24 September 2018

in search of entertainment


For today’s random sketch, I drew our very dead blu-ray DVD player.

Upon coming home from the hospital, we found that our satellite receiver had died. It had been making static noises on a very few stations once in a while but now it was dead. After a very long, drawn out phone conversation, walking me through steps I could not do because the receiver is in fact dead, the company said “no problem, we can get someone out to take care of that!” . . . in another week and a half!

Bill doesn’t have energy for doing much more than an occasional walk around our property and to watch TV. So we decided to watch movies, using our blu-ray player. We watched Medicine Man, yet again (we both love it), and started an old western . . . and the player stopped. No amount of button-pushing or unplugging / replugging would convince it to come back to life.

So apparently our entertainment was going to be watching two very silly cats and listen to the rain fall. I read a lot of books but Bill just doesn’t have the patience to read much at the moment.

I texted our son Jason to let him know it was too wet to mow — he had planned on mowing our weed jungle for us and bringing us movies to watch. No answer.

Next thing we knew, he and grandson Josiah showed up to run a weed eater over the worst of the overgrowth . . . and not only movies but a new player as well! And set it up to play Netflix using my phone’s hotspot as a wireless network.

Our daughter Kristen had brought us some groceries and a wonderful grain-free, low-salt casserole she had just made up (it was fabulous!). A friend from church treated us to our favorite brisket, ribs, and 2 slices of coconut cream pie. A neighbor and his wife brought us a flavorful salt-free chicken dinner. They also came back with a cousin who checked out a shed on our property that we have been trying for 3 years to give away to anyone who can move it. Finally someone who knows a guy who moves small buildings professionally! It will be gone by the end of the week.

We are feeling blessed . . . and rather spoiled!

6 comments:

  1. Wow! You had a shower of blessings rain down on you!

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    1. And these are only a few of the ones we’ve noticed!

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  2. The blessings of God abounds and testifies of His love for, faithfulness to, provision for and protection of His children.

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  3. "How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; --" (From Psalm 139). See how many ways He has blessed you! Imagine all He does for us that we cannot see!

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    1. I once saw a card that had the definition of “coincidence” as an anonymous act of God. He is busy at work in our lives ALL the time, if we’d only open our eyes to see.

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    2. I love that definition of coincidence!

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