February 12, 2010

• Gorgeous Day & A Quote

  Moving right along, here. 

  I spent another night holding my stomach after dinner.  The food agreed with me alright, but it pushed more of that surgical gas through my intestines.  I was really uncomfortable and befriended the heating paid, once more!

    

  It’s been such a beautifully, sunny day, today.  We haven’t had sun like this in quite a while.  I’m enjoying having the windows open and light streaming in from everywhere.  Another “system” is due to move in this weekend and, by Sunday, things will be cold and gloomy again.  Isn’t that why we have spring and appreciate it so much?  New life, new brightness, and things looking so newborn pretty?!

    

  Jesse went for a walk and took Sushi (off her leash) and Little Bit (the first time walking *ON* a leash) with him.  Sushi behaved really well and stuck by his side, but, he said, Little Bit acted like he was strangling him every step of the way!  I’m sure he was dragging Little Bit more than walking him!  He said he told him to sit, and Little Bit refused.  Even when he pushed down on his bottom, Little Bit stood as firm as a granite statue!  He’s smart, but doesn’t enjoy training or obeying.  He’s slowly coming a long and Sushi is turning into a wonderful dog and less & less destructive.

    

  In the book I finished reading a few days ago, there was something written that I want to share.  It really left an impression upon me and I’ve thought about it many, many times over the past 48 hours.

  From the book, “As I Remember It,” by Uria Byler, I quote:
  
  . . . One evening about the middle of April while we were milking , one of the children came into the barn to report that our neighbors, Gene Schnells, were both sitting on their front steps crying.  We wondered what could be wrong  now.  Something serious must have happened.
  
  Soon Gene came across the road, walking slowly as if in deep anguish.  He came into the barn, wiping his eyes, and in a broken voice said, “The President passed away this afternoon.”  Gene was a loyal Democrat, and he had idolized Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
  
  So FDR was gone.  He had been reelected to a fourth term the preceding November, but that meant nothing now.  All the honors and prestige which he had received and which he relished, had come to an end.  When they lowered his body into the grave a few days later, he would be on the same level and hold the same status as the unknown, friendless pauper who would be buried in a potter’s field across the road from the County Home.  In the eyes of God, there would be no distinction between the two.  What now was important was, “Where would their souls spend eternity?” . . .    

  I don’t know why Mr. Byler’s words haunt me.  I don’t think of myself as puffed up or arrogant, but maybe this passage served as a warning to me so I never *will* become such a way.  I just felt it was worth sharing with everyone else.

     

  The lady that cleans for me is here.  She’s finishing up mopping the kitchen & foyer floors with PineSol.  It smells so clean after the floors are washed! 

  While I was eating an apple for my lunch, the doorbell rang.  It was a man delivering flowers.  FOR ME!!!!  Jesse had them sent for Valentine’s Day.  I’ll take a picture of them and post them this week end.  The vase is a lovely deep red and will be pretty in my kitchen’s black and red (barn, apple, & rooster) decor long after Valentine’s Day has passed.

      

  I’m fixing a meatloaf for dinner and praying I digest it without incident.  I believe I’m on the last few days of having an upset digestive system!!!!  THANK YOU, LORD!!!!

  AND . . . I think that just about takes care of all the news here for the day.

  Be Blessed  ~

  
  

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