REMEMBERING........

SHERRIE AND HER BOYS......BRAYDEN, KEN, ALEX AND ADOPTED GREG.....OH ALEX'S BIG RED GOT IN THE PICTURE.......

Sherrie popped in to pick up Ken yesterday.......going 90 miles an hour getting ready for her son's wedding next Friday.....the 15th!  She looked so tired and I wish I could be more help....but we do what we have to do......

This time 24 years ago I was trying to put together Karrie's wedding.....all alone.....no mother, no sisters, no sister-n-laws or neighbors help.......I made her wedding dress......at her request.   I used a big round Batinberg table cloth, three pillow cases and a long table runner.....the best thing i ever sewed!   Find the place, plan the menu and wedding cake, wedding pictures, invitations, music etc......and paid for it all alone.......no one wanted her father involved and he probably wouldn't pay anything anyway. 16th of September.......You do what you have to do.  Knowing Sher she will pull it off great and it will be first class.

Her cute Greg is waiting for his girl friend to get home from her mission next month......They were both in Calif on the Polynesian mission......so they both will be speaking the same foreign language.......Sher has promised to help with his wedding?????  IF AND WHEN.

HURRICANE SEASON.......

     I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO HAVE THIS LADY (?) MOVE IN NEXT DOOR TO ME.....I HAVE BEEN GLUED ALL DAY TO THE TV WAITING TO SEE WHAT HURRICANE IRMA DOES NEXT?  I FEEL SO SORRY FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE BEING CAUGHT UP IN THIS HORRIBLE HURRICANE.......I HAVE BEEN TO CUBA AND ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL CARIBBEAN ISLANDS THAT ARE BEING COMPLETELY DESTROYED......WE SHOULD BE LISTENING TO GOD AND SHAPE UP......WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS FOR SURE!  IF I THOUGHT HER SOLUTIONS WAS THE ANSWER I WOULD JOIN HER.......BUT!.....ALL I CAN DO FOR THEM IS PRAY .......THEY CAN SURVIVE IT.

AND LIFE GOES ON.......

            HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT DAY AFTER DAY.......BABIES ARE BORN, PEOPLE GET MARRIED AND PEOPLE DIE?  SOME TIMES THEY ARE IN YOUR FAMILY, BUT USUALLY NOT.......WELL ONE WEEK FROM TODAY LIBBY AND BRAYDEN ARE GETTING MARRIED.   SHERRIE RAN BY TO PICK UP KEN FOR THE WEEKEND AND IS GOING 24-7 TO GET READY FOR THE LUNCHEON AND THE RECEPTION IN HER BACK  YARD.......I WILL GO OUT NEXT THURSDAY TO HELP.....IF I CAN.   SOME GOOD NEWS....I AM BEING SEATED FOR LUNCH WITH HER FATHER-IN-LAW AND HIS GIRL FRIEND AND MY X!!!!! WHICH I APPROVED AS DON AND I ARE NOW GOOD FRIENDS.   I DID NOT WANT A FAMILY TABLE WITH THE COOKS AND PANNIERS!!!!!  I AM TOTALLY SURPRISED THEY WERE GOING OUT TO GO THROUGH THE TEMPLE WITH BRAY.  PAM AND ROB WILL DRIVE DON OUT FOR LUNCH.....HE HAD A BAD FALL TENDING PANNIERS DOG LAST WEEKEND AND IS DIZZY AND DISORIENTED  .....THE KMART LADY TOLD SHER......OF COURSE SHE HAS BUSINESS IN LA AND WON'T BE THERE....YEA!
           SHER ALSO TOLD ME KORINA, TAMMIE AND MIKE WILL BE STAYING AT HER CABIN THE LAST WEEKEND OF THE MONTH.....JAMIE CANCELED......AND K0RINA IS SHARING DIXIE'S GENEOLOGY......WITH THE COUSINS.....I THINK WE CAN HAVE A GREAT COUSINS HOLIDAY!!!!.......I DON'T DARE TELL LUCILLE OR SHE WILL HAVE HER VICTOR UP THERE.....MAYBE MIKE OR SHER CAN SHARE LATER.....DO LOVE HER BUT????

LABOR DAY.....

                   HAPPY LABOR DAY.......
                    IN AMERICA MANY ARE TIRED AND COLD AND HOMELESS THIS LABOR DAY AND MANY WONDERFUL AMERICANS ARE LABORING VERY HARD TO HELP PUT THEIR LIVES BACK TOGETHER.......THAT IS WHAT WE DO AND HAVE ALWAYS DONE IN AMERICA.....MY HEART IS WITH THEM.
                   I WILL PROBABLY SLEEP MOST THE DAY.....THE PANNIER FAMILY IS IN DENVER FOR A FAMILY WEDDING......THE CHRISTENSONS ARE IN LAKE POWELL FOR A FAMILY REUNION AND THE COOKS?????   WELL, ANYWAY HAVE A HAPPY LABOR DAY!

FALL......

I use to love Fall......the kids excited about school starting.....and you too.  The weather cools down and when you live where you have four seasons the hills turn red and orange and gold.....you dig out your favorite sweaters and the stores are full of Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations.....and all those fresh vegetables everywhere......BUT....... now Fall only says one thing to me.....Snow in a couple of months and arthritis kicks in.......time to hibernate!  My only exercise now days is "retail therapy".....you know pushing your cart up one isle and down another while you shop.....you do get lots of steps in.  OH, I get a little more exercise if you count.....I JUMP to conclusions .......I DRAG my feet a lot now days.....I still try and THROW my weight around a little.....I STRETCH the truth now and then.....Then I PUSH my luck and PULL other people's legs now and then......next time I go into the Doctor and she asks about my exercising......I think I will mention some of these to her???

NEWS.....SAME SHIT....DIFFERENT DAY!

                I guess Maxine doesn't live in TEXAS......I feel so bad for all those people who lost everything in the floods.....we are definitely living in the LAST DAYS when God is going to cleanse the earth of all its anger......this was a record breaking storm and they didn't even have an Ark to run to.  I have been watching it play out on TV for a week.......and wonder where all that water will end up...... we are just beginning Hurricane season and they are forecasting more out there......but hope we have had ours for the year.........AND how soon before North Korea sends their atom bomb to our shores......AND last night on National Geographic ....a real eye opener to the drug cartels all over America......I have been very lucky in my life to have lived in the happy go lucky years.....good years......in America and worry for my grandchildren lives.

JUST SLEEP.......

WHY IS IT WHEN YOU GET OLD.......YOU CHANGE?

I guess for so many years you have a mate and a house full of kids around......and everyone is coming and going......and then you get old and alone and you find out they are going.......not coming any more!!!!  My sister keeps tempting me to move down by her and who knows in a year when I  finish my mission?????  I JUST MIGHT.   I doubt the kids would even notice I was gone......

NO......I  don't enjoy being old....but i would rather be old than dead!  OLD is such a scary word and denotes bad things........maybe we should start referring to "age" as "levels".......I am at level 85, and of course level 100 would be everyone's goal.......Sounds cooler than just being "an old person."

What do I do with a long quiet Holiday weekend when all the kids are out of town???? SLEEP.....AND tend dogs.