Happy New Year!

The first picture is the back side of the house. There is a dormant plumeria tree with just a few leaves on the top. These are the trees that make the blooms they use a lot in making lays. Some places on the island they are in full bloom, but these will bloom at some other time. Notice the kitchen window sticks out. Another day I'll send a picture of the beauty in that window from the inside. Notice the pretty pink leaved hedge that marks the back edge of their property.

The second picture is the driveway going out to the main road. On the left of the drive are the huge bushes with reddish leaves. On the right are the citrus trees that keep me and the cows happy. Notice all the grapefruit in the driveway; it looks like this every day until we get out there and pick them up and share with the cows. I'm so surprised that the cows love them!

My view from Bob's office where I sit and work with my laptop has a dormant plumeria tree with a few blooms and leaves on top and the driveway to the road in the background. Around the plumeria tree are the poinsettias with little white blooms. I guess God makes it even better in heaven, but this sure must be a preview!

Today is the first day of 2007 and I’m getting to be lazy. I cooked and did laundry the other days. Don is watching football. We are in a different time zone, so the games started at 6 this morning. He is faithful, so he got up and watched. I can watch football, but I’m not faithful at it. So, I slept until 7.

I got up and made real biscuits from whole-wheat flour. Maybe the next ones will turn out better? What kind of flour doesn’t come with a recipe on the bag? Whole-wheat! I found a recipe on the Internet, but I didn’t know how to work the oven. When you bake biscuits for 15 minutes on 210, it’s not a good start. Bless Don’s heart, he’s just like his dad; he THANKED me for them! They were better than the NO BISCUITS that he’d been making for himself, but they’ll get better. While I was baking the biscuits the second time on 425, I squeezed juice out of 5 grapefruit! I found a juicer and went right to town. Man, that juice is so good!

No wonder I was tired after breakfast and went back to bed! I forgot I did all that. The juicing was the most tiresome part, but it was worth it.

That last 4-hour hyperthermia and IPT session left me with a really sore arm. If I didn’t know better I’d think I had a spider bite. I’ve been in touch with Dr. Santa Cruz and he told me to put something cool on it 3 times a day. So, I’ve got my ice pack wrapped in a towel and it has become my best friend. It has helped the swelling and the pain is better as long as it’s ‘frozen.’ This is such a minor deal, but I tell you so that you will know this is not just heaven here; I really am suffering some. J That’s an exaggeration; this is NOT suffering! This is heaven and I am grateful that it’s not something really horrible happening. This is just where the veins are unhappy that they had strong stuff going in and they are complaining about it so that I won’t ever do it again! The veins kept trying to get away, but we managed to always catch one. This one is really angry about being caught and used! I’ve emailed with Dr. Santa Cruz, and he told me to put some salve on it, which we hope to find tomorrow. I don’t expect any place that has it would be open today. How wonderful is it to go through a month of treatment for cancer and come out with only the complaint of a sore arm? God is so good.

I love you all!