Anna shooting a 038 caliber revolver

Anna at the shooting range for her 2nd time.

Another Picture or 2 of My Son and New daughter in Law

Here is some more pictures of the happy couple before they got married. These are my favorites. I am including a really good picture of my son by himself. I am his step mom but I have been for so long now that he is mine too.

Surpise.Surprise

Well thanks to Myspace bulletins we got a suprise last night. A good one I hope. Time will tell.
Yep our son went to Reno and got married. I told Dave Saturday night when I read they were going to Lake Tahoe that they were getting married and he said NAH they arent. THen got a friends bulletin on Myspace and nearly fell out of my chair.
All his friends knew but not his family. Getting a package that he sent just before he got married...now we are very curious because he sent one to Reno too. I wish them much happiness. He is a great young man and I love him alot.

Well I Guess I Need to Blog More

It is December and almost Christmas. BAHUMBUG. Ha ha. As usual my life is full of drama. My mom is recuperating from an attack of acute Diverticulitis. Sounds familiar huh Sandy. She however, being older than our pal Robert is having a tough time getting her strength back. I am somewhat worried about her, but at least she is starting to eat.

Have you ever been going through your things and found something you forgot you had??? I was going through some necklaces yesterday, well actually I was trying to untangle some necklaces and all of the sudden out pops one from the ball of chains. It was a necklace my dearly beloved friend Daryl(the one that died in September) had given me as a gift when we were going together. It was the first real gift he had given me...Well the 2nd. It was the first one that was bought for me. He had given me Cameo ring but I think he already had it. I sure miss him and its worse knowing that I will never see him or hear his voice again. I went almost 12 years not knowing where he was but this is worse.
After he died I found this song:
ords and music by Queen

Sometimes I get the feelin'
I was back in the old days - long ago
When we were kids when we were young
Things seemed so perfect - you know
The days were endless we were crazy we were young
The sun was always shinin' - we just lived for fun
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don't know
The rest of my life's been just a show

Those were the days of our lives
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing is true
When I look and I find I still love you

You can't turn back the clock you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame
I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life was just a game
No use in sitting and thinkin' on what you did
When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don't know
Better sit back and go with the flow

Cos these are the days of our lives
They've flown in the swiftness of time
These days are all gone now but some things remain
When I look and I find no change

Those were the days of our lives - yeah
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing's still true
When I look and I find
I still love you

I still love you

I listen to it almost every day. I wish I had found it before he died. I have said goodbye to him in a dream before he walked through the door to heaven. I know he is here somewhere...he is watching and taking care of me and my Dad is helping him. Ok now I am gonna go and cry.
Later

I Guess I Should Finally Update

Well, I didn't realize how long it had been since I updated,until Sandy so politely pointed it out " today.

Alot has been going on,but I didn't feel like it was worth sharing. But I guess it might be.
We had some excitement in our little redneck town in June. One Saturday evening we got a panicked knock on our door. A neighbor girl screamed "CALL 911". So I did. She said someone had been shot. So Dave jumped up out of bed and grabbed a pistol and went over to see if he could render first aide. Well it was too late they were both dead. Come to find out the drug dealers we had been fighting with the Sheriffs Department got murdered. Shot dead in the head. Unfortunately Anna saw one of the get shot and hit the ground. Now mind you, they were drug dealers and we were sick of them, but the man that shot them had even more reasons to be angry. A few minutes later he turned himself in and is awaiting trial.

We are fighting an over run of RATS..because another family of drug addicts abandoned a home and left trash everywhere...again I HATE RATS...I discovered one was living under our patio that was a big as our cat..and to make it worse Dave is out of town. Darn I hate rats and I want to move. I have 8 cats and 3 dogs and still have big ole rats....Some are as big as our cat. And our wonderful county wont help.

I lost a very dear and old friend of mine on September 14th. He was 47 years old. On September 1 he had a heart attack. He survived the Heart Attack but coded and his brain was without oxygen for 45 minutes. He laid on life support for 12 days. And once he was removed from life support he died just under 2 days later. He was my first love, my first fiance and many other firsts. I hadn't seen or spoken to him in 11.5 years. One day this summer something was nagging at me to find him. I found him but waited a while to email him. Finally something was telling me that something was going on. I emailed him and he was pleasantly surprised. I then found out he was a diabetic and his blood pressure was dangerously high. I tried to help him with advice on his sodium and I thought I was being successful. But I wasn't and I lost him. I cried for 2 weeks and though Dave doesn't know the extent of my sorrow he was very wonderful with the sorrow he saw. See when Dave walks through they door my world becomes bright and all my troubles go away. Now he is gone on vacation and we haven't been apart in 5 years. I am very lonely. but he calls me almost every day and the sound of his voice makes me feel like it did 11 years ago when I first met him on the Internet and we corresponded on the phone.

I have come to realize that after a horrendous summer fighting his health and illness that even though I lost my first love and best friend that Dave is my life and I am lucky to have him. I love him more than I thought I could ever love someone. He spoils me with his love and affection and that's way better than with material things. So I guess what I am trying to say is this, even though I lost someone else I love very much, I am lucky to have someone that loves me very much, for me,and even with all my imperfections I am perfect in his eyes.

That's all for now. You happy now Sandy. :)

My Family Needs Prayer

Hi Everyone.

We got a phone call today from my brother in law. My other brother in law that is very ill with heart problems was admitted to the hospital with his brain bleeding. Please put my brother in law Don in your prayers.

Thanks Alot.

Patty

Please Pray

Pattys Blog

Happy Friday everyone!!! Thought I would just put a post in to tell everyone hi.

Yesterday we found out that a girl in Anna's class was hit by a car Wednesday nite and is in serious condition at University of Louisville Hospital. She has 2 broken legs a broken arm and they dont know what other injuries as yet. Would you that believe in prayer please pray for Hanna. Thanks.

Also would you pray for the elderly couple that her, to help them cope with this accident. She ran across the street in front of them...They are in their 80's and I can imagine that they are devastated.

Something Funny to Share

Good morning. I told Sandy this story and she laughed at me,so I thought I would share it.

It starts like this......A few weeks ago someone tore down a run down house around the corner to build a new one on the lot. Well our dog in the back killed 4 rats. Dave said "if Bill killed 4 I wonder where the rest of them are?" Well for weeks we have been hearing noises at night in the walls, and I accepted the fact that it might be mice. Because we live in the country. I have been putting a small all you can eat buffet of rat/mouse poison out several days a week. A couple of nights ago Blondie was on her way outside to pee and took off running accross the laundry room, we didn't see anything but have closed up 1 hole in the wall and found another. Then later on Dave got up to do the same thing and felt something run accross his foot....well he had asked me to clean off the desk in the laundry room so we can fix the hole in the wall....as I was cleaning the desk was making noises and things were moving so I was skeered. See I hate(phobia) rodents so I would move stuff and then back away. I moved somthing under the desk and there it was....A RAT a great big RAT...I thought it was dead and was still having an anxiety attack because Dave was working and not here to move it. My dogs were trying to get it and I was wiggin out. Well after I calmed down I went back in the laundry room and it had MOVED to the doorway in front of the bedroom....Now mind you I was really freaking out. I called Dave again and he said would have to wait until he gets off work....Now mind you I was picturing this Rat coming to get me(Silly I Know)...So I shagged my fat butt out the front door and went next door and asked the neighbor kid to come and take it out.....well he did, he held it up and said where do you want it....and it was HUGE.....I screamed loudly like an idiot and went and hid while he took it out back and killed it and disposed of it in a big hole where his friends were from weeks ago.....now I feel all better and the room is cleaned so the hole can be fixed. My mom asked me if we had fried Rat for dinner....Sandy laughed at me and another friend asked me how my pet was....Now I can laugh with the best of them but that really truamatized me..I guess I need to seek professional help for my phobia. What do you think??