Family Visiting.

 Family Visiting.

 

Today has been just wonderful with Sterling and Jacqui visiting and spending time talking about things from the past. They always bring their little dog Toby, too. He would be about a snack for either of my dogs, but they get along fairly well as long as we keep an eye on them. But Sterling usually takes Toby out to their truck, turns on the AC, and Toby just sleeps most of the visit away. Still, Sterling and Jacqui are good to the little guy, so my dogs stay in the other room while Toby gets to stay with us.

 

We had a fairly large thunder storm this afternoon. It was pretty muggy with the rain and having to keep things closed up to avoid getting things soggy. The lightning and the thunder were somewhat intense, so my dogs wore their thunder shirts while Toby sat in Sterling’s lap in their truck. Jacqui and the old woman closed the curtains, turned on the AC, and just talked until the storm went east and north of us. The sounds frighten Jacqui quite a bit, so she understood how the dogs were feeling. Not sure which ones comforted which, but Thompson stood by her while she talked to him about all that noise. Sylvia lay down and torn apart a stuffed toy.

 

All the rain made a small lake in front of the porch, but by the time they were ready to leave, it had drained down through the sand beneath the paving stones. If Lance and Landon don’t make it here sometime in the near future to reset the weather station, a rain gauge really needs to be mounted on one of the fence posts out front. Need to be able to brag, don’t you see!

 

Made liver, onions, potatoes, bacon, and gravy for lunch today. It turned out pretty well and satisfied our hunger and taste buds both. It was made according to a different recipe that Jacqui had considered. May do it again some of these days. The recipe calls for putting it in a large dish like a casserole and placing it in the oven to finish, but since Sterling said that casserole was a Baptist word, we skipped the oven part and just used the Ninja cooker to keep things hot. Lewis used to say that if his wife were to cook a casserole, she should be prepared to cook something else for him! This was the first time that the word casserole was designated as a Baptist term in my memory. Sterling said that the Baptists were always taking a casserole to something or other during any event. Got to thinking about it and remembered some other Baptist terms. Ever heard of “pounding the preacher”? If you want to know what that means, just ask.

 

Read my Sunday school lesson this afternoon, but now the scriptures need to be looked up and written down so that they will maybe stick in my memory. That works for so many things these days. Names, dates, and events simply stick better after being written down. During one college class, we were expected to write down a poem by a favorite poet. Two of those poems are still with me to some extent, but even those would need to be read and written down again to be able to write them down as a memory test. Getting older does something to our brain cells.

 

Put a plastic jar of screw drivers somewhere and can’t find them. Things like that just bug me to pieces. Finding stuff is one of my favorite bugaboos! Found my “Grandpa’s Weed Picker” today, but still have no idea where those screwdrivers have gone. The next trip to Harbor Freight will see some air hose for the compressor purchased. Let’s hope the old woman will be able to install it as it is needed, too.

 

It’s hard to believe that this is the last week in April. This year is just flying already! So many things need to be done before the hot weather gets here, but we are mostly concerned with the high grass and getting it cut back and kept down to a reasonable height. When it dries out, it will be very dangerous. The woman behind me can’t do ANYTHING about her place! The brush is bad and the grass is worse, but the only thing that can be done from this direction is keeping my grass down as low as possible. The dry wooden fence would be just like kindling if something ever started a fire. Whatever can be done from this direction WILL be done, but here’s hoping the pasture southwest of us stays cut back drastically!

 

Let us pray for our president and all those who God has placed in a position of authority. So many people do not believe that God actively places anyone in authority, but let me tell you right now, even when this old woman despised one or more of the people in charge, my prayers STILL asked God to bless those in that position. We should never be in conflict with what God has chosen to do. Then let us pray for Israel, world peace, and that love may prevail wherever God allows it to blossom. We still need to express the love that has been given to us.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.