FLASH

If I wait long enough, I will not have to rake leaves because the wind will have blown them away.  When I look outside through the windows, the chilly grey skies look just like WINTER.  Bare tree branches etched across the sky makes an interesting masterpiece to admire and I admire the trees all year round.  I am a fan.  

Sounds like WINTER with the wind howling.  The southwest Kansas weather was tornadic today with 10 or so tornadoes in November.  Do you ever wonder if GOD is trying to get peoples attention through the weather? 

When people turn from HIM, do you think maybe He is trying to give people time to come back to HIM? 

As I walked through the house today, I wasn't able to go without noticing that the downsizing has caused quite a stir in NOT having a tidy house.  It is dreadful how messy it is around here.  It continues to get messier and messier.  

In disbelief that THANKSGIVING is in about 10 days and I have an awful lot of cleaning to get done.  It gets worse before it gets better.  The count down is on.

Last week I had victory with the papers.  I continued to go through even more paper that I handled, sorted, threw away…makes for a great sit down job.  Filing it, isn't so difficult.  The books are thinned down.  The magazines, purses, clothing, dishes, stuffed toys….poof.  Gone.  I will survive.  Music tapes galore.  Thin, thin, thin.  Round two is about to take place with the movies. 

As Husband was rearranging the spare room to make more room for a couple of oak morris chairs, a settee and a coffee table that I want to hang onto for a while longer, he brought me a laundry basket full of unfolded socks.  Gosh…how did that happen?  The socks were shuffled away when company was coming one other time.  After the visit, I forget to get back to these socks.  They are officially mated once again and in the sock drawers.   

Thinned down my handbags today.  Many are boxed and ready for the THRIFT SHOP.  I now confess that I am a HANDBAG JUNKIE.  Right along with LIPSTICK, FINGERNAIL POLISH, DISHES, MAGAZINES and BOOKS.  I confess.  I am going to be victorious in downsizing.  WILLING IT and continued prayer for strength and direction.  I cannot take any of this with me.  True there are things I want to keep while I am alive, but I can live with so much less.

IN A FLASH life can change forever.  The horrible attacks on Paris on Friday.  The WORKING WEEK-END.  On Monday, I was going to call and make an eye appointment.  Got way too busy to follow through.  

Thought I'd call on Tuesday.  When my Dear Husband came HOME and told me our Optometrist had been killed in a auto accident.  His poor family.  54.  Am STUNNED.

Hubby said my FAVORITE thrift shop changed hands when they sold the store to another.  Prices will go up.  Sigh.  I will miss this place the way it was.  Miss it.

This will be a fast paced week.  
Talk to you later,
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