Earrings

I was putting my earrings in this morning and I thought about the time Debbie ask her Dad if she could get her ears pierced.  He said "If you get your ears pierced you'll have to get your nose pierced.  You never heard of that back then.  Later years he'd have never said that because people were actually getting their nose pierced.  I've seen people with their nose pierced and thought, what would you do if you had a cold and had to blow you nose a lot.  Yuh!  Even though her Dad didn't really give his permission, she got her ears pierced anyway.  Not too long after.

False Teeth

I've lost my upper jaw teeth.  I've been going to the dentist to replace them for over three months.  I never thought it would take this long.  Next Tuesday I should get the partial.  I'm not really looking forward to that day.  The last time I was there the dentist put the partial in my mouth with teeth but not the permanant ones.
It felt awful.  I thought I'll never be able to eat with this.  I couldn't even talk plain with that junk in my mouth.  I never expected it to be this hard.  I thought it would be a good thing.  Will I ever get used to something like that in my mouth?  I can't chew food without jaw teeth and I'm so looking forward to being able to eat things not being ground up.  I thought when I got them, I wouldn't have to go back except to
get my teeth cleaned.  The dentist said I'm getting them the first of the week so I'll be able to go back right away if they make my mouth sore.  I hadn't even thought about that.  I must have been dreaming thinking that I could just put them in my mouth and everything would be great.  This whole process seems to be taking aas long as it took for me to get the teeth I used all my life.  I hope finally they'll work as well as those did.

Battles

I was reading the bible this morning, reading the story of David and Goliath.  David said "the battle is the Lord's".  It made me think back over my life and I thought about the battles I tried to win on my own.  One I tried for many years on my own and never won.  When God came into the picture, He won it for me.  Just depend on God, his battles are never lost.

The Tea Kettle

I was taking my shower this morning and washing my hair and I thought about how we did that in the fortys.  Living on a farm with no indoor plumping, nothing was modern.  Baths were not daily.  Did just a wash pan of water get you that clean?  I don't know but that's all we had.  You couldn't turn on the faucet and get hot water.  You had to heat it on the stove in the tea kettle.  Come to think about it why did we call that a tea
kettle?  You didn't make tea in it, you just heated water in it.  It set on the stove always filled with water and if you used all the hot water and didn't fill it back up, someone was going to be mad.  Today tea kettles are obsolete but they were inportant things back then.  We wouldn't have had any hot water if we didn't have a tea kettle.  I bet you would have found one in every house.

Rainy Days

There's an old song by the Carpenters entitled "Rainy Days and Mondays".  Today is a rainy day and it's Monday.  It made me think of that old song.  Rainy days do always get me down.  I like to see the sun shine, even though the farmers are wanting rain because our water table is low.  But couldn't it just rain for a short time and the sun come out.  Yesterday was a rainy day, tomorrow's supposed to be a rainy day.  Winter in Southern Illinois is always dreay.  I'm so ready for Spring.  I want to see the sun shine and the flowers blooming.

Vitamins

When did vitamins get so large?  I used to take one a day vitamins and they were little round capsules, not hard to swallow at all.  Now the doctor expects me to take two calcium pills a day and they're huge.   When I was carrying my children, I took those every day and I don't remember having trouble swallowing them.
Now when I take one I'm not sure if they're going down or if I'm going down because I've choked to death.
I try to take fish oil capsules and they are the same way.  Way too large.  Is there a company out there that can make some small capsules that we need to take.  I wish but apparently not.

A Puzzle

One of my granddaughters got me a puzzle for Christmas last year.  It was one thousand pieces.  She knew I used to work puzzles  when she was little.  She used to help me.  The weather was bad and I was housebound.  I thought this is a good time to work that puzzle so I got it out.  When I finally got all the pices laid out on my table, it covered it.  I looked at it and felt, maybe I should just put this back in the box.

It took me a long time just to get the border laid out.  I kept working, once I start something I feel like it has to be finished.  It's been almost a week and I have it all finished except for the sky and the sky is a lot.  I think there is only three different shapes to the pieces.  They just all look alike.  I keep telling myself I'm not too old to get a puzzle put together.  When my family comes for my quake will this unfinished puzzle be still  laying on my table.