Happy Surprise!

 Happy Surprise!

 

Maggie Sewell came this morning before it got hot and brought a sweet gift—Burkett pecans from The Pecan Shed! Those are about the tastiest pecans you can find anywhere. Think they are mostly grown in Clay County, but don’t quote me on that. Anyway, thought it was so sweet of her and David to think of me and to bring me such a nice gift. Mixed in with other nuts and dried fruit, the stuff is good for my digestion and keeps me from getting hungry for junk food.

 

Just cut up a bunch of celery and mixed that with some canned artichoke hearts and heart of palm to go with roast beef and diced tomatoes with chili peppers. Yummy! Can hardly beat good veggies like that! A pan of tomatoes with roast beef and veggies will make two or three meals.

 

Patty said that her friend Debbie assured her first that the person had already been caught, but one of the hospital patients escaped this morning. Kinda spooky since these are the criminally insane. They don’t have anything to lose. The employees used to be able to tackle any that got out, but now they can only speak to them and call the police. Rolling my eyes here!! Nevermind what the escapee might do to someone in the neighborhood!

 

Roxie went on a little trip around the yard this morning and had Patty pretty disgusted for not returning when called. She threatened to get one of those shock collars! Now that is pretty serious for Patty. She said she used up all her oxygen just trying to get her to come back and then had to honk the horn a few times to get her to return. She has a police whistle, but that takes too much air for Patty. One lung is hardly enough when a person gets upset or excited.

 

Sterling called last night and we talked about how Christ taught at the Feast of Tabernacles and how HE was the water of life. So many references are made to rivers of water in the Bible. This morning on one of those pop-up web things an article talked about how the fish would die if they dove too deep because of the lack of oxygen. In the way they talked about it, they were trying to explain how Christ knew that the fishermen needed to throw their nets out again early in the morning—and sure enough they filled their nets because the fish had to come up for oxygen. Christ knew that. HE was master of the designs. Just things that interest me and Sterling. He has a lesson to teach this next week for the men’s meeting and he wants to be sure that he has the sources right. Understand completely.

 

Truly hoping that my balance improves after this surgery. Feel like a wobbly ol’ cow trying to get around. Granddad Pollard used to talk about how all the cows in Arkansas had short legs on one side or the other just from trying to stay on the mountains to graze. Know he would get a kick out of teasing me. Miss that old man.

 

Let us pray for the kindest solutions that mankind can develop. And let us never take part in hateful speech or thought about others.

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.