December 17, 2010 12:15 PM

Good news!

The rollercoaster ride is taking a decided upturn and my mother-in-law is scheduled to be released from the hospital on Monday. There were times that the hospital staff had its doubts but her inner strength and fortitude won out and she's headed home! A wonderful Christamas present for us all. Though she had initially planned to be here a few days over Christmas, it does look like she can at least make it here for Christmas day.

My life continues apace with Thursday nights being choir rehearsal. Though it's work, it's still fun to sing the wide variety of music that is to be presented Sunday night as part of our annual Lessons and Carols service. This is something that I dearly missed over the past two years. Unfortunately, I may miss it again as they are predicting the possibility of a big snowstorm Sunday night into Monday. I'm sure that it will have a great impact on my scheduled Zimmerman house tour that day. Amazingly, they continue the tours until January 8th. It's winter in New England and it tends to snow. How can we tour the outside of the house under such conditions?

Wednesday night we had dinner with a number of friends at a friends house. Some of the people we hadn't socialized with for a while so it was nice to re-establish ties again. Tomorrow night is a big party at a church friend's house and Saturday it's off to my mothers. A year ago, none of this was possible. It seems to me now that that was so long ago. Time flies and I guess that we like to put certain things behind us and move on.

It's a busy time of the year for all and for us it feels good to be back into the fray once again. Sitting on the sidelines as life seems to pass you by is no fun. However, it was certainly better to sit there rather than being somewhere else.

I read with interest today, the fact that the great baseball player Bob Feller died today at age 92 having been diagnosed with leukemia this past summer. What intrigued me the most was that they did give him chemotherapy. Unfortunately, he did not respond well to it. At 92, you would probably surmise that. But to still take that course of treatment at his age meant that they have come a long way with how they try to fight off this disease. Someday, hopefully, they'll be able to successfully cure everyone who contracts it. We can only hope and pray.

My kitchen cabinet door and drawer front reoplacement project caontinues. I don't think that I will finish before Christmas what with all the final preparations that must be done next week. But, I'll be close. I'm not trying to brag, but what I've installed has greatly improved the look of the kitchen. My wife is ecstatic about it and eager to see the job done.

Once again I've rambled on when I had originally no idea what I would be writing about.

God provides...

Bob