The Sweet and Sour of Life

Well, the question has been asked. "Did you buy it?" Ken didn't feel well enough to sit long enough to drive an hour and a half round trip so he made some calls, did research on the net and decided he would buy it sight unseen. That makes me pretty nervous since I am the one that looked at it. I am so fease (dutch word) about dirty stuff and this is no different. Our good friend, Jerry, has been hired to do the dirty work. Bless that boy's heart. Upon hearing that her dad had hired Jerry to clean it out, Lauri said, "Now you're rockin. We can do all the fixing up once it is down to bare clean". I agree. I think I will probably enjoy it. Ken seems so excited about it. Lauri and Elton have a hitch on their Durango and will pick it up to take it home on Saturday after they attend a daughter's volley ball game. Now the question is, where is the morphidite going to set? Out of sight, I hope. We will see. My friend Bernice still contends that noone should see it in its present state. She is excited about our new venture, too. I'm sure most people would think we are more than nuts. I will take plenty of "before" pictures so the appreciation will still be appropriate. We haven't said anything to my dad about this. I'm not sure if he will be excited or think we have gone over the edge.

Today, I took Isaiah to school, went to Bernice's in between and then on to the chiropractor for my second visit for this aching body. My back is MUCH better but my left shoulder is still very sore. He worked on it a very long time in an intense way and so it hurts like the dickens today. Hopefully, it is a "worse to get better" situation.

After the chiro, I went back to Bernice's and accompanied her to CVS to print her vacation pictures. She had not had digital printed before and the first time at one of those machines can be pretty intimadating. We zoomed and cropped till her heart was content. Her pics look really good and it was fun to see what they had done during their six week jaunt away.

I noticed that Bernice had apples setting in a bag in her utility room. I told her I had a bag also that needed attention. Just like old times, we decided to do something with them collectively. She brought her "goods" to my house and we made applesauce and apple crisp together. What a sweet time of sharing and being productive at the same time. We chuckled about how fulfilled we felt at doing "all" these apples and then spoke of people we know that do a bushel or more. Bernice said, "This is as domestic as the two of us get". I have guests coming for dinner tomorrow evening so I'm a long way toward having my meal ready. My dad had given me some sweet potatoes along with the apples so I boiled those and then slipped off the skins. They were thrown in a the mixer with some REAL maple syrup and butter. I'll heat those in the oven tomorrow night. The meat is the real question. Two of the people coming for dinner are for the most part vegetarians. While I tend to fall in that direction also, I still am stumped to know what meat to fix for this meal. I wish I had picked up that tilapia I saw at Meijers last week. That would have worked.

I'd just like to say that God is good and faithful. Yesterday, we got some really bad news. Neither of us could sleep last night because of what this could mean for us. As I thought about how bad news can just undo one, I purposed in my heart not to let Satan get me all riled in this area again. I continued to remind God (or was it myself) that He is a faithful God and could (will) take care of this mountain for us, too. Today, we got a call that took the edge of fear away and brought the hope of resolution. At least there was a gesture on the part of the other party to offer us a bone. Pray with us that God will see us through and bring us to the other side unscathed. His will be done.