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Hey everybody.......thought I would write a few words before getting off the computer. I love Mondays......it's the beginning to a whole new week......lots of possibilities to start anew. I know those who go to work don't like Mondays.....but, to me......it's all fresh....you can start over or make up.....whatever you need to do. Just Get Started.....that's the main thing. :)
We are experiencing a cool spell.....here it is almost the 1st of May & we are only in high fifties with the possibility of some frost tonight. Had a light rain shower a while ago, but the sun is semi-shining for now. I believe it is suppose to warm back up to the seventies by Wednesday. Mom and I are leaving for Florida soon.....we haven't set a time yet....I wanted to leave next Monday, but for some reason, she thinks I should stick around for Mother's Day. So, we shall see. I think she is going to want me to help her get things together where she can close up her house and put it on the market....then she is going to drive her car back following me. We can bring most of her clothes, jewelry, & other little stuff in both vehicles that she is wanting to bring up here. She's about decided that she really doesn't need a lot of her stuff....we'll just sell it or give it away. Wayne & I think that she is happy being up here because it is so peaceful where down there at her home, always a lot of noise and traffic.....children running around all hours of the night & the neighbor girls come over several times a day to see "Dayze" they say (I told Mom she needs to talk to the mother and put a stop to that). The girls are mentally challenged, so to speak.......not little, but older. I don't care that Mom wants to come back up here.....I am enjoying having her here by me. Our Sundays are beginning to go something like this now......we go to church, come home........I drop her off and come back here to change clothes, go back over and she cooks bacon & and we have BLT's for our lunch and play Super Scrabble all afternoon until time to go back to church. (smile) Now, we have a new hobby......she has lots of birds, so we bird watch out her kitchen sliding doors. They have a large Red Bud tree that the older woman living there before built a deck around....it's been in full bloom for the past week and a half. Lots of birds come (could be because we put out some food like the old woman did).....hung a hummingbird feeder in the tree, too. Yesterday, there were Baltimore Orioles getting nector out of the blossoms along with some Goldfinches. Mom is loving this as she wasn't able to have the birds where she lives in Florida because of the neighbor's cat.
Well........I am out of here.....so much to do and the day is getting away from me. Oh......to update.....I did finish that new book I mentioned previously & loved it so much. The other's in that series dealt with the history of the American Indian (mainly Cherokee & the Trail of Tears) & slavery leading up to the Civil War. This book introduced the history of the Quakers and it's history as well as their place in the Underground Railroad along with Indian history at the close of the war. I never knew much about the Quaker religion or how it tied into helping to free some of the slaves through the Underground Railroad......I was fascinated & once I began reading, it was hard to put the book down (& it was over 600 pages).
