Hi All ~

Had to work some overtime tonight. Watching some baseball now...what's new!

SUGA glad to see you over at the baseball thread! I forgot to tell you...we had an elliptical...a very nice one...it hurt Angie's knees all the time...and after awhile mine...I gave it to my daughter....she is fine with it...and got a treadmill instead. Really do your research!

SCOOTER sounds like a great way to kick mom out!...jk...

BOOTSIE I am still praying for rain!

KAREN it sounds like you have found a great way to "close"...hugs! Sorry about the kids heading back...I can tell they will be missed.

Later Gals!

:wave: HI EVERYONE ~ we got up really early and went to the lot today; good thing as it was a scorcher :sunny:. I planted some flower bulbs; not the best time, but we'll see if something comes up, as I got them for a very low price. The rest I will plant here in our front garden. DH did well considering the heat; but he had to take lots of water breaks, and finally the heat was just too much, so we came home early (he had also used up all his nails).

Now, we'll gather up some more supplies, but will wait to go back on a much cooler day than today was; we'll have to watch the forecasts. Had a late dinner tonight as DH had a 3-hour nap when we got home becuz of the heat, but things are starting to cool off now ...

LAURIE ~ many people make homemade bread that way; let the machine and oven do all the work, but I bet it's very worth it. The Rhubarb-apple compote is very easy and delish; just finished off that last batch today ... it gets sweeter each day!

BOOTSIE ~ prayers goin' up for rain for your part of the world. England has too much, as do some other places, so maybe we can pray some to go down your way soon ... :hug:

HI KAREN ~ your new coiffe looks fabulous! Nice to see you drop by -- hope you and yours have a great Celebration Day for Dad tomorrow. I'm sure that is what he would have wanted you all to do in memory of him. :hug:

AGGIE ~ One lb is one lb -- take it! Congratulations to CAKEBATTER; and ^PRAYERS^ continuing for MORGAN and MALAKI ... :hug:

GARY ~ ahhh, that's a cute pic of your baby; which one is that? He's wearing blue, so I guess that's a hint. You look like a hippie there; are those locks I see, or is that just the background camouflage? ;)

:congrat: KATHY ~ that's the direction you want it to go; keepin' pretty steady for you too!

HI SUGA :wave:

and MCMAMMA ~ Yes, I think we all go thru that sometime; I know our RONNI has been struggling with this topic too, and this is something that we have been and are still discussing on and off these days. My mother used to go to two churches (took turns), as she felt more needed and comfortable in a small country church, but would go to the bigger one near here home on occasion too. Just be sure to keep your DH's feelings considered becuz you don't want him to stop going to church out of frustration; and the kids need his strong example as a church-going father.



HELLO to all our other CE'ers and MIA's out there ~ hope you are all having a great summer and great week too! Is it hot enuff for ya'll? ^PRAYERS^ are ascending for everyone's requests ... :hug:ROSEBUD:hug:

:D Yep...that is all my hair...could be why I always had to play Jesus in the church plays...even though I was a baby Christian!

OH...and that is Ryan...now 28...but Amanda wore plenty of DODGER BLUE!

Did somebody close this thread? ;)

hellllllooooo anybody there?

Rosebud- I appreciate your take on the hubby's position. That is so true and should be a huge part of my prayers and consideration!

The days have been filled with donuts, breads, bagels, and muffins but I have continually walked past them...I am working on getting to a place where I can have 1/2 a donut and not three. That will probably take a while so until then...None at all. I usually am okay so long as I don't feel hungry and I am trying to develop a taste for more fruits and veggies.

I am reading some of the posts and trying to get to know you all...Take care and see you soon! -mcmama

HI Justwanna :)

Thank you all for the elliptical advice. I think we may invest in a treadmill instead. We had our eye on one but Walmart does not carry it anymore, so we were bummed. It seemed to be a good machine. I will probably go to Academy with mom on Sunday.:)

Thank you Gary for the suggestion on the baseball thread. I just got back from the game, it was awesome.

Hope everybody had a great day. I have a good friend visiting me so we have a couple of days planned out for them in the city.

God bless each and everyone of you!! :hug:

~Suga :carrot:

Hi Gary I am here!

Thanks for all the prayers , it drizzled here tonight. Wish it would drizzle for 3 days and 3 nights then come a down pour! I just thank the Lord for really sending some down pours around Round Mountain, Texas and Marble falls, I just know soon our turn will come up! I pray he blesses everyone with rain and turns his land back to flowers and grass and green trees! Go God go! You can do what no one else can do!

YEAH McMamma22! Go girl! Keep right on walking! I have to do the same thing at our feed house those guys bring them donuts in sitting right in front of me. I have got where hey, I really don't want one for I know exactly where it will go and I have worked to hard for that ! So have you so keep on walking! Those donuts are poison to you and me! One thing that makes them easy to pass up is when I look at them I try to think of something I can't stand and that is something my Mother in law loves! Pig brains and scrambled eggs! Yuck! Keep us informed , how it goes McMamma22!

Hi, Everyone!

Courtney-so sorry you were ill-I had a similar experience as Rosebud, as you were brought to my mind several times over the last couple weeks and was wondering and praying for you! Happy Birthday:bday2you: 21 is special-I don't remember it, but I know someone told me it was special-lol! Have a great one! (Oops!-just realized how that sounded-no, I didn't get so drunk that I don't remember my 21st, as drinking age was 18 back then-yes, I'm that old! I just can't remember that far back and no, I still don't drink...)

Aggie-congrats to your daughter on her engagement and prayers for you and Morgan. Hope you're feeling better too. :hug:

Kathy-great weight loss! You are in my prayers as well.

Karen-you've been in my thoughts and prayers. Hope you had a blessed day yesterday.

Laurie-glad you had a great time with your mom! Prayers for safe travel for her.

McMama & Donna-:welcome2: So glad to have new people here to get to know!

Gary, Rosebud, Wilma, Bargoo, suga-sounds like everyone's been so busy! I guess that's just typical of summer-trying to enjoy the weather and get things accomplished that can't be during the long, cold winter (ok, for everyone except Gary and Bargoo:lol:).

Hi also to anyone I may have missed-I'm in kind of a hurry as I have a lot of housework to catch up on (but don't really want to do it, if you know how that is). Haven't been able to be on here, but you've all been in my prayers. Things around here seem to just keep getting more depressing all the time. FIL not doing well (end probably not far off now), my dad has definite diagnosis of throat cancer, but needs PET scan yet to see whether it's spread. We may move him up here near us, so I can look out for him during radiation/chemo, but not sure yet if he's even going to treat (depends on whether it has spread). My sister's hubbie had a couple irregular blood tests last week and there is some concern about cancer there (he's only 41). And, then she kinda shocked me by declaring that if our dad dies, she won't miss him, so it doesn't matter whether he treats or not-I know he wasn't the best dad (he drank a LOT), but that seemed really cold to me and makes me very, very sad. Then, last evening our 12yo son had another run-in with the local 15yo bully, who caused him to crash his bike-3 staples in the head, both knees and an elbow skinned, and badly bruised everywhere else. I'd like to know what you all would have done, but we called the sheriff and made out another report on the kid. We don't have a police presence in our town, so it seems like this bully just keeps getting away with doing whatever he wants to whomever he wants. I guess we have to see if the juvie judge thinks it warrants charges.

I just feel drained. Sorry to go on and on, but as you all know, sometimes it's the best therapy to be able to vent a little here, then go on with normal life. Love you all! Have a great day!

mcmama - I still have to walk right by the donuts. Thankfully, they don't call my name any more when I pass :)

Suga - enjoy your visit!

Ronni :grouphug: Prayers continuing for your family! You are dealing with a lot right now! You are in my thoughts!

A good day here in MI - beautiful weather, and we finished the evening off with a WONDERFUL jazz concert in the park. This year's series has been outstanding! We are so blessed to have so many wonderful musicians from Chicago, NY, etc. come to our little town :D

Prayers continuing for everyone!

Laurie :scooter:

Sorry, I have been pre-occupied with susie moving and what not. I'm actually packed LIGHTLY for my trip to San Antonio...again. God keeps sending me to TX this year...hmmm...

Ags - :woohoo: for the engagement! :) And I am still praying for Morgan. No news on my whatever it is yet... :) But I trust God.

Gary - got your news that you sent Dennis a letter. thank you! :) you ROCK

I am feeling overwhelmed by folks pulling on me...so i am going into seclusion again. i will still post here...no one here sucks the life out of me! :D

Keep the prayers coming for me, mom and dennis. I so appreciate it! Still no word on jennifer letting Haley go see him. She won't respond to my messages at all. :(

Well, take care. i have to MAKE myself go to sleep. I have to be up in 5 hours and trying to get out of the house and to the airport. I can never sleep the night before I fly out...

PEACE!

:wave: YES, it's the good ole summertime ~ :lol: and that means posters are scarce; I do remember this happening last year too. Everyone is really busy in the summer, and/or away on holidays too.

:hug: RONNI ~ don't feel bad at all; we understand that you are going thru a really ruff patch in your life right now, and you need all the support you can get. We are sending up continuous prayers for you and your family, esp your son tonight (and you really didn't have any other choice but to report that assault, becuz that's what it was); plus for you Dad, your FIL, and the rest of your family as well. Also praying for that bully, becuz there's something wrong there too. Here, they get the bully and the victim to do impact and healing counselling together; it actually works. :hug:

MCMAMMA ~ I am very fortunate (like BOOTSIE) that I am not that fond of donuts, so I can resist them fairly easily. Yah, that is a good solution -- look at the sugar as a poisonous coating that makes your body sick, and that might help (I do this all the time too). For me, that is my reality; the sugar does make my body sick (pre-diabetic under control right now by avoiding sugar whenever possible). Can you make up a few baggies of healthier snacks to have around instead?

BOOSTIE ~ glad your state got some rain; we have been praying hard for you all. I just know that it's a coming ...

BEV ~ prayers for a good sleep, safe trip, and for your family ...

Just picked up some more nails and a few others things we forgot earlier in the week today. I have been getting my days all mixed up this month; not sure why, but we're all straightened out now. This month seemed to whiz by for us. Dh wants to go to the lot again tomorrow if is looks nice enuff; it was much cooler today than yesterday. Hope it stays that way for us too.

:wave: to all our CE'ers and MIA's ~ hope you are having some fun this summer too. There is supposed to be a summerfest coming up soon; the first one put on by our new recreational committee, so hope it turns out well for them (esp as they do all this work volunteer too).

Take good care, it's very late and DH just came out to see where I was. Time to hit the hay ... :hug:ROSEBUD :hug: ^PRAYERS^ ascending for you and yours ...

Bev - prayers continuing for your family and for you! I hope you have a great trip!

Rosebud - hope you have a productive trip to the lot and that you don't work too hard!

Thanks again all for your prayers. The second mammo was all clear - PTL!

Gotta fly - the garden is calling!

Hope you all have a blessed weekend!
Prayers continuing!

Laurie :scooter:

Yes our state got .....some rain....2 tenths here, none where our cows are, but i still have hope next week giving rain out all week! Thankful though some got two inches! We are just one day closer!!

I got my eyes checked today been 8 years since I had them checked. Eye doctor said that for 8 years my eyes have not changed very much at all ,just a slight change and that is it. There is a new test that you can get and see if you are up for heart trouble with your eyes and they did that, it was good and then they dilated my eyes, gosh that stuff stung! Then he told me to walk around some so i went in walmart , started to get blurry went back and he took me right in and done all the test. Then I went to get my glasses and I got the cheapest pair everything came to 233.00 but my last pair that lasted 8 years and has been knocked off my head by a cows tail, helping a calf nurse, found hung on the cows tail just a swinging, knocked off by a hoe when I stepped on it, did not even relize they were gone till 8 hours latter , stepped on etc, poor glasses but tough cost me 435.00. Doctor told me I could go ahead and drive, as long as I kept my sunglasses on. I stayed at Walmart and walked around there for two hours because I was still having a blurry vision. When it cleared up that I thought it was safe for me to drive , I started out, everyone always passes me up on the road and no one was passing me up so I looked behind and everyone was behind me. I slowed down to 55 I was going 65 and they passed me, I got home and thought about that maybe I was not driving as good as i thought I was??? I just don't understand he said I could drive right then and there as long as I kept my sunglasses on. Hmmm. I went to sleep when I got home. Hubbie wanted me to come stay at the feed house so I did I had to even think how to run the cash register! Then a man came in to buy 12 bags of corn and instead of giving him 7.00 dollars back I gave him 7 cents!!! He caught that right away! Ha! Oh man I had no business working or on the road! I am home and tomorrow is another day, I am beginning to wonder if I had an allergic reaction to that dilating medicine. Because he did not see any reason why I should not drive home as long as I kept my sunglasses on as soon as I left his office.

Bootsie - you may indeed have had a reaction. Make sure you mention it next time you have your eyes dilated! I drove home right after my appointment with no trouble (needed sunglasses of course).

A quiet morning here in MI. I will try to send some rain Bootsie's way since we are getting more than enough.

Thankfully, I have lots of chores to do inside today. And, I better get to them :lol:

Hope you have a fun day!

Blessings!

Laurie

Hi Gals ~

It is a warm one here today...79 right now. We are having our monthly family dinner today. We are having our 2nd annual shuffleboard tournament. We are having hot dogs and side dishes.

We weren't sure if it was a go with all the work this week and a possible Saturday work day....boss went to Alaska and didn't call...so we ran out of the building at 3:00 ....brother and I shutting our company phones off at 3:00 even :D We don't mind working week-ends if we have to....and who has enough money? ;)...but those 3:00 calls on Friday are killers!

Andie and I took an old route this morning, no traffic, a nice pleasant 3 miles in the cool of the morning with the spoiled ones ;)

Well off to clean my bathroom for company.

Prayers have been sent up for all concerns...eyes ~ tests ~ dads ~ brothers ~ rain ~ trips ~ donuts and elliptical advice :hug: