Be Ye Separate

Another Beautiful Day!

Blessings!

   Another beautiful day the Lord has made! We awoke to a fresh blanket of snow this morning. It feels like such a lazy day since we only had to run to the barn to feed and break out the water troughs for the animals. Then inside to do some cleaning and chatting and getting some handwork done. Lazy lazy lazy:P

   Chains are required to go out on the highway until tomorrow at least. Probably until Monday, or so they say:P In Oregon we live by a 10/10 rule...if you don't like the weather wait 10 minutes or drive 10 miles:P This seems true no matter what time of year or what weather we are having at any particular moment:P

   I really need to do some banking but just don't want to deal with that today. I don't want to have to put chains on the car or drive on the roads with the rest of humanity. I want to stay put, in a nice warm house, baking and sipping coffee and putting the finishing touches on those horrible bedrooms:P

   Our Miss Mary-Ann is still with her brother and his wife helping to take care of her niece. We had planned on trading the girls out and letting Miss Sarah take her place until Sunday but due to the terrible road conditions we are just going to wait it out and pick Miss Mary-Ann up on Sunday instead.

   Brother Craig's surgery has been postponed pending further blood tests as his last tests came back showing a bleeding issue. Well, he's been on low dose aspirin for his blood pressure for the last two years. The doctor told us that wouldn't make a difference, yet here we are with a clotting issue? ugh! I don't know, maybe it's just me, but if it didn't make a difference then  what would be the point of taking it to thin the blood for high blood pressure?:s

   Anyway, it's been postponed for now. He just had his new bloodwork done this morning after not taking the low dose aspirin for the last few days so we'll see if that changes things. If it doesn't then he'll be seeing a blood specialist to get things fixed so surgery can happen. Instead of Monday surgery we will see the surgeon on Tuesday to reset the dates. We are praying that it can happen before the first of the year so we avoid the new deductibles for the insurance:P Ya'll know how that is...right now it would be paid 100% vs. 70%. Yep...Before the first of the year would be perfect:)

   I wonder that the Lord didn't change things for us so that we would have a nice Christmas together before the surgery instead of Christmas in the hospital? He works so many things for our good, perhaps this was one more blessing He decided we could have:) If things show well on the new tests they will try to schedule surgery for the day after Christmas, or the Monday following. We'll see!:)

   Well, I'm going to go enjoy the warm fire and a cup of coffee with my sweet husband and Miss Sarah while we watch it snow, snow, snow:) Yep, still coming down! This one is supposed to give us at least another 4 inches today. Who knows...maybe we WILL have a white Christmas after all:)

   Have a very blessed and warm day in the Lord!

God be with thee!

Sister Lori