Well, it has been a very rough start for this year. We lost Pastor Jeannine Lamb right before Christmas. Her sudden passing threw me into a new low both at church and home. I spent a lot of time over the holiday with her life partner, Kathy. That helped me work through it some what. Of course now comes the work of finding a new pastor. Kevin Olsen is doing pulpit supply for us until we can find an interim ministry so that takes a load off our shoulders. Does not make life easier though as there are meetings and more meetings.
Also passing was Rae Flanagan, whom I had gone to church with for years. Very nice and very classy lady. Lee Dorsey was the last of the people I had gone to church with and my heart breaks for his beautiful daughter, Bernadette and her husband, Jesse. I also lost a client, Irene. On the upside, I got a new great grandson.
Ended the year having a new furnace installed. House insurance and car insurance both jumped up 25%. Never had a wreck in my life, but my insurance keeps going up. Not the social security check though, That just keeps getting stretched further to pay utilities and buy groceries. We all know how long this cheap gas is going to last, don't we?
As I look forward to the new year left ahead of me, I can hear the limb rubbing on the back of the house roof and know that is going to need to come down and that means more money. Car has 105000 miles on it so needs to have all kinds of little things done to it. I think about just selling and moving into town and that scares me. When I do that there is no going back to the big house in the country with 2 dogs, a cat and 9 geese. It is easy to downsize at my age, but up sizing is out of the question.
So I am going to set here in my big house surrounded by all my stuff I have accumulated and think about what is going to happen this coming year. I have lots of big plans and lots of things I want to do, but time will tell as to what happens. Who knows, maybe next year I will be the one not here and someone else will be missing me! That is the fun part of life; not knowing.
So for now, I am going to keep loving all my friends and acquaintances and if one of them falls by the wayside I will know I did my best and if the "fallee" happens to be me, they can shed a tear and know that we parted on the best of terms.
Also passing was Rae Flanagan, whom I had gone to church with for years. Very nice and very classy lady. Lee Dorsey was the last of the people I had gone to church with and my heart breaks for his beautiful daughter, Bernadette and her husband, Jesse. I also lost a client, Irene. On the upside, I got a new great grandson.
Ended the year having a new furnace installed. House insurance and car insurance both jumped up 25%. Never had a wreck in my life, but my insurance keeps going up. Not the social security check though, That just keeps getting stretched further to pay utilities and buy groceries. We all know how long this cheap gas is going to last, don't we?
As I look forward to the new year left ahead of me, I can hear the limb rubbing on the back of the house roof and know that is going to need to come down and that means more money. Car has 105000 miles on it so needs to have all kinds of little things done to it. I think about just selling and moving into town and that scares me. When I do that there is no going back to the big house in the country with 2 dogs, a cat and 9 geese. It is easy to downsize at my age, but up sizing is out of the question.
So I am going to set here in my big house surrounded by all my stuff I have accumulated and think about what is going to happen this coming year. I have lots of big plans and lots of things I want to do, but time will tell as to what happens. Who knows, maybe next year I will be the one not here and someone else will be missing me! That is the fun part of life; not knowing.
So for now, I am going to keep loving all my friends and acquaintances and if one of them falls by the wayside I will know I did my best and if the "fallee" happens to be me, they can shed a tear and know that we parted on the best of terms.
We are not promised tomorrow. We have only today.
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