Susan - Well at least your have ruled out thyroid and lung issues so that is a good thing. I am praising God for this information. I am preparing for our guests and you are cleaning up after yours. Ether way, cleaning is necessary. I pray that the angiogram gets scheduled soon! The one I had was not pleasant but it was accurate in diagnosing the chest pain I had when I was still working. With less stress, the pains have disappeared.

Barb - I have already had my blood work done, and the levels have gotten worse. I am waiting now to get an ultrasound of my liver scheduled. If I do not hear from the hospital tomorrow, I will call them to see if the doctor sent the message to them. It is hard that we live so far away from the doctor office it can get complicated. The office is not used to working with a different hospital. Your gorgeous pictures make me wish I were able to travel with you. Do they flowers have a sweet smell? Continuing to pray for your safe travels.

Judith - yes the weather has been a bit strange. I was talking to a friend who lives higher up in the mountains and she said they have had hardly any snow this year. Last year February was their snowiest month but February and March have been very mild this year.

Hello all. Card class went well and the hearing aid worked fine. I can almost ignore it now. I'd say I have adapted to it. Thanks for asking, everyone.

Judith, MFP seems to have more glitches than ever. I see Linda posted just before you. I hope you had quality sleep last night. My friends got home safely and they are both so used to driving, they didn't mention finding it difficult to each drive a car. Yes, the heart hospital is far from us. Our local hospital does little more than first aid, but we're glad it is there. Many hospitals seem to specialise here.

Linda, glad your chest pain has subsided after leaving work. Too much stress does many bad things to us. Colin had one Angiogram in 2011, and it revealed the problem he had back then. He is hoping the same result will happen this time.

Barb, you sure are having a good trip. I'm glad you are seeing so many flowers.

Here's some card class pictures for you.

Linda. I hope you hear soon. Prayers for you & your thyroid.
Younsound very busy with all the cleaning should make for a good night sleep.

Susan. Your cards are completely. Still praying got Colin. I hope you get info about his heart and all. Prayers & wisdom for drs too.

Judith Praying for you. I hope you got some rest.tody was a car du. We met our son at. Restaurant. Their choice. Took long time to take our order & get our forced not much walking today. I can’t my she outfitter eat for motel & so not sure what I’ll get done with my cell. My iPad won’t work without the internet.

So I got them the resurrection hugs for Easter. It’s a good way to reinforce what Christ did for us. Eli is almost 11 & Kaelyn will be 13 on May Day. They are oldest grandkids

Hope all is well with you all. Love & prayers.

Yes, Judith, I am the same with the new catalogue! Now SU is putting loads of their new stuff online though. Every month they release new things. I have to remember to check there each month. Oh, wouldn't it be great to get to craft together! I didn't know if your hospitals would specialise too. It makes sense, only paying to have certain specialists in each region once, I guess. We are still waiting for Colin to be contacted. We were warned it would be a long wait. Happy spring. The warmth will surely work it's way north if there are daffodils in Arkansas! Meanwhile, autumn started March 1st here but it is still hot and humid so far.

Barb, glad you liked the cards. A lot of them were made in class with the women putting their own spin on my designs and kits. They usually have an idea about who they are sending the cards to. Yes, we're hoping to get that Angiogram appointment soon for Colin too. 🙏 Your trip and getting to see your family sounds like such a blessing!

Linda, I am really sorry to hear your liver is worse. I sure hope they can help you reverse that. The liver is pretty amazing and can recover, right? Praying for you. Yes, the gifts from OnStage are pretty practical. They were mostly new products from the new, unpublished catalogue. I'll be able to make new samples and kits for classes with them. The swaps I got have already inspired a few new designs. Other crafters are just so clever at thinking up new ways to make cards. Since I run four card classes a month and do make cards for family and friends, I love all the new inspiration. All of my students send the cards they make. They usually think about who is going to get their cards made in class while they are making them. All this and chatting too!

I have plans to make Inara a 3yo birthday card, wash and clip a dog and get hymns ready to be played at church tomorrow. Have good days, everyone!

It has been a week since I talked to my doctor about getting my ultrasound done. He said he would send the order over that day and I would be hearing from the hospital soon. I talked to the hospital today and they said they did not have anything ordered yet. I left a message with the doctor and guess what?? Within an hour the hospital was notifying me that they had the order. I guess he forgot to send it or sent it to the wrong hospital. Anyway they can not get me in until the 28th so it will be another week before I get the ultrasound of my whole abdomen. I am glad they are doing the whole thing because in the back of my mind, I have the idea that the kidney cancer has come back and has gone to my liver. I am fighting that thought with prayer and scripture reading. Just because it happened to our professor friend last year does not mean it will happen to me!!

Barb - love the pictures again. Harry looks very short next to the Azaleas but I know that they are very tall so it only makes him look short. You have covered a lot of miles visiting family and sightseeing. Are you sad that it is coming to an end? As you said you need to get back home to take care of your house and Harry needs to go back to work. A house a little ways from us has a lot of daffodils blooming along her fence. I am so glad to see them and know that spring is here although we have been having low temperatures near or below freezing here. I had to Google what a resurrection egg was. Those are a great tool to use to teach this story to the children. Do you put the items in a plastic easter egg or what? I first was thinking about blowing out the inside of a read egg to fill it but realized the items inside would not fit in the small hole in a blown out egg.

Susan - yes the liver can heal and regenerate. The problem is that we do not know at this time what is causing the damage in the first place so I can stop it. Hopefully we will get some answers with the ultrasound. Stamping Up sounds that a great group. You said that they are putting things online so I will need to check out the prices to see if I can afford it. I have been thinking about it but forget easily until you show the pictures of the cards and then I remember.

Judith - our church does a mixture of hymns and new songs. I prefer the hymns but sometimes the words are really hard for the young people to understand if the song has old words and King James words. I am thinking of the song "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" that says "Here I lift my ebenezer" that is not common knowledge that the ebenezer was to Samuel his rock of hope.

Have a great weekend everyone - pleasant dreams!

Judith, I'm glad your daughter introduced you to SU and papercrafting. No, I have not attempted a family history scrapbook. Yours sounds amazing. Sounds like our hospital systems are pretty similar with their specialties and teaching.

Linda, I hope you can somehow suspend that thought about your health at least till after the exploration and diagnosis. I'm so glad you followed up with your Dr about the tests. We're only human, right? Everyone forgets things. It's good to follow up as our own Advocats. As for Stampin' Up! they have a main US website where you can search for a Demonstrator near you and ask if they hold classes. Some if my girls just pay to come to a class and don't collect craft supplies. That's gone with me, so there may be a way to have a class and ask questions too, to see if you like it.

Barb, we sing old hymns in the mornings then favourite songs at night. I mostly play flute in the morning and sing at night. The Pastor's wife chooses the hymns and I check to see if I know.them, what key they are in and I write out the order of service she sends and mark them in my hymn book with clips so I can easily turn to them. I practice them if I need to. Your pictures ate beautiful and I love all those smiling faces!

My Sunday may not involve playing glute. I got up in the dark last night and managed to run into a jutting corner of a wall. I skinned my right wrist/forearm pretty good and bruised the bone. Sigh. It sure is stiff and sore today. Glad I got Jasper groomed earlier in the day and made Inara's card. It says 'Whee! Inara's 3!' instead of 'Happy Birthday '.

Before and after pics of Jasper taken in dififferent lights. He is browner than the photo on the right shows.

Inara's card. She loves Jasper and I had a banjo playing dog stamp. I coloured him brown. He isn't Jasper but it was something I could fo with him in mind!

Good night all. We made it to Andover to be with our daughter, Elisabeth’s family. Tomorrow church & home we go. Then unpack go through mail & get ready for a busy week.
in time I’ll get windows washed maybe by May.

Linda prayers for you. So glad you got an appointment. 3/28 will be here before we know it. Prayers it’s not anything that is from your kidney cancer. I didn’t know you had that. How long was that? Many prayers God is in charge. So rest I. His arms.
The puffer betta sound interesting

Susan I know the hymn come thou fount too. We call the praise 7 eleven as the repeat 7 or 11 times. Plus no parts like the hymns. Which we probably sing in heaven with perfect pitch!
i forgot you play flute like my sister & my daughter Elisabeth. She plays flute too Not so much but can. I tell her autistic kids love music. So at Christmas she might with her class. Love the jacket pics.

Judith. Hope all going well. That’s neat that you do stampin up too. Your scrapbook sounds best. I’ve never done that

Working on a jacket for Mariposa. Having so issues with the hood so maybe rest & after church m, on way home I can figure it out. I made I’ve before.

Have a great Lords day tomorrow.

Our visitors came late last night and have been a delight. They are so grateful for everything we do and try to help as much as they can. They were especially impressed with the basket I have in their bathroom that is full of things a person might need like a hotel (soap, shampoo, lotion, razor, shower cap, etc.) This morning they had leave for a meeting at 7:45am so I was up very early getting breakfast. Actually, I had made a breakfast casserole so I just had to put it in the oven then provide fruit and juice to make the rest of the meal. I came home after church and took a short nap to make up for getting up so early. Tomorrow they do not have to be on campus until I believe 10 so we can have a "normal" breakfast time. I can imagine some of you thinking that the 7:15am breakfast is normal for you but I am not an early riser so getting up was hard this morning.

Barb - I had kidney cancer surgery in 2014. It certainly was God's will that they found it because there were no symptoms. The doctor found it when I went to the emergency room with severe left sided abdominal pain. They they did the CT scan to see if my appendix has ruptured, they discovered the cancer. I had my appendix removed and a month later (they had scheduling problems with the robotic machine that does the surgery) I had a partial kidney removal. The cancer was "hanging down like grapes on the tip of the kidney so they saved part of my kidney. For 5 years they watched me carefully with CT scans every other year and chest x-rays and ultrasounds the rest of the time. The ultrasound I am having on Friday will look at the whole abdomen so they will be able to check out my kidneys as well as my liver. I am praying for your travels home as well as all the preparation needed to get ready for the week coming up. I also hope that your are able to figure out the jacket for Mariposa. She is blessed to have a grandmother who can make special clothes for her.

Susan - Ouch! your arm sounds painful after hitting it on the wall. I imagine playing the flute might be hard to hold up with a bruised bone. I am still not ready to play the keyboard for church for the newer songs. It will be a while until I feel confident enough to play quickly and accurately. Having the songs ahead of time would be a big help. I don't know if the regular keyboardist has that done for her. If I would play, I would only be there if she is gone on vacation or things like that. She has her own keyboard so I would have to borrow one if I did play. Keyboards are so much lighter than my spinet piano and are easily transported. Jasper is a very handsome pup! You do a great job grooming him and his brother.

Judith - the family album sounds so special for memories. We did not take many pictures when the kids were growing up. Since it was not a digital camera, we also did not know how the pictures would turn out until we developed them and of course some were awful!! and others were cute. We did do the "My Story" book for each of them telling them about what we did as children and how things were growing up with them so we have a written history. I am not fond of having my picture taken either so I am sure if I had liked to have pictures like the young people do now with their selfies, I would have taken more of them too.

Barb, I will have to look up Resurrection Eggs too. Believe it or not, when I shop for Christian things, I often order from christianbook.com as they ship overseas. Once they sent my box to Austria though, instead of to Australia. I knew by the post office stamps and redirection notices, plus it took a very long time to get here! Lol! Welcome back home. I think I broke my little toe about the same time as you. It's still a little sore but not too bad now. As for my arm, unfortunately I got a skin tear as well as a bruised bone. The wound hasn't closed yet and this is the third day. Colin helps me dress it as it is on my right arm/wrist and is awkward for me to dress it with my left hand. It should close up soon.

Linda, I'm so glad you have a Dr appointment for your kidneys soon. That's an answer to prayer. Yes. It is always good to know what hymns we are playing ahead of time. I sometimes listen to them on YouTube to get the timing right. Oh my. You are such a good hostess! Early breakfast would be impossible/difficult for me, too. Thank you for your compliment.pliment on Jasper's groom. I was happy with it this time. Archie remains to be washed, blow dried and clippered. Once the arm injury closes up I'll be able to do him.

Judith, it would be so nice to have family history albums. I can trace back to the 1500s on Dad's side but got stuck in the 1800s for Mom's side. One ancestor that stopped me there came from Holland, apparently, and the other I haven't been able to find a name for even using Ancestry.com and another family history site. Family can't give me any clues either. I do have a cousin in Arkansas though who may be able to help. Our great grandmother's parents lived there, and it is her parents' names who are missing. Another line was also cut at my grandfather's mother's line. I have no idea who her parents were and don't have information about her husband either. Sad! No one that I know of could help me there.

I went to Uke this morning and had a fun time. There's singing this afternoon. Meanwhile I am making a birthday card for a 10yo granddaughter and have organised my burgeoning singing music folder. We have sure sung a lot of songs in four years!

Prayers Judith with the rain. We've had wind for over a week here, and our bag is gone when we got home. The bag that was in the tree.
It was windy most of our trip too.
March is known for the wind, and we have had it.

Good morning. I am at the hearing clinic for a check up. We are supposed to have heavy rains coming for our whole state. It's cloudy and sprinkling now.

Thinking of you, Judith, as you also receive heavy rains.

Barb, glad you and Mariposa could get out and about. It sounds like a pretty walk.

Must go for now.

Susan. Prayers for you

Our Bible study was good today. We are studying Romans. So good to be back after spring break break & some cold weather.
Glad you liked the pics. Lenten rose is called Lent as it blooms near Lent. It is a Helleborus family. I ,earned that today.
Yes I’m gettin more mouth sores. So glad they don’t hurt. I have birth pain as I had a twist in my colon & felt nothing. I fainted at work & they I discovered that so I had 6” removed from my colon. God used the fainting to save me since I had no pain or symptoms.
Bua, neighbor I’m witnessing to, had the sores from citrus so I’m going to try that hard as soon as many foods have tomatoes & I like to grow them. Hers was due to lack of sleep & water. I’m drink lots of water & haven’t been eating much citrus foods but know I could do better. I am also,stopping the new eye meds I’m on. Maybe the stress with the hood I am knitting is causing the sores with citrus foods? Just praying good help me figure it out.

Linda. Sorry about the deaths. We have a funeral Saturday, which I will help,with & make a dessert for the meal we will have for the family. I’ll help with serving them too.
that is neat that your grand daughter will attend Fort Collins. We’ve been there quite a bit as close to son when they lived in Laramie, Wyoming. Just south of them. Now they live in Branson, MO.

Judith. I hope no damage at your place & the rain stopped. We ,Amy have rain & some cold temps this weekend. Oh well. Need rain to help the weeds I always say. Sure wish I could get rid, of the weeds but somehow they pop up, all the time.

Susan. Prayers for your arm and I hope you don’t have a lot of rain that you heard youn any have. How did you make out at the hearing clinic? Any news on Colin with his heart? Prayers.
My toe is slowly losing the red now pink & swelling it may take 2 months or more. It will be 2 months April 6.