OMG, Ellie! Sending up prayers for your besieged cousin! Elly's bout with uterine cancer, last September, was the absolute scariest thing she & I have ever been through! Whenever I actually thought about it, while Elly was away up north in Springfield for eight days (with her mother, sister and brother, while I remained here with our autistic son), to have her uterus removed, etc., I would personally become physically ill. - God bless and comfort you all!

Well, I also won a "completely restored" John Deere lawn tractor from the local Old Engine club a couple of years ago. It ran for about 15 minutes then blew up. LOL And now, the real prize. Elery and I went to a Taste of Home Cooking Show, he got tickets as a gift from his sister. One of the sponsors was a woman's shelter and a local builder donated a $1,500 island, beautiful handmade cabinetry with some kind of composite counter top that looks like granite. Raffle tickets were sold, proceeds went to the women's shelter. Elery bought 3 tickets, gave them to me. Yup, the island will be delivered to Elery's next week, we tried to sell it back to the builder because there's no place in either of our houses to install it. I think we've decided to keep it and put it into the new house when we build in a couple of years. It's a very, very nice prize but who the heck wins a kitchen island? Annie

Good Sunday Morning/Afternoon FUN GIRLS, Breanne, confirm that you sent to Erica...thanks! ************* GAME 4... GIRLS + FUN = COLLEGE FOOTBALLAnd week 4 is now in the history books! This game is now over...and we have 6 winners. Congrats to Jayeanne, Ruth, Breanne, Nicole, Amy and Faye. Some interesting games yesterday....some close games and few little upsets. Breanne (Baylor) lost her game, while Jeanne (Washington) won her game but.....Breanne beat Jeanne by two little points. Read left to right to see how I scored.... EX Shirley.....she had 159 pts going in to week 4. Her team was Tennessee.....they LOST. 159 pts + losing points (L)+21 plus the other teams points of 24, minus 10 because Tennessee lost...for a total of 194 pts. Please check my math....***next to Winner name. *Shirley (159 pts)...Tennessee LOSE 159 + (L)+21 + 24 - 10 =194 pts PLAYS ***Jayeanne (158 pts)... Florida WIN 158 + (W)24 +10 + 10 = 202pts ___________________ ***Ruth (121 pts)....Louisville WIN 121 + (W)32 + 25 + 10 = 188 pts PLAYS *Emily (108 pts)....TCU LOSE 108 + (L)24 + 27 - 10 =149 pts __________________ ***Breanne (100 pts)....Baylor Univ LOSE 100 + (L)34 + 35 - 10 = 159 pts PLAYS *Jeanne (92 pts)....Washington WIN 92 + (W)31 + 24 + 10 = 157 pts ________________ ***Nicole (88 pts)...Penn ST WIN 88 + (W)62 + 24 + 10 = 184 pts PLAYS *Beth (88 pts)....Clemson WIN 88 + (W)37 + 34 + 10 = 169pts __________________ *Lisa (85 pts)...West Virginia LOSE 85 + (L)20 + 37 - 10 = 132 pts PLAYS ***Amy (83 pts)....Auburn WIN 83 +(W)40 + 29 + 10 = 162 pts _________________ ***Faye (74 pts)....Oklahoma WIN 74 + (W)56 + 3 + 10 =143pts PLAYS *Erica (56 pts)...Michigan WIN...56 + (W)32 + 23 + 10 = 121 pts ********** Happy Sunday! Annie

Bingo! Sorry I've been AWOL. School started Aug. 19, our Moms In Prayer group started up again (we pray for the schools/students/teachers). We had the Eclipse (Nebraska was one of the best places to view it and lots of hubbub). I attended a training on Native American Children/ICWA Indian Children Welfare Act. Very enlightening. The tribes are a nation within a nation. They have their own courts, social workers, etc. If the tribe chooses to return a child to the household with a parent who is neglectful/abusive the American courts have to let it happen. On the other hand, the Native Americans have a strong culture and often use non-traditional ways to cure drug addiction such as music therapy and animal therapy. My husband had a birthday so we had a party and now he's trying to put together his own business. That's been a life-long dream. Trouble is...he's an entrepreneur and I'm the anchor who keeps dousing him with questions and pieces of reality. I can see where he wants to go, but he can't see the 200 steps he has to take to get there. In his mind he's already there (wherever he sees himself in his video playback in his head). I may need valium. My double click cosmos bloomed! That's been my good news to keep me going!!! Ii got my daughter's video complete from her trip to Japan and got it uploaded to Facebook. Heidi