Okay. The Chilean miners were rescued. Great story. Now let's move on, shall we? My regard for the miners flagged a bit today when I read that one miner had requested that his wife AND his mistress be there to greet him when he emerged from the mine. Mistress was there but wife took a pass. It appears that she didn't know about the mistress before the mine accident. Oops! (Hope the impending divorce doesn't use up all of the money being offered as a booby-prize for the guys who were trapped!)
When the grandchildren were here this weekend, Robin bought a Whoopee Cushion from Walmart. ($1) When Grandma Judy and Grandpa Phil came over for dinner on Sunday, Robin determined where she wanted Grandma Judy to sit...then put the cushion on her chair. Of course, Judy spied it before she sat down but was a good sport and sat on it anyway. Robin got such a charge out of that. Whoops! (If you knew how sweet and proper Grandma Judy is, you would see the irony of Robin pulling this little trick on her!)
Robin likes to help out with cooking. While we were preparing dinner, she was scraping carrots at the sink while I was cutting onions next to her and singing the "I Never Hurt an Onion, So Why Did It Make Me Cry" song. We discussed the fact that onions make eyes water. She asked if that's why they say you should cut them under running water. I said yes...but since I wear glasses, onions don't really bother my eyes much anymore. When she decided she wanted to finish up on the onion job, she dashed to her room and came back wearing a pair of 3-D glasses from the movies. What a hoot to watch her peeling onions in those!
I have a long-time radio friend who is blind (with a service dog). Bill called me yesterday to ask if I was doing any walking lately--something I'm supposed to be doing on a regular basis. When I confessed that I hadn't, he asked if I would come over today and walk the trails with him and dog...that they both needed the exercise. I said I would. It was a cool but beautiful morning. All I had to do was fix my hair. Didn't bother with makeup. (Bill can't see, you know!) The walk was going fairly well except that Chance (the dog) kept veering Bill into me in his quest to get to the grass. He had to water the weeds three times on the walk...and took a poop once. (Bill said he had already done that and wouldn't have to. Oops!) Guess all that exercise got Chance's digestive system moving. All it did for me was make me huff and puff...and my legs have been weak the rest of the day. Guess that means I need to do more, huh?
I sent some genealogy papers to my daughter today--some things she had left behind. It was my plan to put them in a flat-rate envelope at the post office that would cost me $5, but I screwed up and picked up Express Mail instead of Priority Mail. It cost just over $18 but will be there tomorrow at noon. Since she requested the papers for a Ball State student who is working on an assignment, I just decided to "eat" the difference due to my stupidity...and count it as karma for someone's college education. Oops!
I am working on my Sunday School lesson for this week, and will be speaking to a radio group about SATERN at 9:00 on Saturday morning down in Spencer, IN. Once upon a time, all of this would be nothing...but now that I'm retired, just getting moving before noon is an issue. Need to work on that!
I have word from my sister that both of my nieces have some potentially serious health conditions. Laurie has breast cancer. (We won't know any details until Tuesday.) And Lynn has some spots on her lungs and liver problems due to hepatitis-something. If you are reading this and are a praying-kind-of-person, I would appreciate it if you would put my nieces on your list. (As I get older, prayer lists get longer. I wish it were not so!) Honestly, we ALL need prayer, so just pray for the world!
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