Nov. 2 - Craft show and book sale tomorrow ;-)

I'm borrowing this from another blog--we will see if I can keep it up ;-)   Thirty days of Thanks.

Nov. 1 - Mom is still here, sleeping a lot, but knows me when I come to visit her.

Today is my moms' 91st birthday.

Oops--that should be Friday in the last post

Strange Friday

Last Saturday was a strange mix of emotions. I went to the memorial service for a friend who had a fairly long and full life but died much too young for those who knew and loved her. At about the time I was heading for home--my nephew's wife gave birth to their first child. Emily Jean joins her two brothers and is my mom's first great grandchild (the boys came with their mom to make my nephew now the proud father of three).

Rare light hearted moment with tornado

Sunday afternoon I was planning on attending a concert of Bach music. The final season concert for the Chamber Singers of Iowa City (which was dedicated to a dear friend who is ill and was one of the founding members of the group 40 years ago) was scheduled for 3:00. The area had been under a tornado watch for most of the day, but the storm appeared to be out of out immediate area. WRONG!! We had just gotten seated when we were "advised" (ie strongly urged) to move to the building's safe area. This happened twice during the next 45 minutes. Finally, they decided it was safe to begin. Everything went fine for the first half of the concert. The second half piece had just begun when the lights went out. Since the singers and the orchestra hadn't memorized the work (imagine!!) we waited while the staff got the lights back. The best part was the facility staff (who were wonderful during the entire event) saying that they should have memorized their parts and the conductor (sitting on his dias) admitting he had no comeback for that. In the end the concert got finished, it was beautifully done and they had a wonderful reception celebrating 40 years of beautiful mucic.

Goodbye Josie

This is my favorite picture.