Veterans Day

Heartsick

Tears and Prayers for the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX.

This and That

Well, we've finally had a chance to sit down and catch our breath. We put a couple thousand miles on the car last week-first to Odessa, TX and back for our friend's funeral and then out to New Mexico and back to visit family and attend a cousins reunion. It was tiring, but uplifting to see family and so many old friends.

Monday, we attended our oldest grandchild's first band concert. She is learning to play clarinet. The beginning band has classes according to the instrument they play and haven't played together yet. Each section showed all they have learned since they started in August. I was really impressed! The next concert will be next month and they will play as one band. We're looking forward to it. This is her first year in middle school and she's having to learn about handling multiple classes and prioritizing her activities. She's always been able to make A's without any work, so this has been a new concept for her! She's 11, which seems young to me for all that they are having to do, but I guess that's the grandma in me!

She and her sister and brother enjoyed their Halloween time trick or treating.

(I don't think the vampire and batman really wanted their picture made.)

Our resident mated pair of hawks played a Halloween trick on us Tuesday and treated themselves to a rooster dinner. I guess he went down doing his job protecting the hens-he stood his ground while they ran and hid. Kind of sad not to hear him crowing in the morning (and all day long).  Hawks are protected by federal law, so we will just have to be more careful of letting our hens out of the chicken yard. We probably won't replace him. He was a good rooster, but he was pretty aggressive and had spurred all of us at least once.

Guess I will be getting ready for Thanksgiving soon-hard to believe it's already that time of year!

November

Happy Halloween

RIP

Husband and I lost one of our dearest friends this morning. David was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a number of years ago and had been in a sharp decline for the last few weeks. We are heartbroken, but we know that he is at peace with the Lord and that we will see Him again. Still, it hurts now.

David and his wife Jean have been our closest friends for over 40 years and we have been through many wonderful and hard times together. We had always planned to spend our retirements together traveling and enjoying each other's company, but as it sometimes does, life happened instead.
Please pray for his wife, sons and their families and his sister. Thank you so much.

Happy October!