Christian Photographers Community

Hi everyone.  We got back home this afternoon about 4 pm.  We had a good trip, the closing went well and we enjoyed some time with friends and attending to some business matters.  Now we only own one home, one set of utility bills, and insurance polices.  The young many who bought our house is only 21 years of age.  His parents came to the closing with him. 

Janet, I have seen some beautiful photo books and don't think it is difficult and know you will be able to do it.  If you have the pictures on a disk then you could easily use a website called PhotoPeach, which is a free site, to make albums that you could share with others online.  You would simply put your cd in your computer and then from PhotoPeach attach the files you want to us in that particular album (s).  You find your photos on the disk by using the Windows Explorer (little file folder symbol on the task bar) and finding the letter that has your disk, just like the hard drive will be the C drive.  If you want to try this and need help give me a call and I will walk you through the process.  I have used this numerous time when I get a bunch of pictures of my great grandchildren that I want to share with others.  I think you have my phone number, if not email me and I will email my number back to you.

Whew!  I am wiped out this evening.  My rib was out again and hurting pretty bad, so I went to Dr. Saxon, he worked on it but it's still hurting.  After the funeral we went back to the church and I helped serve the family an early supper, then helped clean up everything, so am really tired.  Tomorrow is my painting day but I don't know if I will go; depends how I feel when I wake up.

Jeanne and Larry, thanks for your kind offers of help.  I will TRY again, and if I am stymied, will have to call for help.  I think the books might be less expensive than getting all those photos printed, but not sure.  Would be nice if I could get at least one ready tonight so I could take advantage of the half-price offer tomorrow.  Then I would go to paint, as we go through Garden where there is a Walgreen's!

Janet I had to go to the chiropractor today also. One of u upper ribs was out and so was the left SI joint. The Dr and I discussed my workout routine and  decided it is the rowing machine that did my lower back in this time. I am to use  it at a lower number for a month then uincrese, not like I did using the lower number twice and the when to the very top number which is 6. He said to increase by 1  after a month  and do it that way until I am back where I was before all the trouble with my lower back.

Wow! It's so good to hear from y'all tonight. My cell phone got damaged today, so I'm limping along without it. Hope the insurance plan will get me another one right away.

I'm so sorry to learn that Janet and Marilyn are having pain and going to chiropractors. They do good work, don't they.

Glad you're back, Larry. It sounds as if the stressors y'all have been dealing with are reducing in number.

Carol, wow - hosting company is a difficult thing for me to do. You're braver than I am.

Jeanne, Judy and John, what a winter y'all have had! It makes me feel small to even mention that we are supposed to have an accumulation of snow on Sunday night, then additional periods of snow Monday through Thursday of next week.

Y'all have a good evening.

Much love to all,
Ruth Ann

Have a good day everyone.  This is day 2 of a 4 day weekend for John, so we are enjoying the time off.



.[attachimg=1]

Judy:  Nice Valentine to see today.  Agree on softies - the children do need to walk together though because truly things have changed. 

We walked through a flea market yesterday and I bought two reading glasses now in the larger number to help me read when the print is soft gray.     That was it - my friend and I tried forever to find denim shirts but everything they had was too bright with fake diamonds and such - not our style at all.  Met our other friend who lost his wife a few months ago and he is really working hard at learning to live alone - he has planned an entire summer with two of his children and friends in the midwest so that was good news to us. 

Matthew ( means gift from God) arrives tomorrow for a short visit before his meeting. 

When I have seen pictures of the oppressed in the world, it is hard to imagine.  We never have a day of freezing in the house or without a shower or even a full day of hunger.  So, my iPad wasn't working for a while and that is the extent of any frustration here - how blessed we are and sometimes I don't even realize that blessing. 

Hi everyone on a very nice Saturday afternoon here in South Carolina.  It is a sunny 59 degrees.  I spent all morning getting all the paperwork sorted, filed and now my office doesn't look like a blizzard hit it. After lunch I had a nice restful nap.  I did order a two sets of wireless headphones to use with our TV.  They should be here on Tuesday.  I also ordered a remote for the Dish Hopper.  We have one in the family room but Pat uses it and I wanted one at my chair as well that would turn on the TV and control the volume as well as change the channels. 

Janet and Marilyn, was there a special sale on out of place ribs?  My goodness.  I know that must be very painful. 

Ruth Ann, I would be lost without my cell phone as use it all the time.  I didn't take the insurance policy on mine but it sounds like it was wise that you must have done so.  You are right, there is less stress now with only a few more things on the "must get done list".  The major one is to get our driver's license and I think we now have all the documents together as got a certified copy of our Marriage license, which was the missing piece. 

Judy, is John's cold better?  Glad he has a long weekend.  It is a Federal holiday weekend here in the US as Monday is President's Day.

Carol, I agree with you that we really have little to complain about as all of our basic needs are met with housing and food and then are able to enjoy some non-necessities as well. 

Hi,friends,

I'm counting my blessings today. After having my car quit running right on a busy street (and in the center lane), someone called AAA for me, someone else got the car into Neutral (I had tried and couldn't get it to budge from Park) and rolled it into a parking lot, then later came by with his family to make sure I was still safe, and the kind AAA driver took me back to my apartment.

So many things could have been terrible, and all worked out and I'm in my apartment and safe and the car's on its way to the repair shop.

Y'all have a wonderful day. I think it's about time to go lie down for a while.

Love to all,
Ruth Ann

Ruth Ann, episodes like that sure do warm my soul!  So glad He took such good care of you today.

I'm thanking God for taking such good care of Ruth Ann.  Scary to have car trouble when alone, much less in the center lane of a busy street.  But God provided kind folks to take care of her, and transportation home.  What a wonderful, kind and loving Father we have!  Thank you, Lord!

Larry,    on the "sale on out of place ribs!  It is quite painful, for sure.  Mine was enough better this morning that I went ahead and attended my painting meeting, but it was hurting pretty badly again by the time I got back to Ulysses.

We painted a very pretty project today.  If I can find another SD card, I will take a photo, send it to Jeanne and she can post it.  I left three SD cards at Walgreen's today to be put onto DVDs.  We have appointments with a heart doctor up there (Garden City) next Thursday, so they are to be ready by them.

Larry, where is a good place to purchase head phones for TV?  Darrel plays ours so loud I usually have to leave the room!  So I think those might solve the problem.

Marilyn, I agree that it's wiser to work up gradually to higher levels of exercise than try to jump too fast.  It's been four weeks now since I have been to the gym, and I will need to ease back into it, too.  Too much going on when we got home to get back this week!

I am going to bed before long.  Ridiculous, I know, but pain pills and my pillow are calling my name!

I came back to say I had a sweet and unexpected blessing this afternoon.  As Winona and I were driving home, Darrel called to say my oldest sister and her husband were in town for a short time, and asked how far I was away.  At that time, it was around 80 miles, but we keep on going, with the short stop in Garden at Walgreen's, and I got home in time to see them.  So we had a mini-reunion at youngest sister's house, with three of the four sisters there!  God is so good!  We all wished Shirley could have been here, too, of course.

Okay, bye now!   

A new week HERE