Believe it or not, I actually wrote a full blog yesterday and somehow, I hit some key —- and it all went away. So, I said to heck with it. I was not going to try to rewrite it. 

Wednesday, the 6th of July. It has been a week since my last post and you haven’t missed anything important in my thoughts, that’s for sure. But, I have been busy. Today I am busy not going out in to the heat. Yesterday we officially hit 101 degrees actual temperature; — that is the hottest day in 10 years. The feels like was 110 degrees. Today and tomorrow promise to be no better. I may go out to the churches and run my bulletins and maybe run by the bank to deposit a couple of checks but that will be the extent of it. 

My daughter, Lisa, and her family were supposed to come up from North Carolina for the 4th of July weekend. Unfortunately she ended up going to the hospital with a very severe colon blockage and abscess.  That was a week ago and she is just this morning having surgery for it. She went into surgery at 0615 our local time (0715 her time) and is still in there. It is a very delicate surgery requiring both a general surgeon and a urologist. Ms. Kate and I, as well as the rest of the family are all waiting almost patiently to hear from Gary that the surgery is over and hopefully is a total success. We’re coming up on four hours now. For those of you that have lifted her up in prayer, thank you very much. Please continue to do so, she has another 5-7 days of hospitalization for recovery after the surgery is over. She has been one very sick girl for a long time but just didn’t know how sick she was. And she is a work-a-holic who grabs an over the counter medication and presses on because “she doesn’t have time to be sick”. Unfortunately, she comes by this trait quite naturally from her parents and siblings. None of us are very smart sometimes in the “self-care” arena. 

Ms. kate and i have been “binge watching” the television production of Game of Thrones (GOT). I don’t know if you have seen it or not but the country went wild over it when it first came out. Kate and two of the girls watched it but I never did. I would occasionally walk through the family room when it was on and stop and gawk at it for a few minutes, (men do that a lot) but I never sat down and watched a single episode. But, since TV is all reruns for the summer, I decided to watch it. I don’t know now if I’m glad I did or not. The best part of it is that Kate and I have watched more TV together in the last week than we have in a year or more. From my perspective, it was a very good story and perhaps I should have found the books and read them instead. But —- I remember the days when this show would have been rated XXX and not allowed to be seen on public television. The display of constant nudity and sexual activity, and vulgar language went way beyond actually contributing to the show to the point of becoming boring. So, if you have not seen the show, —- go find the books and read them. 

That’s it for today. Have a blessed day. May God bring peace to your soul and mind.