Well, Cindy moved out on April 19....the day before Easter. In all my years I have NEVER lived alone, 'til now. And, it's not bad. Of course, I have to make sure the door to the basement is locked and the other two doors are locked, but I'm not scared to be alone. Well, I guess I'm not really alone cause the two stupid cats are here and the three birds. At night the cats love to run up and down the stairs, together. They sound like a herd of elephants......really. Supper is nice. If I feel like cooking I do, or if I don't I eat sandwiches or leftovers. Today I cooked.....yesterday I cooked...even made biscuits. Tomorrow I might eat frozen chicken or peanut butter. I have an extra bathroom....if I'm upstairs and nature calls, I don't have to go downstairs. Its really quite nice. Of course, during the day, I'm never alone.....just at night. Well, think I'll go get something wet and sweet and maybe cold.and then go lock up.

A trip to yesteryear..............5/18/03

Today we (the Adams family and I) left Danville at 7:40 and rode up to Troutville, VA to visit our former pastor and his family and hear him preach. It had been 8 years since he left Danville and except for a funeral, we hadn't heard him preach since he left. He and Jackie had always been good ole fishing and shooting buddies and the kids had been friends, so we were all looking forward to going for a service and a visit. We got to the church about 20 minutes before time for it to start and said hello to the Watts family and then sat down. After the preliminaries, Randy started to preach. He chose as his text Rev.Ch.21 v1-7., choosing to focus on the verse about making old things new again. I had completely forgotten how engrossing his method of delivery is and how interesting he makes everything. It seemed as if he had only begun to speak when it was over. Time has flown and the service was over almost , it seemed, before it had gotten started. Usually, when I leave church I don't remember what the sermon was even about, but I have been thinking about this one all the evening. Even when we mess up, God is there to give us another chance, not once, but however many times we need him. We don't have to be the "same old" we can be made entirely new in Christ...all we have to do is ask. He's there for us, waiting and wanting to change us into a new being. I really miss hearing the word the way we used to hear it. In a way that makes sense and makes me eager to hear and do something. Is this a reflection on me or on my current pastor? I really don't know, but I do know that I miss the sense of being totally caught up in the sermon. It was a good visit. James and Alan picked up where they left off years ago. Alan told James when we got ready to leave that they couldn't wait another five years before they got together to play again. Like I said.....it was a GOOD visit!

Graduation 2003 5/19/03

Friday I went to my first ever college graduation. The happy occasion was the graduation of Cindy from Danville Community College. I went with Dave and Susan and we got there about 6:40. All the parking lots were full and we finally found a space way down in the end of nowhere and had to walk about 2 miles to get to the place where the graduation was to take place. There were 430 graduates, so you know that there were a LOT of folks there. We were seated outside the tent and could hear everything, but could hardly make out the graduates as they walked across the stage. When they were recognizing the scholarship winners, the guy doing the announcing said Cindy Kay White. I felt like jumping up and hollering, "Whitt, Whitt, Whitt", but I didn't. I was hoping when her name was called to get her degree that they would get her name right and luckily he did, cause I probably would have hollered "Whitt"!! It was a very nice affair but now I'm preparing for the "really big one" when she graduates from Averett University. Good luck, Cindy. I love you.

Day Off 5/26/03

Today was Memorial Day and I had a day without babies. I ate breakfast and went outside at 9:55AM. My back yard was such a mess.....I hadn't cut any stuff down for at least two years.Well, I got rid of most of the overgrown clematis. I hadn't trimmed it back in 5/6 years and it was a jungle, trying to take over my roses. I also cut down small trees and vines that were all around the garage. I finally got all the holly sprouts cut from around the tree stump and put a big container on it and planted a green thingy in it. I fed the roses and pulled up weeds out of Tommy's little flower garden. The dumpster had been emptied this morning and by the time I got finished, it was half full again. I didn't get around to washing off my front porch and taking out my big plant, but if it doesn't rain any more this week, maybe I can do that either Wed. or Thurs. I would really like to get my front yard looking decent and clean before summer officially arrives. Oh, well....maybe by the weekend.