A Busy Day!

 A Busy Day!

 

This day has been rather surprising and pretty happy. My friend Jo Ann, who used to be my neighbor, came by and visited and gave two of the best hugs! We agreed that it is not old age that is so hard but rather losing some close friends to time, not to mention the parts that seem to fall apart on our bodies. Love visiting with her. She and her husband and a daughter are flying out to California to visit her grandson on his ship. They will get to spend about six hours onboard with him. Now if only they could fly to Greece and visit the other Navy grandchild!

 

Shona came over and visited for a little bit. We were able to sit on the bench on the front porch. Her husband got one of those storage things delivered early this morning. Think now they will have to transfer all his tools and stuff to the container and no longer have to spend money on storage! Plus, everything will be handy now! Shona is feeling a bit better. The doctor gave her some steroids or something to help with the neck pain. Now her face almost feels like it belongs to her! Wow! That was a doozy of a headache!

 

Talked to my mailman and gave him money for a book of stamps. Had to Google the price of a stamp since it has been so long since anything got mailed around here. Did you know that stamps cost 73 cents apiece? Wow! Lewis would just about have kittens if he were still around. He forbade me from having any baby showers because we nearly went bankrupt from sending out thank you cards for our wedding—and that was back when stamps were cheap! Still had a stamp or few left, so rustled up an envelope and sent my friend Robin Christian a thank you note for the pepper jelly. Had to use some business notepaper from H&O Die Supply because the old woman did not even have any typing paper left around here. Oh my! The envelope came from some sympathy cards that have been here since Lewis died. Some things are worth keeping around, more or less.

 

Thought Michelle Malay would be here one day this week for eggs, but so far, she or Tim have not been by. Hope she has everything she needs to go to rehab after the surgery is over. Need to talk to her and see if there is anything the old woman can get to make things easier. She is such a sweet friend, but she never lets me know what she needs. At least she will have Tim here to wrangle her herd of dogs for a while.

 

Patty said the only interesting news she has seen today was the burglaries of the homes of the football teams. Seems the bad guys know the team members will be away from home on game days. Well, duh. Guess a security guard might be a good investment for those days.

 

Number One son told me that he and his family will be here Sunday and are bringing “Thanksgiving-ish” food. Tracy is making the world-famous butter rolls, Rachel is bringing mashed tators, Ellie is making a pumpkin pie, and Lance is making two chicken pot pies! Sounds super to me! Have already had my blood work done for this month, so we just won’t tell anyone, will we? (Dr. Blackwell can skip this paragraph!)

 

Reading in John right now and thinking about how Christ’s works were ignored or how they provoked the Pharisees. Nothing He did would ever have made them happy. Few of them would ever believe in Him as the Messiah. Have a feeling it would not be all that different in our age, but knowing that His return will blast the entire earth with his arrival makes me smile. No one will have to ask “Who is that?” when He returns. We won’t have to look for Him. It will be obvious to one and all. Still love John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever should believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life!

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.