Rabbit Trails

Friday, while Harvey was approaching the coast of Texas, I started to clean up my sewing room. *Somebody let it get messy.* The above picture is a huge old kitchen pantry from a sale.  It holds yarn, embroidery patterns, holiday fabric, sewing patters and crochet hooks.   The bird bag you see is the bag I take along in the car on long trips. I fix embroidery projects. I don't get car sick, so it's a fun thing to do while driving. It's better than crocheting because when I pull the thread up, I also look up. With crocheting, I never get to look up to see the country side. To the right is where I keep all my embroidery thread. I do have lots, but I do lots of embroidering. It's a low cost hobby and I love it. The top can is full of variegated thread. This is the table my sewing machine is on. It was formerly my Pastor and Wife's kitchen table. It's kind of special. The fabric on the left are hopeful aprons....

yay! There must have been a hedge about our home in our little windblown town! James and Daniel went this morning to see the damage, and there was none! no water no trees in the roof no parts of the house missing the cat was still there one of them at least.......we hardly ever know where Cougar is the bird was fine the electricity appeared to not have been out at all M y Aunt Nancy and Uncle Gary are taking fine care of all of us. It has been a nice time to visit and talk about 'when we were young'. I just talked with Heather........I do wish I could see our new little granddaughter...............they say she is so little. sigh. We are fine. All of our church people are fine. We are also very thankful to the Lord for the protection of our homes. Thanks to all of you that followed the storm with us and prayed for us.

We're somewhere south of Lufkin.........that's as far as we could make it last night. I was reported by one of my own children to the head of the convoy we were in. I guess I was swerving...... We're on our way to my Aunt's home to wait out the storm. So much for starting school. So much for a lot of things. I guess we'll just watch the Weather Channel to find out how the rest of our year will be spent. I need to practice what I've been preaching..........keep your mind and thoughts on good things. Things that edify. Instead of Timbuktu or Smithereens. That's where things get blown to. Timbuktu and Smithereen thoughts, do not edify. So, today is 9/11. Looks like it will be the birthday of our 5th grandchild. We were in the lobby eating breakfast and the news showed some clips from 7 years ago..........a man was sitting with a picture of a woman, probably his wife. All he has now is a picture. I'm not so bad off. I have pictures AND my family....