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Happy Saturday, folks!  Our temps didn't get up nearly as high as predicted, and it was cooler yesterday.  But we do not need to be in the 80s with wind blowing as it is terribly dry here as it is.

Larry, I hope you feel the return of your energy today.  Thanks for rooting for me in the state spelling bee.  The others have backed out, so I will be the only one going from this county.  (The Sr. center pays for the top three winners of the county to go, in fact, they take us.)  The director said if I win, she gets to go to Cheyenne, and I said that's my plan, but I can't make any promises!  At least I have the courage to TRY. 

Shinenlite, that's a nice graphic.  I don't know how to do any of the fancy stuff on computer, so I appreciate others' efforts.

I just had a lovely visit on the phone with my sister Shirley.  She is so excited about going to Africa this summer.  She was called to go to Africa as a missionary when she was fourteen, but had no encouragement from the folks, so all these years later she feels as if she is being given a second, and probably last, chance.  I am still praying about going with her, need to see what happens on the home front before I can really decide.  Mom and Beth need me here.  I could leave Beth for three weeks as don't feel she is in imminent danger, but Mom is a different story.

I have decided to take a different tactic about working.  I plan to tell them I am going to RETIRE!!  If I don't get busy on Beth's book, she may get to the point where I cannot understand her speech any more; it is quite hard already, and we need to get busy on it.  Letting people know about NF, as well as telling Beth's courageous story is important, I think.

My, you all have been posting since I last posted.  That is great!!  Love it! 

Ivalou did great at rehab.  She has the same PT that she had last year.  Jen has had more training and one thing is tape for pain.  She put two strips of tape on Ivalou...her right shoulder blade and on her neck.  I don't know if it is special tape or not but it is suppose to pull the skin away from the point of pain.  Jen said Ivalou's right side and spine is full of knots where she is so tense.  The pain pills doesn't work on those knots!  But Jen thinks she can help Ivalou!!  Yay!! 

Ivalou goes to her neurologist Monday...who really hasn't done a thing for her except okay the nurse Ivalou sees to give her the pain pills!  When Ivalou tells the LP or the neurologist about the pain, they don't have a clue why she is in pain or what to do about it other than mask the pain with pain pills! 

This morning Ivalou and I went out for breakfast and then went to Dollar General.  Usually I am done first and wait in the car for Ivalou.  This time Ivalou was done first by about 5 minutes.  When I go to the cash register, Ivalou was all ready sound asleep in the car.  With these pain pills, she is fine as long as she is up and about but as soon as she sits down, she is asleep. 

I just pray that Ivalou will become the best that she can without pain and pain pills!

I think today will become a day for dusting and cleaning.  I wish it would warm up like in Georgia so I could open the windows but it is only to get to 56°...so that's a tad to cool for open windows.  But maybe I can open the front door and get some bright light in.  It is sunny and that always makes one feel better. 

This is another beautiful day.  The temps are still below zero Celcius, which slows down the runoff and also slows down the sap for maple syrup production.. The producers aren't soo pleased about that.

Pat say an explosion just off the 401 yesterday.  I am looking forward to seeing the pictures. 

John is home, came home early yesterday.  We have had a great tiime together.  He will leave late tomorrow.  them's the breaks!

Have a great day and remember "This is the day that the Lord has made....let us rejoice and be glad in it!"

With all the trouble and turmoil that is going on in the world, we need to trust our Lord and Saviour.

May each of you feel His peace as you work through your day.

Etta Sue, has Ivalou ever tried chiropractic?  Or massages?  Both of those work wonders for the type of pain you describe, and are SO much healthier for you than pain pills, which only mask the pain temporarily.  Just a suggestion, hope you (she) find something that helps.

Beth and I worked on her book today; her speech was especially clear, and I felt we made good progress!!  PTL!!

Thought I would drop in and say Hi! from a very soggy Vancouver Island.  Things are so late this year, not a happy Cherry Tree to be found.  We have been experiencing quite cold weather for this time of the year.

I had one eye done for cataracts and am having trouble seeing at the moment.  Will get the next one done in April.  Three types of drops 4x daily is the pits....guess all will be fine later.

This is a nice place to visit when the news gets too sad for words.  So I mostly come and don't post.  Glad that all is sort of okay will everyone.  What is that old saying....when we start down the other side of the hill, things get more rough!

Hope you do well in your spelling bee, Janet.  Made me think of something I read one time:

Behold the turtle.  He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

In case some of you have not seen or heard of this cute cat, thought a smile might be useful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDX7tevXO1E

Hope the link works.  Ignore the other stuff that comes with the link.  Not my choice and don't know how to cancel it out.....


God Bless,

Liz

Liz:  Great to see you posting.  And, it may take some time for your vision to get to the really correct stage.  I don't know why that happens with some people.  I do hope you are doing well. 

Judy:  Must have missed your note then went back and read about the firefighters.  Oh, my - such a sad outcome for the families and little town.  So sorry.  Prayers for all.

Our good friends left this morning after he had two days of tests & appointments at Mayo Hospital.  We were able to drive them to a quiet nearby lake in the afternoon and watched the birds & boats.  They enjoyed that & I made a picnic lunch - then, later we went to a little place for pizza and sat outdoors & watched the moon for the two nights they were here.  Talked forever and it was good.  They may not be able to come to Denver because his doctors have now told him not to fly & most planes are pressurized at our altitude so we are always ready to fly but someone from flatland might feel pressure on their heart at that altitude.  It is terribly sad.  Anyway, very grateful to have two good nights & some afternoon of a lovely visit before they return to Minnesota. 

Leftovers for dinner tonight. 

Carol - I see that I didn't ever answer you relative to the tsunsami from Japan the other day.  We didn't get any noticeable wave at all here.  I know they had some damage up at Crescent City in the harbor area.  Apparently it moved some docked boats around, resulting in some damage to them, but there was nothing here.  They supposedly evacuated some people from a place called Sunnybrae, which is the south side of Arcata, about 6 or 7 miles from here, but, as it turned out, there was absolutely no reason to do so except exagerated caution.  Better safe than sorry I guess.  Where we live we're about 4, 5 miles from the ocean with some hills in between.  Not much danger here.  If a wave ever comes over the hill, it's all over for us.

Liz, I am delighted to see your post--and thanks for the grins re the cat burglar, so cute.  Hope your eyes get better quickly.

Carol, what a wonderful hostess you are!  I'm sure your friends and family treasure their times with you.  You truly have that gift of hospitality.

I awoke early and couldn't get back to sleep, so got up.  I forgot to check out the really big full moon last night, so just went out to look, and it's still very bright.  Somehow it is comforting to see things as they have always been in memory; but even the heavenly bodies will change in these last days.......

I couldn't get online last night; must have been a problem with our server.  We were having high winds, maybe that had something to do with it.  The wind is still blowing this morning, but not hard, and I hope it doesn't get that way!

I will be back later to post a new week's Thoughts.

I'm back already!  I had a good day yesterday.  Went to see Mom and Beth, made progress on Beth's story; then came home and got a few things done, such as cutting some mats for some photos I am framing for someone in Hugoton.  Did some cleaning, etc.....isn't this just fascinating??   

I'm so glad to get the new vacuum cleaner, as my cat is shedding furiously, leaving little tufts of white fur all over, and when she sits in my lap I have a covering of cat hair!  Her undercoat is very soft, fluffy and white, and I think she has enough fur for ten cats!  No amount of combing and brushing seems to lessen the shedding.  If I didn't love her so much, I would banish her from the house until the shedding gets less..........   But I do, so I don't. 

My eldest sister who fell and broke a hip in January has just had her first knee replacement and is in rehab.  She called me yesterday and she says this knee is 10 times as bad as the hip was, in regard to the pain.  That will make it hard for her to get the other knee done, which she really needs.  She said she doesn't feel like eating, and has lost down to 125#.  Getting old surely isn't for sissies!!

Okay, guess that's all! 

Cute cat video.  Mine are inside cats but I know they wander at night.  Makes me wonder why they get into certain things. 

I do not know what got into me yesterday but I did some serious cleaning!  Even used furniture polish instead of the feather duster.  Moved furniture.  Swept the whole house.  Just wish it had been warm enough to open windows.  But it didn't get that warm.

I am already for church.  Hope I get to sit with Ivalou today.  I ran the projector four weeks in a row .  My turn to sit with the rest. 

Our Women Retreat has the theme of 'Wonder Full World'.  Seven of us ladies are talking about a continent.  We asked a teacher to get us a world map.  She couldn't find any.  Yesterday while I was getting a folding table out behind a bedroom door, I noticed a rolled up map.  I thought it was a map of the county I live in but it is a world map!!  How happy I am to help the group.

I am feeling soreness today from all the work.  Perhaps a nice Sunday afternoon nap is in store today. 

Sunny right now but clouds to the west so it won't last long.  Just hope the rain holds out until we get back home this afternoon.

Here is a goo9d way for us to start the day.  God's grace is wonderful and sustaining.  Sing along with me!

Hi everyone.  Amazing how fast the weeks roll by anymore.  We have an overcast sky this morning but still 57 degrees already.  We will go to church this morning and I expect will stop somewhere to get something to eat.  This evening we have been invited to a big birthday party for three friends at one of the friend's home.  She is making the hamburgers and hot dogs and we are taking nibbles.  Pat made up a batch of Chex mix yesterday, which she really likes.  I don't particularly care for it as it has too much garlic flavoring.

Just had a restful day yesterday.  Enjoyed watching the games and finished a book on my ebook reader about 11 pm last evening.  I will start a new book today and watch more basketball this afternoon and later this evening when we get back from the cookout.

Carol, I can understand why the doctor would not want your friend to be flying.  I had a really bad time with the altitude when we were in Denver a few years ago.  I have no intentions of ever subjecting myself to that altitude again.  My heart doctor told me that were I to move there I would eventually adjust but that isn't going to happen.  I am sure thoughts of home are in your mind a lot now as the winter comes to an end.

Etta Sue, it sounds like you an energy burst yesterday with all the cleaning.  Glad you found the map.

Janet, glad you have decided to "retire".  It sounds like you will have plenty to keep you busy and you should be able to enjoy life more.  The book you and Beth are writing sounds like it should be very good and certainly Beth has a story to tell.  Are you studying the dictionary in preparation for the "Bee"?

Al, glad you were all safe and sound in your area.  The story from Japan seems to get worse day by day.  However, yesterday I noticed the news media had a new hot crisis to take up the airwaves and Japan seems to have been forgotten. 

Liz, glad you have one of the eyes taken care of and will soon have the other.  My wife had that done this last year and it was very successful.  Sorry to hear the trees aren't pretty up your way.  Is that still to come or has the season passed?

Judy, glad that John is home for a little while.  I saw his pictures on Facebook and he dresses up just fine.  I take it that his new duties as an Ambassador have begun.  Will that mean he will not be driving as much or is that just worked into his schedule?  Thanks for posting the hymns and words of comfort.

God has given us a brand new week, upon whose pages we can mark, either for good for for evil.  May we all choose to live for Him these coming seven days (that will be a good thing, then we can continue daily!)

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