Good morning to you! Yes , I missed another day on the road to Friday. Yesterday was another one of those crazy days that had lots of activity but seems that I got nothing done. I have been back from vacation now for eleven days and every day has been weird. Much of it has dealt with Ms. Kate. I think I told you that she was really hurting for several days and we thought it might be a pinched nerve in her neck. It turned out to be an arthritis flare up, which she has never experienced before. But we only found that ot after spending a morning in the emergency room. She was scheduled for a colonoscopy for yesterday so that has thrown off not only her diet, but her medications and what she could actually take for the pain. But I’m glad to report that her procedure went well and she got an all clear report from her procedure. However, today she has her physical exam from our family doctor so it is a fasting appointment with no coffee for Ms. Kate morning.

In the mean time, Wednesday afternoon I decided that I needed to get a pull behind broadcast spreader for my John Deere.  I have a Scott’s spreader that I push but it is so flimsy and sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. So I called neighbor Dan and asked him if he wanted to ride along to “man-land”. He said yes , but could we also take his humongous TV to Best Buy for disposal. Sp we loaded that monster in the truck and did that and then went to Lowes. I had researched the spreaders and knew I wanted the John Deere one (actually made by Agri-Fab) and they had it in stock at Lowes. All of the reviews on it said it was difficult to assemble, but that it works well. But, Dan said he would help assemble it hursday afternoon after I got home from taking Ms. Kate for her appointment. Wellllll — that didn’t happen. He busy doing something for his kids until maybe Sunday, so I started on it late yesterday afternoon. The reviewers were right; — it is a bitch to put together. I might get it finished today.

In the meantime, (yes my sad story goes on forever), Wednesday night I was doing some stuff on my desktop computer down in my office and it crashed with hard drive failure. Not, a virus. — just quit. I can’t open it up to retrieve files or anything. It is a 2011 with Windows 7 and I guess I just wore it out. That means of course, I need to go get a new one and spend the time required in setting that up. Fortunately, Heather, and John bought me a Microsoft Suurface Pro in July and I can do most things with that. I even downloaded my printer to it so I can use that. I had the PC partially backed up but had unplugged the external hard drive for some time so I don’t know what is on that. But, I’m going to take the PC to Office Depot and see what can be salvaged and see if they can rip any files from the PC to my external hard drive.

So, I’m glad to see Friday get here. Maybe next week will go better. The good news is that after Ms. Kate’s appointment today, she’ll be done with doctor’s and feeling bad etc. And this morning, I heard my first Pilated woodpecker up in the tree. It has been gone since spring. So, it was a wonderful sound. (See, — God sends little blessing all the time.).

I pray your day is going well. The sun is peaking over my roof now and will soon be lighting up the back yard and moving the temperature from 52 degrees on up to almost 80 today. It is a great day to be alive and a child of God. Enjoy it!  Peace.