COMMON GROUND COFFEE HOUSE #85

Well Folks, we did not get good news from the MRI.

it appears there is a recurrence at L-4, (That's in the lower back, for those of us [like me] who aren't up on our medical terms.) It is actually in the bone. Have an appointment with the Dr in charge of radiation tomorrow morning.

 

Gayla, God has a plan and you're part of it. We will pray for you.

 

These things are sent to try us................and try us they do. All the very best to you, and keep in mind that we so often fret over the things that never happen. If they do happen, the Lord is exceedingly able to help us in time of trouble. God bless, Gayla.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Hey folks.

Oh Gayla, I'm so sorry. I also will pray.

Sorry it took so long for me to get back. Didn't have anything to do with Katrina. As I was posting the first time, I glanced at the clock and realized I had to leave right then to pick up the girls from school. I thought I'd get to post again when I got back. No such luck, it took soooo long to pick up at school that by the time I got back I had a customer waiting on me. By the time I was done with her, it was time for sick Son to go to the doctor. We've just walked in the door a few minutes ago. He has a sinus infection, took 3 hours in a freezing office to find that out.

Katrina so far is a non event for us despite the fact that schools got out early today and are closed tomorrow. It has rained a bit and the radar shows it all around the south and west of us, but that's it! I'm keeping an eye on it though.

Sue, your trip sounds like fun! When I was a kid in Michigan we used to go to Greenfield Village on field trips. Yours sounds very similar.

 

Gayla, we are so sorry. Praying for you!

 

"School starts at 8:30 and ends at 10:30."

Only two hours? I agree, why do they bother?

 

Morning all:

Wow! What a morning. The wind is howling, and it sounds like the house is being torn apart. Tropical Storm Katrina is here in full force! Vivian left for work, but didn't even make it to the highway because of the debris that was all around the roadways. Flooding is becoming a problem, also. The winds are between 40-50 mph with gusts up to 75-80 mph. So, she turned around and came home. Several areas are without power right now, and most of the state is "closed".

I think I might try to "hit the hay" again. Didn't sleep too well last night with the wind blowing so hard and shaking the house!

Will try to keep ya'll posted throughout the day if we continue to have power.

Be good, be kind, be careful!

T

 

Morning everyone!

Our non event hurricane stayed that way until about midnight. Then things really kicked up. The power went on and off a least a dozen times and we could see the flashes in the sky from transformers blowing, just at the same time the power would blink. Finally it stayed off for a while and then came back on and stayed on. Outages aren't to bad here in the city but the county wasn't so lucky. MIL has power lines down in her yard where a tree across the road fell and took the lines with it.

We have lots of limbs and branches down and the pool is knee deep in leaves. One limb fell on a fence section and bent the top rail a bit and pushed down the chain link. I don't think it did any real damage to the fence and hope the dogs don't discover they can get out before I get it fixed.

One of my neighbors lost a big Bradford pear. The winds twisted it just so that one half the tree landed in one direction and one in the other, but it didn't damage either house that it was between. The kids and I spent some time dragging it out of the way while another neighbor cut it the rest of the way down. The lady who lives in the house has and even worse back than mine and felt so bad that she couldn't clean up her own yard.

I have to drive across town to deliver some sewing, so I guess I'll find out how everyone else fared then.

Tony, hope it doesn't last long for you.

Sue, I'm not sure I remember what 63 feels like, it's been so hot this summer.

 

Has anyone hear from Tatertot?

 

Has anyone heard from Blackbird?

 

Sue, back a few posts you mentioned reading the Little House on the Prairies book. You might be interested in reading Words From A Fearless Heart, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Stephen Hines. Wilder was a Congrgationalist all her life, and has some wonderful writings.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Hello Folks,
Went to see the Radiation Oncologist this morning. Will start a series of ten radiation treatments next Wednesday.
Lord willing, that'll take care of it.




TaterTot posted on a thread about BB members in the path of the storm either Sat or Sunday. (Don't remember which, but it was before the storm.)

 

Gayla, will be praying.

We are stil receiving rain off and on, and we are also having some pretty heavy wind gusts still, though now from a different direction, praise the Lord! It's supposed to clear up tonight. I hope it does.

I'm still working on the new church's website, and hope to have it up by the week-end. But, I don't know that it will be possible, yet. There's a lot more to put on this site than the one for the last church.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow nights lesson at Prayer Meeting. We are studying the Bible, Baptist beliefs,etc., through Foundations of the Faith available at Lifeway! Great study!

T