Hey, Everybody. We are coming to the finish line and we are exhausted. We made two trips today. When we got there the second time I was so tired that I found a pillow and a throw and fell asleep on the living room floor.

I swear that the house is creating things as fast as we take them out but we ARE making headway.

Bobbie and Bill are coming to pick up Oscar and Roxie sometime between six and seven tomorrow evening. We are planning on being back from our second delivery by 5:45PM. Should be easy.

This will probably be my last posting until Monday or Tuesday. We are taking the Charter modum, boxes and controllers to Charter which means that though I won't be able to go online for a while. But we are having Time Warner hook us up on Monday and Jim and Michelle will help us get set up on Monday evening.

Saturday, I will be leaving for the condo as soon as the movers arrive. Dick will be here to direct them and I will be at the other end to tell them where to put things. I hope our ideas work. Removing things would not be easy.

I will leave you for a few days with a quote that I read the other day.

"If you can't be kind, at least learn to be vague."

Have a good weekend and I hope you miss me.

Love

Mary

Another busy day.

I spent the morning catching up on computer stuff and doing a bit of packing.

I had to go to the dentist in the latter part of the morning to have the gum area at the back of my teeth checked. I had gotten a little infection in there and we had to make sure that it healed. It has improved a lot and I just have to keep flossing to make sure that it gets all better.

Then I came home and we had lunch. Beffore we went out to the condo with another load I went to the Blood Center and donated again. Ran into my friend Bob Weber, from Blessed Trinity, who helps out at the blood center getting the donors drinks and cookies and all. He was not aware that we are moving and like everybody else tried to convince me to just stay on in Falls and make the drive. Just not practical when we will be so close to St. John's.

THEN, we went out to Plymouth, via voting in the primary AND taking Mother a bottle of wine. Mother said that she is sure that Dick has ESP because she had just run out.

We unloaded the car and had a visit from the treasurer of the Tallgrass Condo Association. Jim. He was very helpful, gave us some information and got a signature that he needed and answered several questions that we had. I restrained myself from mentioning how much I will miss my kitties. We stuck around until Jim and Michelle came home. We wanted to thank them for setting up our music system. Tomorrow, I will find the cds and tapes so we have somehing to listen too.

We got home at almost 7PM and I heated some cheese hotdogs with saurkraut for supper and we fed our very hungry critters.

Children's Books That Didn't Make It


You Are Different and That's Bad

The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables

Dad's New Wife Robert

Fun Four-letter Words to Know and Share

Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book

The Kids Guide to Hitchhiking

Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her

Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence

All Cats Go to Hell

The Little Sissy Who Snitched

Some Kittens Can Fly

That's It, I'm Putting You Up For Adoption

Grandpa Gets a Casket

The Pop-up Book of Human Anatomy

Strangers Have the Best Candy

Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way

You Were An Accident

Things Rich Kids Have That You Never Will

Pop Goes the Hamster and Other Great Microwave Games

Love

Mary

I just got back from Rhine Plymouth general meeting. The last meeting of the day. It went fairly fast as I was home by 8:30PM, a record. We had quite a bit of business but it went smoothly without a lot of repeating. Those men are great about rehashing things after they have been resolved and voted on.

I also had Bible Study this morning. It was quite interesting as we are reading the letter of James in this church year for the second reading on Sundays. This was on the theme of faith versus good works and we wonder what God decides about all the good people in this world who do not believe in Him. Perhaps He just chuckles because He knows that He is in their hearts and they just don't see Him.

I read the Living Faith for Friday the 8th and felt it was worth sharing with my friends at bible study and I will share the first paragraph with you all. It was written by an Anne Bingham.

"I read somewhere that you really don't want and angel showing up in your life, at least not a Biblical angel. Unlike Hollywood angels, who make your life easier, biblical angels usually bring job assignments from the Big Guy, jobs that are not only completely unsuited for your particular skill set, but also extremely inconvenient. If you say "Yes," it's a sure bet you'll either have to annoy someone at the top of the food chain ("You want me to tell Pharoah WHAT?") or turn your life upside down (A baby? But I'm not married yet!")"

Pretty good, right?

I also had Writer's Club this afternoon. We had a speaker but I will have to tell you about him later. He has a book that is coming out next month about a photagrapher who filmed the Ziegfield girls. What a story. Not only what he wrote about but all the things that happened as he was getting it published.

Tomorrow, the dentist, giving blood and taking more stuff out to the condo.

Later

Mary

Celtic Faire was a great success. The Mass was truely beautiful and the church was full. The dancers found their way and were very well received by the audience. The food was good and we almost sold out. The beer sales were down because it was a bit cool.

I don't know if it is better to have it chilly or over 90 degrees. The heat drives people away and the chill slows down the beer sales.

Anyway, we should turn out OK.

Jeff and Kathy came for the first time and say they will never miss it. I hope the congregation finds someone who will take over, as I will be in Plymouth next year. I would hate to see my "baby" fall apart. I will break the things I do down into four areas and perhaps they can find people who are willing to take one or all the areas. They ARE all loosely related but could be made easier (less work for one) if separated.

I also sold two of my books. So I feel good about the day.

Tomorrow I have meetings all day (Bible Study, Writer's Club and Rhine Plymouth) so will do that and then Tuesday, we will start hauling things out to the condo again.

I am going to sip a cup of tea and then go to bed.

Be happy


Mary