Busy, busy, busy

Busy, busy, busy as usual. Sunday was great. Good message. Pastor is doing a series on the apostles. This Sunday he talked about Peter's names. Jesus changed Simon's name as soon as he met him to Peter. After looking at all the times Peter is referenced, how and by which name, he said Simon is almost always used when Peter is doing someting from his "old self", Peter is the new self and when you see Simon Peter, look out, he's really being a knucklehead. Just like when we yell at our kids. When they hear their full name, they know they are in trouble. I had never made that connection before so it was very interesting.

My son and his girlfriend came over after church for a second Thanksgiving dinner and my friend who lost her husband recently came over too. We had a really good time. Sara, my son's girlfriend, helped me decorate for Christmas.

We have had a possum in the barn. I know they carry EPM and we needed to get rid of it. Kurt, my son, went to the barn with me last Sunday night to help put horses in as it had started raining. We saw the possum and he had his bow with him but his site was off so he missed. Put an arrow right above it's head and it didn't move. He even poked it with the handle of the shovel and it didn't move. I didn't want him to club it to death while I was there. (I'm such a wimp when it comes to stuff like this) so I keep running out of the barn as he's banging around in there and he's getting frustrated with me because I won't hold the light for him. The possum finally ran off. What a comedy of errors.

This past Saturday, I sent my husband to the barn to shoot the possum with his rifle. They saw it but it ran off before he could get it. So Sunday evening I sent him again and Kurt went along to split wood. They found the possum and, let's just say my husband doesn't have as many bullets left and I don't have a possum problem anymore. I didn't want to know any more than that! I can't stand to kill anything bigger than a fly or spider.

Yesterday I was busy in town all day. Erica and I went into town (I let her drive and so have more gray hair now) :-) tried to go to the bank, but Cindy was just going out for lunch. She is a friend from Bible study who works at the bank. We were going to open a high school checking account for Erica. So, I told her we would just go to lunch and come back. So we went to the local Chinese place and then the post office and back to the bank. By the time we got there, she already had a customer so we waited 40 minutes til he was done. Got Erica's account opened, Cindy had ordered something from Pampered Chef from me so I showed her the item from the catalog as it has been redesigned. We stopped by Family Dollar to get a gift for the upcoming church Christmas party, I needed a splitter for the Christmas lights and some ornament hooks. Got my gift, no splitter there so went next door to the hardware store. Got my splitter and, up by the cash register, they had these really cute little LED gooseneck flashlights with a laser pointer for the cats. I picked one up. When we got home, Erica stole my new light and was playing with the cats. Snickers actually had more fun than the cats and chased it all over. He's a choc lab. I took it with me to the barn (more kitties) and the horses were even going after it. Chester tried to eat it, Midnight blew at it and was following it around. Only problem is, I can't keep the light from Erica. I think she is more entertained by it than the critters! I'm having my husband pick one up for her for Christmas, if she can wait that long.

Had to help feed my friend's horses last night, too, because she had surgery on her shoulder. She has some kittens we had to clean their eyes and one isn't going to live. That's hard on Erica and I because we love kitties too.

Worked on Bible study last night for quite a while and all of today. Really need to discipline myself to do it daily like I'm supposed to. :-)

Midnight was limpy last night on his front left again. I was thinking it was probably arthritis. He has trouble with that knee off and on quite a bit. I have him on a good glucosamine supplement and it does help him a lot. It was cold and damp yesterday so wasn't too surprised. Today he looked much better. He was walking pretty good today and has his old Midnight attitude back again. When this whole hip thing started out he seemed a bit down. Quieter. He's getting back to his old self now, coming to the gate for his dinner shaking his head around and putting his ears back. I make him put his ears up (both of them) before I let him out of the gate and into the barn. Attitude is everything, Midnight!

That pretty much brings me up to date. Bible study tonight.