Post Left Eye Cataract Surgery

     Well, I had my left cataract removed and my brand spanking new plastic lens inserted Monday and lemme tell ya... it is amazing! I had my right lens replaced last month and everything went even better for the second eye, praise God!
     One of the guys at work said that even if I saw better I didn't look any better. All I could tell him was "It didn't do a damn thing for your looks, either!"

     I'm now needing sometimes a cheap pair of reading glasses and any time I go out on a sunny day, sunglasses but I am happy, happy, happy with how I can now see. It's better than when I was a mere 16 years of age and got my first pair of eyeglasses, 42 years ago! I still have to be careful bending over and have weight limitations picking stuff up so as not to put pressure on my eyeball for a few more days. I saw Shelley, my next door neighbor playing in her flower beds yesterday and went to chat. I told her about what I can & can't do. She said if she saw a sand truck at my house before this coming Tuesday she was gonna come kick my butt!

     I have the 10 pound weight limit until Monday although me being stiff necked (as the Bible calls the children of Israel) and just hard headed I have picked up several things over that. However I will wait until at least Tuesday before I start buying any bags of soil to add to my gardens. By the way, my herb garden is already going like crazy so I'm happy about that.

     My apple trees and grape vines are looking (so far) that I may actually get a few fruits this year. The pear trees are leafy but showing little sign of a harvest. I think my Meyer lemon and possibly my olive tree are not coming back from the harsh Winter. If I see replacements at a good price I'll plant them right next to the originals.
     I've sowed much of my crimson clover seed in the back yard along with a bit of the white. I took some scrap lumber and laid it out in the form of a cross about 16' from tip to tip and 3' wide on each arm. We had a gully washer that moved a good amount of the seed and I had to sow again but it's looking hopeful that my crimson clover patch will look somewhat like I want.

     On a totally different note, some people suddenly think I am some sort of authority or scholar on the Bible. I've been reading "The Good Book" for close to a year now, read the whole thing one time. I do have more than one version which I absolutely love reading a verse reading it again in the various versions to help myself understand what is being said. But where I work we have an actual preacher but I  have had people come to me to explain to them. My best friend can call me anytime, anywhere and our conversation will always somehow get to the Bible. Only thing I can figure is this...
Perhaps they don't feel comfortable asking their preacher for fear of being judged. So they turn to me knowing that I have more than my share of sin (hopefully behind me) knowing I'll only be thinking "Hell, I done worse than that". Maybe it's when they bring up a question I cannot answer I'll give an honest "I don't know but the Bible says don't let what you can't understand keep you from what you can".

Praying For My Friend

     Needless to say, the older we get the more health issues we and our friends have. I'll be going Monday to have the cataract in my left eye removed but that's nothing compared to the news I just got about a dear friend of mine.
     She's same age as I, 58 years but 5 days older. A few days ago she was feeling worse than crap and finally went to the Doctor. Yesterday they figured out she'd had a stroke. I don't yet know how severe it was but no stroke is a good stroke, right?

     I am as always trying to keep my hands and mind occupied with my gardens and such. It's a good therapy for me, keeping myself rooted to the Earth as it were. And whilst digging around I can always have a chat with God.
     While some good things have been happening in the gardens I'm really not up to sitting and posting about all that right now. I do hope you understand and pray if you got 'em! Not so much for me as  God has been so much better to me than I could ever deserve... I am the poster child for "undeserved loving grace"!

     Just pray if you will for my friend. I thank you and love you... always will, no matter what.

Blessed Easter To All

     'Tis Easter Sunday and a more beautiful day it could not be here. Most folks get all gussied up (that's dressed up for those who don't speak redneck). I'm going to Mom's for a big  Easter feed.  My big dressing up is I went to that big store everybody in the South shops at but claim to hate. You know the one. Anyway, my sneakers have been looking quite ratty as of late... too ratty to wear on Easter Sunday. So I stopped by this morning and purchased 2 pair of new sneakers. One set was $9.98 and the other was an even $10.00. I plan to wear a different set every week to work and see just how long these suckers last.

     I'll be heading to Mom's as I mentioned. She's cooking up all sorts of vittles including sweet taters which she and I pronounce as one word "sweetaters". She also came up with what could become a new family tradition... cooking a ham (bone in) in the slow cooker until it's tender and fall off the bone! I was working the rice section at the store last night and got a "Jones" for some fried rice so I'm gonna fry up some ground beast and mix in a box of the fried rice mix we all know as "the San Francisco treat".  I was a bit off put when going to get another 5 pound tube of ground beast. It was a mere $6.99 yesterday but 13.99 today. Has I known the sale was ending I'd have gotten enough to make a whole new cow yesterday.

     I pulled a few weeds today an actually have been doing so for the past few days. There are few I actually call "weeds" but rather "unwanted flora". Mom and I have agreed the difference between a weed and a wildflower is do yo like it or not? If you don't, it's a weed. If you do, it's a wildflower.
As you may or may not recall, I'd ordered 5 pounds of white and 2 of crimson clover seed to seed my yard hoping to replace the grass and "weeds" with something my toes love. Once again God steps in and asks, "What did you say wanted, My son?" Suddenly I see I've got a couple or 3 decent sized patches of white clover coming up in the back yard and a couple smaller ones up front... right where I planned to sow my seed! I have some tarp spread across where I plan to seed to kill the stuff I don't want. The stuff I pull up, if I don't get the roots I throw on the ground. If I do get the roots I toss them root end in into my fire pit to kill off the roots before mulching the plants.

     It seems I got side tracked talking about new shoes, pulling weeds, etc...

     Leave us not forget that Easter isn't about some rabbit laying eggs. It's not about eating until we're about ready to puke. It is about Yeshua (Jesus) being raised from the dead to show us the way to heaven. Remember He said "I am the way and no one goes to the Father except through Me". Father God loves us enough He sent His only son to take away our sins and die for us on the cross. In the garden of Jesus prayed, "If this cup can be taken from Me.... but Thy will, not my will be done."

No greater love has the world known.