My husband's father is doing pretty well considering the two strokes about ten years ago, the emphysema and parkinson's, and the heart attack a week ago. His family has had a wonderful time with him since those strokes and is confident that although they now see the coming of his passing away, they will see him again in heaven. His oldest son, my husband, is doing well about this despite being the farthest from home and the one who has always looked after family situations, and his younger brother is doing an excellent job playing that role now. There have been a whole bunch of people praying over this and keeping in touch with me about it. And the needs of my mother-in-law, to talk about this, have helped her see me in a new light that will heal many past issues that arose from her previous perceptions of me.

I am out of a bad job situation and have retained my commitment to the organization, my reputation, and what I learned in that setting not only before it went wrong but during the worst parts of it and the aftermath.

My dog still speaks to me despite so many Mudcat hours I forgot she had spots. My daughter's and son's cats have stopped shi**ing on the floor in the corner of the living room at least tmeporarily now that I have redeemed that corner by setting it up as a home office. Soon there will be a new computer there to learn, and the present one has been doing pretty well.

I finally got the tiebacks up on three of the LR windows whose curtains came back from the cleaners 9 months ago and which were hung up on the windows 2 months ago, and the remaining curtains and tiebacks are still clean and neat in the dry cleaners bag in case I get around to them.

I play slide geetar now and have two great online teachers from this wacky Mudcat place. I have a houseful of music to hear and play, and sufficient instruments and equipment to do as much as my current skills support. And I found a new local periodic open mike-jam opportunity after there not having been one since we moved here and since I became a performer.

I have an online prayer chain going through e-mail that is blessing many lives, especially mine.

The other good news is that God is good, providing for me and mine abundantly, in so many ways I could not begin to list them.

And I have this thread to look to as an example of Mudcat at its best, during a tough week.

~Susan