I am off today, as a bonus I also have the day off from work!

For the weekend to look so dismal late Thursday it rallied to regain its earlier promise. As it turned out, Crown is running short on some of the cans that Coke requisitioned for delivery today. What this means is that eight of the fourteen loads scheduled for today will be pulled from warehouse reserves in Fort Worth. So after we at the office called to alert everyone to the Saturday work schedule and got all the driver's fruit of the looms in a wad, we had to do our best Rosanna Rosanna Danna impersonation and say "Never mind!" Our part of the move will be done with only three drivers!

My Friday ended up consisting of a very early trip to the metroplex and I finished out the day in the office.

The week in revue. Congratulations and condolences are due respectively for Lauren (the oldest grandchild) and her parents. Late Friday evening we received a call informing us that Lauren was chosen as a cheerleader for the Abilene High Eagles for the coming school year. So now Lauren will have to go through a crash course of sports whys and why nots, when to yell and when to not, and Trc and Brently can just say goodbye to $$$$$$$$.

Ollie is having some health issues. She is coming to Abilene Wednesday for a diabetes doctor appointment. Of course her insurance is wanting to do a backstroke and say this is a pre- existing condition. Insurance companies are great as long as you don't need them. Everyday I become more and more convinced we need to put the insurance companies out of business and have a national health program like Denmark. I can't get the vision of Grisham's Rainmaker book from my mind where the wealthy insurance company's standard response was to deny, deny, deny! Back to Ollie. She is also complaining of lower back pain and tests are showing one kidney with decreased function (about fifty percent). Add to this the fact that Ollie thinks she is in LOVE and everything is great and then her beau has been diagnosed with either Parkinson or MS. Now her suitor is wanting to back off until he sees what his health issues are. It seems like everytime she gets a good roll going a wheel comes off.

Krl and I don't have much on schedule for the weekend. Krl is fighting bad depression. Everyday this week we have put off doing the grocery store so today it is a must! What does that tell you if the highlighted activity for the week is the grocery store. Actually we have to go to Wal-mart as well, we are supposed to bring candy to stuff into plastic eggs for the Easter Egg hunt. If I were going to be here at Halloween I would try to organize a hunt for easter eggs that had been over looked, we would call it a "deviled" egg hunt! We do have some work to do for Krl's deposition and production for Monday. When I ended up out of town on the truck I was never served my subpoena. Pray that all goes well. Krl and I are scheduled to be in Lubbock on Friday for an appointment with our attorney. It is time that we put all this behind us.

Krl and I were talking earlier in the week, I had just purchased a lotto or mega million ticket and she was scolding me. "I don't know why you buy those things", she said. I was quiet for a while and then I told her that is one of the things that keeps me going. "What do you mean", she replied. I told her as long as I keep the hope alive, I can function. When that hope is gone it will be a deep valley of depression. I once had a banker friend and his terminology was to "keep swinging at the high fast balls, one of these days you will hit it!"

I often think of something my Mom always says. She says she sure hopes heaven doesn't have money there! I agree. As I get older my monetary requirements diminish. It is a good thing though because the past few years the monetary income has diminished as well. I try not to be bitter because it has become a dog eat dog world, but "predator" international companies exist at the expense of smaller "service" companies. "Tell them anything" seems to be the big company motto. Lies and deception. Deliver me from this paragraph!

FATHER, thanks for seeing us through the week. It appears that the coming week may need a deluxe dose of YOU. FATHER forgive us when we confuse hope of this life and hope eternal. I know YOU will see to our every need. YOU have never disappointed. FATHER I pray for strength, guidance and wisdom as decisions are made in the coming week. I continue to ask YOUR healing for those in need. I pray for Krl's depression and her health issues as well as those of Ollie. I pray for Hag, B., Lillie, Carol, Michelle, Aimee, Jennifer, Tj, Anna, Jess, and those recovering from injuries from the accident. I ask for YOUR healing and comfort for them. I pray for those hurting from loss. Fill their void with YOUR mercy and grace. I pray for those of us with spiritual issues. Bless us as we sort through them. I pray for our spiritual family and our leaders. My true hope is based on nothing less than JESUS CHRIST.