Update

Life has been relatively quiet. Both Dan and I are pretty much recovered from our bout with the flu. Aunti Vi is feeling better but it is taking her longer to recover. The antibiotics the doctor put her on almost did more harm than good. Hopefully by next week she'll be 100%. We did take her to Wal-Mart on Wednesday and she enjoyed being out n the air for the first time in 3 weeks.

Bible study finished up on Thursday. After the morning session we all (there were 14 of us)went out to lunch at the Amish restaurant near church. It was great to be able to visit and spend some social time with the ladies. Each one is so dear and spending the last 11 weeks with them has truly been special. Right now, I believe the Lord is leading me to offer "When Godly People Do Ungodly Things" over the summer. It's only an 7 week course so right now I'm figuring on starting either the 3rd or 10th of July and going through the middle of August. Our fall Bible study ("Living Beyond Yourself" - A study on the fruit of the Spirit) will start September 11th and end November 20th. As far as the evening session goes, two of the ladies bring refreshments and we "graze" the entire evening. The evening ladies are also dears and I love each one of them. The two sessions are as different as night and day. The morning session is 90% discussion, 10% going over homework. The evening session is 90% going over the homework and 10% discussion!



Friday, we went over to Disney to the EPCOT Garden and Flower Show. The flowers and displays were beautiful. I don't know if we'll get over there again this year, but I'm glad we had the chance to go Friday.

Today was the choir cantata at church. It was presented last night and then at both services this morning. Because of my knees, I have had to drop out, but Dan sang. It was beautiful and the message was phenomenal.

Well, I must go, laundry is calling!

Not quite hale and hearty but better -

We are feeling better - just about 100%, but still coughing. Not as much as we were, but still not rid of it totally. Monday, we went down to check on Aunti Vi and she was afraid her's had gone into pneumonia, so we made a doctor's appointment for her Tuesday. We took her in and all the doctor said was it was going to take time for her to get over it. There's nothing they can do. It's a viral flu. She did give her a prescription for a broad spectrum antibiotic as a precaution. I talked to her a little while ago and she had eaten 3 meals today for the first time since she got sick and she was feeling just about normal.

Tomorrow is Bible study - I can't believe we'll be finishing up next Thursday. The 11 weeks have flown by. The ladies are pressing me to lead a Bible study over the summer, but I've told them we need to wait and see. I do have one picked out that I believe the Lord is leading me to, but I want to wait and see how the next several months go. This study is only 7 weeks long, so it would work to do it over the summer.

Friday we're heading up to Tennessee to celebrate my mom's 87th birthday on Sunday. We'll be back home on Monday.

This week is the Tampa Bay Scrapbook Treasure Hunt. It's been fun to go to the different stores and see the different scrapbook products that are available. There are 15 stores on the hunt, but I'm only doing 9. Last year I did all 15, but several of them are a couple hours away and I wasn't overly impressed with them. Also with the price of gas what it is, we haven't wanted to use a tank just running around.

Well, I'll close - it's just about time for bed.

Sunday Update

I did go down to see Aunti Vi yesterday. She was a lot better than I expected. She's just weak from not eating very much for the last 5 days. Her fever is gone and now she just needs to rebuild her strength. i didn't stop by today but did call her. We're going to stop down tomorrow with some more cough medicine and also some canned chicken broth. When I talked to her today, she said she "fancied" some chicken broth and had 2 cans so she heated up one and thoroughly enjoyed it. Now she is down to one can but she likes to keep 2 cans on hand as she uses it as a base for her homemade soup.

Just wanted to update ---

Update

The good news is I'm almost back to normal and Dan is about 50% of normal. HIs fever finally broke Thursday afternoon and he started eating again yesterday. THe main thing now is we're both left with a residual cough. Hopefully that will clear up in the next few days.

The bad news is Aunti VI now has whatever it is we have. We were with her on Tuesday before we realized we were contagious. She is very sick and her age is definitely against her. Please pray she gets well soon. I haven't been down to see her since I've been so sick, but I'm going to go down today.

Under the weather

Unfortunately, we are "enjoying" ill health. Somewhere we have picked up very heavy colds. I feel decent today, but Dan is running a high fever and has all the symptoms of a very heavy cold. I am just praying it is not the flu. Right now he is in bed tryng to get some sleep.

Aunti Vi's doctor's appointment yesterday went very well. The doctor is very pleased with her condition and she doesn't have to go back for 6 months. She has developed a heart murmur, but at her age they won't do anything about it. The only treatment is valve replacement and that is not an option. After the doctor, we went out to lunch and then shopping. She only had 4 items on her list, but wound up with about 25 items!

Obviously, we will not be going to choir tonight. I do have a couple errands I need to do this afternoon, so I will probably go out in a little while.

The weather is wonderful - sunshine and warm. When we hear what the weather is doing up north, we are very thankful to be here.

Busy day and weekend

Today was a lovely day. We didn't leave the house - we just put swimsuits on and worked out in the yard. Our live oak tree is just about finished shedding its leaves so we're trying to rake them up and get them off the grass (live oaks do not shed their leaves until new growth comes in behind the old leaves and pushes them out so the tree is never without leaves). Because the leaves have a waxy surface, they don't decompose at all - they just lie on the ground waiting for you to come and rake/vacuum them up! Dan put 8 bags of leaves out for pick-up last week (yard waste pick-up is Wednesday). Today I raked up 4 more HUGE bags of leaves for pick-up. Hopefully this is about the last for this year. After raking the leaves, we went in the pool and enjoyed relaxing in the water. The air temp was about 82 degrees and the pool temp was 88 degrees. We don't mind yard work when we know we can relax in the pool after!

This weekend Rick and Csilla came over. They arrived about 3:00 Saturday and by 3:15Taylor and Ashley were in the pool. The water temp was only 80 degrees and the air temp in the low 70's but they didn't care. They wanted to go in the pool! Taylor stayed in the water for about 15 minutes. She was chilled by then so she got out. Ashley stayed in for another 15 minutes and by then Csilla (who was in the water with the girls) was cold so Ashley had to get out also (very unwillingly). They left about 9:30 Sunday morning. This was earlier than they normally leave on Sunday, but Taylor was riding (on a horse) in a parade in Orlando Sunday afternoon.

Tomorrow, Aunti Vi has a doctor's appointment in the morning then we may go shopping - depending on how she's feeling. If we don't shop tomorrow, we'll go on Wednesday. Thursday is Bible study. I can't believe there are only 3 weeks left. It seems we just started. The study is on the Old Testament tabernacle and how Christ was revealed in the tabernacle. None of the ladies has done a study on the tabernacle before so we are all learning.

Well, enough for now -- laundry is calling.