Spring Storms.

 My phone just blared out a warning about a tornado. Looked at the radar, and then a glance out the back yard showed dark clouds to the west. But in the southeast the skies are clear. That is the first time this year that a warning has come through on my phone. Had even asked Maggie Sewell earlier how to program that feature into my phone. Hmm. So far everything seems to be moving northeast of us. Gotta love radar! Tell ya what: the headache tells me more than the radar! Argh! But it does appear that Burkburnett is getting the bad stuff right now. Hope Laurie and family are hunkered down out of the mess.

Truly enjoyed a visit from my sister-in-law. She has been keeping her dog locked inside the house while she goes places because folks have been stealing dogs. Have no idea why mean people do things like that! And Snoop is so friendly that he would just jump into a truck and go anywhere. Then there is the neighbor who has been hauling off the cats that she has been having neutered and spayed. Dipstick! Kinda makes a person want to do something really tacky to him.

Donny Anderson has been mowing his place all day. It takes that long, too. He has several acres down there to mow. Glad that he takes such good care of it. The one behind me and the ones down on the street are going to be fire hazards in nothing flat--not to mention this place across the street. Jerry's place is going to be impossible to mow with all the garbage in there. Guess the city will have to take it up with his mom since it is in her name.

If you will, please pray for my friend Connie Cooke and her sister Rebekah. Only God can fix some things. Kinda like this country. 

Ok, one more time this is going to be said and then will try to avoid saying anything else about it: The Bible says to love your neighbor as yourself. It does not say you have to appreciate the fact that the guys are homosexuals or the girls lesbians. If God did not say, "Love your neighbors as yourself--except for those sinful so and so's over there," then who am I to choose who to love. No, I despise seeing violence and hatred and bigotry, but the people who are guilty of those sins are also subject to God's love. I can despise bigotry, but not the person who was made in God's image. I can despise the violent, drug crazed individuals who make our world so dangerous. But unless using a gun to protect myself or my family from the actual violence, it would not do for me to hate those folks. It is the sin that God hates. That is what separates us from His love. 'Nuff said.

The new bed frame with headboard and footboard came today. Hoping the boys will consider tomorrow a "shop day" so we can get the old one taken out and the new one set up. The mattress is the heaviest thing in this house! The most comfortable, but the heaviest! Dread killing the dust bunnies under that bed. But guess that is the least of the problem.

Have you ever noticed that if someone talks about a certain kind of food in a story--book or TV--it makes the reader kinda want that to try? Not sure that scones are the best kind of English goodie, but know they are good. Sharon Dickerson tries to bring one to me when she goes to eat in Vernon. Next time she comes, we are going to go to Pioneer and eat a lunch that sticks to your belly--and to your hips! Or we might run over to Market Street to have something over there. They make really good food. And it is not expensive. Just something else to look forward to!

Absolutely as dumb as a rock this evening. Will say that the front yard is wonderfully wild with flowers. And we have honeybees! Lance said something about getting a beehive. Um, NOPE! Can't mow or weed eat near one of those things. Will just have to depend on the honey bees that have made a nest down in the old abandoned Speegle house. That entire place hums! 

Let us appreciate the fact that we are not totally under anyone's thumb at the moment. Knowing that God gives us courage and common sense helps. Meanwhile, rest well, my friends. You are loved.