Thank you

I wasn't so angelic tonight trying to make a patient understand that if you hurt you need to take your pain medicine - he figured he should go to the hospital instead, so I spent the last couple hours in the ER

LOL, not really funny but the patient must not understand the workings of hospice care. It has always amazed me that at the facility, there are never any problems about meds and comfort. In home is another story. It must be very hard for people that are used to dialing 911 or running to ER. Here in MI if the patient or a family member does either, hospice care ceases. I think it's an insurance issue.

It's a medicare issue here in texas, I had to get him to sign a form to deselect our services. He can select us again once he is discharged from the hospital.... otherwise the hospital will send the bill to medicare, they'll kick it back since they're already paying for hospice benefits and then the hospital will try to collect from the family...

weather is perfect today... I'm gonna go get me some

.....weather.....

yes, that's what I meant... well, that and some food from da fair

Will be out there tomorrow night too, it's ladies' night and 5 single guys are 'manning' the church's booth

Has been some great weather, business has been good for lots of local vendors

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Will be out there tomorrow night too, it's ladies' night and 5 single guys are 'manning' the church's booth </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What a strikingly odd coincidence!

God works in mysterious ways, doesn't He?

Managed to get a couple of big projects of mine (work) pushed out the door.

Feels good to actually get something done in a day.

yep it do

weather has been perfect over here, headed to the beach right now

Lucky you.

I'm counting the days til my vacation. 18 Days til a Caribbean/Panama Canal 10 day cruise.

argh... you just got back from one

I sent everything off to Maryland for this pending opportunity. It's all in God's hands now. Whatever happens, God is Good and I thank you Lord for your unchanging faithfulness. /

thank you Lord for the great people I work with /

Didn't get the job in MD.

Thank you Jesus for closing that door.

I love you. /

Not to sound corny or mushy here, ( do they still use those terms?) it just really ssems to me, that the more you love Him, the less effect negative things have on you! Thy will be done.

AMEN!

What a weekend! A bit more chilly and cloudy than I would have prefered, but at least not the bitter cold and gale force winds like last March. (It was too cloudy to catch the total lunar eclipse saturday )

Got up there friday night just after dusk. Had to set camp up by several hundred watts of quartz-halogen worklight Started helped a couple of other parents get situated and started a bit of a fire to keep the boys busy charring the ends of sticks....

Saturday we were up setting up the cooking tent at about 6:30 The pack had made push-cars (like an old soapbox car) and the boys spent the morning riding down a decent hill there at the park. Had some pretty glorious and funny wipeouts. (no injuries) and the little scouts were funny as they were so timid until they did it the first time. My boys got rounded up about eleve and we started construction of three "carboard-box ovens" and preceeded to bake fresh chocloate chip cookies. Needless to say that went over HUGE! Stevie had a huge learning curve to overcome as they lose heat so quickly and they take twice or three times as long to bake as a conventional oven. It was like 2 oclock before we finished with the hundred or so cookies we had to make. The kids were all thrilled all the scouts and therre brothers, sisters and parents each were able to have two with plenty left over (whew)

After scorching hot dogs in the hottest part of the fire and making sure that they got plenty of ash on each one.... They had free time for a couple of hours. Some went to the parks playground and others tried to fish. Stevie sat on his butt and drank coffee and got ready for the afternoon. For supper they made stew, it was average. My boys had an ace in the hole. With the trial run of cookies we took what we learned and broke out the heavy guns! We went for broke making 72 fresh biscuits hoping to have them done, and warm just as the stew got finished! (pillsbury "grands" ) It was pretty challenging as it was only like 58 degrees outside. We managed to do it. I don't know if you have ever cooked with a nine year old, outdoors. make that six nine year olds.... Kind of like herding cats with A.D.D. It was amazing, we had most of the biscuits done (and still warm) by dinner and the others were poking along. By the time most of the people were skewering marshmallows the last trays of biscuits came out and were offered. The boys (and parents) snatched them off the trays as fast as they were grabbing the marshmallows!!!

Everyone sat around the fire and one parent read a couple of classic ghost stories and they made smores and drank hot chocolate until they were about to pop. Most everyone was diving into tents by 10 and it got REAL quiet.

Sunday morning everyone was up early again for breakfast. Afterwords my boys were making "fire starters" (sawdust and paraffin wax mixed in muffin cups) Several of the kids found there way back to the hill to run the cars again. Most everyone was packing at some point in the am. Aaron and I were the second to last to leave.

He made it almost ten miles before he rolled up his sweatshirt and put his head on it and passed out


Thanks God! I love you for that!

Sounds like a great weekend Steve... some of my best memories were from those weekends with my dad.

Pretty awesome Steve! Who said the internet is flat communication? Heard you loud and clear!