Hi. I have been blogging sporadically (more frequently, lately) on typepad.com. The address is http://www.mommah.typepad.com.mommah-musing/. I hope. Let me know if it doesn't get you there.

Answers and Continuations

Thank God - Rich's surgery was a success. Maybe he won't have to have dialysis. We pray not. Don't know how Kathleen's surgery went. It was back surgery. We are still very concerned about Lisa with her lymphoma. So many things to pray about... Judgement House coming up in October. A wonderful outreach, but physically and spiritually draining for those of us involved. But - "Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world!" THANK GOD!!

Another blog

I have started posting on www.mommah.typepad.com/mommah-musing/ Just to try it out. Meg D. has a blog there and I like what she does with it. Of course, she is WAY more web savy than I am. I can't get those cool backgrounds, even though I get the 'code' and all - still can't figure out how to get them to do neat things in my blog. Anyway - Rather than repeat blogging, why don't you check out that blog. It is a bit different from this one, and I don't muse the same things on the other blog, so I'm putting my musings all over the web. (Do two places make an "all over the web?" So that's all ya get here tonight. I am exhausted. Lee and I tried sleeping on our old kingsize bed in the guest room, and neither one of us got any sleep. Lee's back was hurting and he kept feeling like he was being bitten, and every time he wiggled I woke up. I finally went to bed in Mom's room and got about 5 hours of sleep there. Lee was up and down too, so he didn't sleep much more than I did. I was also up painting in our room all day today, without a catch up nap, so I am pooped. I made up the bed in there after I got that one wall painted so we can sleep in our good bed tonight. That'll help a LOT. So that's it for tonight. Ya'all take care.

Long time

Boy - I have let this go for a long time. I think the blogs I follow of the young gals in church - all have children at home yet and have MUCH more excitement and interest than this old retired woman. Lee and I worked really hard last Monday & Tuesday to get the family room freed up from all the boxes of stuff that were left there before vacation. (We were under the gun because I had an uncle coming to stay here on Wed night)! That meant cleaning out a place in the basement for them. Lee did all that work. I went through the boxes again and ended up getting rid of a bunch of stuff that we just didnot need! Mom doesn't use half of the stuff she has now, so between Lee and I, we either gave stuff away to the ETC shop, or to the garbage men. The Etc shop has almost half of the stuff we got rid of last month. I also went through my closet and have a 50# bag of clothes for Lee to take down to ETC Shop again. I need to go right back up there to my "dressing room" and clean out some more things from that closet and from that room. I have accumulated WAY too much stuff - and keeping skinny clothes for me is fruitless, it seems. I figure by the time I lose into some of those clothes, they will be totally inappropriate for a woman of my age and out of fashion! So many of your blogs are about the people in your lives, but when you get to my stage in life, not much exciting happens. I really like the peacefulness and quiet of our retirement home (which we have been in for 32 years)! Oh well - it is what it is. Don't know if we can really stay here forever like Lee would like to do, because my left knee is feeling weaker everytime I go up or down the stairs. That happens many times a day, because there is no rest room on the level I am on here in the dining room. I keep trying to fall asleep, and my train of thought derails, so I think that's all you get for today. Sorry my blogs are so very subjective. There's not that much other for me to talk about, than me and myself. Don't much care for that, but that's where it goes all the time these days. So maybe this thing is just a therapy tool to get the stuff out of my head. Don't know whether that is working or not. I'll keep trying.

Down-sizing

I always seem to start writing my blog really late. We'll see what comes of this one. Mom is doing well at the Manor, I think, but she still gets lonely for family. The last few days I haven't stayed to visit for very long because I have spent 5-6 hours at her apartment packing the left over stuff. I don't know whether she realizes it or not, but down-sizing means the stuff will be GONE. I have found stuff she moved over from the house 9-10 yrs ago that I'll bet she hasn't looked at since she moved, but it's still there! The worst thing is that the organ has to be gone. I hate that, but even though I have tried to give it to the Manor so it'll be where she can keep her eye on it, they don't have room, so I have to give it to the organ man in town. Rats. I wish I could play it, but alas, I was more interested in chasing boys than learning the piano, let alone the organ. I have put in about 40-50 hours over at the apartment getting Mom moved. Guess that doesn't sound like all that much, unless we remember that I was off my feet two summers in a row, and I have learned sitting is easier than being up working. And my feet get really sore, walking around on that cement floor covered with very thin carpeting. And - when I come home, I still have to do the housework around here. Granted, I don't work real hard at that, especially since I cleaned well before Uncle Kenny and Aunt Dixie came on the 27th, and then cleaned again for community life group here on Sunday (the 31st). So it shouldn't get too dirty after that, especially since Lee and I are at Mom's most of the time these days. Me more than Lee, but he has been helping quite a bit. This seems like such an inconsequential blog - Who really wants to read about my take on my mom and my boring life? Seems like we don't do anything exciting anymore. It was fun having relatives here, even though it was very, very short. The end of next week Lee and I will be going to MN and he will be talking on the life of a railroader. That'll be good. Wonder what kind of a group will assemble from Mtn Lake to hear what he has to say. That should be interesting. I hope he will tell some of his fun stories about the railroad characters he worked with over the years. They are funny stories, especially the way he tells them. I'll let you know how that goes. That's the story of my life the last two weeks. Now I am going to bed. Good night, y'all. (All one of you)