Friday evening ramblings

It's Friday evening, and we are driving to meet Sam halfway to get Sammy for the weekend.  We've got some fun things on deck for the weekend.  

I had the most wonderful surprise this morning.  After putting off a dental check-up for THREE years - for reasons I won't bother going into here - I finally had one. I just knew that I would probably need root canals and who-knows-what-all that would cost an arm and a leg and probably my other arm and leg too.  But amazingly, I had no cavities and need no work done!   I do floss religiously, but I have pain at a couple of places sometimes, which I've always feared were abscesses ready to cause huge trouble at just the wrong time.   She said it is probably sensitivity due to somewhat receding gums.  I'll take that!  I think I'll sleep well tonight. 

I gotta tell you the crazy dream I had one morning this week. To save time I'll just copy and paste it from my FB post.  

"Don't you hate waking up exhausted and frustrated?  I was dreaming that I was at a church with a music group (don't know who, but there seemed to be a lot of us), and we were getting dressed for the program.  I discovered that my contact lens had torn, so I was trying to figure out if I could see my music well enough with one contact.  Then someone remembered that my sister Mary Ellen was still at my house and could probably bring me a new contact lens before the program would start.  So I called her, and she answered the phone with  "So what did you forget?"  Everyone in the room roared laughing.  I tried to tell her exactly where in my bathroom cupboard to look for my extra contact lenses.  While I waited for her to arrive, I was trying to sing and discovered that my voice was terribly scratchy.  I wondered when did THAT start???  Finally Mary Ellen came with my contact lens.  She handed me two of them, all dry and already taken out of their packages!  I couldn't believe it.  And then, thankfully, my alarm rang."

Here's my Throwback Thursday picture for this week.  

The fruit of my labor sometime in the 80's.  I always canned enough fruit to last us from one summer season to the next.  No dinner was complete without some kind of canned fruit.  I also made jam out of various fruits, canned lots of tomato juice and several kinds of pickles.  In addition,  we also had a huge garden in which we grew vegetables to do up and freeze, enough to last till the next summer.  Summers were HARD WORK!   There's very little about it that I miss, to be perfectly honest.  

I got my FBI clearances in the mail today. I have no record, woohoo!  Not that I thought I did, haha!  

How sad is the plane crash in the French Alps this week?  Of course every expert is giving their thoughts on it.  Yesterday morning one person said something that caught my attention:  "There is one inescapable fact - a human being flies every plane."  We really do put a lot of faith in that person, don't we?  Next time I fly I'm going to give a great big smile to the pilot and wish him a great day. And then I'll breathe a prayer for him.  

Well, enough of this rambling.  I'm sure I'll have some fun pictures for my next post.