Tuesday Treasures and Other News.....

 We enjoyed a quiet Labor Day weekend at home.

Sunday morning we listened to Fellowship Church Live online and sipped our coffee out on the kitchen deck.

We ate up the last of the tasty pumpkin-LESS muffins and enjoyed a day of mild weather - meaning it was NOT 100 degrees!

I made a brand new to me recipe and it turned out delicious!!!

I saw it on a Facebook video and thought, "Now THAT looks good!"

And it WAS!!! It needed to cook a little longer than the recipe said and I could NOT find my shredded Parmesan cheese that I REMEMBER putting in my grocery cart at Aldi's!

Instead I used what I had on hand and it was still GOOD!

While we were eating dinner, it started RAINING! As in WATER from the sky!!!

The weather app on my phone said it was 68 degrees so I raced outside to feel it!

Nope! It was more like 74 but that's over 20 degrees from what it was!

Monday was another AT-Home day and Louis Dean and I slept late and did a little of this and that and he watched a recorded football game (that he had already seen once but enjoyed it just as much the second time around!) 

I cleaned out every inch of my fridge looking for that 'lost container of cheese' to no avail.

Perhaps I should check the trunk of the car - just in case!

It was nearly dark before it cooled off enough for me to go out and spread my batting and quilt top on the driveway. I have a twin size low loft batting but wanted a high loft so I had purchased that in a regular size. I want to make Charlie a friendly fluffy quilt - so I ended up doubling my batting using two layers. I came right in and basted the batting and top together.

When I finish writing tonight's journal entry, I will go out and pin that to the backing.

Tomorrow I will sew them together!

Louis Dean wore a heart monitor for a few days last month and it detected a problem so his cardiologist made us an appointment with Dr. Ali M. Kizilbash - an Electrophysiologist.

We always snap a selfie in the waiting room when we have a doctor appointment!

Turns out Louis Dean needs a heart monitor.

In one day - his heart stopped 932 times - for as long as 4.3 seconds at times.

His heart rate dipped alarmingly low to the 20's and 30's and was at 50 this morning at our appointment. So it's time. Dr. Uppalapatti said this was coming and now it is here.

We are waiting for the surgeon's office to call and schedule the surgery.

The low heart rate is what has caused LD to be so tired and sleep and nap so much lately.

It also makes him woozy and unstable so getting this heart monitor is going to be a good thing for him!

It was super hot again today but he said he felt up to a little thrift store shopping - so we did ONE shop!

My biggest treasure is this hand cross stitched tablecloth!

It squeezed my heart to think of the hours some dear soul put into this masterpiece!

It was one of those printed designs in blue and every bit of it was finished - except for hemming it all the way around! The blue dotted lines are still there and I will be finishing it this next spring and using it - somewhere and someway!

It is such a treasure that I HAD to bring it home with me!

I'm certain there is a story to tell and I will never know what it is - but I will love and appreciate the work done by another's hands.

Tea towels, a Halloween cup for Louis Dean's bathroom - which will make giving him his medicine more fun. He can no longer remember to take it by himself so I give him the pills that I put in recycled communion cups along with a small glass of water. If he doesn't drink ALL the water, I pitch it in his face or hair - and we laugh! But you know what? That 'trick' works! I tell him, "You're not FUN anymore' when he drinks every last drop of water!!

A pretty Christmas pillow!

I bought a lovely leather belt and put it right on to see how it would work with the pretty green dress I was wearing from another recent thrift trip. THEN I found the green and cream crocheted poncho and THAT goes great with my dress and will carry it from summer into fall!

A sweet pumpkin coffee cup from Abbey Press and I can never have too many 'Bless This Home' signs!

Other treasures!

I realized when I was putting all this 'debris' where it will live - that I had the pumpkin thing upside down!

Once we got home, I fixed a good lunch of leftovers from Sunday and we watched a movie....

It was so good!

Finding things for us to watch together has been a bit tricky lately.

I tried 'The Old Man' with Jeff Bridges but that hit a little too close to home.

Then one of the last movie Bruce Willis made ....

....well that didn't work since Louis Dean is sensitive to movies featuring cancer ( as he lost his beloved Ellen to breast cancer in 2000.)

SO - the dog movie was perfect and is a true story - which makes it even better!!

He went in to nap (for several hours) and I made pumpkin spice muffins WITH the pumpkin this time!

I sat in the living room listening to Neil Diamond sing while I counted my blessings.

I am so grateful there is such a thing as a pacemaker for Louis Dean.

Yes, Life is changing but, then again, Life is always changing.

My blog profile mentions that I am a life long learner into the autumn and winter seasons of my life.

I need to update my profile.

I am firmly in the winter season and I am loving it.

I've learned so much over my lifetime of soon to be three quarters of a century.

Back long ago, I felt sure I would die in my 30's. I'm grateful God had better plans for me and I feel like the best of my life happened in the Fall of my life!

I met Louis Dean and found what True Love feels like.

Our life together has been almost magical.

At first, I was waiting.....waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I found it hard to believe that he loved me with all his heart.

One day we were walking hand in hand across the parking lot going into Sam's and I was talking about 'something' that was troubling me......I do not even remember now what it was.

But I will NEVER forget how he stopped and looked into my eyes and said, "Linda, never EVER forget that I am on YOUR side." And so he has always been! And I am ever as much on HIS side!

When we were at the specialist today and I was explaining what I know to be true about how Louis Dean is feeling - tired, sleepy, woozy, confused, discombobulated, and so on.....I told the doctor that Louis Dean is PRIMARY in my life and I monitor and watch over and care for him with ALL my attention.

I keep him close to me as much as possible.

We have been married for 18 years and I have asked God for 25.

He has His plan and the pacemaker is definitely a part of that!