They Are Okay!

Thank you all for the many prayers prayed for Summer and Sabrina and family in Puerto Rico.

Sabrina's mother posted this to my Facebook wall late this afternoon.......

"Linda just to let you know Donna heard from Candy and they are all ok lots of damage but they are ok"

From what I can see on the limited amount of news I am getting on my iPad Weather app.....
the entire island is without power and there's no telling the amount of damage in the infrastructure of Puerto Rico.
While I have not yet heard Summer's voice - at least I can be more at peace knowing they survived.

This is what was in our 'front yard' this morning!

While we don't really want the horses coming right up to the porch, it is pretty cool to get to see them as a matter of course around here.

The first thing I did this morning after our reading and prayer time.....

was to make Louis Dean a banana pudding.

I used Trisha Yearwood's recipe and the vanilla wafers are the HEB Hill Country Fare brand.

They look more like ginger snaps and are really good.

Today I looked through all the books I bought at the Goodwill on Tuesday.

The Cotton Queen is by an author in McKinney, Texas and that's where the story she tells takes place.

I did not realize that If I am Missing or Dean was a true story written by the sister of the one who died.

The best book buy was Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher - who is my all time favorite author.

She is elderly and no longer writes. I am selfish and wish she would write just one more. Her last book was Winter Solstice.

I did not realize there was a TV series in 1998 based on Coming Home.

I just discovered I can see this on YouTube!!!

The One Year Devotional and Prayer Book will be saved for 2018.

Since I was trying to keep my mind busy, I decided to cook a roast.

I used the electric skillet and brought in inside the camper since today was a muggy 98 degrees.

I had to take it back outside when it tripped the breaker to the entire camper!

The new room is wired separately and Louis Dean says I could run a dryer and anything else I wanted to out there. He hates it when a breaker flips.

He got started on the bathroom today and made a lot of progress.

Dean came down and helped him sort it out and steered him in the right direction.

Louis Dean can do absolutely anything but plumbing is his least favorite.

I painted this afternoon.....LATE afternoon.

After I heard that Summer was okay, I jumped into gear and felt more creative.

I've decided to paint some cotton boll pictures.

I toyed with using some real bolls on top of painted ones and I may explore that idea a little more tomorrow.

The Sledding Santa got some more work done on him.

It's been good to have several projects going at once so when I get weary of one - I can just pick up a different one!

We have got in the habit of watching a movie a day.

Today's was pretty intense but it was excellent.

The fighting looks so very much like Dean's Karate.

There's a scene where Tom Cruise is practicing martial art against a beautiful sunset.

It looked just like Dean up by the big tank when he does his work outs.

That's all I have for today.

Louis Dean went to bed about 20 minutes ago and I will be there in another 15!

He said, "Honey, I got tired today just standing around."

I told him he had EARNED his tired!!!

I will continue in prayer for Puerto Rico......and am anxiously awaiting more news.