Friday

Listening to music today, I guess to sooth the savage soul. Yesterday I went to the garden and watched everyone work. Things are coming up already and the garden looks so pretty. It was so neat having everyone out there, even Tom after work on the tiller, Sierra planting bluebonnets. Amazing Grace has got to be the most beautiful song ever wrote, I am hearing it as I type. Am missing my kids today, wish they all lived close, they are the most facinating people, have so much talent. Last week dialysis wasn't too bad, just boring.---Keep the faith---Linda

Today was a beautiful day in the neighborhood with a slight breeze and a high temperature of 82 degrees. I wasn't feeling too good after dialysis yesterday, bloodpressure problems and plain old pain. Was up past 4 AM until I finally drifted off; up at 9. Feel much better today although I am still weak from a short term virial infection. Had a wonderful dinner prepared by my darling husband, that really made me feel better. Awhile ago, I had the best conversation with the cutest two year old, she is so special. The geese are getting so big so fast. Won't be long till they can be in the garden, helping with the weeding.---Keep the faith---Linda

Illness

I have been ill for the past two days. I feel very weak. I am not a very good sick person, I always feel that I can heal myself and tend to just want to be left alone to die. Of course I'm not dying I just have an upset stomach. Not much to say today.---Keep the faith---Linda

Day Off

It is always great to have a day off from dialysis, I live for my time away from there. I have been doing well, not putting on much fluid, and what little I do put on seems to pull off easy. I have been getting techs that know me, that I like, and most important of all they can stick me without hurting me much. Also, my blood pressure has been doing better and that helps so I don't feel so tired. Today I sat on the porch while Eddie worked on a flower bed along the front of the porch. Plan to plant zinnas. We took the baby geese outside and let them swim in a tub. Lots of pictures! At first they were afraid of the great big world and would run and hide under their human goose mothers. Yes, Andrea, I lived on the top of a hill, had to walk down it, thru town and up another smaller hill to high school..Your Dad said one had to live on top a mountain or a narrow valley. It is very beautiful back home.---Keep the faith---Linda

Sunday

When I was growing up Sunday was always not special, but set aside. First church and always you wore your best clothes. My friends were there, the ones I also went to school with, and always my best friend, Bootsie (Karen Louise Marchiney). Sat. night would find us deciding what to wear to church, this was very important to teen age girls! We would of course walk to church. I lived on the top row, so we would meet on Bootsie's row or the middle one, then on down to the valley below, where the church was. For some reason, I would always take off my shoes on the way home and of course that would ruin my nylons. The church was The Main Street Methodist Church, not the church I was saved in, but the church I was raised in and went to for 18 years. Off and on I would go to the Plum Run Baptist Church and that is where I was baptised in a creek. And I would go to Baptist Church camp and that is where I was saved. Sunday was always a good meal and always had meat, we often times during the week didn't have meat. Then in the afternoon I would read the paper, the comics. The afternoons were for company or visiting,always relaxing. Bootsie still lives in our home town, doesn't go to the same church, I talk to her often.---Keep the faith---Linda

a day at home

Got up late! Heard the awful news about Japan, and all I can do is to pray for them. This world is in an awful shape, come Lord Jesus soon. We, my husband and I, are studying about Moses and the children of Israel leaving Eygept. How God sent 10 plagues and God hardened Pharoh's heart every time. Can we compare all that what is happening in the world today to that? Are the people of today like Pharoh - are our hearts hardened against doing the will of our Heavenly Father---Keep the faith---Linda

Husbands

After 18 years, today my husband shaved his upper lip. I have lived with him for 47 plus years and every now and then he surprises me. Angie and the girls came over today and let the baby geese go swiming, I heard that they enjoyed it. Diaylsis went well today other than my blood pressure wouldn't stay up after they pulled the needles.---Keep the faith---Linda