Grammys Corgi Country

Today I’ve spent several hours on the web (remember I have an old, SLOOOWWWW computer) looking for some tickets so that I can fly to Florida at the end of the week. WHAT A HEADACHE!!! I’ve checked Hotwire (which I will probably go with), Orbitz, Travelocity, CheapTickets, Priceline, and several others.

Of course, I do realize that it is the last minute, and I actually found some rates that are much better than I had anticipated because of that fact. What I don’t understand is how one place has a flight that goes from a Santa Ana Airport, to a stopover in L.A. and then flies straight through to the city I need to go to in Florida for only $312, but, THE SAME PLACE says that I could get a flight from LAX (with a stopover in Denver) for over $500!!! Does this make sense to YOU??!!

If I would have to fly to LAX anyway, and go from there to Florida WITHOUT a layover for $312, then WHY would I have to pay $200 MORE to take a flight from the SAME PLACE (LAX) and still have to do a layover? Why can’t they just get me the leg from LAX to Florida that I would get with the other flight…

Is this INSANE or what!!??!! Do I sound a little frustrated? It would take me two hours to drive to LAX and almost 5 hours to drive to the Santa Ana Airport and then fly back to LAX to go to Florida. That’s 10 hours of driving for whoever takes me as opposed to 4 hours, and that is both coming and going… You can see how it adds up.

I think I’m going to end up going through another ticket vendor and pay about $380 to fly from LAX with a layover. It really does make a difference when you shop around online, though, so if you find yourself in this type of situation, do some homework and compare prices, schedules, etc., and you might find a good bargain.

Just as a last note, we’ve had several unexpected sources of money come in with people offering to buy things, etc. that we’ve wanted to sell but hadn’t worked at selling, and getting paid my first payment from this blog when I wasn’t expecting it… and the Lord is really helping to bring this trip together, so I want to thank Him for that, and say again, if you are trying to put Him and His ways first in your life, He does take care of the rest of it for you… What a good God we have!

May you follow Him and have your needs met…

Last night I got to bed around 2:30 a.m. (I’m still trying to catch up on back emails and other stuff) and everyone else had been in bed for several hours, and were snoring their heads off… It was cold enough to be another “Three Dog Night.” Hubby has a sinus problem currently, and so, apparently, do all three corgis. I laid there for a while listening to the chorus of snores and almost got to sleep when suddenly a mouse started chewing on something in a drawer.

I was NOT happy! I REALLY didn’t feel like getting up to look for it so that it would shut up, so I laid there for another 10-15 minutes listening to the crunching get louder and louder (or so it seemed!) As I’ve mentioned before, we are surrounded by open fields so we get a lot of mice coming into the house and that is another critter war I am waging all the time. Sadie helps a lot, but she can’t catch them all, and this one really seemed to be building a condo or something in that dresser.

I finally decided to make some earplugs out of some Kleenex that I keep in my headboard, and got to sleep for a couple of hours, but when I had to get up for a bit at 5:30 a.m., and then got back to bed, that rotten little chewer was still working hard. I really hated to get up again, but prayed about it (I pray about most things lately) and felt that if I had left the big metal flashlight in the headboard above my head, and I got up right then and went and looked, I would be able to put it out of my misery.

Normally, THAT flashlight is not kept there, but after the other night without electricity, I guess that I had left it there, because I found it right where I had felt it might be, and sure enough, when I got up and went to the dresser, I heard it start chewing again, pulled open the drawer and there it was … a Humongous mouse staring up into the light. I ended up waking up poor hubby, but I stunned the little sucker and gave it to Sadie to take outside and dispatch.

It was my hubby’s dresser, and I didn’t take the time to find out what the paper was that it was doing such a good job of shredding, so I guess I’d better let him know so he can check… I know it had shredded some of the boxes of his collectible cars, so he’s not going to be a happy camper. I guess I shouldn’t have used the earplugs when I first went to bed.

Well, my DIL is still not doing well, and seems to be getting worse. I may need to fly across country to help my son soon. I hope that I will be able to keep blogging from there… Would you believe “Grammy’s NOT in Corgi Country…” or should it be “Grammy in Miami…” (Not really, Florida, yes, Miami no, but it sounds cute…)

May you win all your personal wars so easily!

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I just came in from feeding the horses, and it is so beautiful out there!!! There is a full moon out tonight, and it is that special “perigee” moon… supposedly, the biggest of the year, because it is closer to the earth than usual. (See the following website for more info: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090109/sc_space/saturdaynightspecialbiggestfullmoonof2009 ) It is also very clear out here for a change. It has been so foggy for so long, that it seems even clearer than usual, I think. I didn’t even have to turn on the floodlight to be able to feed.

I would really love to be able to stay out there and just sit at the picnic table we have out in the back patio, but it is just TOO COLD!!! I know… many of you are in really cold areas of the country (or world) but, for this area, it is cold. Actually, its colder tonight BECAUSE it isn’t as foggy as it has been.

I had gone out earlier and set it up so that I just had to open a couple of the corrals to let the horses eat. I had fed them outside of the pens earlier, put their evening feed in the pens and then shut the gates so that they couldn’t reach it until I opened them. It made it a lot faster and easier tonight.

I got a new digital camera for Christmas, so have been taking pictures, and today I got a chance to download them and work on them so that I can use them when I post. It sure takes a lot of time to put 100 pictures in Photoshop, crop and resize them and adjust the brightness and contrast, but at least you should be able to see more of what’s going on out here now. Hope you’ve liked the pics I’ve been able to add the past week or so.

I want to thank all of you that have been praying for my daughter-in-law. She has double pneumonia, has had to be put back on the ventilator machine, and is being kept under heavy sedation so that she won’t keep waking up and fighting. The doctors feel that she needs total rest to have a chance to recuperate. Please continue to keep her and her family in prayer, as this is very traumatic for them.

It’s almost midnight here now, so I’d better close and get this online so I can get the pictures added to it and get it posted. Hope you are having a good weekend. May God continue to bless you…

It’s been a hard night and day, with not much sleep. My oldest son’s wife has had some health problems and yesterday, she had some major problems and has had to be put in a Critical Care Unit. They live on the other side of the country from us, so we were on the phone or praying or waiting for phone calls most of yesterday evening, last night, and today.

It is hard not to be able to be with those you love when they are having serious problems, or those they love are, and you know that they are hurting. You want to be able to see them and hug them, and help in any way you can, but sometimes it’s just not possible to actually BE there physically.

It is in times like these, that my faith in a God that loves us (my family and those I love), is a stronghold that I can take refuge in. Over the years, as I’ve grown to know Him and see His work in my life, and in my kid’s lives, I have come to know that I can trust Him to do the best for those I love. It is true that what He knows is best, isn’t always what I think would be best, but I’ve also learned to trust that He will take care of them in the ways that ARE best for them no matter what I think.

He also promised to send “The Comforter” to those of us who believe in Him and ask Jesus into their hearts, and I KNOW that He keeps His promises because there have been so many times when I have been comforted. That is my prayer now, for my son and his family… that they would know the Comforter in their lives and feel His work within them, giving them peace that passes understanding and wisdom in the decisions they and the doctors make.

I hope that you have comfort when you need it, and peace for this new day…