Another day is not promised to us

We attended both funer­als of my cousins over the weekend.

So nice to see cousins, uncles, aunts, and friends that we don’t often see but sad for the rea­son we had to gather. Chris’s funeral was on Sat­ur­day at 9 a.m. Danny’s funeral was at 9 a.m. on Sun­day. Both funer­als were largely attended.

Our sym­pa­thy goes to both fam­i­lies. Such a tragedy and we ques­tion “why?” But let us trust that God makes no mis­takes and that it is all for a rea­son. Some­day we will all understand.

It does seem to draw every­one closer at times like these think­ing what and if it would have been us. God has not promised us another day so let us all be prepared.

Brother Amos was not able to attend Chris’s funeral due to still being very sore. He felt bet­ter Sun­day morn­ing and attended Danny’s funeral. All of the co-workers will have a hard time deal­ing with their emo­tions through their accident.

We do not under­stand why God spares one life and takes another but only He knows when our time on Earth is through. We left early Sat­ur­day morn­ing and arrived home Sun­day at 3 p.m thank­ful to have made it home safely.

On Feb. 9 Joe’s fam­ily plans to get together for a belated Christ­mas at Joe’s sis­ter Salome’s house. We will have a carry-in brunch at 10:30 a.m. Hope­fully the roads will be in good shape to travel the two hour drive.

Only patches of snow are remain­ing here and there so sled­ding has been put off until the next snow comes. Some are ice fish­ing on the lakes already.

My hus­band Joe is get­ting eager to get out there but is still recov­er­ing from a bad ear infec­tion. The doc­tor thinks he has asthma now so he needs to get that checked out. He just seems to have a hard time all win­ter get­ting over a cough.

Yes­ter­day I took son Joseph, 10, to the eye doc­tor. He lost his glasses at school so I needed to order another pair for him. It was time for him to have another eye exam any­way but I am still hop­ing he can find the ones that he lost so he has a spare pair. After that I had to take Loretta for her ther­apy appointment.

Susan had to baby-sit all day so she was not home to help me with the laun­dry. I guess I am spoiled when I do not have help to do the laun­dry when she is working.

This win­ter seems to be going fast and I keep think­ing that we need to butcher beef and pork. Win­ters used to seem to last for­ever when the chil­dren were all younger. Now they seem to fly by just as fast as the other seasons.

Our neigh­bor Irene gave us four 1,000 piece puz­zles and it seems we don’t have time to put those together. Next week our sec­ond old­est child has her 17th birthday.

Susan usu­ally does the morn­ing chores which she doesn’t mind. She loves to spend all the time she can with the horses and ponies.

She had an extra chore this morn­ing, though. Kevin usu­ally gath­ers the eggs at night and must have for­got­ten to close the chicken house doors.

So Susan with the help of our bor­der col­lie dog gath­ered the 40 chick­ens and mean rooster into the chicken coop.

We are still get­ting 40–46 eggs a day. All we can fig­ure out is some of hens are lay­ing more than one egg a day. Need­less to say we still have plenty of eggs. I told Joe we bet­ter get our “eggs for sale” sign back out. Every week mak­ing noo­dles seems to get pushed back. God’s bless­ings to all, enjoy this easy recipe.

CORNBREAD SALAD

10 cups crum­bled cornbread

8 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled

2 medium toma­toes, chopped

1 medium green pep­per chopped

Half cup chopped onion

1 1/3 cups mayonnaise

Com­bine corn­bread, bacon, toma­toes, green pep­pers, and onion. Add may­on­naise and toss to coat. Best if served immediately.

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