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Hopefully Cleo and I will be home to read this. Cleo became ill two weeks ago today with stomach issues and we began our hospital adventure. We started out at Share Medical Center and then she was mediflighted to St Anthony’s in Oklahoma City. I want to give Dr. Rader two thumbs up. He came in after three days of treatment (two by him) on the TV and asked Cleo how she felt. Her reply was, she felt no better than when she got there. His response: if I have treated you for two days and you are no better, it is time to move up the doctor food chain. Knowing your limitations, and knowing when to ask for help are important in life regardless of what you do and is always refreshing to see it in action, especially when it pertains to Cleo‘s health.

I asked friends and family to not post on Facebook that Cleo was in the hospital, because it is like putting a big sign up saying “we are out of town, please steal from me now.“ Cleo has made me stop telling when we are going to be gone in my stories for the same reason.

A salvage yard “problem child” called me and wanted to know where I was at. When I told him “just sitting around” he wanted to know how Cleo was doing. I asked how he knew she was sick, and he told me it was all over town that she was in the hospital. So much for secrecy. I found some good stories at the hospitals, but they are for a another day.

The Wichita swap meet was this weekend, and for the first time in 40 years it was held without Cleo and me.

In the Huffington Post on Jan. 29 is an article written by Robert Kuttner called, “The Inevitability Of Impeachment.” We haven’t gotten into this presidency a month and already there is an impeachment petition with over 400,000 signatures circulating. Trump may be the first politician that people ever were upset with for keeping his campaign promises!

If you have any illusions that we had a fair election on the alcohol question 792, think again. Those not in favor had $12,846 to work with. The vote yes people had $5.3 million to work with. Wal-Mart’s contribution to the in favor of freer access to liquor was a mere $4.8 MILLION. If you think your hooch costs a lot now, wait until about half the liquor stores go broke and Wal-Mart can control the prices.

A guy is walking up the street with a 24 pack of beer thrown on his shoulder. “Hey, Joe, what’s the beer for,” his friend asked. “I got it for my wife,” was the reply. “Good trade!” his friend replied.