Perky Helped Peggy with Yardwork Today

Good News! Melba's test results were all negative. Great news. Bummer that she had to wait through the long holiday weekend to hear the results but all news was good, no bad news! Yippee! Perky was tired from hanging out waiting on that too!!

Perky's Waiting

Yeah, Melba. Tests are done. Results to follow but of course we know the news will all be good. Perky is just hanging out waiting to hear the great news. Goooo Melba.

Just for Melba!

Did I say Mother's day?!

I just talked to my mom and will be spending the day with her today. She is having some problems so I have made a doctors appointment which I will be picking her up for in an hour, then because that will cause her to miss lunch...we will have lunch together. Then we will run errands or shop or ... because she has a hair appointment at 3 p.m. that I will take her to and I will run errands while she is there. Then since it will be so close to time for Ken to get off work we will probably go to dinner together and then take her to church! Whew, I'm exhausted and I haven't even left home yet! Have a great day, we will, cause we're doing it together!

I wonder how many of the things from the Anita Renfro video I will hear today?

Change of plan - we all had lunch together which means we skipped dinner and then I took Mom home and she is going to church with her friends Margaret and Leo. The pain she is having is from osteoporosis, so she has a new prescription and can still play dominoes to her hearts content!

A Little Late for Mother's Day

... but you'll be glad I did it!

Birthday Thank You

Thank you everyone for thinking of me on my big day. I got so many wonderful gifts and had a wonderful weekend! Never just spend one day celebrating!

The basket with tea items is from my niece Heidi, Mike and Andrew. The green jacket, necklace, bird and


cheese knife are from Melba and Dick. The blue pants and colorful necklace and yellow earrings are from Pat and many of you sent wonderful cards. Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Mother's Day

We went to church with mother this morning and then ate at a restaurant of her choice where she loves the molasses bread! We had to wait until 3 p.m. to eat due to reservations, so we were hungry!
We came to our home after church for pictures and smoothies to tide us over. Mom opened presents. She got a "Mom" bracelet and her bag has wheels so when she goes to Wal-Mart on Friday she can wheel it all home and not have to carry it. The roses are from Heidi, Mike and Andrew. The pretty pink house slippers are from Don and Rita and the picture saying is from Melba and Dick. All in all I think mom had a good day.

Happy Birthday to Me!

As my brother always says, "If I'd of known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself!"

Mom and I went to Lambert's for lunch today and enjoyed a delish lunch! I was even able to catch the rolls! I must not be sooo old after all.

May Flowers?

I decided this was the only way you were going to get "May Flowers" right now from Missouri! We are having "April Showers" and our rivers are flooded. Can't seem to decide what the weather is going to do. We have a day or two of nice weather and then rain and flooding. The people who depend on the tourists are starting to worry that the income is not going to be coming in this year!! Some of the tourist attractions on the river are still under water. They are telling people not to start repairs on their homes down river because they are having to let water out of the dam and it just doesn't seem to have an end in sight.

Well enjoy Ken's photos and keep your heads above water!! Oh yeah, we are high and dry!

Ken Is Headed for Portland

Ken has meetings in Portland, Oregon this week so he's headed that way. He will be attending the Evangelical Press Association Conference. He'll also be holding an International Pentecostal Press Association meeting while there (he's the President).

He returns on Saturday so it will be a lonely week but hopefully he will have a good time and I will have a productive time getting caught up on stuff here at home that I have let go while planning on the garage sale, tax time, etc.

The Garage Sale is Behind Us!

We done good! We got rid of some big items and and the garage looks a lot emptier. We were able to haul the huge and heavy TV stand upstairs from the John Deere room and someone bought it! That was really what we wanted to sell, so when that was gone we were happy! It was HEAVY!!

Now we will start preparing the house for sale and decide exactly what we are going to do with it. Still lots of decisions to make and lots to do. Even though there are lots of things sold there are still lots of things inside that Mom wants to keep. I guess I will be taking things to her apartment storage each time I go visit.

We took Perky over on Friday and she had a ball. She played and ran and she couldn't decide where the best place was to watch all the excitement from. We did finally wear her out and she ended up sleeping in the bushes near the front porch. Today as you can see she's completely worn out and getting a deserved rest!

Garage Sale?!

I think I recall saying I would never do another Garage Sale! Actually I think I have said that several times!!

This weekend we are participating in the neighborhood sale once again. Actually we have made over $500 and we haven't even started! We still have several things from mom and dad's home and that's where the sale is. Plus, I will be hauling things over from our house!

I must be a glutton for punishment!!!

Now if we could just sell the garage and the house with it...

Tax Season is Over!!!!

Yippee Kayoo Kayay ... except now I have to do all those things I have been putting off while doing taxes! Yikes! There's a lot of them ...

It's Done, It's Here!

"CARRY-ON" the book is finally here and it looks good. The book was finished and delivered today to the author in time for the conference! They are pleased, I am pleased! Yippee, yahoo...a project well done, completed and on time!! That's a wrap!

It's Raining, It's Pouring...

I haven't heard any old men snoring but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't! This is a good day to stay home in bed! We are supposed to get anywhere up to six inches of rain this week. It started Tuesday and then started up again last night, and it's still agoin'.

It's so wet out there that the worms have taken up residence in our garage. The bad thing is it's so wet out there, that Ken won't be able to go fishing tomorrow on his day off, with all those worms from our garage! Perkitty is having a ball though playing with them!

Christian Writer's Seminar in Girard, KS

Ken is speaking at a writer's seminar this weekend and we are spending time with some wonderful people. There are some great writers here who are asking some great questions and learning a lot of things from my wonderful husband and another speaker from Barefoot Ministries, a publishing arm of the Nazarene denomination. We really are enjoying our time. I'm also away from taxes, editing and everything else that awaits me at home!!

Well more later.

Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes!

I hate to say, but I will be thrilled when this tax season is over. For some reason this year it just seemed to be a little too much. I still enjoy visiting with my special people but I seem to be going in all directions and running from one end of town to the other all the time. OK enough complaining (Ken would like that too!). I think I have everyone finished up—and now to finish ours and one paid return.

And, in the middle of all this we are doing a book project, printing to be complete by April 11!! We think we may make it!!

Another Tax Day

Well I am on my way to Maranatha Village (where Mom lives) today to do taxes for the people there. This will be my second day there this year. We decided to split it up and do one day in February and one in March. I think there are few enough that I will only be there this morning. Last week I got just about everyone else on my list done including Billings and Republic and the last of Springfield. Hoping to wind everything up this week and get Mom's and ours done! It's been a little "taxing!" I'm sorry, I wasn't going to do it, but I couldn't help it!!

Snow Again!

Well we've had anywhere from 6 to 10 inches of snow depending on where you are in town. It's downright freezing. I'm cold! Should warm up today all the way to 53 degrees so we are hoping for some thaw. As I write it is 24 degrees. I am actually sitting by the fireplace with flavored coffee thinking about all of you (in your warmer abodes)!!

Have a great day.

My Good Buddy

Talked with my good friend Barbara today and just thought I would reminisce by looking at some photos we shot when she was here a couple of years back. Missing you Barbara, come and visit soon. That goes for the rest of you too. There's always room at the Horn Inn!