Sunday evening in Day to day life from a woman that turned 60 in Oct 2014 and who lives on a farm and Retired on January 2, 2016. I plan to do more sewing, work outside in the yard and just enjoy my retirement.

It’s getting close to bedtime for me. I dozed off for about 20 min. in my chair after supper and hopefully that doesn’t keep me up. I’m usually in bed by 9pm and some nights even earlier. It just depends on how early I got up that morning and how tired I am that evening. Thursday evening I went to bed before 8 which I hate to do, but if I can’t stay awake then what is the point of trying to stay awake until a certain time? I know that makes me wake up earlier but its 1/2 dozen of one and 6 of another.

On Friday afternoon Dad called me and asked me if I would take him to Walmart. I did NOT have that on my agenda but our forecast was calling for freezing rain and sleet and he hadn’t been to town for awhile. I got some “go out in public” clothes on and then went to his house and picked him up and off we went. The roads weren’t too bad although still patchy down here. We got to Walmart and I did need to buy furnace air filters for the house, so I went one direction and he went the other toward the groceries. I also discovered they had gotten a new shipment of filters in for my humidifier, which is rare this time of the year so I got two of them. I had used The Works lime remover on the old one and it was working again, but they don’t last very long after you clean them, if at all. I was thankful the little gauge had gone back to blue or green or the color that tells you it is doing what it should be doing. Now I have new ones but I’ll try the other filter I cleaned first and hopefully save the two new ones for next winter.

I didn’t get much although my debit card thought I had bought a cart full. Dad was checking out just as I was done and I noticed a big box in his cart. He decided I needed a fire, flood, and break-in safe Safe. I was a little annoyed at him for buying it for me, but he was sure I needed it for my handguns. I did want and need a safe for my hand-guns but I didn’t want him to buy it. He was happy as a clam about the purchase and thankfully we had taken my Tahoe and didn’t have to load it into my vehicle to bring it to my house. It is not big but it is heavy. I was going to use my computer chair (it has wheels) to wheel it from the back to my bedroom, but that didn’t work out as I lost my grip and the chair rolled so the safe ended up on the floor. I thought I could lift it upon the chair, but I couldn’t as it was just too heavy for me. However, it slid easily on the ceramic tile and did the same on the carpet. I had spent most of yesterday afternoon cleaning and purging in my bedroom closet and bedroom. I was really looking for last years tax booklet, but never did find it. However, my bedroom is much lighter of papers and documents that were no longer needed. I shredded several bins full of documents and Owen came down and he shredded until he got bored shredding.

I will say that the documents I shredded were documents that at one time did need to be saved, however, the time is past for their usefulness. It was a relief to get that done although there is more to do in other places. I got the new safe in its new home and filled it up with the guns and all but one box of ammo. Locked it, put a LED lite inside with the guns and locked it up and put the keys away. Now that I have the safe, I will keep one of them loaded but not until spring as I need to shoot the one handgun. I have my .22 rifle and shells within reach in case I need it and the blanks for the other pistol available too.

This morning I got up about 5 and piddled around in the kitchen and on the computer. I washed some odds and end clothes and got them dried. Took my shower and went to Sunday School and Church. We had a guest speaker this morning and it was such a GOOD service. He preached on Psalms 23 in that David had written this as an old man looking back over his years with the Lord. It was soul inspiring and very very eye opening. I felt the spirit rushing through my heart and soul and it was awesome. And then our pastor had to say a few words. You know the noise a balloon makes when you let the air out of it? Well there you go. When he started getting emotional for a story he was telling not related to the message and I almost wanted to cry myself as he took a wonderful and spirit filled time in our services and just deflated them within a couple of minutes. I need to pray much longer and harder for our pastor and me too if I am going to continue to go.

I’m not as faithful in going to church as I used to be. I blame it on the pastor in part and on myself the most. It seems that I’ve become a picky child in that no matter what the pastor serves up in his sermons I’m not going to like it. I have made a lot of progress lately but today when he just couldn’t leave the end of the service, the end of the service and had to put his two cents in I was talking to myself and God a LOT.

I almost giggled out loud today though as our SS teacher mentioned about not getting “spiritually fed” when you miss church or aren’t constant in your attendance. I wanted to tell him about the wonderful spiritual online friends I have here and not that that is a substitute for attending church, but I have a much bigger family online spiritually and it is daily. My church family are awesome and very supportive neighbors, friends, and good people. And most of my church family are in their 70s and 80s. I’m one of the young ones. Not a good sign for the future of our church I’m afraid.

Well the clock says I have 3 minutes until 9 so I will end this entry and get ready for bed. God Bless each and every one of you and have a great week.

Last updated February 23, 2015