FALL FOLIAGE & RANDOM THOUGHTS

By OLIVENE GODFREY

The gorgeous colored leaf show we are having here in northwest
Georgia now promises to be well worth the wait for it. We still have a lot of green trees but we should reach the peak of the colored leaves in a week or so. The frost we had recently seems to have triggered the leaves into turning scarlet, gold and burgundy and looking like autumn has finally arrived.

I was under the weather last week and had insomnia worse than usual. By Friday night, I was exhausted and I went to bed at 7:30 P.M. and got a good night's sleep. But, I woke up very early and felt unusually chipper for an old lady. I lay on my back and stretched my arms and legs and thought it would be a good day for a change.

I got out of bed and stood up and suddenly all of my aches and pains started acting up. My cheerful mood vanished as I went through my usual routine. After a good breakfast, to my
surprise, I started feeling better and I decided to go to the supermarket with son Barry to stock up on the coming week's
groceries and supplies. I enjoyed the fall scenery as we drove into town and made it fine in the huge store until we reached the half-way mark and I felt my energy waning. We stopped at the store's pharmacy for a prescription and the friendly pharmacist gave me some materials about the new Medicare
Prescription drug plan and I am sure I will have more to say about this confusing plan later.

I still haven't got my flu shot and my doctor was very upset last week when I saw her for a mini-checkup. She was planning to call our congressman about not receiving the flu vaccine yet. I heard on T.V. last week a doctor say that one way to avoid the flu was to wash your hands often and wash them as long as it takes to sing the Happy Birthday song. I am doing that now.

See you next time.