December 14, 2006

  • Well, it is Texas as usual.  A couple of weeks ago, we were over 80 degrees F until the cold front blew in with freezing rain, sleet, and snow — and we lost half a day of school with two frigid weeks of freezing temps, some in the single digits. 

    Now, for the past week, we have been back up in the 70′s, and today we almost hit 80.  It looks as if the only way the folks around here  are going to have a white Christmas is if enough Wal-Mart bags are thrown out of cars and blown out of pick-ups to cover all the trees and the ground and the roofs.  Come to think about it, that should only take a couple of dozen more bags, judging from the number I see blowing around…  Scientists in the future will definitely refer to our age as the Plasticine Period.

    I had dinner and a wonderful, bittersweet evening with Duane and Nony Godwin today.  They are doing great (which is especially wonderful since Duane spent a week in the hospital recently).  Neither Lorena nor I would be here if it weren’t for them.  Stephanie took it upon herself to customize their Christmas card, and she did a beautiful job.  We have so many friends for whom the apellation “friend” is far too unworthy.  Thank you.

    I tried to call Lorena again last night without success.  We will try again tonight.  I know she has to be excited at the prospect of seeing us again.  We certainly are.  And I cannot wait not only to see her and talk to her directly but to see how she has progressed and what she is capable of doing now.  I so want her prediction of needing two more years of therapy to be accurate.  But her miracle continues.  To God be the glory…