Thanks for offering up the bail Terri, but after 30 years with this lady it wouldn't do any good. She knows me rather well. I thought I was doing good at sneaking out the past few weeks, but I must have slipped up somewhere. Ha! I certainly didn't know she had deputies out there!

I've been pretty much confined to quarters since coming home from my family reunion this past August 9th where I ended up in the hospital. I was experiencing an unexplained shortness of breath all day and into the night. When I finally agreed to go to the hospital (yes, I'm a typical stubborn male) they found a blood clot in my right lung. Without going into detail I will say they REALLY got my attention when telling me the next day that they came "very" close to losing me; and had I gone to bed (as I had planned because I thought old grandpa here was just tired) rather than the hospital (which is what my bride insisted on), that would have been it. Wow! Thank the good Lord for his blessings and that stubborn woman of mine. After an 8 day stay we took 3 days getting back to Michigan from Tennessee.
I'm fortunate that my business is only 7-8 miles away in a straight line due east of my home. I can get there by driving either on a paved main road, or a parallel gravel back road. I've used the gravel road for all my prior escapes; even with the motorcycle until she took the key. I'm not suppose to be driving because I'm on medicine to help me heal that makes me drowsy at times; even driving short distances. Monday I'm suppose to be able to "legally" go back to work. I hope my employees enjoyed their vacation from me more than I did mine from them.