What a wonderful week!

Starting with Sunday night, we baptized Jim, one of the men that we have been teaching a Bible study to. It was awesome to see him have his sins washed away in the lovely name of Jesus! Here are a couple of pictures of this wonderful baptism:

Jim, his brother Bill and their friend Doug experienced Ohio Campmeeting for the first time this past Wednesday night and absolutely loved it! Again, it is so exciting to see these wonderful men, as new christians, experiencing so many "firsts" in their walk with the Lord!

Indecision!!!

I just can't seem to get my blog the way I want it! Can you tell?? *feeble grin* Now, I am really liking this present look. I love pink. It just makes me feel happy and good inside, you know? But I have only one or two pieces of clothing that are pink. I do have some pink in our home here but it is more of a rose color, a deep shade of pink as opposed to bright pink. Anywayyyy.....I will probably be tweaking and playing around with my blog appearance for awhile, so you have been warned. It would be cool if I could like put a top layer over it saying something like "Caution: Remodeling Taking Place. Enter At Your Own Risk". You know, like the highway workers do when they are out smearing arou.....er, uh.....I mean, working on the roads. *cough...cough* My mom used to see them standing around along side the road leaning on their shovels and so on and she would always say...."well, I see they're out smearing around again." It was so funny the way she said it. *smile* Honestly, sometimes it does seem like that is what they are doing. BUT I must say that they have done a bang-up job on OUR main road....St. Rt. 595! Newly paved, widened, new lines! It is awesome and the first time since we have lived here.....15 years!! Now our township road.....the one we ACTUALLY live on? Well, that 's another story altogether! We used to have an older man who was the head trustee. Our roads were always in good shape BUT people voted him out and voted in this young whippersnapper a couple of elections ago and our roads have never been the same!!!!
Okay, okay, I'm done! I hope you are having a wonderful summer and a good week!
Oh, and I thought of just going ahead and doing my blog in Ohio State colors and motif because I will be doing that come fall, BUT I decided to hold off for awhile longer. AND the pink does lift my spirits! *smile* Ta Ta for now!!

My sister is 60!

I can hardly believe it! Do we ever think that we are going to be as old as our parents were? My oldest sister, Bev, just turned 60 this past Wednesday, so, of course, we sisters and sisters-in-law took her out for dinner to celebrate. We had a wonderful time, of course. I am 3 short years behind her. But, thankfully, age does not bother us. We are who we are, hm? And I think we are doing wonderfully! *smile*
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Bev's little grandson, Nathen, turns one on the 20th. Sooooo, we will be going to his big party tomorrow at Rising Park in Lancaster. Most of the family will be there so it should be a great time!
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Daniel had his wisdom teeth cut out this morning and has been here with me and Ed since about eleven o'clock this morning. Erin had to go back to work and he wasn't to be by himself. He's been in pretty rough shape all day, but has slept alot. I think his weekend is going to be pretty low-key as he recovers. Erin brought supper to us when she got off of work and they are spending the evening with us, even as I type this.
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On Wednesday, I got the second injection in my back. It doesn't seem to be helping. :-/ Soooooo, we are going to be seriously praying and considering what to do next, if anything. I was so hoping that this injection would offer some relief. All I know is that the Lord knows what is best and I am trusting Him and asking Him to guide my steps and show me what to do.
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Campmeeting begins a week from Monday, on July 28. I am getting so excited! I plan to go to the evening services for sure, but I would love to and stay. It is so wonderful to see so many friends and be in the morning services. We'll see. I just found out this afternoon that a friend of mine is staying all week and she can help me with a few things that I need assistance with. Thank you, Jesus!!
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Have a blessed weekend, everyone!!!

Thirteen Great One-liners and Short Funnies! If I can laugh, I find that I can handle most anything that comes my way!! :-) Enjoy!! 1. What lies on its back, one hundred feet in the air? A dead centipede. 2. What do you get when you cross a stream and a brook? Wet feet. 3. How do you make a hot dog stand? Steal its chair. 4. What did one magnet say to the other? I find you very attractive. 5. What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop. MORE THAN ONE-LINERS! :-) 6. A cop spotted a woman driving and knitting at the same time. "Pull over!" he called. "Oh no, officer, it's a cardigan." 7. "You know somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a note on my windshield. "It said, "Parking Fine". Wasn't that nice?!" 8. Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, and the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other off. 9. So I was getting into my car, and this guy says to me, "Can you give me a lift?" I said, " Sure, you look great, the worlds your oyster Go For it!" 10. A man takes his Rottweiler to the vet. " My dog is cross eyed, is there anything you can do for him?" "Well, " said the vet "lets take a look at him". So he picks up the dog examines his eyes, then he checks his teeth. Finally, he says, "I'm going to have to put him down." "WHAT? Because he's cross eyed??" "No, because he's really heavy." 11. "Doc, I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of home". "That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome." "Is it common………?" "Its not unusual…" 12. I went into the butchers the other day and I bet him $50 that he couldn't reach the meat off the top shelf. He said, " No, the steaks are too high". 13. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak and where chilly. They lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it,too!

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Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt

tnchick hosts a photo scavenger hunt at her blog, giving each Saturday a theme. This week's was "support", so we are to post pics expressing "support". I immediately thought of this picture that I took a few years ago of Daniel holding his Dad up. Now, that's support!!

How do dogs fight the heat????

Daniel came up home this morning to help his dad split some wood. (We had ANOTHER tree come down during ANOTHER storm this week!) He brought Heidi, his boxer, with him and she and Rocky had a blast running around. Well, they headed to the "crick" and Daniel took some pictures of them in their "pool". Here they are for your viewing pleasure:
Here's Rocky cooling off in the water! I think it is such a pretty picture.
Here's Rocky and Heidi. Rocky is dipping his head down in the water.
Here they are heading out of the water to go run and play!
Here's one of Heiders all by herself. (Heiders is my pet name for her. *smile*)
Isn't she so pretty?!?!

Friday's Feast!

Click on the button to join in on the Friday’s Feast, “a buffet for the brain.”

Appetizer:

When was the last time you had your hair cut/trimmed?

About 33 years ago!

Soup

Name one thing you miss about being a child.

Being able to play pretend for real, if that makes sense...*smile*

Salad

Pick one: butter, margarine, olive oil.

Definitely BUTTER!

Main Course

If you could learn another language, which one would you pick, and why?

French because I feel that it is the most beautiful language I have ever heard.

Although spanish would be more practical because so many people speak it here in the U.S.

Dessert

Finish this sentence: In 5 years I expect to be…

.....in Heaven because the Lord is coming!

Thursday Thirteen!

Thirteen Things I Plan To Do With My Tax Rebate/Stimulus Check 1. BUY some new clothes! 2. BUY a new pair of shoes! 3. BUY a new camcorder! (we have a new grandbaby on the way!) 4. BUY dinner out a few times! 5. BUY a new range hood! 6. BUY a new flat-top electric range! (Do you see a pattern here? :-) ) 7. BUY some new dishtowels! 8. BUY some new food items in order to try some new recipes! 9. BUY patriotic bunting for the front porch! (Already did this!) 10.BUY a new digital camera! 11.BUY my dh some new shirts! (Already did this!) 12.GIVE an extra offering to missions! (Already did this!) 13.SAVE a little bit! :-) There! I feel so much better about doing my part to stimulate our economy!!! *smile*

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Stimulating the economy!

Yes, that's what we've been doing: Our part in helping to stimulate the U.S. economy and are we ever glad to do it! *smile* We got our stimulus check Monday, so before and after I went to Dr. Meszaros yesterday, I did a little shopping. Very light shopping but I did pump a little money into our struggling economy.
My doctor's visit was a follow-up from the injections I had had on June 5. He told me that the pain relief I had experienced for 12 hours following the injections was from the pain medicine he gave me before giving me the actual injections. Sooooo, on to Plan B! Next Wednesday, he will be giving me ONE injection of a different sort and it will be in a different area of my spine. Down lower. Then we will see how that does. If the results are not what we want, then we are looking at surgery. Now, there was a time when I would not even begin to consider surgery but procedures have advanced so much since then, so I am going to really seriously consider it and pray about it.
These past couple of days have been terribly painful. You may ask: How can you shop if you are in so much pain? Wellllll.......there are things we need and also things that HAVE to be done, so I guess you could just say that I push through the pain. Like yesterday, after I was done at the doctor's office. I went over to Walmart to pick up a few things that we needed. It hurts to get in and out of the car......pretty intensely. But, I have my moves all figured out to make it the easiest to get in and out of each of our cars. Every car is different and takes a little different maneuvering to get in and out of. Next, I get my trusty walker out of the trunk and head for the store, where I get a motorized cart. It is sometimes very painful for me to get situated onto one of those, but I do it. Then, depending on what kind of cart it is, it can be painful to ride the thing. Somtimes they jerk pretty hard when you take off and when you stop. Pain! *feeble grin* How can I grin? Well, I just have to!!! And maybe it is because I have dealt with this now for 3 1/2 years, so I guess you get used to it?
Wellllll.....I didn't mean to go on and on! It is just that I never really understood what it was/is like for people who suffer from chronic pain until it happened to me and if I can help someone else to have a better understanding of it, then that is a good thing, I believe.
You can't always "see" pain. Well, that is, unless you get a look at me! LOL If you can't tell I am in pain by the way I walk, then you hafta be blind! LOL It is not a pretty sight. I've had people tell me...."stand up straight, suck your stomach in, hold your head up, yadayadayada....." Usually it is my sister Debbie or my friend(?) Neda! They get a free pass.......*smile* They have their own issues! LOL
Well, I need to go and get ready for church. We are still teaching our Bible study before church on Wed. evening. We started out with Bill and Doug. Bill's oldest brother joined us last Wednesday. He's been coming to church off and on for about a month. AND tonight his younger brother is joining us!!! Isn't this great!!! They are so hungry for the word of the Lord!! We feel so privileged to be leading these precious men into a closer relationship with the Lord. Jim may even get baptized tonight!! God is so good!!!
Have a wonderful evening!!

Miscellaneous Pictures!!

Good Monday Morning, Everyone!! I just wanted to share some pictures I've taken recently.
:-) This first one is of an absolutely gorgeous sunset that I captured last Wednesday evening when we were leaving church. It came out better than I thought it would. I was concerned
about it being too dark. Our church is on a small hill and it is the perfect spot to get sunset pictures!
This next pictures is of our neighbor's cows. *smile* They were all gathered around, standing in this pond of water underneath a tree. It had rained for like days and then it was so hot and humid on this day and as I was driving by I just had to stop and watch them enjoying the cool shade and water. BUT they apparently didn't LIKE me watching them, so they started leaving and I barely had time to get any of them IN the water! Snooty cows!!! *smile*
Below is a picture of my sweet potato vines which I planted with an asparagus fern. I just love them! They grow like crazy and are just beautiful!

This is a beautiful flowering hanging basket that I bought. I don't know what it is called but the flowers on it close up at night and then just burst out in bloom during the day. I love it!

Here's another view of it:
And lastly....here is a picture of Rocky waiting for Ed to bring him out a treat! And you can see the patriotic bunting that we put up on the porch railing. I have wanted bunting forever but didn't want to pay the price they were asking but I got a really great deal on these so I finally took the plunge and bought some. These were like two in a package for $24.95 and they are made of really durable fabric so they should last for a loooong time! *smile*

Happy July 4th!!

Birthday celebration

Noooo, not mine, but my niece, April's , my sister Debbie's daughter. Her birthday was last Saturday, so Debbie and our sister Bev and I surprised April by showing up where she works...on Friday...and taking her out to lunch. She didn't have long and is trying to eat healthy, so we went to Subway. I loooooove Subway. She was absolutely surprised and we had a great time. She and Bev work at the same place though in different offices in Riverview Diagnostic Center in Lancaster. Well, Bev was running interference and I was running a little late (the story of my life *feeble grin*) so I asked Bev to go tell April we were on our way, only to find out that she couldn't go to lunch until 1:30 because so many people had taken off that day. We were going to be there a little before noon which is her regular lunchtime. Soooooooo, I decided that Debbie and I would just take a nice leisurely ride and take the long way to Lancaster by going out Clear Creek Road and so on. Many years ago, when I first came into the church, I worked in the Outreach Program and the bus route I worked on took these same roads every Sunday morning. It brought back alot of memories to drive along them once again. Well, Debbie doesn't really like to take drives along back roads (these were all paved though they were secondary roads) but, hey, I was driving and we had some time to kill. (She ended up going to sleep on me anyway...AFTER I so kindly stopped at a convenience store and bought her a snack to hold her over until lunch. She is a diabetic. She always has an excuse! LOL) Along the way, we passed two covered bridges and I took pictures. So as not to be redundant, you can view the one covered bridge a couple of posts down, k? *smile* Here is the other one:

Of course, once we arrived at our sister Bev's place of work, everyone would look at me, then look at Bev, then look at me, and say, "You two HAVE to be sisters, right?" Well, yeah......

What do you all think? Bev, Debbie and I do have a wonderful time together. After lunch with April, Debbie and I were on our way home and Debbie piped up and said, "Boy, Bev is really spry, isn't she?" I had just been thinking the same thing! I mean, Debbie has to cart her oxygen along with her and I have my walker as my walking companion and everyone kept telling us, "You two go on ahead. You need a headstart. We'll catch up." Heyyyyyyy......*feeble grin* But it's true. AND Bev is the oldest!!! But I have to admit that she does get around great! She is going to be 60 in July, so none of us is really old, even if we DID think our parents were really OLD at our age! Why is that??? *smile* I am 56 and Debbie is 58. I feel about 35 inside and then I stand up! Argh! LOL Well, I can laugh about it tonight anyway. Some days, it's not so easy to do so. *feeble grin*
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!!

A fave quote

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is.

The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."

A new web community!!!

Just what we need, hm? *smile* But this website is awesome! It is Everyones Apostolic. You have to be invited in order to join (thank you, Liz), so if you would like to join, let me know and I'll gladly invite you!

I'm kind of busy today, so that's about all I have time to post but I am determined to blog more faithfully because it is rather therapeutic for me, you know? Have a wonderful day everyone!!

The latest

Hi Everyone! So where to begin? Wellllllll.......I had the first set of injections in my lower back on June 5th. I didn't have any idea of how painful they might be, but let me tell ya, the dentist is more painful than the injections in my back were! Seriously! I was thrilled! *smile* As the medicine was going into my vein, a slow dull ache went down each leg, but it was not painful or even anything close to unbearable. Now.....did they help? Well, for the first 12 hours or so they did. I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and I was able to just get up normally and walk normally......no pain....or hardly any pain. The next morning, Ed said that he heard me get up in the night and thought there was a different woman in the room with him! *grin* But, as I said, it didn't last. *sigh* I have had a couple of people tell me that sometimes it take until the third set of injections before you experience extended pain relief. It is so different for each person. So I go for a follow-up visit on July 8. My pain level has been pretty well up there since then but I try to keep moving and doing as much as I can.

For instance......a friend at church and I volunteered to decorate for this month's ladies' meeting but in the meantime she went to Florida. Well, I didn't want to ask someone to help me on such a short notice, so I commenced to doing the decorating myself. Ed helped me gather up things here at home that I was going to use and I went shopping for a few things that I needed. The men at church had set up the tables and chairs for me already and even put tablecloths on the tables! So when I went out the evening before our meeting to decorate, it probably took me about 2 1/2 hours, which included time for shopping. Well.......I overdid it a bit and paid the price the next day and ended up not being able to even go to the ladies' meeting! *sigh* But it looked really beautiful for the ladies who were able to go! *smile* And the ladies who cleaned up and took everything down, gathered all of my things up for me and Ed brought them home a couple of night's later and then it took me a week to get everything put away, as I did a little each day. *grin* Do you know what a change this is for a person (ME!) who used to be a whirlwind at getting things done? Now everything is a process which seems to be getting slower as time passes but, ohhhhh, am I learning patience, which is a good thing.

Ed and I are still teaching a bible study to Bill and Doug on Wed. evenings before church. When we first started, they both had difficulty finding the books of the Bible and so on, but you should see them now!! It is unbelievable how much they have learned in such a short time but they are so hungry for the Word and the things of God and now Bill's two brothers have been coming to church and one of them is going to join our Bible study Wed. evening! God is so good! And there are hungry people out there!

I took the picture above yesterday morning as we were getting ready to leave for church. There is a little butterfly on the handle of the plow, that WAS on the flower when I was ready to take the picture! *smile*

Daniel and Erin are doing great. She is about 3 1/2 months along now and hasn't had any morning sickness at all. We went to their church picnic yesterday after church in the morning. Well, after some discussion, we went to the picnic, that is. Ed and I were getting in the car and he asked me if we were going to Nelsonville's church picnic and I asked him when it was and he said this evening. Well, I asked him how long he had known about it and he said about a week and I asked HIM when he had planned to tell me about it and HE said that he figured that Daniel had told me and "I" said that Daniel probably figured that HIS DAD would tell ME! LOL Anywayyyyyyy......I called Erin and she said that they were in the process of having their picnic even as we spoke. Soooooo, my DH even had the time wrong! LOL Bless his heart! *smile* Anywayyyyy.......we went down and had a wonderful time of eating scrumptious food and enjoying precious fellowship with the saints of the Nelsonville church. Now, I am not much of a dessert person, but there was this luscious looking pecan pie (my favorite) sitting there just asking to be eaten, so I had a small piece and it was heavenly and come to find out, it was a Marie Callendar pecan pie. I couldn't believe it wasn't homemade and what made it sooooo delicious was the filling! It was so caramelly and creamy! It was the best I have EVER had. Sooooo, if you are needing a wonderful dessert and don't have much time, may I recommend Marie Callendar's Pecan Pie in your grocer's frozen food section? *smile*

Well, I need to go and get a few things done but I will blog some more a little later, k? There's so much to blog about!! Have a wonderful Monday!!!

I'm Alive!!!

I apologize for the long break in blogging but my computer is on the blink. Don't you just hate when that happens? I had been on my computer this past weekend and of course, since I have dial-up, I have to disconnect when I am done surfing the web, which I did. When I returned home and attempted to log on, I got an error message saying my modem was being used by another device or something or other, error 633, making it impossible for me to log on to the internet. Sooooo, after being on the phone to tech support, it has been determined that I probably need a new modem, so we will be attempting to do that this weekend, hopefully. Which prompted me to thinking that it sure would be nice if we could replace faulty body parts as easily as we can replace computer parts, auto parts, home repair parts, etc. *grin*

Which brings me to the results of my visit to Dr. Mezaros today. He is a spinal specialist in Lancaster. Well, he checked me out pretty extensively, read my MRI, X-rays, nerve scans, etc. and said that he would like to start with injections.....next Wed. at 11am. He said there is an 80% chance that they WILL help, though it is not possible to say to what extent. And, of course, they are only a temporary solution to the pain and they will not take away the pain completely but will hopefully make it more manageable. Everyone responds differently to the injections, which has been the same information that I have received from every doctor. Soooooo, until next week......I continue on! He did say that the strength in my legs and feet is surprisingly very good. So that is a real plus, I think. I told him that I don't just sit around or lay around, though I do rest periodically throughout the day, some more than others, as needed. I do exercises when I am laying down. By that I mean, that I slide my feet back and forth, exercise my ankles and feet and do leg lifts before I get up. I believe it has been helping. And I do walk as much as I can with my walker......oh, my trusty walker. I don't know what I would do without it!

On a side note.....I am typing this from the library and I am burning up! It is soooo warm in here. I am about to faint! I am not kidding! It has always been this way, even when I worked here. They have never been able to regulate the temperature very well in this place. I've always thought that it might be because they have this huge skylight in the middle of the library which might possibly throw everything off. Who knows???

Anywayyyyy.......Ed is at the ballpark where he watching Daniel as he instructs the pitchers on the local American Legion baseball team. Daniel is so stoked. He loves to pitch and is so excited about being able to help these young, up-coming pitchers. He also pitches to them as they have batting practice. Well, last week was the first time Daniel had pitched this season, when he pitched their batting practice. The guys were saying that they couldn't even see the ball much less hit it, it was coming in so fast. Daniel has a mean fast ball and curve ball. They clocked some of his pitches at 85mph. *smile*

Mark Condon was at our church last night and ministered to us in song. It was a great service and it was so good to just talk with Bro. Condon afterwards. We see him at camp and conferences and so on but it is usually at a distance.

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer weather wherever you are. :-)

When Daniel and Erin came up yesterday afternoon, I was laying down resting. Daniel came into the bedroom and handed me these gorgeous peonies! He had gotten them from his in-laws' garden. Aren't they beautiful?

Memorial Day Observance

We began our Memorial Day Observance Sunday morning at church as we recognized and honored eight men (one posthumously: Bro. Earl Kornmiller) for their service to our country. Here they are, pictured below:

I also made a multi-media presentation, showing pictures of each one in their military uniforms and dress, which they had given to me. It was very moving, as we honored them. The Sunday School children came marching into the sanctuary, each carrying a small flag and singing and later each veteran was presented with a framed picture of themselves in uniform.

Bro. Harry Scism, former director of Home Missions for the UPC, spoke at our morning service. He shared his experience as an missionary's child when his parents went to India, and then being a missionary to India himself. His son, Stanley, is a missionary to India presently. Bro. Scism told us that each time he has returned to the United States, he never ceases to be filled with such gratitude for the blessings of being an American and living in this wonderful country. He spoke to us from Micah 6:8 "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? "What doth the Lord require of thee?" was the title of his message. Bro. Scism is such a gracious and godly man. It was truly a pleasure to finally meet him after all of these years of seeing his photo in various UPC publications. His daughter, Loretta, moved to our area several months ago and has her own medical practice here now.
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Last night, as we did not have service at our church, Ed, me, Daniel and Erin went to Mt. Vernon and were in service at Pastor Kramer's church, Christian Apostolic. My, but we had a wonderful time, seeing so many friends and visiting and worshipping with them. AND Daniel and Erin had a wonderful surprise, because after service, Heather (Wilkinson) and her husband, Dave showed up! They are great friends but don't get to see eachother very often because they live quite a distance apart and life is busy and so on. They went to a local restaurant to eat afterwards and fellowship, while Ed and I stayed and joined in a graduation celebration for a young lady from the Mt. Vernon church that was being held in the church gym. We did have a great time visiting with everyone! It was the church's 53rd anniversary and Pastor Kramer spoke of his vision for the church. It was inspiring, to say the least!
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We slept in a bit this morning (8AM), as we didn't get to bed until almost midnight. We had to go to Walmart and get a few groceries and did we ever see so many people that we hadn't seen forever! Well, besides Pastor and Sis. Martin, that is! *smile* It was wonderful catching up and visiting and so on! BUT we had to get home so I could make a couple of strawberry dream pies, as we were going to Daniel's in-laws at two for a cookout. Soooooo, we tore ourselves away from Walmart and visiting, got home, I made the pies and we headed to Pat and Lew's. We had a great time visiting and eating some deeeeeeeeeeelicious food! Later, we all gathered outside and many of them played cornhole, while me and a couple of others observed. It was a beautiful day, albeit a bit warm at times. It started raining around 5:30, so everyone gathered things up and headed inside for dessert, while Ed and I said our goodbyes and headed home. We've had a relaxing evening here at home and I know that I am truly blessed with wonderful family, friends and this great country that I am privileged to live in.

A couple of home improvements

I finally found a new quilt that I like! AND would you believe that I found it at Dollar General??? Yes!! Meaning, I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for it. $35!!! And there is a bit of a story behind this. I had seen this quilt set in the store several weeks ago, had the money to buy it, but just wasn't feeling very good and didn't feel like buying it. (Is this a woman thing?) Anywayyyyy......in the meantime,I bought my sister Debbie a beautiful like-new twin quilt and sham set at our ladies' yearly 25-cent indoor yard sale. Yes, I bought it for ONE QUARTER. Well, some time after this AND especially after I discovered that Ed had used my other quilt to line the trunk of our car!! For what reason I do not know! .....anywayyyyy....some time after this, I knew I needed to be getting a quilt for our bed because it was getting too warm to keep the comforter on much longer. So I went back to Dollar General not really believing that I was going to find this quilt set because it had been soooo long since I had first seen it. I was in alot of pain this particular day but pushed myself to get out and do some errands. I went into Dollar General to where they keep the bedding and sure enough it wasn't there. *sigh* They didn't have ANY quilt sets, BUT I thought I would just take a look-a-round to see if maybe they had been put some place else by mistake or something. AND in just a little while I found ONE quilt set shoved in on a shelf among a mishmash of stuff (you know how some of those D&G stores can get!) AND it was a QUEEN set! Now just what do you think of that? I think the Lord put that quilt set right there for me. I do. I had just enough money to buy this particular set. It was just what I had been looking for (had a kind of antique look to it, was the right color). Isn't that just how the Lord is? "Delight thyself also in the Lord and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart."
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AND we purchased a new area rug for the living room to just kind of brighten it up for the springtime. Ellie wouldn't even walk on it for a few days for whatever reason......she's a cat maybe? *grin* Her heat register is underneath the upper righthand corner and you know how cats don't like change BUT she got over it after a few days and snuggled her furry body right over the register when the furnace came on. I knew she would cave! *smile*

Anywayyyy....just a couple of new things to brighten up the house and all can lift the spirits, you know? *smile* Oh, and I STILL haven't found this picture that I bought several months ago!! I'm serious! I think I blogged about it awhile back BUT just in case I didn't......I bought this lovely picture from a dear lady at church who was having a home party of some sort. Well, I bought this picture, brought it home and stashed it somewhere until I decided where I was going to put it AND I haven't seen it or been able to find it since!!! Argh! And my house is organized and tidy. Ask Pat! *smile* I've looked everywhere! Well, apparently not EVERYWHERE or I would have found it by now but I don't know where else to look! (this is happening more and more....*feeble grin*) I'll keep you posted on the "mystery of the missing picture".
Have a wonderful Monday everyone!!

More baby news and another recipe!

Daniel and Erin went for her sonogram Tuesday and found out that she is 5 weeks along. They were a little disappointed because they had thought she might be about 4 1/2 months along, so now they have a much longer wait but I felt a wave of relief when I heard she was not due until January 10! *whew* Daniel's birthday is January 3 so their birthdays will be close.
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I made the Strawberry Dream Pie yesterday that I told you about in an earlier post. Here is the recipe I concocted:

1 graham cracker pie shell
1 small carton of cool whip
8 oz. pkg. of cream cheese
1 envelope of Knox unflavored gelation
1 16oz. container of fresh strawberried
1 bag or container of strawberry glaze

Soften the cream cheese, then mix it with the cool whip. Add the gelatin to this. Put this into the
pie shell. It will be firm enough to top with the sliced strawberries. Spread the glaze over the strawberries. Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving. It is yummy!!!
I may try using Dream Whip the next time I make this, which will be very soon. *smile*