The wind is whipping this morning at a steady 29 mph. The birds are having a little trouble staying aloft when they take off and sometimes when they try to hang on to the feeders. It is supposed to be this way all day but the temperature is going to be warm.

We never did get out to do our runnimg around yesterday until late last night and then we just ran down to Target and picked up a few things on the list. Today we are going to meet some friends for lunch so maybe after that we'll go do a little more running around after lunch. We for sure need to get up to our butcher shop and pick up some German Bologna. That is some good stuff. Our butcher and his wife may be heading out to Germanay in a month for an international competition with their sausage. They just just took top honors at another international competition here in the United States and have now been invited to go to Germany. We are really proud of them. The family is a fourth generation meat processing family, but this youngest couple have really put them on the map. And they are such great people too. We are lucky enough to have another butcher shop here in Evansville that is real good too but they don't hold a candle to Dewigs.

Ms. Kate is busy sorting pills today. It is a job she hates to do because it is rather tedious. I think she takes almost 20 pills a day and has these pill containers that hold a weeks worth. She tries to line them up for at least a month or five weeks at a time. So that takes quite awhile. But --- it all keeps her alive and hopping so that's what needs to be. I am so very fortunate (knock on wood) that I have such few meds that I have to take; four pills a day and a couple of inhalers every day. We are also lucky that we have very excellent insurance.

I can smell that delicious oder of fresh baked brownies coming out of the kitchen. How great is that?? Ms. Kate sure does spoil me. She said the box of mix was in the way. So she just fixed it. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable explanation to me. One of the things we picked up at Target last night was a couple of cans of fruit cocktail. She has been making jello for us with fruit in it. It is something that we both love and makes a great snack. We've also been having Rice Krispie treats that she makes. I love those silly things. They don't amount to much but I could sit and eat a pan of them. Sometimes we'll buy one of those huge ones at Sam's and snack on that for a week.

It is time to get showered and do a couple of things around here before we head out for lunch. As I do, I offer up prayers that you will have a blessed weekend. God provides so very much in our lives that we should never have a day that we are not grateful to be alive. Take time to stop and give thanks to the Lord today. Peace.