Today started out rather cold and stayed in the lower 50s.   However, with no wind and sunshine, it was beautiful.   We must brace ourselves.  Hurricane Sandy is reaching the Northeast and combining with the Nor'easter and the cold front that is sailing that way from our area and will smack the East Coast tomorrow.  We will get, from what they say, lots of wind and a chill.   I thank our lucky stars for that.   Jeff's Sara is in New York in Brooklyn Heights.  They are ready.  They have stocked up and are ready to hole up until they can move again.   Sara does work in Manhattan so this  could be a day or two..

It was a high intensive morning for Dick this morning but we were pretty well stabilized by the time Bobbie got here this morning at 9AM to stay with  her Dad while I went to Sheboygan Falls for Bible Study and to visit Mom and take care of business.  ( Business being paying bills and setting up her pills.)  We still had time for a nice visit.  She looks and seems to feel well, but is very frail.   I am glad that we are all retired and those close enough are able to stop in between caregivers.    Just another check.   Nora and George are SO good about calling every week to check  in.   I have met families that are So disjointed that they do not even like each other.   We are so blessed with our family.   We all love each other, accept each other and want to do nothing but make Mom comfortable until she joins Dad, whenever that might be.  

Bible Study was well attended.  Everybody was there, including Felecia, Joseph's wife, who usually is working.   The has a a neck injury so pray for her.   We finished up the Lament Psalms that we have been studying.   It will be rather a joy to get out of lamenting for a change.   We learned a lot from the Laments, but enough already.   Anyway, our full contingency is 10 ( sometimes 11 if a couple of stragglers drop in) and we had our 10 today.   What a joy.

I got home just before noon and Bobbie, Dick and I had pork chops and colcannon with coleslaw for our lunch.   Bobbie and Bill are just back from a lovely vacation in Louisiana with Leslie, Bill, Nora and Marcus.    It was  a great time and Bobbie worked on teaching Marcus to say "Auntie Bobbie"   which is important for ALL Kunert Babies.

The afternoon was quiet, we took a nap.   Now I am watching Dancing with the Stars and will go to bed as soon as I can vote.

That may even be too late.   I am such a slug a bed these days.  But that is because my sleep is often broken  up.  I told a friend who asked why I was tired, to imagine having a baby in the house again.   You just get a broken sleep.  Dick and I were just musing on two days last week that were just perfect.  We got settled at about 9PM and both woke up, refreshed at 6AM.   Then the roof fell in.   Can't  account for bodies. And we had broken sleep for the past three nights.

Oh well, as they say.  What is , IS.   So we will continue.

Have a great week.   Pray for those in the path of the storm.  Our Sarah is there so it becomes close to home.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

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