the saga continues

Here we are on a marvelous Monday again.  Sometimes the days run together which only adds to my confusion about where to be or what to do.  I know, sometimers.  The most pressing issue at the moment is my vision.  The state folks are coming back and there is an appointment with the eye doctor, both in August.  Dyersburg Hospital is two months out on mammograms which is becoming the norm for most elective procedures.  This is the new normal.  

I read that the rough economy put a big dent in Amazon Prime day sales.  40% down!  This is a quite telling effect of tariff wars.  And it's about to get worse.  If Jerome Powell gets "fired" we will be in deep trouble.  For the life of me I can't understand why the Epstein business is such a big deal when the whole country is sinking.  I mean, yeah but.....this may be the one that sinks him.

The corn just keeps on growing and sweatin' around here. I see folks in the fields sometimes, looking for some field corn to fry up.  I miss my mother's red face suppers that included all things fried with cornbread or her special crispy biscuits.  Daddy sometimes had bread with his purple hull pea juice.  Those were the days.  

His birthday is coming up soon so he's on my mind.  His last birthday on this earth was spent in a dingy nursing home.  I had visited the day before after work and saw a nurse not so successfully put in a wound vac.  On his birthday Lauren and Mom went by with a cake but I was absent.  Mom asked me on the 17th if I had seen him for his birthday and chided me.  "But Janie, yesterday wasn't his birthday."  Her own mother's funeral fell on his birthday one year but we still had the red face supper.  Fried chicken was his favorite.

So many celebrations took place in this cabin, but there have been losses too.  Through it all, I have morphed into the little old lady who talks about the past when she's not talking about her liberal views.  And not far left, mind you.  My faith continues to grow as I learn to just turn it over to God.  Life on earth is way too short to spend without joy ^j^