Septembe 5, 2009. I am home all day so I wash the car despite rain clouds, put up sumer clothing despite 86 degree temperatures, cut out the drying lilies despite the green in their leaves and now I am watching Beauty and the Beast. Pretty good for a Sat. matinee and the next one is Sleeping Beauty. Tuesday I get a new lens in my right eye. I knew I was losing my sight but until I had my eyes tested, I didn't know how little I could really see. What's that top line?? that big, humongous line?? It just seems like a sheer curtain between me and my eye. I am glad Sheila hasn't run to Buffalo yet, but then Colleen would be here for me or maybe I could even ask Kay to spend the day at the Eye Institute. We all know how Gina is tied up all the time. There is one drawback. I just prophesied (that's a drawback in itself!) that Rachel would have her baby on Sept 8, the very same day! Thanks for tuning in!

I'm only worth 1/2 day in the high temp summer days! My 30 min walk now takes 45 minutes and although I felt great this morning and did just that, I went shopping for a printer/scanner so I could do something besides simply print and I wouldn't have to bother other people to do it! Before you can install it, you have to read a book, identify all the parts the instructions talk about, call yourself a new name (really???) and whimper a lot. Then maybe you can do it or maybe you have to ask for help to get the help you bought the printer/scanner FOR! Good thing I had Kay for a driver and advisor! Good thing I had Anna in #A to pack it in for me. So now I am happily a lot poorer and still don't have a scanner. No wonder I have lines on my face. They say the lines on your face tell a story. My story is written in hieroglyphics. I could get a face lift, but it would take a hoist and tackle. Imagine heavy equipment working on your face! We went to Laura's graduation and she was salutatorian! We went to the VIP evening for Deseret News Marathon people. Really nice and people said such wonderful things about Bob and I agree 100%. He is fun and he is kind and he knows his stuff. Also ran into a client of his who is looking to further his racing career and Scott Bringhurst, too! And guess who else was there? Kay and Samuel, me and Laura. She was super. Got through the lesson on adversity and now know a whole lot more about adversity. Glad it's over! Mom and g-mom unto the fourth generation. See ya later!

Home alone

I thought since Bob & Samuel were gone, Kay was gone, etc., I would stay home and post a blog. It's been about a year. Something must have occurred in that length of time! I've lost a sister-in-law and gained 2 g-grandchildren in the last little while and feel quite beleagured as though I had died and given birth twice myself--and not twins either! I haven't come to the end of my rope--if I do, I'll tie a knot in it and hang on for dear life. I noticed the other day in the Draper Temple, that the white temple books of scripture that the pages are gilded in silver and I remembered, too, that every cloud has a silver lining. The Economy has done a number on some in the family but trials and tribulations are often for our growth or for someone's growth who is watching us. The morality of the world and of our country bothers me as much or more. Liars, I scream at the TV, then subside into some semblance of repentance and take another look at my own character and soul growth! My family means a lot to me--it started when I was 18 months old and left at Grandma Caines' house for 1-1/2 yrs. I learned so much about love from her and from my bachelor uncle Dick and the brother that was married and had no children, Bob Caines. They were simply adoring but it didn't take long for Mom to teach me the real life and no more "happy valley" stuff for this 3 yr old. Wel, I'm regressing, but I knew from them how important family is and the various trials and experiences I lived through in the Family with "Nine Lives" taught me how much my parents cared about us, too. Hope this isn't boring, as I have no scanner to show you a small child and an old woman. Hip, hip hooray, no scanner to bore us either, eh?