COMMON GROUND COFFEE HOUSE #87

Hello folks,

I think this is the coldest morning so far this year. Was 52 now it's warmed to a balmy 55. Turned the heat on, barely, to knock off the chill.

Sounds like y'all have been keeping busy.

Tony, still praying for you and Viv. Hope the road to recovery is a smooth one.

Menagerie, sounds like you need some vitamin C.

Wish I could get out and do some trimming on some bushes.

We're getting some stronger than normal wind today, probably from the outer bands of Wilma.

 

No vitamin C! I'm the one odd person that if I take extra C I'm gaurenteed to get sicker, or sick if I was well before.

Instead, I'm having a morning candy break with whoever's candy that was dumb enough to leave it in my room for more than two weeks. I've had a box of dots, a sour patch kid, two snack size hershey bars and I'm saving the sweet tarts and the now and later for lunch. My mood is improving already!

LOL Padre!

 

Remains cold and rainy here as well, but we have had the woodstove burning the last two weeks, with a threat of snow a couple of times.

I am working outdoors and can't wear gloves at wot I am doing, so my hands are literally frozen. I think it is safe to remove the air conditioner for the winter and install a new window for it to be installed next summer.

Considering wot those in Southern Florida are facing to-day, we have it best off. May the Lord keep those folk safe.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Good morning again, ya'll!

Sue, I am feeling much better, and believe I will be almost back up to par after the stent is removed this afternoon. Vivian is doing much better. Thanks for asking. Today is her 42nd birthday, and it's sort of hard on her because her mother isn't here. Her mom's b-day would have been the 9th, and her mom's anniversary would have been the 8th. But, she's really doing well and I've tried to keep things light hearted for her this month with some humor, some tears and a lot of backrubs and shoulder massages, hand holding, and little kisses on the cheek and forhead (and a big wet one on the lips before she leaves for work! ) <<<<blush>>>>

MK, my blood sugar yesterday was down to 70, which is really low for me. The day before that, it was at 59 and I had to eat two full teaspoons of sugar. This morning it was 98. Two times in the last six months it's reached 285. Doctor said if it keeps going high, then low, he's going to put me on "Lantus", an insulin.

I went back to bed at 8:45 am this morning and got back up at 10:45. Those two hours of sleep helped. I took a shower and am ready to go to the doc! I know I've got an x-ray, urinalysis and the removal of the stent. Hopefully that will be all for a while.

It's 50 degrees here, and the cooler air feels marvelous! The leaves on the trees across the road and those behind us on other farms are beautiful! I thank the Lord so much that He led us to this property last year.

Blessings.

 

Hello all...
It's 65 here in the house and very chilly on the morning walk today. Keeping socks on feet and sweaters on! It was supposed to rain this week end but haven't gotten any yet.
Tony - praying for you and will pray for your family also. I pray you'll be done today with all the medical stuff!
mk - have you tried echinacea? I know one is not supposed to have too much of it.
School is going well. Can't even think about Christmas yet. Just looking forward to Thanksgiving and starting to plan for that. It's my favorite holiday.
Have a great day all..
Pam

 

Lucky you, Tony. Our leaves haven't even begun to change. I'm beginning to think this is going to be one of those years where everything goes straight from green to the ground. That happens here if the weather goes straight from hot to cold, like seems to be happening this year. It's still only 52 out there. Yesterday it was 70.

Well my plans got changed for today. There is only a path being made to my sewing machine so I can do those uniforms. The rest will have to wait.

I'm meeting with our local child advocate this pm to discuss what was said in my phone call to Precious' principal on Friday and get some input. While we are there we'll probably also get some ideas on my sister's situation. She finally pulled her son out of public school because he was getting so far behind due to the school lack of accomodation. Problem is, she can't really afford to homeschool him.

Oh well, it's still Monday!

 

And now it is nearly noon here and what have I accomplished?

Not much, but I did check on my Florida children and they are ok, just rain and a little wind and they sill have electricity. Praise the Lord.

Called my 86 year old Sunday School teacher who is ill, having terrible pains in her hip. We talked for an hour. We talked about Sooner football and our little dogs. She seemed to be in a better mood. She told me she was running out of reading material so I will take her some books.

Mk, Do I ever remember those days? But the good ones really do overshadow the bad ones.

Remember Sue reminded us that sometimes the little delays may save our lives. We just don't know how many times God has protected us from disaster by those irritating delays in the morning.

We were under a freeze warning last night, but I don't think the temp got below 36, but we did have frost on the pumpkin (Ed's car). He forgot to put it in the garage last night.

Well, laundry needs to be done, dishes washed, etc. etc.

Take care

 

Thank you for sharing with us, Scarlett. May God Comfort You in your loss of this wonderful friend.

 

It is a wonderful thing when one is moved to tell about another believer. We should all be so moved.

Another example of when something needs to be done, ask someone who is busy.

Just a side note, Scarlett..Hmmmm 79 is not that old,,,,I reach that in January...*smile*

Cheers,

Jim

 

Scarlett, thank you for sharing about Clarice. What a special woman! God bless and comfort you and everyone she has touched in life.

 

Good morning all:

Scarlett, sorry to learn of the loss of this dear lady. It's always hard to lose someone who has touched our lives in a positive way.

It is 45 here this morning, and there wasn't any frost or fog! Viv was pretty happy about that. She's feeling much more chipper and her color is back. He sinus' are doing much better and her nausea is gone.

I have a lot to do today, and I hope that I've got the stamina to get it all finished. Some of it is getting mail packets ready...I've got to finish packing the prayer quilt our church is sending my sister in Waycross. Then there is a light bulb with a 10 year warranty that I have to finish packing and find the receipt for. It was a dud bulb in a packet of 8. I'm sending it back and asking for two more to go with it to cover the cost of shipping/handling. If their product is so good, I don't think they'll refuse; and I also have to find the sales slip for the Black and Decker four slice toaster we bought back in January and call the warranty dept to get a return authorization. Two of the slots don't work.

We did get out yesterday and finish mowing most of the grass around the mound in the middle of the side yard. The whole thing looks a whole lot better and now we want to start laying it out in patterns of how we want to landscape it next year.

Ya'll have a great morning. I may try to go back to bed after Vivian calls to let me know she made it to work. I'm still a bit weak, and the doctor said that would be normal after having gone through all of this stuff and being anemic already.

Be good, Be kind, Be careful.

T

 

Good morning, God. It's me...Margaret.......remember that from the famous books? I can't remember the woman's name now.

It is still raining here, but a lot milder than it has been the past two weeks. I'm sure glad we used a sandy-loam to do our garden around the house, or we would be knee-deep in mud. The weather prognosticators tell us this rain is the backhand result of the hurricane. t is moving hard this way and will hit Nova Scotia as a tropical storm. We will get high winds and rain the next few days.

I trust everyone will enjoy their day.

Cheers,

Jim

 

5-8 inches of snow forecast over the next two days! The good news is that all those yahoos who forgot how to drive in the snow will get an early start. Hopefully by the time real winter sets in they'll already wrecked their car and the rest of us can drive in peace.

Bad news? Ummm... I'll get back to you on that.

Hey, Scarlett, thanks.

 

Good morning all!

It was still cold this morning. Cool enough in the house that I had to light the gas logs. I wouldn't have had to if it had just been me and T as the cool doesn't bother us. The kids though, think they're freezing to death if it gets below 70. Southern kids have no appreciation for cooler weather.

Half of us are nice and sick this morning with this upper respiratory virus. We've decided there is nothing we can do but suffer through it so we are all moving. I'm not moving well though as the thing has seemed to give me the chills, without actually having a fever. Chills make my arthritis worse. I'm about to have to take the drastic measure of actually taking something for it. Nasty catch 22 of never taking medicine, is that when I do take something the cure is nearly as bad as the cause. Even a child's dose drags me down bad.

I'm looking for a good day in spite of things. Since I don't feel much like moving around I think that I'll sit at the sewing machine and make up Son's costume. He has a party on Saturday, so he needs it sooner than I thought.

Wonderful story Scarlett.

Ya'll have a good one!

 

Morning all....
Pretty chilly here...think autumn is here to stay, finally...turned furnace on when we started shivering...just to break it in, mind you!
Thanks for sharing your story, Scarlett..Tony and MK, ya'll take care and finish getting better...glad Viv is so much better....
Sue, you are wearing me out with your Christmas present wrapping...you are soooo far ahead of me....I need to get b-day gifts for my 2 great-nephews and get them mailed off to CA for their b-days in November...no time for Christmas yet!!!! Having some painting and electrical work done on the house later this week so will have to work it around that...son and I also raked a good part of the yard yesterday afternoon and cleared some branches and will try to finish and clean gutters before karate early this evening...we might have to stretch it to Thurs but must finish before it gets dark early starting next week after time change. Don't want it dragging into the week-end since we have a lot going on then...
Hey to everyone else and must run....school is going well and housecleaning beckons...
Pam