Welcome, New Blogger Friends.......

Hello, blogger friends. It always seems to be the wee hours of the morning when I get around to posting lately. Remember how I said in the last post that Jeana's blog had been hijacked by Turkish twits? Well, a friend of hers un-hijacked it and fixed it for her, so I will be changing her link back to her new blog. I'm so glad she got it fixed. It would make me physically ill if mine got permanently wiped or deleted, I know. When I accidentally changed templates and wiped out all my links and doohickeys in my sidebar, I cried a few real tears and was nauseous. I don't even want to think deleting my whole blog...shudder...ugh!

I haven't really said anything about it, but I have added a few new links to blogger friends in the sidebar, there. That's what the Welcome bouquet is for, to honor my new friends. Be sure to visit Connie & Rob, Diane,
Dick & Huggy, Glen & Jenn, Green Eyes, Nature Girl, Brenda and Sue. Green Eyes is from Newfoundland, Canada, and is on a roadtrip to take one of her children to have a new wheelchair fitted, but she will be back soon. I check every day to see if she's back yet. I miss her and her sweet comments here on my blog. Jenn of Glen & Jenn is KAIT Channel 8's Ryan Vaughan's sister from Nashville, Tennessee. He's our local ABC affiliate's weather man. Glen & Jenn have some nice pics. Dick and his cuddly Russian Blue kitty are from Washington state, but they travel a lot in their RV and blog about their travels. Dick posts some beautiful photos on his blog of his travels and local scenery. Sue is from California and has some great photos, too. Brenda is from Tennessee and is just getting started. Connie & Rob are from St. Louis, Missouri and have some outstanding pics. Nature Girl is from Ontario, Canada and has some nice photos of her garden and backyard pond, among others. Diane is from Medina, Minnesota, and has some great Christian insight. I will be adding others from time to time, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. :-)

I got my shopping done today, but it is still setting in the living room floor as of right now. Cecil and Sue met us here and helped carry everything in, and then we played our game a while and just generally goofed off the rest of the afternoon. I'll try to get everything put up tomorrow morning. Cecil and Sue will probably be back up tomorrow for the afternoon, too. I will have to have supper cooked early tomorrow night because we have to be at an awards ceremony at 6 pm. Jessica has won another scholarship, but we won't know how much until tomorrow night. Praise the Lord for those scholarships! They are answered prayers, every one of them!

Thanks to everyone for your concern for my arthritis. I am still hurting, and it's still threatening storms. They went north of us today and tonight, but storms are still in our forecast through Thursday. If the storms are what has my arthritis so stirred up, I will sure be glad when they move on through and the weather settles down a little.

Part of the reason I am so late posting is that I have been working on a photo blog for Jessica for her graduation, and a recipe blog. I am having some difficulties with both, and it is taking some time to iron the wrinkles out, but I'm getting there slowly. When they are presentable, I'll share the addresses with everyone. I have already found out that I'll have to retype each recipe directly to the blog. I tried scanning some in and copying and pasting them, but that is a disaster. They're blurry and almost unreadable. Phooey. :-(

Heads up, zztop and other family and friends: Polly's surgery didn't take, and she is worse off than before it. She is now going to have to have the bypass on her leg, using a vein from her other leg if they can harvest one that's usable, or a plastic or nylon artificial vein if not. She has to be completely healed from the first surgery before they can do the next one, so they are waiting on that and don't know exactly when she will have this surgery. Be in prayer for Polly, Bill and all their family. Bill said Polly is worried sick about this one, and I could tell he is too. He told me he is afraid to leave her alone too long, and he has the kids and grandkids checking on her if he's gone very long. I'll pass on updates on the situation as I get them.

I am going to post this and lay these old weary bones down for the night. Have a good Tuesday, everyone. :-)