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Yes, Paul - I too am looking forward to the "upper-taker."  I do want to behold His beauty and to worship Him.  Oh that I would do MUCH more of it here.

Larry, I agree that tears are a release for us at times.  God gave us emotions for a reason, and while we should not be controlled by them, we also should be grateful for having them.  Without them, where would be love and compassion?  So a good cry is healing.

Beth is in Wichita, the nurses called me about 1:30 to ask for permission to sedate her for the procedure/test.  I said "She is an adult, she usually gives permission herself."  And they responded that Beth was not able to sign her name, so I had to give permission to two different nurses for it to be done......

I think I'm getting homesick for heaven.

Yes, Larry, we will soon choose our next trip and start planning for it.  Right now we are focusing our energies on getting ready to host the family reunion in June.  Lots of work involved with that.

My sister is starring as Reverend Mother in the play Nunsense this weekend.  We have tickets for Friday night.  Should be good.  Jeanie has a lovely alto voice.

I'm here!

I'm in Falls Church, VA!!

What a wonderful drive down and I left minus 3 degrees Celsius and it was so wonderful to see the buds slowly coming out and the spring flowers.  Wow! 

I was wearing my winter jacket when I left home and had to take it off in Pennsylvania!

I'll chat with you all later.  Just wanted to let you know I'm here.

Glad you made it safely!  Have a great time!

Pat:  Enjoy your trip!  Glad that you arrived safely - hello to Paul.

Janet:  I can't possibly know what you are going through.  My prayers for you and Beth. 

I just sent an email to the Paint Shop Pro lessons that I cann't keep up with anything - so strung out over the busyness around here - I have two more things on sale on Craig's List.  A baby play pen and a serger.  So far, no calls.  Vacuumed the entire house & boxed up some things today - baking some kinda queso tortilla dish.  Carol

Carol:  I am surprised that there were no takers for your serger. They are getting so expensive.

  Hi, everybody; just checking in. I posted some pics for the challenge, hope you like them.


               Scotty

I almost have 200 posts. that's nothing compared to you guys, but that's good for me.
This makes 195 posts.

I am trying to get in here more often but our daughter in law ended up with major surgery twice in one week and so we are finishing getting our house up for sale and running to the hospital.  I am hoping to become a regular and will try to get a picture if things ever settle down.  We very much need to get to our daughters in Fl. as my husband (Cec) is having more and more trouble walking and I can't push a wheel chair or do much with my arms.  I sure enjoyed the devotional and Etta Sue that is one of my favorite songs of all times.   Pat hope you have a lovely time.  I am Praising the Lord I got to church to praise and hear the word tonight.  aw

Pat, glad you had a nice trip and arrived safely.  Now for the second part, on to Florida with Paul, stopping to visit Larry and Pat.  I think it's wonderful!

Carol, thanks.  Beth is back safely and they WERE able to get the MRI this time.  Now to see what it shows, and what the next step will be--if anything more can be done.  We do so appreciate the prayers.

Alice--welcome back!

I must get busy, as usual.  Darrel is feeling better, so that is a very good thing.

Scotty, good for you!  I will look at your photos a bit later.

Alice it is SO good to See you here, I feel Like I already know you from SN, over there I am known as Imablessed or Ima for short.

Not much new here this morning, It is sort of cold but no wind, I sure had a sneezing fit yesterday after I had been out in the wind walking the dogs.

Bebe is better today. Bill across the street is helping me to acclimate the dogs to his cats, in preparation  to me taking them up north for a visit. Bebe did real well she is the one I was worried about. She walked over and sniffed the first cat and walked away the she spotted a second cat under the tree. That one attacked Bebe and she went after it until I called her off she came right back to me and sat down. Happy just wanted to chase them.

JudyB you mentioned giving Bebe Shark Cartilage, I give them MSM and Glucosamine powder on their food.

Good Morning Janet.

Ruth:  An early morning phone call on the serger I am selling - she "may" come and look at it this afternoon.  We have to move some small pieces of furniture here to get ready for carpet cleaners. 

Last night, I was on SKYPE and daughter and one son were on a three-way conference call with me.  Such fun! 

Well  time here.  I got ready so fast this morning because I was sure someone was coming to the house but it didn't happen.  Nice day after spitting snow yesterday.

Marilyn:  You certainly have control over your dogs and is that ever nice for them and yourself and especially the cat. 

Alice:  Good luck to you - we are trying to get our house ready as well and it doesn't take much to ache all over.  Do hope your DIL is getting well - that was quite a trauma to her body.

Thankful for today's verse on reminding us to "do good".   

Hi everyone.  Had a busy morning as both Pat and I had dental appointments and our dentist is about an hour away.  Everything was fine for me but Pat has a filling that must be replaced and it is under a crown on a tooth she has had lots of problems with. 

We had a very fun time yesterday at the Senior Golden Games.  They had a very nice luncheon and program.  We didn't win any of the 25 door prizes but that is fine.  They served about 380 people very efficiently and everything went like clockwork.  I had taken the datafile and the certificate Publisher file and supplies in case there were any changes needed in spelling of names, etc.  However, there were none and the game organizers said they hadn't gotten any complaints about anything, which is very unusual with a group of this size. 

I talked with Paul and Pat shortly after Pat finished her trip yesterday.  We are really looking forward to tomorrow afternoon and evening when they will be in our home. 

Carol, are you planning on moving closer to your children?  I don't envy you all going through the moving process again.

Janet, glad that long trip is over for Beth and that they were able to do the MRI this time.  Glad that Darrel is feeling better.

I think it is time for a nap.

hi, friends. it's a beautiful, warm day here in nashville. spoke with doctor's nurse today. i can go back to work monday, but no use of the left hand until the 28th when they see me again. ya'll have a wonderful rest of the day.

Pat Glad you are there safe and sound.  When do you head out to Larry's?  Have a good trip.

OK everyone let's try to keep this place going strong while Pat is gone. Let's  keep posting   more that we have been.  I know we all get busy with other things, I will definitely try to post more that once a day.

It is supposed to be raining for the next 3-4 days here as well as in Oregon. i have been keeping tabs on Jane and Nita's area as well since Keith lives there too.

I can't believe how much the gas prices have gone up, currently here it is $3.99.9 per gal for regular. Last weekend I waited until I got to Brookings Oregon to fill up going both ways. Yesterday I added  $20.  (5 gal) to bring it up to almost full again.  I got good mileage while on the road, 26 mpg, pretty good for a car that is 20 years old. I am beginning to thing  It would be  cheaper for me to move to Oregon, since I will be traveling there once a month anyway.

TTYL all y-all

Hi everyone.  Not many here since I posted last.  I did have a short e-mail from Pat this morning that as of 6:10 am they were packing the car and heading out.  So we should be seeing them sometime after 5 pm if I remember how long it takes to drive from Virginia to here.  It should be a truly beautiful day for traveling.  We are suppose to have temps up to almost 80 today.  Rain is predicted for tomorrow.

I spoke with the brother of my good coffee drinking friend and my friend is not expected to last through the weekend.  This liver cancer has really taken him fast.  He is under Hospice care and is at home and his two sons are tending to him with the help of Hospice. 

Ruth Ann, glad you got an ok from your doctor.  Hope you will be able to work with one hand.

Marilyn, it sounds like you will be keeping the roads busy to Oregon and back.  Our gasoline is now up to $3.40 and am sure it is going to go higher. 

Hope everyone has a good day.

hi, friends, the bandage came off today, so i'm feeling much more comfortable.

the sun is supposed to be beautiful today, but storm coming in this afternoon. will be eating with a dear friend at lunch today.

y'all have a great day with the lord.

Sorry I wasn't in here yesterday but I was sick as a dog all the night before and yesterday.  I think I got food poisoning from something.  Today I am among the living again after washing my hair and a shower!  I ate some breakfast but not all of it.  At this rate I should lose some weight!! 

Ivalou called this morning and said a neighbor of ours passed away last evening.  His wife, Jane, and I were best friends growing up.  Tom has been in a nursing home since Christmas with Alzheimer's.  So actually he went pretty quick. 

That's it.  I am not feeling on top of the world yet but sooo much better than yesterday!!

Larry it isn't me burning up Hwy. 101 this weekend. Keith was supposed to come down next weekend but now he is coming down after work today. So it is Keith burning up Hwy. 101. He sure surprised me, I wasn't prepared, I still have to go to the store, I've already straightened up the house so at least that is done.

Glad to hear you are doing better Ruth Ann and will be traveling to Atlanta this weekend to see the  kids.

Etta Sue i do hope you didn't have food poisoning. Do you know where you might have picked it up if you did have food poisoning? When I had it it last 4 days of running at both ends. That was many years ago. Got some bad hot dogs from the butcher.

Amazing, It's snowing really hard right now! It never snows in April here!
It's not sticking, but just getting snow is amazing! Wow.



   

We got the snow too, Scotty.  Not supposed to snow in April on Vancouver Island.  I guess we will be skipping Spring and going straight into summer, don't you know!

I am tired, weary of the horrible noise from the floor inst. and in general, kind of grumpy.  So will not spend time posting.  Finished cleaning up from an early dinner for the kids.  They can't get back into the kitchen until next week sometime...workers keep going to other jobs.  ah,....   Have had to resort to many of my old recipes the past couple of weeks, forgot how much work it is to constantly prepare meals.  Oh well, at least I have my kitchen back!

Time to go.  Pleasant Day/Evening and God Bless.

Liz

I'm here!

What a great drive down to Grayson sitting in Larry and Pat's living room!

We had a wonderful supper and what a scruptious dessert and not we've just had a lovely "sing-song" and now Larry and Paul are playing at Larry's computer and Pat and I are sitting in the living room.

We'll leave early tomorrow for Pensacola, Florida and then leave for Falls Church, VA on Tuesday.

I'll try to check in when I can.

Love y'all!

(See?  I can speak suthern! HAHAHAHA!)

Do you love some of us (y'all) or all of us, though (all y'all)?  ahahahahhaha

Glad your journey has been safe.  Will be praying for a continuance of that.  Hope the weather is beautiful for you as well!

and i got here safely,too. ALL y'all have a good evening.

Well all y-all Keith should be pulling in any minute now.
I had to run to Arcata to pick up Gilbert and the kids at the pool Their car wouldn't start and Sarah stayed with that car and Gilbert was going back in the other car.

So Good Night All Y-all.

Ruth Ann, where are you?

Thanks Karma!  Just spoke to "fotobirder" who lives close by.  He's on his way to Arkansas tomorrow so I won't be able to meet up with him.

  Hi, Pat!

Well, it stopped snowing for now. It did stick for a little while, but then it got soggy and melted as fast as it fell.
I'm hoping for more tonight. Snow is the greatest!

Have a great night, Everyone!

Have a wonderful weekend, Marilyn.

Hi there Scotty!  Great to see you posting so much, son.

Marilyn  I realize who you are now.  Do know you and from Bobbie too.  Thanks all for the welcome back.  I still miss days but am getting paint off of floors etc.  House goes on the market next week.  Pat hope you have a wonderful trip.  Trying to figure the best way to move things as we don't know wether we are going to wait to put a well etc at our daughter and put a trailer on their back acres or go to a park nearby.  Has anyone had any experience with Pods. 

Just to let you know it is still chilly in Texas and my daughter lost part of her garden in Fl due to frost.   Upside down weather.  hoping to spend time with my daughter getting things organized here tomorrow and greeting for church sunday for the last time for a while.  Have a wonderful weekend all.  So sorry for those that have lost family and friends. aw