Happy Sunday!

 Hello  there! I hope all is well with you and yours! 🎶This is the day that the Lord has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it!🎶  Do you remember that chorus/round sung in Sunday School or even church sometimes? It's amazing the nostalgia that visits me at the strangest times. It's a beautiful day here in the mountains of Bethlehem. I just love Fall.

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 I am  thankful today for:

*I am thankful that we are not persecuted by fires as so many in the western part of the country are. I pray for them often. 

* I am extremely thankful that we are all well. No positives for the virus. I pray that it stays that way and that my Mother's caregiver stays negative  because she has two other jobs now besides my mother's. Many of us are praying for the President and the First Lady, and those that have tested positive with them.

* That I live in such a beautiful setting where I am never bored. I will be sad to leave here at the end of the month.  But, I do love the ocean and my native Maine.

*I am thankful that my little dog, Dolly, is still with us. She has extremely high blood pressure and is old and blind but seems happy. I only  hope that I can impress upon Roger to keep up the schedule and pay attention to the dogs and cat.   He likes to be on the go all the time. 

*I am thankful that our church opened up a couple of weeks ago. I love my pastor and his sermons. 

*I am thankful for technology. My latest happy mail was an iPhone and also a Arteck bluetooth keyboard that makes typing this blog so much easier now that I don't have to hunt and peck on my tablet keyboard. 

* And that I have friends and family who care about us and include us in their prayers. It's so soothing to the soul to have that bit of knowledge tucked away into a pocket of my heart. Of course, there are many more blessings to be grateful for but those are at the forefront of my mind as I type this.  

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We have a visitor this week. He is a one year old Cavalier named Lucky. A rambunctious but adorable dog. His family flew out of Allentown airport yesterday on their way to Florida.

The blanket shown in the above pictures is the twin size that I made for my youngest granddaughter who is away at college this year. I started it last year when she was still in high school. I have found that I do not like to crochet large projects anymore. However, I do have a few that are wips. I hope that she likes it and that it gets some use at some point in her life. 

I really don't know how the dog and blanket pictures became scrambled but blogger seems to have a mind all it's own these days. I have had the worst time with this post! It's taken me hours to get it together to post.😳 

 Lucky loves looking out the floor to ceiling windows on the back side of our house and barks at anything moving and some things that don't move such as this:

We had some overcast and rainy days. A few flowers from our bushes managed to survive. 

What I have been doing with myself? Well, it's the same story most weeks. I clean, I cook, I moan about this ache or that and I am on  my phone trying to make sure all is ordered for Mom at the pharmacy and that she is going to her medical appointments. She tries to get out of them if she thinks I'm not paying attention. I also have been going to a fair number of medical appointments myself as well as trying to get our prescription insurance to pay for a lot of new meds my doctors have prescribed. Sometimes I lose and sometimes I win but I hate the process...the long waits on hold before you can even begin the process. The back and forth between doctor offices and mailaway pharmacy only to finally get the medication and you find you are allergic or it's too strong for your system to handle and you have to start all over again.  Woe is me! I think I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel though. I have two more appointments before I leave for Maine and I am done. Those appts are to my orthopedic for a shot in my knee and the other to the eye specialist for a shot in my eye. 

Latest picture of the son in law and my grandsons: ready to hop on a plane. Their Mom has some health issues so is unable to accompany them this year. 

Yesterday Roger went up a ladder to trim ivy in the front of the house and he washed the big window combo we have there. It's a once a year job because it is not his favorite job. I need to get a step ladder out and wash it on the inside now. That has been my number one project being home is to get all the windows in the house washed, Inside and out plus screens. We have the upstairs to do yet. 

So, my bloggy friends, I wish you a good week ahead. ❤️ My grandsons shared with me some pictures from their trip to Cape May the other week. We all love Cape May!