PESKY MOSQUITOES

One of our best repellents we have found is to rub on Avon Skin-So-Soft. Bill even puts some in a spray bottle with a little water and spritzes it on for protection when he is outside working. It's really good when we go to the drive-in theater and are sitting outside. It has a good smell, too.

Chris was right about Marcy. She is going to walk the Cancer Relay for Life with her problem foot. Cancer has been such an awful culprit to our family that she feels she has to. My siblings and I are even in an ongoing study that the NHI is doing for multiple myeloma. I give Marcy a lot of credit. If you would like to donate to her effort, you can use the link http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RelayForLifeSouthAtlanticDivision?px=5203353&pg=personal&fr_id=8625. If you would just like to donate to the American Cancer Society, please don't hesitate to go to their website and do so. We lost our grandmother, our dad and one of our brothers to MM. One of our aunts died from possibly MM when I was a young teenager. We lost one of our sisters to colon cancer. One of our brothers has had esophageal cancer and is still plagued with the side effects of that. Like Chris said her family has been set upon by this awful disease. A very good friend of ours has battled with breast cancer. Another very good friend died from lymphoma. I could go on and on but I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of you reading this that have had this ugly monster raise it's head somewhere in your life. You know what I mean when I say we have to find something or some way to combat this. Every little bit helps and is appreciated!

Yesterday Marcy, her 2 grandchildren and I went to a local flea market to check it out to see if we would like to do business there sometime. We found that we would and are looking forward to it. After we left there, I stopped at a supermarket to get the fixings for a surprise meal for Bill. He worked longer and harder Friday than he has worked since he had his strokes. I wanted to let him know that I noticed and really appreciated it. He loves steak with blue cheese on top so I fixed that for him. He is not supposed to eat red meat because of gout possibly flaring up, but, we took a chance. I, also, boiled some shrimp in beer with great seasoning and made a delicious cocktail sauce. Add a great baked potato with all the fixings (including real bacon bits) and corn and he was loving it. He has had chicken, fish and turkey for so long he was in heaven eating a steak!! Everyone else sure enjoyed the meal, too.

Today we went to church and then to visit with our mother for awhile. She did not respond to us today, but, at least we saw her. Later we went home and Tamika picked up Darionna and Will to go back home. Now we are all just resting. It's cold and dreary out so it's a good day to just rest. Have a great day in your little part of the wold wherever that might be!!