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HI TO ALL.  i HAVE LOOKED AT ALL POSTS AND THERE IS MANY GOOD THINGS ABOUT EASTER.  Our Holy week was so good and all the different things that we were at the Lord was given such Glory and power of the Holy Spirit was there.  Praise our Risen Lord.  Larry:I am sorry to here that your daughter is still having so much trouble and will remember her in prayer.  Hope that you and Pat are looking after yourselves.  

I will ask again that you all remember Noreen my wife thata week tomorrow she will have a full knee replacement at 8-00 a.m. so please remember her and also me that I will be able to look after her when she gets home from the hospital.  We have physio coming into the House twice a week for at least 3 weeks.  Well must go and have a wonderful week.   

Love in Christ to you all.   Gordon and Noreen.

Praying that all will be well for those in crises

I called the hospital and spoke to the nurse last night just before going to bed.  She said Beth's BP was holding more or less steady in the low 80/57 range.  Of course I will be going in to see her after a while, it is only 7 AM here.

What a mighty God we serve!  May each of us know his presence, His comfort, His peace today.

I finished this story yesterday, so happy reading!



                                                                    BOBBY J. (BOB) WELCH

Bob Welch was born near Ringling, Oklahoma, on August 2, 1934.  He grew up in the Ringling area, close to the Red River, in Jefferson County, Oklahoma.  He said Ringling was named for the Ringling Brothers Circus.

Bob had one brother and two sisters.  Their dad was a farmer who also worked in the oil field, he always said, "to support the farm."  Bob attended Mountain Home Country School, a very nice school with all 12 grades in one building, from second grade through high school.  He graduated in 1953 in a class of nine students, and when they had their last reunion, 8 of his class still survived.

Bob then attended Murray State School, a branch of Oklahoma A & M, now Oklahoma State University, for two years.  He then transferred to Durant, Oklahoma, and attended Southeastern State Teachers College.  He moved to Quinter, Kansas in 1956, where he began his teaching career.  He had not yet graduated college, but had 110 hours of credits, and was allowed to teach.  He taught 6th grade there, then was hired as grade school administrator.  Bob told me that schools used to have two separate school boards, one for elementary and one for high school.

Mr. Welch finished his BS at Durant, and then continued classes through Hays until he got his Masters in 1963.  He and Carol moved from Quinter to Ulysses on July 4, 1963, and they both remember that was a very hot day!  Merril Durr became superintendant here that same year.  Since Bob had experience with buses, he was made transportation supervisor, a job he did for 15 years.  Also in that same year, the textbook rental program was started in the Ulysses schools.

One of Bob's favorite teachers was Chester Fields (imagine the teasing he got!) a coach and teacher at Mountain Home high school.  He kept in touch with him for many years.

A favorite childhood memory is hunting and fishing with his dad and his brother.  They sometimes used a seine to catch fish, and whatever kind they caught, they had a big fish fry that night, and ate them.  His family had an outhouse, and his parents didn't get electricity until 1951 or 1952.  Running water was having the kids run to the well, get the water, and run back to the house!

When he was a junior in high school, Bob said they had a class teaching electrical wiring.  Since electricity had just been brought to their area, people needed someone to wire their houses for it, so they furnished the wire and other needed supplies, and the students did the wiring for them free of charge.  It was very elementary, as most people only wanted a porcelain fixture for a light, and maybe one outlet.  The kids did everything except the breaker box connections.  Bob remembers one boy with big feet missing the ceiling joist and stepping through the ceiling, so they had to patch that.

4-H was big in that area of Oklahoma, most kids belonged to a 4-H club.  In about 1951, Bob won grand champion on a Hereford steer he raised.  That is a special memory.

Carol was in the same class with Bob from second grade on.  They remember their senior trip was made in a school bus with about three sponsors, and both juniors and seniors got to go.  They went to SE Oklahoma, then to NE Oklahoma, to Oklahoma City, where they went to an amusement park.  They remember going roller skating one night on the trip.

Like most kids then, they attended movies, at a cost of 10c per ticket, and popcorn cost 5c.  In free time, kids played hide and go seek, black man, tag, Red Rover, and other outdoor games.  They also played softball, basketball and track at school.

When they began dating, young folks usually went to town, just went over to each other's houses and visited, or went to movies.

In about 1951-53, gasoline was priced at 15c per gallon.  Work Bob did when he was young: he started pulling cotton at a young age.  First, they pulled their dad's crop, and then they hired out to other cotton farmers at $2.00 per 100 pounds.  Lots of peanuts were raised there, and he described the peanut harvest to me.  I hope I got it down right!  First, they went through the field with sweeps which cut underneath the vines, and then they had to pick them up and shake the dirt off them.  This was called "peanut shaking."  The vines, with peanuts still attached, were then piled up in wind rows to dry for several days, after which time, they had to be picked up with pitch forks, piled on wagons and taken to the thresher.  The thresher knocked the peanuts off the vines and blew the vines into a big pile.  The vines made peanut hay, comparable in feed value to alfalfa.  Bob said he always enjoyed feeding peanut hay, because he could always find a pocketful of peanuts still in it, very handy if he were hungry!

School was started early, around August first (in those days most schools started after Labor Day in September).  This early start was so they could dismiss school for about six weeks to allow the kids to help with the harvest.

Bob met his future wife when Carol moved to Mountain Home school in second grade.  They lived about six miles apart, and began dating when they were both juniors in high school.  They married on April 9, 1954 in Ringling, at Carol's brother's house.  Their honeymoon consisted of one weekend at Lake Murray, and Monday found them back in college.  The couple has three sons and two daughters; now there are 10 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Mr. Welch says with inflation so high now, it is harder for young people to get ahead.  He feels manners and morals are definitely lacking, compared to 30 years ago.

His hobbies are still hunting and fishing and he regrets there is not much fishing anywhere close to Ulysses!  He loves pheasant hunting and never misses a season.

Some of their travel experiences are having taken three cruises:  the inside passage to Alaska, flew to Hawaii and cruised to the five major Hawaiian Islands; and a Panama Canal cruise.  The Hawaii one was their favorite because of seeing different islands, different types of scenery, and the wonderful climate.

Bob had two years of Air Force ROTC while in college. 

The achievement or accomplishment that gives him the most satisfaction is having a beautiful wife and having raised five great kids.  A valuable lesson he learned that he would like to pass along is:  work hard, tell the truth, and be kind to people.

Some of his best years were those spent raising his kids, even though he worked very hard then.
One of the jobs he did while attending Murray State was being dorm custodian one year.  His chores included sweeping the halls and cleaning the bathrooms.  The next year he worked with the maintenance man, doing all kinds of carpentry and repairs.  Bob said, "I learned from every job I ever had."

A wild thing he did as a teenager was riding horses off a bluff near their home.  He said "We sort of slid off, but it was a crazy and dangerous thing to do."

Mr. Welch was in a play in high school and enjoyed it very much.  His favorite Christmas song is White Christmas, the Gene Autry version.  His favorite food is a good steak; favorite movie is a good western, and he also likes the movie Singing in the Rain.  (Bob and Carol saw this movie while on their senior trip, and when they came outside, it was raining!)

He rather regrets marrying so young, because that knocked Carol out of getting to finish college.  But she says she doesn't regret it.

Bob taught himself to drive at a very young age.  Like most kids then, he had to drive a tractor on the farm, which he began doing at the tender age of 8 or 10 years.  He said his dad owned a B Farmall, which was a small tractor.  He started driving a 1947 Chevy ¾ ton pickup when he was so small he had to sit on a stack of pillows to see over the dash and then slide almost off the seat to reach the brake.

Mr. Welch said if he could do anything over, "I would probably listen better to my parents' advice.  I never wanted to disrespect them."  But he liked riding horses, hunting and fishing more than he liked going to school, so one day he decided to miss the bus, then he could spend the day doing what he liked.  But his dad turned out to be something of a philosopher, and after Bob missed the bus, he said that was a pretty good thing!  Then he set him to cleaning out the animal pens, and he spent his "free" day shoveling manure.

His first car was a jet black '40 Ford convertible with a white top.  He gave $400.00 for it in 1951, and got $375.00 for it as a trade-in on a 1950 model Ford.   The first Ford, the '40 model figured into his scariest time.  He had changed wheels and tires out on it, and had just finger-tightened the lug nuts before letting it down.  Then he tightened them with a wrench, but forgot the left front one.  It was prom night, and he had his sister with him, was on the way to pick up Carol.  He crossed a bridge and felt the car wobble, and then after he got off the bridge, the wheel came off, rolled past the car, jumped a fence, went a quarter of a mile and ended up in a creek!   By the time he chased it down and got it put on the car, after losing most of the lug nuts and borrowing one or two from other wheels, I imagine the party was late getting to the prom!

Bob's hopes for the future of the USA are that we do not get into another war; that Korea doesn't provoke a fight with us; that inflation eases off and prices go down.

His mom and some cousins close to his mom's age were the ones who most inspired and influenced Bob in his life.  They attended a country church 1 ½ miles from their house and the cousins always taught Sunday school.  His mom never liked to miss church, and the family attended most Sundays.

He really admired a couple of uncles who taught him to hunt and fish and enjoy life.  In the 1930s one uncle had the reputation of making the best jack rabbit chili in the country.

The biggest change Bob has seen during his lifetime is in technology; both in automobiles and computers.  The first president he voted for was John Fitzgerald Kennedy.  The worst crime he remembers is the Clutter family murders, after which the Welches began locking their doors.

He feels the greatest achievement of the USA is giving everybody the opportunity to do or be whatever they want, if they are willing to work for it.

Bob said he had his mouth washed out with soap a few times! 

His favorite comic strip is Pickles.  He regrets that he never got to take any kind of music lessons.  He did play sports in school:  basketball, softball and track.  His favorite novels are those by Zane Grey.

He said as a kid he doesn't remember eating out very often, but once in a while they would stop for a hamburger when on the road.

Some of the changes he has seen come to our area of SW Kansas since he moved here:  The biggest change is in Agriculture, going from ditch to sprinkler irrigation.  They used to raise lots of sugar beets, cantaloupe and watermelons here, and it was a treat for his family to go to the melon shed and purchase over-sized cantaloupes fresh from the field.

Changes in the schools are that there is so much more state level control of the schools now and so much more paperwork for the teachers and administrators.  "I used to have time to spend with the kids and the teachers, but the last few years 75% of my time was spent on paperwork required by the state.  Another change is that we used to have a county superintendent of schools, whose job it was to gather up reports and get them to the state.  That job was held by a woman when we first came here, and she always tried to visit each school in her district during the school term.  That job was abolished years ago."

Bob's work history includes seven years in the Quinter schools and 36 years in Ulysses, mostly as Elementary school principal.  Some of the things he shared with me that were part of his job included having to take kids with head lice home.  They would tell the parents that the kids weren't to come back to school until the head lice had been treated, so as to prevent the spread of the problem.  If the kids came back, and hadn't been treated, Mr. Welch had to take them home and remind the parents of the need for treatment.  Sometimes this was not well received!  He also spoke of the early years, when a child would get sick at school, and the parents weren't at home, they had an old couch on the stage where they put the sick child until a parent could be contacted.

Mr. Welch retired in 1999, and he said he misses the kids most of all.  He really enjoyed working with kids, especially the kindergartners, and the interaction with all of them in the hallways, on the playground and even in his office where they were sent for misbehaving.  In those days corporal punishment was still the norm, but he said he never gave any child more than one swat with the board, then he would ask if they thought they needed more.  No one ever thought they did!

While he didn't live here during the 30s he does remember wind damage in Oklahoma when the blowing sand would cut off the tender young cotton plants right at the ground.  There were also lots of grasshoppers that ate the cotton plants, and farmers had to poison them.  After moving here, there were some really bad dust storms in the '60s and '70s.

The worst thing to happen to Bob was a bout with cancer about 2004, but after surgery and radiation, it is gone, so they are thankful for that.  The best thing to happen to him was Carol!

Bob would like to be remembered as a person who tried to do right by everybody, who tried to take a special interest in those kids who were struggling in school.

The legacy he will leave is five kids who are hard working and respectful and who are teaching their kids to be the same.

The greatest lesson he learned in life:  If you treat people fairly and like you would like to be treated, you will have friends who respect and will help you.

His favorite type of music is country/western, favorite song is Happy Trails.  His favorite scripture is the Lord's Prayer, and his favorite TV show is Bonanza.  I asked him about practical jokes, and he said he played a few of those, but found they always backfired!

As a child, Bob's punishment was usually a firm lecture, a man-to-man talk with his dad.  His mom used a switch from a salt cedar tree to switch his backside, and he assured me that really did sting!  While in high school, he said there were two brothers who didn't get along and were always fighting about something.  One day the other kids "egged them on" and encouraged them to really fight, forming a circle around them to watch.  The principal came out and ordered them all into the office, where he proceeded to give each one a good whipping with a board paddle—hard!  Bob said he edged over to the end of the line, thinking the principal would wear himself out by the time his turn came and he wouldn't get whipped as hard—but that was in vain.  He still got a hard whipping.

Nicknames he had were Peewee, which he disliked, and Skeeter, which he liked.  He named his steer who won grand champion in 4-H Skeeter.

Some memorable pets he remembers are an old dog called Bingo they had for many years, and a small red dog named Ted that would find the terrapins that ruined the cantaloupes in the garden.

Mr. Welch said the most important decision of his life was going into education.  "By the time I went to college, I'd had all the manure shoveling, cotton pulling and peanut shaking I wanted, so decided to be the first in my family to go to college and do something besides farming.  So I went into teaching, then administration.

The worst decision he ever made was diving into water without first checking the depth of it.  It was quite shallow, and he said he was very lucky he didn't break his neck.

If he were to give an 18-year-old one specific piece of advice, it would be:  Be prepared to work hard and do your best to earn what you want.  Don't expect it to be given to you.

Bob feels the smartest thing his parents ever did was to work hard, save their money and invest in land

I asked if he had some favorite memories to share, and he said the good memories far outweigh the bad from his 36 years in the Ulysses school system.  An amusing story from his time in Quinter was that one day he was out on the playground with the kids.  He had worn dress pants, and while playing with the kids, he ripped the entire seam out of his pants.  He didn't realize it, but every time he turned his back, the kids laughed.  When he realized the problem, he had to go home and change.

I think a community is really blessed when it has good teachers and administrators; those who really care about the kids.  So I am happy to have had the opportunity to visit with Bob and Carol Welch and get to know them better.  Thank you for sharing your story!

I pray this keeps you singing today.  The joy of the Lord is our strength. 

I pray each person who is dealing with health issues will feel the presence of our Lord today.

We have a sunny day here today, I'm hoping it starts to warm up!  Our friend is working on Maple Syrup, this weather is ideal!

Have a great day everyone

Judy, that will indeed keep me singing all day!

Please don't include my "injured" hand in the same breath with the problems of Stacey and Beth and others of our CP family!  There is no comparison - my biggest problem is clumsiness, trying to keep from banging it again, and wearing a rubber glove for wet chores.  Really more annoying than anything.    

Hi everyone on a cool and overcast day here in our area.  It is only to get to 57 degrees today.  I hardly know where to begin today as what we were expecting as of yesterday has already changed twice this morning regarding Stacey's condition.  This morning she was seen by her vascular surgeon and he said they would have to take the leg up to the knee.  However, around noon she learned that the surgery will likely be delayed two or three days as her white blood cell count has gone up again and the surgeon is concerned by infection at the new amputation site if the surgery is done tomorrow.  The blood cultures they are taking may take up to three days for results and thus the surgery would probably not be until Monday at the earliest.  Today is her 15th day in the hospital and no end in sight.  They have also done another chest x-ray to look for the fluid situation around her heart.  Needless to say this new situation has her very upset, as it does us, since it potentially changes everything.  Her grandfather had his leg amputated above the knee and was never able to return home but spent the rest of his life in a nursing home.  She can't get that image out of her mind. 

I know you will all understand that if don't make many individual comments to the postings since yesterday.  It is sustaining to know we have continued support and prayers from so many friends.  Sometimes there just are not words to say in situations and this seems to be one of them.

Janet, I know you understand, and I other here understand,  the emotional roller coaster having our children in poor health it can put us on.  Glad that Beth is getting the attention she needs and hopefully it is just the medicine.  I will continue to pray for you all.

Gord, I will be remembering Noreen as she goes through the knee surgery and the recovery period.  Will you be her only care giver when she comes home? 

Jeanne, hope the doctor continues to be pleased with the healing process on your hand.  Health issues are all important so of course you are included in our prayers. 

I sure enjoyed reading about Mr. Welch!

Whew!  I am sure feeling that I am not as young as I used to be.  I have been cleaning house.  I work a bit and rest a bit!  But it is done!  Feels good.

Now to go get the mail and see how Ivalou is.

Then this evening is Wednesday Night Live Bible Study and I want to go to Walmart or somewhere for supplies to make potato salad for Small Groups Bible Study. 

I am praying for all your concerns of your loved ones.  That's right.  When it rains...it pours!  May God bless you all!

A little birdie said that it's Jane's birthday today.

Happy, Happy Birthday, Jane.

I do not know how to do animations or I would have lots of balloons or even a cake with candles showing --so just use your imagination--the thought is there..

Larry, I cannot imagine what you and Pat and Stacey are going through.  I am continuing to pray for all of you and for wisdom for all of the doctors involved.

Oh Larry I am so sad to learn about Stacy's new issues. i will conti nue to pray for her.

Janet I will continue my prayers for Beth as well.

I was going to write a cheery post about what I have been doing but under the circumstances  I will not do that.

Hi all, Stacey just called again about 3:45 to tell us the surgery is now back on for about 9 am in the morning.  Apparently they have decided that there isn't an infection that is causing the very high white cell count and thus there won't be the delay they had indicated this morning.  What a roller coaster ride.

Happy Birthday Jane.

Know that prayers are continuing, Larry..

Thank you for taking time to mention my birthday while y'all are dealing with such serious situations in your own lives.  Yes, I have managed to pass another milestone on this journey called life .... I thank God for good health and wonderful friends.  He has blessed me far beyond anything I deserve, that's for sure.

I continue to pray for all the needs here.  I can't imagine what it is for you to face such challanges day after day.  It is truly a blessing to know that our faith holds and sustains us all ... without Him where would we be.  Can't imagine.   

Larry you are on a roller coaster....However remember the ride levels out at the end, This will level out as God see fit as well.  We are continuing to pray for all of you.

Janet and beth...Praying.

Jeanne, Yes we are praying.

I just can't imagine all the stress so many of you are going through right now.  We care. 

Jane:  Birthday greetings to you.  Don't these years go much too quickly? 

A cousin from Washington state just emailed me that they are buying a trailer to put on their site in Yuma.  It means that he won't be hauling his small trailer over a mountain pass every year and so much more convenient for them.  They stay at least 4 months and go back to rain, slush and mud even now. 

Back to Bible Study today and the list of prayers needed just expanded while we were away.  Our neighbor undergoing chemo is 10 X better this year than a year ago at this time.  He wants us to take him out for Chili Rellanos (that Texan!)  So happy to see him up and around with more energy. 

Ruth has posted an update concerning her daughter in law in Prayer and Praise.

Larry, my heart aches for all of you, and my prayers continue.  I know a nursing home sounds terrible to Stacey, but after Beth adjusted, she doesn't mind it that much.  She knows we don't have any other options here.  I pray for peace for all of you, as I do understand (somewhat anyway) the stresses you are living with right now.

Beth was released from the hospital and sent back to the care home today, they discontinued the muscle relaxer that was causing the problem (they think it was,anyway)  She seemed better this evening, but had a headache.  I didn't think her problems could ever seem light, but just now, compared to Stacey's.......

Note to JUDY--I sent you an email answering your question, but it was bounced back as undeliverable.  I don't know how to send private messages in Facebook.  What now?

Time to to to bed!

I just know that if I could take these burdens away from my friends and their families, I would.  I can't but God can.  Look up to God and somehow those burdens seem less. 

I went to Wednesday Night Live last evening and then to Wendy's for a late supper.  Then to Walmart.  That is the time to go.  I found a parking spot in no time and the store wasn't crowded at all.  I zoomed right through it.  And the $$$ zoomed right out of my billfold.  My, have prices raised in the last year or so!

Today Ivalou and I are going to Art's Pizza.  Art's was the first pizza joint ever in our vicinity.  He is long past dead but his family is continuing the pizza and pizza recipes!  Yum!  Not far from Art's is KMart...the only KMart for miles around so we will stop in there to see if anything has our name on it!!

A bright and sunny day in Indiana but still chilly.  Only 36°.  Brrr!  Some day..

I was hoping to see a note from Judy before I take this laptop to the "computer hospital" but don't see one.  I likely won't be here for a few days, don't know how long it will take for them to go through this machine and clean it up, etc.  I have been waiting for grandson to do it, not happening, so will take it down town.

Prayers continue for Stacey.  Beth is doing all right now, except for the headaches.

May God bless each of you here is my prayer.

Hello everyone...

Thanks Judy for posting this on Facebook.  It's absolutely beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Dy3h6--fMBA#!

OK Pat you made me cry. I always cry when I hear Amazing Grace.

Please say a prayer for Gilbert as you read this. He is in the Hospital this morning have the Inguinal Hernia removed, i don't know yet how long he will be there. He called as he was checking in to ask me if he was allergic to Penicillin, I told him not that I know of.

Larry what is the word on Stacy today. Please let us know.

Just as we got to the hospital a little after 8 am this morning Stacey called and said the surgery was postponed as her white blood cell count was up again over 17,000 and the surgeon wanted the cause of this to be determined before he operated further on her.  He later came to her room and explained that he has been practicing for 30 years and has seen it that if healing is not occurring and he went ahead with the amputation then he would then have to go back and remove the leg above the knee rather than below the knee.  So we have no idea of when the surgery will be rescheduled or how long she is going to have to stay in the hospital.

Pat spent the morning with Stacey and I went to her apartment to gather her dirty clothes to bring home to wash.  While there I straightened her apartment so it will be in good shape when she comes home.  I finished cleaning out things in the refrigerator that could spoil and could not be frozen.  We got home about 2pm and are both tried after fighting the rush hour traffic this morning getting down to Altanta and then the activities of the morning. 

Janet, so glad to see that Beth is out of the hospital and hope the headache soon goes away. 

Marilyn, I had that surgery done several years ago on both sides and it wasn't bad at all.  I hope all goes well for Gilbert. 

Gilbert is doing well after surgery, he is home , I just spoke with him and he is resting.

Good news, Marilyn!

Hi everyone on a dreary, damp and chilly overcast day here in Georgia.  I am just back from coffee at the senior center and before long it will be time to leave to attend my ROMEO's luncheon, which meets at 11:30.  By the time Pat came to bed last night her toe that has the gout was hurting her terribly and is even worse this morning.  She had used up all of her pills for the gout and has now requested more but is going to be a while before she can get them.  She just now finished soaking her foot in Epsom Salts and that has helped a bit as well as taking some Aleive.     Just as she was finishing that the physical therapist came for her last visit.  So she is in for a miserable day.  Certainly glad this didn't hit her yesterday as there would be no way she could have gone to the hospital.  Last evening we went out to eat, which was the first time in probably about three months.  We haven't heard from Stacey yet today.  They did a xray of her Charcot Foot and also a CT scan last evening but she hasn't heard anything as to if this could be the source of the white blood cell problem.  I looked up what the normal count for women should be and it was between 4,300 and 10,000 and hers is between 17,000 and 20,000.

Marilyn, glad to read that all went well for Gilbert.  I felt that would be the case. 

I loved hearing the pan flute and 'Amazing Grace'.  Hard to explain what that song does to me.

So happy to hear that Beth is back in the 'home' again and that Gilbert is home from his surgery.  Now to keep him down, is the problem.  And Stacey.  I pray that her numbers go down so she can have her surgery and be done with it.  Go on with her life! 

And Pat, she sure doesn't need gout on top of everything else.  Ivalou takes some kind of medicine that prevents gout.  I don't remember what it is now but she hasn't had gout for years now!

And hoping that Janet's laptop isn't in too bad of shape and it can be fixed quickly and easily! 

Ivalou and I had a wonderful spring day yesterday eating pizza and shopping at KMart!  We both enjoyed it very much.  We need to do that more often.

It seems that Kitty broke a flower pot and cut her right hand.  She had to have 4 stitches put in her hand.  I told her if she needed company to call me.  She did last evening.  I hadn't eaten so I went to her house and got her and then to Dairy Queen.  Then back to her house to chat.

Sarah, her sister, lives in Bluffton, Indiana, in an Assisted Living Home.  She has Alzheimers.  Kitty was going to call her this morning and if she didn't have many activities to do, I was going to drive Kitty to see her.  Kitty woke up with her had throbbing so decided she needed to stay home and take care of her hand.  I had a 'J' night last night and was glad that I didn't have to take her but I would have.  I can sleep some other time. 

What a bright sunny day we have here in Indiana.  Oops!  The neighbor took the flag down so I don't know if there is wind or not but it is 50° and suppose to get in the mid 50's for the high of the day!  I just wish it was nice enough to sit on my deck in the sunshine. 

 A sunny windy but lovely day

Today is Aunties 94th birthday I had asked where she would like to go for lunch  her answer was surprise me. That we did by taking her to the Mandarin she  enjoyed the surprise location as well as the happy birthday song.

Those J nights are no fun I have been having too many myself.

Larry: You are in my thoughts

I have been out to Coquille to take both Dogs in for the vet to examine, Yearly checkups before getting their yearly Bordatella vaccine before they go for boarding. Happy's skin fungus has come up again right behind one of his ears, Doc told me to get him cut down to a puppy cut so I can better work in the anti-fungal shampoo to his skin. Bebe is now 12, she has developed a heart murmur and the EKG  was pretty erratic. He said no more walks for her unless she just wants to go  across the street and back home like she does sometimes, just very short walks.  She also need her teeth cleaned but will have to have another EKG and chest x-ray before she can have any anesthesia. Happy will be 15 next month.