Half Way

Wow the year is half over already.  In Sunday School we were talking about how time seems to be going by faster and faster.  Not because time is really passing faster though.  It's because we're getting older.  As kids time seem to crawl by.  Now because we have so many responsibilities I guess time seems to get away from us.  We don't stop and enjoy things.  "Stop and smell the roses" as the saying goes. 

Bill and I are starting to get more involved in activities at the church and not just because we have to lock up.  The Ladies Ministry has several things going on and the Mens Ministry is doing more too.  I think it will be good for us to get out and become a part of things instead of just being on the sidelines watching.

Wednesday evening we (the church) are having a special outdoor neighborhood party.  The whole neighborhood is invited.  We'll have hot dogs and lots of activities.  I think it'll be a lot of fun.

I've been growing my hair out this year.  I don't remember exactly when I last had it cut.  I think it was in either August or September.  That makes it about 10 months more or less without a cut.  I'm really, really happy with it. 

Photo of the day, we went out to the Refuge on Saturday and took a few photos.  It was very hot but the AC works really well in the new car.  This was taken at Quannah Parker Lake.  The water lilies were really huge.  The photo in the header was taken there too.

Hot

That's a good title because it is hot out there.  We have been getting more rain than last year but the fire danger is still pretty high. 

We were on vacation last week.  We took one small road trip through Duncan, Comanche and to Walters.  The rest of the time we stayed close to home.  It's too hot to go out very far.  We cleaned my mom's house on Monday.  The other day, Thursday, I think, we cleaned one room in Bill's mom's house.  That's all we could handle it is so very dirty.  She is definitely a hoarder.  Not extreme like on TV but bad enough.  It makes cleaning very hard because she has all this stuff and we really can't throw any of it away because it's important to her.  But that one room is dusted and vacuumed.  That's the room she spends most of her time in so hopefully she will feel better.  Next time we will tackle her bedroom and bathroom.

We've been eating out a lot and even though I've tried to be careful I think I took in some gluten because I have all the symptoms.  Hope they go away soon.

We've been watching the show Hoarders on TV and think it's beginning to influence Bill.  He has hoarding tendencies and he's beginning to recognize them.  He is now willing to part with stuff and he's getting more control over the desire to go out and buy stuff.   We both love handmade pottery so we're going to concentrate on collecting that instead of buying for the sake of buying.  We're giving our M&M figurine collection to Bill's sister and my horse figurine collection to his great-niece.  Those were impulse buys rather than things that we really loved.

Photo of the day, a little abandoned church building we found about halfway between Comanche and Walters.