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No problem Larry and thank you very much!

Hi all!

Good Morning I am out of here to church in just a few minutes, I have to go early to make the coffee for the Adult Sunday School, there are only abut 6-10 in the class on a good day. I seems that people dislike to get up early to get to Sunday school. When I spoke to the pastor about it he said that Sunday Schools are on the way out and that  most churches are  only hold  regular service and Evening Bible Study during the week. Some aren't even having Sunday night service. We have Prayer meeting at 5 on Sunday instead of an evening service.

Well, the weather man was right.  The roads weren't really bad at all all day yesterday.  But the 11 o'clock news was telling us that more snow after midnight and winds up to 40mph!!!  So I didn't even set the alarm to go to church.  I was up at 4am and yes, more snow.  I was up at 6:30am and yes, strong winds...almost a white out!!  Now I have drifts as high as my bottle gas tank but thankfully, my drive is fairly clear all except right in front of the garage door.  All the windows in my house are plastered with ice or snow...all sides!!  But, thank God, I am warm and toasty!  I can barely get my side door open...about 8 inches of snow, then ice, then snow out there.  My front door is frozen shut! 

But my g-nephew called and said he would be plowing us out this afternoon or evening.  That's good to know if we need out, we can get out.  Ivalou has the sleep clinic tomorrow night...she needs to go for that! 

Also, Bunnie, on SeniorNet found us a new toy!!  Here's my Christmas Card to you!!

I just put three pictures in The Gallery that I sure would appreciate you viewing and leaving a little comment!   

 Colin:   Happy Birthday

Etta Sue:  I copied your animations to send to out Aunt / she looks forward to the e-mails . Etta Sue I will check the gallery as well.

Friday was our daughters birthday and last evening we joined Sue and her friend for dinner at a Greek Rest.  A lovely meal with some in a doggy bag to bring home.  The snow storm started here last evening and wow it is doing an even greater job today, we are to get many inches with all the wind sleet etc.  The perfect kind of day to stay off the roads.

Hello to every one.
Ruth

Etta Sue, I looked and commented.  The big snows of Kansas missed our corner, and we are just as happy about that.  After Christmas, it can snow all it wants! 

We enjoyed meeting Mark's friend Meme.  Poor little thing is ONLY 6'9" tall!    Seems odd to see someone tower over Mark--he is 6'3" himself!  She seems like a sweet girl, too.

Abby was lovely as a dancing snowflake in the Nutcracker.  Hard to believe how grown-up she is getting.

Etta Sue, Abby and I made Christmas mice yesterday afternoon.  Thanks again for the photo!  I am going to make white Christmas mice this week, using vanilla almond bark and dipping the Hershey's kisses, too.  With the red eyes, I think they should be real cute.

We had a Christmas program at church this morning.  Whoever wanted to sang, played instruments, read Scriptures, etc.  It was very enjoyable.  Tonight the youth and the children will present their program they have been working on for the past several weeks.

Carol, thanks for the encouragement.  I's glad I don't have to wait so long for the second eye surgery!  Right now, I see much better out of the one that hasn't been fixed. 

Talk to you later!

Thank you Ruth

Etta Sue:  We are about to head out for an open house at our friend's home - her name is Eva Sue and she has a real southern drawl....Thanks for the card, I want to get Don in here so we can record a Christmas message.

Janet:  It does take time for some people it takes longer to heal. 

We will fix this problem - I don't know if I told you but about a week & a few days ago, we had a call from Chase bank who handles the fraud division and someone had our number & had bought gas in Georgia.  (Think I did mention this) So, the card was invalidated at about the same time we have switched supplement insurance plan to save money - so, my brand new prescription wasn't sent.  Monday, we will sit on the phone or whatever it takes to get this settled.  Every time a thief takes something the work just snowballs for the person who is the victim and it is just so annoying.  What is astonishing to me is the number of people out and around who are thieves and think nothing of it - cheating on tests, not telling the truth and the list goes on - no accountability.  Please forgive my crankiness.

That is all - we watched Bret Favre pass Marino's total yardage record - well, I could cheer for Green Bay if they go to the Super Bowl - it isn't my first and second choice. 

It looks like our quilt group needs to get busy again as the Texas victims of hurricane Rita still need more quilts.  They are going when we will be in Arizona for two weeks so this time doesn't work out for us. 

Marilyn:  Our church does have a Sat night sermon and many Wed night sermons over Lent and before Christmas.  The SS is between services and that is in a packed room off the kitchen.  We can sip beverages and eat cookies while listening to the chat.  We would like a Sun night service because we often see our children or the grands in their activities and it would be nice to come back and have the evening service.  If we are in the montains, we can go to two different churches but it isn't easy to get to them when the morning temps are below zero as they are right now. 

Carol

I want to thank everyone for the comments on my winter Indiana pictures.  Really nice to see comments.  Makes one feel their pictures are appreciated and makes you feel like taking more pictures and posting them.  Thanks to one and all!!!!

Janet ~ I'll bet Kitty hasn't thought of making white mice.  They would be cute, too.  Let me know what you held onto to dip the Hershey kiss. 

Now Kitty is making Christmas Wreaths with corn flakes, marshmallows, corn syrup, green food coloring.  But she can't find red hots anywhere so is going to use pieces of cherries. 

Carol ~ Did you make your message?  I hadn't used my mic for a long time.  Didn't even know if it still worked! 

It has gotten very cold since the sun went down.  My drive is still not plowed out and my deck still has lots of snow on it.  But according to the traffic on SR32 that I can see from my front window, I wouldn't be going anywhere even if I could.  Traffic is very slow so that means it is very slick.

Gosh, no one has been here since last evening!!  Hey, wake up, West Coast, UK and all!! 

My drive didn't get plowed out yesterday so this morning I shoveled a path on my deck.  I took my keys and got to the garage.  My car started just fine.  I backed out and then 'plowed' through my drive.  I drove to Ivalou's and got hers open.  Then to Kaye Don's.  Then back home and got my trash.  Then to Ivalou's and got her trash and took both to Kaye Don's.  I put a letter in the mailbox and Ivalou had two days of papers in hers so took the papers to her.  Then back home.  Now I am home but if I want to get out I can.   

Ivalou has her Sleep Clinic tonight with the CPAP so she needs to get out.  Now she can. 

I called my g-nephew to tell him he wasn't needed.  My phone is full of static.  I called Ivalou.  Hers is static, too.  So called the phone company.  Weird that I still have internet through the phone lines.

But I will say that everything is so pristine and pure looking out.  It hasn't started melting so still pretty and white....not yucky brown! 

Hope everyone wakes up and comes to CP soon!!

Etta Sue, that graphic is so cute!  Poor Santa.  And I hadn't even thought about what I will hold onto while dipping the Kisses!  Hmmmm.... 

I went to my eye doctor for the check.  It feels/looks as if I have a strobe light behind my left eye.  Vision still very blurry.  So I'm not doing any reading except a little bit on here. 

See you later!

Hi everyone.  I spent all morning taking our daughter back to her apartment.  It is always a task to get her things back into her apartment.  She lives in a hi-rise apartment but hers is on the 1st floor and the apartments are up about 4 steps.  While it is convenient not to have to deal with an elevator in just coming and going, it is an impediment in being able to use the grocery type cart they have available to bring things from the back entrance to the steps as have to unload and then carry everything down the long hallway.  She has a little wheeled cart that she gets and we make several trips to avoid having to carry the items.  Her back and shoulder is continuing to make her very miserable.  She has a strained 2nd and 5th lumar plus something has happened to her shoulder. 

Our Christmas program a church last night went extremely well.  The fellowship dinner was well attended.  Then the children's music groups all did a nice job.  The cutest part was the pre-schoolers who sang one song and then played with using little various colored handbells.  The director had cards for each chord with the colors of the bells that were to play for that one measure as they accompanied a recording.  Some of the children put a lot of vigor into the ringing.  They were very cute.  Our Cantata was beautiful and went very well. 

I am looking forward to a quiet week.  Have something tomorrow morning for an hour or so and choir on Wednesday and that is about it.  I finished wrapping most of the presents this morning.  Pat will do some cooking and candy/cookie making and then we will be ready for Christmas day.

Etta Sue, that sounds like quite a storm up your way.  Glad you didn't lose power during the storm or your Internet.  When we got home from church last night we had no electricity and didn't until about 9:30.  It had been off for over 2 hours and have no idea why as there was no storm in this area.

Janet, glad you saw your eye doctor and do hope that your vision returns quickly.  I have a cousin, who was my wife's roommate in college, who is about 6'9" so so.  Does your grandson's friend play basketball for her school?

Carol, your comments on the thief of the credit card information certainly is true in that the person has so many things to attend to.  It seems there are always a few details that one forgets about until it is a problem such as the insurance payment being affected.

Hi Ruth. those "doggy bags" are nice.

Maryilyn, it is nice of you to be the coffee maker for the Sunday School class.

I am finally here. I didn't have to go to work this afternoon as they had some business to attend to in Eureka.  I  had telephone problems since Friday. On my cordless phone I could hear others but they could not hear me.

I plugged in my corded phone and the key pad would not work so I couldn't call out. I ordered a  new cordless  set form Amazon and it was delivered today so no I have  a phone again What a pain it was to have to return calls using my cell phone. I put a message on my answering machine stating that  there was no phone connected to the  machine so please leave a message or call my cell number. I purposely did not  put my cell number on the answering machine, because there are those that I do not want to have my cell number. No one left messages so that was a disaster too.

Etta Sue I am so happy that it doesn't snow where I live. It has in the past a few times. I remember  when Gilbert was in college and he called me and told me there was snow on the grass in front of the dorm complex and on the beach.

This is a busy week for me. Tonight is the Christmas Party at Curves from  6-7. tomorrow night is the Christmas party for my Chocolate business. Wednesday between jobs I see the Orthopaedic Surgeon, Thursday between jobs I have to pick up my Senior Brown Bag and food box, and Saturday both dogs to the groomer for baths.

I think someone forgot to change to a new week.

Time to lock the door, folks!  Just in the door and couldn't get in here earlier or last evening.

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