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I went out to the rain guage when I got home a while ago, and it says we only got 3/8 inch of rain.  But we are SO grateful for that much, and are praying more will follow!

Another busy day, last session of The Dust Bowl Revisited, which has been interesting.  Ulysses was near the middle of the very worst of the dust bowl, so it is well remembered here.

Beth got.........drum roll.......FOUR DOZEN ROSES today from.....you guessed it!  John.    I told her I am jealous, I don't think I have received four dozen roses in my lifetime, let alone all at once!   

He had ordered two dozen for her for Easter and they weren't delivered, so the company replaced them, and she got both batches today.  They are various colors, just gorgeous.  Some were pretty wilted, after being in transit for a week.

Etta Sue, I'm glad your sister was okay!

We are going to Garden City tomorrow.  I need at least two days at home to catch up on some things!

Judy, Pat and Etta Sue, please chase those clouds over here!  Thanks!

We need the rain clouds to linger a little longer here.  They just split and go to the east but we did have a little last night & a trace of snow.  32 degrees this morning. 

Al:  How are you and Marbeth faring?  I hope you two are well and did enjoy a sweet Easter morning. 

4 dozen roses!  That is so wonderful.  Take pictures - frame that picture. 

Kitchen is ready for tomorrow.  I would not want to count the times that I have prepped the kitchen area for the next morning.  It is automatic.  A robot could do this.  Oh, well - grateful that I can still do such things. 

Glad that many had a nice Easter.  I was ill and spent it in bed, so missed out on the turkey, etc.  There is always next year......

We are having lots of rain, with the occasional visit by the sun.  I am going to Victoria to the eye dr. tomorrow and hope it will be one of the nicer days.  Hope this will be my last check on the new lenses...drops will stop soon and that makes me glad.  They tend to make me ill.  Nice to see clearly again and great to walk around without wearing glasses

Sorry about all the terrible storms and fire in the US.  We have a lot of shaking going on here at the moment.  More homes being built in back of us and worried about the foundation on this house.  The shaking caused a lovely  mirror in the kids bathroom to fall and break and damage the wall, and the lovely new counter by their sink.  This is not going to be a peaceful summer!

Here is a very small smile....

A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire, it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed,  taking this all in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!" 

Time to go.  God Bless.

Liz

Liz, I'm so happy to read your posts from time to time. 

We had three tornadoes (small ones) touch down in our area.  Two were just south of Kitchener and one was in Fergus.  (North of Guelph)

I shut down early last night because of a sudden thunderstorm and storms continued through the night.  They seem to have moved on to our east, but it's still very dark.  Unbelievable devastation in other parts of the country. 

Hi everyone.  I expect some of you have seen the news about the tornados in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.  We are fine and our area escaped untouched.  It was a very scary night in Georgia and I followed the storm until 2 am when the tornado warnings were cancelled for our area.  There were many deaths in North Georgia but none right around here.  The storms went north of us and also south of us.  We ended up with a little bit of rain about 2 am but didn't hear any wind or hear strong thunder.  The local TV stations stayed on all evening with the weather and following the various cells that were spawning the tornados and terrible weather.

We are headed to Atlanta shortly to spend some time today with our daughter and to take her the food that Pat has prepared for her.  She got a different refrigerator in her apartment yesterday and this one has a shelf in her freezer, which will be nice and a shelf in the freezer door.  We will eat across the street from her place at the Shepard's Spinal Center as they have a good cafeteria.  Not looking forward to the drive down and back but the trip today is a must.

Thanks for asking, Carol.  It was a good weekend.  I did a dramatic reading of one of the old hymns regarding the triumphant resurrection of our Lord.

Thanks for asking...still have the head congestion, runny nose then stopped up nose, sneezing and wheezing.  Need to go to CVS for more meds. 

Lots of wind around 12:30am.  I got up.  I could hear sun catchers rattling on the windows....never heard that before.   I turned on The Weather Channel and saw that Indiana was still in a watch.  Then I turned on WTHR (local TV station) on Droid and saw that the watch was lifted at 1am.  I went back to bed at 1:30am. 

I have a couple of nieces in Ohatchee, Alabama...north of Anniston.  They have been without electric since yesterday morning.  Bad storms yesterday morning...then a lull...then the tornadoes last evening.  Laura was home alone when a tornado went over their house.  She said she had never heard such a noise before.  In their front yard is a roof...probably from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Her Mother got home and in the house.   They may not get electric for a week or more!  I think I heard there were 68 deaths in Alabama.  Not sure.

I plan to sweep this house today.  Then possibly this evening I will go to Kitty's.  She is having computer problems.  She is making a movie to put on DVD's for her 50th Class Reunion.  A guy sent her pictures but she had to download Picassa and then all her pictures downloaded into Picassa instead of PHotoShop.  Default changed.  She couldn't open those photos in PHotoShop...wrong file name.  So she un-installed Picassa and now she can't even access her photos on her external drive.  She sure gets herself in a pickle!  I don't know if I can help her or not but I usually can.  Sounds like she needs an Image Converter to change the file name.  And change her defaults back to PhotoShop.  If she lost 'her' photos, I can't help her there.

It is still quite windy here today and bright and sunny.  My WeatherFX says rain today and sunny tomorrow.  I need to mow today or tomorrow. 

Lilacs are here.  Narcissus gone.

Remember Jerry, the Gabby one?  He has been gone 6 years today.  I really miss him.  His signature is all over this house.  A great handy man!

Oh, yes!  CP is fast today!  Yay!

Six years, Etta Sue!  That's almost unbelievable.  

Larry, do you happen to have Joan Grimes telephone number?  If so, could you PM me?

We went to Garden City today for some stuff.  Got two new ceiling fans for the bedroom; I got some photos printed at Walmart.

SO sad about the terrible tornados in the South, so many deaths, news tonight said 280..and such devastation of property.  We have so very much for which to thank God.

The Word says in the last days everything that can be shaken will be shaken.....and boy!  It is shaking!

Larry, hope you had a good and safe trip to Atlanta and home.  We picked up several items for our daughter today, too.  When I took them in to her, she was talking to John on the phone.

Carol, tomorrow I plan to take more vases in and divide up Beth's roses, so I can get some nice photos of them.  They are just jammed into the vases and can't be seen properly.  She always wants pictures of the things John sends.  

Liz, so sorry to hear that you have been feeling poorly.  Hope you have bounced back by now.  Sad to hear they are continuing so much construction around you.  Going to get too crowded for comfort soon, I would think.  I enjoyed your little smile for the day!  Thanks.  

Etta Sue, I hope you were able to help Kitty out.  I just won't try  too many things on the computer because I'm afraid I will mess things up royally.

And speaking of ROYAL, how many of you are getting up in the wee hours of the morning to watch the royal wedding?  

I'm off to work on the book for a while!

More heavy rain warnings today  and for the weekend.  We don't need it wish we could send it to Sarah and Janet!

Yes, Janet!!!  I'm getting up.

No I will watch the reruns.

IT IS SNOWING!!! This weather is unbelievable.  The creek is about 1 foot away from overflowing the bank.  This is a creek that is usually about 3 inches deep and now is about 4 feet deep. Perhaps with this cool down it will give the waterways a chance to lower.

I had a great time with my friend on the trip to Toronto.  It was a great time of fellowship and fun.

I left the TV in my room on and kept waking up to the prelims of the wedding.  Woke up at 6 and watched.  Her dress was wonderful.  The wedding was typical Windsor elaborate.  I am heading back to bed when the girls leave.

Hi everyone.  It looks like we will have a nice sunny day today.  My main activity today is to go to the Senior Center and the Golden Games Rummikub event.  Pat is also going.  It starts at 9 am and last year I was done by 10 am as wasn't the winner at our table.  If you win (have the lowest score because you have used all of your tiles and the others must count the points on their tiles they haven't played to the table).  We play three games during the first round.  It is a simple game but fun and you meet new people.  Then I have the rest of the day to myself.

We did have a nice trip to Atlanta, although the traffic was really slow for the first part of the trip on the Interstate.  We did go across the street to eat and have a time to visit with our daughter.  They have a nice cafeteria with the tables spread out as many in wheelchairs come there to eat with friends and family when they are able.  I tried to put in a wireless router for her but I hadn't included one of the cables needed so that didn't work.  Pat stocked up her refrigerator so she should be eating well for several days.   

Our daughter seems to be feeling better and said the infected place on her foot was looking better.  She will see the foot doctor again next week as well as the diabetic doctor.  Her blood sugar is in the 200's.

Pat, I don't have a phone number for Joan Grimes.

Judy, Pat and others in Canada, I saw just a bit of the recessional after the wedding on the news this morning and then the ride in the carriage to Buckingham Palace.  It was quite a show of pomp and pageantry.  I thought it was nice that the Queen didn't want to upstage her grandson and his new bride. 

Judy, you sure have a lot of snow.

Janet, isn't it wonderful that John is in Beth's life as sure that gives her a lift when she talks with him.  Great idea on the roses to spread them out.

Etta Sue, sorry to read that you are fighting the sniffles and cold symptoms.  I don't know why using Picassa would mess up Kitty's pictures as it simple finds all of the pictures on your computer and displays them in an easy to use arrangement.  It doesn't change the files location or their properties.  I am confident you did or will be able to make sense of it again for her. 

Al, I would like to have heard your reading. 

I have a Bible application on my iTouch for the Bible for YouVersion that is great.  It has many different versions of the Bible, some of which you can download the whole Bible to your phone and a number of them also have audio with them so you can listen to the Bible being read as you read along.  I am using the NIV version and the audio feature is there and it sounds like Alexander Scorby (may not have that spelled right) is the reader.  Pat, I remember when you got the tapes or CD's ( I don't remember which) that I found for you at the Christian Book Store.  There are also Android versions from this sight.  I couldn't figure out how the bookmark was set so wrote them a brief e-mail and heard back within three or four hours with the answer. 

I haven't watched the wedding yet.  I recorded it so I will watch it Live on the recording.  I have already received a picture of them kissing in an email.  What I could see of the dress, it is beautiful...as most wedding dresses are. 

I didn't go to Kitty's.  I opted out.  I did get more meds at CVS and stopped at Dollar General for some necessities but called her and told her I thought I had better stay home and baby this cold. 

Kitty emailed me and let me know that when she got home yesterday the furnace people were there to fix their furnace.  She couldn't get the garage door open by the outside remote.  Her key doesn't work on any door in the house...five doors.  She called Bob who was in Kokomo and he said to use the remote in the car!  Duh!  Since the furnace guy was in front of the garage door, she didn't think of using the remote in the car.  Bless her heart!

On my Droid, I use the YouVersion Bible also.  Love it!  Use it every day.  Worth the extra money just for the Bible.  That's what I use for Sunday School with my Bose speakers!  The sound is fabulous.  I like the New Living Translation...most of the time, it is different voices for different people...a woman for a woman, etc.

Today is rehab and my mammogram.  Then I hope to mow the grass.  With all this rain, the grass has really grown, as well as the leaves have come out and the Lilacs are in bloom!! 

And sometime, I need to watch the big wedding. 

I have the Live Bible on my phone and use the Amplified Version.

I have been absent from this forum for a couple of days. I am looking forward to the reactions of both pregnant grand daughters when they  get the afghans  I  made for them tomorrow at the baby shower. I sent them to my Daughter in law to give to them  at the shower. Imagine the surprise when they get a gift from the grandma one has never met and the other hasn't seen in 20 years.

All is well with our family members in North Carolina. My son was on Facebook and I called my Sister in law last evening.

I didn't get up in time to watch the wedding. but I did turn on the TV at 5:30 when I woke up. That was just before they came out on the balcony.

Gotta run now time to go to the gym.

I have spent some time reading all that I missed in the past few days.  Yes we are still getting rain but truly I am expecting this until at least the first day of summer, why do I say this the wind was out of the east and yes we had rain on the first day of spring. For sometime we have been paying attention to what the first day of the new season brings and that is what we seem to get all the way through to the next season.

Last evening we went to bed and set the alarms for the Royal Wedding then after the wedding back to bed  for several more hours of rest.  A memory to last our life time.

I have to get a letter in the mail.  So while I am still awake I must go. 

Etta Sue, hope you are feeling a lot better today!

I called grandson Curtis this morning to ask him if it were possible to make some changes in the text of my book SIMPLY on the computer.  YES!!!  So simple, if only you know what to do!  I need to write all those instructions in a notebook so I can find them again when needed.  By all, I mean not only these but lots of others he and Mark have helped me with over the years.

I did take two more vases, divide up the roses and get some good pictures of Beth with them.  They are still in pretty good shape, and getting lots of the bottom leaves off and giving them more room will help them to last longer.

Yes, Larry, John is a great blessing in Beth's life.  He gives her the will to keep on going when things are tough.  And he says she is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to him, so they are both happy!

I did NOT get up to watch the wedding.  I don't think I would get up at that hour to watch my own wedding!    But I can understand those with ties to England being interested in it.  We don't have royalty here, though.  And when I did get up, at 5, I watched something else, after my prayer time.

Tomorrow we are driving down to Campo, Colorado, to attend my high school alumni event.  I haven't been there in several years and am looking forward to it.

Beautiful here today, except it is windy--not too bad, though.

Hello, Hopefully that is carried by the wind to all of you. We were doing good then a fire started ... Still dry even with the rain we got earlier in the week. Luckily the fire is NW of here and the wind is blowing out of the SE so it will only go away from us and even if the wind would change direction it would get stuck in the riverbed (many times used to drive a fire to containment. Since our rivers in the area have no water then the beds are used to fight out of control fires by driving them into the bed and then controlling the flames from coming up and out of the bed until they can get complete control. Besides that it is easier to fight a fire uphill then downhill at least that is what the fire fighters say. I must be off her and monitor the radio for any EMS needs since there are only a few of us left in town to run the ambulance. Everyone have a good evening and I hope this all "blows" over soon.
Sarah

And, I hope it blows over for you, too, Sarah. It's such a great thing when you have a moment to post. Your messages inspire me.

I, too, enjoyed watching the wedding events. And the choral music was just heavenly to my ears.

A good eye doctor appointment caused me to stop and thank our Lord for all His goodness.

I, too, am praying for all those involved in the storm damage and loss.

Ruth Ann

We had snow this morning then some rain.  The Lord answered prayer and the rain stopped, the sun came out and the rest of the day was beautiful.  The creek has gone down, and our road is safe, as is the main road.  

I did watch most of the wedding, it was wonderful to see.  From the reports it will be going on still!  Prince Harry has an order in for breakfast for all at 6:00 am.  That is too long a day for me!

I have a Birthday Party to prepare for in the morning, so I will be absent for most of the day and evening.  Have a great weekend everyone.

Hi everyone.  We had a most beautiful day yesterday, a bit chilly, but sunny and nice.  Pat and I did play Rummikub as planned.  I managed to win the first round at my table, which put me in the second and final round, but didn't win in that round.  I then had a quiet afternoon and did quite a bit of reading.  I also found that on Netflix they now have available all 275 episodes of Cheers, which I always find amusing.  So I am starting at the beginning to watch them, maybe a couple a day. 

Today we have a busy morning and then things should be quieter for the rest of the day which I plan to spend resting and reading, etc.

Ruth Ann, glad to hear your eye appointment went well.  When will you get your new glasses?

Judy, I expect a lot of people over the world lost sleep because of the royal wedding.  I can't even imagine planning for such an elaborate affair and pulling it all off on time.  I expect many people were at work to accomplish that.  I agree they make a very handsome couple and just hope they will have a long and faithful marriage.

Sarah, was glad to see you all finally had some rain.  Hope the fires can be brought into control soon.

Janet, one of the things most of us forget to do when we don't know who to do something on the computer is to look at the help section of the program.  Another very effective way, often with videos showing things step-by-step is to do a good search starting with "how to..."  Hope you have a wonderful day at your class reunion.  I am not even sure my high school is having reunions anymore since it has been 52 years since the last class graduated.  That was the class I was in.  After having me as a student they decided to close the school. 

Hi Ruth.  It seems the seasons are going by quickly anymore.  This has been a wet spring for us.

Marilyn, I hope your granddaughters will cherish the afghans you made for them and that it helps reestablish a relationship.

Etta Sue, hope you are feeling better this morning.  Sometimes we forget to do the obvious, such as Kitty did with the garage door opener.  Did you have to pay for your YouVersion program on the Droid?  Perhaps it was the particular version you wanted but mine was free, but certainly worth paying for.

Yesterday evening about 8:30 our son called to tell us we were great grandparents again.  This is our granddaughter's fourth child.  I found they had sent a couple of pictures of the new baby with the parents this morning.  The baby weighted 9lbs 10.8 oz and 22 inches long and was named (are you ready for this) Hawk Zombie.  I will bite my tongue and not say anything to them but can't imagine naming a child this, especially the second name.  Guess it is a different world we live in than when we had our children.

Larry, I would need to not only bite my tongue but swallow it on hearing that name for such a precious little bundle of the Lord's blessing!  What can they be thinking of?    

The rain stopped, the sun came out and the water in my immediate area retreated somewhat.  Our trip out of town turned out to be non-eventful.  The drive had directions for roads away from the flooding areas and traveled without mishap.  The Lord does look out for his own.  

Today the sun is shining and it may go from a low of 38 this morning to mid fifties this afternoon.  Then tonight it may get below freezing again but tomorrow will be even warmer.  

May our God have mercy upon tlhem, Larry!

Hawk Zombie!!  I would have to call him H.Z.  That's worse than Etta Sue!  But I have grown to like my name.  I can't imagine what these parents were thinking about.  What are the other kids names?  Are the parents goth?

And yes, the YouVersion Bible is free on Droid also.  The only thing I don't like about the audio part is the sound always starts at verse 1.  But I have learned that I can listen to the sound to where I want to start, say verse 19, stop the sound and leave the Bible on Droid and shut off Droid.  (Don't close out the Bible)  Then when I turn it back on and all I need to do is start sound again  and I am at verse 19.  I do this for the Sunday School class.

I downloaded an Audio Dictionary that pronounces the word but I am thinking it is a free trial and will have to pay for it if I want to keep it.  Just looked.  I have Cambridge Advanced Dictionary version 2.1.  It is version 3+ that costs.  We will see in two days when the trial period is over.  I looked up the word 'epistle' this morning.  The 't' is silent.  Didn't know that.

I didn't mow yesterday.  I saw by two weather reports that it is to be warmer today and partly sunny (cloudy but sunny sounds more positive).  So I am hoping to mow this afternoon.  It is partly sunny but not near 70+ degrees yet!

Kitty and Bob came last evening.  I have two mowers and I checked the oil on the oldest one after mowing last week...no oil showed on the stick.  I have never put oil in either mower and Tony is so busy working.  So Bob came and put oil in the mower for me.  Now I can do it.  This stems from Ivalou putting oil in her Cadillac years ago but put it where the transmission fluid was to go.  I'm a homemaker...not a mechanic!

I am feeling somewhat better today.  I slept so good last night.  Needed that.  I am one that needs a lot of sleep...8-10 hours a night but I can also catch up on lost sleep!  My eyes are still watering.  Mostly in the morning but I don't think that is cold related...something else going on. 

Ivalou asked me yesterday if there was something she could type on and then print it out that doesn't cost a lot?  She gets calls on the phone, writes it long-hand and then can't read it.  If she could type it and print it, it would be better.  I thought of an audio reminder.  She could say it into a recorder and play it back.  Maybe even ask the person that called to repeat it while on speaker phone and record it.  But she can't print that out.  Any ideas from anyone?

Can you believe a third of 2011 is almost over??

Hawk Zombie No way could I keep my mouth shut let alone bite my tongue. I would have to know why on earth they would name a precious child of God that  awful second name.  I agree that they must be Goth parents. He sure was a big baby though.

Well 16  days and we are outta here for  vacation. The dogs will be boarded and all  clean and bathed when I bring them back home, I am having Happy cut down for the summer. Not shaved but a close haircut. I can better keep and eye in his skin and make sue the skin problem doesn't return. The man across the street is going to feed the cats again this year.  I just hope it is  not raining the whole time we are there.

There is to be some  kind of a  sales meeting./convention of the Columbia Sportswear and Hardwear company while we are there, with bands and such until 11:30 pm going on in tents in the parking lots. Yikes.  

Many times we have to, as Grand Parents, shut our mouths.  It isn't easy but in reality it isn't any of our business.  I agree about the name but would, as Larry is, let it be.  All we can do as Grand parents is pray.  The best thing we can do is pray.  The only worthwhile thing we can do is pray.

John will be home soon, and his meals are ready for next week.  I didn't sleep till the wee hours last night, and the phone woke up grumpy.  I think I was too tired to sleep.  I hope for better tonight. 
Ok I am ready for the birthday party.  Just have to shower and dress. We have a beautiful day for a party, except for the soggy ground it is perfect.  Sunny and warm.  It is hard to believe that petite girl has turned into a beautiful young lady. 

Wel must go may be able to get back later.

Hi folks. Got home about 2 pm this afternoon and it was a beautiful drive north today as the weather was really nice. Had an interesting week with 2 events for the Road Knights. One was with a Rotary Club where I delivered a speech on how to share the road safely with trucks and the other was a career fare at one of the high schools in Toronto. It looks like things will slow down a bit with the Road Knights for a while now as I only have one career fare in May so far and will be part of making a movie on road safety in June. I love all these new experiences. My new truck is running great. Rides better than our car. Nice to see the snow all melted away again for this year. Now we can start planning and looking forward to putting in a garden again towards the end of May. Have to get busy now and get the garden and lawn equipment ready to do service again for another season. Guess I will have to get that all done by next weekend as the grass will be ready to cut by then. It grows fast here for the first monthor so. Nothing unusual to ahve to cut it at least twice a week for the first month to month and a half. Thats Judy's job. She likes to ride the lawn tractor and cut the grass. She's not happy if I start doing that. So i let her do it and keep her happy. Like the saying goes. Happy wife happy life. LOL. Anyway going to run for now Blessings Folks Bonesy