Summer

SUMMER, 2020 is finally here, or will be in a few days and I am so glad.  I don't like cold weather.  I like the other 3 seasons.  Planted a small garden and a big garden of sunflowers. Some fun things planned and I pray that God blesses us and keeps us safe.  If you don't know Him, please take a look.

Chronovirus - Covid19

The Chronovirus, Co-vid19 hit the US from China about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and now it is a Pandemic. All schools are closed.  People are told to stay home. It won't be lifted until the middle of May or the end of May.  The Lord had a hand in this as he knows ways to get people's attention and takes away their privileges for being so sinful and uncaring.  Now we are limited on where we can go.  We can go to work, to the pharmacy, to get food and to exercise. The worse places it has hit is New York and Washington State and California.  My prayer is that the Lord will help us and see fit to get rid of this virus.  I just got over an Upper Respiratory Infection. Have been able to work in the yard the last two days, in the flowerbeds. Our Nation is divided in every way.  The Democrats want us to be a Socialist County and the Conservatives will fight tooth and nail to keep that from happening. Thank God for our President, Donald Trump who is a true Conservative.  I hope we get rid of this liberal NC governor in the election in November.

Don't like Winter

I will be so glad for Winter to finish up and Spring to arrive.  I am not a cold weather person.  I like sunshine, digging in the dirt, going hiking and just feeling the sun on my skin.  The calendar just turned over to 2020, another decade is gone.  In another decade 2030, I'm not even sure I'll still be here.  If life's problems will be over and life is good, I'd like to be here. But the Lord says he didn't promise easy times or a perfect world but He did say, He'd be here with us through all of it. Our kids are grown; their kids are grown; and our kids will be grandparents in a few years for sure. We are losing our high school friends, it was their time.  The Lord is keeping us here, it is not our time (yet). We have a lot of blessings and are thankful for each one.  My hobby of genealogy is still keeping me busy and have entered all my paper data into my computer. I have been going through all my papers, keepsakes and things I've saved for years and putting them in folders with our family's surnames on them.  We have between 8-10 Surnames and I've used Zip Lock Bags to divide the items up by surname so all the kids can just pull out their family keepsakes when that time comes. I'll be thankful for this school year to be over, for Ryan especially but also Elora and her first year of college.   Life has always been hard but the kids today have it especially hard, as the world is in a pitiful place and the Devil roams at random and hits every family in different ways.  We have to put on the armor of the Lord and fight hard.  Tomorrow is another day & eternity is right around the corner. Thank you Lord.

My granddaughter graduated from Reno High School, Reno, Nevada in June 2019.  Now she is a student at Carson Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee.  A long way from home but she is adjusting.  My grandson Ryan, is in 7th grade this year at an Academy in Charlotte, NC.  Jim and I have made several trips this summer, one being a seven day cruise to Bermuda and Grand Turk. We sure didn't want to come back. Going camping next weekend in the beautiful NC mountains.  Then I guess we'll be settling in for the Fall and Winter of 2019.  Hoping that 2020 is a blessed year.  Praying that the 2020 Presidential Election will prove Trump can win again.  God I pray your hand on this country as it is being taken down by the people who are Anti-Everything America.

November 2018 - Another Year Almost Gone

I continue to work on my Family Ancestry.  I did my DNA about three months ago and it has opened up a whole new world of cousins and made more ancestors known to me.  It is my passion and I hope one day to find the elusive ones.

It had been almost a year since I have posted and a lot has happened in that year.  My grandkids and my kids are getting older.  My husband and I are too.  Life goes on.  My prayer remains the same and the Lord know what my prayer request are.

It is Spring and I am so happy to be out of another depressing Winter. I am not a Winter person.  In 2018 I hope to get all of my genealogy paperwork into my Family Tree Maker program and also to be able to continue to help others as they search their families.]

God is good.  Life is OK.  We are all one stepping stone to Paradise.