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I didn't get much done yesterday other than some laundry...dark dreary day. 

Today I woke to sunshine.  I decided to take my Secret Sister's birthday gift to church and I installed some Clip Art on the secretary's computer.

Then I went to Lowe's.  I have been thinking for about 6 months that if I could find some peel and stick black vinyl, I would take up my black carpet in the bathroom and put down the vinyl!  Don't ever put black carpet in a bathroom...I repeat...don't ever put black carpet in a bathroom!!  Especially when two cats live with you!  I had measured my bathroom and I found ebony marble peel and stick vinyl tile and purchased three boxes. 

Then I went to Pet Supply store and bought 8# of Purina Pro Plan UTI cat food.  Cheaper than at the vet and hope my girls like it. 

Then I filled three containers up with gas for the lawn mower...that time approaching very quickly...and the car and then back home again. 

I have faux black marble formica counter top in the bathroom and the vinyl ebony marble matches perfect!  It is shiny where the counter top is matte!  Now to get the job done! 

I went out to get the mail and I didn't have any but Ivalou did so I took hers to her and chatted awhile. 

Now I am home for the rest of the day! 



 

Hi everyone.  I am watching the NCAA basketball tourney on TV and writing using the laptop.  I had a busy morning.  After coffee at McDonald's and walking at the gym with the guys, I took the Saturn to the place where I bought the tires and had them rotated. When they took the tires off they discovered that the right passenger side drive axle was leaking grease and needed to be replaced.  So I had that done.  I called Pat and she brought up the other car to get those tires rotated as well.  I have about one more tire rotation, i.e., 5,000 to 6,000 miles of tread left on them.  At that time I will have to get 4 new tires and will then check about a front end alignment.  I had thought about having that done today but decided to wait for the new tires. 

We had all that work done in less than two hours so was glad I didn't have to spend the day there.  When we got back home we decided to go to a nearby eating place for a hamburger.  I came home and had a nap and now am settled in for all of the games.  I know all of this was exciting, but that is what my day has consisted of so far.

It is a beautiful, sunny and warm day here.  We have decided to go to Florida for a few days next week to visit with Pat's 90 year old aunt and probably just one of the cousins.  I am certainly glad I had the car checked before we put it on the road and sure wouldn't have wanted the drive axle to fall off and perhaps cause an accident.

Etta Sue, will you put the tile down yourself?  I am sure it will look very nice. 

Marilyn, hope you have a good trip today and then back and forth this weekend.

Judy, sounds like you have your day under control. Glad you are seeing some signs of spring.

Ruth, isn't it fun to have the time to join in unhurried coffee times?  This is something that has really enriched my life and I have been doing this for almost 14 years. 

The day was spent doing a little of this and that, then for lunch we went to a local restaurant for ribs, this is something that they have on Thursdays only, the rest of the week  is the faster food menu.

After being home for a short time we got the call, our eye glasses were ready for pickup so out we went again, the changes were slight but it sure makes for  sharper vision. 

Mel has gone out for his weekly curling and I am home relaxing.

Marilyn: All the best with your move.

Larry: Good that you got the tire maintenance done,

Judy: With John home early does that mean he will have a longer layover. 

Etta Sue:   A change is color is always nice.

John may ne going out again tomorrow, a fast trip to Guelph.  If we are able I may go with him.  Of course Cimi will be with us as well.

John is home and we had fish and chips for dinner.  Kass has become an accomplished cook, she made dinner.  She enjoys doing this.

Did you have the opportunity to read Romans 6?  It is worthwhile reading.

Well John is taking it easy watching a bit of TV, I am going to join him.  Perhaps read at the same time.  Have a great evening everyone.

Hi, friends,

I'm back online after having the computer in for a checkup and was out of town a couple of days, too.

I'm so tired, I think all I'll do is say "hi" and "bye" and wish y'all a good rest of the day.

Ruth Ann

Ruth Ann I pray you woke up rested and ob top of things again.  God Bless.

Larry ~ I am thinking I can do it all myself.  I have everything but a pry bar and probably have one of them in the trunk of the car!  I used to do everything myself.  It will just take more time now...since I am older! 

And it won't be a color change....just a texture change.  I can sweep that black carpet and in two hours it has cat hair, lint, threads, etc. again!  At least, vinyl I can use a dustmop or my battery operated sweeper..it picks up cat litter real well.  But it doesn't work as well on carpet...at least, that black bathroom carpet! 

It is kind of cold here today...only to get to 42°.  Where did our spring time go???

Hi everyone.  It is 8 pm here in the Eastern time zone and I see I am third post for the day.  This was another very nice weather day.  I had errands to run this morning but got quite a bit done.  I got so interested in the basketball games this afternoon when I laid down to rest that I didn't take a nap and feel the effects this evening. 

Nothing else new so will be brief and say be back tomorrow.

I guess that I am the 4th and the day is almost over. 

I tried and did something a little different with the bread machine, instead of the machine doing all the work I stopped it at the first rise then removed the dough from the machine and did the second rise and baking in the oven, the bread is the shape we are accustomed to with 2 loaves instead of one larger,  I will do this more often.

The rest of the morning was spent waiting for our house guest to come in, he did arrive  and was gone in an hour.  Then later in the afternoon a cousin arrived for a short visit it is always good to see him.

I will say nite nite to all

Don and I went for an early 50 min. walk today.  My blood pressure is not good & I am not sure why - very high for me.  So, I need to walk even more - we also walked blocks of a fair in Tucson today - hot & slow.  Everything was so expensive & not many people buying.  Our friends are helping on a food drive tomorrow - he runs it every year - and they may need our van so we are ready if needed.  Don spilled coffee with cream in it all over his shirt at the fair & didn't even notice until I asked him if he had tie-dyed his shirt.  It didn't come out with the first wash so am soaking the shirt and hopeful.  

Larry:  I went to visit our friends instead of taking a nap.  Looking haggard in the mirror right now     Thank you for explaining about Stacey's issues.  I feel so sad for young people as we know things happen as we age but it just isn't fair in young life.  

Friday nights are just not the same for old married couples as they used to be for singles - we are home & it isn't even 7 and we are just spent after a day of walking and visiting.  Oh, so much work  

Ruth:  Goodnight to you!

Etta Sue:  You will enjoy the tile. 

Hello everyone. 
I think Spring did arrive here, the wind blew all afternoon!  So what else is new?    

Ruth that is the way I use my bread machine.  I have arthritis in my hands so I use the machine for the dough cycle, and then take it out to shape and put in a standard bread pan.  Works for me!   

Reporting on my two brothers... we learned that Wes was very fortunate that the doctor found his prostate cancer early.  The surgeon told them that he had an aggresive form of cancer but it all came out clean.  He is doing well now.

And Jay, the one who had the ladder accident, well, it is a month now.  He has had two surgeries.  Went back about week-or ten days ago for checkup.  When they unwrapped his arm, it was all red.  He had gotten one of those bacterial infections at the hospital and his arm looked awful.  It is still not sewn up or grafted...now he is having to have the continuous drip anti-biotic for 4 weeks and hope it works.  He is having this done at home with a nurse who comes daily to keep him taken care of.  Medicare would not pay for home care but they would have in a medical facility.  How about that?  It would have cost Medicare much more in a facility. You remember I was sort of worried that this traumatic experience might be the beginning of his decline.  I pray that is not the case but it scares me. 
Thanks for your prayers for my brothers. 

This morning I had a scary situation happen, it could have turned out tragic but the Lord was with me.
I was driving to my doctor's appointment, going west on Llano Estacado nearing my left turn onto MLK Blvd.   I was in the turning lane, blinker going, when I noticed a car approaching the intersection from the south.   I thought "he is going mighty fast, but surely he will stop at the stop sign".   NO, he (or she) just kept coming fast.   

I thought "He acts like he is going to cross the highway in front of me."   So I hit my brakes although I had already slowed down to make the left turn.   Then suddenly he made a wild right turn and appeared to have lost control because of going so fast, and he swung way too far towards me, partly into my lane.   I did not have time to look to see if anyone was in the lane behind me, or the next lane, I just quickly swung to the right to keep from getting hit.   No collision, but there would have been had I not gotten out of the way quick.   

Whew!   Thank you, Lord!   

I am glad I did not have to have my blood pressure taken right then!!

Good night, y'all.

Al:  Thank you so very much for sending the sermon on beatitudes.  Your story on Lot and those teachings are so clear in your message.  Have a happy sermon day tomorrow!

Janice:  Whew - you did some great defense!  Will pray for your brothers.

As hot as it gets in Tucson, and it is above normal highs, the place does cool down every night to 60* F.  Birds wake me quite early and this is the time when Don gets his best sleep now that he doesn't have to rise early to get to work. 

Good morning, friends,

It's a sunny, but cold day here in Nashville - temp is only 35 degrees right now! Brrr - I agree...where did spring go???

Will be eating with frieneds at 1 pm, and am participating in our church's monthly 24-hours of prayer weekend. It's truly amazing the reports of answered prayer. God is so good to us, through the good times, the difficult times, and all in between, as well.

Y'all have a good day with our Lord.

Ruth Ann

Well, I am assuming that Marilyn's no longer a resident of our town here, but that she is in process of moving up to Coos Bay or North Bend, Oregon.

Carol - you're welcome!  I'm glad my voice can reach that far these days!

It's fairly cool here today, and supposed to continue to get cooler.  In fact, the snow level is supposed to get down to 2,000 feet in the next couple of days.  Marbeth is up at the laundry room doing the weekly thing there, so I'm sitting here alone 'til she gets done.  As a deserved reward, I take her to lunch wherever she chooses afterward.  Today, she's chosen the Seascape, a restaurant up at Trinidad.  From most tables you can look down over the ocean at Trinidad Bay, see the boats going in/out, watch the waves, etc.  Even though we're right along the coast here, there are only two restaurants that I know of that have views of the ocean itself, though there's also one with views of the Humboldt Bay harbor at Eureka.  That harbor has no direct views of the ocean though.  Besides the Seascape, there's just one, and that one overlooks the ocean just south of Trinidad.  That one's expensive and very special, whereas Seascape is more or less average.

Well, this gal is sore!  I have the carpet up and the tack strips up.  I believe if a tornado went through here, those tack strips would have still been intact!  I didn't find a pry bar so I used a blade screwdriver and then put a small hammer handle under the screw driver and pushed down.  Mostly I broke the wood on the strip!  But my arms are sooo sore! 

Then Tony came this morning and he picked up sticks, trimmed bushes, used the leaf blower while I raked, mowed mole hills down and pulled the roller behind the mower.  We got my swing put back under the tree and the A/C cover off and the styrofoam out of the vents and the vents opened!  Good job!  Also my fireplace still heated and lit but it didn't look like fire burning.  He helped me pull out the insert but I found out I only had to take out one screw and replace a bulb...didn't need it pulled out after all. 

I fixed spaghetti for us for lunch...so two productive days in a row. 

I also found out that Kitty has to have a heart cath Tuesday!  If they find a problem and they can put in stents or the balloon, they will do that while she is under!  She has been so tired lately and gets out of breath easy. 

The rest of today and tomorrow I am taking it easy!!!  Too sore to do too much!

Hi everyone.  This has been a busy day as Pat and I attended an all day affair in the area where we used to live.  We had a delicious lunch of "Low Country Boil", which is shrimp, small potatoes, small ears of corn and sausage cooked in water.  Think it is a custom from South Carolina or perhaps Louisanna.  There was lots left as we had aniticipated more people in attendance.  We were glad to get home and Pat is now resting as said her neck and shoulder have been paining her all day long.

This morning I changed the hard disk in my desktop to one I had cloned a year ago.  Now I am working to update the Windows software and other programs that need updating and will take a while to get it back into the shape I want.  Something happened to fill up my previous hard drive and it couldn't be accessed.  Once I get the computer back into shape I will reclone it on the old drive, which will reformat that drive and regain the space.

Janice, certainly a frightening experience on the road.  Good things you were paying attention and took defensive action.

Etta Sue, sounds like you deserve to be sore after all that work.

Al, hope you all had a delightful lunch.

Ruth Ann, it is curretnly 61 degrees here but it seems chilly to me for some reason.  I don't think the cold weather is suppose to get to us as tomorrow is to be 68 degrees and Monday 72 degrees.

Carol, sorry to hear of the blood pressure problems.  At least you are in a good place to be able to walk unless it gets too hot.

Ruth, that fresh, homemade bread sure sounds good.  That is one of my favorite thngs.

Hi from a soggy Vancouver Island.  I think we are going to miss Spring and go straight into Summer.....I keep looking with longing at my Spring clothes.

Wendy had another test on that lump in her breast and must see the dr. the end of next week.  The dr.'s are so booked that waiting has increased even more!  SIL is having terrible trouble with his tummy and finally agreed to another appt.  Amanda is ill with a cold.  Sometimes I get so depressed by all of this!  The arthritis in my neck has become almost more than I can deal with and this time does not want to go into remission.  And so it goes......

Now that didn't help a bit!  I spend time listening to music on Youtube at night, rather than the news, etc.  Watched 20/20 and got most sad by all the suffering that is happening, especially for the kids in our world.  Not that things are that bad in Canada yet...but it will come.  I am praying that your president will succeed in his efforts to get things back on track.  One must think positive thoughts and keep in mind the needs of others.  I guess that is what impressed me about so many in the US...how they are finding new ways to cope with their loss and work towards a future.  If ever our world needed hope, it is right now.  For those without a faith in God, it must be terrible.

Time to go and start dinner for the kids.  Wendy needs a rest after we went to Victoria this morning.  They needed something for the business, and I went to buy towels and a new pillow.

Pleasant Day/Evening and God Bless.
Liz

:)Good evening or good morning.   Well I have not been on the site since last Sunday.  I don't know where the time goes.  Noreen and have been kept going on Mondays we have our grandson here also on Fridays.  We love him so much and he loves to play and to give big hugs and kisses too  Then in the middle of the week we had to go north to look after our granddaughter so that was part of the week.  Other activities also include the volunteer at the mission work and then there was a doctors app.  So it just keeps on going and we thank the Lord for the strength that he gives to us.

Today we headed north to a 60th. birthday party and that was a lot of fun

Well it is late and have to get up for church.  May the Lord give you all a marvelous day in his house.  God Bless.

I think I need to go to bed tired more often!  I slept over 7 hours without getting up!  I haven't done that for years! 

It is bright and sunny today.  I love seeing the sun shine through the stained glass windows at church!  You can even see shadows of birds in a tree or two outside the windows.  God's eye candy!  It is suppose to get to 65°.  That's almost 'sit outside on the deck with my laptop' weather!! 

Nothing else planned today except resting!  And getting over my soreness!  Ivalou has a dr. appointment tomorrow and Tuesday I have a blood draw.  Maybe Wednesday I can get back to my bathroom floor!

Not many posts in here this week.

I was away from the internet from Monday till late last night and I didn't check out anything after arriving back in Guelph as I didn't feel well but I'll get the new Thoughts for the Week opened for the coming week and let's hope it's one of our "liveliest" yet!  :2funny:

Time to close the door on this week's "Thoughts for the Week" and open a new one for March 22!

Let's see if we can have a really active topic this week!

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