It was almost chilly today.  We had rain last night but none today.   Nate came and mowed, probably for the last time until spring.

I got a hair cut and stopped to see how Barb is doing.  She looks good.   A little sore from the removal of that pick line, but that too will heal.

Bret called tonight, he had his are doing well.   They will be going out to the river tomorrow morning early.

I do have a "situation"   A beautiful red bird is banging on the window in the living room.   He is quite pretty but very annoying. I took everything off of that windowsill, (almost killing myself in the process, as I stumbled getting off the couch and rolled to the ground.  Carpeted , thank the Lord.)   When someone is here, I am going to hand a wind chime up there to see if it will scare the creature away.

I miss that I cannot see the Clancy Brothers in this life again.  Thank God, their music lives on.

Dia Dhuit

Mary







Liam Clancy said this to Bob Dylan

The Irish means "Safe home, My Friend."

"Remember Bob,
NO FEAR,
NO ENVY,
NO Meanness."
     William Clancy
1 September 1935 -4December 2009

Slan abhaile a chara.

We had a bit of rain last night and it has finally cooled down a little bit.  

Nicky is mighty tired of me putting goop in his ears.   Only a day or so left.   When the bottle is empty, he is done.  He will be on pills for a while but he likes that as I give it to him in cream cheese.

Paid some bills today and worked on sewing projects and studying for Bible Study. (It pays to come prepared for that:))

I finally have someone here to inspect and clean the fireplace.   It has some deficiencies that I am having him take care of.   More than I had planned and some of them could have been postponed until next years cleaning, but I decided that Dick would have just said to get it right NOW.  It was hard enough to find someone to do the inspection and cleaning anyway.   He is quite good at explaining what he is seeing, with my background, such as it is.  It all made sense to me.

Barbara had her port removed today.   YEA!!!!! this means that they no longer feel that she has a need for it.   Another plateau reached.    Thanks for all the prayers.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

It was a lovely day in the low 80s and not at all humid.  I was home until this evening.

My cleaning lady, Leah, came this morning so I have a nice clean home.   Always good and she is really nice.

This evening I went to the writer's club.   Bart came and helped me put the poems for an anthology that our group is doing onto a zip drive.    I have a short story also to be included but there aren't really poets in our group and they thought that perhaps a poem between each story for a bit of a break might be nice, so I gave them 5.  I thought that they all had to be about owls as our group is called  O.W.L S  (Oklahoma Writers Literary and Storytellers).    So I handed over 5 owl poems.   If they want more if we have more spacers needed, I will write about something else as I am about owled out:)

Bible Study tomorrow.

Dia Dhuit
Mary

Happy Halloween.

For the first time since we moved to Tall Grass, I had trick or treaters at my home.   It was fun.  Nicky barked but was quiet nice and everybody attributed his barking to the "Warning, Strange Dog" sign on the door:)

I was home most of the day.  I did got grocery shopping and picked up my Powerball ticket

Spent the rest of the day just cleaning the kitchen, making carrot pineapple salad and sewing. 

Tomorrow is All Saints Day, I will be going to Mass at noon.

Writers club tomorrow night.  Bart will come to help me download some writings to a zip drive.


Take care keep all those we love and  (those we don't love:)) in your prayers.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

I had an interesting weekend.  Bart and Barb have returned from a  trip to Dallas with Adria and Abby to visit Barb's son Tim and his wife Amber and son Augie. 

That means that I take care of Bart and Barb's critters.   I let them out occasionally and then sleep there.  I feel that it is best for them to not be alone.   Nicky finds it rather odd, I am sure.

Nicky's ear looks much better and he is acting more like him all the time.   I have a week or more of pills and ear ointment before he is declared healthy again.  My poor little guy.   It is one of those occasions when Dick and I would come home from the Vet and say "Is he really worth THAT much?"  Of course, he is.   I HOPE you understand our humor. 

I talked to Jim and Michelle today.  He had his back surgery earlier in the week and then ended up BACK in the hospital because he was disoriented and not well at all.  He is home again and though in pain and tired doing well again.  Please pray for my boy.

Dia Dhuit

Mary