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Always: Always Love

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers.
1 Thessalonians 1:2

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The word "always" occurs nearly 100 times in the Bible. It's often used by Paul to describe certain Christian behaviors we should manifest. We're to be "always abounding in the work of the Lord" (1 Corinthians 15:58), "always confident that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:6), "always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus" (2 Corinthians 4:10), and "always rejoicing" (2 Corinthians 6:10).

In Christ, we "always" have all sufficiency in all things (2 Corinthians 9:8) and should be zealous in good works "always" (Galatians 4:18). Our speech should "always be with grace, seasoned with salt" (Colossians 4:6) as we await the day we'll "always be with the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). Paul "always" prayed for his friends with thanksgiving and love (1 Thessalonians 1:2). There should be no breaks in our love for others and no blackouts in the consistency of our Christian lives. Our model, Christ, "always lives to make intercession" for us (Hebrews 7:25).


"To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking."
Charles Spurgeon

Hi everyone.  I was able to sleep in a little later today after staying up and seeing the University of Georgia football team trounced by the University of South Carolina.  It wasn't a pretty picture if you are a Georgia fan.  Yesterday was a pretty uneventful day beyond my normal Saturday activities, which fill up the morning.  I did complete loading the software onto my new computer. I am ready and plan on attending church this morning.  Pat hasn't told me yet whether she will go with me this morning.  Then have a quiet rest of the day planned.  I do need to straighten up my office as the housekeepers are coming tomorrow and they wouldn't be able to clean with the things I have sitting around.  I will again watch some Sunday football this afternoon and evening.  It is cooler here this morning as it is down to 50 degrees.

Etta Sue, you got to Don Pablos just in time.  That was a nice birthday gift.  You seem to have a knack for mechanical skills and putting things together.  What a surprise to hear from Chuck and do hope he will come and see you.  Do you have a good corn crop in the area where you live or did the drought conditions impact it?

Janet, looking forward to reading the new stories. 

Jeanne, thanks for the new devotional thoughts for this coming week.

The Duck  whomped all overt the Washington Huskies.  That's 9 straight wins for the #2 team.

Larry, can you tell me the name of the person whose story I last posted?  I have lost track.  Thanks.

Janet .......    MADALYNE  WILSON...... is the last one I can see Larry correct me if I am wrong.

We are at wood agan today,as well I have to get John's meals ready for the coming week.  We had a lot of family help between Heather's family and Elizabeth's boyfriend, they were a real bleassing.  Kyle helped me with my computer, it is working much faster now.  There were a lot of programs running that I never use.  Those he shut down. and left rummng the vital ones.

Got to go a lot to accomplish today

 

Hi everyone.  It is overcast and a lot cooler here this morning and the high today is only to get to 60 º.  Pat did feel up to going to church with me yesterday and we then stopped for lunch.  I enjoyed watching the Atlanta Falcons win over the Washington Redskins but managed a nice little nap in the middle of the game.  Today is the normal Monday activities.  We are going to an Asian buffet for our men's luncheon today.  Stacey had planned to come out this past weekend but just wasn't feeling up to it.  Her neuropathy has been giving her a lot of pain the last few days.  We did hear from our DIL that she is feeling better and that was good news.

Marilyn, Oregon as a very good team.  Perhaps they and Alabama or South Carolina will vie for number one at the end of the season.

Janet, I really can't remember the name of the person whose story you last posted.  Hopefully one of the other folks will remember.  I read the next posting and Judy came to the rescue with the name. 

Judy, I was hoping you would have help with the wood from some of your family members that are a lot younger and healthier. A lot of programs run in the background when we boot up and don't need to be running as you can still use the program.  Also a lot of software wants to do the checking online to see if there are updates or to report usage.

Thank you, Judy!  Now I know where to continue with the stories.  I just took the photos for the next two to the paper, only need to read Everett his story, then can email that to them for next week.  I am trying to get ahead again!

The sun is shining here, it is crisp and cool, and to get up into the low 70s today, no frost predicted this week!

I am speaking to a teachers' sorority tomorrow evening about my book, so prayers re that will be appreciated.  I am hoping to sell several copies of the book there.

Judy, all that work with the wood sounds like more than I would want to tackle!  So glad you had some good help.

Darrel has decided he doesn't want a birthday party after all.   :(  But I think I will invite a few people for supper anyway.  His 75th deserves some celebration!

I am looking forward to the VP debate on Thursday night.  Should be very entertaining----and educational, as well.

Larry, I hope Stacey is feeling better by now.  And Pat, and you as well.

Later!
 

                                      TREASURES FROM THE LEGACY

                                                  By Janet Damon

                                              Lottie Mae McBride

Lottie McBride was born March 1, 1941 in Duncan, Oklahoma,  where she lived until she got married.

Her mother died four hours after Lottie's birth.  The mother was 30 years old, and left behind six children, ranging in age from the newborn Lottie to the eldest girl, only 7 ½ years old at the time.  This oldest girl actually had to help raise the four younger children, later helped with this by the next girl in line.

The young mother, knowing she was dying, had her husband call all the children, who had been sent outside to play during the birth of the baby, into her room.  She then loved on and prayed for each of her children, and her prayer was that each grow up in the church, accept the Lord and always live for Him.  She also asked her husband to keep the children together, but taking care of five children ages 14 months to 7 years was a huge task, without adding a newborn.  How could he continue working and providing for them?  So Lottie went to live with her maternal grandparents, who lived about 40 to 50 miles from her dad.  This arrangement worked well for all concerned, and the grandparents were thrilled to have Lottie with them.

"My grandpa was my buddy," Lottie said.  "Each week, he took my small hand in his and we walked the mile from their house to the cemetery where mother was buried.  He planted flowers there and always made sure the grave looked nice.  When I started to school, he held my hand and walked me all the way to the schoolhouse door.  He did this every day until I gained enough confidence to walk with a girlfriend to school."
"My dad did raise the other five children, and he kept his word to mother by keeping them all in church, and today they still attend church, and all their families, too."

"My grandparents kept me in church, too.  My whole life was centered on the church and its activities.  I had a wonderful childhood with them, and no child ever felt more loved and treasured.  My Grandma died when I was 13 years old, and after that, my dad wanted me to come and live with him.  But I adored my grandpa, I had been with him my whole life, and I wasn't about to leave him alone now, when he needed me.  So I stayed with him."

She says childhood seems very different now from when she was a child.  She played alone a lot, playing 'pretend.'  They didn't have a dog or other pets, but she loved animals and played with any she could catch—chickens and ducks, mostly.  She and her friend played 'church' a lot; she helped her grandma in the garden and with its produce, snapping peas and such, and she says she was never lonely.

Lottie's grandpa worked doing gardening for other people, and they often gave him plants, flowers, which he brought home and planted in his own yard.  She said their yard was always beautiful!

Lottie met a man, fell in love and married very young.  They moved to Texas, and the couple had three children.  She has married twice and been widowed twice.  One son lives in the Ulysses area, and she has a grandson and a granddaughter to whom she is close, so that influenced her decision to move to The Legacy near the end of 2011.
Her children are Deana Kay Duke, Burns Flat, Oklahoma, Mike Browning, Hereford, Texas, and John Browning, Ulysses.

Marriage had cut Lottie's education short, but she had always desired to be a nurse, so she got her GED, and then went to nurse's training.  She became an LVN in Texas in 1973, and went on to work in hospitals and nursing homes for over 30 years.  She always preferred the night shift, working from 11:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M.  The friends she had at work, wherever she was, were wonderful, and they had such camaraderie they became like family.

A huge difference she sees in the world today is technology.  She remembers her grandparents getting their first radio, and that they traded in her baby bed for it!

"Morals today are pretty much "down the tube," she says, "but I think people are seeing the damage caused by that and are trying to get things straightened out again."

Something she would like to impress on our younger readers is this:  VALUE YOURSELF!  Each of us is very special, designed by God for a specific purpose in life.  Remember---God LOVES YOU!

If you will live for Christ, that is the answer!  He is the One who can give you hope and fill the empty place in your heart. He treasures you, loves you, cares for you!  It's the truth—God cares!

When I asked Lottie if she still has hopes or dreams for her future, she told me she lives one day at a time and prays for her family.  She said she is right where she needs to be at this time.

For our country, she would love to see peace prevail and for this country to return to God.

The person who most inspired her in life was her grandfather.  "He was my pal, my everything!  My grandmother was sick a lot, so Grandpa and I did everything together.  She most admired her grandfather and his son, her mother's brother.  He was the only one in the family who didn't know the Lord, and she remembers her grandparents praying on their knees every night for him to accept the Lord.  Lottie wants to emphasize that we should never, ever give up on our prayers, no matter how many years go by without visible results!  This uncle went away to war, had some very scary, close escapes, but without a scratch.  He came back home, and still rejected the message of the cross.  But when he was past 90 years old, he finally came to the Lord!  His son did, too, and for the remainder of the uncle's life, he was on fire for God.  It is always in God's timing!

When I asked what achievement or accomplishment in her life gives her the most satisfaction, Lottie's emphatic answer was, "Nursing, nursing, NURSING!"

Regarding extreme weather, Lottie remembers the black dusters rolling in and she has been through several tornadoes, especially around Plainview, Texas.  One nearby small town was almost totally wiped out, except for the hospital.

When she was working nights in a nursing home, she had a vacation coming up, and was trying to decide where she wanted to go.  One of the residents told her that he had helped to build several cabins in the Palo Duro Canyon, and suggested she go there.  So she reserved a cabin, and had to get to it by Jeep.  She stayed there, did a lot of walking and enjoying the beauty of the cabin, and met another lady who had also rented a cabin nearby, bringing her dog.  They enjoyed each other's company, sharing a campfire under the stars, and also went to the tiny town of Six Gun City and enjoyed the Western singing at night.

Another thing she really enjoyed came about after she moved to Terral, Texas and joined the Baptist church there.  They found her to be a willing worker, teaching Sunday school, and Girls' and Boys' classes.  That summer, she got to take children to youth camp at Turner Falls, loving it so much she still recalls the joy it brought her.  She said four of her grandchildren accepted Jesus, either at her house, the church, or at camp that summer, and five grandchildren were baptized all in one service in Buffalo Springs, near Lubbock, Texas.

Lottie's favorite scripture is Be still and know that I am God. Psa. 46:10

Her hobby has been crocheting afghans and baby blankets.

The best part of her life is seeing all of her children following the Lord.  She would like to be remembered as a nice person, one who cared about others.

The legacy she wants to leave is a family loving and walking with the Lord.

Janet, I was thinking it might be something to post the original story from the 95 yo lady and then post the revised one from her family.  We are all getting older and it might help us to realize age does some strange things to our minds.  Loved the story of Lottie Mae.  She has so much to be thankful for.

Larry, I, too, need a new laptop.  But I keep holding on to this one.  It works great.  Then it suddenly is slow.  So I spend hours doing maintenance on it.  I still have the pop up that states 'Host Process for Windows Services stopped working and was closed.'  But so far all seems to be working.  Just that when I shut the lid, it takes a long time for the laptop to turn to idle.  I can live with that! 

What a beautiful day in Hoosier Land today!  We have had about 3 days of rain, clouds and gloom.  Not today!  There was a frost this morning (31 degrees) but there isn't a cloud in the sky right now!  Solar heat is working and that's a plus!  I did wake up this morning to a cool house.  My furnace thermostat was set at 68 degrees and it was working.  My heat pump wasn't.  I turned it off and back on and now it is working.  Must have been a hiccup!  Now the house is warming to its 71 degrees!

After a hard day's work John Heather's son relaxed at the river.. Just thought I would let you see what we find  "common place" here.

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This was taken with my phone.....he didn't know! 

Judy:  Can someone make that into a clickable?  I hope you get all the wood you need for winter before the snow falls.  There is nothing worse than digging wood out of a snowbank.  What else have you been doing lately???

Janet:  I enjoyed the story of Lottie Mae.  Who cared for the baby and little ones when her father was working?  How sad about her mother.

It took more than a few minutes but I finally figured out how to wear a back brace - someone could have made a movie of me trying to get it on right and then Don came to the rescue.  Now it feels somewhat comfortable but it looks stupid so I have an extra shirt on today.  Good grief - getting old is not for sissies.

I couldn't find the cell phone and was so worried it was in the washing machine then I decided to call the number from our land line.  The little black phone was sitting right on a little quilt I have in the entry area on a table.  New place to hide. 

Must mention one of my favorite gifts this year.  Don took an old picture of when the grandchildren were toddlers & baby and loaded it to the WalMart site to order a mouse pad with the picture imprinted on it - I just love it. 

Al:  We are all so happy that you have your new license.  Take care. 

Carol, you should be able to see the picture now.   :)

Judy - that is indeed beautiful!  Two lines of a poem about it:

The beauty all around is geat.
For greater beauty yet we wait!

Imagine how THAT'S going to be!

Judy that is a great photos so pretty, those reflections are awesome.

We have 14 dogs coming in to the clinic tomorrow and 19 cats, some of the cats are Feral, it is going to be a very busy day, I am going in at 10 am instead of 1pm. They are going to need all the help they can get.

Yesterday was a do-nothing day for me.  Loved it! 

It has certainly turned cool in Indiana.  I am having my furnace cleaned as I am typing.  I won't use it every day.  I guess I use it to keep it going and for a back up.  Need to use it so it doesn't rust out! 

Then Ivalou has her class lunch today and she wants me to go with her because she has an appointment at 2pm with the doctor for her shoulder.  She had an MRI Friday so he wants to talk with her about surgery.  She said that it is 3-6 months recovery time and he said she could use her fingers.  I hope she can use more than her fingers for 3-6 months!!  I can handle taking care of her Mon-Fri but weekends, the kids will have to take over! 

I think it is wishful thinking but I keep hearing motors...like combines or corn pickers!!  I want these corn fields down so bad.  And Larry, to answer you...this year the stalks aren't near as high as usual...probably around 4' high.  And they say that the eats are short...each ear is usually around a foot long...this year much shorter.  And the corn isn't all around the cob...so yes, the drought we had has hurt the corn crop.  But for the life of me, I don't know what field corn is used for!!  I have lived here all my life and don't know!  Other than feeding cows, I have no idea!

It is another day just like yesterday...not a cloud in the sky and cool.  Barely any breeze but when I stepped out the back door to let the furnace man in, it was down-right cold!  Only 37 degrees!! 

Jeanne:  Thanks for the clickable to a beautiful, serene picture. 

Judy:  It looks so peaceful.  The trees are beautiful. 

Etta Sue:  Field corn uses:  corn for pigs and cows, cereal, corn meal, grits, alcohol and corn whiskey     What gets me is the cereal and grits.  Fodder corn is what we called it.  Mornings are so refreshing now so enjoy.

Don is at the VA this morning and he will need me there for his appt. next week. 

Hi, friends, I returned last night from a quick trip to check on my son, who is sick with pneumonia.  He's recovering, thanks to our Lord and also for Veterans hospital close enough he could go for treatment.

It seemed by yesterday he had begun to get better, so I returned home.

Now, it's time to unload the car, go to the bank, check on the house, etc., etc. :)

Busy day ahead.

All praise goes to our Lord who hears, guides, heals, answers prayer (in His time), and brings His lost ones back into relationship with Him.

Love to all,
Ruth Ann

Hi everyone,  has been s busy morning.  Pat and I went to breakfast again at Steak and Shake and then she stopped at Joanne's to puck up a spool of thread.  I brought her home and then went to a meeting.  When I got home I then took Pat to Kaiser for a test and to pick up some medicine.  Now am resting and trying to get some OD the messages read.  It was cool this morning and still overcast.  I plan on staying home the rest of the day.

Janet, marvelous story of Lottie.  It takes me back a bit when I see she is at a care facility but younger than I am.  She sounds like a lovely lady.

Etta Sue, that is not an unusual error message you are getting on your laptop.  I am really enjoying my new laptop.  We haven't turned on our furnace yurt but I thought about it this morning.  Corn has many uses including use for ethanol and corn syrup.

Carol, sounds like a nice idea for the mouse pad.  Hope your back is soon feeling better.

Marilyn, it sounds like they need to pay you for your efforts.  Glad you are enjoying working with the animals. 

Ruth Ann, glad your son is feeling better and you are back from your travels.

YES, CORN SYRUP AND ETHANOL ARE THE TWO BIGGEST USES OF CORN!   :o  Oops!  Darn caps lock!  I really didn't mean to shout!

Judy, what a beautiful photo!  Two things we have little of here--trees and water!

I have been fighting emails all day, have deleted well over 2000 of them from my other email address.  In the process found some that I should have gotten months ago, which explains why I wasn't hearing from some people.   :-[  I hate having to go through and check each one to delete, but need to sift them pretty carefully.

Other than that, I did go speak to the Delta Gamma Kappa sorority (I think that's the name) tonight, and was warmly received.  Also sold a few books, so that's a plus.  Thanks for the prayers!

Thanks for the comments on Lottie's story.  Yes, Larry, she's younger than me, too.  And I was really shocked when I interviewed Everett Bray and learned he is only 6 months older than me.  I've known him for several years and thought he was at least 80!

Lots of folks in the community are letting me know they are enjoying the stories, so that's nice.

Carol, sorry you're having to wear a back brace.  Hope you won't have to wear it too long.

Yes, I really enjoy the stories, too. You are so sensitive to your storytellers and are doing a great job conveying their messages to others.

By the way, Janet, do you know you can click on the Name column in your inbox, and the messages will be sorted by the sender's name. That makes sorting through much easier. I understand. In the few days I was away, I had more than 200 messages to go through. :)

It's so great that you enjoy volunteering, Marilyn. Volunteering is a way we can "give back" without spending much, if any, money, and it is so much appreciated.

Y'all have a good rest of the day with our Lord.

Ruth Ann

In a few minutes, I will go over to my friend Paula's house to give her husband Roy another haircut.  So I will post another story for you here before I go:                                                     


                                      DOROTHY REBECCA DAY

This week we will visit with Rebecca Day, who was born July 4, 1926, in Morton County, Kansas.  She grew up in Morton and Stevens Counties, attending school from first grade through high school in Rolla.  Rebecca graduated in 1944, in a class of nine students.

She states that during her childhood, her family was poor, as were most residents of this area during those years.  "My dad was a dirt farmer," she said.  "He ran a dray, delivering things during some summers, and some summers the whole family moved to Hutchinson temporarily, so Dad could find work there.  On those trips, my brother and I had to ride a lot of the way in the back of the truck, and arrived blistered from the hot sun and the wind.  During the school year, he took the dray off his flatbed trailer, replacing it with a school bus body, and ran school bus routes.  Mother taught school, but in those days, a woman couldn't continue teaching if she got married.  They made an exception for her, because teachers were in short supply, but she still had to stop teaching when she became pregnant.  She taught in the little rural schools, and later, she did return to teaching.

After high school, Rebecca moved to Kansas City to attend Business School, where she took shorthand, bookkeeping and "deportment", which was intended to teach girls how to behave as young ladies, and was a prescribed part of the schooling.
This education served her well, as she states she made a good living doing bookkeeping for many years.  She worked at two different banks, two car dealerships, and a doctor's office, before taking a leave to have her children.  In later years, she worked in a feedlot for 10 years, a trucking company for 10 years, and then the Co-Op Elevator in Rolla for 8 more years until retirement.

Rebecca married Jewel J. Day in 1946.   He was a mechanic and a truck driver in the oil field. The couple had three sons and three daughters.  She says she had two different families, as the first three and the second three were separated by a span of seven years.

The eldest son, Stevan, followed his father into the "oil patch" and is now sort of a bionic man, as he has two artificial shoulders.  Stevan gave them 4 grandsons. Mikal, the second son never married, and the first daughter, Myrla Dene, died at the age of 2 ½ years, of Leukemia.

Seven years later, Kevin Lyn arrived.  He is still single.  Then daughter Alicia Loretta (Hughes) came along, and  she is the mother of Rebecca's only granddaughter.  Daughter Rebecca Janine (Parker),known as Becky, is the youngest of the six children, and lives here in Ulysses.  She is the reason Rebecca lives here.  Becky has one son.

To recap, Rebecca has two living sons and two living daughters; 5 grandsons, one granddaughter, and 5 great-grandsons.  She is very proud of her family.
A valuable lesson we could all learn from her is this:  Be honest, be courteous, and think of others.

Something she regrets is that because he was working all the time, her husband never took a vacation nor took the family traveling anywhere.  She says, "We divorced when the youngest child was about 7, and then I took the kids on some short trips, but never very far or very long."

Advice for young folks:  "Mind your P's and Q's!'

When I asked about the biggest difference she sees between the way the world was when she was young and now, she said her mother lived 108 years, so she talked about the changes she had seen---from horse and buggy to automobiles, to airplanes, to space travel and seeing a man land on the moon!

About behavior differences, she said that people used to be much more self-controlled, courteous and just genuinely more respectful of each other.  Back then, very few unmarried girls had babies, and when they did, it was kept as quiet as possible.  Now it seems like "anything goes."  And they don't even have enough self-respect to be embarrassed about it.

About her own future, Rebecca says she wants to live as long as she is of sound body and mind, "But not to 108, like my mother!"

She doesn't feel like our country is doing well now, as we are suffering many things like floods, droughts, shootings and other chaotic things.  "I'm not a religious person," she said, "but I can't help but think God is trying to get our attention!"

The person who most inspired her in life was her mother.  "She was such a good person.  She taught school, supported the community, taught Sunday school and 4-H, and sewed for me.  She had many years alone after my dad died, and she had to learn about crops, cattle and such, all at once, and all while helping take care of my children."

One thing she did that she never thought she would do was selling her parents' land.  But she did keep the mineral rights.

"I remember the dust bowl!  Mother taught a kindergarten group in our house, and one day, it rained during a dust storm.  The rain mixed with the dust and fell as balls of mud!  They seemed to me as big as golf balls, sticking to the sides of the house.  Mother used to hand wet sheets, etc., over the windows to try to keep the dirt out and also to keep us cooler in the hot summers.  After the dirt storms, the sheets made even more work for her, as she had no washing machine and had to launder them by hand.  Women's work was very hard in those days.

"When my oldest son was small, we had to take him to a doctor in Oklahoma City.   While we were there, a plague of grasshoppers arrived, and I can still remember the sound and feel of walking on all those crunchy things," she said, with a shudder.

During the years of drought, it was a big deal to drive out to the Cimarron River after a good rain, to see the river rise.  And we would love to see that again!
Rebecca attended the Methodist church as a child, and so did her children.  She later lived across the street from a Methodist church, but didn't attend.  She says she didn't push church; that she worked all week, and when Sunday came, she enjoyed sleeping in, or spending the time with her family.

A trip she remembers with pleasure is one that she and a girlfriend went on when she was 75 or 80 years old.  They went on a bus tour to Branson, Missouri.

The hardest times Rebecca has had to endure were losing her oldest daughter at the age of 2 ½ due to Leukemia; her father's death in 1960 from a heart attack (he never got to see her two youngest children); her eldest son's death, in February, 2006, from a heart attack at the age of 53 years; and four months later, the death of her mother.

The happiest times were the births of her children.

From these things she learned to just keep on plugging!  Through good and bad, you just have to keep on keeping on.

She would like to be remembered through her kids; that she lived a good life, and that she was honest.

The legacy she wants to leave is to have her kids proud of her.

In July of this year, Rebecca attended her 68th high school reunion banquet in Rolla.  All four living members of her class were there; two Bettys, a Becky and a Darrell.  Darrell asked Rebecca for a date, she accepted, and he took her to the casino at Dodge City, a new experience for her.  She really enjoyed it.

"It was fun having a date after so many years," she said.  "It made me feel young again, and also made me into something of a celebrity here at the Legacy!"

This dear lady enjoys gardening and appreciates the Legacy making it possible for her to continue doing that kind of work.  They also helped her take a number of her plants to the Grant County Fair, where she won several ribbons on them.

Rebecca would like to invite you to come visit her any time and enjoy the flowers that she enjoys tending in her room.

Janet, what wonderful people you are meeting at the Legacy.  And what a fine job you are doing, telling their stories.  Thanks for sharing these stories with us.   :)

Ruth Ann~Confusion has set in.  Do you have two sons?  One in the apartments with you and one in England?  Is the one from England back here?  Who has pneumonia?  Which one is now a truck driver?  Isn't he in Ohio?  Did you travel there to see him?  My curious mind wants to know!  ;)

Rebecca is an outstanding lady!  Why does Kansas have all these marvelous people in one area?  Perhaps it is the author that paints beautiful pictures with words...

Well, Ivalou does have to have surgery providing the heart doctor okays it for her to stop her coumadin so she can have surgery.  After that okay...she will find out when.  Without surgery, she will continue to tear and continue the pain. eventually losing use of that arm. 

And she has lost her lawn guy!  Parker, her grandson, has a new job plus going to a local college.  He starts working at a car dealership this evening.  I told her...I can mow her grass and probably only need to do that once more this year.  But I also don't rake!!  I mow leaves!! So I can do that for her also.  Also that I may have to use her mower since my mower has a leak in the big back tire on the right!  Tony said he can fix it but when? 

And if she gets her arm fixed, she might be able to mow next year herself!

Well, it is cloudy today with some sunshine.  A little warmer this morning.  I plan to go to the pool and then to get some groceries in.  Once I am home, I want to do some laundry.  Looks like it is windy...the flag across the road is standing straight out!

 Hi everyone.  Went to McDonald's as usual on Wednesday but left a few minutes early as Pat had an appointment for a hair cut with her beautician.  This should be a quiet day as nothing else on the schedule.  It seemed like I was on the go all day long yesterday and was worn out by last evening.  I had one little project to do for the Golden Games website today and that is completed.  So when I finish reading here on C&P my normal computer work for the day will be over.  Stacey wants to come out this week so will go and get her either tomorrow or Friday and take her home when she wants to go back.  She usually spends just one night here as is much more comfortable in her own apartment.

Janet, glad your talk to the sorority was a good one for you.  I don't think I would have the patients to go through 2000 emails.  I think you have a natural talent for writing and not at least surprised that you are getting favorable comments from your community.

Ruth Ann, I wish Gmail had the sorting feature.   Gmail want users to use search within their emails to locate the email they want.  I did a Google search and found some other suggestion that can be used to get like emails together.

Hi to everyone that stops by today.  If you don't generally post here please leave a message so we can get to know you. 

My goodness, Etta Sue, I DO have you confused. My husband and I had 4 children - 3 boys and a girl.

One lives in the apartments just up the street, one has left England for home, and is currently the over the road trucker who has been ill with pneumonia, one is an RN who lives in the Atlanta area, and our daughter is also an RN, alternating between their farm in the Memphis area and their apartment here in this area.

Yes, Janet, I truly enjoy your ability to tell others' stories. Please give all the residents there my love and best wishes (especially YOU KNOW WHO!!) :)

I worked on installing the Virtual PC on my laptop which works in the mode to let a person use some of their older files. I believe Marilyn has also installed it. It certainly was nice to return to some of the games I've missed since installing Windows 7 Professional.

Now, to go about the day's duties.  ^-^

Love and adoration to our Lord and Savior, and, through Him, much love to each of you from

Ruth Ann

I am missing those of our group who haven't been posting for a long time.  Where is Ruth?  And the other Ruth? And our Pat?  and so many others who used to post regularly.  Please come back, I miss you!

I am going to town to finish interviewing my friend Maxine who painted with me for years.  She is 96 years old now, very frail, but such s wonderful friend.  She still lives at home, with lots of help from her kids.  Anyway, I want to get her story while I still can.  The other lady who painted with me for so long, wanted me to write a book about her life, and we were going to start on it as soon as I got home from that last European River cruise, but she died while Iwas gone.  I do not want a repeat of that scenario!

Here's another story for you........

                               LEON SHAPLAND

                                              BY JANET DAMON

Our featured resident this week is Leon Shapland.  Leon was born in Lane County, Kansas on May 19, 1923.  He grew up in Lane County, near the town of Dighton.

His school days were all spent in the Dighton school system, where he graduated in 1942.

There were eight children in the Shapland family, five boys and three girls.  Leon was the youngest and he said, "I didn't know a chicken had anything but a wing or a neck until I was 40 years old!"

Leon's dad was a farmer who raised mostly wheat, but also some feed for the cattle.  He and his brothers learned the farming trade from his dad as they grew up, helping with whatever work the day presented.

Of his childhood, Leon said, "We wore hand-me-down clothes.  We always had chores to do: milking cows, slopping hogs, and feeding calves and chickens.  In our free time, there was a sand pile out there we could play in with some old toys, or we made up games to play with our siblings."

After he finished high school, Leon moved here to Grant County to farm a half section his father had purchased.  Later, he moved to Kearney County where he lived and farmed for 25 years.  He had met a man who owned land there and he farmed for him.  His son is still farming that land.

"At first I had an old 22-36 International tractor and a 3 row lister; later I moved up to a modern John Deere tractor and combine.  Of course, as I moved up, the prices moved up even faster!"

"I got my first John Deere combine in 1975.  I used to farm all dry land.  It was all sandy ground, not really good for anything except milo.  Later we did get irrigation."

"There were no crop management fellows back then; we made all our own decisions about what to plant where, how much and what fertilizer to use, when to spray for pests, etc.  Maybe it's easier now, with someone helping make those decisions."

"I met my future wife Peggy here in Grant County.  We married in 1948, and we had four kids together—two boys, Leland and Kevin, and two girls, Connie and Debra.  We lived in Kearny County for 25 years, and then returned to Grant County."

One of the biggest differences Leon notices today from when he was young is that people don't "neighbor" any more.  When he was a boy, the neighbors would all get together on Saturday nights to play games, picnic, or other activities.  Today it seems we don't have neighbors, just people who live near enough that you recognize them enough to wave as they drive past.

He says we had more strict morals when he was young than today.

The achievement he is most proud of is raising up a family of good kids.

A valuable lesson he would like to share with young folks is: Be on time, and be honest!

Leon says he had his shares of good times and bad, but overall he has had a good life.  He enjoyed farming and running cattle, he loved the land, or he wouldn't have stayed with it.

When I asked about his hopes for our country, Leon said, "I think there are enough good people in this country that we can go on and prosper.  I don't necessarily like the way things are going now."

The biggest changes he has seen during his life are in farming methods, going to the moon, and technology.

We spoke of how things have changed in Southwest Kansas, and Leon said that industry has kept ahead of its time.  Tractors change so much that in a year or two you need a new one.  We didn't have phones, TV, running water in the house or indoor plumbing years ago.

"I didn't have a pickup for a long time after I started farming, now they wouldn't think of trying to farm without at least one or two!"
Leon told me that in the 50s or 60s, there were so many army worms up along the Kearny-Grant County line, crawling across the highway, that when a car drove over them it actually left tracks!

He saw the dirt storms of the 50s and plenty of blizzards.  He remembers the flood when Bear Creek came down.  He wishes Bear Creek would come down again, because many young people don't believe that ever happened.

Another memory is of the time a B-17 from the Garden City Air Base had trouble and couldn't make it to Garden.  It made a forced landing at the Northeast edge of Ulysses.  Word was passed asking people to quickly drive their cars to that area so their headlights could make a line of "landing lights" for the plane.  It came in, made a belly landing, but the crew of 6 or 7 men wasn't injured.  They had been on a training exercise.  The pilot landed on the belly with the wheels up, a smart move on a soft area.  Later the plane was inspected, dismantled and hauled away for repairs.

Leon says Peggy thought they didn't travel much, but he figured up that they had visited 34 states, went to both Disney parks (California and Florida) and went to Hawaii and Jamaica.

Leon's favorite kind of music is Country and Western.  He says he'd like to be remembered as a "good old boy."

                                           

Another good one, Janet.

My eyes are burning, and I'm feeling mighty sleepy. So, may take a nap before heading to the laundry area.

G'nite, friends,
Ruth Ann

Hi Janet & everyone on C.P.  I'm here!!  I had a lot of catching up to do as I've made three trips down south (Toronto and Kingston) in the past month. I don't have to go again until Nov. 25th, our 45th Wedding Anniversary.

I'm still very busy, bookkeeping, plus doing some volunteer work, so don't spend a lot of time writing; especially since I'm a "hunter and pecker"

Recently I received an email giving me ideas for the "Give me five" - Fun Stuff, so you might find me there a little bit.

Tonight I need to finish a financial report for one of the charities for which I volunteer as Treasurer & Bookkeeper.

Thanks for the one on Leon, Janet.  I think I would like him!

Good evening friends.  I missed a few days here, so it is catch up time again.  Janet, I too have been enjoying all of your write-ups of the folks at The Legacy.  They each have unique and interesting lives.  Yes, I agree that you have a talent for writing.  How did Beth get along while you were on your trip?  I hope she was doing OK.

Etta Sue, sorry to hear that Ivalou has to have surgery.  I hope it goes well and she can have a good outcome.  Surgery is no fun, and we wish we didn't have to endure it...but can be so necessary.  Did Chuck come to see you?  One of Earl's sons and his wife came to visit me Sunday afternoon.  They live at Amarillo.

Al, it is too bad that gas prices went up so high just after you got your drivers license re-instated.  Not fair, is it?  Maybe the prices will fall soon.

I went to the senior adult choir practice at my church Monday for the first time.  I told them I would just visit that day until I could decide if I could handle it.  Elaine went with me and was insisting that I go.  I think she wants me to get out more, and now that she has retired she is pushing me!  ha.  They put her to work right away, playing the piano.  The regular lady finally came though, a half hour late.  I love to sing, although I cannot read music.  It is the chronic pain that limits my activities so much. 

I got myself a Kindle Fire HD a few days ago.  I have a router for wifi so maybe my granddaughter can install it for me tomorrow, her day off.  Now I will need to find some books, etc. to download.  Do any of you know of a source where I can find some free ones? 

Hello to Larry, Jeanne, Ruth Ann, Marilyn, Carol and all others.  I dislike mentioning names sometimes because I will surely forget someone, and I don't want to do that.  .

G'night,  ~Janice

Hi everyone.  Another beautiful morning here in Georgia, a bit cool but sunny. This is going to be a full day as Pat has a dental appointment this morning and while she is there I will go to a drug store to pick up one of those grabbers for Stacey, the Post Office and also to Belks as they are having a special sale of winter clothes and I need a couple of new sweaters. I will also have to get the car filled with gas because as soon as I bring Pat home I will head down to Atlanta to pick up Stacey and bring her out for a day or two.  That will be plenty for one day. 

Either our satellite receiver or the remote in the kitchen quite working this morning.  The last couple of days it wasn't acting right and this morning I can't do anything on it.  So I will have to call them and probably exchange out equipment.  Fortunately the store is in the same shopping center with McDonald's so it isn't a long trip but there is usually a line waiting to be served.

Ruth Ann, I have never used the Virtual PC.  I am not much on playing games on the computer but do enjoy jigsaw puzzles.  Thanks for the update on your family.

Janet, so sad that your friend died before you could gather the material to write the book about her life.  I will have to come back and read Leon's story later as am a bit rushed for time this morning.

RuthV, glad you stopped by and gave us an update.  You certainly have been busy.

Janice, also good to see a posting from you yesterday.  Janice, check out the site www.pixelofink.com as they offer free books daily of various types.  They also have a daily Inspirational site.  You can sign up for emails daily that has the same thing as the website.  I have downloaded many, many free books since I found the site and many of them are very good.  I like mysteries but have also found some other very good books.  Also, you might check with your library if they have books to loan for the Kindle.  I recently set my wife's Kindle up to be able to use the Overdrive books from our library, although that wasn't a simple process.  I did find a great YouTube video that walked me through the process.

Interesting that there is an application Virtual PC to let you use programs from older operating systems.  Way back 10 years or more, in the days when I was using only the Mac, there was an application called "Virtual PC" that let you use Microsoft applications on the Mac.  That disappeared when "Back Door" or whatever it's called was introduced with later OS's.

Janice~ www.amazon.com has free Kindle books also.  I look on the computer for the ones I like and then I download it to Kindle on my Droid Razr. 

Yesterday I think was a record breaking for the amount of people in the pool.  I stopped counting at 20!  The maximum limit is 87.  You really had to look over your shoulder or you were running into people! 

Today is our Class Lunch.  Kitty is going with me.  We are driving to US40 almost to I-465 to an Olive Gardens.  We have one lady that comes from Bloomington, IN, and one guy from St. Paul, IN.  We are trying to make their trips shorter this time!

I haven't heard anymore from Chuck.  Doesn't surprise me.  It will be a surprise if I do get to see him.

I am still fighting the awful overload of emails!  Have gotten those on pld.com down to about 900, so am making progress.  It's a job I hate, as I feel I am wasting time and I do not like to waste my time!

Thanks for all the comments on the Legacy stories.  I am to interview another lady this afternoon, hate to do it today as it is Darrel's birthday!  But maybe it won't take so long.  I have spent over three hours with my friend Maxine getting her story.  I wish I had done that a year ago, as she has forgotten so much in the past year.  But one can only do so much.....

RuthV, good to see a post from you!  You have been missed here!

Janice, it's good that your daughter is urging you to get out more.  I can see from my time at the Legacy how much social interaction keeps folks' minds alert, plus the other physical benefits.  Maybe it will help you not to think about the pain you are enduring, as we can only think of one thing at a time.  Hugs to you!

I need to call my kids about the Sunday gathering for celebrating Darrel's birthday.  See you later!

I am glad someone mentioned the overload of emails.  There are just too many to look at and it takes so much time to go down the line and delete delete and delete. 

Just poking along today after a medical treatment yesterday.  Bad night sleeping so I went to the bed in the basement and listened to nightime talk radio on low so I finally fell asleep.  I was going to make clam chowder in the crockpot and could not find any canned clams.  Fresh would be better but this is no where near the salt water. 

We had a letter from the community stating that our fence and brick must be repaired 21 days from the date on the letter.  The joke here is that they forgot to date the letter.  This irks me because the homeowner's group insurance of 101 houses has had problems getting two people out to fix the problem.  It is not our personal problem but the entire group's issue. 

There has been a tremendous effort to find a 10-year-old girl here and now they have discovered remains but not identified as yet.  Terribly sad for everyone.  I do hope the family turns to faith.  Speaking of, the RN helping me yesterday kept talking about Thanksgiving and not wanting anyone to even mention God.  She was such an unhappy person. 

Happy Birthday greetings to Darrel on Sunday!!!

Good afternoon or evening where ever you are. Probably evening since I am in Oregon on Pacific time. It's been a busy day here at home don't go back to work  until Saturday. Today I've been doing laundry etc.  Just being busy. I though you might like to see a photo of me at work. In this photo I am doing the final clean up on a Pit Bulls  surgery area. we have to make sure there is no blood or bleeding from the incision and that the tattoo isn't bleeding either. Joan is at his hear  untying the string from around his muzzle that hold the breathing tube in place during surgery and making sure his tongue is hanging out so he won't choke on the tongue. We also put Karo syrup  on the gums as it helps them to come around, and help us to see them coming around when they start to lick their lips and swallow. we remove the tube when they can swallow or when they pull their tongue back inward.

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Thanks, Carol.  Darrel's birthday is today, but we are having a dinner for him on Sunday evening.

I got another interview done today.  Evelyn is 92, but her memory is sharp and she enjoyed our visit, as did I.

Darrel is frying chicken for his birthday supper tonight!

Pat is home in  Guelph again.  She has Dr's appts and other things to get caught up on.  However she is around.

I have been scarce as well.  No particular reason, just not on the puter as much.

I wish i had realized my camera was at my fingertips yesterday. We have a white cat who we are/were keeping because of her mousing abilities.  Last night I walked in to the kitchen and saw her laying under a chair, and a mouse was walking around the cross bars while she seemed to "pet" him with her paw.  Nothing vicious just gentle touching.  I moved and he jumped, she looked at me and meowed!  What is with her that she didn't "get him"!  We may have to get a new home for her!

John has another trainee this week, then a different one next week.  Busy time for him.  We are praying for a windy day and clear for Saturday.  we have wood to get in, which is difficult to do in the rain.

Off for now  Have a good night everyone!

A short reply, as I need to get to bed soon.  Coming down with a sinus infection and have felt sick all day.  I seldom get sick, but I sure recognize what this is.

I wanted to say Thank you to Larry for the link where I can get free books for the Kindle.  I sent the link to daughter and both gr dtrs as well, they all have Kindles.  I will check it out further tomorrow as I need rest and sleep right now.  Thanks again.

Also thanks to Etta Sue, although I had used that one already tonight.  I must get my stylus in control better, I downloaded a book that I really did not want.  ha.  I will learn eventually, how to do things.

Marilyn, I have a feeling you make a good helper at that clinic, because you love animals so much.  That is a good picture.  I see several people helping at the Vet's office where I take Jackie, my little Boston Terrier.  She was spayed at 6 months, in August.  And then in September she had to have two teeth removed and some bone cut away beneath one of them.  I saw several helpers out there.  I hope no more surgery for her....that gets expensive! 

Hi, friends, it's so late, I think I should say "Good morning, most likely I'm the first one here today!"

It was such a busy day, and I needed time to unwind before trying to go to bed.

Now, to set the alarm, find a comfy place in my bed, and snuggle up for this chilly evening's rest. :)

It's wonderful to hear from everyone, and I'll try to talk more tomorrow.

Love to y'all, and most of all, love, honor, and glory to my Saviour and Lord.

Ruth Ann

Ruth Ann, thanks for the explanation of your kids!

Janet, thanks for all the stories from The Legacy.  A great bunch of people and I hope their families thank you too for such great stories and memories of their loved ones.

I only have a few minutes.  I take Ivalou to her Nurse today for her Medicare Wellness Exam.  She does have her rotor cup surgery the 24th.  I think her daughter is coming for the surgery and will probably take Ivalou home with her. 

They are picking/combining Kaye Don's cornfield as I am typing!  Yay!!

Yesterday was a great lunch with 12 of my classmates and spouses.  Good food...great conversation. 

Today is another beautiful day.  Cold but very pretty out. 

Tony called this morning and wanted to know if I have heard from Chuck.  No, I haven't.  Tony and Charlene are leaving for Gatlinburg NEXT Friday evening.  So hope if Chuck comes, it will be before that.

Kitty gave me a Canon G9 camera.  She got a new one and said she paid too much for it to just set.  And of course, she couldn't find the instruction book but I will see what I can do.  She said there are manuals online so I might have to find that!

Well, better get to Ivalou's and get on the road again.

Hi everyone.  Just back from the Senior Center and then going to McDonald's to get Pat and Stacey something for breakfast.  Stacey is planning on staying again tonight and I will take her home tomorrow morning.  I couldn't believe it when she reminded us she hadn't been out since my birthday in February.  Of course we had seen her but had gone to Atlanta to do that.  This has been a very tough year for her with her broken hip and numerous hospitalizations.  We are going to go to Red Lobster for lunch today as that is her favorite place.  She loves shrimp.  That will be our main activity for the day.

Etta Sue, nice of your class to try to accommodate the classmates who attend from further away. 

Carol, are you aware that you can listen to radio using the iPad.  I no longer have a radio but use the TuneIn Radio app or IHeart radio.  Most radio stations now stream their programming.  I use ear buds to listen as they are comfortable and not hot.  I used to use a headset but it covered my ears and they would get hot.  Do hope you had a better night last night.

Marilyn, how interesting about the Karo syrup used on the animals.   

Janet, what a guy Darrel is to fry his own chicken for his birthday supper.  Hope you all had a nice time.  Did he get some type of special gift for his 75th birthday?

Judy, don't cats sometimes like to play with the mouse to keep themselves amused?  Glad to know that Pat has safely made the trip back to Guelph. 

Janice, sinus infections are always so uncomfortable.  It has been a lot of years since I have had one and hope yours is short lived.  To remove a book from the Kindle just hold down on the cover in the library view and then choose to put it in the archives.  If you have purchased the book from Amazon, even the free ones, it is saved in your account in the cloud and can be downloaded again if desired.

Ruth Ann, hope you didn't need to get up too early today as you were certainly up late. 

I'm fading fast!  Had a really short night, sleep-wise, up early, to work by 6:25, (seems I am having a hard time getting Debra to understand the words I'm retiring!) after work went to Liberal with the seniors on the bus to go to the Mid America Air Museum.  It is very nice!  Then back to Ulysses, to Pat's to get my hair done, then home, and been on this computer almost ever since.  Whew!  So it will be early to bed for me tonight!

I enjoyed each post, will try to do better next time myself.  Maybe not tomorrow, it is my painting day again, and then also need to bake a couple of cherry pies for Sunday.  That's when we are having the family plus a few friends to celebrate Darrel's birthday.

Later!

Janice;  It is really nice to see you popping in here with your posts and I do hope you won't have that sinus infection very long.  You can load free Kindle books from the library as well but most are only available for 14 to 21 days so that can be too short of a time in some instances.  It is worth a try though. 

Larry:  I have Pandora for songs but radios placed around the house close to sitting areas.  Was not aware that a book could be saved in the Cloud.  How great that Stacey has been back to visit you and Pat!

In our area, there is a massive manhunt for the child killer - actually in the north end of Denver and we are SW but the backpack was found near our daughter's area.  And, we had had a big rain this afternoon with snow was predicted for over 8,000 ft.  I hope and pray for a good snowfall for water next year. 

I am not feeling up to par having to wear support stockings for a few weeks and they make me cranky and the procedure has given me a non-stop headache.  But all will be well one of these days so I am so grateful.  The weather has cooled and that is such a relief.  We will go and watch a grandson in his band uniform tomorrow.  Two nights now have had webcam of other grandson playing hockey - his family is there with him for family weekend.  Don calls in for jury duty on Mon and we seem to have nothing but appointments. 

Update:  A suspect has been arrested in the above case.  Please pray for all the children and families in the area as this story unfolds.  The news really should have held back details we really do not need to know. 

Hi, friends,

Today was "social butterfly" day at lunch - 3 of us met at a neat restaurant across from Opryland Hotel called Caney Fork Fish Camp. It's really a hoot to go in there - stuffed wild animals, half an old pickup truck, painted fire engine red mounted on one wall, several wooden items like the wooden Indian, the cowboy, another fisherman carrying a large fish, and, in one area, an actual pond with a waterfall and real fish in it. So, the most shy one of our bunch really had a lovely time. And, the food is good, too. And reasonably priced. Check out the video tab.

http://www.caneyforkrestaurant.com

Then, met with the SHIP volunteers coordinator to exchange the 150 or so data sheets I input last month and got the ones for this month - of course with open enrollment coming up, it's really important to keep all this reporting up to date for Medicare.

Next, I attended a revival service at a local Salvation Army church. Everyone was so nice, and the sermon was great.

Finally, a run out to the house with Son #1, who actually "rescued me, and also Son #2's clothing." It was what I brought back when I was gone this weekend. I went to my car yesterday to wait and listen to the radio before putting the clothing in the dryer. Well, it's a good thing it was chilly last night, and cool today, for the house keys were on the dryer! Fortunately he had a key and agreed to ride out to the house this evening to let me in. I don't like driving at night without someone in the car with me.

So, now, it's time to "rest my eyes" for another evening of sleep, resting safely in our Father's arms while I'm sleeping.

G'night, friends,
Ruth Ann

Hi everyone.  Just now back from taking Stacey back to her apartment.  It is a beautiful morning and the traffic wasn't heavy this morning so was a nice drive.  I will rest this afternoon and watch some football.  Both the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech have a weekend off from football.

Janet, you sure had a busy Friday after having had a short sleeping night.

Carol, sorry to read that you are not feeling well.  The case of the missing child in your area has been on our news so knew the little girl had been found. 

Ruth Ann, you also had a avery full day yesterday.  Glad you were able to get back into your apartment.

My mind wouldn't quit last night and let me sleep.  I was trying to remember the name of one of my bosses where I worked for a year and a half in 1982 and 83!  I even got up and sat at the computer searching.  Finally back to bed at 3:15am and it came to me...Chris Barkley!  I went to sleep right after that.

Tony called last night and asked me to unlock the little door to the garage.  He was coming early this morning..he arises at 4:45am to go to work so gets up early on the weekends too.  He didn't want to wake me up.  He fixed the tire on the mower with Slime but now I am to drive it around the yard to coat the inside of the tire with it!  Bless his heart! 

And I didn't get up until 10am, had breakfast, read my devotions, and made papers for the next two weeks Sunday School lessons.  My coffee was terrible this morning so now I am running water through my Brita pitcher with a new filter in it. 

Need to see what the temp is and go move the mower around!

Well, Larry, it was the key to the house that Son #2 is buying from me that I locked inside. And, I had washed the clothes that he sent back with me whenI was with him last weekend. So, it certainly is a good thing that the weather was cool enough his clothes didn't need to be re-washed last night. And, also it's even "cooler" that Son #1 still had a key to the back door from the years he had lived with me at that house. Whew! Glad that senior moment was able to be remedied.

Etta Sue, one of my sons gets up really early, so I understand that he wanted to get in prior to your wakeup time. :) How nice he fixed it for you.

Y'all have a good rest of the day. I believe I'll go back to the Salvation Army revival service again tonight.

Much love to all, and even MORE love for our Lord.

Ruth Ann

I'm back home again!  I am seriously thinking of dropping out of the painting group, even though I enjoy the painting and the fellowship with the gals.  But driving 2 1/2 hours each way, to paint a simple piece just seems a waste of money and time, at least sometimes it does.  Today was so hectic.  I got up at 5 AM, got dressed and got my painting stuff together, then worked on a story from the Legacy for 45 minutes.  I left home early, wich was a good thing, as the fog was like potato soup!  I was so tense by the time I got to Lakin to pick up Winona, that I felt every nerve was stretched to the breaking point.

The fog lifted pretty soon after that and was sunny by the time we got to Spearville.  But we have two or three gals who talk so LOUD, and all at once, and my nerves just weren't in the mood for it today.  Okay, I will shut up now.   :-X  Sorry for the rant.

Larry, so glad you had a pleasant trip to Atlanta with Stacey and are safely home.
Carol, sorry you are having problems and do hope the awful killer of the little girl is caught soon---hope they don't just assume the one they arrested is the one and stop looking.

Ruth Ann, glad things worked out well for you and your sons.

Etta Sue, glad Tony got the tire repaired.

Hello to anyone else I may have missed.  Need to get busy putting the leaves in the table and doing a little decorating for tomorrow--and making cherry pies!

Hi everyone, It was a long hectic day at the clinic today we had upwards of 55 cats and 1 dog. I worked 6 hours, my back hurts and my feet hurt. So I am going to call it an early night and hit the sack by 8 pm.

Tony got the tire fixed and told me to run the tractor so the Slime would coat the inside of the tire.  No use doing that without the mower blade working.  So I made about 5 rounds between Ivalou and I and the tractor stopped.  The motor was working.  The blades were working but it wouldn't go forward or backward. 

I called Tony and did everything he suggested...nothing.  I hung up.  Got off the tractor and thought I saw a stick on top of the mower.  It was a belt...broken.  I got the manual and determined it was the drive belt.  Tony got here and we found another drive belt but it was bad, too.  Would break soon!  So I came to the house and ordered a belt from online.

Then Tony came in and said that maybe there was a parts store around.  Duh!  There is a Sears Hometown Store in Noblesville!!
I called there and sure enough they had the belt.  But what do I do with the one I ordered online?  I can't cancel it but when it comes in, I can take it, box and all and the receipt from yesterday's purchase and get my credit card refunded! 

I went to Noblesville to get the belt.

Tony is to come sometime today and fix the mower.

Tomorrow I can't mow...it is Senior Saints day at the Indianapolis Zoo.  Tuesday is Euchre and I take Ivalou for her pre-op Wednesday.  No rest for the wicked!

Good morning, friends,

Well, the Salvation Army people asked me to return for their morning service which will be the revival conclusion. They asked me to play piano last night, and enjoyed it, so I'll be playing this morning again. The message was WONDERFUL. The minister preached two sermons from Jeremiah 24. Oh, what good points he brought to mind. I'm glad my cell phone bible allows me to take notes!

Now, to get ready to go and pick up the friend who has been going from here.

Y'all have a good day with our Lord.

Ruth Ann

Hello all,
I have read through many of the post but have not had time to completely catch up from some time ago. A lot has happened for us here. We have moved to a new town (still in the OK panhandle), Ruth is getting big and ornery (over a week she grew 2 inches), my dad had a heart attack at the end of June but he is recovering and doing well, and work has been crazy busy. I would update more but need to get off here to get ready for church Hope you all have a great day!
Sarah

Have been thinking about you Sarah, sorry about your dad. Keep us updated and know we are praying.

Hi everyone.  Am ready for church and think Pat will also be going with me this morning.  That will be our main activity for the day.  I expect we will find somewhere to eat lunch but that will depend on how she is feeling when the service is over about 12:15 pm.  Other than taking Stacey home yesterday I had a nice quiet afternoon of napping and watching football.  This afternoon and evening will be more of the same.  I see the Atlanta Falcons play the Oakland Raiders at 1 pm. 

Etta Sue, don't think I have heard of Slime to fix tires.  This has not been the week for your mower.  Is there urgency to mow or is it to pick up leaves at this time of the year?  Our yard is not growing very fast and is showing the signs of fall as are the trees, although very few leaves have fallen yet.  They will once we have a frost.

Ruth Ann, thanks for the explanation of the key situation.  Life gets a little complicated on occasion.  :)  I have never attended a Salvation Army event.    Is the revival in preparation for the Christmas season?  I am sure they appreciate your playing the piano for them.

Janet, better to let off steam to us as sure we can understand and are not involved in the situation.  I think we always feel better when we share our frustrations with another person who isn't directly involved.  I can understand why you feel it may be time to stop attending your painting group.  You have added your writing to your schedule and have plenty of other responsibilities.  Being around folks who speak too loudly is very fraying on the nerves. 

Marilyn, doesn't your clinic schedule its work so it isn't overloaded on a given day or is that a normal caseload.  Hope you were able to rest last night and feel better today.

Sarah, good to see you posting and glad to read that your dad is doing well in his recovery from his heart attack.  You have had a busy summer for sure.  How old is Ruth now?

Time  to start a new week Here (http://www.christianphotographers.com/community/index.php?topic=12379.0).