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Thank God it’s 2026. Last year was such a bummer. Seemed like the only thing we did last year was have doctor appointments. Made it worse when we had to drive to KU… constantly…of course during rush hour. Not going there again. I’m done! If Mosaic can’t handle us then we’ll find a doctor in the St. Luke System on Barry Rd. 30 minutes away. It is no kind of life driving 1 hour 10 minutes  one way…

2026!!! Geez!!! Today is a good day to have a good day. I am soooo thankful for all my blessings. I have had to overcome so much. For all the pain and challenges that have been my road in life, I have been the greatest challenge! Today WILL BE a great day…I can say that and then here comes an attitude. You know it’s bad enough when you get old and older and you are constantly talking to…

Ya’ll know we got a rescue dog, a puppy. Seems like I spend a lot of time playing now. Rather carefree, yet stimulating. Amazing how like God, they just love. They find no fault with us. Well… I have to retract that. That gal’s got a temper!!! She goes into attack mode if she doesn’t get her way. Being firm, then she goes in her crate and all hell breaks loose. She fits well into this family. So…

Anyone can be thankful when life is good. Sometimes it’s raining like today…and cold. So I’m in a season of heavy praying. I am thankful and rejoicing cuz the Lord sez to. Life is not perfect but God is. His promise that crying may endure for a night, BUT JOY COMES IN THE MORNING. So I thank God for the rain…ok, the torrential rain…alright, mass destruction… but I am confident the Lord has…

In my mind, this is what I want to look like today…that was 11 years ago. It seems like I have entered a new age. I’m going thru this spell where I want to do everything I’ve done before…better. God must be shaking His head at me. I refuse to be old! So I come up with all these new things I’m going to do, yet within a week or less I KNOW I can’t do that. What probably has happened is the last…

Part of getting old for me is reflecting back. Do I regret things? NO! The road I traveled is what has shaped me. Do I wish I had done things differently? NO! Mistakes had to be made, lessons had to be learned, how else could I have met the Lord to survive!!! I am walking where I am walking now because of the roads I took… I wouldn’t be who I am today without all the black and blue marks, the…

Have you noticed on fb lately that people are announcing their MONTH LONG, now Birthdays? So yesterday there was also a beautiful colorful announcement how in Poland, Names Days are celebrated much grander then a birthday. That a family would gather, have dinners out and of course gifts and cards and flowers. I enjoyed that muchly! Even my Godfather would call my mother for a dinner date just for…

I did it. I dropped the “F” bomb! For that I am very sorry. There is no excuse. The best justification I can present is that I was so excited about the Saturday Army Parade which was absolutely the best! And the narration we could hear was the magic! Russ and I are both from Military families. He is a Son of the American Revolution and I am a Daughter of the American Revolution. His father,…

Just when I was on top of my flower plots…everything cleaned up and refreshed, I asked Silly Sally if she knew where I could buy these fancy flower pots for my patio. Yes. we can MAKE THEM…in the spring. That gave me time to find them thrifting. What a fun party with 4 of us! Never done that before. I was the newbie! My pots are all going to be outside in the rain, with an occasional sunny day…

If you have followed my blogs over the years, you have found how ridiculous and fun my life can be, how I spend my time looking for hub side-kick, hiding from me at the golf course or his 5th trip to Lowe”s in one day… how to spend $1 at a garage sale silly and then redo a complete room around it! For sure you know that my house never looks the same 2 days in a row. Hey! God gave me His…

I was actually going to sneak out yesterday and rake a plot and sow poppy seeds which need to be inspired by cold weather AND IT RAINED.  Then the blizzard hit amidst 70 mph winds, the ice set in; power went out and cancelled our SAR meeting for tonight. Hub-sidekick has a good attitude about eating salad prepared for 30 people IF I boil some eggs and make it a Chef’s Salad… It is amazing all the…

It now takes him longer to get dressed then me. He has his higher-then-knee, stockings. Of course the dark orange garters…The white nightshirt to his knees…all of which has to be tucked into his britches. You think I’m pulling your leg. Then a very tight vest buttoned to the top…Oh, 1st, a cowled black neck piece over the nightshirt collar…The red and navy blue wool coat. Top it off with knee…

Down the hatch with 2024! I shed a lot of tears last year. So many things went south. Every time we turned around. something with the house, MAJOR, had to be repaired. There were 3 1/2 months of disruption to getting the front room remodeled… more major breakdowns. Every piece of equipment overhauled! Sixteen tires had to be replaced. There was no normal in our house. Even yesterday the water…

I need a heavy dose of God around me. There is soooo much bad stuff going on. Tell me, where do 10,000 evacuated people…so far 10,000, go? How do they go to work and make $$ to pay the bills? Where do they eat? The fires and wind rage with no end in site. Don’t people in California realize they need to remove ALL trees in the Santa Anna wind area? My heart hurts for my high school friends there.…

What a year it has been! Ever since I got bronchial pneumonia boarding the train for New York, October of 2023, we have had to deal with one thing after another. Seven months of 4 doses  of antibiotics and steroids finally got me on track again with that issue. Then Russ started coughing and coughing, then violent coughing, aspirating constantly. A year of tests, consulting with 3 different…

  I am soooo ready to play out in my flower plots but it is sooo cold out there! Trees are blossoming…flowers everywhere and still we are in the deep freeze. The garden has been plowed, thank you Terry Goforth, the seeds are waiting and here I sit. Next week, hub side-kick is instructed to load up the trailer and go to Moffets to get mulch. Would be nice to get on top of the weeds before they…