What a couple of weeks it has been! My dad is now out of hospital and living with us. My niece is taking over his home so he is not going back. I'm happy he's finally here as I've been trying to talk him into this for years. David and I are enjoying his company and I'm so glad he's not alone - 75 miles away any longer. At age 93 he needs company and I hope to get him back to good health. He is better...tonight I made beef stew with dumplings for supper. He did not eat much but he enjoyed it. We brought 2 truckloads of his things home today. Not sure where all of it will go but we will get things settled in good time. Right now my porch is filled with frozen foods from his freezer. Hopefully the coyotes we heard across the valley won't come to visit it tonight. It is 5 degrees tonight so it won't thaw at least. Tomorrow we will get the freezer going and put it away as it is supposed to be 40 degrees tomorrow.

A big thanks goes out to our friend Tom who went with David with his truck to bring home my dad's stuff. He and David are best buddies and help each other out all the time. Good friends are the best thing in the world. I am blessed to have many. David, Tom and my sisters Mary and Theresa worked very hard today to get things moved. Mary even carried a chest of drawers down my dad's narrow staircase by herself. She always was a show off! She was always quite strong too - I remember that from our fights as kids.
It was sad to think of our home where my mother cooked our holiday meals, birthday cakes and we spent so many hours playing cards and laughing and all being carried away in so many directions but at least my niece is moving in and perhaps one day we gather there again for a game of cards and a meal. It is nice that my dad is giving things away to the family both on his side and my Mom's I was happy to call his niece today and tell her that her Grandma's antique farmhouse table was in the garage and now it will stay in the family. He's my stepdad but as he reminded me the other day, "He's been my father for over 30 years now."
I bought a megamillion ticket the other day at the store - better chance of getting hit by lightning as pigs fly by but I was hoping to win the 207 million so I could open a home for seniors struggling to get by. One of my elder friends lives on $600 month social security, this after working over 30 years in one place. But I did not win - I saw on the news that someone in Ohio won. I hope they do good things with all that money.
Good night! God bless!