THINGS CHANGE......

That is really me.......If I feel like wearing a bra I do.......If I don't .....I don't!.......Right now my poor face looks like a piece of raw meat......I should stay hidden for six weeks......but I could be dead by then.....so off to the store I go......Take me or leave me, I probably will never see most of you again......and if I DO......I really don't have leprosy.....just bad reaction to my face treatment......All the fun Spring things are coming out in the stores......and you know me.

I was going to go and see "THE WALL" with Rob tonight but he found out he was having some furniture being delivered so canceled......which was OK with me as I look so awful.  Today being the last day of February I need to get on my bills.........When they say March....I think of daffodils and Spring close by.  I am so ready......it snowed yesterday and more forecast. Be patient Betty!  Took the Hills some goodies today for snow blowing my sidewalk and drive way.......wish I was a cookie maker, but I don't think it is going to happen in this life time.......DID YOU KNOW?  A study found the DUTCH  the best-rested folks in the world.....clocking about eight hours and 12 minutes  of sleep rewires neurons that process emotions, triggering a 60% jump in anxiety and negative thoughts after one sleepless night.......This should start before 11:00 pm......

CAN'T GO BACK.......

When one's lived many years, the past becomes an attic:  One goes there hunting some particular thing and finds everything except what one went to find.........

I used to dread getting older, because I thought I wouldn't be able to do the things I waned to do.......But now that I'm older, I find I don't want to do them?????

DO NOT DEPRIVE ME OF MY AGE......I HAVE EARNED IT!

Do you realize that your Life is a party......you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Another snowy day......did make it to the store finally......and this is Ken's first day of Brain Change and he was not too happy about having Gram Kay pick him up after work and take him.....he went to dinner with her and is not home yet.  This will be a Monday and Wednesday occurrence.......and a new diet.....for the next six months.  Waiting for Bray to drop by with Ken's new shoes.  Three more weeks of this dumb eye problem and my face is a mess with the dermatologist new program.  I  aknow........this too will pass.

Oh how often I wish I had the power to turn back the clock and

Be at that  big white house at the end of the block!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX........

My second grandson Alex Christenson, turns 24 ........I love the top picture because of that smile......from day one it has melted my heart.  The big Happy Birthday is Al on his snow mobile rocking it!  He loves the snow and we have plenty of it this winter.....nice fluffy snow you can fly in.
      Sherrie ran by a minute to drop Ken off then head out to Vernal to have a birthday party for him. No one made it to church today......I look to scary to go anywhere, and my face is so sore.....It is very cold outside today.......I guess it is still winter and I am just to anxious for Spring......two more days of February......better start thinking about income tax time!!!!!

LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE......

 As we slide from situation to situation in our lives.......let me tell you they can become a real adventure.......maybe not to some......but my latest adventure is a detached retina and the dermatologist has given me a tube of stuff to put on my face every day for 6 weeks to get rid of the pre-cancerous cells......and boy is it working!  My face is bright red, and sore and I have just begun....I am afraid to go anywhere as they may think I have leprosy.......and I don't have to put on a bra or lip stick either......by staying home! 

I did break down and color my hair today and did three batches of laundry and I'm not leaving the house.......no church tomorrow.  The boys are at the cabin this weekend with their parents as the snow is heaven for snow mobiling this year....no drough for us.

YESTERDAY......Sherrie and I got checked out on how to go through this BRAIN CHANGE program that Grandma Kay insisted upon......I can tell Ken is not for it and I can't see how it will help his speech, they seem to be trying to make his left side more dominant as his right side by exercise and food?   TIME WILL TELL!  It puts a lot of extra pressure on me......but off to a new adventure!

I am so looking forward to Spring and warmer weather.....and so are my knees......

"LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE, NOT A PACKAGE TOUR"  Echart Tolle

WHAT'S ON MY MIND???

When you get old, then older and all most oldest........you have lots of time to sit around and think of the wonderful things that have happened in your life......or not!

But we should never stop discovering our self......Go on adventures like to Mike's Medical Shop.....so many great things you never even heard of to cure things you didn't know existed, then there is Hobby Lobby and Home Goods, great and beautiful things for the yard and house.......that you have no room for.  I can even spend an hour at Home Depot, just looking at flowers, paint colors, read their house remodeling books and get a bag of free pop corn......find a cute coffee shop and people watch or leave a note in a library book.....and oh yes, there is always the thrift shops with the treasures of dead people or those who moved and cleaned house.

"FILL YOUR LIFE WITH ADVENTURE, NOT THINGS.  HAVE STORIES TO TELL, NOT STUFF TO SHOW."

"BETTER TO SEE SOMETHING ONCE....THAN HEAR ABOUT IT A THOUSAND TIMES."

"IN THE WAYS OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR DIRECTION"

"TO MOVE , TO BREATH, TO FLY, TO FLOAT, TO ROAM THE ROADS OF LANDS REMOTE, TO TRAVEL IS TO LIVE."  Hans Christian Anderson

"OF ALL THE BOOKS IN THE WORLD, THE BEST STORIES ARE FOUND BETWEEN THE PAGES OF A PASSPORT."

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN......

Yesterday was a sad day for the family........our darling Marley died.  He really was a "lover"......you had to love Marley he badgered you until you did.   I am sure the Cook family are very sad!.......He was really Karrie's baby.  I remember the Christmas Eve she came up the stairs in my other place with this great big puppy hanging in her arms and she and Annie spent the evening holding him.

He and their other dog Izzy always slept on the bed with them.......and it sometimes ended in a struggle when I baby sat and slept over to convince Mar Mar he was not the Alpha Dog when I was there!!!

Marley loved to chase the flash light on the floor and wall......he was sure he could catch it.....The Cook's lived on the 9th hole of the Willow Creek Country Club ......so have a very large back yard for the dogs to play catch in......he would chase the ball as long as you would throw it.  So many fun memories of that big loveable dog......He has many dog cousins in Heaven with him.

THE POWER OF LETTER......

  

Been a busy day......Patty came for coffee this morning, then after lunch off to the credit union and to the bank, then to grocery shop.....the wind is fierce today although it is 60 degrees.  Stopped and got the mail and it started me thinking....how sad it is that my grandchildren will never know the"power of a letter".........now with skypeing, texting, tweeting etc.......taking a pen or pencil to paper seems like a lost art......and a stamp is almost 50 cents.....compared my day when they were 3 cents.....Letter writing was big when I was growing up........letters from boy friends, letters from your parents when you went away to college and got married and letters from siblings or friends.  The simple art of the anticipations of getting a letter......opening the envelope and unfolding the pages with their magic words filled you with excitement......someone cared, someone thought about you......mail was the magic cord that connected you across the distance........And, when the last words have been read, we can refold the pages and tuck hem away for another day to read and reread.  Although the paper may yellow and edges may fray, a letter will always be timeless  It is still a comfort to read the letters I got and have kept from my mother and father.  I do get a quick line or two of thank you gram from the grandkids and kids......somehow it is not the same, although I really look forward to them with the same anticipation!

Almost 5 weeks since my eye was operated on and a little over 3 more weeks till the gas bubble dissolves and hopefully I can see again.....