A long time

It has been more than a month since I posted anything. I have a new addiction. Farmtown on Facebook. I have a great looking farm. I am working on it as a memorial to my dad. He was a farmer at heart.

I am still making cards. One of the problems I have is remembering to take a picture so I can post them on my blog.

My dad and mom's house is now on the market.
My brother and sister from the Grand Rapids area really worked hard and got it all cleaned out and staged to sell. My brother and sister-in-law from IL went up and helped too. Dennis and I only went up and helped once. I wish it could have been more. I think we would have been in the way. We are restricted physically with what we can do. They did a fantastic job. Now we are in a praying mode that the house will sell and make enough money to take care of my mom. On Labor Day week-end we went north for a family reunion. There was only 81 people there. After the reunion we went north and saw the house one last time. We also went out to the cemetary.
We had not been there since the funeral. It was really really hard to go there without dad knowing that chapter of life is over after 25 years living there. We had some great memories of our times visiting with dad and mom in the north house.

Dennis has been working very hard cleaning out the mess in the basement that Mark left. He has thrown a ton of stuff away. It probably would have saved money to just rent a dumpster instead of buying so many trash bags! He is about 2/3 done. I can't even get down there to see what it looks like. I can get down but it is nearly impossible for me to get back up. I am paranoid about falling up those stairs. That is how I messed up my shoulders in the first place.

I will be able to post pictures of my cards soon.

July Cards.

Here are most of the cards I made in July. There were a few that I forgot to take pictures of. I am running behind on getting them made so I forget to take pictures.

I am sitting with my grandaughters tonight and tomorrow. They are 9 and 7 now so they really aren't much trouble. I kind of like having them around. Dennis and Joy went down to the Tiger game. I don't even know if they are winning, losing or if they are still playing. I am getting weary so I think I am going to go to bed and read.

I did manage to go use some of the machines at therapy. I rode the bike for 2 mi. in 12 min. not great but I did it. I also rode the arm bike for 10 min.

FINALLY

I got my new system today. It seemed like it took forever for Dell to send the replacement but now I am happy again. A friend of ours just came over and was able to get my files off of the hard drive so I didn't lose contacts, pictures, etc.

It is late tonight so I must get to bed. Tomorrow I will have the fun of loading my programs back on to this machine and packing up the old one to send back to Dell.

Monday That Feels Like Tuesday

When I got up this morning it felt like Tuesday to me. Don't ask me what happened to Monday. I guess I just skipped it. We were dogsitting again over the weekend. This time it was for our daughter's dog. He is huge. He is a husky/lab mix. He makes our medium size dog look small! When he laid down in the living room, we hardly had any room to walk around! :)

We went to church yesterday. We tried a different one again this week. The pastor was gone so we had a fill-in. We knew him from other places and we enjoyed the sermon. I doubt we will go to church there. Neither one of us felt comfortable there. These older traditional churches seem dead to us. There is rarely younger married couples or children to make it seem alive. The music is played so slow. I don't mind singing hymns but why do they drag so.

I don't have any big plans for this week except to make more cards. We also have to go over our bills and see what we can pay. That is not a job I like especially when there is no money.

Our doggy sitting

We spent the last two days taking care of a friend's dog. The black and white one is our Miriam. The yellow one on Dennis' lap is Rebel. They got along really well. In fact I wanted to trade my yellow cat for their yellow dog!