Rain
Rain is soothing my soul with its own special sound as it beats against the roof of our sun room and the lashes at the windows. A good, soaking rain we really needed. Our grass looked thirsty today and we both commented on it. Obviously, the Lord heard and responded even though we didn't actually pray for rain. I love how He loves to do those little favors for His children.
We are on watering restrictions here and can only water one day a week and only at certain hours, which seems bizarre to us since we are surrounded by water here. But these folks think we're in drought conditions. They ought to take a stroll around the eastern plains of Colorado!
I've been sorting papers all day, well until Richard came home, anyway. Then we drove over to Lakeland looking for a UPS or Fed Ex place so we could overnight some money to Colorado. Amazingly, there was not one place open! Not wanting to waste the trip, we went to the Golden Corral and enjoyed the buffet at predinner senior rates. In spite of all our dining out, I have dropped most of the wight I gained over the holidays. Not all, but most.
My beautiful niece Donna is in the hospital and now weighs only 91 pounds. Please pray for her. She has incurable Host Vs Graft Disease as a result of the bone marrow transplant that saved her life several years ago... I think it's been 8 years now. Donna and I are not only relatives but close, close friends. She shared with me that some of my daughters found it hard to believe she enjoyed hanging out and visiting with me about all sorts of things, that we had a close friendship. She felt they thought there wasn't much to talk with me about.
I sometimes feel that way about them. Not that they aren't interesting, they are incredible, but that I don't know much about their day-to-day lives. Somehow the intimacy got lost along the way, or they still think of me as someone who might "judge" them? Or perhaps, I am too unfamiliar with modern ways, a bit provincial in my thought patterns. I don't know..... But I would love to be as close to all as I am to some of them.
Jasper the cat has come in and wants me to follow him to his food bowl. Each cat has their own food bowl and each has a special (and different) kind of food. Jasper likes his bowl to be quite full and alerts me well before it gets to the halfway mark. He's getting pretty demanding, so I'll sign off now and tend to his dining needs.
We are on watering restrictions here and can only water one day a week and only at certain hours, which seems bizarre to us since we are surrounded by water here. But these folks think we're in drought conditions. They ought to take a stroll around the eastern plains of Colorado!
I've been sorting papers all day, well until Richard came home, anyway. Then we drove over to Lakeland looking for a UPS or Fed Ex place so we could overnight some money to Colorado. Amazingly, there was not one place open! Not wanting to waste the trip, we went to the Golden Corral and enjoyed the buffet at predinner senior rates. In spite of all our dining out, I have dropped most of the wight I gained over the holidays. Not all, but most.
My beautiful niece Donna is in the hospital and now weighs only 91 pounds. Please pray for her. She has incurable Host Vs Graft Disease as a result of the bone marrow transplant that saved her life several years ago... I think it's been 8 years now. Donna and I are not only relatives but close, close friends. She shared with me that some of my daughters found it hard to believe she enjoyed hanging out and visiting with me about all sorts of things, that we had a close friendship. She felt they thought there wasn't much to talk with me about.
I sometimes feel that way about them. Not that they aren't interesting, they are incredible, but that I don't know much about their day-to-day lives. Somehow the intimacy got lost along the way, or they still think of me as someone who might "judge" them? Or perhaps, I am too unfamiliar with modern ways, a bit provincial in my thought patterns. I don't know..... But I would love to be as close to all as I am to some of them.
Jasper the cat has come in and wants me to follow him to his food bowl. Each cat has their own food bowl and each has a special (and different) kind of food. Jasper likes his bowl to be quite full and alerts me well before it gets to the halfway mark. He's getting pretty demanding, so I'll sign off now and tend to his dining needs.
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