Since it has been my responsibility for 26 years to get the cards and or letters out I accept all the blame for not getting it done for Christmas or New Years.
I can explain, honest!
After begging and begging for a 'kitty' for all the years we have been married. Luther just resisted it firmly. It wasn't worth breaking up our marriage over it but in my heart of hearts I really, really, wanted one! On Dec.6th it was our 26th wedding anniversary and he asked me what I wanted. I said something alive! Now there is the pitter patter of LOTS of feet around here but I knew that he knew I meant a kitty.
On Dec. 6th he went down to the Humane Society and picked out the most perfect little ball of fluff! (Amen, prayers answered!) It is a little female that is ginger and white....mostly white with red on her head and tail and a few little spots of it on her body. She has peridot green eyes and did I say she is Perfect? Her name is "Rosey Toesy". (Because of her coloring and the fact that she is polydactyl. This girl has so many extra toes! She looks like she has catchers mitts on the end of her legs.) Well the reason I am late is because I have not been able to think of anything else since she arrived. Don't get me wrong, I adore my dogs but the ones we have just aren't really cuddly and the one we do have that is very cuddly is a 84 pound yellow lab and she crushes the stuffin's out of us. So I have been fully engaged in being a new mommy to a precious kitty and journaling all about it.
I was going to get 'round to it in doing cards and letters. Well, obviously I didn't and I am sorry I failed in my duties as a wife but I am a happy new mom and hope you will forgive me.
Not too much going on with us. We have slowed down a bit. I do art all day and night and Luther works when he can and when he isn't I have a long list of 'Honey Do's' on a list.
For his 67th birthday we went on a cruise to St. Thomas, St Martin and on to the Bahama's. I didn't really enjoy it because it was too hot and humid. I am a Minnesota gal after all these years and frankly I like it nice and cold. (Who would have thunk it??) :-)
Luther liked all the heat so he was good to go but he had to drag me off to places. What I really did enjoy was Magen's Beach in St Thomas. I floated in that gorgeous water for 2 hours. We both enjoyed that. You can't sweat and suffer the heat if you are in gorgeous water.
Luther had surgery on both of his eyes due to cataracts. I am really squeamish when it comes to eyes and I a begged him not to have them done if he didn't really need to but he was determined. He said it was painless and didn't complain at all and I was able to put the drops in his eyes without falling into a dead faint. His big blue eyes are as gorgeous as ever. I feared he would look so different with plastic lens in them. Like I said I have always been a bit squeamish on all things eye related that is why I still wear glasses.
And.................
After going a full year on a meatless diet and our blood work proving the advantages of such, I went off the wagon with a bite of hotdog and took him with me (shades of Adam and Eve,yes?) and we ate hotdogs every dang day for 2 weeks. It was the only meat I craved the whole time. (A hotdog for gosh sake!) We are both back on meat and both scared to go in for our physicals. I know our cholesterol has shot through the roof.............Well we both love the Lord with all of our heart and we know we are not getting out of here alive so there you have it. I for one am not leaving this planet eating like a rabbit!! :-)
