Watching this stupid weather! My county has 6 weather warnings in red listed! We are in a severe tstorm warning right now! Good gosh its March and we have LOTS of snow on the ground!! About 4 am this morning, we had a storm roll thru with thunder and lightening and rain and pea to marble size hail! Unreal. Now they are saying this next storm has an excess of 60mph winds with the rain! ick ick ick! Torrential rain will flood roads and ditches. Here is the warnings: Flood Warning Flood Watch Hazardous Weather Outlook Severe Thunderstorm Warning Severe Weather Statement Wind Advisory I ran to the store earlier and out to check on rainboots that 4 year old Drew wants badly.None here. I found some online and am waiting for DD to email me and let me know if I should order them. I'm done going out for the day and I am staying in til tomorrow! LOL Going to crochet some more on this blanket. Bought stuff for the Fruit Magic cake someone posted her long ago. Its about perfect for DH and I. Trying to figure out supper,I am thinking Rueben sandwiches on the griddle. Or potato soup. or chicken fried chicken! LOL Who knows what we will end up with. Heck its 1 pm and we have all the lights on in the house, it may be a good day to catch a Sunday nap too!

dh & i went to walt disney world's epcot park for the Flower Show from 9am-3pm. beautiful day, far fewer tourists (YEAH!!!!) than normal and the severe storms held off long enough for us to get in & out of there and hit publix on the way home too. the flower show was nothing to brag about except for their nice topiary frames, i wanted to see cool unusual new plants but mostly i saw the plants we grew and shipped to disney from where i work lol. one other nice thing was that a new toll road opened recently that makes getting down to disney from winter park only 30 minutes now. nice day, glad i have a day to relax before work thou lol~ liz

After napping in the car during the 24 hour jaunt down to NC from Ontario, beginning Fri. evening, I had a good sleep last night (after doing some email stuff and posting here after most Korea missionary reunion folks had gone to bed, I was up rather early (for me), waking at 7:20 a.m. (didn't know how to set the alarm on the bedside radio). Had to be in the dining hall for breakfast before 8:00 ... and I'd neglected to bring my razor from the car prior to lock up, so it was a fast clean-up. After breakfast there was a presentation for upwards of an hour about the various international and voluntary organization activities to help the people of North Korea have food (there was terrible flooding last fall, with three plantings of the crop that they use to make one of their staple foods - kim-chee, for those familiar with Korean cusine, and the final planting only growing to about a third normal height). They were telling also of bringing medical and educational supplies, capital goods, as well as food - generators to bring light to hospital operating rooms, and power the equipment, as much of it did not last long on the low-voltage current from the mains. There is increasing trust and cooperation among the foreign-based agencies working there, and a build up of it between them and their Korean counterparts - North Korea has been substantially isolated from most of the rest of the world for so long. When various missionary agencies agreed to work in various areas of the country about a century ago, the Presbyterians in Canada (later the United Church, after several denominations united), were assigned the north-east section of the country and some in Manchuria. Though none of us who were there 50 years ago had ever been to the North, we havbe long held a soft spot in our hearts for that area, and we are especially pleased to see the thawing that is taking place there. Then we had a hynmn sing for a while and a worsip, including reading the names of colleagues who had died within the three years since the last gathering - two pages, smallish print, with two or three descriptive lines for each. The offering to go to assist the various upgrading projects in North Korea. I was able to meet several of my friends, though I was only here for a short part of the program - with some of the Canadian group having come whom I hadn't expected. A good supper last evening, breakfast this morning and a delicious lunch has fuelled me for a time ... and I'm crying the blues over gas being $3.99 and $4.00 in this area - but not too large tears, as I filled at lower prices earlier and my little Mazda sort of sips gas (enhanced by my turning off the key and coasting sometimes on downhills - when there's no one close behind). And they have quite a few of those downhills in Kentucky and NC ... I felt a sense of respect for the folks who'd chopped off the large volumes of rock in the hills to dump into the vallies to build the roads, years ago. After yakking to you folks, I'm off across country to visit my niece in n-w GA ... and, leaving hastily, I forgot to bring her address, but I do remember the name of the street. I wrote her family in Alberta to ask them to send it ... but they appear to have not received the message. Anyway - missionaries (and former ones) have to learn to fly by faith (don't we all have to do that, a good deal of the time?). Last trip, I had a bit of a job finding their location, as Gainesville seems to be spread all over the map. Anyway - wish me luck. Plan to return to Ontario just before next weekend ... and Pooh Bear's to be vacationing, so won't see him. Have a lovely week, everyone. Start planning for your retirement - remember, every retired day is on (hopefully, prepaid) vacation. If it isn't prepaid, and one chooses to retire, or has the choice made for them, there's likely a problem down the road, for lack of food tends to make one seek re-employment at an advanced age (unless one plans to die within a few months/years of retirement - improbable with clergy or missionaries, as they tend to live to advanced ages. ole joyful

I lounged quite a bit this morning and was watching some of my normal Saturday Morning TV that was boring this morning, or should I say yesterday (Saturday) morning. Somehow about 11 or so I got some unusual ambition. The power company had been by to trim the trees near the power lines. I have a huge brush pile in my front yard. I thought this is a good time to do some more trimming and let them haul it instead of me having to haul it. So I finished trimming the trees right, that they just kind of hacked, took down some bushes that were overgrown, trimmed a couple trees in the back yard too. I was going non-stop for over four hours! In my younger days, that wouldn't have been such a big deal. These days, it IS a big deal! I was real proud of myself. Tomorrow, or today rather, is supposed to be nice too so when I knocked off I thought I might do a little more today. My shoulders and hips really feel it but boy I feel like I accomplished something. Good feeling. I won't get as much done as I would like to, but I'm pragmatic. This is a lot just as it is. Anything more is "gravy". A lot more is dessert! LOL And I do need to mow the leaves one of these days but didn't make sense to do it yesterday since the brush pile took up a big area. OK, that's an excuse. But I have plenty of time for that. Schedule it right and get it done. I was SO tired earlier but can't get to sleep. And maybe I'll reward myself by going out for breakfast or brunch if I get some things done or maybe I'll do it before I go to work. But then, would I be feeling like working??? Ah, decisions, decisions. Then I have to set clocks sometime. As Roseanne Rosanadanna says It's always something!