SUNSETYELLOW's Journal

Good morning all my ds friends,

Well it has been a hectic summer.  AS you can see it has been a while since I had an entry to my journal.  So, I just thought I would take a few minutes and catch everybody up.

First off, as most of you know, I lost two brothers to cancer this summer.  It was a rough time for our family because they died within one week of each other.  But they were both strong Christian men and I know we will be reunited at a later date.  It really was a blessing for both of them to go home because they were both suffering greatly with the cancer.  It was kind of a bittersweet situation.  Our family rallied together though and we are moving on with our lives as they would have wished us to do.

We spent a couple of weekends at the lake this summer.  It is so relaxing to get away and throw a fishing line in the water.  Over Labor Day we watched the sunset over the lake and watched a beautiful full moon and even got to watch fireworks over the lake.  It was a wonderful time for us.  And best of all, the fish were biting!!!

Work has been really hectic with a lot of new business.  That is a blessing in these harsh economic times.  I am so busy I am actually overwhelmed.  But our business is a Christian business and has been given to the Lord and I guess when you look at it that way, how can we fail!!!  Our CEO is actually a minister at one of the local churches.  My minister also works here as our IT person.  And then as if that isn't enough, there is also another minister working in our maintenance department!!!  We are well covered!!!  We have a company wide bible study every Tuesday at lunch time.  Prayer is encouraged!!!  Where can you find another company with these scruples.  I am so fortunate.

John's job has held together as well.  Since he is in the maintenance department at his plant, he works full time.  The people on the production floor are only working three days a week so we are praying that he is able to stay in maintenance.  He has enough senority though that it would be hard for anybody to bump him out of his job.

We had a lot of work done on our house this summer as well.  We had a water line break and in fixing that, we ended up replacing the sidewalk in front of the house.  We also painted the trim on our house and are working on gettng that finished up this weekend.  We still have the front and back porch floors to get done.  It is amazing what a little bit of paint can do.  We have a lot of work to do inside but we decided that can be done once the weather gets chilly and we can't work outside.

Our family reunion was cancelled this year because of the brothers passing away.  We haven't given up entirely on getting together maybe sometime in October.  But finding a date is the problem.  It will seem funny now because my generation is now the oldest generation represented.   We all knew this day would eventually come but when the reality of it sets in, it can be overwhelming.  It also makes me feel old-my generation are now the old foggies!!!  We are the ones that the younger generation are going to look to much as we looked to our aunts and uncles.  My one cousin wanted to know who was going to say the prayer now!!!

My vacation this summer pretty much was a bust.  It was scheduled during one of the funerals so I didn't get to do a whole lot.  My sister was home for both funerals so I had company both weeks that I was off.  But I didn't mind.  I love entertaining but two weeks in a row was a bit much.  I had to go back to work in order to rest!!!  But I still have four more weeks of vacation and I haven't decided yet when I will take any of it.  It is hard to get time off when we are so busy here at work.

So that about catches you all up on what has been happening.  John and I are both healthy and active and grateful.  Hope all of you are the same.