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Hi everyone.  We have finally had a break in our heat cycle here in Georgia and some temps in the lower 80's and morning around 70.  It is really pleasant.  There is a good chance we will have some rain this weekend.  

Don't have a lot planned other than to watch a lot of college football today starting after lunch.  Both Georgia and Georgia Tech play this afternoon and evening and both games are televised locally.  

Yesterday was one of the day I experience periodically where I am exhausted.  I spent most of the day in bed or just sitting in my easy chair and went to bed last night very early.  Happy to say that I am feeling back to my normal self today.

JudyB, sure sorry to hear of the bone break experienced by John's mother.  The falls are so hard on older folks.  Hope she was able to rest during the night.  

Marilyn, it is certainly nice of you to take Faye out to eat and to be so attentive in finding her someone to care for her.

Ruth Ann, glad to see you posting as have been missing your posts.  Sorry you have experienced hurtful things.  I am sure you know that just because someone says something that doesn't make it so and if criticism is not deserved we really gain nothing by dwelling on it.  Easier said than done I well realize.  Sure sorry to read you are experiencing more medical problems.

Colin, nice to see you popping in and sharing your sense of humor.  I know I miss your humor when you are not posting.

Hi Jane, Pat, Etta Sue and Al.

Janet, glad to see that you found someone to help with the heavy housework.  Perhaps it is time to treat yourself to getting someone regularly to come in and do the heavy cleaning so that once you get your arm back in shape you do not reinjure it.  We have used a housekeeper for several years and feel it is worth every cent we spend on it.  She is currently ill and Pat did the work last time and really suffered for it.

Time for me to leave for a meeting.  Hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning. I have been in and out of here a few times already checking to see if anyonehad posted yet.I have just spent a pleasant ½ hour on Skype with a good friend in another country.

I don't have much on the agenda for today, a little cleaning walking the dogs, shower and wash my hair. It will for the most part be a day of rest for me. I am currently having a second  still in my pajamas.

Our pastor has been away for two weeks on vacation, he's back now so I am looking forward to tomorrow's message.

I'll be back later.

It is really nice here in Indiana today.  A cool 69°.  So I have shut off my A/C and opened windows to let the breeze through.  Feels really good. 

I put a letter in the mailbox and then went to Ivalou's with my coffee.  We had a nice talk.  Hadn't seen her for a couple of days.  I guess Kaye Don and Barb are in Michigan and are to come home tomorrow or Monday. 

I think Ivalou and I will mow this afternoon.  Seems the grass is really green and growing.  Just mowed Monday!  So after lunch, out we go with our mowers. 

I am hoping everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!!  Wish I had a cookout to go to!!

Thanks so much for being here, friends. Today my spirits are beginning to rise a bit. So, your prayers are beginning to help strengthen me.

Larry, so sorry you had such a feel bad day. Yikes - it's no fun to feel that bad. Sometimes on Saturdays, I'm so worn out that I end up sleeping most of the day. But, then as you said, it really rests the body.

JudyB, so sorry about your arm, and Janet, yours, too. It's really wonderful to have my hands more back to normal. To be able to do touch typing again is something to be really grateful for.

Another thing to be very thankful for is that my son is beginning to clear clutter here in the house so we can start the renovations. I've been hoping and praying for this, because as some of the rest of us, it's just not possible for a lot of heavy lifting a cleaning. I was beginning to wonder if I needed to get someone in here to really upset him, but plain ole pick it up and either discard or store or give away to a charitable organization. Thanks for your continuing prayers about him. I believe his spirits as well s mine will really lift when we are in less drastic circumstances than at present.

Well, it's so good to hear of all of you - what you're doing in your lives, how the Lord's helping each of you.

I got the privilege of eating lunch with my brother from Ohio. I don't know if I told y'all that he's now the Men's Ministry Director for our entire deonmination. And, he's so very humble and really trying. Hope you can keep him in your prayers, too, as he takes on this huge challenge.

Love y'all.

Ruth Ann

We are eating a western Colorado peach daily - they are the best tasting - sorry Georgia!!!

Larry:  Nights are cooler now and we have been opening windows for sleeping.  Sure is nice.  Never had Moon Pies, but I did live near Brown & Haley candy & they sold the broken chocolate for less...

Al:  Just realized that your leg is giving you problems - I send a prayer for healing. 

Janet:  Peru sounds so exotic but be very careful in the altitude.  Our friends were there & she was ill for two days & they felt the earthquake although it was hundreds of miles away.  Sounds like you made some things happen & good for you - take care of thyself.  We leave Sept 20 for London.  Staying in Cambridge after a while in Sweden.  Ya you betcha.  (They speak excellent English over there). 

Jane:  I can't believe you said that!     

Ruth Ann:  What a hard day for anyone and sorry that you had such experience.  As for your foot/ankle, I would certainly see a 2nd opinion later on at some time - take care.  Enjoy your weekend. 

Carol

We have a houseful of company and more coming for Beth's birthday supper at 7:00.  So no time just now, but I promise---I shall return!

Ruth Ann, SO good to see you, and may I call you, maybe tomorrow afternoon? 

Good Morning everyone, Blessed Sunday to each and everyone of you.

Janet how did the dinner turn out? I hope Beth had a wonderful birthday party.

Al sorry to hear that your leg feels like it weighs 500 lbs. Has the doctor told you why it feels that way.

Larry glad you feel better than the day before when you were so exhausted.

Etta Sue did you and Iva Lou get the  yards mowed yesterday? I mowed on Friday and then watered the front lawn. My yard is so over run with gopher holes and their piles of dirt. I don't know what to do. This isn't my property and the landlords don't like us to spend anything then deduct it from the rent plus I can't afford any expensive lawn and yard treatments.  My neighbors have done some remodeling on their little house and not even told the landlord anything about it. I bought parts for my toilet and repaired that myself. They still haven't replaced my shower and it has been two years.

Yesterday I just spent the day relaxing and doing a few little things around here, took the dogs for a walk, took a lite nap and rested. I am so glad to have this three days off.

Carol I know you will enjoy your vacation in England. It is such an historical and beautiful place.

Ruth Ann sorry to hear about your Achilles tendonitis and  that you will have to deal with it for the rest of your life. I pray the doctors will come up with some kind of relief for you.

Aftr church Fay and I are going out for Lunch to the Oriental Buffet, she likes that place.

Hi JudyB, Pat, Colin, Jeannine, Iain, Neil, Sarah etc.

Hi everyone.  We slept in later this morning.  I usually have to arise around 6:30 so I can pick up my ride to coffee a little after 7:30.  Sunday is the one day we don't meet and church doesn't start until 11:15 so we can take things slower.  Of course, sometimes I think if I get any slower I willl be walking backwards.  Guess that is one of the joys of being retired in that I can do what I want to do and get to something else tomorrow.  It probably wasn't tha important anyway, unless it was to pay bill.

Our pastor is doing a series of sermons on our church mission statement and they are very good.  I will be singing in the choir as usual this morning and then I expect we will go out to eat. 

We went out to eat with a group of friends yesterday at lunch and went to Ruby Tuesday's.  I can't say that is my favorite place to eat.  I had the salad bar and a bowl of soup.  It is certainly getting expensive to eat out but we still do it because we enjoy it.

Janet, hope the birthday dinner for Beth went well and that you didn't overdo.

Carol, that western Colorado peach sure does sound good.  We don't seem to get many peaches in our stores here.  While many peaches are grown in Georgia and surrounding states, I guess most of them go into cans.  Occasionally we will get some really good peaches.  It sounds like you have an exciting trip planned.

Ruth Ann, glad your son is feeling up to helping a bit with things that need to be done.  Hope you have a good week upcoming.

Etta Sue, you sound like my wife in wanting to get the house opened up as soon as possible in the spring and fall.  We are looking forward to cooler days so we can use our porch again.  It has been too hope for the last several weeks.  It sounds like your grass mowing is like a party.  Do you and Ivalou race each other on your mowers? 

Marilyn, with your schedule I am sure you are happy to have a day or so when you don't have a long list of things to do.  I know you will be glad to have your pastor back in the pulpit today.

Hope everyone has a nice holiday.  Tomorrow is a non-work day for many folks here in the USA.

Hi Marilyn...and all the rest of you guys. One thing that amuses me is the way that you call your gardens a yard. I have visions of you all mowing gravel...tarmac..concrete...bricks...etc as a yard over here usually consists of these things and is the bit around the house where cars are parked or where outbuildings are found. Guess you have all got blunt blades on your mowers!

Take care everyone...God bless

Colin ~ I have seen photos of YOUR garden and it is a garden...full of beautiful flowers, shrubs, bushes, trees.  But my yard is a yard....grass and mole hills!!  No flowers except I do still have some Surprise Lilies.

Marilyn ~ Have you been at that little house two years?  Can't believe it!  Are you talking about moles or gophers?  We have moles around here that makes runs and then hills out of dirt.  Nothing gets rid of moles.  But they say if you spray for grubs, then they will go away.  Grubs are their main source of food.  My best remedy is roll up a stick of Juicy Fruit chewing gum, make a hole in a run with a broom handle and poke 2-4 rolls of gum in the hole.  Or purchase a mole trap.  And yes, Ivalou and I mowed yesterday...probably if Kaye Don had been home, he would have mowed and the neighbor across the road mowed.  We do try to keep up with the Jones's  

Church was great today.  The post-teen and teen minister is in Kentucky somewhere with the male teens so the Senior minister preached for those two services.  The Senior worship leader preached the two Senior service.  Both were about God's Spirit and our own desires, Galatians 5:16-26. 

I then had my lunch, filled the car up with gasoline, went to Goodwill for some books to read and Wal~Mart!  Now I am home. 

It was 77° in my house when I got up at 6:30am so I shut my windows and turned the A/C back on.  Still not as cool as I like but it is getting there!!

Good afternoon all,

Colin ~  I got it!  aye!

Hi Marilyn, Larry, Etta Sue, Al, Nards, Samantha, Janet, Pat, JudyB, Carol, Liz, and forgive me whoever I forgot.

Nothing has changed much here, still trusting in the good Lord for everything. Praying for you all and all the needs mentioned here.

Have a blessed and God filled day!

Still Trusting In Him,
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I guess my lilies would be surprised too if I crept up behind them and shouted boo! Thank you Etta Sue for the comments on my pics. Cows with broken legs indeed!! They were lying there chewing the cud. Hi Jeannine...glad you understand me! God bless

Happy Sunday afternoon to you all.  I am glad we don't have services tonight and that tomorrow is a holiday.  This ol' gal is tired.  Yesterday was just about too much for me.  But Beth did have a good day.  I picked her up at 10 in the morning, they had put in a catheter and had all her pills ready for the day.  Kerri and Ray (my youngest daughter and her husband) thought Kerri needed to go to Boise City Oklahoma to see the headstone on their Dad's grave.  None of the girls had seen it; so they decided to take Beth along, and stop in Hugoton and pick up Diane as well.  Then they wanted me to go......so we all went.  That took an unplanned hunk of about 7 hours out of my day!  But it was good for them all, maybe will give Kerri some closure.  She has had a tough time dealing with her Dad's death.

When we got back we had to start on the dinner right away; then I had to stop in the middle and go pick up Mom.  Anyway, there were 14 here for supper, and all seemed to enjoy it.  It is heartbreaking to see Beth so weak and disabled she cannot even open a gift wrapped in tissue paper!    And she asked Diane to feed her ice cream cake to her.

The girls were working on a jigsaw puzzle together, and Beth did manage to find a few pieces that fit.  By 10 last night, she asked me to take her back; she was exhausted.  I had told the nurses I was going to keep her out until she asked to go back, so she wouldn't feel we were rushing her. s he was more than ready to go to sleep, so I hope she did sleep.

Etta Sue, I had this mental picture of you and Ivalou on your mowers, waving at each other at every turn!  It is so nice you live there next to both your siblings.

Church this morning was really different.  Pastor and wife have gone to Nebraska to conduct a wedding, half the congregation were missing, and we did a sort of ice-breaker thing for the church time.    Oh, well.........

Colin, when I think of a garden, I picture either a vegetable garden or a flower garden; when I think "yard" I think of lots of grass, with maybe flower beds around the edges.  But here's a  question for you.........Why do we park on a driveway, and drive on a parkway??  Language is a funny thing, isn't it?

Larry, where did you eat today?  We had leftovers! 

Our dog Cookie is having puppies today.  She was huge, so we expect her to produce several.  So far, there is only one.  (One more than we really wanted!)  Abby is so excited about it!

Marilyn, the dinner was good:  hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and dip, baked beans, wilted lettuce salad, corn on the cob, cantaloupe, deviled eggs, sliced tomatoes, and ice cream cake for dessert.  And they pretty much ate all of it, too. 

Cool day here on the island.  Real fall weather.  Misty decided to have a night out in the garden and would not come in last night.  She hid in a shrub and we could see her but not grab....  (It is a worry as we have had a cougar spotted in the area.  I had to get up at 3 AM and checked the outside door...there she sat, the little brat.  Like a rebellious teen! 

Read all the many posts and have prayed for many.  Will say a special prayer for Beth tonight.

One of the reasons this person has been sad lately, is because Amanda has dropped her Art and stopped going to university.  What a terrible waste of her parents money and terrible waste of her talent.  She did get good marks last year and could have succeeded this year.  Simply does not have the self confidence to work and know she can be a success.  Let a couple of unpleasant professors get to her and undermine ....  If only she had the confidence that comes from knowing Jesus.  With the power of the Lord to rely on, we can work hard and not be afraid.  I am not angry with her, simply sad.  Can only pray that she will return to university in the near future.  Meanwhile, works at the store and now has learned a few lessons about paying board & room, her own expenses, etc.  Can stay at home until spring, when she is 21, but will have to make some important decisions by then.  So a few prayers would sure help.  I wish she could meet someone like Sarah, who is a little bundle of determination and confidence. Sarah even inspires me....

Pleasant Day/Evening and God Bless.

Liz

Oh, Marilyn.  If you have gophers, farmers used to fill the holes with water and attempt to send them to a better place   Of course, that might not be acceptable these days!

Liz

I have been doing that but it seems like the hole never will fill up and there are so many holes that the water never comes out of another hole.

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