Hope everone has had as GOOD a day as I have

Today has been a super Great Day for me, we did not burn up last night when so many families did, 30 or 40 homes, 27 buildings and 1 business (a kennel with 60 dogs only 20 were saved). A lot of multi million dollar homes at Lake Tanglewood not to mention all the homes in Pallasaids Area. I still am trying to reach a very dear older friend, at least 85 or 90 years old, who use to live in Mescalero Park area near my sister, that got hit the hardest. THERE IS A LOT OF SADNESS TODAY ALONG WITH A LOT OF THANKSGIVING. This is one way to see what really is important FAMILY. I have always joked with Jerry about if we ever had a fire he would be on his own cause I would be saving my Photos, he told me I would be on my own cause he would be saving his GUNS. Guess I know where I stand. HA HA HA

Seriously we need to remember all the families who are literally homeless tonight and hope they know GOD IS THERE AND CAN HELP IN EVERY WAY. MY HEART IS BREAKING FOR THEM. I can not imagine starting over from scratch.

Just to add a note: Matille and her husband are fine as well as their home. They still live out there and the way I found out she was OK I called the Potter County Extension Office to see if anyone had heard from her. The ladies I was talking to said "She is OK and was even at the office this morning." That sounds like her, not much can get her down.

I finally get a chance to have my say about today

First of all, last night sure was a short sleep night, but it was defiantly worth it for me. I just forgot I had to be at work at 9 this morning. It sure was hard getting up this morning but work did go well even if I wasn't up to speed. Guess this old lady is not as young as I use to be. I was just glad I did not work the 12-9 shift tonight. About 2 Max got a call from his girlfriend and she told him about a grass fire out by where he lives. After that we started hearing the customers talk about the fires. Evidently there were several of them with all the high wind today. Right now I am waiting for the news to come on so I can tell which stories were true and which were hear say. I pray it's not as bad as they were saying. All I know for sure is it sure caused a lot of trouble at work. To start with we had several power failures, just imagine the FUN getting all the equipment back up and running in the Photo Lab (so glad Max was here, he is a wiz with the computers) and when we had things running smooth it would happen again and we would start all over again. I lost count on how many times. I was just glad I got off at 6, hope Max is OK or just totally shut the lab down, will find out tomorrow. Max opens in the morning and I come in 1-10. Guess we will see then. Hope nothing is broken BAD you know how fragile this new high tech stuff is. Keep me in your prayers tomorrow, I feel I am going to need it.

Other than this, it was a really good LORD'S DAY. HOPE YOUR'S WAS BLESSED AND A PLEASURE.

Just heard on the news, it was 3 fires (not under control yet). One out here just east of us (winds out of the west) so we are OK, and one out east of my sister Dee and one out southwest of Canyon where Max lives. Looks like it is trying to get all our attention. WELL IT IS WORKING. THANK YOU LORD FOR BEING HERE WITH US. LORD be with the 56 families who have lost their home today. One point I wish to make, the two places the people who were forced to evacuate their homes went to two churches. River Road Baptist and Cowboy Church, yea for God's people getting in there to help.

Today (or yesterday) has been a DOUBLE GOOD day

To start with Ernie had some cancellations so she called to see if I wanted her to do my hair for me. I was thrilled, why does it always can make you feel so good for someone else to fix your hair. Jerry did not fuss and took me over to her shop for her to bring me home. Of course we had to go by her house and play a little card game or two or three. We had so much FUN and I ended up not keeping up with who all was playing or even who won. At first it was playing partners, Ernie and her brother Bruce against Sammie, Ernie's sister and me. Sammie and I won and I thought Bruce got upset cause he lost but I guess not cause when Ernie had to go help Terrie (Ernie's daughter) with her horses he played a set with Sammie and me. We had so much fun. When Ernie and Terrie got back we played again, cut throat not partners til Terrie got tired and Ernie, Sammie and I played two more games. Ernie's last appointment was at 11:30 this morning and we are just now finishing up so I could go home. We were having so much fun I can not remember who won or lost but we did have some more fun. GOOD FRIENDS BEING TOGETHER AND HAVING FUN IS THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD, and believe it or not Ernie is Jerry's first wife, but that is another story for later. She is and always has been my very best friend since we met 6 months after Jerry and I married.

For now I hope everyone is having as good of a weekend as I am and WILL ENJOY CHURCH GATHERINGS TOMORROW. AS ALWAYS MAKE IT A GOOD DAY. THANK YOU LORD FOR THE DAY I HAVE HAD TODAY.

Just wanted to say HI, HOPE YOU HAVE A SAFE, HAPPY WEEKEND

Well I must say I am ready for the weekend to get here. This has been a long week. But it is going to be a very special day tomorrow, my oldest son turns 41. I called Renee (his lovely wife) today to see what they had planned, and she said for now there are no set plans, but when they did it would include me. Last year when he turned 40 she planned and pulled off a surprise trip to Vegas. THE LORD BLESSED US VERY MUCH WHEN HE BROUGHT HER AND THE BOYS TO OUR FAMILY. THANK YOU GERRY FOR FOLLOWING HIS GIDANCE.

Well guess I had better close for tonight and rest up a little for tomorrow, WITH SINCERE WISHES THAT YOUR WEEKEND WILL BE AS GOOD AS MINE. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

Vote is still out on if today is a GOOD or BAD day

It is really hard to decide if today is GOOD or BAD. It was scary at first, Sue (Jerry's sister-in-law) called this morning needing help with Calvin (Jerry's brother). We as a group convinced him to go to the Dr and let him decide if he needed to go to the hospital. We have been trying for three days now to get him to go to the hospital where he refused to go, but needed to go. He will usually go when I ask him to, but he was insistent that he did not want to go. Fooled him, Doc took one look at him and sent him straight to the hospital. Now we have all that to do, which should have been done three days ago. Once we get him settled and Sue situated now I can start my chores, wrong, he was worried about his dog. Jerry volunteers to let Binkey come stay with us. Keep in mind we have a male dog in our backyard who does not like female people or female dogs (strange), a female dog who loves everyone in our front yard, a black cat who has been in the house by herself for 9 years and a new kitten we have had for less than a month. When Jr came to stay with us we realized Blackie had never been around another animal let alone another female cat. They were just starting to tolerate each other and Dad brings in another stranger and of all things a DOG. Now this will never do, has Dad turned into a horder or something. I have no way to tell her Binkey is just for a little wile, so every time they get close to each other there is a STRONG discusdion. Hope she settles down when Binkey goes home and she gets back to liking Jr.


The GOOD part of today is Jerry did not fuss when Ernie called to see if I could play cards tonight. Right now I am over playing cards with Ernie and her sister Sammie. Things are good now I won the first hand and Ernie won the last. We will see who wins the final hand and game.

I JUST ASK THAT YOU KEEP CALVIN IN YOUR PRAYERS (GOD'S WILL BE DONE) AND HOW EVER IT TURNS OUT, PLEASE PRAY FOR SUE, she is not in good health herself and needs all the HELP we can give.

PS - On the card game I won the first game and Ernie won the second so bad if we added Sammie and my score together she would have still won. That's OK Sammie beat us bad last time. Guess it has been a GOOD DAY AFTER ALL.

Terrific day at work today

As bad as yesterday was, today has been GREAT. It did start a little bad, a college student was my first customer today. He needed to get a new camera to take with him to Cambodia during Spring Break. Yes Jen Spring Break is just around the corner. We talked about all his options and he decided on one. About 2 hours later I was called to the service desk to check out a camera being brought back. When I got up there to my surprise it was the same kid I just spent 1 hour helping him pick it out. He looked a little embarrassed when he told me when he got back to the dorm his Mom called to tell him she had bought him a camera. I laughed and tried to put him at ease by saying "That's what Moms are for, it's in our contract." He laughed and I added to have a safe trip and told him he would still be in my prayers wile he would be over there. I also stressed I wanted to see his Photos when he got back.

After that the rest of the day was great but I was real glad when it was over. I am just real glad I am off tomorrow to recover fully. Guess I had better put the lights out and get some rest so I cam get my chores done tomorrow so I can go play cards tomorrow night. GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND MAKE THE REST OF YOUR WEEK THE BEST YET. MAKE IT GOOD.

Tonight was areally bad night.

At work tonight we were really having challenges, to start with we had a skeleton crew anyway, then half called in sick and I know of nine that got sent home sick. I had to cover Photo Lab, Electronics, Sporting Goods, Hardware and Toys. Photo Lab I feel good in, meaning I know what I am telling the customer. In Electronics I have learned a little so I can help customers but in Sporting Goods, Hardware and Toys I am all bluff. I was glad I only had a few customers in those areas. In Sporting Goods all I sold was 8 boxes of bullets and they knew what they wanted. I am still going to take it up with Management tomorrow that they owe me 5 times the time on me time card for tonight. I was doing the work of 5 people. Seems fair to me, but I do not feel they will see it my way. Well got to go for now, I'm so tired I can not hold my eyes open. Will talk more tomorrow. GOD BLESS, AND MAKE IT A GREAT REST OF THE WEEK. Tomorrow is HUMP DAY, we can make it.

Really a GOOD DAY TODAY

I had to work today but it was an early day 9-6 so I have had a relaxing enjoyable evening with my husband. My usual shift for Sunday is 12-9 and 1-10 the rest of the week. I have spent most of the evening relaxing and doing nothing. So much FUN. HOPE EVERYONE HAS HAD A RELAXING WEEKEND AS I HAVE. GOD BLESS EVERYONE AND MAKE IT A GOOD WEEK.

Happy Birthday to my dear husband

To day has been a another day trying to get four days of work done in one day, but the best part was my husband had another birthday today. He really turned 73 today but he still says he is 69 again. HA HA if he is 69 that makes me 57 (I think I like that kind of math). With all we had to get done today I hope he enjoyed his day. At our age (what ever it is) it is always nice to make it another year.

Short and Sweet Tonight

Just a quick note to tell everyone I am thinking about you and hope you had a super GOOD DAY today and WILL MAKE IT A SUPER GREAT WEEKEND. All it's going to be is what you make it. MAKE IT GOOD, it is up to you. Will write more tomorrow.

Another DAY on the Funny Farm

To start with, today was my usual day off. My usual day to get most of my "Chores" done HA HA. It started at 6 this morning with a call from Calvin and Sue (Jerry's brother and sister-in-law) needing someone to get Calvin's oxygen out of their car. They left it out there when they got out of it yesterday. Of a morning Jerry doesn't get around well because of his back so guess who got dressed and went to get the oxygen. Oh well that is what family do. Sue also asked if I could take her on a few errands which I said "Fine call when you are ready to go." Wile I was at United getting us some groceries Jerry called to say went I got home we had to go get their medicine and they were going to stay in today. No problem, we had turned in the prescriptions yesterday so all we had to do was to go by and pick them up. When we tried we were informed the Dr had not signed one of the prescriptions so we had to take it to him to get him to sign it. Fine on the way to the office I called and they had closed at noon. Went on in and the nurse said we had to take a new prescription to the Dr on call. She said his office was in Medi Park and I went straight to Media Park Drive but could not find a Dr Williamson there, he was at Media Park room 2002, I went straight to 2001, they laughed and said he was across the hall. I got the autograph and on back to the pharmacy, as we were starting for home we get a call. Can we go by Wendy's and get some hamburgers to take home and get some for us too. When we did get home Ernie was calling about cards tonight and Jerry was the one who.asked if I could do some wash wile we played and she said yes. So now I am over here washing clothes and playing cards wile he is home washing more clothes so we can get caught up finally.

I don't know whst happened to my post yeaterday, but I lost it

I had a post yesterday but lost it and now I am so tired I don't remember what it was. Must not have been very important. Oh well on with today. Photo counts were back down to the usual 387, not bad for a Wednesday but not like the 2746 yesterday. Maybe things will get back to normal now. My husband surprised me tonight when he picked me up at work at 10 pm, I was really tired but he wanted to go eat out. Unusual for us,so late and in the middle of the week. The more he talked the more hungry I got. Then the problem, there is no place open in Canyon at 10 o'clock at night. He had a choice of Whataburger, Waffle House, I-Hop or Denny's in Amarillo. He picked Denny's and it sure was good. I am stuffed to the gills now but really ready for BED now. Will write more tomorrow, HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GREAT DAY AND EVEN BETTER TOMORROW.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE

I thought yesterday was BAD but today was worse. I still did a little over 2000 prints today, and I think every school class sent someone over to print photos of all the students to make Valentine's Day cards for the paremts. They were really cute and I was busy trying to take notes on what they were doing (cause they were so cute) and use them myself next year. How do teachers get so smart. THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE NEW IDEAS, THEY WERE GREAT.

Another good thing about today, my Extention Club had their Valentine Party today and we had to turn in our Cultural Arts Project for this years competition. We are judged county legal with 1st and 2nd place winners going to District Meeting in April. If you get a 1st place there you get to go to State Meeting in Setember. This is the first year I have entered anything, you have 20 categories you can enter. I had picked out 4 I had interest in and a possible 3 more. With all that, I ended up finishing 1. Can you guess PHOTOGRAPHY - Black and White or Color. I still don't like the idea of Color and B & W being judged together but that is another goal for me but this year my Collection of Sky photos in one frame marked "God's Handwork" was in the computation. Evidently they liked it as much as I did. I got First place so it is on to district for me. As soon as I can figure out how to set up photos on my blog I'll let you see it, as you can see I still don't even have my photo on my blog. I am still taking baby steps with my blog, but I am still so thrilled I even have it. THANKS JEN FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT .

Good Night for now, HOPE EVERYONE HAD AS NICE A VALENTINE'S DAY AS I HAVE. And things just keep getting better.

I thought Christmas was busy - Not like Valentine's Day

At Christmas I though everyone was giving Photos to every one on their list. Well I guess some got missed cause it is double bad for Valentine's Day. That or everyone has cabin fever with all the snow and cold weather and Wal-Mart Photo Lab is the place to hang out. I have not checked the numbers yet but I know I have done at least 1000 photos and cards today. On top of that the morning guy did not make it in and I have been here since 10 and just now getting a brake called lunch. Oh well guess I should be glad I get a lunch. I must admit I have seen a lot of fantastic photos and cards today. HOPE WHOEVER GETS THEM ENJOYS THEM AS MUCH AS I HAVE MAKING THEM. One little older lady came in and wanted me to scan in 15 of her old old photos (she needed them to take to her husband in the nursing home) they turned out so GOOD it made me feel good to help her out. She just kept thanking me when she picked them up and said they looked better than the originals.

THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT WORTH ALL THE CRAZINESS GOING ON. I just got off and I ended up doing over 2000 prints today. Kind of busy for a Sunday.

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SUPER VALENTINE'S DAY AND ARE CLOSE TO YOUR LOVED ONES. MAKE IT A GOOD DAY.

Catch up is bad to try and do in one day

I have said before I had done a day and a half in one day but I feel I did three days work today. Can't wait to get back to Wal-Mart tomorrow and work and get paid for it. I just figured it out and I have done one weeks wash and two weeks dishes in one day. Plus I had a chance to visit with my youngest GRANDson (Jack has been on a visit from Dallas) wile he stayed with his other grandmother here. What a time for all this water trouble wile he has been here since last Saturday DARN THE LUCK. Oh well maybe I can get more of him next time.

You don't appreciate somethings til you don't have them for a wile

I think I have never enjoyed a SHOWER in my life like I did that one last night. It felt sooooooo good. Next on the agenda is getting my hair washed. That has to wait til tomorrow when I have my next day off. That's the day I get caught up on the clothes washing and dishes done. So much for a day off.

They just moved the corner

This has really been a day and a half. So much for my day off. The insurance agent was here a little after noon and bad news, our problems are bad but not more than the deductible. Oh well. The good thing is the hot water repair man is here now and says he will have it finished tonight. Yea! Hot shower tonight even if it is at midnight. THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOOD IN EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, sometimes you have to look really hard for it though.

Looks like we are turning the corner

Looks like the worst is over for now. It is still only 1 outside but we finally had a little moisture in the air so we got a little SNOW. When I got off work at 10 last night it was really nasty. When Jerry came to get me, he came at 8:30 and just wondered around Wal-Mart til I got off. I had to close down Electronics and of course the overnight girl was late. Grumpy was not too happy when I didn't get off til 10:30. He said when he was on his way to W-M it was blowing snow so hard it was White Out conditions most of the way. He really liked having an extra pair of eyes on the way home, and it wasn't too bad. We did have cases of horizontal snow. Most people have not experienced horizontal snow or rain but it happens a lot around here. Our WIND can be rather strong. I am told hurricane winds are 70 mph, that is a light breeze around here. I also know that is why we have such good air here, it blows all the uck to Lubbock. HA HA!

Long story short, I am glad we are almost back to normal. The high is suppose to be 18 today and -1 tonight but the rest of the week will be more normal. WILL SHARE MORE AFTER I THOUGH OUT A LITTLE .HPOE EVERYONE HAS A BLESSED DAY LIKE ME. At work I do not say "Have a nice day." I have never been a fan of that statement. I say "Make it a nice day." Then if that ask I say "That is the one thing I have control of." SO I SAY TO YOU "MAKE IT A NICE DAY!"

One more thought, I can not go til I say one personal point. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MY DEAR SISTER AND HER WONDERFUL HUSBAND. They have been Blessed with each other for 59 years now. As a tag along sister I even had the privilege to go on a lot of their dates and I was only 2. Thanks Bill for being such a big part of my life and showing me how beautiful LOVE can be. Thanks Dee for bringing him to our family.

Correction: I just found out I was 17 months old when I started going on their dates. BUT THANKS GUYS FOR YOUR EXAMPLE OF WHAT LOVE CAN BE. You have accomplished so much in your lives and share that with everyone, and your kids and GRANDkids could not do without GGMAW and GGPAW. Hope you have the day you DESERVE .

Well we are starting round two today.

That's right, we didn't have to light the fires at the farm last night the low was only 23 but since we got up it keeps going down. It is 19 now. Jerry is up there lighting the burner in the barn and shop but we only have 22 hours left on those tanks so he will have to change out the tanks before too late tonight. They would not burn all day and all night. I feel sorry for him. He is getting older now and is having trouble lifting and moving the propane tanks. PLEASE KEEP HIM IN YOUR PRAYERS, we are trying to fond someone to help him but have not succeeded in that yet. He won't let me.

On top of everything else the insurance agent can not get to the Panhandle til Friday or Saturday, maybe even next week some time. Believe it or not right now he is in El Paso on claims down there, working his way up the state. We will see him when he gets here. We just have to wait our turn. HA HA! Sure hope this will be the last BAD spell for this year. I for sure have decided, COLD WITHOUT ANY MOISTURE IS REALLY THE WORSE WEATHER TO HAVE.

HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A BLESSED DAY. IT SOUNDS LIKE I AM NOT BUT I REALLY AM - I KNOW IT COULD BE WORSE AND I KNOW GOD IS IN CONTROL AND LOVES US SO WILL TAKE CARE OF US.

I think I will really like Friend Making Monday

Thanks Jen for getting me to read Friend Makin' Monday. I Love your post but here are my answers.

Did I watch the Superbowl? No, my husband now has to be a true nut case but he does not like any Sport. As a kid I always watched football with my Dad but didn't care much for any other sport, so we do not watch them. On the other hand my first husband did not enjoy football but always liked baseball with his dad. We made an agreement, I would watch baseball with him and he would watch football with me. We later branched out to include all sports but we never agreed on wrestling and rollerdurby. There is still hope for Jerry he has consented to watch some PRCA, WRCA and PBR Bull Ridding with me. There is HOPE yet.

If not what did you do? We watched Old Old Movies we have seen twenty million times on TV. Oh well he was HAPPY.

LIKE YOU SAID JEN "Maybe Next Year"

Update - YEA FOR INSURANCE!

I just got off the phone with the insurance lady (she was very nice) and it looks like it will pay the biggest part of the problem and she even pointed out a bunch of stuff I had not thought of. It is nice to see GOOD PEOPLE are still around if you look hard enough. The insurance claims man will call to set a time to come out. Soon I hope.

Hot Water Heaters are a problem

Just found out how much to fix the hot water heater. Not as bad as I figured but bad enough. Hot water is not a necessity but it is nice to have, we can still heat water on the stove for dishes but cold showers are the pits. Guess we will rough it a little. At least we are not having to haul water now YEA!!!

Just to let you know

I did mess the hot water heater up big time. It seams there are two elements in the heater and I messed them both up. Guess that is the job for tomorrow. See how much it is going to cost to get us some hot water. Oh well WHAT NEXT

Just a quick note about our crazy day.

Yea we are fixed kind of but it is so nice to have water where it is suppose to be IN THE PIPES. The one bad drawback is I am afraid I messed up the hot water heater. When Jerry said to throw the braker to the hot water heater I told him it was on demand heater so there was no tank to worry about. Well the first thing the repair man asked was had we thrown the braker. I was in big trouble when I had to say NO. Now that everything is back up we still have no hot water. That is a job for Monday. The reason I am posting so late is I used the excuse of no clean clothes to ware to work tomorrow and needing a bath (after crawling in and out from under the trailer all morning and afternoon) to go to my very best friend Ernestine to clean up and play cards wile the clothes wash. Seemed GOOD to me and Jerry agreed. Ernie, her daughter, her sister and I play cards or dominos any chance we get. I'm just now getting home but boy did we have FUN even if I did loose bad. Well guess I had better close for now and get ready for the challenges of latter today.

Explination of the last post

I just found the EDIT POST and found all those posts I thought I had posted but did not get it done. Boy, did I have a lot of them. That one was from Feb 2nd so sorry for the mess up. I still have one more I still want to post even if it was from Christmas Day. I was at Gerry's Home and he was HELPING. THANKS SON

I think I like SNOW better than all this bitter COLD

I think I am about to change my mind about SNOW and ICE. I use to love the snow as long as it did not have the ice under it, but when we had those horable ice storms last year I decided ICE was the worse there could be. After all this prolonged just COLD, COLD WEATHER so dry there is no ice or snow, this is as bad as it gets. Just total UCK. Frozen up pipes(some maybe busted) having to haul all our water and worry that it will freez before we get home.

Now for the BAD NEWS and the BAD-BAD NEWS.

I was real excited this morning YEA we finally have running water. No more hauling Pattie water, but when we turned off all the faucets (we had them on to see when the pipes were free running) it still sounded like my clothes washer was filling faster then it usually did. Jerry asked if I was washing clothes? I said are you kidding, NO WAY. Well the bad news is we do have a major busted pipe and not just any easy fix pipe but in between the floor and the sub floor yuck. I tried to call our insurance to see if we have coverage, "Our offices are closed at this time. Callback during business hours." I also called the morgagGood News e place and got the same answer. What are you suppose to do on weekends?

Today I finally got to see some BLUE SKY

It is so nice to see BLUE SKY again, I thought it had gone away forever. It is still cold outside and the wind is getting back to the usual so that means the Wind Chill is bad but there is hope. WE HAVE BLUE SKY OVER TEXAS,  YEA YEA YEAA!!

We are having a HEAT WAVE

Well it has finally decided to warm up some, it is all of 8 now and going to be 22 high today. Still going to cool off again tonight but it's the last cold night til Monday night, maybe it will though enough to see if any of the pipes are frozen. Guess I'll be crawling under the trailer to check them out. Lord give me the knowledge to fix things the right way. Jerry can tell me what to do but with his bad back he can not go under the trailer.

Looks like another COLD one to night

They are saying -5 tonight and -2 tomorrow night with a high of 17 during the day. My old bones are not use to this, I'm use to snow in the morning and all melted away by noon.

We are sure having a COLD SPELL TODAY

It was a cold wake up call this morning. When I got up this morning my phone said it was 2 here have not checked the weather yet but our water is frozen up. First time this year and the first time in the last 6 years it has us frozen sollid and it is supose to be -6 tonight. I guess winter is rasing it's ugley head today. Hurry up Thursday it is supose to be over then.