Small Chuckle - Big Inspiration

Since I last posted, we have had wildfires come close to us - close enough to be on the brink of evacuating with cars packed and the evacuation line 2 blocks from us for 2 days!  It is a sobering experience.  We are so thankful that the winds shifted and we were not directly affected, but our hearts break for those who lost homes...

Health wise - fine - not walking enough tho 
sleep, weight, mouth sores all ok  
nausea there, but manageable
snotty/bloody nose continues - sinuses are crazy! smoke does not help!
mouth sores, night sweats, hot flashes, fair
skin on hands and feet are bothering me quite a bit - got a prescription salve for them, 
    but skin on feet has cracked open in places :(

Some thoughts from the wildfire - 
until you have lived through a wildfire with high winds, you don't get it
how fast it goes - how fires can start anywhere from the embers - how smokey it is - how tough it is to make headway - how the choppers continuously come to the reservoir to dip and get water, their sound becoming the background rumble throughout your day - how thankful you are for the firefighters, police, chopper pilots - how moving it is to see people coming together to help each other out, whether it is with offers to pick up children from school, house pets, house people, haul horses, empty homes, feed firefighters, feed those stuck in shelters, or comfort each other in loss...This is the case in many disasters - though the details may be different...It restores your faith in mankind.

I will never forget watching on TV and seeing my friend's house and the fire creeping toward it...She was stuck in traffic with no access to TV.  Her home is in an area where 6 homes burned to the ground 2 blocks away so there was lots of footage of her area.  We were able to pick out her home, see the fire engine in the driveway and watch, horrified as the fire climbed the slope toward her house.  (I learned that fires climb slopes more quickly than descending slopes - your trivia for the day!) One angle was gut wrenching - showing the house with flames above her roof!!!  As I burst into tears, another TV angle showed that it was the canyon BEHIND her house that was in flames, and not her house! Miraculously, the distance between the flames and the house was about 15 feet and the house did not catch on fire!!!  God truly intervened! The flames raced past her home, continuing up the canyon,and the firefighter that was dousing the slope was able to get on top of it!  Yesterday I visited her home and saw God's hand so clearly - there was a band of green (1/2 of each of the bushes) all the way along her fence  - the homes on either side showed fire damage to their fences. The bushes outside the fence were completely black and burnt...Yes, God surely intervened!


There have been so many disasters lately, wildfires in Montana, Northern California and in our neighborhood; hurricanes and flooding in Florida,Texas and in between, the Las Vegas shooting and that says nothing about all the "regular" awful stuff that is on the news or friends who have health scares or debilitating illnesses....There is little enough to laugh about!  In an effort to bring you a smile, I'm posting some of my wig pictures as they seem to be of great interest to lots of people!  Hope these make you chuckle a bit!  

To make you further chuckle, I went through great exercises to get these silly pictures to load so if it looks funny, that's why!  Technology and I sometimes have different ideas about life! ugh!  

Thankful for 
our first responders, firefighters, EMTs and policemen who worked round the clock shifts 
    fighting these awful fires
friends who accompany me to chemo
friends who come to visit

family - by blood, faith, or friendship
Healthy Cookies
My wig
technology that keeps me connected to you

cooler temperatures

wind dying down

medicine

energy

Ginny's shop - my wig fitter

My wonderful husband

faith that keeps me going

ability to attend events, travel
my beautiful yard w birds and flowers

Asking for
chemo to keep working
self discipline to get stuff done and 
to walk

Because life is hard, here is inspiring video that a dear, courageous, friend did for our students at Olu.  It will be and encouragement to you- Be blessed!
https://youtu.be/p2eJqJC3pJo

He who dwells in the shelter of the most high, 

   will rest in the shadow of the almighty.

I will say of the Lord, "he is my refuge and my fortress,

   my God in whom I trust."

Ps 91

Thanks for checkin' in!