Had a good day except Charles fell a couple of days ago and he is so sore that I had to tend to all the chickens for him. I don't know what I am going to do with him if he do't stop climbing a ladder. He took quite a fall but did not break anything.

I found a bloom on my Pelican plant this morning. Boy is that thing beautiful. I am trying to root one so I can have a back up one. So far I have not been able to do that. I also put up 4 quart and 1 pint of peaches off out tree today. If I had not waited so long I could have gotten more but was so busy I forgot about them. I picked a qallon of blueberries from my bushes and I have put up 9 Quarts of figs off our tree. I have had a busy summer and it is not over yet. My lawn mower is on thr fritz so my yard looks awful. I hope to get it going soon and get the yard cut. I am almost afraid to go out for snakes. We have killed 3 out there already.

I learned something new today. I learned how to submit something to the Branch Calendar. I was surprised that it was so easy. I had never looked at it to see if I could until today. I may be old but I can learn new things. How about that one? It has rained so much for the last few days. We got 2 1/4 inches yesterday and I bet it rained another 2 or 3 inches today. I really did not want it to rain so much because the pecans want make anything if that keeps up. I was looking at them today and there a lot of them if they don't fall off.

President Coleman called me today and said the Sister Fishers Youngest son Ryan Clark got injured in a boating accident yesterday. He is in critical condition. I sure hope that he get better.

Marla is home and tired because she has to work so hard. I wish that she could get her a Job that would not require her to have to do so much manual labor. She really has a hard time with it. There is no way I can let her stop and me keep her up though. Shw will just have to keep trying. She has the cutest little dog and he loves her so much. He is so small that its hard for me to take him out. I am afraid he will get away from me. and I can't get him back.

Michelle started to work and had to turn around and come back up to 0602 because there was a huge tree across the highway 331. It went all the way across. We had had some bad wind but I did not think it was that bad. Anyway thank goodness it was before she had to go to work.

I have had a busy week as always. Joshua was pretty sick a couple of nights ago. He was at the Emergency Room about all night I guess. Michelle left work and went over there to be with him. She did not get home until 5:30 in the morning. I did not get any sleep hardly because I was not with her. I sat here and worried. They finally let him go home about 3:30 and she called me and I went to bed and went to sleep but was up again at 6:30 for the day. I am sure glad I have all my kids grown and now I wish some times that I had the Grand Kids grown. It is so hard not to have them here so we know what is going on with them. They are still so young and tender. I know that Heavenly Father will take care of them but I so want to be there and know what is going on. I worry about all of them but those 3 are so alone. I do not believe that Stacy knows how to take care of them. It is now 11:45 and I can not sleep because Audra called me at 10:00 and I don't know why. I could not get to the phone before she hung up So its worry time again.

Things are going good with Marla here I think. She seems to be able to handle everything okay. She and I cleaned out the trailer for Charles today. We had all the dishes from the travel trailer in there and so we put them all up in the barn. She is a lot of help to me. She does the dishes almost every time we eat. I think she loves to eat grits and eggs with us when she if off. Charles seems to enjoy having her here also. She goes to the Pond with him all the time to keep him from being by himself.

Charles has been having a hard time with his health lately. He is having some trouble with his heart. I have noticed that he is having to take a lot of nitro tablets. I don't know what the heart doctor wil say about that. I will be gone when he goes back unless I call and change the appointment. I may do that.

I have this wonderful friend who has lung cancer. She is the strongest person I know. I have never seen anyone who has tried so hard to beat this other than maybe Annie Mae. I am not sure that if this happened to me I could hold out like they have and did. Peggy has been such an insperation to me. She would get up and leave home at at 6:30 on Sunday Morning to be at church in Paxton because her husband was the Branch President. He had a Birthday on Sunday the 19th She gave him a surprise party and I was one of the few that got invited. I had a really good time. They live in Crestview so I did not get home until 8:30. Today is George's Birthday. I called him this morning and talked to him for a minute.

I have to get back outside to cutting grass. It is only 7:30 and I have about half of the push mowing done. It gets to hot if you wait very long. But I had to come in and get me something to drink. Charles is still in the bed and Marla went to work to see if they would let her work. She has got the shingles all over her now. I am not sure that it is the shingles. I have never seen them look like that. I wish she could get herself well enough she did not have to go to the doctor so much. I don't think its good to do that.

Oh what a day. I recieved a invitation from Sister Jones for her wedding. She sure turned out to be a beautiful woman. I wish I could go but that aint going to happen. I am about to lose my mind because Marla is here all the time. She has the shingles and is off from work. Now she is under foot all day long. I don't know how long I can stand for her to be here. I know she wants to help but she doesn't know how I do things so it bothers me. She has got that little dog and I really don't like dogs in the house. I wish I did not feel liek this but I can't help it. I know she is not still clean so it really makes me feel helpless. I am ready for a break and it has only been 2 days.

I am just very tired and need a week of rest with nothing or anyone to bother me. I have Carlie's blanket done and Bailey's is half done. Got to get it finished so I can take it with me to Utah in October. Shari came by and visited for a while today and I really enjoyed her visit. I wish she could have stayed longer. I love to talk to her. She is such a wonderful person and makes me feel so good. Love Shari

Today has been busy so for me I have been up since 5:30 AM I forgot to turn the sprinklers off last night so the flower beds got watered very good for a change. I want be able to pay the water bill next month but at least my flowers will live a little while longer.

Marla has gotten moved in and hopefully got ever thing she needs to live here. I have a house full and don't know what to do with all this stuff I had before. I hope we can make it work until she gets her own place. I have worried about her for months so now she is here and maybe I can check on her more often. I know she needs to be here so she will have someone to talk to. Marla also has the shingles. I know how bad they can bother you so I hope the doctor has given her something that will make them get well.

I have a meeting with the Relief Society Presidency at one so I have to get up from here and get myself busy and get ready to go. I have the worst sinus draniage I have ever had. I sure hope it does not make me sick again.

I love my grandchildren so very much and most of them are about to grow up on me. Kayla is 20 and Sarah is 18 Rober is 16 almost. The youngest one will be eight in October. My goodness they will be grown before I know it. Love them all. Heath is so growup that I can't get him to come to see me any more.