Many dignataries from national and state and local level are in GR today. The biggest gathering of dignataries I can remember for many years. It is the miltary presence and ceremonies that are very awesome to watch. A great honor. To achieve all this ceremony with such precision is quite an achievement and has been in planning for many years I ( Read more... )

More.....an airforce leader just said they expect the flyby to happen at 3:48 and 30 seconds!!! All the activites have occurred with absolutely precision miltary planning and execution. I just saw the choir at the church and wish I belonged to that church to be able to sing at this funeral. Talk about a first rate seat!!!!!!!!!! Oh, they are ( Read more... )

Dick is babysitting Olivia and so I am at home alone watching all the Ford burial activities and wanting to share in it with anyone!!! So here goes more for all of you.....it was Airforce 2 that flew over our house and landed with Cheney. He is now arriving at the church for the service, while there is a private ceremony going on at the museum ( Read more... )

Oh, oh, oh. The activities for the Ford funeral are fantastic today. Airforce 2 just flew over our house!!!! We are on the landing runway for the airport and when I heard a plane and knew they were expecting it to come, I ran outside and saw it....unmistakable for it's huge white look. Oh my!!! They just showed it on tv landing, with most ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting day so far! First of all, my friend Sandy, got the results of the latest scan on her lungs and the nodule has NOT grown after all as suspected. The first scan that showed growth had a shadow on the picture or was just hard to read correctly, which is why the dr. ordered another scan before getting too excited over it all ( Read more... )

This week is the Christmas store at church. I'll be a bit busy with all of that. We give food, toys, and garage sale type clothes and home things, for about 80 plus families in our area ( Read more... )

I am only writing this so people know I am still around! I started a post the other night and it sounded awful, so deleted it. And tonight I am in a really grumpy mood, so won't write much now either. I am cooking a squash to make my famous squash cassarole for tomorrow night's potluck quilting Christmas party. This meeting is when we do secret ( Read more... )

People who live in Michigan talk a lot about the weather. (Yes, I know everyone around the world does also! But maybe Michiganders think about it more?) So it seems to appear in many of my conversations, posts, and daily living stuff. For example: it has been heavenly lately. Nice temps in the mid-50's and even lower 60's. I can take walks ( Read more... )

Well yesterday was a crummy day.......a minor disagreement with Dick in the morning, a discovery of the freezer door left partly open and the loss of some of the food in it that had thawed, and then in the evening I dropped my favorite light to sew with, breaking the special light bulb in it and having to vacuum up the mess as well as now finding ( Read more... )

Mouse number 2 in now departed also. Or is it deported? Hopefully quilt central in basement is now under human control only again ( Read more... )