Christmas is coming - Quiet, happy times!

Oh, how I do love Christmas. I do have too many expectations for it and have been really disappointed on occasion. One Christmas day about two years ago, I was so sad, that I spent the day riding around in the car just crying. I do not want to ever spend another Christmas day like that again. This Christmas, we want to spend at the river with Blue and Sammi, our dogs. We will remember the happy times at the river with Major, our other border collie, who passed away last year on December 29, right after Christmas. We still miss him so. Sammi does help with being so sad about him, because she is just such a character. We really do love our pets, messes and all. We do hope to have the Richmond house finished with the dining room painted and the decorations up for the holiday. Hopefully the living room and the extra bedroom will be finished, too and we will have our whole house back in some order for the holiday. Still don't know what to do about the four kitties who need to be warm in the house, and are in the kitchen right now. They do make their messes! I love the little guys, but can't figure out just what to do.
With the holiday, comes parties. I will miss the one I had been looking so forward to-Dr. Bluford's 90 th birthday party at Overbrook Presbyterian Church. I had already told Keith's Danville family we would come on that Saturday and I would take a painting class. I am very upset that I won't be able to be at the party. But, I will share my remembrances about the Blufords with them.
The next day, there is the party at Jeannette Glasheen's house. It should be really fun and I am really looking forward to it. I do hope I won't be too tired to go to church before her party and then go on over to her house, still staying on the Southside! I have yet to come to my workplace for a Sunday service and I really want to come to some of them. Especially during the holiday season.
At this time of year, you reflect on those who have made your year be a joy to you. I have been so blessed with good friends and kind acquaintences. I really do think that you are a wealthy person if you have your good health and good friends. Cash is great, but friends do warm your life and keep you going better than money.

November and looking for some happy times...

So, now we are in the waiting mode for another lovely person who is on the line between life on earth and death. Duck (Donald) is in the 24 hour death watch, says hospice. His kind and wonderful wife is all to pieces and we worry so about her. He has only known work and taking care of his children and his sister-in-laws' children. If ever there was someone who deserves a good rest and a crown of jewels in heaven, it is him. Always a kind person who put others first.
"Well done, my good and faithful servant."

So, here we are wondering what will happen next

I am the only one wondering when the second shoe will fall? With Obama-mama elected, don't you wonder when the next crisis-du-jour will take place? This guy is so totally without substance, that he will fall just like a house of cards. All the jesters around him are without substance, too. It will be Clinton-Carter-LBJ-JFK White House all over again. The guy in the Richmond paper this weekend did say that McCain was the most qualified candidate ever, who was denied the job as Commander in Chief. I am so glad that my mother is not alive to see the travesty that just took place last week. She, of course, continues to spin in her grave over this one the nation has handed to us. What a joke that "O" Bicky man is. Bicky will be explained in a later post.
I am hoping that the nation can withstand four years of this idiot, but not very hopeful. He will sell us out for many things, just like Carter gave away the Panama Canal.

So, it is finally fall

A month to the day since fall began, we finally have fall weather. It is finally cold and the pesky bugs, mosquitos and fleas, will finally die off. It's time to get some sweaters, and some cordoroy
pants!

The POD is coming, the POD is coming...

So, today we get a POD delivered to the church where I work. What a wonderful idea this was that someone came up with. Ask people to bring things that are cluttering up their homes and give to people who are coming out of homelessness, into a new apartment or house, with basically nothing to their name. Then, we give them our stuff and they use it and can get on with picking up their lives. Just a really nice thing to do. Costs nothing, but means everything to those who have started over again. I think this is so great, because, instead of the demeaning cycle of homelessness and no hope or faith for something better than that, that EmbraceRichmond is giving people their lives back. Remember, their are no hearses with luggage racks... so send the extra stuff on its way to someone who can use it.

Today is Thursday, October 16, 2008

So, this is where I post my thoughts, whether they are worthy, or if anyone wants to see them.
Today, a dear lady I know is laying in a hospital bed, knowing that she is dying. But, she tells everyone, she is ready and almost happy that she will see those she misses "on the other side."
So, I am melancholy for her passing that is to come, but jubilant that she will be released from pain and this shell that fails us, ultimately. Much like my own mother, this lady has not complained or been a burden to anyone through her illness of over six months. She continues to laugh and her good spirit shines through. May we all have this strength at the end and this assuredness of what is beyond our sight...