HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner with family.  Here are the pictures & what we are thankful for.

 Thank you to Kyle & Shannon for the welcoming decorations & the table centerpeices.

Realxing after dinner!  At least some of us got to relax.

What we are thankful for!

I am thankful for . . . . . .

• A great family, our health, our jobs, all the “normal” things.  I’m thankful that my life is so normal.  
• Good health and a wonderful family. 
• Pistachio pudding, vacation days, sleep, dogs, family, surprises, helpful people, long underwear, & pickled vegetables (and the people who make them).         
• My health and having a family that cares about me.
• Kyle & Kale & a lot of other people & things  . . . but especially Kyle
• All the blessings bestowed on this family, no matter the distance, we are all together in spirit.
• My health and my wonderful family and that I am still working and enjoying life.          
• Finding a job and the family having good health.
• Gregg being home & his IT experience; Shannon as part of our family; Kyle & Shannon’s marriage; the family’s good health; new desserts; our church; Barb’s health & management of our household; my health & job; we can do eBay as a family; portable heater.
• My family, good friends, church home, and my savior, Jesus Christ.

What are YOU Thankful for?

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving!  I am looking forward to sharing the day with my family.  They are what I am most thankful for.  God has truly blessed me with a great family!!  I was born to a special mom & dad and am fortunate to have two sisters and two brothers.  I have been married to my college physics lab partner for 32 years of my life.  We are blessed to have two precious sons.  In July I was thrilled to welcome a daughter-in-law to my family! 

Thank you, Lord, for Your many blessings! 

What are YOU thankful for?

Technology matters!

It has been quite a week at the Kokomo Schlie household! 

Jim's desktop computer died on Monday.  He has been bringing his work laptop computer home each evening to work on things at home. 

Barb's car went to the shop on Thursday.  It used to have a great heater, but alas, not any more.  That was O.K. last week when it was 60 degrees again.  It was a different story this week with lows in the 30s on the drive to the gym in the mornings. 

The final straw was Friday when Barb's desktop computer hard drive crashed. Yes, I got the dreaded blue screen of death!  I had spent most of the day at the Kokomo Rescue Mission helping to process Christmas box applications.  You would think that after spending the day helping people you would be immune to something bad happening to you.  But, no, it does not work that way.  Providentially for us we have an excellent IT manager right on sight!!  I had been planning to purchase a new laptop computer & give my desktop computer to Jim.  My IT manager reviewed computer specs with me & I placed an order for a laptop that very night (Friday night).  Delivery time is estimated to be 3-6 days.  Perhaps I will get it before Thanksgiving!  Our talented IT manager retrieved my hard drive & connected it to another computer so that I could save information from it to my external hard drive.  It had been a couple of months since I had backed up my computer files, so let this be a lesson to all of you reading this.  Back up your computer hard dirve frequently!  You never know when YOU too might get the dreaded blue screen of death.  My IT manager was kind enough to loan me his laptop computer so that I could get some work done.  It is amazing how dependent we are on technology!

Maybe I will just go for a walk in the fog!!  (It is foggy today!)

What was lost - Now is found!

As you know Kyle & Shannon were married in July.  The reception was at "Ye Olde House" and it needed some embellishment.  Many family members donated items to help spruce up the place for the reception.  We received some of those items back when we drove Kyle's car home from the Groveland reception in August.  I kept asking Kyle where the pool balls were, because it didn't appear that they made it back home with us in August.  Kyle was positive he had returned them to us.  One day I had the brilliant idea that maybe the pool balls were inside the gray tote that had all the outdoor Christmas lights that we had brought home with us.  The search was on for the gray tote of Christmas lights!  It should have been under the basement stairway with all the other Christmas decorations, but it wasn't.  We scoured the basement & it was no where to be found.  We even looked in the garage attic, because other things that we have "lost" somehow ended up in the garage attic.  Go figure!  I began to question if we had even brought home the gray tote in August.  Maybe I just imagined that we broughtt it home!  I prayed about it & God answered my prayer last night.  Gregg was working on a project in the basement workshop & moved some things around & he found the gray tote of Christmas lights under some other boxes.  Guess what was inside???

What was lost is now found!

Now if I could just find out who is missing a very nice crockpot!