# 100

Wow! I came over to write this morning, I've been meaning to for over a week know, and realized that this will be the 100th post on my blog!

Lots going on since my last writing so I'll try not to leave anything out...

The last weekend of September I drove to Indiana and spent the weekend with Grandpa. We had a great time. Saturday morning we went to chapel for me to rehearse with Joetta - she plays so beautifully, I really enjoyed singing the hymn medley I'd chosen with her accompanying. We played several games of pool - he still beats my socks off! He has more time to practice than I do, though so I'll stick with that. After having tenderloins for lunch at Nick's in downtown Huntington, we both napped for a couple hours that afternoon. That evening we went to the community theater there in Warren and saw a brand new show by the same guy who wrote "Lend Me a Tenor". This one was called "" and was a great show - extremely funny! Sunday morning we went to chapel and then to Cracker Barrel for lunch. I stopped in Indy for about 2 1/2 hours on my way south to visit with my friend Anita whom I hadn't seen in several years. It was really great to catch up with her and I'm so glad that ours is a friendship that we can always just pick back up... that's one of the many things that having a foundation in Christ will do for a friendship!

Friday night, Oct 3 had been set aside for several weeks for the boys to come spend the night with me. They had been asking and we were finally able to sync our schedules and make it happen. Went to Marc & Susannah's for dinner and some adult catching up and then we headed home to Aunt Debby's! Since the weekend before I had brought home my new aggravation board that Grandpa made me, I taught the boys to play and they had a blast. What little boy doesn't love a game that uses marbles and dice and landing on someone to send them back! We started a new book ("Mary Poppins Comes Back") before bed and then I putzed around a little while they went to sleep. We have a routine of choosing a video before bedtime and setting it up so then can watch it in the morning when they get up and it allows Aunt Debby to sleep until 7am. Then I get up and shower and fix breakfast. This time it was buttermilk blueberry pancakes with homemade syrup - they were delighted!

After breakfast we headed back to their house to pick up Anna. It was her first time to get to go with us to the puppet show. Our main branch of the Nashville Public Library, does puppet/ marionette shows for free. They have 5 or 6 show a year and they have a really nice stage. This too has become a tradition for me and the boys and we were really glad to have Anna along with us this time too. She did a great job behaving and was just as enthralled as her brothers with watching the show. This time it was about the Native American tale of how the constellations were formed. They always do a great show and this time was no different.

Unfortunately, when I took the kids home, I was headed down to the basement to check on a mounting sibling situation and I fell down the stairs. I hit pretty hard with the edge of a stair right across my tailbone and the one above it hit about an inch below my waist. I was OK, but very, very sore. And my singles group was going rollerskating that night! For the second time this year when it was scheduled I didn't get to skate - not a happy girl! I did go though, my dear friend Amber was kind enough to pick me up so I at least got to visit with everyone. And fortunately I have many other kind friends as well that chauffeured me around for that weekend and even part of the next one. It didn't hurt to walk, but sitting was a definite challenge and just in the last couple days have I noticed it's mostly back to normal.

Friday night the 10th we enjoyed an evening of dinner and games at Jill's house and got to see all the fruits of her hard work on the house. It's beautiful - she did a great job!! Curt fixed us mexican buffet - all the fixings to have burritos or salad. And the chicken was great - not spicy at all :o) I think we played 3 different games and had a blast. The next day, I had grocery shopping to do, sewing to do and dinner to make. Beef and barley stew with beer cheddar bread for a group of 9 of us before going to the Stars game (oh yeah, it was here so they were playing the Preds). We had a great time, though wrong team won.

On the 17th it was time for the theater again... "Little Shop of Horrors". It ended up being a girls' night out and we had a great evening. It was definitely the strangest show I've ever seen, but as usual they did a great job. I was not really tired when I got home so I ended up staying up reading until about 1am or so. Which also meant I slept in the next day. That afternoon, Jennifer and I went to Amber's to help begin the painting process. She was redoing her bedrooom and bath. We started about 1:30 and worked until 10pm, with time out for a run to Wal-Mart for more tape and for dinner. We got everything cleaned, prepped, taped and 2 coats of primer on the bedroom. So we accomplished alot and the best part was we really laughed alot!!

Sunday was a beautiful day and I felt like driving (for the first time since my fall actually) and I needed to get out of the city. So while at lunch at sent a message to a friend and made arrangements for me to drive about an hour northwest to Ft. Campbell. I got there a little after 3pm and we drove around until 7:45pm. He gave me a tour of part of the base and then we drove over to Land Between the Lakes, which I'd never been to, and drove up The Trace. It was great to be out, though I was surprised that we really couldn't see the lakes. The fall colors this year are not near as nice as some I've seen, but that's OK. We had a good time talking and laughing. We ate dinner at Cheeseburger Charley's and it was a good burger (it was a fast food place), but we could have gone to a sit down/service place for not much more. Afterward, we tried to find a place his friend had told him about that had cheesecake and once we finally found it, it was closed on Sundays. So we went back to Coldstone Creamery and had some ice cream instead.

I've had lunch or dinner with several friends over the last couple weeks that I don't get to see very often and that has been great. It's nice to catch up every so often with those I don't see regularly. And this past Friday night I had Sarah and Leigh Ann over and we visited and did some scrapbooking. It's hard to believe that it had been over a year since I'd seen Leigh Ann and several months since I'd seen Sarah. We had a great time catching up and laughing!

Saturday morning, some of the guys from our group had invited all the ladies to a campfire breakfast! What a treat! Jennifer and I had planned to ride together and she was due at my house at 7:45. My alarm was set for 7 and I woke up about 6:45am - annoying! especially when I'd not gone to bed until 1:30am. Anyway, I got up and wandered around for a few minutes, then a little before 7 realized that I had no water. I went and called the company and their recording said they aware there were problems in my area, named a bunch of streets some of which I recognized, and they were working on it. Well that didn't help me, so I called Sus to see if they had water, which they did. I shifted into overdrive, gathered my stuff, drove over there, showered, drove back and was just finishing with my contacts and make-up when Jen got there.

I told her what was going on and asked what her plans were for the day and if she minded if I hung out with her since I had no idea when my water would be back. She said no problem, she had some grocery shopping to do and some cleaning, but that was it. Daniel was with her, in fact she told me she had brought a chauffeur! He had talked to Lee about helping with the breakfast, but they evidently were good so he didn't go early and drove us instead. Wow, chauffeured to a campfire breakfast, where the guys did all the cooking serving and clean-up! Does it get any better than that?! We had scrambled eggs and hash browns with cheese, bacon, sausage, and biscuits... tea, coffee, hot chocolate and OJ. What a spread!

So after breakfast we went to Jennifer's and she headed to the store. I thought I was going to take a nap, but then couldn't actually go to sleep - I hate that - but did lay and rest for quite awhile. We hung out for the afternoon and then had dinner before we left again to meet the group at the church to go down to the corn maze, hayride and bonfire at the Ring Farm. We had a great time again this year and Jennifer and I found all the points once again. We managed to not get too scared each time the guys (Daniel and Greg) were lurking in the corn or jumping out at us.

And now, it's back to work on Monday... hard to believe that October is almost over.