Good Morning all. Another  day of gripes from me,so I will try to be human. Beautiful weather... 90 degrees for a high. I am only comfortable lying down and dosing with tylenal..they offer me Obuprophen. but that puts me to sleep all day. This too will pass. God is in charge.

June:  Rest well, you need some extra sleep.

It is hot in Tucson today - we are about ready to pack and drive home in two weeks. 

We are missing Jane..hope she is ok.

The trip to the  city was much nicer than the one last Mon!! First a fox, nice healthy one in no hurry crossed in front of us. Then we saw a flock of turkeys sitting on the ice!

The hearing aid has been sent off to be looked at and will get a phone call when it is ready..so hubby is only half hearing lol.

Managed to stop at Fabricland  for a sale on flannel 1.79 a meter!! This is an anniversary sale and each day they have another special item. Coats and Clark thread was .39 cents a spool.

Came home and filled the wood box and got another load to go in, we are to have snow/rain for the next few days.

June, resting will help heal your sore back..

AMY as I have said before I am a vet. they furnish my hearing aids. when every thing works like it is supposed to, I have a device Paired with my cell phone.
it takes my phone call's  directly into my hearing aids. so I can take calls hand's
free. but I tell folks that and they just a little better than nothing at all.
Nancy says I have selective hearing. i do not think so,but the way acoustics are
in our house some times i can here some things better in the kitchen behind me
clearer than in front of me.  Kay sarow sarow what ever will be will be. Have a great day rest of.

Lloyd

Tomorrow at 8 a.m. Jim (my brother) will receive a pacemaker.  Please pray very hard for him.  He has had so many problems and I am so afraid that this surgery will be too much.  I just have to trust the skill of the Drs and the love of God to pull him through.

Jane, prayers for Jim and hugs for you and your sister. My friend is on her 5th pacemaker at 76 yrs old. Technology is amazing now and Jim is in good hands with the Dr and in His hands with prayers being said.

Lloyd, I know all about mans selective hearing..and the problems with back ground noise too. Not fun wearing the hearing aids but they do help. Bet if Nancy whispered  ice cream you would say yes please

My goodness.....it has been so quite in here today. Hope all is well with everyone. I'm still dragging around with back pain,with hope tomorrow will be better. Nothing newsworthy here..all is well,thanks be to God. Time to go heat up a t.v. dinner.  Love you all. June

I am sorry I have not been posting.  I have not been feeling very well for the last three days.  Not sure why, but pain in my upper back that seemed to me like heartburn pain, and it is worse at night keeping me up moving around all night.  Also very nauseated.  I am thankful to say that I am feeling better tonight.  Sure not the way I wanted to spend my time here with my dad.  Today is Dad’s Birthday. We went out to his favorite place for a early dinner. 

JANE, Jim continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.  I do hope the surgery for the pacemaker goes well tomorrow. 

JUNE, I am sorry you have been in such awful pain.  I pray tomorrow will be a better day for you. 

It has been mighty warm here in the Valley of the Sun.  Next two days are to be 98....that is a wee bit too hot for me right now! 

Pleasant dreams to all.

Jenny

 Denver sorry you are having a bad time it is no fun getting old and having pain.
I know first hand. Have good beds but when hurting they do not get comfortable. It is 37º and cloudy here calling for mostly sunny and 52º today.
I sure would like to see sun and warmer tempter for a few days so could get out of house to shop. wish everyone a great day today.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone..

Jenny please go see a Dr..get checked out. A belated Happy birthday to your Dad. My goodness you are having frying weather while we have freezing weather!

VON is coming today, then will take the day as it comes. Need to tidy up and corral dust bunnies.

Jane prayers for all today...

Better get a move on here

Enjoy your day everyone.

Check out the upper back pain and nausea, please, Jenny.  It could be nothing but it is better to know.

Your brother is in my prayers, Jane.  Larry can give you the best details because he also has a pace maker.  I think that a pace maker will help Jim feel better.

Sun and clouds today but supposed to be a little warmer.  We've had practically no Spring at all this year.  Mother Nature is playing games with us.

I slept late this morning so must be up and about to do the daily chores. 

Good Morning Everyfriend!  Thanks for the prayers on Jim's behalf. 

My daughter and granddaughter are here and have just left for a dr.s appointment .  I must run and get myself ready for work.  I wish you all a wonderful day.

P.S.  Our baby is due in Oklahoma tomorrow.  Ali says she's READY NOW!

Good morning everyone. 32° and gray sky. Well we did have a sunny day yesterday what more do I want? More sun and spring temperatures is what I would like about this time of year, is that really asking too much?. Still wearing winter jackets around here.  Must be "global warming" keeping this cold around so long?

LARRY  I enjoy both Andy Griffith's series, young and older.

GLORIA de  I think most of us have a drawer that collects every thing but then we can never find what we need in it.

JUNE   like you my back feels good when I am laying down so have to make myself move.

AMY  been a long time since thread was .39¢, hope you stocked up on it.

LLOYD  many people have selective hearing, there are a few in this building. They hear something and repeat it completely different from what was said.

JANE  prayers for JIM. Pacemakers have helped many people With God's help the surgeons will help him. About now he must be in surgery.

JENNY  hope you are feeling better today.

PHYLLIS  most here are complaining about this cold weather. It was warmer in February this year than it is now. Guess that was our spring for this year.

Sometimes I feel...
Bob Perks

Sometimes I feel that the world is too much.  God reminds me that I am a part of His world and He has much to offer.

Sometimes I feel, that as hard as I try I am nowhere near where I wanted to be at this point in my life.  God reminds me that the journey may be long but it will be worth it and I am right where He wants me to be.

Sometimes I feel that there is too much for me to do.  God reminds me that I am not doing it alone.  Take each step wisely and put things in perspective.

Sometimes I feel that there are too many mountains to climb.  God reminds me that He made the mountains so that when we reach the top we are closer to Heaven, we can see where we've been and the beauty of where we are going.

Sometimes I feel that when I am excited about life no one else around me is.  God reminds me that is why He placed me there to bring excitement to those whose lives are weary.

Sometimes I feel like God doesn't hear me.  God reminds me that He does indeed listen and respond.  It is I who blocks out His Voice when I don't like what He is saying.

Sometimes I feel that no one understands me.  God reminds me that He understands and that's all that matters.

Sometimes I feel that the world is closing in on me.  God reminds me that he is there even in the smallest spaces.

Sometimes I feel I am failing,  God reminds me with Him I cannot fail.  Delays and denials are not failures.  There are more choices, better ways to get me to where He wants me to be.

Sometimes I feel at peace.  God reminds me:

Galatians 6:16
New Life Version (NLV)
16 Those who follow this way will have God's peace and loving-kindness. They are the people of God.

Hi Everyone. The forecast is for it to be cloudy all day long with only a 20% chance of some showers during the next couple of hours.  Pat and I are going to go out to eat our main meal at lunch time.  She needs to get out of the house for awhile as hasn't been out for several days. I woke up early this morning so just went ahead and had my shower and got dressed and started my day.  Pat also got up early, which is unusual but said she had come to bed earlier last night than usual. 

I was able to work on my SIL's laptop yesterday with the TeamViewer app.  I hope to be able to spend an hour or so with her today as set up Chrome as the browser she would use and unpinned the Internet Explorer and Edge browsers from the task bar so it is less confusing for her.  She is really at the very beginning of knowing how to use a computer so it is quite a task from long distance.  Being able to see the mouse on her computer and take control to point it to the proper place is a big help in instruction.  Other than going out at lunch time I expect to have a quiet and restful day. 

deAngel, if you clean out that Fibber McGee kitchen drawer you won't be able to find anything?  At least that is usually my experience when I do such jobs. 

June, stay as comfortable as you can while your body heals.  Glad you had a beautiful day yesterday and hope today is the same out your way. 

Carol, it should be hot in Tucson at this time of the year shouldn't it?  I remember the hot days and cool evening in Apache Junction, Arizona when I visited my folks usually in February. 

Amy, half hearing is better than no hearing.  Has your husband had to wear hearing aids a long time?  It seems that on most of your trips to the city you see some interesting wild life.  About the only wild life I see around here are the birds.  It sounds like you got some good bargains at the fabric store. 

Lloyd, I think my wife also has selective hearing.  As her hearing worsens she seem to talk quieter and I often have to ask her to repeat what she is saying.  Of course she does the same to me.  I am not aware of having any hearing loss so don't think it is my hearing that is at issue. 

Jane, your brother getting a pacemaker is a really good thing and should help him feel better as it paces the heart.   Anytime an older person has to have anesthetic can be dangerous but don't think they have to give very much and the recovery is pretty easy. 

Amy, your friend must have gotten the pacemaker pretty young to be on her 5th one at only 76 years old.  I will have to have the third one put in a couple of years from now, which is apparently a simple procedure if the wires into the heart are still functioning correctly as they just make a small slit in the area near the arm socket and detach the old one and put in the new one. Are those dust bunnies on the move again? 

Jenny, it sounds like you need to see the doctor.  Do your still have your gallbladder? Your description of your pain and discomfort brings back some unpleasant memories before I had my gallbladder removed.  Glad you could be there for your dad's birthday.  Hope you are feeling better soon. 

Phyllis, I wonder if we won't be going directly into summer type weather soon?  We expect to get up to 70 today so should be nice. 

Gloria, that is a good reading from Bob Perks that you shared. 

Sorry i have been missing and not keeping up with you all even worse !, i have been missing Lloyd and his little chats, but i see from remarks made here others have too, glad to see that he has replied ! so if you read this Lloyd, i have not forgotten you, hope to get back to normal soon !, i have just had a little 'Hic-cup' to my system, now just waiting to get over it !, one of those things we all get now and again !, i think i need a good dose of sunshine to cheer me up, lol, hopefully warmer weather is on it's way again soon, so the forecasters say .     Cheerio for now,  Roley. 

My day flew by fast! Hubby wanted to get his hair cut so off we went, He goes to a barber about an hour away, we usally try to do the hair cut on a day we are heading to the city but the barber wasn't open yesterday .

Hope Joy, Shirley and Gloria De are ok...

Gloria, we were allowed 3 spools ,thankful for the 3 !! I can go through a lot of thread, just in the bobbin on one of the cancer quilts I can use 3 bobbins full!!

Trying to snow here.....sure wish it would learn tis Spring not winter anymore!!

Hope we hear from Jane on how her brother made out.

Good afternoon, just back from grocery shopping. It was raining when we went out. Now the sun is trying to shine, I think I will recognize it!!!?

Gloria, I did not stay up to see if it snowed last night

Jenny, so happy you got to be with your Dad for his birthday. Hope you are feeling better for you trip home.  I forgot to tell you congratulation to you son Mark. I realize how wonderful that appointment is. As I was a golfer. Not being able to play now, is upsetting to me, 

Amy the only wild life I see is rabbits, squirrels and of course chip monks
,after the weather warms up Glenwood Charlie (ground hog) will be eating the cats food on the porch.  People leave cats off here in the park, that they have had fixed. I guess they think they will be safe.Before they put a fence up we use to see deer.

June, glad you are taking it easy. Last summer when I feell on the porch, I got a hair line crack on my hip,which took about 6 months to get better.

Roley, good to see you posting

Another beautiful day in Stanton. I just came back for a nice long walk Still having a miserable time with this pain. If they don't get my meds delvired today, I am going to spend the night in the  clinic groaning .

I have been eating at home for so long, I am going down for catfish and a baked potato and salad tonight

Gloria de, I have been given no diagnosis as to my problem. The pain feels more like a deep ache in my muscles, or in the kidneys or related organs. I should ask more questions.

Roley, I am sorry to hear you have this hic cup...they can be a miserable occurrence. I am praying the Lord chases all others far away.

Time to go eat. Back later. June

Hello Everyone!  Just a quick one to let you know all the prayers were answered.  Jim's surgery went well and he's recovering as the dr's wish.  My daughter and granddaughter have gone home and I'm exhausted.

My electricity has gone off again in the living room and I've got wires running all over so I can have my TV and lights.  I can't get it fixed until Thursday.  I discovered what caused it though.  I moved the sofa and the outlet behind it is brown.  I guess I'm lucky I didn't have a fire. 

Now I'm off to bed.  Good night, sweet dreams and happy tomorrow.

JANE, so happy to read that our prayers are answered and everything went well for Jim.  I continue to pray for Jim’s complete recovery.

LARRY, I do still have my gallbladder.  That is what Diane thinks my problem is.  I am not so sure.

Thank you for the caring thought that many of you posted today.  I do hope to get this checked out when I get home.

We leave tomorrow afternoon and it is going to be very hard to tell my Daddy goodbye.  It has been wonderful to be here with him.  😭

Pleasant dreams to all.

Jenny

Good morning everyone...

Love waking up to good news, thank you Janie....now on the road to recovery for Jim!!!

Jenny safe trip home and please get checked out..

Taking hubby's vehicle to get the snow tires taken off. Again I am not so sure about this as they are calling for a snow storm on Sat. We don't have to go anywhere that day so home it is!

Need to go get ready to go out..

Have a great day everyone.

I can't get on email on my computer so I'm on the iPad. Yesterday I couldn't get email on the I pad. It's always something. I told my daughter I felt like chucking all the technical stuff and going back to hollering out the window. She said that she might not hear me in Texas unless I hollered REALLY loud. Such is life!

Gotta get ready for work. Enjoy your day!

Good morning everyone, sun is shining bright and beautiful but still only 25°.  Cars have a layer of frost on them. Local weather gal just said on Saturday it will be 69° and on Sunday back in the mid 40's. That's the weather for today, will wait and see if that is what they say later.

LARRY  I remember when I first started on the PC the trouble I had getting the mouse where I wanted it to go. Moved it too fast. Glad you liked that Bob Perks. Joan found so many wonderful writings for us all those years.

ROLEY/PETER  I know I need a good dose of sunshine along with warmer temperatures so those winter jackets can be put away for a few months.

AMY  I had many different color spools when my sewing machine died and along with other sewing things I gave them all to my daughter. Cannot even thread a needle anymore much less sew anything. I can imagine all the thread you use on a quilt with all the different pieces.

GLORIA de  think I would get lost if I went into a market. Been at least 2 years since I went shopping.

JUNE  I know how you feel with that back pain, feels like I have had my back pain all my life since it started before I retired.

JANE  thank God you did not have a fire with  that outlet. Glad to read Jim is doing good.

JENNY  safe trip home and get to your doctor ASAP.

CNA will be here early today so better get moving, have a great day.

A Very Special Bank Account

Imagine that you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account carries over no balance from day to day, does not allow you to keep a cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever you failed to spend during the day. What would you do? Draw out every single dollar each day?
We all actually have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night, it writes off, as lost, whatever time that you failed to use wisely. It carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you cannot borrow against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts anew. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, it’s your loss and you cannot get it back.
Time management is yours to decide how you spend your time, just as with money you decide how you spend it. It’s never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.

Hi Everyone.  It is suppose to be a beautiful day here in South Carolina.  While it is 41 degrees to begin the day it is suppose to get up into the low 70's this afternoon.  This morning we plan on making a trip to Costco although Pat may decide to attend her crafts group at Church while Scott and I go to Costco.  Then this evening we have dinner at the Church and the kids will be come out to the house for a little while.  Yesterday we invited Jennifer and Elizabeth to go to lunch with us, which they did.  That was the big activity for the day.

roley, good to see your posting and hope sunshine soon comes your way as a person just feels better when the sun is out.  Take care and join us again soon. 

Amy, too bad you were limited on the number of spools of thread you were allowed to buy at the reduced price but can see the logic of the limitation.  Hope that snow stayed away yesterday.  We live only about 10 minutes away from where Pat and I get our hair cut as it is one of the shops over in the shopping center where Walmart is located. 

June, I hope the social aspect of eating in your dining room helped you feel a little better.  Glad you were able to have a nice long walk. 

Jane, were you at the hospital for Jim's procedure.  Glad he came through the procedure well and hope he starts feeling better immediately. The only problem I had when the first pacemaker was put in was the nurse told me I needed to keep my arm in a sling for 5 days.  I did this and my shoulder began to lock up from non-use.  When I went back to the doctor for the follow up I was told that wasn't necessary.  I think the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing and I was left holding the bag, so to speak.  You are lucky that you didn't have a fire. I computer and iPads are great until they don't want to work properly.  Yesterday the screen on the laptop that my SIL has just went to black and white and I had never seen this before.  I did a quick Google search and found out the reason and the easy fix as it had to do with a combination of keys that restored the color.   

Jenny, before I had my gallbladder diagnosed as the problem I would have terrible back pains and eating brought on the pain or it came on late at night.  They tested everything but the gallbladder and finally tested that an found the problem.  As soon as it was out the problems stopped and I am able to eat anything without it causing a problem.  I hope you have a pleasant flight back to Denver today.

Gloria, I have to chuckle as it seems you and I post about the same time and usually when I click the post button I see that you have submitted your posting.  I am sure glad you saved the material Joan had found for us so we can benefit from it again as the old becomes the new.  It sounds like your weather is a yo-yo.  Controlling a mouse is often a problem experienced in the initial computer classes or by people teaching themselves. 

Jenny:  It was 100 yesterday in Phoenix - here, in Tucson the place is higher altitude but it has been setting records this year as well.  I am wondering if you have Acid Reflux? Take care. 

Amy:  So, you vehicle automatically slows (we can only hope) and makes a turn whenever close to the fabric shop?  It can't be your fault - the engine has taken over your life.   

Jane:  A brand new baby today?  How fun - prayers for Jim as well.

Gloria:  Thank you for posting Galatians message. 

Larry:  This is hot and dry for this Seattle girl.

Roley:  Glad you came in and let us know what is happening. 

Have a great day all - I had a haircut yesterday and baked scones plus got to a genealogy class that was actually interesting. 

Good afternoon everyone, Gloria we are 2degrees warmer then you. Suppose to be Spring like the rest of the week. I would like to get to Home Depot and get some flowers for my big pots outside.We are suppose to have a big new super market open across the main highway from us.  Stop and Shop need some competition,  It is always so crowded. Parking is bad.

Jane, glad to read everything went well for Jim.  While I was in the hospital the last time two doctors said I should get a pacemaker.  My cardiologist said with my problem it would not help.  They wanted to have a lot of other things done, but I refused,  I am like June, at my age I want nothing invasive done.  One doctor agreed with me.  The dye they would have to use would most likely mess up mybad kidneys and I would have to go on diologist.  That I do no need

Larrry, I am still getting use to a smaller PC  The games I like to play, are to old for this computer. so at night I am back playing on my old one.

finally found my way back to the computer.
The only thing that kept me busy was Bible Study this morning, then a bunch of naps. Just couldn't get my motor started today. I guess I looked sort of puny as Gary insisted on walking me back home from Chapel. Did a bunch of napping..had lunch at home.Took  long walk this after noon. Visited the clinic and got my meds straightened out....finally ! So maybe i'll get less pain now.

I didn't go down for supper last night, so  missed out on my cat fish. It will be left-overs tonight. Idon;t have any appetite anyway.

Time to go figure out the medical information got today before  I forget it all. Hope to see you all later, June

Good morning everyone.

Looks like we had rain or melting snow during the night as the patio stones are wet this morning. Not sue what is happening today, I managed to finish off another cat quilt, so on to the next.

Carol, what can I say? That vehicle has a mind of ..umm our own I managed to pick up panels that will make fantastic kids quilts at a great price!

June, napping helps, your body is at ease and not in any stress..

Larry, sounds like a fun evening you had planned . How was dinner?

Gloria, I have lots of thread and people are giving me thread they don't want or can't use in their machine. When I empty the spools, I then give them to another friend that makes cat toys out of them. Not much gets wasted.

Jane, hope all is well there.

Gloria de, please send Spring this way. Sat we are to have a dandy snow storm...wonder when Spring will get here to stay.


Enjoy your day everyone.