July 16, 2007

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  Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!  I know my last post has been ages ago in history, and I've been a busy lady running to and fro on the face of the earth putting miles beneath my feet, I'm home at last and hope to stay here till at least Sept. or Oct. before we have to go to MO again...unless something unforeseen should come up.

  

  

  We were home only a month (from Colin & JoLynn's wedd. and a wk. in MO) before Hunny and I left again. First of all we went to Salinas, California in the truck after a load of cattle. We were gone 2 1/2 days and seen some new country. Was the first I've been thru' Las Vegas (and what a glitzy city of lights!!) and another first was being in the state of Arizona for a short time. I've been in northern CA 3or 4 times already, but was a first to be in the bottom half. I was impressed with all the beautiful fields of produce and orchards! I would have loved to stop and take pictures, but we were pressed for time, plus you can't just pull over with a big rig and stop anywhere like you can with a car or pickup.

  

  We came home on a Wed eve. took JoNell to the Dr. on Thu. plus packed for our trip east. (the dr. said she has strep.) The following afternoon we and the boys headed  for Clovis, New Mexico to attend a horse sale...not that we're looking to buy more horses, rather to see if that would be a good place to sell horses. (We were not impressed!) Sun. we left for MO and the boys came back home with one of my cousins. We looked after our business there etc. and on Fri. we headed to KY to spend the weekend with Colins. Went camping with them and his family and had a great time. Took our Libby-Girl along and was fun to surprise JoLynn with her. In the meantime I had a sick girl at home....she got pretty sick over the weekend, and the Dr. called back to let her know she has a bad case of Mono (besides strep). Kiwi ended up taking her to the emergency room on Mon.nite as her tonsils were swollen to the point of touching and swallowing was nearly out of the question. She actually choked on her  medication. At the ER they gave her steroid meds to alleviate the pain and swelling and gave her more for the following 4 or 5 days. She immediately got relief, and was soon on the mend after taking Mono-chord and other healthy supplements. She did have a serious bout with hives from the steroids, but that too has diminished greatly and she is doing very well at present. (She was so swollen...it looked like the bees got to her!)

  I felt so helpless and far away, and yet the constant prayers from my "mother-heart" to Jesus' ever-listening ear and His healing Hand helped me keep my sanity.

  After our jaunt down to KY we spent another 3 days back in MO and then headed north to Elton's parents. On Fri.they, and us 'n Elton's oldest sis. 'n family all left for Eureka, IL for a reunion with Grandma's family. Had an enjoyable wkend. We left for home in beautiful CO Sun afternoon. We usually drive straight thru' but took our time and arrived  home..."home sweet home" Mon. about bed-time. Sev. days later we had another adventure that should be a post by itself...and that was our annual Church Camp at Camp West Id-Ra-Ha-Je (I'd Rather Have Jesus) which was Fri. Sat. 'n Sun. At present we have 25 families (or households) We fed approx. 120...minus a few babies, and there was a grand total of a doz. people missing. We had campers, tents and cabins to sleep in, a nice cool kitchen, dining hall 'n family room  to lounge in at our leisure. This yr's activities included v-ball, soft ball, bow 'n arrow skills, water fights, water slide, canoeing on the pond [for the younger ones] hiking and four-wheelin'.Oh yes, we even quilted! We have a dead line to get the quilt done for the school sale, so those who cared to pass the time around the quilt could do so. We usually have a Sat. nite "campfire sing-spiration" but since there's a fire ban on for CO we weren't allowed a campfire, so we sang in the chapel with Marv & Tina playing the guitar 'n violin. (to see more pictures of these events go to giggleaday's site...she has a bunch of good ones.) Mon. morn my dear Hubby awoke not feeling well and continued to get sicker as the day went on till he had a raging fever, hurting everywhere, and his cough n sore throat came back that he had last wkend. (No, he wasn't in any water fight or water slide or got wet that way at the camp.) I offered to take him to the dr. to see if he has strep too but like all his gender do, he declined and hoped he'll feel better soon w/o a dr. So I diligently fed him all the supplements, home remedies etc. that I knew n had on hand.....and guess what? This afternoon he tho't he feels well enough to go bale n stack hay. Thankfully there's no manual labor...he can sit in a cab tractor n run both behind the steering wheel.

  See ya all next time! CK

  PS...ok this post is rather ancient too....I wrote it about three or four wks ago and never got the time to put all the pictures on so guess I'll just do without for now    

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