center with monster heads, electricity, and a space center. Then we went to the top where there was a planetarium. It was a fun day.

Lora, Meadow, Marcus, and Madison at RMH

Science Center Going through the Digestive System 

Sunday, June 25, 2006

 We went to Gatorland there were alligators and crocodiles all around, big, small, and babies. Madison and Bucky held an alligator and a python snake. They had their picture made while holding them. We watched Gator Wrestling, Later Jumparoo, and Close Encounters. We rode the train through the swamp area. There were all kinds of species of large birds nesting and alligators nesting. It started pouring down rain.

Marcus holding an alligator at Gator Land 

👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳2017 March 4, Saturday, Burritt Museum, Cooking on the Mountain Huntsville, Alabama

From 11:00-1:15PM, I was at the Burritt on the Mountain, they were having an event called Fire on the Mountain.

Blacksmiths

Blacksmiths

Demonstrators were engaged in open-hearth cooking throughout the park in different cabins.  

I sampled a biscuit with homemade Apple Butter, & Chocolate cake. 

Other demonstrators were cooking sweet potato pie, roast, and blackberry pie either in open hearths or old cookstoves. 

Demonstrators cooking biscuits on an open hearth

Cooking Chocolate Cake

Cooking on Cook Stove

None of the cabins had utilities, just like our ancestors. 

The Blacksmith demonstrators gave the public a chance to see history in the making. 

A child was asked what happens when the rods get hot? She replied it softens.

The buildings I visited were the Meals Cabin, built-in 1845, the Gardiner Cabin in 1845, the Candler House, the Smoke House, the Bernstein Spring House, the Joel Eddin’s House, the Smith Williams House 1969, the Burritt Barnyard 1890, the BlackSmith Shop 1860, the Sorghum Mill and Furnace, the Balch House and the Madison Church 1884.

Barnyard Animals

The Burritt Mansion was the last building that I toured. 

Two rooms of the mansion were dedicated to Maria Howard Weeden’s, paintings, poems, and art. 

Weeden Art 

Burritt Mansion 

Inside the mansion, I saw a Music Box 

Burritt's Desoto 

I traveled down Monto Santa Mountain to VBCC in Huntsville, where I was going to the home and Garden Show.

I bought my ticket and was given a bag to fill with goodies.

I talked to several vendors, collected a few items, and walked back to my car. 

I had to cross over to Big Spring Park where I saw goldfish swimming. 

GoldFish in Big Spring Pond

Called hubby and they said to meet me in Rogersville for the first Saturday Fish Fry.

Our meal consisted of one piece of fried catfish, four jumbo shrimp, fries, coleslaw, onion, two deep-fried hush puppies, and a drink.

Catfish Meal 

We bought two boxes of Girl Scout Cookies as we were leaving the Fire Department. 

After a full day of driving, walking, and eating I was ready for relaxing. 

A long hot shower stretched out on the sofa. 

Demolition to Construction

Demolition of Madison Square Mall Huntsville

Demolition of Madison Square Mall Huntsville

Demolition began on February 6, 2017, and this is what it looks like at the end of February.
Sears and JC Pennys were the last of the stores to close. It may take up to six months to complete the demolition. 
RCP Company will be developing the new MidCity at this location by 2021.

Brandon School Florence, Alabama Demolished
1899 Brandon School was named for Industrialist Charles M. Brandon 

Brandon School Demolished
1861 Sixth Ward School east of present Brandon Ministries Center site.

Once the demolishing is completed, the construction of a new Florence Hospital will be built on this site. Officials said that it could take up to 32 months to complete. 

The old ECM Hospital will not be torn down but will be replaced with the new occupant

Construction of large-scale entertainment, a sports complex in Foley, Alabama 

Construction of  large-scale entertainment, and sports complex in Foley, Alabama  

Developers BC Foley LLC purchased more than 500 acres on the city's south side from Woerner Beach Express LLC for about 12 million dollars. The property is at the northwest corner of Foley's Beach Express and Baldwin County 20, near McDonald's. 

Coffee High School Florence before demolishing 

FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) - In just a few short months, Florence City Schools will begin one of the largest building projects in recent history.
The current Florence Middle School and former Coffee High School is set to be razed and a modern middle school will be constructed in its place.
More than 50 years of wear and tear are certainly noticeable in the hallways of Florence Middle School. At near capacity and facing millions of dollars in repairs, the Florence School Board decided to tear down and start over

Demolition of Kmarts

Demolition of K-Mart, making room for Academy Sports

Tompson Station Tennessee Road Construction 

The Town of Thompson’s Station is working with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) on a re-design of the State Industrial Access (SIA) Road (State Route 6/Columbia Pike/Highway 31) leading to the entrance of the planned Phase 2 expansion of Mars Petcare’s Research and Development facility

🎂🎂🎂 2017 February 20, Celebrating Washington's Birthday Montevallo, Alabama

Hubby and I celebrated Washington's Birthday in Montevallo at the American Village.
George Washington came out of Washington Hall at 12:00PM gave a speech and everyone sang happy birthday to him.
People lined up to receive a free cupcake but there were not enough cupcakes to go around.

Celebrating Washington's Birthday

The exterior of the hall is inspired by George Washington's beloved Mount Vernon. It has beveled-edge block walls. When mixed with paint and sand it gives the appearance of stone masonry, a process called "rustication".

The unique open-air colonnade walkways to the dependency buildings were personally designed by Washington. The four-columned portico is reminiscent of the piazza on the back of Mount Vernon, which overlooks the Potomac. The large Palladian window in The Mount Vernon Room is defined by the arched window, 

Greatest Miniature Museum 

Hall of Presidents and First Ladies

Founders Hall

We visited Colonial Chapel where we listen to a story about a slave who wrote poetry 

We strolled through the Liberty Bell Garden

The Liberty Bell 

The Liberty Bell was commissioned on November 1, 1751, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn’s Charter of Privileges for his Pennsylvania colony. The radical charter granted religious liberty to persecuted faiths, including Quakers, Jews, Catholics, and others, thus establishing America’s tradition of religious freedom.

The Bell cracked when first tested. 

Two local foundry men recast The Bell and it began service in 1753 tooling special events. In the Revolutionary War, The bell tolled to announce the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the first public reading goes The Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776.

It cracked again on July 8, 1835, during the funeral procession of Chief Justice John Marshall. It was repaired but cracked again in 1846 when it rang for George Washington’s birthday. It has not been rung since. It was not called “The Liberty Bell” until 1839 when William Lloyd Garrison’s anti-slavery publication, “The Liberator” published a poem about the Bell. This use by advocates of the anti-slavery movement made The Bell a new symbol of freedom.

We strolled through the fields of Tulips selecting a few to take home.

Oval Office We visited the Oval Office located in the West Wing of the White House where the last 45 presidents have spent many hours working. We saw a bust of Abraham Lincoln, & Ronald Reagan.  Pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, a group of Ford, Carter, Bush, Nikon, and Reagan. Books are written by various presidents. 

The Resolute desk is a large, nineteenth-century partners' desk mostly chosen by presidents of the United States for use in the White House Oval Office as the Oval Office desk. It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the English oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship Resolute. 

We saw two little girls sharing a seat at Independence Hall

 Montevallo University ranked 13th best public university in the south in its division U.S. News & World Report
College of Distinction
2012*2013*2014*2015*2016

Helping Hands 
The Becoming Sculpture was created by Ted Metz, a University of Montevallo art professor. The sculpture, 16 feet tall and made of bronze, was unveiled on February 15, 2003. The pedestal underneath the sculpture is made of limestone and red bricks. The sculpture depicts two hands: a young hand representing university students reaching out toward the future, and an older hand representing the university itself guiding the student to that future. The separation between the hands represents the student’s graduation. The older hand was modeled after Metz’s own hand, while the younger hand was modeled after one of his student’s hands. The sculpture was created on campus by about 40 university students under the direction of Metz and took 22 months to complete. Approximately 90 individual molds were cast using 5000 pounds of bronze. The sculpture stands near Main Hall and Wills Hall.

We visited the Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo 
Initial construction began in November 2008 and created space for 1,000 casket burials and 1,000 in-ground cremations. Except for minor irrigation work, construction was completed in early June 2009. The grounds were consecrated on June 18, 2009, one week before burials.

Ate a Nacho Supreme for dinner

It was a great day for traveling.
We were home by 6:30PM