Another Sunday is almost over.  It's been a long day.  The choir sang for the last time of this year.  We go to one service for the summer.  They hope those of us who like a traditional service will get exposed to the loud praise team music with drums and other loud noise that is painful to us older types.  Ah well.  The sermon is always good,   I wrote down the times our organist will be there because he is so good and does some of his own compositions once or twice in the summer and they are great.

 

Afterward Jim and I went out to the Brittish Pantry for a favorite egg meal we like.  Then I watched the Mariners for a while, but they were not doing well today. After the meal, we checked on and fed the grandcats. 

 

My youngest son and his family phoned this evening and sang happy birthday to me.  We had supper with them at Los Margaritas last Friday night.  He thought today was the 15th.  I told him tomorrow is my BD and he said they'd call again then, but laughed and said they'd be too busy.  It was nice though.

 

The sermon today was from Romans about judgement of others.  He said the only real judgement will be from God.  I thought that gives me an excuse next time DH tells me what's wrong with me, I'll tell him I'll let God decide.  I told DH that and he kept saying "not exactly".  But I'll use it anyway and not feel bad.  I don't always agree with Dh about my shortcomings, because we simply do not think alike and that doesn't have to be bad.

 

Some friends of mine at church have been waiting to adopt a baby.  Today they got a call to go see a baby who needs a home from another county.  I hope for their sake that this is the baby God has chosen for them.

 

 

Well, I took my dear husband in with me to help look for the missing feline.  I went through the routine of feeding a couple of hungry felines, little wild cats is what they are, but oh so sweet.  They didn't talk so much this time but Theo always acts like he is starving to death.  All cats know how to pull human strings.  They were laughing too, because we couldn't find Dharma.  I changed their water as I do every few days because it gets fur in it.  Then watered the plants and scooped the litter.  Then I began the most thorough search ever for the missing Dharma.  Jim looked all the time I was doing the other chores and even went into the closed door rooms, but no Dharma.  Just when we were about to give up,  Jim called me into the dining room and there behind the curtain in the north window sat our little Siamese friend.  She said, "I guess I showed you, ha, ha".  She just grinned while I petted her and she said "I'm not afraid of you, but you aren't my people so why should I bother entertaining you.  You leave my food and that's all that matters".  I said okay, if that's the way you want it.  So we parted as friends.

 

The construction isn't anywhere near done here.  There is a big meeting of the HOA on Monday night to tell the people all the things they found that were done wrong, and figure out where to go from her by the building.  I do not want to spend my birthday doing that, but I do want to see the pictures of what they found in our unit.

 

We are having perfect weather, low 70's to mid 50's.  There is no rain in sight.  Your pictures are wonderful.  I race to the computer every afternoon to see if there are more.  I didn't realize you were going to Estonia too.  What a wonderful trip for you all.

I still can't find Darhma, the Siamese of son Jim and wife Suzy.  She must have a marvelous hiding place.  There's no odor so she must still be alive.  And the letter box is very full every day.  The Bengals both come flying to me when I come in to feed and pet them.  Now they are talking to me too.  They follow me in my search for Darhma, but they won't tell me where she is.  I have to be carefull they don't trip me as they circle around my legs as I walk. 

 

This segment is for my son and DDIL who with our daughter, are checking out Scandinavia and St Petersberg.  They worry about their babies.  Ha!  Those Bengals are each big enough for two normal sized Cats and maybe four of our tiny little blue point Balinese.

 

We both had dental appointments this afternoon, and now we each have to have an old deteriorating siver colored filling replaced.

 

The construction is so very slow.  Today nothing occured until late and then four men stood looking and then a couple of men rearranged their pile of supplies.  Ah well It has to end sometime I think.

 

I exchanged the mask for my CPAP because it hurt my nose and made it look like a cherry.  The new one worked great.  Yesterday and today I didn't even need a nap. 

 

My favorite time of day is evening when I can lay in my bed with a sleeping sweetheart of 56 years sleeping beside me, kitties tucked around me, and read for a couple of hours.  Then I pray and tuck in for the night.

 

I hope you guys are having a wonderful time.  No message or pictures came in today.  Hugs.

It's another beautiful day in my Eden.  Sunday worship with choir was followed by an adult study using the movie, Rudi, as the springboard for determining when following your dream should be done and when not.  Now we want to see the movie, but DH wants to wait until our son and wife return from their cruise to see if they have it so he can borrow and save $3.  We then went to JJ's Irish Pub for lunch.  Nice.  And then the mariners beat Minnesota making it two out of three.  I slept through part of it.

 

Later in the afternoon I went to feed the grand cats, scoop their litter, and water plants.  (no rain)  The first day Theo and Darhma came out.  Theo was very friendly but Darhma would sniff my hand but not let me pet her.  The second day only Theo came out and purred and rubbed up against me so he got a bunch of petting.  I went upstairs and saw Macie but she ran to hide.  Day 3 both Theo and Macie came out but Macie is still very skittish.  No sign of Darhma.  Day 4 two Bengals but no Darhma.  This time I looked all over but couldn't find Darhma's hiding place.  Theo loves attention.  I kept wondering why Suzy only put out 14 1/2 days worth of food when I needed 15 days.  Today I looked in the pantry and found some more and set one out so I know I don't need to buy more.  So that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

Some of the workmen worked Saturday also hammering on the roof.  The funny thing is that we can't see enough progress so we wonder what's going on.  Oh well.  We are lucky to be getting our home repaired to what it should have been when we bought it.  Well another day is nearly over.  I love the old hymn, "Day is dying in the west, Heaven is touching earth with rest. Wait and worship while the night, Sets her evening lamps alight, through all the sky" Have a great time, my traveling family.  Hugs!

 

 

 

Saturday night already!  Time flies when you are having fun or are growing older.  Remember how they said children always brag about their age. Adults try to pretend they are youner.  Then people don't want to tell their age.  But when you get to the autumn of your life you start bragging that you got this far. Well next week I turn 78 and I'm glad of it 'cause I'm still here.  My Dad in his later years said he read the obituaries every day to be sure his name wasn't there.

 

Today we went out to breakfast at our favorite place.  We missed our son and DIL that we usually have breakfast with on Saturday morning, who with our daughter are cruising Scandinavia and St. Petersberg.  I go over to their house to feed our three grand cats and scoop their litter box.  I also water some planter boxes.  Our temps are back to perfect again.  Highs are in the low to mid 70's and lows in the mid 50's.

 

Tonight I have two chores left before going to bed.  I have to fix my meds for the next two weeks,  Then I have to shower and wash my hair and style it for Sunday.  I've already fed our three cats.  I've been listening to Pandora, the best and legally free music station on the computer.  If you don't know about it, look it up because it is truly wonderful.  It plays your favorite songs on your own private station.  When you start you type in the name of a favorite vocalist or other musician.  It plays that person and others like him or her.  You click on thumbs up, I like it, or thumbs down I don't like it.  As time goes on you get an accumu;lation of music you like.  Check it out.  Well enough for now.  Hve a great weekend and enjoy.

Today, I finally fot my CPAP machine.  It's a loaner for a month and it has a gismo recording each night to be monitored by someone at the "getting Place".  I opted for the nose only mask so if it works I can use it while I read at night.  My glasses won't fit over the others.  Then I had to buy distilled h2o for the humidifier and baby soap

to clean the hose and parts weekly.

 

The builders are redoing our roof now as they found it lacked flashing too and had been done wrong.  Tonight we had to take everything out of the china cabinet so they can move all the furniture 6 to 8 feet away from the garage wall.  Then they have to nail down the floor properly so they can replace the broken support under the building.  It just goes on and on.  This too shall pass!  Hopefully it will all be good when it is finished.  The hammering all day long gets to my DH.

 

For two days now, we have had record heat for each day at 90.  Tomorrow it is supposed to cool off.  I am so happy we have a heat pump.  Well I'm off to bed now to set up my new toy  and then read.  We have to get up early tomorrow to let the workmen in.

 

 

 

 

 

What a marvelous voice Susan has.  I was eager to hear more.  I don't watch the program but got it on my computer.  Her voice brought tears to my eyes.  I hoped so much that this was just the beginning.  She should have won.  But considering the life she lived up until "Brittons got talent", living in a very small town, caring for her sick mom until she died, and probably not had a great education, it is understandable that the strain got to her.  I don't know how it could have been handled differently.  And I don't know if she can handle all of the pressures of celebrity.  Even many of the rich and famous in the US, can't stand up to the pressures of the press, the second guessing of what she is doing or not doing at any given minute, and trying to make news even when there isn't any.  This is sooo sad.  We may be denied one of the best voices ever, because the world can't just let her be Susan.

 

I am hoping that when she gets better, she will get to sing for the queen.  If she ever gets to the place where she can make an album, she'd be set for life financially, and those of us who want to hear her would be so happy to own it.  Well I wish her well, and hope this isn't the end for all of us who care.  God's speed Susan.