The past week

I didn't want to post negative thoughts so I avoided posting for awhile. The work on the room was limited this week by rain/mud etc. and it has been hard to be patient. J.R. has worked alone on the days he did work and only 2-3 or so hours per day. The roof is still being worked on. I am trying to stay busy. Spent the day with a friend and her husband Thursday when we had lunch at Cheddar's and went to the Sidewalk sale at the mall where mark met us after work. Friday, Mark and I used some coupons and ate at Perkins. Saturday night, we went to the picnic for the Tractor Cruise and had fellowship there (and good food). Saw the Bond family who used to minister at our church just as they were on the way home to Joplin where they now minister and it was good to see them and their two girls who had grown so much. They have a baby boy but he was resting contentedly in the van but they post frequent pictures so I feel like I have met him anyway. A neat thing happened at the picnic when a lady ask me if I was Julie Flowerree's daughter (mom's maiden name) and I said yes. Mom and I look very much alike. Anyway, she knew my dad from high school at Breckenridge and my mom (I think because her husband was a post master). I think she may have known them both when they were a young couple also. It is rare to run into people who know both of my parents because they divorced when I was so young and dad moved to southern Kansas. I really enjoyed talking with her. Her husband drove a tractor in the cruise. Please pray for some friends of Mark and his family: Mike Foster and Barbara Foster. As I read the SJ Sunday paper this afternoon, I noticed that this son (41) and his mom were in a head on collision with another car early Saturday morning when they crossed a center line on Rt. D near Savannah. Pray also for the lady they hit. Last we knew, Mike and Barb had a paper route and we suspect that was what they were doing. All three had serious injuries and when I called to see about visiting at the hospital, Mike and his mom were in ICU. Also, please pray for my Aunt Shelly having surgery for a precancerous polyp on her colon Thursday. She will be entering the hospital July 4th and stay about 5 days because of the connection between the stomach and the colon (???). It is laproscopic surgery but she has lupus and has to go off some of the Lupus medicine prior to the surgery. She will have it in KC.