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Our Daily Thread 12-20-14

Good Morning!

5 Days!!!! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Kare.

*It’s now Sunday the 21st, so I believe someone has a birthday today.

Happy Birthday Linda. 🙂

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On this day in 1790 the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.

In 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union. 

In 1879 Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ. 

And in 1968 author John Steinbeck died at the age of 66.

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Quote of the Day

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

Dale Evans

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 This one is a request.

And this one is because I like it. From King’s College Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aL9rKJPr4&feature=player_detailpage ______________________________________________

Anyone have a QoD?

7,368 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-20-14”

  5. There, I guess that averages out, but I don’t know how many seconds this blog’s clock has for its minutes, because I posted the first at 11:28, and since it said 11:27 when I posted, I waited till my computer switched to 11:29 (less than 60 seconds later, when the blog’s clock should have said 11:28) and hit “post.” Whatever. 🙂

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  7. Cheryl – My computer clock doesn’t say anything. I have to read it.

    (That was one of my dad’s joking remarks, when someone would say something about a clock “saying” the time. Another was when someone would ask what a book was about, he would reply, “About 300 pages.”)

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  9. And since I seem to be getting off-topic, here’s another:

    First Arrow had a joke book years ago. One of the jokes I remember was this:

    Teacher: “Johnny, give me a sentence starting with the pronoun ‘I’.”

    Johnny: “I is . . .”

    Teacher: “No, Johnny, you would say, ‘I am . . .'”

    Johnny: “Okay. I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.”

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  10. Kizzie, I had a roommate once who had a whole string of those, including:

    “What are you up to?”

    “Five foot six.”

    Yesterday in the grocery store, my husband was buying a bottle of wine, and the young cashier asked, “Do you have your ID?” He answered the question with a simple “Yes.” (But then he showed his ID to the manager, who came over because the cashier was underage.)

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  16. I saw my son in law and he invited me to family dinner tonight. Yippee. It has been months since I have been to one. Maybe I will get grandson to play badminton. In fact, I am thinking of taking my three racquets back to Ukarumpa.

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  19. We are expecting rain tomorrow but for today, when the sun comes up there will be nothing but sunshine for a while. I had to break ice on the water troughs today though.

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  20. As I was leaving Bible study today, the leader asked to speak to me. She asked if I would do the opening devotion. She means what she does each week for the entire group of ladies. She speaks for 30 minutes. I felt that I had to say yes. I have no idea, but God does. If He provided the opportunity, then He will give the message.
    Scary

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  24. Through the night God has given me lots of ideas. We will see. Romans 5 seems to go with James 1. Hmmm… will I go through a time of considering it all joy when I encounter various troubles???

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  26. Jo, 3rd Arrow is going to try sending the picture from her gmail account. OK, she just clicked “Send,” and it’s in her “Sent” section now. Let me know if everything comes through okay, or if it doesn’t. Thanks. 🙂

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  28. Thanks so much, Six, that is a great picture and much better than the one on my camera.
    That is funny, I am sitting here doing Bible study and heard my computer ding, so I saw it at the same time it was sent. Almost like talking in real time!!

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  31. You’re sweet, Jo. I don’t think I ever look good in any picture. 😉

    I have more I’ll say later, but I’ve gotta run to rehearsal very shortly. —> Go, go, go!

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  32. Jo, we’ll see if we can get the picture enlarged somehow. Probably won’t have time to experiment with it until Sunday, though — we’ve got a really busy couple days ahead.

    To be continued . . . 😉

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  33. Good morning. Still too dark out to do chores. I wonder when the time changes.

    No punching holes yesterday. We just took an hour and a half drive there and again back home for an eight minute encounter with an eye doctor who said the same thing as mine only less because he asked what my doc had said and it was the same refrain he would have given. I will have to go back two more times. I suppose it is a good idea, but seems like such a waste of time. I could be my cynical self and say it is their way of making money but it is time to go look at the other thread.

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  35. Jo, @5:52 pm yesterday — I’d rather not be up on the header by myself, since we were both part of the meet-up. We need your lovely presence gracing the image. 🙂

    Thanks for sending my daughter the solo pic you have of me. She forwarded me your email, and when she gets home, I’ll try to coordinate with her to get the solo pic I have of you sent to your email, too. Technology is oftentimes so baffling to me!

    I think you’re right that our meet-up picture is probably too small to post. Third Arrow doesn’t think it can be enlarged. (Or maybe it can, but it might come out too pixelated? I don’t know.) Maybe First Arrow could help enlarge it effectively and get it sent to you. I’ll ask him next time he’s home (around Thanksgiving).

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  37. It was a lovely drive. And while husband ran in here and there to do a little shopping, the entourage and I sat out in the van and I read to them from some books written by children survivors of the holocaust and we had some discussion. The conversation continued out in the hot tub as we discussed any similarities we could find between turning the Jewish boats away on American shores seventy five years ago and turning Muslim applicants down or shutting out people from the southern border.

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  38. I am surprised that that picture is so small. My phone takes them at 2mb or os, almost 10 times as large as that one. Maybe forwarding it from one to the other made it smaller. Go back to the original and see what size it is.

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  40. Jo, I found file size information for the pics on my phone. (Didn’t know I could even determine such a thing.) The picture of the two of us is 807.76 KB. The one I have of just you is 890.11 KB. I have no idea why the 37 pictures on my phone are all different sizes (although they all have the same resolution: 1600×1200), but all but about two or three of them are sized in the KBs, and the others are barely 1 MB (one’s 1.05, one’s 1.02, and I don’t remember if there are any other MBs). There doesn’t appear to be a way to change the file size, either, that I can see, although there are still a lot of functions on my “dumb” phone that I don’t know how to use, and probably stuff I don’t even know is there.

    I’m afraid of accidentally deleting the pictures I do have if I start dinging around too much. That would be about my speed. And the phone’s user guide tells me next to nothing, so no help there.

    I think happy memories of the day and tiny pictures from/on my phone will have to suffice. 😉

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  42. With my phone or computer, when I want to email a photo, it asks what size and I always click the box to say send it fullsize. One of your arrows should be able to show you how to send it fullsize.

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  45. Jo, I just tried sending a picture message from my phone to your phone. I didn’t see any “fullsize” option. Let me know if anything usable came through. I’ll ask an arrow if that didn’t help. Or try to learn to do more things with my phone…

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  52. Jo, yeah, that one is labeled 890.11 KB, whereas the one with the two of us is only 807.76 KB. I can’t figure out why my phone pics are all different sizes. Maybe because the one of just you is more of a close-up shot than the one of the both of us? I can see a little bit of our skirts in the duo pic, but not at all in the one of just you. Maybe we should have had the person who took our picture stand closer to us?

    How about you fly back out here and we try again? 🙂

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  54. Kind of fun to see all these different conversations on pictures, spam folders, 5000 comments…

    I had to laugh at the juxtaposition of Mumsee’s 9:58 a.m. “…So, Jo, I am just spam now?” with Kizzie’s 11:07 a.m. “Oh, yes…” 😀

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  55. I am behind on the daily and news threads, with the rehearsals and other things I had going on last week before my accompanying gig two days ago. I’ve been skimming the daily thread to see if a Six or 6 pops out at me — to see if I need to answer anyone — but I haven’t read anything else carefully. Maybe I will catch up this week, barring unforeseen busyness, but it has been nice staying with this thread, even if I don’t always comment.

    I too hope to get to 5000. Who knows, maybe it’ll happen right on the third birthday!

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  57. Prayers appreciated as I m giving the opening t the women’s bible study tomorrow morning. I am going to use powerpoint to show where I am and my school nd then talk about some verses in Romans 5. We will see…..
    cn you tell which letter on my keyboard is still giving me trouble??

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  65. okay, here is the story. I had to go to the emergency room for malaria. funny, but they recommended that I take the meds I already had. The bill for one evening was over 1800. I asked about lowering the bill. They told me that I had to apply for welfare. What they needed was a letter of denial for welfare. In other words they needed to know that I did not qualify for welfare. It took me three months as there was lots of paperwork. I finally got the letter of denial and took it to the hospital. She lowered my bill by 80% and I paid it right then.
    So, ask questions about how they can lower the bill for what insurance does not cover. The life insurance is for you, not for the hospital.

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  66. Thanks, Jo. Fortunately, there have actually been few bills. The hospital bill was completely paid by his insurance, which was such a blessing to see. (It was over $115,000!)

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  69. I don’t do much in the way of gifts for my grandkids, mostly books.
    But yesterday when I was in Kohls, I remembered that years ago they had clothes for little girls with a matching outfit for their dolls. So three little girls are going to be happy. I actually called my daughter to ask here and she said to send her a picture, so I did. What a techno thing for me to do. We chose two matching outfits as she says her girls love to match.

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  72. My sister and I often had outfits that matches each other–sometimes identical, sometimes just similar colors and styles. We would have loved matching doll outfits!

    The disadvantage of matching outfits went to my sister: She often got my hand-me-downs. With matching outfits she wore hers until she outgrew it and then she got mine, and for all I know she might have sometimes been tired of it by then! It didn’t occur to me until I was an adult that Mom didn’t buy “matching outfits,” but the same item in two different sizes. Oh, yeah!

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  73. My brother and I wore matching outfits. And matching hairstyles. I have a picture in my photo album of the two of us in our red and white striped Tshirts and cut offs. It is fun to ask the children which is which because we were quite similar. It was very rare for us to go buy clothes so I remember well when those shirts were purchased. I told my mom I wanted one just like my brother and we waited in the car and she came back with them. How exciting! Not certain he felt the same way about his tagalong little sister but he moved on and so did I.

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  74. I liked to dress Nightingale & Chickadee in matching or similar dresses or outfits for church or special occasions. For a little while, they had matching (same dress in different sizes, as Cheryl mentioned) sailor dresses, white with largish navy blue polka dots, with red bows at the collar. And I had a navy blue dress with white polka dots, & a red bow at the collar. I loved for the three of us to wear our similar dresses together.

    Even when we didn’t have matching or similar styles, I liked to color coordinate our clothes as much as possible. (Again, for church or special occasions, not everyday wear.)

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  75. One day when I was a teenager we were getting ready to leave for church and I noticed most of the family was wearing green (my favorite color but not the most common color in clothing); Dad was the only exception, and I knew he owned a pale-green dress shirt. (It was my favorite of his shirts, and at my suggestion the one in which he was buried.) I suggested he go change and put on his green shirt, and others in the family chimed in, and so he did.

    On the way to church, Mom realized it was February 17. She was afraid others at church might think we mistakenly thought it was St Patrick’s Day, and she was horrified. (Far from wearing green for St Patrick’s Day, we were forbidden to do so, which was hard for me since not only was it my favorite color, but one of my two pairs of pants was green, and I had one or two green tops. I had to work to avoid green when I would actually rather wear it and avoid having my arm get sore from pinching!)

    Perhaps I wouldn’t even remember the day we all wore green to church except for Mom’s horror, but her knowledge that it was too late to go back and change.

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  76. One day as we left the house, on the way to church, I noticed that Hubby was wearing a shirt with camo sleeves, & I was wearing an animal print top. I pointed that out to him.

    “Don’t worry, I won’t shoot you,” he quipped.

    “I appreciate that,” I replied. 🙂

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  80. Off this morning to try again to get the eye punctured. Not wanting to get husband out but he says he is fine. He appears to be fighting pneumonia again. He took daughter to her appt yesterday and the doc prescribed a z pac for him.

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  84. Sixth Arrow had a bluish-purple dress with flowers on it that fit her when she was about five. I have a dress with very similar colors, and we’d sometimes wear those dresses the same day, both of us enjoying that.

    I don’t recall any other instances of my purposely wearing matching clothes with anyone else — daughters, sisters, mother — or dressing my children in similar outfits. It’s kind of fun, though, when several of us wind up unintentionally choosing the same colors for the day. A neat coincidence that makes us smile. 🙂

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  85. Well, that eye is done. It was more uncomfortable than I had anticipated but only short term. It seemed like he made about five shots, I hope whatever he did worked! Back again maybe next week for the other eye. Amazing how many people are having eye surgery of one sort or another. Modern technology and medicine….

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  89. Praying for you six. I am so glad that you are sharing on here. I have been in that place and felt that I had no one to talk to. Just talk it out and wait on Him. He has it in His hands.

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  90. Thank you, Jo, for being willing to listen, advise, and pray. I’ve been pondering Proverbs 11:14 today:

    Where there is no counsel, the people fall;
    But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

    Thank you for serving in my multitude. 🙂 I so appreciate your words of sisterly encouragement.

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  94. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Though sixteen year old wants the device I confiscated last week. The illegal one he had for three weeks before I found it. I explained that since I have been unable to remove the porn on it, he is not getting it back at least until I get the tech teacher to help me clean it up.

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  96. Six, I think you need to somehow let your partner know what you did with the funds. It will blow up. I needed to take care once and cancelled a credit card that had been mine and he was added. I was advised to let him know that I had done it.

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  97. I was thinking that same thing last night, Jo.

    It is interesting the journey on which the Spirit takes me. He doesn’t provide all the answers all at once. Maybe to show how to keep trusting every single step along the way? Thursday was when I first understood I needed to move the funds elsewhere, but I didn’t act because I sensed Him saying, sit tight where you are for now.

    Does God ever do that (say “This is my will, but don’t carry it out yet?”) Maybe I’m confused. But I’ve always heard of the concept of following God’s will in his perfect timing. There’s a time element involved, in my understanding. But is it always to be right now when the move is made clear?

    Anyway, I didn’t act on Thursday, or even Friday morning, but Friday afternoon I did.

    Then Friday night it came to me (from the Spirit? I think so, and your thoughts seem to confirm it) that I should tell him before he learns it on his own.

    Pray that I’ll hear clearly and respond accordingly and at the proper time.

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  98. When I knew that something was happening in my marriage, I went right to the pastor and elders for advice and counsel. I still feel that they are my protection. You need someone there backing you up and caring for you.

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  100. Jo, you are blessed that your pastor and elders offered protection, backup, and care. That is not always the case when a vulnerable woman seeks such from church leadership.

    That was going to be my next move — talk to one of our pastors, hoping that he would listen and provide help in some way — if the funds conversation didn’t go well this time around. I’m praising God that it did, but will not hesitate to bring my concerns to our pastor if communication or other situations at home break down in the future.

    Thank you for your past and continued prayers, ladies.

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  111. What are you doing for tomorrow, Jo? Others? We are doing the same thing we do everyday. Sitting around eating and talking and feeding animals and cleaning…..and thanking God for the very breath we breathe.

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  113. We’ll be having a brunch instead of a dinner. Then the rest of the family will scatter, & I will have time alone to relax, & to have some private time to grieve a bit.

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  114. Enjoy the trek to 5,000 and to the third anniversary of the “secret room,” all who are reading here. I’m taking another break from the blog. There are so many things going on right now in my life, and, like my student and I discussed tonight, there is such a thing as going wide, and such a thing as going deep, but it’s impossible to do both in a big way. There just are not enough hours in the day. So I’m taking my own advice and paring back, at least while I’m preparing for the Christmas piano concert, interviewing potential new students, and (if the adult who has indicated an interest in starting piano study signs up with me) writing my own adult beginner piano method. There just isn’t a very good one out there for adults at the very beginning of their piano journey that I can find, so I plan to create my own to fill in the gaps around the supplements I have that are appropriate for adults, but not complete in themselves. That is, if she enrolls, and I think she will.

    And that, of course, only covers my musical life. It is a small part compared to family life.

    Blessings to you, grace and peace. I’ll remember you in my prayers.

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  115. 6 Arrows, that sounds like something you could publish someday, since you can’t be the first person looking for such a resource!

    For Thanksgiving . . . my hubby is sick, and my sister-in-law graciously called to say she’d understand if I preferred to stay home with him so he won’t be alone on the holiday. To be honest, I’d thought about that myself. But the girls and my mother-in-law would appreciate having me there (and it’s the first major holiday season since my father-in-law died in February). I also really, really like a turkey dinner, and I already bought the fixings for the veggie tray, so I told her I assumed people would understand if I don’t stay long, knowing my husband is sick, but I’d like to see people and so I will come.

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  116. I could have slept another four hours….I stayed up until midnight, don’t laugh at me, Cheryl. Two of the growns came in last night, one not until ten. Normally, I would just have gone to bed but as I had to get eleven year old up around midnight for another breathing treatment, decided to go for it. Regrets at six this morning.

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  118. I am proud of myself. I got a new ipad when it was on sale, the mini. I hadn’t opened it, but I brought it here with me. So I opened it today. Then I went online and figured out how to save all the pictures and everything else from the old one. I really wanted all of those pictures. I only got a new one for more room for pictures.
    Then I figured out how to take everything off of the old one. So my daughter’s family has a new to them ipad. It only has 16g of memory, but my daughter said that that is all the memory she hs on her phone. The girls are happy. And they will use something called slo mo to help them practice violin.

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  123. Yes, you are. I am here. Trying to figure out how to help son. He is going to college but is unable to find a job. He started with high expectations (coming from an area where he was known and had to turn down jobs so could select, to being one student of many and not getting there early as his mom told him to do) and is suddenly without funds to even pay his ticket for inattentive driving. Help but not enable. Wisdom.

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  124. Just one month till Christmas.

    My husband and I are empty nesters, with our older daughter married and our younger living with her widowed grandmother and planning to go off for more schooling next year in another state.

    So this year I don’t want a Christmas tree. I’ve had an artificial one six years in a row, since marriage, and I don’t like artificial trees. The year before that, I was recovering from illness, and friends brought me a small (artificial) tree. I might have had a real one the year before that, but I don’t remember–in Nashville, some years I got a tree and some years I didn’t.

    But I have had artificial trees seven years in a row. A couple of years it stayed up WAY too long, because we had lots of snow on the ground and it wasn’t going to be easy to take it down and put it away, so it stayed up into February or even (one year) March. Keep in mind I pretty much only tolerate it, and also add in that having the tree means rearranging furniture–moving my favorite reading chair (it ends up no longer against the wall but out in the middle of the room and not underneath a light) and taking away the mini trampoline (in winter where I don’t get needed exercise by walking around outside).

    My mother-in-law decorates extensively. She has a much bigger house than we do, anyway, but she uses several different trees and also puts up dozens of lighted houses and lots of wreaths and such. Our daughter is living with her, so she will have lots of Christmas around here.

    Our daughter came over Thursday and she said, “Aren’t you going to decorate at all?” with a pleading voice that suggests expectation–of course we will at least put up the tree and a few other pieces, right?

    I know if I were to try to explain it to her, it would simply sound like a string of excuses. But the reality is we are not doing any Christmas gatherings over here, and I don’t want the hassle and inconvenience for a tree that I really don’t care about. It’s pretty enough to have it, but it isn’t worth rearranging stuff into inconvenience for an artificial tree.

    Also, we’ve had our house rearranged for a season to sell it–including our kitchen table set in a way that we can’t realistically eat at it (it has a tablecloth and our nice dishes), so we’ve been eating at folding tables in the living room. If the house hasn’t sold really soon, we’ll take it off the market for winter and relist in the spring . . . but for a few months I will have my house back, and I just don’t need it to contain a Christmas tree that will need to be packed away again before we start the moving packing! If she still lived here, I would put it up anyway, for her . . . but since she doesn’t live here, and her grandmother has decorated the house where she is living, I’m perfectly content that when she drops by two or three times a week, it will be to a house without a Christmas tree.

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  125. If you wanted a little touch of Christmas anyway, you could get one of those tabletop trees that are only a couple feet high. (There are real tiny trees available, not only artificial.) Then you wouldn’t have to rearrange anything, but still have some sort of Christmas tree, if you wanted.

    I am happy with our four foot tree that goes on top of the entertainment center. (I’m sure the cats would prefer one they can get to. 🙂 )

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  126. Kizzie, to be honest, this year I simply don’t care; I want simplicity. I just want a livable house, and I don’t want to have to figure out where I put the ornaments we kept. (We didn’t put the boxes back where they usually go, I don’t think, since we expected to be moved by now.) I just want a house I can live in for a few more months. We’ll watch Christmas movies and I’ll make Christmas cookies, and we’ll celebrate with family, and probably I’ll write a Christmas letter. And we’ll buy a few gifts. But I don’t really want anything that spells hassle, since we’ll be hitting the ground running on other stuff as the year starts.

    But if we didn’t have other stuff, I might well look into a small tree just to have something.

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  132. Poor mouse. Can you get him out, or does he have to die there? (And then you would have that lovely smell of decomposing mouse in your house.)

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  134. I took the screens off and we attached a large garbage bag over the hole. We left it alone for a while and when we came back, the mouse had come down onto the edge of the splash guard behind the stove. I picked him up in my bag covered hand and disposed of him. Ick.

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  137. I killed it.

    We are trying to help the neighbors get moved out by tomorrow night. They are an older couple and the wheels fell off of her this past summer. She flipped her car and sustained a head injury and lost the use of her arm, so it has been tough going for them. They are moving into a motor home in a campground.

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  140. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. I have been having a nice visit with nineteen year old, we needed this time. She will be here another week, if her plan holds out.

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  143. Still trying to figure out what to do with the end tables and coffee tables I bought. One friend is keeping the largest piece. Just realized that my sister who lives here just added on a family room. Not sure if she has any furniture yet. Maybe… she would be blessed to keep my things for a few years. It is all sheetrocked and they are ready to tape and texture, so almost done.

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  162. Sixteen year old got a letter from his bio grandmother yesterday, with our permission and at our suggestion. We will now wait to see if it is a help or a hindrance to him. I, of course, read the letter before giving it to him and read his reply before letting him put it in the envelope. He did an excellent job of writing a newsy letter, legibly and with questions about her as well. There is hope.

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  164. I’m sorry December is a hard month for you, Jo. It is my favorite month of the year, as I love the Christmas season. I think I love the Christmas season even more than the actual Christmas day.

    Even this year, with grieving the loss of my beloved, I am still enjoying the beginning of the season. I think that if Hubby had been big on this time of year, I’d probably be having a harder time of it, but as I mentioned a while back, he was a bit of a curmudgeon about Christmas.

    But yes, I do miss my curmudgeon even as I allow myself to enjoy Christmastime.

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  175. Thanks, and a new day begins. Husband is taking nineteen year old and eleven and ten to Lewiston for winter tires and oil change and Christmas shopping. Leaves me with the two sixteens so I can focus on that and not worry about how it is affecting the younger ones. Nineteen offered to stay but I do this regularly so should be fine. I just am concerned for the impact on the smaller ones. Though it is neat to see how Tony translates things into the spiritual and gives a biblical response to the comments.

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  176. so, a day with less stress for you, good
    I took my friend with me to walmart after getting a neighbor to jump start the van. It took over two hours for them to put a new battery in the van. We did some shopping, but mostly waited.

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  183. My friend just left. My battery died in my van and we spent yesterday at Walmart, an hour drive away, getting a new battery. Only to learn I could have gotten it in town. Oh, well, we had a good visit and caught up with each other. Nice to have the house quiet for a day until friends from Ukarumpa come tomorrow. I am going to make lasagna, which I haven’t made in years.

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  184. He said he did. Knowing son, he was just making a power play. I can get you to do what I want you to do sort of thing. He did it to my son in law years ago. SIL felt sorry for him as he was struggling with his grammar in homeschool. He went over and patiently explained it to him, left him to do the work, returned to check and son had done nothing. SIL realized he had been played. That is how son works. Which is why the school now lets him on the computer only when a teacher is within three feet of him, eyes on the screen. Makes for a boring teacher day. His Spanish class, which he has an F in, is a distance learning course so he has to be on the computer. A special teacher has been assigned to stand and look over his shoulder the entire hour. Son is allowed to redo each lesson as many times as needed but won’t.

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  185. How did the lasagna turn out? I like lasagna but have not made it in years. One of our sons liked making lasagna and did an excellent job but he moved out a couple of years ago. So no lasagna lately.

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  186. It is in the frig for tonight as they had to go get tires and got back late. We will see. I did get it done, though.
    I think we all are hesitant to post as we are getting close to a magic number. What day will we chose to reach that number???

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  197. Okay, so I went back to the start of this thread to verify something. Some of you make an issue when an “outsider” intrudes on your conversation here, especially to claim a certain number. So if you go back to page 1 of this thread, you’ll see that I was one of a few, along with mumsee and Donna, who got this thread past 200. And it was the beginning of the LA dog park cold.

    You’re welcome.

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  198. Thank you Peter L, I have always considered you one of us. The fact that you don’t just step in for the certain numbers says that. You check on us periodically as a good brother should.

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  199. Friends left this morning. I just went over to help decorate for a party this afternoon. I should have gone sooner, but needed a bit of alone time. I was especially invited to this party for the 80 and 90 year old Sunday school class. They are such precious folks.

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