Hospital

So today and tomorrow, I am at the hospital having my heart tested to see if they can find out what went wrong in July.

I told them it was stress brought on by my daughter's actions.

No, too simple it seems.

So, lots of needles today as they attempted to bring on another heart attack, I swear!

Off To School

Yes, it is registration day, get my parking pass day, get my books day! Expect to be very tired of standing in line this afternoon!

Wish me luck!

Berry Picking

Around the lake are numerous patches of blackberries and across the last several weekends the grand kids have been grazing through those patches, like gophers in a tulip field!

Two Years Old

My youngest grand daughter turned two years old today.

So, met with the kids at Azteca to celebrate her birthday - but oh was she in an evil mood! I guessing her two's are not going to be much fun.

But, in my spirit, I suspect strongly half of the problem was that her mother was there and she has not seen much of her for a while. Just a guess. I know this daughter is completely clueless with her daughter.

And, I could not help but wish estranged daughter was here, her favorite aunt whom she still looks for around the house and tries to say her name. It crushes my spirit how daughter's disappearance and expressed hatred of me has even affected this grand daughter..... I still continue to pray for my daughter, God's protection, her return.

Well, time to think in terms of what is for dinner tonight.....

Do the Puyallup!

Yup, it is fair time again out here and I went today. It was fun, beautiful weather and since I am so well employed, I was able to go for the whole afternoon.

Gaelic Girl had left some items for me to enter into the various contests and she won two ribbons! So she is happy. I am stuffed from all of the food. And, utterly exhausted from all of the walking around. Plus, I got to see a handful from my current church, on their way to see Toby Mack (?). I sat through his rehearsal, so sort of glad I did not pay for that one!

Night all!

Senior Moment

I had one of those senior moments yesterday, you know, you forget something you are supposed to know! ARGH! I hate it when it is just there. on the tip of the brain stem, and nothing.....!

Yes, I forgot the address for my blog. But, it was also a God moment, as you will shortly see.

So, I googled my address and got one hit, I did not even look, I just clicked. And up came the page for a woman in the mid-west, someone whom is an award winning photographer and writer. So, I was suddenly sidetracked - this is going to be good I thought!

But, as I looked through her photos, they were "off", something not right about them. Some nudity, nothing tastless, but it was worse "off" than the rest of the photos. They would be called artistic. They let me unsettled, no not because I am a guy, but because God was trying to tell me something and I was not seeing what He was seeing. So, I roamed through the various paths eventually ending up at a very hard to find yet painful biography.

In her words she told of how she had been raped by her uncle at 11 and the disasters which had followed in her life. Suddenly, I was seeing her as I had my daughter and I understood, the perspective all too well. I understood her damage, I understood why she had become whom she had become, I understood her photographs of the brokenness of femininity.....

And I thought to send her an email, but then stopped. No, God has not programmed me to reached out to more than just my daughter, at least at this time. Yeah, I may understand that woman's brokenness but I do not have the "answer" for her, I only know the answer for my daughter. This suffering woman I can not be a part of her fix.

So, I told my "niece" about this and my desire - yet my own frustration. I must wait, to heal the one I am supposed to, the rest are on God's list.....

And that really frustrates me.

Fall Is Here!

With yesterday's cooling shower has come a fall snap to the air! Makes one remember all of those outside projects there are still to do!

I need to finish my covering for the VW so I can work on it over the winter and that is a major undertaking!
I need to finish the bathroom redo.
Clean up the yard for fall.
Work on the furnace.

And get ready for school in two weeks. AH!