What's Up with Ned??

Saturday a week ago, Ned and Mr. Herman picked up Fred, a resident from another home in the area and the three of them hopped up to Columbia for a Wildlife Expo. (Ned and Fred...LOL) They had a nice time but Ned was a little concerned about the helmet that Fred was wearing. (Fred has seizures sometimes.) On Sunday morning, Ned asked Miss Vernelle, who was on duty, "What is wrong with Fred...does he have a disease?" Miss Vernelle did her best to explain. Ned's reply was, "Oh...OK...well, I'm going to be his friend." Isn't that sweet?

Ned's sweet nature departed from him briefly later in the week when LaVonia told him they were going over to one of the workshops for an afternoon of games and dancing. Ned informed her VERY matter of fact-like that he would just stay home by himself because he wasn't going to be going to work! When she told him that they were just going for the fun and he couldn't stay home by himself, he FURTHER stated, "Belle says I can stay home by myself if I want to...I'm going to talk to Belle about this!" OOPS...guess I'll have to straighten him out on that one.

Anyway, LaVonia talked him into it and said that he did play a few games but stayed very close to her the entire time. One young lady asked him to dance but he declined! Can't you just see it??

In Ned's defense, all of this is SO new to him...it will take some time to get used to all of the going and doing. Maybe we need to get him some dancing lessons...





By the way...am I the only person having trouble getting into Dancing with the Stars this time?

Back to Ned...you know he loves going to the farm and since he's only living seven minutes away now, we're fixing up one of the bedrooms for him. We're going to have the furniture from his bedroom at home refinished and take him over for a weekend every now and again. He's always enjoyed riding with Hank on the four-wheeler, which was unfortunately stolen from the shed by some nimrod a year or so ago. Hank thinks that replacing it with a four wheel drive golf cart would be a better choice for Ned. We were talking to Ned the other day about this and how he could learn to drive it. Oh HECK NO!!! He says he's not driving ANYTHING. (Are you starting to see the stubborn streak?)

Ned has a tendency to talk to himself when he gets a little riled up...actually, he could be talking to "somebody" that we can't see but generally, it seems that he's either trying to talk himself INTO or OUT OF something. On the afternoon of the golf cart discussion, he went into the back bedroom and we were able to catch snippets of his "conversation"...NO. You can't drive a golf cart...traffic on the road...get hurt...nooooo.....not going to learn to drive....lawnmower...have a wreck.....can't....don't want to....not going to....tractor....got to find the four wheeler...not driving anything...

As Hank says...sometimes it isn't good to give Ned too much forewarning about things.