The dental appointment I mixed up last Friday was this morning. It went very well. The tooth came out easily so no problem. I took the Ativan beforehand which made me sleepy all day. No pain and I haven't even had to take a Tylenol. Hope this continues.

Jane - Your granddaughter Courtney sounds like a nice person. It makes me feel so good when my grandkids think of others. Mine are all adults now and often make me proud.

Good night all.

Good Tuesday morning, Everyfriend.   There's elephant ears to accompany your coffee or tea. I wish everyone a great day!!





NMF

A client called to report an accident and asked if her insurance rates would go up.

"Our underwriting department determines that," I replied. Then I asked for her license plate number. Verifying her information, I said, "NMF? Is that 'N' as in Nancy, 'M' as in Mary, and 'F' as in Frank?"

"Well ... yes," she said. "But could you please tell your underwriters that it's also 'N' as in Not, 'M' as in My, and 'F' as in Fault?"



Obstacles
(By Timothy G. Satryan)

Have you ever seen the sea flee? Have you ever seen the mountains skip like rams or the hills run like lambs? That's the vivid description the psalmist gives of the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. "The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.... Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters" (Psalm 114:1-8)

The psalmist mentions the time God opened the Red Sea and the Israelites walked across on dry land. He talks about when the nation entered the Promised Land over the dry bed of the Jordan River. Then he refers to their experience in the wilderness, when they were thirsty and God turned the rock into a pool of water.

What are we to learn from all of these experiences? God helps us in the obstacles of life. When you turn your obstacles over to the Lord, He acts!

What will He do? Sometimes He overcomes the obstacles. God is with us in the hopeless places. How hopeless the Israelites were at the Red Sea! The enemy soldiers were behind them; the wilderness was around them; the sea was in front of them. But God opened a way to escape. Sometimes God removes the obstacles - the "hills" and the "mountains." He just makes them skip and run away like animals. Sometimes He makes the mountains a way for us to escape. In Isaiah 49:11, the Lord says "I will make each of My mountains a road, and My highways shall be elevated". Sometimes He also can turn the obstacles into blessings. He "turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters" (Isaiah 49:.

If God doesn't overcome or remove your obstacle, let Him turn it into a blessing. Trust God with your obstacles. He can help you in the hopeless places, the high places and the hard places!




"Even the most devout seem to think they must storm heaven with loud outcries and mighty bellowings or their prayers are of no avail."

- A. W. Tozer

Good morning everyone.

Gosh we had a dandy storm last evening, even rattled the house at times. Both dogs were not impressed with this musical interlude......and they stuck like glue to me!!

Nothing important in the works today, just cleaning about the house and will get some sewing done.

Joan,thank you for breakfast.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Good morning, Amy.  Poor doggies that get so scared when it storms.  I get scared when we have a bad storm like the hurricane a couple weeks ago.

My computer is acting up again.  Guess that bandaid fix is about to give up.

Good morning Joan and Amy, and all who are soon to follow....
....not much happening in my life apart from the same as yesterday and the day before, re, Benji monitoring...

Why is everyone all of a sudden having so much computer problems?...seems now to be a sudden chain reaction...

Amy, firework nights and thunder was always a terrible time for my dogs...

Good morning Vanilla-Jackie.  I will have to get my computer guru to look at my computer.  I am using my iPad.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  We are to have temps in the high 70s most of the day and the low 80s this afternoon.  I'm glad I finished the soup yesterday because having all those burners going in 80 degrees would not be a picnic.  That's part of the reason I wait until October to do the veggie soup.

I'll be off to Wally World this morning!  Wish me smiles.  They always make the hours pass faster.

For those of you who commented on Courtney's loving gesture, Thank you.  She has become quite a thoughtful young lady and she does hold a special place in my heart. 

I hope everyone has a great day filled with the love of God, family and friends.

Good Morning everyone. AMY take it easy relax with the house cleaning. Jane I always wish you and Bis
along with all our good Friends  the best. I am more normal to day No dizzy just feel like i need more sleep.the junk mask VA sent me dose not stay sealed , have to keep resetting the By pap Machine. never fell yesterday but made several fancy side steps. Have a great day everyone.

Lloy

Good morning, Janie.  I wish you smiles at WM today.

Lloyd--Good morning.  Please do be careful when you feel dizzy.  We don't want you to fall a break a bone.

LLOYD HAMMOND....
...we worry about you pushing yourself, your body too far...slow down before something else happens that will slow you down....and we dont want that to happen, do we?

JANE S...
...where are these Courtney pictures showing her loving gesture, or was it something you wrote about her? if so I never spotted them -it...

Good morning everybody from me overcast and rainy rocky coast  of Maine.

All is well just checking in- - -
Sandy.   ðŸ˜Ž

Hi everyone on another beautiful South Carolina morning with blue skies and zero chance of rain today or tonight.  I seem to be operating on slow this morning as didn't get up until 8 am and just taking things slow this morning.  Fortunately, other than some kitchen work there is nothing on the schedule until Pat's 4 pm Chiropractor appointment so I have no need to hurry this morning.  We had a nice men's meeting last night at church, a good steak dinner and a speaker from the Palmetto Shooting complex, which is quite an operation with one of the aims being to teach the younger generation to hunt safely as well as providing a shooting range to shoot skeet, clay pigeons and target shooting.  Even though I have never been a hunter I have to say I enjoyed the program.  This facility is about 25 miles from our town in the next county. 

Hal, no more houses to be built on our street which ends in a cul-de-sac.  They are working furiously to get it finished as must have a closing date soon.  They are getting the driveway ready for pouring the concrete and there are six different vehicles of workmen over there.  Yesterday I saw them installing carpeting and think the painters are through both inside and outside.   I agree about former neighbors turning into best friends. 

Joan, there are many lots behind us on another street but other than to be aware of construction sounds we have no impact on our street down where are home is located.  The house being finished is the third one that has been built on near us on our street since we moved here.  It is going to seem pretty quiet when the construction workers are around no more.  I won't have anything to watch. 

Gloria, one advantage of moving many times during a lifetime is that you do weed out things periodically.  I can't image having to deal with moving a home where I had lived for so many years our your SIL has.  However, my son's house is one his wife's family has owned for over 100 years and it had been added onto numerous times.  It is stuffed with things and will be a terrible job of cleaning out if he ever decides to sell it.

Lloyd, my wife has a terrible time keeping her CPAP machine facial pillow from leaking air.  She has started using a chin strap to keep her mouth from being open as she sleeps and that is helping with the dry mouth that she has suffered for a long time.  I don't seem to have too much problem with my CPAP and have a very simple strap that goes around my head to hold the nose piece rather than that contraption with multiple straps. 

I appreciated all of the postings.   

Jane, I don't remember if I commented on Courtney's sweet side but will tell you that when my kids were growing up I constantly told them that "I'd rather people tell me they had a kind heart than that they were beautiful of brilliant, not that they couldn't be all that, but good heart was tops".  Sounds like someone in your family got the point.... good job!

I am trying to catch up on sleep and duties around he house (notice, Joan, "duties, not work~"   

Still haven't gotten the ice out of the bin, #1 son has been swamped with everyone calling on him so I called #2 son yesterday evening, thinking he could stop by on his way home from work just to lift it out (I'm not tall enough or strong enough since the bin is so full it's running over).  He kind of laughed & said he wouldn't be on his way home for a few more days..... in another state.  He is on the road so much he has a terrible time keeping up with his own house during summer months.  At his age is isn't "manly" to have lawn service... & that is what he loves to do, kind of therapy for him. 

Larry, don't know if I mentioned it but my sister damaged her back in a fall years ago & after finally getting it back to not hurting (thanks to a good chiropractor), she has a monthly appointment with her chiropractor to keep it aligned.  I hope Pat can find the same relief.

I do come & read & pray for & with all of you..... We had record breaking heat all over the state yesterday & day before.... that really slows me down.  Much cooler this morning but my body is screaming for sleep to make up for 2 nights with none.  Remember those slumber parties & how easy it was to get over no sleep?  Doesn't work that way anymore, does it?   

Good morning everyone, slept late this morning, of course I did not get to sleep till about 3am. Looks like we had a bit of rain during the night.

JOAN  the new home is bigger than the one they left. They already built a shed there and not have 2 large containers. One will be storage and the other my SIL's work shop. He has enough tools to almost fill it I think and he is the kind who always has to be working on something. They also have 40 acres to roam around on.

JANE  you sure do keep busy all the time. I know how it feels to see the results of all the work involved in canning. Then to enjoy some on a cold snowy winter day. You know what is in those jars and no preservatives.

JOAN  will enjoy an elephant ear, woke hungry and that will satisfy me. Like the chuckles, good one. Obstacles is a keeper, when we overcome one it is not us that do it, Gods helps us overcome many things in life. Thank you for today's goodies.

LLOYD  please be careful. Start moving slow so you don't fall again.

LARRY  the house my DIL grew up in has been in her family for generations. The family has lived here for 6 generations and #7 on the way.

Have some paperwork to take care of, should have done it last night. So much for putting things off.

Vanilla-Jackie--I sure hope Lloyd doesn't fall.

Good morning, Sandy.

Larry--Good morning.  Nice that you have a fairly quiet day.  Guess you'll have to find something else to watch when that last house on your street is done.

Good morning, Shirley.  Ummnm---"duties" is w---.   Hope you get some sleep.

Gloria--Good morning.  Your daughter and SIL sure have lots of room in AZ.  With all that acreage they couldn't have any neighbors closeby. 

Good Morning Everyone!

Well, it started out as a nice morning, sunshiny.  But now it has clouded up and looks like rain, although there isn't suppose to be any until later in the week, maybe the front has decided to come in ahead of schedule.

I have been in here several times this morning.  I was up very early, woke and couldn't go back to sleep so got up and sit in den and got my IPad and read everything.

Janie, hope you had nothing but smiley faces today.

Joanie, hope you get your computer up and running again.  This are a pain when they don't work right.

Jackie, hope your day has gone well.  I hope it has quit raining there and you get blue skies and lots of sunshine.

Gloria, I guess you porch time is at its prime now.  Nice days, but cold nights.
Enjoy the porch while you can.

Tisie, you don't have a small rolling pin you can tab the ice with to loosen it up?
My ice maker also causes my cubes to melt together sometime, but I can usually just stick my hand in and break them apart.

Lloyd, did you get the mother back together and did you put all the fluids in??

They are fixing to roof the house next door so will have to watch for nails in my yard.

Got my tax bill yesterday for the house.  I had forgotten about it.  Talk about spoil your day.    Taxes, HOA dues and Christmas, yikes!!!!!!!!!  All at the same time.

halkel--It is supposed to rain here later this week, too.  My real estate taxes are due next month.

Good morning all, It is a pleasant morning here, high for the day is scheduled at 78 , which is warm but tolerable.

I did all my exercises and massage of these poor old bruised up legs and feet, in hope I am helping them to stay alive. So far, so Good. I have yet to take care of the prayer books and hymnal. I moved them from my bed table over to my recliner table, and I find myself taking a cup of coffee and going directly to the computer. That is a no-no in my conscience.

No big plans till 2:45 this afternoon when I go to the balance and mobility class, but I will wander down for lunch and some needful walks in the gardens.

I'm so thankful that all is well on the East Coast weather wise. But sorry for all the lasting damage some folks have to go through. Weather can be a beast at times.

And of course, the election fiasco grows more disgusting as time goes by. I wish the politicians would tell us how they plan to help our country regain what is could be instead of just digging up personal dirt on one another.

But thankfully God is in charge, has been in the past and will be in the future, and that is a great consolation. Have a very happy, healthful day my dear hearts. I love you all, June

June--I just had my lunch, and it's breakfast time there.  They say that nights are going down in the 50s and 60s by the end of the week.  We haven't been that low in 6 months.  I am going to try and find a few zzzz's in a few minutes.

Just done a check, another twelve nights and we in UK put our clocks back an hour, soon will be dark at 4.30 - 5pm...one thing I dislike about our Autumn - Winter months.....how quick this year has gone, soon be Christmas again...

Jackie, please see my post #33 about Courtney. 

Shirley, you are so right about the "good heart"!

I'm really beat so I'm going to see if there are any zzzzs left hanging around here.  I have a meeting to attend tonight and I'd like to be able to keep my eyes open for it.  Later friends!

JANE S....
...found it, .... ... bless her little heart...not a selfish bone in her body, what a sweetie...

You are so right, Jackie.  She's a sweetheart!

Joanie, I sure hope you caught up with the zzzs at your house.  I found out they were piled up 3 deep on my sofa and they all jumped at the chance to join me!  I slept from 2 to 4:30.  I was so tired from all I did over the weekend and then working today that I was just plain out!

I've got a fresh cup of coffee and a slice of pumpkin bread and if anyone wants to join me, you are more than welcome.  The weather is so nice today that I'm going to sit out on the front porch to drink it.

Bis, I hope you had a good a nap as our Janie did. I am ready to take one now.

Janie, I just finished two huge macaroon cookies and had to spend more time cleaning them out of my teeth. How I love the taste though. I am off to snooze now

Janie--I am glad all those zzz's were waiting for you.  I'd love to join you on your front porch.

I think I am going to give up messing with the computer for today.  Maybe in t he morning it will decide to work right .


June--I didn't sleep, but I rested.

Back again. I didn't sleep today, but got involved in t.v. instead. Went down for exercises at 2:30, had a couple more walks, and more politics on t.v. I haven't received my absentee ballot yet, and another of our residents has not had hers either. I'll give it a week then talk to our desk lady for her advice. She knowsso much about so many things. Bless her.

Time to think about something to eat. Hopefully see you to say Goodnight later.

Good night Everyfriend!  May God bless us, every one!

Good Night everyone. I thank all of you. Not dizzy today but stayed in and took it easy. I cracked the black walnuts we had ready and in the house. yesterday and today put about 2 1/2 lbs in the frezer.
Hopeing Nancy will make some more good cookies with chocklet chips and some walnuts in them.
sweet dreams everyone.

Hall no I have not have it completely finished. I will make sure it has plenty oil and antifreeze in it.

Lloyd

Good Wednesday morning, Everyfriend.  There's DDs breakfast sandwiches to accompany your coffee or tea. I wish everyone a good day!!



Second Opinion

Mrs. Harris visited a surgeon to be examined for her pain. The surgeon looked her over and said, "You need an operation."

Mrs. Harris thought it over and then said, "I'd like a second opinion."
"O.K.," replied the surgeon. "You don't need an operation."



Leftover Sheaves

By Joel Vande Werken
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 24:17-22
When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.
Deuteronomy 24:19
“Never leave money on the table.” This classic advice from business negotiators instructs people to squeeze as much out of every deal as possible, to drive tough bargains and maximize every opportunity.
During the harvest, some sheaves of grain would inevitably fall to the ground. Good business sense would dictate that the harvesters would go back and collect those sheaves.
But that’s not the way things went in ancient Israel. God instructed his people to use the harvest as an opportunity to care for vulnerable members of society: the poor, the foreigner, the orphan, the widow. The gospel changes the way we view our financial resources. God has no problem with businesses turning a profit. But profit is not the believer’s only motive.
“Remember that you were slaves . . . and the Lord your God redeemed you,” God tells his people. Just as God rescued Israel from slavery in Egypt, so he rescues us from slavery to sin. Because of Jesus’ work, our worth is not in how much we can grasp, but in the new life provided by our Redeemer.
As a result, we have the privilege of telling others about God’s redeeming work. We use words to tell the story of Jesus’ victory over sin, and we express this in our actions as we care for people around us.
How is God’s redeeming work flowing through you to others?
Lord, in redeeming us, you have put us in a place to care for others. Show us the people who need to know Christ’s care through us. Amen.


You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to.

--Author Unknown

Good morning everyone.

Power went off at 11 last night setting off the alarm on my power back up.......just got back to sleep and the dogs wanted out. I think it is going to be a long day here. We are off to the city hubby has an appointment with the cardiologist and the audiologist today.

Had another nice rain yesterday,no thunder boomers to go with it this time..I did notice that the grass is also enjoying the rain and will need to be cut.That will go on the list of to do  jobs on Thur.

Joan, thank you for breakfast,found a raspberry DD

Enjoy your day everyone..