THE END TO A TEXAS SUMMER!

The horses moved on and the fawns mother came and got him.....All was well!

SEPTEMBER HAS BEEN ANOTHER HECTIC MONTH FOR ME AND MINE:

1. Three Doctors appointments;
2. A trip to my Moms;
3. A visit with the grandson;
4. Started walking three to four
miles a day at a gym six miles away.
5. My Mom turns 97 Oct. 29th, and went into the hospital for the
second time in her life yesterday afternoon.
She is fine except my Brother and I want to
get her into assisted living. The doctors are
helping us. She just can't stay alone anymore...
This is going to be a hard thing to do. Please pray
for us all. She has started falling, and refuses
Home Health Care. She does'nt want to take money from
Medicare when she says she does'nt need it. She cooked for
the nurses they sent out......

I pray October will be better for us all....and that my Mom will not hate my brother and I. She's a stinker, and has always bullied us, and let us know she was in control.....She has a terrible temper.

The last thing my Daddy told me was to let her have her way. That was almost 42 years ago.

She refuses to give an inch, and the Doctors and Nurses have told my brother not to worry. She's in Scott and White in Temple. They have said to take one day at a time with her. She will be told she is going into assisted living for two weeks only. Then we go from there.

My brothers wife, has cancer and she is in remission. She is my hero. Their kids are in Vet school at Texas A & M. They come home on the weekends when they can. The oldest graduates in May, and the youngest is a Junior in Vet School.

My kids live away from her, and call her often, and I'm 300 miles from her. I can't leave my hubby by himself. He is having trouble with his heart again.

I feel so helpless...I know God is in charge.....I hope I can turn it all over to him. My brother told me this afternoon, he had.... God Bless my Brother....

I look at my children, I say to myself ~~"Lillian,
> you should have
> remained a virgin."
>
> -- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
>
> I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
> But I was not
> pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No
> good in a bed, but
> fine against a wall."
> -- Eleanor Roosevelt
>
> Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I
> had ever seen. I
> have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to
> withdraw that
> statement.
> -- Mark Twain
>
> The secret of a good sermon is to have a good
> beginning and a good
> ending;
> and to have the two as close together as possible.
> -- George Burns
>
> Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once
> a year.
> - - Victor Borge
>
> Be careful about reading health books. You may die
> of a misprint.
> -- Mark Twain
>
> By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll
> become happy; if
> you
> get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
> -- Socrates
>
> I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a
> jury.
> -- Groucho Marx
>
>
> Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
> essential food
> groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
> -- Alex Levine
>
> I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon.
> Then it's time for my nap.
> -- Bob Hope
>
> I never drink water because of the disgusting things
> that fish do in
> it.
> -- W.C. Fields
>
> We could certainly slow the aging process down if it
> had to work its
> way
> through Congress.
> -- Will Rogers
>
> Don't worry about avoiding temptation as you grow
> older; it will avoid
> you.
> -- Winston Churchill
>
> Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty, but
> everything else starts
> to
> wear out, fall out, or spread out.
> -- Phyllis Diller
>
> By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step,
> he's too old to go
> anywhere.
> -- Billy Crystal
>
> The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it
> out.
>
> Give me a sense of humor, Lord;
> Give me the grace to see a joke,
> To get some humor out of life,
> And pass it on to other folk.
> Amen!
>
>

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone.
He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the
blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot
cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must
come into manhood on his own.

The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild
beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him
harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat
stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he
could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his
blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump
next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son
from harm.

We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, our Heavenly Father
is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes,
all we have to do is reach out to Him.

My 96.11 year old Mom was humming this song when we went home!

I was 20 when my Dad died. I think I make her remember him more than usual. Dad and I were very, very close!



I feel so close to my Dad when I go home. Mom still lives in the same house they built seven years before he died.

Ramblings of a Retired Mind

I was thinking about how a status symbol of today is those cell phones
that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse. I can't afford one. So,
I'm wearing my garage door opener.

You know, I spent a fortune on deodorant before I realized that people
didn't like me anyway.

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on
beer cans!

I was thinking about old age and decided that old age is 'when you still
have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.'

I thought about making a fitness movie, for folks my age, and call it
"Pumping Rust."

I have gotten that dreaded furniture disease. That's when your chest is
falling into your drawers!

I know, when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have
you got a cat?" Just once I want to say, "No, it's for company!"

Employment application blanks always ask 'who is to be notified in case
of an emergency.' I think you should write , "A Good Doctor!"

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we
supposed to do.. write to these men? Why don't they just put their
pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they deliver the mail? Or better yet, arrest them while they are taking their pictures!

I've come to realize that the secret to a happy life is not looking
like Barbie or Ken and suffering through tofu and rice cakes to stay
that way! It's eating chocolate, staying chunky, and explaining that you're really a perfect size 6, but you keep it covered with fat so it doesn't get scratched!

Just once, when someone says "How are you" (without really wanting
to know), I'd like to say "Well, I can't keep my teeth in, I wet on
myself every time I laugh, my hair is falling out, I cannot see where the heck I'm going most of the time, my back hurts, and I pass gas every time I sneeze (and feel like sneezing right now)! I'll bet that'd cure 'em from asking again!

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then, it dawned on me, they were cramming for their finals. As for me, I'm just hoping God grades on the curve.