Walking each other home

“We're all just walking each other home.” 

-- Ram Das

 - Gate to The Moonlit Valley, West Penwith.Sarah Vivian

I've always loved this quote and this painting is very moving. 

Sharing some photos that speak this to me. 

We're all just walking each other home

 

Family outing, 1980's. My Mom is pushing the stroller, I am holding my oldest son.

My grandparents, my dad, and three of my siblings are also in the photo. 

Our son, Randy and my youngest brother,Tim. 

1980's.

My sister-in-law, Jennifer and our granddaughter, Rixci.

Dan with our grandson, Everett. 

2021

Our grandson, Forrest with Auntie. 

2022

Mom pushing the stroller at the Monroe County Fair, 2019

Dan walking the hunting property with friends. 

2019

Dan with our granddaughter, Rixci at the Monroe County Fair, 2021 

Everett with his cousin Eli, Monroe County Fair 2019

Dan walking Kelly down the aisle. 2014

be blessed

and

  let's keep walking each other home

Dan mini update & random questions

Dan is doing well, resting and taking things slow. 

 I will share another time when things have progressed and improved more. 

Check out Tuesday's info post.

Now some random questions to get my mind off things....

I haven't done anything like this

in a very long time.

I thought it might be fun to do it again.

Many of the 'old' bloggers

will remember when we often did this.

I got this from Diana at The Nana Diana  😊

1.  Where do you like to vacation? - Destin, Florida for the month of February and we spend time at our cottage during spring, summer and fall. 

2.  Do you have pets? Yes, we have two wonderful dogs!! We love them! 💙💙

Tucker

Bentley

3.  What is your favorite color? - all shades of blue, teal blue especially.💙

4.  How many are in your family? - Dan and I, plus several children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.😍

5.  What is your least favorite thing to do? - clean floors 😜

6.  What is your most favorite thing to do? - spend time with Dan browsing antique stores.👫

7.  If money were no object what would you like to do when you retire?- visit Ireland. 🍀

8.   What is your favorite season? - Autumn 🍁🍂

9.   What book are you currently reading? - The  Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown📙

10. What time do you go to bed, get up in the morning? - bedtime 10-11 pm, get up 6:30-7:30 am🕙

11. How long have you been blogging? gosh, off and on for many years. I think I originally started in 2008 on Yahoo GeoCities! 😎

It has been raining off and on all day, quite heavy at times! This is putting a hold on getting our landscaping done!! Oh well, it will be finished eventually. 😵

It is a sorrowful time with all that is going on in our country, our world. 

I am so very thankful for the Lord. 

be blessed

Dan, sweet Dan

Bear with me, I'll do my best to explain the latest news. 😌

Dan just spent a couple days at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital. He went for a cardiac ablation, this is due to Ischemic cardiomyopathy and frequent PVCs.  They also did a programmed stimulation to determine if Dan would need an ICD  (permantly implanted defibrillator) in the future.  Well, it turned out that for some reason there were no PVCs when they prepared to do the ablation! So, of course they couldn't do the ablation. They went on and did the stimulation testing. This testing proved he urgently needed the ICD. The doctor spoke to Dan prior to this and Dan already agreed to ICD, if it was needed. The doctor came out and spoke to me before they performed the surgery.  He explained this device was needed to prevent death if Dan were to have a cardiac episode, that is it's main purpose.  There are follow up appointments and other treatment plans, will be made for his original issues.  

Dan is home now and doing well. He is sore from the surgery and has to take it easy for a bit. We are both learning about this and writing this post is helping me get things down with links for explanations.

Here is the fascinating thing about what happened.  IF Dan had had the ablation, he would be on blood thinners for a while afterwards. And the ICD surgery, that would have to wait! 

The doctors, nurses were amazed, they said it is very unusual for things to happen this way.  

As one of my close friends said, "Sounds like the Lord was watching over him again by getting him this surgery in place of the other."  

Thank God, for watching over my sweet Dan!

Be blessed

Hold your loved ones close. 

xoxo

Happy Sunday!

 Hope you are all having a blessed day! It is sunny and breezy here in Michigan, temps about 70 degrees. Lovely weather for sure! 🌞

We have been preparing our yard for the landscaping company to come in and put down sod this week. So much to do since the fire.  Dan has been putting up a new fence as well. Thankfully, some of our family have been so kind to help us with this huge project. I will post pics later when everything is finished. 😍

I made a couple new pages, one page is about my dear Mom and the other new page is about the fire.  Links at the top as well. 

So much life has happened.

Hello! It has been over 2 years since my last post.  I have been thinking of blogging again for months. 

A lot has happened in the past couple of years. Our lives have changed so much.  I plan on updating here, documenting all that has happened. Hopefully I will be consistent and keep blogging. 

I'd love to catch up with old blogging friends and meet new friends.

OK, you say, what? You are going to start blogging again?

Well...

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream..." C.S. Lewis

I have a lot to do here, so please be patient and keep an eye out for my next post!

*update* 

link to the first new page - beauty for ashes/fire

 You will also find links to new pages at the top of this page.