This coming Sunday we will pause to celebrate our Sherrie's birthday. May God continue to bless her as she sees after her family and seeks to serve our Lord and Savior.
Amen. Love, mom and dad
Welcome to the end of the work week, at least here for me, on this
Friday, July 25, 2014. I feel for the emergency dispatch folks, the 911 people. They tell us there has been a huge increase in the number of accidental calls coming in, typically from people's cell phones. The most likely source? The rear end calls when the phone ends up in the back pocket. As if they didn't already have enough to say grace over. Right? Life is all about choices. I read about one fellow who was stopped for a traffic violation and started running to try and get away. That was his choice. He ended up running himself smack dab into the middle of a police training academy where he was promptly detained. Then we have the older folks to think about. Nearly everyday you find stories about them. Here I am dealing with a few aches and pains and then I read about an avid baseball fan and she gets to throw out the first pitch at a San Diego Padres game. She is only 105 years young. Pleeeeeze! Then I see one about the 97 year old fellow who got himself kicked out of the retirement home. Turns out he was driving everyone nuts because he wouldn't stop playing his ukulele. This, at least, gives me some ideas for the future.
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Our middle son, Jimmy, has remarried and they have moved into an apartment. He has lived with us for the past six years. This is a huge change for him, his new wife, and his four kids and her grown son. Please say a prayer for them. It also presents a different home base scenario for us. When we were much much younger the wife and I used to play chase and believe it or not we actually wrestled. With her cotton picking farm girl experience she was pretty strong. I don't see those as being options going forward. Don't laugh. Entertainment was not that readily available to us back then. We didn't have a TV and our little radio didn't pick up that many stations. We played a lot of gin rummy. Occasionally we would go to the drive in theater on buck night. The wife, our first little bundle of joy and yours truly all for $1. Sounds like a bargain? It worked pretty good except for the cold where we had to keep running the car off and on to keep the windows clear. There we were all bundled up watching some B movie up on the big screen. I used to think that was a treat but for some reason it doesn't sound the least bit appealing to me today. Especially when you can watch reruns of Duck Dynasty almost around the clock. Watching one of those probably beats running from the cops into a police academy training exercise on any day. Right?
One thing I know is that we will do just fine. We've been at this for nearly 50 years and believe me we've done our fair share of adapting along the way. Making adjustments is as much a part of life as breathing. We've talked quite a bit about beginning to think about downsizing. I've done some early looking around. I told her the problem with downsizing and staying in our same area, is that for us, it most likely would end up being an up-sizing in our cost. That's because real estate in our area has not only gone through the roof but it's currently staked out territory on the moon. This reflects some major growth going on where demand is literally out of sight. That should be good for selling our home. Right? Perhaps. But, ours is nearly 45 years old and it does need some things done to it. I don't even know how far we would have to move out in order to have it make sense. I guess this gives us something we can work on since playing chase, wrestling, or maybe even hide and seek or off the table right now. I do hope that you and yours will enjoy a wonderful Saturday and Lord's Day Sunday. Until next time, may God bless us all is my prayer.
Amen. ....More later.
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