WOMEN'S MEETING AT CHURCH THIS WEEKEND

We had a wonderful meeting tonight. Carolyn was there, was so good to see her. She is still so pretty. We really heard some good sermons. Bro Bert (our pastor) mother which is 85 was in charge of the services. We had lots of singers, nearly everyone could sing. Sometimes we have a singing night and everyone in the church sings,either by themselves or with others. I have started singing and really like it. I cannot sing very good but I know God likes it and he is the one that I'm doing it for. My favorite is Master of the Wind. I have not sang very many. I practice at home without music so it is hard to get started. No matter if you can sing or not, it is appreciated in our little church. I enjoy listening to Nita, (Hugh wife) sing the songs he wrote. Some of them are really old but he has wrote some new ones. I don't know how recent. Pogo sings some of the.

Back to our meeting. The Men cooked us 3 meals a day. Did a good job I think. It was very good. Bro Bert son really likes to coook. Some of the ladies in the church would bring in some dsesserts. I carried a large sheet cake and had frest strawberries and whipped cream to go with them.

God poured out his blessings and we had a wonderful time. God Bless

'ENJOYABLE WEEK

This has been a very good week, been cleaning the shed, work but I have enjoyed looking at things. going through the kids school papers and awards they got, Have boxed up their things for them. School albums, drawings and other things to give them. I have really accomplished a lot this week. It is so good to feel better and have a little more energy. Beautiful weather, warm and sunshine, could not stay in the house. Ate our lunch on the patio or on back porch. Finally got the wood off and it cleaned. Got my bird feeders all filled and love to watch the birds. The squirrls have taken over here, I use to love to watch them but no more. Coy and I burned a hugh burn pile last night, well I told him not to start it until late, but he just couldn,t wait. I "am not going to be sick from the smoke" I refuse to do that. But I told him if I did It would be his fault. It got burned anyway alone with a hugh pile of old papers out of the shed. I burned a lot of history, all my Histology papers, notes, books got burned up. Sad in some ways, I miss it sometimes, I loved the work I accomplished from working. I was 40 when I went back to school, got my degree in Histology, went to work and worked for over 20 years and was supervisor for 9 years. Great accomplishment for me. I am proud for what I did. Briauna came over she was amazed at all the stuff, she said some of this is over 100 years old. She was looking at some of the things I was sending home with her that was her mothers.I hope it was Ok with Pam. I sent all her school annuals, some of her awards and other things. I also have gathered up some of Tony's stuff to take to him. All the kids love to go to the old house that has lots of stuff in it. Kiefer was out there going through things the other day. I carried a bunch of stuff to a 4-H sale. Just get rid of it. Have lots of stuff to burn. Well enough of that for now. GOD BLESS

SUN--DAY

It is beautiful outside today and supose to last all week, a chance of showers 2 days, but mostly sunny, love it need it. Got my back porch cleaned off almost yesterday, like a little wood, afraid we will have another cold snap, want to be ready. I also planter 90 glad bulbs. have a few more to go. mowed some leaves and mulched some also. We will not be going so much this summer so I will spend more time in my yard.

Going to till up a row in garden and plant some wild flowers, have a mixture of arkansas wild flowers. Wonder how many will come up. I hope all of them. I love cosmos so I will pick a few packages up to mix with them. I planted my glads where I can put a picket fence around and help hold them up. They are a beautiful flower.
I really like flowers, but the seed you buy don't come up very well anymore. Marigolds I like to plant in the garden, the smell keep a lot of harmful bugs away. They really do stink but a beautiful flower. Planted red clover all along the ditch our front, hope it comes up, hadn't seen any yet. That will be so pretty. Cleaned out some of the cane break and planted some vines I got from Roy's all of them lived so it will be pretty some day. It has varigated green leaves and blue flowers on it. Trying to plant things that will grow every year so they will be there.
This old age don't permit you to do a lot of extra.

Coy keeps saying when his arm gets well he is going to do this and do that, well I know how his doing is. Very little as possible. A lot of things I have done is things I told him he needed to get done before he had that done. Well that is a man for you.
Well enough of that
God Bless all of you

MARCH 1

Coy went in for surgery at Arkansas Surgery Center, he was suppose to be there at 9:30, we got there at 9 am, they took him on back and got him prepped for surgery. His gown, pretty little hat, IV and all those cute little things they do. His heart rate went up to 180 so that brought a room full of nurses and Dr. They begin to work with him, did an EKG, it was not good , it did it again only it went to only 160 this time. It was running higher than it should and fluctuated back and forth. So irregular so they got some kind of medicine and put in his IV. Undecided to whether they would do surgery or not. The medicine worked and took care of the problem. so they decided to go ahead.
He did great the Dr. said. The nerve block should last about 18 hours, but they gave it to him about 10:30 this morning ,did not go in surgery until 3:10 so it will not last all night.
Well at 2 am this morning the pain returned with a vengence. It was the worst pain,"he said" he had ever had. He called the nurse and told her "didnt you tell me you had some medicine for this pain and if you dont bring me a sledge hammer so I can get me out of my misery." So the pain had to be very bad. It was not a good night or day after that. He kept pulling his sling off and taking his pillow out fron under his arm. He is not a good patient at all. So glad I had a room next to his so I could watch him. He is very agitated at the garb he has to wear. Not eating or drinking like he is suppose to. But it is going to be Ok. No much rest until Wed night we came home thursday.

The Dr. said it would be better to go on than for him to be off his plavix another 10 days and do it all over again. So that is what we did. He did great in surgery. No problem.
Everyone told him he just wanted the attention of all the nurses and Dr.

He got plenty of that. All the nurses was in there doing what needed done. His anethesologist was with him all through the surgery to make sure things went well. He don't usually stay in there. Dr. Stewart told us that. I was just praying and I knew in my heart, God was going to take of things.He did and we are so richly blessed. God Bless all

TODAY

I begin baking a 3 tier cake for our friends. An 8 inch, 10 inch and a 14 inch layers. I baked a decorated a 3 tier 50th wedding anniversary cake for my dear friends. Hard to say no. Got all the small one baked and had one of the 14 inch in the oven when I begin to cool off and I immediately knew what was happening. The connector we have replaced many times was burning out, I smelled something burning earlier, but hoped I would be able to get them all baked before it quit completely. But no it just had to quit on my big one which was 3 cake mixes. So I went to the trailer to see if the stove was working it wasn't. Coy did not hook it up right so he had to do that, we lit it and transferred the cake down there to finish. First I had to measure to see if my pan would fit . Well it finished baking and was so packy I said I need to rebake. So I planned to go to Nancy's when she got home. I told Coy we know what to do let's just fix it, We have plenty of time. So that is what we did. Pulled the stove out, pulled the back off and sure enough that is what was wrong. We got it all fixed and finished my cakes. We took that one and froze it to make a bowl cake with fresh strawberries, vanilla pudding and cool whip. We will have that for Easter. It will be so good.
I hate making messes but that turned out OK, I usually get upset but not this time.
Did not plan on doing any more big cakes but you know how that goes, hard to turn down your friends. It turned out beautiful. The anniversay was a great success. Sharon did not want them to do that. There was food galore and good too. They had a big croud. some friends they had not seen for a long time. Former pastors even came. That made the feel real good.
I will try to do a picture, don't know if I can but if not Nancy can.
Love to do simple ones not big ones anymore a little stressful delivering them. Not doing them.
That has been my day.
God Bless

PROVERBS 31

This is for me today.

Psalms 119:45 I will walk about in freedom for I have sought out your precepts.

I feel like God is asking me to remove some things from my plate and embrase what he has in store for me to enjoy the peace he wants me to have. When I embrase his word and It becomes the most important thing I pick up and read everyday that is when I will have an expression of my amazing God and his revolutionary love.

I preach to me everyday about having the wrong feelings and not knowing how to handle situations . That is what God's word is for to teach us. We turn it over To Jesus and he will handle it. We are not to worry.

My sister wrote this SORROW LOOKS BACK, WORRY LOOKS AROUND,FAITH LOOKS UP, I like that and it will be posted on my refrigerator. Thanks

Since God is not a God of chaos or confinement when I follow His ways He brings freedom. He causes the things He has not called me to do, or to be a part of, to fade in the background. That is where my purpose is peaceful.

KEYS

I am taking Coy's car keys today he has banged up my car so much. He side swiped something with the back tail-light, bent the fender and white is all over the tail light and the side is bent in. He has backed into a truck, just hit the bumper of the truck. It dented in the trunk and bumper.

He hit a dog and busted our front bumper. So I told him to give me his keys if he wanted to drive he could drive the truck, It is all dented in in 3 or 4 places. He backed a trailer into the side just the other day. He pulls out in front of people, he just drives crazy, like he is another world. Too bad he has got so wacky.

He use to be a good driver, NO MORE , I am scared to ride with him. He slows down to 5 miles an hour, then speeds up you never know what he is going to do. Drives on the line a lot of times.

Makes me mad when he does something and then does not tell the truth about it. He will never own up to doing anything wrong.
I ask him after we went to be did he really know what happen to the car , he told me he hit the walkway post.

It did not do me any good to go to church last night, I was in knots about the car, I just seen it when we about to leave. I know it is just a thing, but the first time in 15 years we have had a good car. I think maybe it has a jinks on it , or maybe we picked the wrong car.

My how your life can change in a matter of moments. Our lives sure has changed in a years time.

Once a week we pick up the kids and take them to eat and usually to the Rec. center near our house. Well when he goes, he don't want them talking and Kiefer never shuts up, he is a hunter and fisherman and loves to talk about it. I love to hear what he has to say, but Coy he sets over there and blows. So I will be doing that by myself from now on. I will tell him he has to stay home. I have done that a few times already. He does not enjoy it and neither does anyone else.

This is my complaining for this day. What will tomorrow bring only God knows. Maybe you life is better God Bless you and Me