Mid week again. We had another “doctor morning”. Kate had an appointment with one of her heart doctors. She is back in AFIB for the “umpteenth” time. Doctor is recommending a Cardio ablation this time instead of doing another Cardioversion. She has put in the order but it will probably take a couple of months to get it on the schedule. I reckon until then, we just stay with the current meds and -she will remain in AFIB.  The risk of the ablation or that she has some kind of blood clotting disorder and an ablation could cause a clot to form and she could have another heart attack or stroke. She has been told by another doctor that her disorder is what caused her to have three mis-carriages, her heart attack and her stroke. The odds are small but certainly there. We suspected this was going to be the only real option. It’s all in God’s hands. 

We were facing strong storms on Monday evening and night but they never actually formed. We did get some beneficial rain though, 1.75 inches worth. We got some more last night. I woke up around 0300 and could hear the rain coming down hard. But it is sunny outside now and the high today is 63. The entire country has been going through really weird and crappy weather. 

Tomorrow I have to take the new car down for some kind of Armour protection coating to be put on. I stuff it is a weather protection or speeding. It was part of the package when we bought the car. Here an interesting thing for us; When we had our last Cadillac I had a personalized Indiana license plate put on it —- K8SCDY, for Kate’s Caddy. When we sold it, I kept that plate incase we should ever buy another Cadillac. I’ll, we went to the BMV yesterday and they put the plate back in service and I now have it on the new car. I’m very happy about that. I’m also easy to please. LOL. 

That’s it for today. I hope the rest of your week is fully blessed. Peace. 

 A new week again. We are currently under a severe storm watch and a tornado watch but at the moment, the sun is shining. I think that is maybe not a good thing. I’m watching the weather and news right now and according to Wayne, (my guy) that despite the lull in activity a the moment, we’re far from out of danger. Sounds like a good idea to spend the evening in the basement. The problem is that Kate has a terrible time getting down there. But, we’ll certainly be watching the development as the evening goes along. 

This morning I went to the funeral of a childhood friend. Paul was may age and he and I went to grade school, high school, Sunday school, youth fellowship and confirmation together. He was our Best Man for our wedding 60 years ago. There were a lot of wonderful comments at the funeral from people in the congregation. Paul spent a lot of his life doing mission trips and doing work for The Lord and for humanity. He will certainly be missed.

I was supposed to have a dental appointment for a minor repair this morning but Paul’s funeral was at the same time. So I got on the line early and contacted my dental office and got it changed.  

Other than that, it has been a calm weekend. I got the yard work all done Saturday and planted some new tomatoes. Kari brought us some new plants so I get those planted maybe tomorrow. All of my already planted tomatoes are really growing good. 

That’s it for today. Have a safe night. Peace. 

 It’s Wednesday morning already. Another week is trying to zoom by us. It’s a beautiful morning. It’s currently 65 degrees and the sun is shining bright. Thankfully the wind has died down We have had steady 20=25 mph winds for the past two days. It has been a windy spring so far. 

Kari, our cleaning lady is going to be here soon. She comes once every two weeks and today is her day. Sometimes, Kate and I will just go out to breakfast or something to get out of the way while she is here. I think maybe we will go to the gym this morning. I’m not sure. I have not been informed what my plans are yet. LOL But she did ask if I wanted to go work out. But then she is also making a Walmart pickup list so ergo knows. 

Yesterday we went pout to church and picked up  some geraniums. Every year we sell geraniums to support the Weekday Education program. We only bought three but I need to plant those in some pots today. I also need to water my tomatoes this morning. I have given away several of my tomato plants and have a few more to give away. I think Kari will take a couple and I’m hoping Dan gets home and will take the rest. I have ten plants in the dirt. That’s enough for us. 

I’ve been busy writing. I have one final sermon to finish and my May services will be ready to present. That’s a good thing. 

Okay, Kari is here and I need to be out of the way. Have a blessed day. 

 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.