Good Morning. I'm on my fourth load of clothes in the washer and just changed our sheets. We offered to wash for everyone today as the kids are moving all their furniture to the storage unit. Our other son, Nathan, and his family are helping with the move. We are exempted from lifting due to age and disability. Yesterday Inara got a pretty good report at the Paediatrician's. Her speech and maturity have been affected by her lack of hearing from day 1. With some speech therapy and time, she will catch up. We're very thankful for the fact that there was no other diagnosis (ADHD, Autism etc). Everyone was very relieved about that. Inara is slowly adjusting to staying with us, and the dogs are getting better daily too.

Thank you all for understanding about how much busier our lives will be for awhile. We'll miss them when they go, too.

Barb, glad you were able to bake an old favourite (Apple Crisp). I have never had that. I think asking if 3 can use the church gym would be great! Not crazy at all. Mariposa is shy? That surprises me, but maybe she will get more confident as she grows up. I hope so. 🙏

Judith, I was delighted to see you had a good visit with your friend and are planning more regular get togethers. It will be lovely for you both! Thankful for your appointment c9ming up and praying it will help.

Linda, those pumpkins are amazing. No one carves pumpkins much here but we have plenty of hollow plastic ones popping up in people's gardens. For our Halloween here in Australia people seem to focus more on horror. They favour more skeletons, cobwebs, giant spiders, and witches. We never have trick or treaters here at the Village. So I don't decorate. Inara has a costume to wear at kindy. I'm not sure what it will look like yet. Glad Glenn is feeling up to helping around the house. His life sure will change with his eyesight changes. Maybe he could get some technology that can read aloud to him and he could write by speaking inyo the program? My legally blind sis has some amazing tools to help her read and work. She is currently writing children's books and short stories and does create Bible studies too for the ladies group she belongs to. The Blind Society, who improve the vision impaired quality of life, has some amazing helps for her around the house and with technology. I hope he finds some ways that suit him so he can still study and write.

I better go hang sheets on the line. It's going to rain later and I want things to dry in the sun before then.

We had our soup exchange and women's devotional tonight. I took Zuppa Toscana and exchanged it for Ham and beans and Minestrone. We had to take 4 cups for people to taste and then two gallon bags full of soup to give away. It was only 8 of us but it was a fun time and now I have a variety of soups to eat. I was glad that I could ride with a friend to the house where the exchange took place. My eyesight at night is not good. I think it is my cataracts that causes the headlights to distort and my depth perception to be not as good as during the daylight.

Susan - thanks for the ideas about what to do when Glenn needs help reading. Right now, the books he likes to read are not available because they are very scholarly and there is not much demand for them as audio books. Maybe AI could read the books for him if there were a reader he could use. AI is amazing and they are coming up with new things all the time. I still feel people might get lazy brains if they depend on AI for everything. That is a lot of laundry that you did today. I am glad that Shaun did not expect you or Colin to help with moving things into storage. We are also excepted from lifting heavy things by our children. What a good report for Inara. How much does she hear? When our grandson was having absent seizures he also got way behind in school because he was missing a lot of what the teacher was saying. Once they got the seizures under control and he could hear the complete lesson, he caught up quickly. I am sure Inara will do the same.

Judith - I am so glad that you were able to get an appointment with the Oral Oncologist. Now if you can get with the Dermatology Oncologist that would be great. The visit with Gayle sounds nice and I am hoping that you can see each other more often. It sounds like her grief is still with her but she is able to enjoy some things which is good. I hope that your tiredness will get over quickly from your vaccines. We till need to get them but it is hard to find the time especially if we have to go to our doctor who is in Westminster. We may just do it at Walmart the next time we go there.

Barb - I am realy praying hard that 3 is able to continue to improve so he can stay in therapy. I also think that walking in the gym with Mariposa is a good idea for 3. The floor is nice and flat and it is not as cold as it is outside. I hope that his double vision clears which will make walking safer. You said that you were wishing Jesus would come back soon. I agree especially when our president is talking about working on nuclear weapons again. I know he wants to not let other nations get ahead of us and attack us when we are not ready but still can't we all be friends? Obviously that is not going to happen as long as Satan has his way here on his turf.

Here is my new haircut I got two weeks ago. Glenn does not like the natural waves as well as when I blow dry it and curl it with a curling iron. It is more work but I want him to like it so I do it that way when we go places and leave it alone when I am at home so we can compromise.

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