Thanksgiving

Today and everyday I am thankful for family. Even though we are many miles apart we still call each other when having struggles, joy, sadness or to even just ask for a recipe or two or how to do this or how to do that. This draw us closer together as a family. I am thankful for the phone calls and emails.

Trink

My sister, Marylin, was went out to her barn Thursday to feed her goats,horse,donkey etc.. and the little dog, Trink, followed her out their like he always does. Marylin got busy and noticed he was missing and she looked and looked for him and couldn't find him. He was never one to wander off. He always stayed close by. Mike cancelled his afternoon session of patients and went home to try and find him, but they never found him. He was about 15 years old,senile,deaf and had bad vision. His breed is a Pappian (not sure of the spelling) which is a real small dog. Marylin thinks a hawk may have gotten him. But she didn't hear anything. The only thing I can think of is he may have crawled off to die. Dogs do that you know. It still breaks my heart thinking about it. Mike and Marylin are just devistated. Life goes on, as it should. I love doggies. You all better be ready for a bunch of tears when its time for Lucy and Brittany to go. I already told Larry I wants a puppy when they are in their old age.

Update

As most of you know our basement flooded twice when we had the rainstorms a couple of weeks ago. We lost a lot of stuff when this happened, but nothing of any real value. As it turned out we have really good house insurance so we received a pretty good settlement. Our house needs so many repairs. We had already planned on having the Central Air conditioner replaced. So we started trying to save money. It was a struggle, but we have paid cash for it. Unfortunatly, we have been in need of a roof repair for quite sometime. We deceided to have this done with the settlement from the flood. Kevin called Larry and discussed him come out from Pennsylvania to do the whole roof with a buddy. Of, course we took him up on his offer. Sometime soon I will get to have the Hurst family for a whole week! Lesley, Kevin and Michayala. Erica and Aaron and the Granddogs are coming for one of the weekends while they are here. Yipee!!!!
We want to go see SallyRose and the kids, but its hard to plan with all that has happened and all that is going on. She is helping with her dad too right now and she needs to spend as much time with him that she can due to his illness.

I've been trying to have a garage sale, too! I had it all set up on the day we got the flood water. It's still set up in my garage. I'm going to try to have it this weekend. Of course I've added a lot more stuff to it, since we had to clean out the basement.

Just thought I would do an update.