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Thanks Etta Sue for opening up our new "Coffee Shop" for the coming week!

I'm off to read the devotional now!

Since I will be super busy tomorrow, I am posting tonight for tomorrow!! 

Church was awesome.  I really like the sermons Pastor Steve gives.  He really puts his all into them.  After Sunday School there were seven ladies eating together.  I really like that much better than eating by myself like I did just 4 months ago. 

After that I went to Kitty's.  She was giving me some canned cat food that her cats won't eat.  I told her I was going to try canned cat food for Inky.  But when I got there, she was gone and she forgot to put them on her porch.  Then I went to fill the car up with gas. 

I came home and got caught up online and then got my book to the spare bedroom to read...'The Princess' by Lori Wick.  Great fiction book.  I got sleepy and put the book down and took a snooze.  The phone rang and woke me up.  Ivalou just got home.  I wasn't expecting her home until tomorrow.  She had a great time visiting with her girls and the grands and g-grands. 

Tomorrow is a big day of laundry, sweeping and cooking.  To be honest with you, I will be glad when the next few days are over.  I am not a party person and I get so anxious that something won't be cleaned or done.  I don't look at people's houses when I visit them but I just know that they check everything out when they come here!!  I know that isn't true but.... 

thank you for the devotional you posted. every time i take the communion at church, i do remember how awesome it is that God loves me and knows my name. i've been going to church since i was a kid, but it's only in these past few years of my life when His love became real to me and not just something I learn in sunday school.

How is everyone doing today?
Its the beginning of another week and so much to do.
We had a wonderful day in the house of the Lord yesterday . It was good to worship God and meet with my brothers and sisters.
I am glad to know that we can take every burden to God in prayer. And to know there is nothing to hard for God.
Love and prayers to you all and have a wonderful day in the Lord. 

Good Morning, I have been to Curves and am having  my first   . I do need to get dressed in street cloths instead of sweats and fix my breakfast. I will be going to Tai Chi practice before going to work to take the lady and her dogs for their daily walk. That is all the work I am doing at this rime, no other jobs, it is only for an hour a day. So I am enjoying my retirement, doing only the things  want to do and a few things that have to be done, like Dr appts  recycling, mowing stuff like that.

I will be going to the Chiropractor tomorrow and from there to get my Zosta vax   (shingles shot). I am so thankful that it is only costing me $9.30 and that includes the injection fee. I do need to stop by the Public health office and get a Tetanus booster, but not tomorrow. Next week it is the flu shot,.

This coming Saturday there is an Holistic Health Fair in Eureka and I plan to go. Thursday night is the annual Caregiver Banquet and Resource Fair, I am taking Willa's daughter and grand daughter with me. So  this is one of the busier weeks in my life at this time.

TTYL All  y-all have a great and blessed day

Hi everyone.  It is a cool morning here in Georgia but absolutely gorgeous outside with the sun and the clear sky.  When I got home from coffee and getting a haircut, Pat had turned on the furnace as the house had quite a chill.  I think it was 41 degrees outside.

This morning when I went out in the garage to go to coffee I noticed my overhead light was on in my car where I had purchased the new battery.  I hit the button to open the garage door but opened the wrong side.  I didn't notice this until I had put the car in reverse and started to back up and suddenly realized the wrong door was open.  Fortunately I had moved only a few inches so didn't hit the close garage door.  I felt rather foolish but was most thankful I stopped in time.  I found the problem with the overhead light was that the passenger side door had not been fullly closed.  The light had been since Saturday afternoon.  However, the car started without problem so guess no harm was done.

I have a luncheon to attend at 1 pm today and then will stop at Wal-Mart, which is just up the road, and pick up a few items we need.  That is my big day.

Marilyn, glad to see you are enjoying your retirement and it sounds like you are keeping busy each day.  I feel that is very important.  Glad you had a good day at your church yesterday.

Etta Sue, thanks for the fine devotional.  Please don't get yourself down with preparing for your day tomorrow.  I always feel that if something doesn't get done it probably wasn't important and if it bothers someone else that it is their problem and I don't need to worry about it.  I am sure some people wouldn't like the way we have our house setup but it is our house and we like it the way it is, including a little bit of occasional clutter when it makes our lives more enjoyable.  Anyway, have a great day tomorrow.

Tom, I read your website page about yourself.  Very interesting.  It is a small world in terms of how our lives often intertwine with someone we may meet later in life, as is the case with you and Pat. 

Hi to Melody and Pao.

Hi, Folks.

This site is working fine on my computer here at work, so the problem that makes me have to reconnect to the Internet all the time when I am here must be a problem with my computer set-up.

I posted so late on the previous week's thread that it might be that hardly anyone saw my post.  I gave a link to a website that I built to let folks know some things about me.  Since I am brand new around here, some of you might want to "check me out."  I would be honored if you visited my little website.

http://home.earthlink.net/~tsjay54/

Also, it seems that many of you here are dog lovers, so you might enjoy the website I created for my dog who died three years ago.  Ross Allen was my constant companion and soul mate.   He was one of a kind, but they ALL are, aren't they?

http://home.earthlink.net/~tsjay53/

God bless, my new friends.

Tom

Tom - Welcome

I came in to tell you about the wonderful service we attended yesterday.  Before, during and after, I said a prayer that we might find the church where we fit best.  Could it be the little new one struggling with less than 50 people or now this was a mega church yesterday.  We are not fond on mega anythings so we did want to be open-minded.  The senior pastor was just outstanding with his message and then SS had another great lesson.  If nothing else, I would like to go to the lessons on Paul they have right now.  Don says we should take our time and go to several churches and I agree but he did say that it was worth the effort to get to 7:30 AM service in the chapel.  (We have been sleeping later with retirement).  Have to admit that I was really sleepy since I stayed up to watch Sarah Palin on that comedy show. 

A question:  Often, I will click on something in here and read it only to find that I can't get back and then because I am close to the end of reading all the posts, I don't know how to get back to the thoughts area.  I put Thoughts for the Week into the search button and it only shows old stuff .  Anything I can do to remedy this oddity? 

The children gave me a gift of a massage so I must get ready - I will be worthless after such an experience. 

Tom thank you so much for sharing  your story of Ross Allen. I read every word.

Quote from: Marilyn on October 20, 2008, 02:53:44 PM
Tom thank you so much for sharing  your story of Ross Allen. I read every word.

You are very welcome, Marilyn.

You know, I STILL sometimes cry over him.  He was such a wonderful friend.

Tom

I do understand your tears. I have always had dogs and they were all very special.

Tom, I just read every word of your tribute to Ross Allen.  I gazed at each picture of him, you and him, and could just see the depth of his love for you and you for him.  There is no love that we can experience like the love of a beloved pet.  For me, it is dogs.  And I believe our Father made it that way.

I felt my throat tighten as you described laying with Ross Allen on the floor as he left this place.  I hope I don't have to go through that for a good long while.  Thank you for inviting us to have a look.  I'll go now and check out what you have to say about yourself.   I had to read what you had to say about Ross Allen first.    Nita

Nita:

Thanks for the kind words.  I guess I was right, we DO have lots of dog lovers here.

I really wonder if God maybe gave us dogs to help us understand the concept of unconditional love?

Tom

I'm sure He did. God knew we would needed to know and understand his love for us so He gave us our pets to show us.. God is so awesome, He knows everything we need.

Dear Tom...  I certainly share your grief.  As  I am typing here, my friend is lying across my feet.  He goes with me in the car and when we leave the parking lot at the city lot, he knows he'll get a biscuit from the lady in there and starts to lick his lips.

He's 12 years old now and I sure love him.  Not certain how I'll face the time that I must say farewell to him.  He's such a good friend.

Happy Birthday, Ed.  Hope you enjoy your day.

   Good evening to all.   Happy birthday to all that are having there birthday and may the Lord give you many more.

Tom:   Welcome to C.P. and we hope that you will enjoy the site. it has many wonderful stories week by week.  May god richly bless you.  I will read your story about your dog and yourself when it is not so late.

Have a wonderful week to all I will be away for a couple of days looking after our granddaughter. and then I cannot beleive that my wife and I will celebrate our 38th anniversary on the 31st. of Oct.

  Good night to all.    Gord.and Noreen

Happy Birthday to Paul and Ed - Each of you have a lovely day.

We love dogs as well but have moved and traveled too often since retirement.  We can always go to the children's home to get a dogggie fix although it certainly isn't the same. 

I was right - having a massage yesterday afternoon relaxed me to the point that I was useless. 

Cousin is coming this week and she will call when they are ready to leave Minnesota.  I hope they don't arrive on Thursday because we are in a dinner group and I bring dessert this time.  But - it will all work out. 

Hi everyone.  I had to come back from morning coffee early as Pat has an appointment about an hour away from here and has to be there by 10:15 so we have to leave shortly.  

It was quite chilly here again this morning but another beautiful day.

Carol, a suggestion for you that might prevent you losing your postings.  I often open a separate browser window to the posting area and then just use the tabs to go back and forth between reading and posting.  It sounds like you have several good choices of churches in your new area.

Happy Birthday to Ed and to Paul.

Happy birthday Paul!  One step closer to our Lord!

Got a phonecall I sure didn't expect the other evening - from Gord.  We had a good chat.

For those who've been praying - I could not remain in bed the other night.  Had to go use the recliner again.  Don't know if there's anything that can be done for this condition - it may be the result of a car accident 30 years ago, and there may not be anything that can be done for it.  We'll persue all avenues, but we're running out of avenues at this point.

Happy Birthday, Ed and Paul! 

It is all done but the shouting.  I am ready for the seven ladies to come and play cards.  It is bright and sunny but cool today.  Need to check the deck and see if it needs swept of the leaves that fell last night. 

Then I get to do this again next week.  Won't be quite so bad.  I don't have to fix as much refreshments.

I got a call this morning reminding me of my DDS appointment TOMORROW at 3pm.  I had forgotten!!  Now I need to tell Ivalou so she can remind me tomorrow!!! 

I've been to Eureka to my chiropractor and to get my Flu and Shingles hots, I am glad that is over. Now I am cooking pork chops for my lunch and will have just a salad the evening and maybe some soup.

Not much going on here I've had to turn the heat on for a bit to warm the place up.

Marilyn, it's cool here too.

Happy Birthday to Paul.

Al, sorry to hear that your attempt to sleep in your own bed ended in going back to the recliner.  I know ongoing pain must be hard.  I also know that God knows all about it.  I'll continue to pray for you.

Thank you all for the BD wishes.  We celebrated on Sat & Sun as 4 kids could not arrange schedules t.b. here on the same day.  On Sunday, with 18 people we went through 4 XL pizzas in nothing flat.

We went to our favorite restaurant yesterday for my free BD dinner and they started closing on Monday's the 1st of Oct.  And I went to Cinncinnati today and could not get back in time to re-visit them.

Some of you may know that I rec'd Christ at age 32 and I asked the Lord to let me live as long with Him as I lived w/o Him.  Well, for the past 4 yrs I have been living on borrowed time.  Ha Ha

Just keep borrowing, Ed - God has lots to give, and He perfectly knows our times.  He's so gracious and merciful!  MANY happy returns of the day!

I'm going to make a comment that some might construe as political.  It isn't, but it might be construed that way.  The federal government did a 700B bailout.  And then there has been the "economic stimulus package," which cost another few billions.  Now they're talking about yet another stimulus package, probably worth another several billion.  Just one question: who's going to pay for all these?  And from what resources?  Our national deficit was already over a trillion, so what will it be now?  A day of reckoning is coming.  There may be foreigners just waiting in the wings to assume ownership of us - lock, stock, and barrel.

I'd like to call on all of us here to pray for our Lord's mercy.  It would be mercy, because it isn't deserved.  Oh pray for repentance, confession, and new righteousness - NOW!