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Finally Out
The past 3 days I have been hunkering down at home with most of the state as we have experienced a rare 3 day snowstorm. In the time that I have lived here, I have never seen anything like it – especially in November. The kids didn’t have school and some roads were closed during […]
Music of the Past
It was pretty quiet today as I was doing things around the house, so I decided to put some music on. First I looked through some records and found one from my brother’s middle school band and choir. I had to listen to that. The songs and arrangements were as I remembered from the 1970’s […]
Cabin Company
This afternoon I packed up some of my dad’s photos that I’ve been working on and headed to the cabin in anticipation of the craft fair tomorrow. My son’s fiancee decided to come up for a while as well. I put her to work helping me take care of some things like changing batteries in […]
Flowers From the Window
My neighbor and I visited on the porch this morning. While we were there, the lawn guys came and mowed, which led us to talk about our outside flowers and plants. We share the sidewalk, so we can see her house and garden area from some of our windows, and she can see ours. Earlier […]
New Floors
Several months ago, the toilet overflowed in my mom’s bathroom. It was a mess. Even more so as the whole master bathroom area was carpeted. The restoration company came and ripped out a big swath of the carpet, cleaned out the water, sanitized the space, cut a hole out of the ceiling below, and set […]
Healing and Grateful
My neighbor and friend had been having severe pain in her stomach and intestines for a couple of months. She had been back and forth to doctors and emergency rooms until finally she had to have extensive emergency surgery on her intestines. Even when that was done, there were problems with infections. She spent over […]
Making it Home
Today was the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus – when we celebrate her being taken to Heaven. I felt so blessed that a friend had my mom as the intention for Mass in the church I used to work for. That is in another state, but I went to Mass […]
Blessed Journeys
Today a friend of mine from out of state came for a visit. I picked her up at the airport and ended up circling the terminal a couple of times before we connected. Turns out that was just the right amount of time needed to avoid the thunderstorms on the way back. We went to […]
Memory Lane
There have been many people in and out of the house for many months. They have helped in so many ways. Several helped clean and do laundry and the dishes. It was very much appreciated, but also led to a pretty unorganized kitchen as people put things in places they thought they should be. This […]
Comforting Message
We’ve been receiving some beautiful sentiments from friends and neighbors. One card had an especially meaningful and relevant quote from Christian author Max Lucado: “We don’t like to say goodbye to those whom we love. It is right for us to weep, but there is no need for us to despair. They had pain here. […]
Still Finding God 