IT'S SPRING!

This past week we were able to be at home and take care of some much needed chores.  We had some trees topped, we pulled up some shrubs the deer had killed during the winter (like 12 or 13), Mike got the lawn mowers ready for mowing (maybe this week), the cars are all washed, the motorcycle is on its way home, I was able to get all our tax papers ready for the accountant and our budget prepared for 2016, we even had an opportunity to sit out in the swing for a while.  It has been a busy week and a lot of things got done. 

Mama is settled pretty well in her new home.  She seems to be really enjoying it.  She gets three really good meals a day and she doesn't have to worry about taking her medicines because the nurses there give them to her.  She has no worries.  We do her laundry every week.  They do her cleaning.  Mike and I are thinking about moving in too.  (Not really) 

Right now Mike has gone to fill all the gas cans for mowing and I'm cleaning house.  Can't you tell?  Well, I did do some cleaning and now I'm taking a break. 

I'm so happy that spring is here even though you can't tell it by the cold.  Yuck!  Come on warmer weather. 

Our peach trees in bloom.  They're just miniature peach trees that produce peaches but not edible peaches.  During the summer months, they just have pretty green leaves all over.  But for now, they're beautiful.  That's all we have blooming except for the buttercups at the edge of the woods. 

Yes, this week is starting out nice.  I don't even have a headache.  That's rare.  I've had a headache every day since we got home.  Some really bad ones too.  But we take the good with the bad.  We had to leave the sun and warm temperatures early to come home to help with Mama.  But now she is in a good place and she is doing well.  God is always at work in everything to conform us to Christ's image.  (I got that out of Charles Stanley's book)  It's the truth, though.  God works all bad things for good for those who love the Lord. We just heard from one of our friends in Punta Gorda that something bad happened in the RV park we were in that has caused a lot of people to not go back next year.  We don't know what that something was but the Lord brought us home early.  We missed the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing.  Thank you, Lord.  If we hadn't come back when we did, that opening at Richland Place may have been taken and Mama may not have gotten to move in and she needs this place.  It's good for her. 

We never know what the big picture is but God does.  We may be sad because we are made to do something not in our plans but God may be protecting us from something we'd rather not go through.  He is always at work in our lives and I need to keep my focus on Him more.   

Well, that's all for now . . .