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Good evening:  Since I have signed on the screen is dancing all over the place - any idea why?   

This is so annoying   will see ya'll tomorrow.
Ruth

Ruth:  I wouldn't know why your screen is dancing.  Here, we loaded the new Windows 7 onto our laptop & now we can't even get online.  Oh, the joys of a computer at times. 

Al:  What thankfulness for Marbeth's progress and she is home - sending you and all prayers of thanks. 

Hi, friends, Not a huge post tonight, but I just wanted to pass along my gratitude today ... for safe travels to Georgia, for being with my children and grandchildren, and for all of us loving Our Savior and Lord.

Al, what a blessing that y'all are back together again. Many praises to our Father for His goodness and mercy extended afresh each day.

Y'all have a good evening.

Ruth Ann

Al, I truly praise God with you for Marbeth's safe return home to you.   

I truly love that old hymn, Jane.  It's too bad so many in our day can't forget the contemporary at least once in a while and return to those wonderful words.  Thank you.

Al, I agree! (Surprised?)    While I do love a lot of the new songs, I really love the old hymns of the faith, including the Doxology.  I think it is sad that our young kids are growing up not ever hearing those wonderful old songs, so many are filled with the Word!  Yes, some were filled with doubt, fear and unbelief, but most were based solidly on scripture.  Ah, yes....I miss 'em. 

Hey!  We have bright sunshine today!!  Yea!    Darrel and I are going to Garden City to purchase a new front door for Beth's trailer house.  The old one is wood, and since we had to take off the storm door in order for her to get in and out in her power chair, it has become very weathered.  The new one will be steel.  Jim, who has rented the other trailer for over 20 years, moved into Beth's, and is busy replacing the flimsy plastic skirting with steel.  The steel was on the older trailer.  Always something!

We got the lists of what was sold, and the amounts; also our check.  Very, very disappointing; but...onward and upward!  Forgetting those things that are behind and reaching out for those that lie ahead.........   It is sure a reality check in remembering that it is all just STUFF.  I do think the auctioneer has quite a gravy train, for one day's work, he got nearly as much money as we did; after taking out all expenses from our part.  Oh, well, as Darrel says, we did get rid of lots of stuff.

I have been struggling with trying to use some software on my computer that goes with my Cricut machine.  I spent three hours last night and still don't have it right!  As Carol has just said, computers can be so frustrating.  Especially for those of us who only know enough to be dangerous.  (Me, Carol, not you.)

Time to put a load of clothes in the dryer, brush my teeth and go!

Good Morning, If the sun was shining here  would be singing Morning has Broken. Unfortunately no sun.
We have to go to Walmart in a bit so I can buy dog food and we also need a couple of other things, we are trying to wait  for the rain to stop. Ha! I wonder when that will be.

I am still at Ivalou's.  Jo called and asked if I could stay last night and they would come early this morning.  What could I say?  No?  I don't think so.  So I stayed and it is 11:30am and still no Jo.  I just hope nothing has happened to them on the way here. 

Ivalou is doing her Occupational Home Exercises.  She has already done her Physical Home Exercises.  Last evening she was saying that something wasn't right on her back at the right side.  We discovered that the feeling has come back in that area and also her right thigh.  Hooray!  We have been praying for that!  And more! 

Pray that God continues healing Ivalou so that she can be an example to others who have had strokes.  There is light at the end of the tunnel.

I have been going back and forth to my house.  Ali and Inky first look at me like 'who are you?'  Then they realize that I am the lady that feeds them!   

Etta Sue, praise God for the continuing good news and progress for Ivalou!   

I finally finished reading all the posts and happy that so many people are on the way to being well again.

The talk about onions made me remember how hot onion poultices were once used for very bad chest colds.  Now probably named something much worse.....Worked tho' as people got well.

A friend sent this the other day, probably to make me feel very old.  Thought someone here might get a smile:

Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember--not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke  boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!



Liz

Liz, you got me!  I'm really older than dirt - the only item I didn't personally know is butch wax!   

Hi everyone.  Once again I am writing from Barnes & Noble.  I didn't get to where I had Internet yesterday so had a bit of reading to do today.  

We will be leaving here in the morning as are going to Pat's aunt's house this evening for dinner.  Know we won't stay very long as tonight is Halloween and she apparently has a lot of trick and treaters.  We are suppose to be there at 5:15 but it will be a miracle if we get there by then.  My SIL's grand and great grandkids are suppose to come by this afternoon in costume so we are dependent on a lot of other people being on time.  Oh well, all will work out as it is suppose to.  It is one of my faults to hate to be late for anything.  Guess that came from my many years living on a farm when chores had to be done morning and night at about the same time.  

We had a very windy, cold and overcast day here yesterday but today is truly beautiful with lots of sunshine and not much wind.

Sure glad to read of the progress that Ivalou is making.  It sounds like she could well have a pretty complete recovery over time.  

Jeanne Lee, I even remember butch wax for the butch haircuts that were popular when I was a teenager. 

Janet, I truly understand your frustration with the size of your sale proceeds.  However, something is better than nothing and now I am sure you have a lot of space you didn't have available before and won't have to face cleaning it all out later.

Al, good to read that Marbeth is back at home.  I know you are most relieved.

Carol, I know there are several things regarding the Windows 7 that are negatives if all your computers didn't have Vista on them.  You might check out a program called Network Magic that really makes home networking a breeze.  I just upgraded to the latest version when Pat got her new Netbook and it will handle up to 8 computers.  I understand there is a problem of networking Windows 7 and XP machines.  Hope you solve the problem soon.  Hope the snow has ceased and you can begin to thaw out.

Gord, glad you got good results from your procedure and the nose bleeds are ceased.

An update on Stacey.  X-rays that were taken when she went to the ER the other night show that she now has 5 broken bones in her foot with the Charcot disease.  Her foot is really causing her a lot of pain and that is affecting her heart rate and her sugar counts.  Her internal medicine doctor, that she saw yesterday, also gave her a referral to the orthopedic service.  This is two new referrals.  The last time her foot doctor referred her the orthopedic doctor told her she wasn't bad enough to need to have anything done.  Pat asked her foot doctor about Charcot and he told her that often it is better for the person to have the foot amputed and then get a prosthesis to be able to walk again than to go through the surgery.  It is really a dilemma.  These are decisions she will have to make for herself.

It was the day before the general election, (always on a Thursday in Great Britain) and the vicar was in church sorting out the Sunday service with the organist. What hymn are we going to open with on Sunday? Said the vicar. That all depends, said the organist, on what said the vicar? The outcome of the general election, you see if the Labour party get in, we shall be singing. Lord make haste to save thy people, if the Conservatives win we shall be singing. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. And what if the it the Liberal party get elected, said the vicar? In that case, said the organist, we shall be singing, Great God of wonders, all thy way's.

Larry, you said,

QuoteIt is one of my faults to hate to be late for anything.  Guess that came from my many years living on a farm when chores had to be done morning and night at about the same time.

I can really relate to that.  Our whole church is fully aware of that characteristic of mine!  But hey, after all, when we say we'll be somewhere at a particular time, it's a promise.  Shouldn't we intend to keep promises?  It's part of the characteristic of faithfulness.  So let's get out there and reform the whole world.

Liz not very old, 3 candy cigarettes, 11 tv test patterns, 12 peashooters, still get them, 14 45rpm records, there's piles of them in junk shops, second hand shops, charity shops, you name it. 16 Hi fi's late sixties and seventies, not that old. 19 blue flashbulbs, used a few of them in my time, better than electronic flash, as the reflectors were large and gave out a more even light, they're still around, as cameras still have the old sockets an synchronisation for them, not digital cameras I don't think. 25 Wash tub wringers, one of the tiny fragments of childhood memories I do have left, wringing clothes on washing day with mum. 

I remembered all of them Geez I am not 70 yet and  know all those.

Yup .... I remember them all, so that makes me older than dirt, I guess.  

Al and Larry, you can add me to the list of ones not liking to be late!  I agree with Al that if I say I'll be there at a certain time, that's a promise and I always want to keep my promises.  

On that thought, I once heard that when you say "I'll try ..." you're setting yourself up for failure.  Should say either I will or I won't ... no in-between.

Well tonight is Halloween.  The girls won't be going out, we don't "do" halloween.

I am not really back, just using my son's puter for a few minutes.

We have not had snow, just a few flurries now and then but nothing has stayed on the ground.

We got word that the mother of a dear friend passed away yesterday.  I am sorry about that for him, but she has graduated on to heaven and is totally healled.

Must run

May God bless each of you.

Good to see you back, Judy, even if only for a quick stop.  I'm sure you'll be one happy camper when you finally get your own computer back.   

You are so right.  No withdrawal though, too much else to do.

Well - rats! my post disappeared. Maybe some trick or treaters already passed this cyber-way.

Y'all have a great evening.

Ruth Ann

    Good evening to all.  My family have been here most of the day  as I told you yesterday it is our 39th. wedding anniversary and also my grandson's 2nd. birtday so it has been  a very busy day and I am tired and the boys want me to go and watch the hockey game with them so I will say good night and may the Lord give you all a wonderful day in his house tomorrow.  God Bless.  Gord

I dislike waiting on anyone.  If I say I will be there at 11, I will be there at 10:55!  Waiting on people is another reason I like to drive.  Dislike standing at the door and waiting and waiting for someone to come get me.  If I am suppose to be somewhere at a certain time, I am generally there first! 

With that being said, Jo and her family didn't get here until 1:15pm yesterday!  I didn't stay long after they came.  I did laundry, paid bills, printed some things, changed bed linens, showered, and tried to catch up on my TV shows...didn't make that!  Will have to delete probably. 

And I am older than dirt!  I am barely 67!  I sure remember Blackjack chewing gum!  And I remember volunteering in school to help mimeograph papers with that pan of purple stuff.  Nothing has ever smelled like that stuff since! 

I am in charge of the overhead today at church.  Looking forward to eating out with the ladies.  Then I need to go to Noblesville for some items.  A new air brace for Ivalou.  She is wearing out the one!  And we sure need a spare! 

Off I go!

Count me in with the hate to be late crowd!  I always arrive at least a few minutes early.  I consider being late simply rude.  And have you ever noticed that those who are late are always more jolly than those who have to wait for them?  There is one gal at our Senior Center who is habitually late; yet she expects others to always keep a place at the table for her, even if they don't know whether or not she is coming.  One lady said to her, "If you would just get here on time, you wouldn't have to worry about it."  Her response?  "But I just can't do that!"  I wanted to say, you could, if you would just start getting ready 30 minutes earlier!

Yep, Liz, I am older than dirt, too.  

Larry, such terrible news of Stacey.  Goodness, it seems things just get worse and worse for her and Beth both.  Hard on parents, but as you have said many times, we just have to trust God to care for them.  We cannot do anything in the natural to change the outcome; but we can sure pray!  And that's the greatest thing.

I got up at 5:15, thinking it surely must be close to 7; but went back to bed.  Didn't want to fall asleep in church, especially after supposedly getting another hour of sleep!  But I wish they would STOP changing the time twice a year.  

There have been a lot of things happening at our church that we just cannot agree with; but we do not like changing churches.  God has not released us to go elsewhere, so we are continuing here.  I'm sure He will let us know in due time what he would have us do.  It seems as if you are over 50, your presence or opinion aren't even considered.  Many people have already left the church......

On the other hand, we love our Sunday School class!  That is where we feel free to comment on the scriptures, be a part, etc.  So it's not all bad.

I want to watch Jentezen Franklin, see you later!

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