IT'S PAINT DAY!

It has been far too long since I last wrote in here. A week ago Wed. I promised myself I would get to it at least every other day but as you can see I just didn't.

We are ushering at church the last half of the month and that means I bake, bake, bake and of course eat, eat, eat. I am putting on weight at an alarming rate and that will come to a screeching halt now that I am having surgery next Tue.

We had WELCA (my Mom called it Ladies Aid) last Wed. and I made a new recipe and have to get it to Mac. I think he will like it. Pineapple Pepper Chicken. They raved about it at church but they like almost anything that is in the food family. They are such a great bunch of people. We had at least 13 women and we finished our last lesson in our Heaven bible study series.

I had my pre-op physical last Tue., the same day as Alexis having her MRI. What a pair we are. I don't know what we would do without Skye, the only one of us girls with a whole body.
Since I am going to be in the bedroom for awhile after surgery I decided the last room in the house that needed painting was going to get it this week. We started last night, I have had the paint for two years. It's Forest Ridge. Kind of looks like the inside of a pine forest, all green and dark. I must have a thing about green and have alot of green in the house. Jim and I have to repaint the dining room and hall this spring but I don't dare tell him about it now. He worked so hard on it and as I grabbed the wrong can of paint, it's not the right color, just a little darker that I wanted but in haste I made a mistake, that's what I get for having so many shades of green in the house. It was a comedy and we laffed alot. I am doing the trim and Jim is rolling his little heart out. As he always says, "we make a pretty good team, don't we" and yes we do.
We ran out, used up a gallon already and have to run to Home Depot this morning and get another gallon.

We also have grocery shopping to do, but I want to get home to finish up the painting and maybe Jim and Leon, (our neighbor) can get the hospital bed from Gordy and June's and we plan on putting it in the bedroom next to our bed. What a crowded room that will be but it will be nice to have a hospital bed for my recovery. Jim mentioned how will it go with having him and the two dogs with me in our bed while I am recovering and I said let's get the hospital bed back from the neighbor. Good idea.

I am also excited about Grandma Lil's care. I have been working with Deerwood Home Care and they bumbed her up from 18 hours to 31 hours a week. I can have someone come in 5 days a week in the morning and get her washed up and going for the day. She loves playing "Go Fish" with Scarlett and Louana. Louana sure makes her laugh, and she makes incrediable mango salsa. I have tried but it fell short. Skip the corn and get more peppers in it I think.

Here it is Friday morning at 5:15, Jim and I have been up since 3:15, are we nuts or what. Grandma just peaked her head out and I am going to get her going so we can take off for Grand Rapids. Wonder if we will see any deer on the road. We have had up to 5 at our feeder at a time this winter. They have such cute little horns.

I should have Jeff hunt here, he would get a deer but shooting one at the feeder might take the sport out of it. Heck it's meat.

We are almost done with out case of meat we purchased from North Star Meats, now that was a mistake. Some of it was downright awful. We won't go outside our meat market again but we had to try it.

Can't wait to get the bedroom done.