Just noodling.....

-->I noticed it had been a while since I have been here....I like it here....though sometimes it is a little " intimidating.....White paper, fever.....a little like white coat high blood pressure...every time I see an empty page I am just forced to write on it..

One of my passions is herbs. I love to learn about herbs. I love to tell people what I have learned. I've met the nicest people by saying......"I use cinnamon to control my Diabetes. It don't hurt your liver!" Then we start a discourse....

This is a good day to count my Blessings.....I have a Gary in my life....a wonderful friend, mate and gentle person. Gosh! How he would hate to see I had written that.....But he has been my children's Dad all their lives...It only takes a half an hour or so to become a father...but it is a lifetimes commitment to be a Dad....

I can spoil My Mom any time I want...She has done us all the pleasure of living to be
86....So I can drive her wherever she need to go... I can spoil her in any way I see fit.
I can take her on rides and we can enjoy fire works into the wee hours of an Independence day morning...I can laugh with her all I want and feel her loving touch.

I have four beautiful healthy Grown children.One beautiful and very pregnant Daughter in law, whom I love.... and four wonderful healthy grand sons....(son says
they are NOT beautiful.....Beautiful is for girls!) He don't know what I am writing either! We have a Bill in our lives....He is Jen's fella' and loved like a son...

I have beloved friends I would not change for anything or any one....Some who are on line and some I know better than I know some of the people in this town where I grew to be an adult...And some I've never seen in person. I love them still, as though they lived next door. A few have come to my home...Not to look at my mess; and it is a mess....But to be friends who's adult children I have grown to love too....I am truly blessed...I've even made friends in my home town on the computer! How Blessed is that!!!

OK! Now to the most recent blessings. My Gary has had some lung surgery many years ago. They told me he could not possibly live ten years....28 years ago to be exact. He is still here!

He has grown to the point of needing 02...he has bottles! The other day a lady on my
>free cycle group gave him a concentrator....HEAVEN....They are so costly.. We could not afford one. Now he has one of his OWN..He can have it on all night long without worry his bottle will go empty!!!

Last winter the storage room roof developed a leak...Because Gary is a man..and he didn't think about my size, he put loads of stuff in my way. I couldn't get in there. I mean physically I didn't fit into the room he left me to squeeze in there..People with lung problems usually look like they are at the point of starvation. We resemble Jack Sprat and his wife! we had no idea the room was harboring mold, then we began to smell it in our little house!!! I knew we were in trouble.... Even my old dog was having asthma attacks. Gary could barely breathe! I could taste smell and felt it in my lungs. I got on my treadmill, a lady down the street GAVE me....I began to walk to clear my lungs. Gary couldn't do this....

One Morning Chris, who is my eldest son called and told me he was gonna come fix my roof, and clean out that room...Now the roof is half way done! He has cleared the old wall board out of that room! We put on a solid door to keep the mold captured in there till they can finish the work!

I joined Gleaners....Wonderful thing to do....Because of Gleaners I am saved about a hundred dollars or more in fruit and vegetables every month. I can actually afford Gasoline for my car. There is a tree hanging over our roof, and the heater in the living room has to be replaced before winter. Because of our belonging to gleaners I can get the heater this MONTH....the tree will have to wait a bit longer.... It is 1500 dollars, to remove it, as a dangerous tree...I have no doubt it will come..
From some where. It will come...It's not in my hands!

So now I am done "noodling" and counting blessings.....For now...I will probably send you more and more....cause God is good!
Hugs
Laurel