Happy Sunday (late) evening. It’s 10:30 pm and Ms. Kate is watching television and I’m just wasting time here on my IPad reading stuff on Facebook. She and I don’t watch a lot of television together because we have vastly different tastes in shows. We did set and watch Tournament of Champions together and it was the season finale. That’s one thing we both like; cooking shows. But she loves to watch “detective shows and mysteries” and lawyer shows. Me, I don’t like “drama” and shows where the characters go through 5000 rounds of bullets. They are so fake. When I watch cops and other characters firing off round after round I always think, where is the accountability for the that based round ended up. I also think, I feel sorry for the guy that has to push all of those magazines that they use. And often, in case it didn’t knw, bullets are heavy so the is no way some guys has three and four 15 rounds magazines on him in his pockets. Then there is the show “Matlock” that she she watches based on the premise that this elderly lawyer just can show up at the bar prestigious law firm in the city and start working and no one checks her  credentials. And, when she is not watching those, she is watching other card makers do their craft.  

I can’t say I am any better with my choices. I watch all things paranormal, and science fiction stuff. Like all or any it’s is real. When I can’t find anything else on, I will watch Big Bang Theory for the 100th time. 

Okay, that’s it. Just wanted to drop a line. I hope your weekend was really great. 

Perhaps tomorrow —— 

 Hello Thursday people. I hope your day has been blessed. We’ve had a fairly routine day. This morning Kate had her optometry appointment that we thought was yesterday. That took her about one and a half hours but thankfully there were no surprises like a need for new glasses. We love it when the only results we come out with is a “see you next year”. 

After her appointment we stopped at Taco Bell and pick up a little lunch and then came home. Spent the afternoon relaxing combined with doing the laundry. The hardest part of doing the laundry is folding it up and putting it away. 

We had a real surprise today. We got our USAA Visa bill the other day and it showed that we had not paid the last bill. We knew that was wrong and Kate pulled out the check book and sure enough she had written the check on the 17th of March. Well, we got out the latest bank statement and sure enough the check had cleared the bank but ——- it showed the check being made out to someone we have never heard of. What that means is that someone stole our check, did what they call “washed it” and made it out to themself. So someone stole $3077.27 from us. I have contacted USAA and I have contacted our bank, both have started investigations. It will probably be a long process and most likely we will have to pay the money again. But how crappy is that?? 

That was my fine day. Hopefully we won’t have any super surprises tomorrow. Peace. 

 Wow, dropping a note two days in a row!!! It’s been a good day. We had a few errands to run and got those taken care of. We had a prescription to pick up from Walgreens. (Yes, another one.) I think we go there at least once a week. After we did that we went up to Karen’s house. I had offered her some tomato plants and my plants are ready to put in the ground. I have checked the forecast for the next month and I don’t see any cold weather in the future that would hurt my plants. Today I separated some of the plants. I took four to Karen, I have also set three aside for Brenda. She said she would take a couple to put in her “horse trough” planter. She has a problem with deer eating her garden up there in the country. She hopes that by planting them in the horse trough the deer may not bother them. We will see.

I also set aside eight plants for me to plant in my garden. Last year I planted I think thirteen or fourteen plants. They did well at first and just kind of quit for a while and in the fall they started coming on again for a bit. 

The first thing I did this morning was to work my garden up. Last year I borrowed Karen’s tiller to till my garden. The year I decided to try to work it up with a hand tiller. I was very pleased to find that the ground worked exactly right and I was able to get it ready to plant in. I won’t have to borrow the tiller now. The bad thing is that I have pinched a nerve in my hip and am having pain with that. So, not borrowing her tiller and having to lift and carry that is good. The problem is pulling on that hand tiller aggravated that nerve so I’m taking the afternoon off and have taken some Advil to help. I’m hoping tomorrow that I can mow my backyard and do some weed eating and also get my tomatoes planted. Kate has an optometry appointment tomorrow so I will have to do my work around that. 

Yesterday was also a very productive day. I have told you that I often “write” sermons in my sleep and that happened yesterday. Well, I finally sat down and started writing and finished it up yesterday evening. 

That’s it for the entry today. I pray you have a good evening and a good night’s rest. Peace. 

 It is almost the middle of the month of April. I expect there are folks that are scrambling today to get their taxes done and in the mail. I’m glad we did ours in February and got them over with. I absolutely hate doing taxes and I contend that once you reach 80 years of age, one should not have to be paying taxes anymore. Of course there isn’t a politician that would take up that cause for me. LOL. So if I live to be 100, my last act on earth will probably be to pay my taxes. 

How was your weekend? Ours was uneventful, we just did the routine stuff; yard work, house work, and church. We did get a call from our sweet granddaughter, Amanda yesterday so tat was the bright spot of the day. That girl just brightens my heart every theme she calls. I love when any of our grandkids call us, which isn’t very often, but Amanda has always been our sparkle kid, so bright and cheerful and loves life to the fullest. But don’t confuse my feeling to be saying she is our favorite grandkid cause we don’t have a favorite. 

It was already 70 degrees when I got up this morning at 0700. That’s like summer time weather. I think it is a good indication that we will be getting some rain and maybe a storm or two this week. My weather app says to expect rain around 10:00 this morning and that’s only 20 minutes away and I’m seeing no clouds, just a little overcast. We need some rain. I am anxiously awaiting for the nights to stay warmer and the danger of frost to go away. My tomato plants are ready to go outside but I don’t want to take a chance of them getting frost bite. They are really looking healthy. If they do as well once I put them in the garden as they are doing inside, I will have a great crop of tomatoes this year. 

Ms. Kate has a doctor’s appointment today on the east side of town at Gateway Hospital. I’m not sure which specialist she is seeing today. She has two different heart doctors, a urologist, a pain doctor, a kidney doctor, our dentist, and our family doctor that we see regularly and then on Wednesday, she has an appointment with our optometrist for her annual check up. No wonder all the names in her phone listing begin with Doctor. It seems like she has to have blood work done every two weeks or so. I’m very fortunate in that I basically see our family doctor once a year and the dentist and optometrist. raise the Lord, one of us is healthy and can take care of the other. We are truly blessed. 

I spent part of my morning sleep time writing a sermon in my mind. I do that frequently. The problem is that I often forget what I had put together by the time I wake up. But this one was for the upcoming Pentecost/Memorial Day sermon that I have to give and I’m retaining a good portion of it so, I better quit here and start writing that sermon down. 

Have a blessed day. Peace. 

 Happy Wednesday. I don’t know about where you live but we have a beautiful sunny chilly morning going on here at my house. I think it is about 50 degrees which isn’t too bad but the breeze is a bit stiff. 

I don’t have much for today. I think that we might run up to Newburgh to my sister-in-law’s house for a visit, (yes, to show off the new car). I also need to do some outside work today but I’m waiting for the temperature to climb a little before I get out and do that. I need to water my tomato plants in my starter pots. They are really growing. It will probably be a month before it is really safe to plant them outside. The ground is just not warm enough yet and we had a light frost warning just a couple of days ago. 

People keep asking me what my opinion is about the current fighting that the US is doing along with Israel against the country of Iran. I won’t call it a war I guess because war has not been declared nor authorized by our congress; but missiles and bombs are flying back and forth and people are dying, so war by any other name is still war.  I am not familiar enough with the particulars of this operation to render an expert opinion.  And we don’t get any straight answers from any one. The media is so skewed against President Trump and they make up what they don’t know and present it as fact. I understand that the leadership of Iran has zero respect for their own people let alone other nations. The Iranian leadership seems determined to build a nuclear war fighting capability and they really can never be allowed to have that. They will use their religious beliefs to destroy the world just like they have their own people. They have killed over 45000 of their own people that disagreed with them and rule with an iron religious bound fist. But —— is it our job to be the one who stands up to them?  I guess that is the question. And while I think it is a good thing that we have, I just wish that our President would keep his dang mouth shut. He is such a school yard braggart and bully which is why so many people have no respect for him. He could carry out this mission with a sincere of concern and humility without constantly talking about it. I will just say that I pray that it ends very soon and that we don’t get dragged into a long “Vietnam type” scenario. And I pray for the citizens of Iran who are dragged into this at no cause of their own. And ——- my suspicious and skeptical mind wonders what is the war is being used as a cover for that my be going on elsewhere. 

With that, I will jump off of here and go water my tomatoes. May God bring you peace. 

 Good morning. Happy Tuesday to you. How was your Easter Sunday and celebration?  We had a beautiful day. Unfortunately our Saturday weather spoiled some of our plans. We woke up to rain and the predictions for rain and even some strong thunderstorms on Saturday and they were tracking from Evansville right on over to Louisville KY and Julie’s house. So, We told them to stay home and not try to drive through all of that crap. Well, —- as luck would have it, most of the bad weather just kind of dissipated and really didn’t amount to much of anything beyond some rain. But we didn’t get to celebrate with Julie and Jim. We did however, invite Karen for Easter supper and she came. We had not had a visit with her since Christmas so that was really nice. 

Yesterday we “did a thing”. We traded in our Toyota Prius for a 2024 Cadillac CT5 It only has 1700 miles on it. I know it wasn’t the smartest ting to give up 52 miles per gallon in exchange for probably half of that, especially when the price of gas is getting so high. But the other side of the coin is that we bought the Toyota when I was doing a lot of travel back and forth for work. It was never a “comfortable car” especially for taking trip and it didn’t have a lot of the features we were used to with our last Cadillac. So, we just said “let’s go for it.. We got a great deal with the trade in and this new car is so very comfortable. We are hoping to do some trip this year and in the future and I think it will justify itself. And if not —- well, it won’t be the first dumb thing I ever did in my life. 

Now, I need to run to Walgreens and pick up a prescription for Kate and then go get my hair cut. I hope you have a most blessed day.  Peace.

 A blessed Good Friday to you. I hope you have plenty of worship time scheduled  for this Holy Weekend. 

It’s a fairly comfortable day today so far. It’s in the mid seventies and cloudy. The humidity level is low so that helps. We are supposed to get some rain this evening through most of tomorrow; nothing strong and we can use it. But Easter Sunday is supposed to be a sunny day with high in the mid to upper 60’s. That will be just right for all of the little egg hunters ruining around in their yards. I recall one Easter in Missouri when I put the eggs out around midnight and woke up to four inches of snow having covered them. It didn’t stop the kids though. LOL.

Julie and Jim are supposed to be coming over tomorrow I think. Have not heard the final plans. It’s possible only she will come and Jim will stay home with the dogs again. I assume we are going to have ham for our Easter lunch. The past few years we have been having Brats on the grill for Easter. We started doing that the last couple of years that my mother was alive and have just continued the tradition. I don’t recall why that got started but my mother was certainly taken aback that we would serve that for Easter. Oh well. 

I made a comment on Facebook today about how God has certainly prepared our area for Resurrection Sunday. The dogwoods are blooming. The redbuds are blooming. The peonies and the azaleas are blooming as well as the tulips and still some daffodils are blooming. It’s going to be a beautiful; Easter Day. I feel sorry for folks up north on the country. They had tornadoes last night and a lot of people lost homes. I pray God will give them strength to work their way through all of that. 

That’s it from today. I pray you have a blessed Easter Day. Peace