January 26 – “Laugh a Lot”

We headed out of the house fairly early this morning.  We had some fruit and clothes to deliver to two families.  We connected on one count.  Guess we'll try again on the other.    We also spent quite awhile at our house.  We cleared off another of the card tables in the back yard.  Added a few boxes to the stash over in Mom's garage.  We also threw some more stuff away.  Every time we do that it's as if Chris is experiencing our first days back home all over again.  She did really well this time, though.  When we started getting bored with wiping and packing, we went next door (our friends who left town and said we should go through and take whatever we need from their house).  Chris wanted some of the landscape timbers they still had in their back yard.  That ended up with us also carrying over a bunch of concrete bricks.  With what little strength I had left, I decided to get out of their garage a rolling cart that would be a pretty good substitution for a workbench until I can get one for our garage.  It turned into a little bigger project than I thought.  There were some rusty, still damp things in it that we had to get out.  Then we cleaned it up as well as we could.  It still has some rust spots, and some more rust is hiding underneath the paint in some areas, but it'll work for what we need for the time being.  I'm happy to have it.   We just got back from a really nice supper.  We were invited to join April's Grandmother and Grandfather and her Aunt and Uncle and Nathan and April and of course Cailyn at Gringos.  They were coming to see her for the first time.  All four of them seem to be good, down-home folks.  Grandma and Grandpa live in Corpus Christi and are about to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary.  Aunt and Uncle live in Manvel.  That is in Texas, by the way.  They have a lot of fun together.  We had a lot of fun together tonight.  We laughed a lot.  It's always good to laugh.   Proverbs  17:22 says, "A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."   Father, I've had enough of the crushed spirit thing.  Grant me a cheerful heart.  Amen.