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Why am I sitting here at the computer instead of getting things ready for Euchre here this afternoon?  Why? 

Guild was fun last night.  We had 42 digital photos to see plus a few printed photos and slides.  Lots of eye candy! 

Bright and sunny here in Indiana today.  It may be too hot for Texas Chili but that is what we are having to eat.  The rest is being brought by others.

It's never too hot or sunny for Texas Chili - as long as it has some cheese or parmesan cheese to go in it or on it.  Could you send a little of it on the cyber express so I can have some?

Oh, what a lovely poem

Jane, right on, if our Heavenly Father doesn't give me what I desire or should say need today then it is not what He thinks I need today.

Wait patiently on the Lord; must keep remembering that.!!!

Waiting patiently means I don't fret about it or pick up the desire and try to do it on my own.

When we fret about an issue or something that we consider necessary, we're neither committing ourselves to the Lord nor trusting in Him.

Waiting patiently is rarely easy. However, God knows when circumstances and timing are perfectly aligned for His will to be done.

please pray for a dear friend. seriously ill--waiting for a liver transplant but his wife told me that poor sweet Wally has been in a coma since Saturday.

Joyce

I participated in devotional service at our apartment house this morning, then returned to find all these wonderful posts. Several times I've blinked back tears and swallowed that big lump in my throat.

My son fell off a stage last week and his bad knee bent forward. So, likely I'll be heading to England when he has his surgery. I sure wish I had the funds to get there easily!

Y'all have a good day with our Savior.

Oh Ruth Ann I am praying for your son. Also for the funds to be made available to you supernaturally and quickly. God is in control.

Hi, everyone.  I'm so lax into getting to places I want to go.   I've read all the posts that I missed and up to Marilyn's just above me.

Jane, I'm so glad that you have your wood, and isn't it wonderful that Father paid for it.

Marilyn, I made pepper jelly one year.  We used Jalapeños.  It was so good with cream cheese and bagles, as you said.  It was very sweet and very hot.  I bet I'd like the red pepper jelly too.

Thank you for the prayers, Marilyn. It will be interesting to see what the treatment schedule will be, since he'll be treated in the UK health system...

 :)Good evening to all.   It has been a very busy day again.   I did my volunteer at the mission by going out to the farm to pick up eggs.  Then got a load of clothes and took them to our store that we call  Redeemed Goods and the money that comes into this store goes right back into the ministry so it was a busy morning.

Then I came home and had a quick lunch then I took my son to his job interview and then we came back to pick up my wife at Wal-Mart then we went to pick up an other part for my son's jeep and we are having a terrible time getting it on the road so please pray that we can get it fixed very soon.

Have a great evening  to all.   Gord.

Question for Judy---why must you get rid of your chickens?  I thought you were raising them for meat?

The Home Products Dinner last evening was very enjoyable.  The community formed a Centennial Orchestra/Band, and they entertained us during dinner; really good, too!  (It has been 100 years since the entire town of Ulysses was moved two miles.)  And of course the food was good, everything raised right here in Grant County with the exception of coffee, tea, salt and pepper.  Then the speaker entertained us with his talk on Laughter is the Best Medicine.  He is a medical doctor, but is not practicing now--discovered that doing comedy is lots more fun and way less stressful.  A fun evening altogether.

Darrel and I are ready to head out to work again.  My plan is to completely clean out what is left in Beth's trailer, which isn't much.  Then we will work on other stuff.  He did get Beth's old car started and moved yesterday; still has a little more to do on it.  He put in a new battery and 3 quarts of transmission fluid, says it still needs some brake fluid.  It had set there for over 10 years, the tires were flat, but held up after he put air in them.  At least it will be out of the way!

We will move Beth's refrigerator over here and sell the big, old one we are using in the garage.  We probably should sell another refrigerator and another freezer and stop keeping so much food on hand.  Old habits die hard, I guess.  So much work.....

I hope everyone is feeling better today, and wish you sunshine and happiness and the joy that comes from the Lord.  See you later.

Janet by getting rid of them means that we are taking them to the slaughter,  the only place here in the north is about 80 miles south.  The meat inspector won't release them till the temp of each bird is under 40*F.  If we have them there on Sunday we may be able to pick up our freezer load by Monday afternoon.

Today is going to be a busy day.  We have to be to Heather by 11:45 to pick up Kassie's school work.  She could print it at school but we don't have MSWord.  The program we have is OpenOffice and it isn't compatible with Word.  I have a printer but it won't align the paper properly so that is at Heathers as well, to see if she can get the alignment problem fixed.  IF not we may have to continue this way of doing things till we can afford a new printer.  We have other things to do in town as well so trying to do everything all the same trip.

I have to run
Judy

This last couple of weeks have been a little on the busy side, I found a can of paint that I had used perhaps 10 yrs ago that is still good, I tried painting the inner part of a window, instead of white it is now the same as the outer trim looks much better. The rest of the windows in the house will be getting the same.

Yesterday between jobs we made a trip to Orangeville then after arriving home our daughter and granddaughter came by a lovely surprise. On a sad note my daughter has 3 funerals or visitations this week she thinks one will be a visitation but the other will be the funeral service.  1 was aging, 1 was sudden her bosses brother, the other was sudden but cancer. 

I will be painting today that is for sure then I expect company on Friday.

Judy:  I did not realize that your chickens would have been big enough for the table yet.

Janet:  Your need for an auction is much different than us but I am finding that here and there things get tossed or given away and when all is done it is never missed.  Cluttered space is freed up.

Marilyn:  Good to see your postings.

Pat:  We do not see you here very much.

Larry & the rest:  Thanks for being here almost every day. 

I don't have anything in particular on my to do list for today. Walking the dogs is an everyday thing I need the exercise as much as they do. I've been thinking about making some Banana bread.

There is a lady who used to bring Keith 2 loaves of Banana bread every now and then, but since I am now here  she  told Keith that she isn't going to do that anymore, she would come by here and drop off the bread when she was in the area to see a friend. She also refused to give me her recipe. She made the best Banana bread that I've ever tasted. The last time she brought the bread was around Christmas of last year.

I will probably work on a couple of PSP  lessons sometime today.

Yesterday I made a call to someone in Alabama to pray for her, she has had breast cancer and now they have found spots on her  lumbar shine and  cervical spine that they are concerned about, she will be having MRI's next week.

Judy, I am surprised that Open Office isn't compatible with Microsoft Word.  All the hype I've heard about Open Office was that it always recognized MS Word and the other MS applications.  I'm glad you posted about that, and that I never did bother to download it.

Euchre was fun but for awhile there, we didn't know.  Jodi will be 81 the 21st of this month.  Since May she has been in the hospital 7 times.  I talked to her Sunday and she sounded like our old Jodi!  She said took some meds away and she was much better and looking forward to coming to Euchre.  Well, Ivalou and Jane were here.  It was 3pm and no one else here.  I got a phone call and it was a neighbor lady telling me that Nancy's son called her to have her call me to tell me that Nancy was taking Jodi to the hospital!  Oh, no!  And Jodi was feeling so good Sunday.  And now we are two players short!  So I called SIL Barb to see if she would play.  She called 4-5 ladies to play and got no results.

So I called Evelyn.  She was having CWF at her house and they were just sitting on the patio talking.  So I asked her if she could ask them if it were all right to close the meeting so she could their 'sister' out of a bind.  She called back and said she could be here in 15 minutes. 

By then everyone was here or coming except Janet!  Where's Janet?  So Barb called her.  Her and her husband just got through playing golf and was heading home.  Barb said, did you forget about Euchre?  YES.  So her husband dropped her off and we started playing cards. 

The chili was great.  Al, did you enjoy it?  I had a 5-quart crockpot full to the brim and have maybe a cup left for lunch today. 

Tonight is Beef and Boards.  We are to see 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.  I got an email yesterday B&B saying that lead male and lead female are engaged.  They get married every night on the show and when the show and when the show is over, they are going to get married for real! 

I haven't heard anything from Lauren and her plastic surgeon appointment.  She is very upbeat.  I can see her when she gets this all behind her that she will travel around and be a spokesperson for breast cancer! 

Judy wrote

QuoteThe program we have is OpenOffice and it isn't compatible with Word.

I believe Judy that Open Office is compatible with microsoft word . Check this page.

http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Microsoft_Office_And_OpenOffice.html

hth
Don

Goodness, Etta Sue, you sure had a time getting your card players together, didn't you?  All's well that ends well.    I sent you an email today which was returned, said your mailbox is full.

Judy, I am really surprised you are having someone else slaughter and clean your chickens.  I'm glad, because that is so much work; it's just that you are such do-it-yourselfers, I am surprised.  I wouldn't mind raising chickens if someone else would do that part; but we always did it all ourselves.  Ugh!    I sure didn't enjoy it, either.

We got Beth's trailer commpletely cleaned out today, also moved two more refrigerators.  Darrel worked on that car a little more.....well, we might eventually get everything ready.  I hope.

Needless to say, I am tired...again.  See you tomorrow.

Hi everyone.  I just got back from choir practice.  We had three new folks join our choir this evening, a husband (tenor), wife (soprano) and their son (bass).  

I spent over two hours in the dentist chair this morning and early afternoon.  Over the weekend I had a filling come out and so I went ahead and made my appointment to get the crown started.  There was really no pain involved beyond the slight feeling of a pinch when he numbed my teeth.  It also was a couple of hundred less than I had expected as he was able to save some of the old filling and pin in the tooth getting the crown and didn't have to do a buildup (whatever that is).  It will be 4 to 5 weeks before I get the permanent crown, which will be a gold one as havea gold one right next to it.

Last night and early this morning we had about 2 inches of rain and it is raining again tonight and suppose to rain periodically clear through the weekend.  It is still very green down here in Georgia.

Judy, the Open Office does work with Word documents.  You just have to save the Open Office Writer document with the Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP "save as type" selection.  

Good morning!  I am up and ready to get to work again.  But Darrel hasn't made his appearance yet, glad he is able to sleep.  I woke up and knew I wouldn't be going back to sleep.  But it is nice that neither of us is having to punch a time clock.

I think today I will concentrate on bringing things down from the upstairs part of the dome.  There are lots of good things still up there.

Ruth, we have too much stuff of our own; true, but most of this we are selling was Beth's (she cannot use any of it any more) and Darrel's Mom's (now living in Amarillo at 96 years old) and his brother's (now is South Texas and saying "get rid of it!")  So, except for Beth's part, the money will be ours, if any is left after the advertising and the auctioneer's cut.  At least the stuff will be gone!!!

Anyhow--best get to it!

It is a cool morning here and I am waiting for Don as he has wanted to take a twice as long morning walk over to a coffee place and read the paper.  We have not taken a paper for years but do buy the Sunday paper after church at times as that is an old ritual I do miss.  Our one paper is triple biased and it can make me blazing mad so it is best that I keep away from it. 

Our grandson (14) has an infection and cannot take hockey tryouts so he is feeling sad.  They will put him on one of the teams because the school did invite him for the hockey program but it won't be the advanced team.  My theory is that it was meant to be and this will be less stressful and he can work his way up.  The Lord is always in control.

Other grandson (13) is in first chair in two music groups & has some solos coming up.  We keep praying that Don's hearing will improve at some point to listen to sweet music again.  This is a hard rock to swallow.

We went to granddaughter's volleyball game yesterday & she was in there doing her job.  She has never cared about any athletics until this year (12) and all of sudden, she has come alive. 

Ruth Ann:  Praying for funds for you and for the healing of your son's knee. 

Janet:  I hope you and Darrel do get rid of all that stuff but please take care. 

Larry:  Nice that you do have rain this year.  Two hours - that is what I have next week to sit in the dentist's chair.   

Marilyn:  I hope you get that banana bread recipe.  If not, mention it here and I will look for my favorite one (3 bananas to each loaf).  How are the dogs?  We have one elderly dog in the family not doing well -she is 96 years old in human life. 

Judy:  Chickens sure do grow fast.  You must have a lot of them and you have taken such good care of the chicks.  Enjoy your meat.

On a lighter note - Don has been on a diet and doing well but he eats so differently than I - so I have been eating less myself and more veggies.  Very slowly, it is paying dividends! Have you ever been mad at a scale? 

When I mentioned that there were 400 women at bible study - I meant to say that 400 belong but they are not all there at the same time.   

Hi everyone.  It is an overcast morning and suppose to have an above 50% chance of rain this afternoon and evening.  We lingered at coffee this morning as no one was in a hurry today.  I don't have anything on my calendar for today or tomorrow and that is great as can take my time with some computer projects.

I am trying to get the laundry caught up today.  Pat is suffered with her foot, not where she had the surgery but over to the side of her big toe and the one next to it.  It is not red or anything that we can see under the edge of the bandage but is really making her miserable.  She had to take two pain pills last night at bedtime in order to find any level of comfort.  It will be a week tomorrow that she had the surgery so hopefully before long the pain will begin to lessen. 

Janet, it sounds like your preparations for the sale are doing well.  Where I grew up in the midwest it was the custom to have auctions but here in the south, at least in this area, we only have a few auction houses.  I guess people can consign with them and all of the things are taken to a central point for auction.  I hope you have a big crowd that are in a buying mood.

Etta Sue, hope you enjoyed the play.  It sounds like your persistence in finding Euchere players payed off and a good time was had by all.

Judy, I well remember my mother dressing the chickens.  However, don't think she ever had quite that many.  Fortunately I never had to be the one to start the process but have picked feathers on many a bird when I was at the farm. 

Carol, it sounds like your grandchildren are keeping you all busy with sports and music.  We had the opportunity to attend only one school event with our granddaughter that occurred when we were visiting in Missouri (where she lived). 

Marilyn, it sounds like your dogs are keeping you in good shape with the walking.  Hope the bread you were fixing turned out well.  I have always liked banana bread.

Ruth, I know that painting window trim isn't an easy job.  Hope the project goes well for you.

Gord, it sounds like anxious times with your son awaiting word from his job interview.

OK Kass has had trouble with open office and this is year 2.  The school has said it isn't compatible.  We have tried and tried and she has lost marks because she cannot print up her work because of the differences.  I am too 'puter illiterate' to understand why...I have been told otherwise by many folks .  I just don't want to see her loose any more marks because of this.

The chickens are huge.  We have 101.  Elizabeth is the mother hen and they know her. I have 2 families getting 24 each and one isn't family.  Also they are inspected by a government inspector at a slaughter house.  I sure don't want that kind of responsibility.  We have White Rock chickens, and they are known to put on a huge amount of weight very fast.  I am looking forward to the end of this responsibility.  Larry I do not want the job of pulling feathers! 

John saw the doctor last night at the clinic.  HE is continuing to stay off till the end of the month.  Then he will be back to work.  The feeling is that it is better to stay off the extra to make sure the remaining marks on his leg don't develop into anything that he would need more time off for.  So as it stands he will head back on the 27th of this month.  I have enjoyed john being home, but not the reason he has been home.

We are heading out today to do some work outside in the meantime.  Doug is getting us wood from sources he knows about. between him and good neighbours we will be able to get it all in.  

Got to go John is about ready to roll!

Janet, I have no idea why my email came back to you.  I check my email 2-3 times a day and clean it out periodically!  Re-send it, if you want!

Ya know, it is bad enough that insurances tell us what we have to do.  I can't imagine what the future may hold....

My insurance has mail-in service for my RX's.  But I can get RX's filled at a local drug store, then two refills but after that I have to go to the mail-in.  So CVS has the $9.99 for 90 day supply plan and in January, I asked my urologist to prescribe one of those on that drug plan.  Well, that generic drug worked best for me than any drug for that purpose since 1996!!  Then I couldn't get anymore refills.  I had the urologist give me a new RX for the same thing for mail-in but those drugs aren't working...blue pills instead of white pills but suppose to be the same thing. 

So I took my receipt from CVS and the pills from Caremark to CVS yesterday and she said the difference was the manufacturer.  So I asked her if I could get them at CVS and she not turn it into my insurance and how much would it cost.  Yes!  Yes! and Yes!  I got 60 day supply for $9.99 yesterday since I still had refills on the ones I were getting!!!  I took one pill at 4pm and a noticable difference in an hour or two.  So I am a happy camper!!! 

The play last evening was great!  I love singing and dancing and that's what this was all about! 

Tonight is CWF Bible Study.  I don't know where the lady lives but it is in a different town so we are to meet at church and car pool!  Good idea!

Etta Sue, I'm so glad you got your prescription troubles sorted out.  The Lord does look out for His own! 

I have the painting half done the rest can wait until next week as I have tomatoes to can and a couple of other pressing jobs for my brother.  I was also outside for a while pulling most of the garden plants - I think fall is on the way as things are no longer growing.

Janet: You will be glad to get rid of the clutter.   

Speaking of slaughtering her in Ontario there has been regulations in place for some time and I do wonder if sometimes it is going too far yet I do understand why, one person doing too many daily killings can does and has led to sudden death.  Doing it Judy B's way at least the animals are inspected and can sold legally.

Marilyn:  I hope you have luck getting the good banana bread recipe. 

I have also remembered your friend in prayer.

Larry & the rest are keeping really busy by sounds of things.

Dinner this evening will be pork chops on the BBQ along with veg.   

Thank you Ruth for praying for my friend. She is a special person and really loves the Lord.

Yawn........I have been awake since 2:00, finally got up and decided to see what was posted since yesterday morning.  I really dislike these nights, which are happening all too often lately.....just can't seem to get comfortable to sleep.  We were so exhausted by 3:30 yesterday afternoon.  I came in, showered and washed my hair and put on my pajamas.  I didn't go to bed until after 9, but I am still tired.  I surely will be glad when this auction is over.

I just noticed our little dog's bed, full of her toys, still setting here behind Darrel's chair.  Poor little Sarah.  Someone asked Darrel if he is going to get another dog, and he said he doesn't think so; it hurts too much when you lose them.

It surely does feel like Fall around here!  We have had wonderfully cool weather for August and September, and I pray it stays nice for the sale.

We learned yesterday that we won't get to go to Peru on that missions trip, they don't have room for two more people.  I am disappointed about that, but as Carol said, there is always a reason.  They have 19 going now.  They have raised the airfare by $500 per person---wow!  That's a big hit.

I am just rambling.  Guess I will go back and try to sleep another hour or two.

Janet - when is the actual auction?  I pray you'll have God's blessing on that!

Quote from: Marilyn on September 14, 2009, 05:34:13 PM


Pat How is Geordie today?

Geordie is doing a bit better.  He had a seizure the other night but nothing since.  He has a good day of eating every OTHER day!  LOL  Not sure what that's about. 

It's been so interesting reading all of your posts.

Hope you do well with those chickens, Judy.  Glad John is going back to work.

I will be heading north to Guelph on Sunday with Geordie.  I've heard that we're to get a heavy frost tonight and I was hoping to harvest all of my zucchini and tomatoes.  Hopefully Andrew may go and pick them for me but if he can't, so be it.

Sorry Pat's foot is still bad, Larry.  Take care.

Two things yesterday!  Barb told us that Keri's boy-friend gave her a ring so now they are engaged.  I am so happy for both of them.  Cancer sometimes drives people apart...this cancer brought them together. 

And Lauren's surgery is Sept 29th.  She is going to have a double-mastectomy followed by reconstructive surgery...like Keri.  No lifting for 6 weeks and heavy medication for 6 weeks.  She stated that she didn't know how she was going to pay for this surgery.  Then said, 'I know!  I will write a book!'  She will pay for it or find means to have it paid for her. 

Did I tell you that Lauren was covered by her father's insurance until she turned 22...that was just July 9th?  A month later she discovered a lump and then found out it is cancer. 

I went to CWF last night...that's Clarksville Women's Fellowship.  We are studying the book of James.  Great evening with friends and God's word.