I'm back a little bit...

Good Friday Morning!  This isn't my actual return from my respite, but I had to stick my toe back in the water briefly!  Forgive me if I don't visit you again yet, but I will do my best to try to catch up...from the new house!  Just a quick five for Tanya's Willy Nilly Friday Five and Amy's Five on Friday....

1)  May I begin by sharing a lovely sunrise from this week!

2)  The big news!  We have a new President, and a lot of prayers have been answered.  Trump isn't perfect, of course, but he may be exactly what this country needs to turn things around.  Our world has been changing for the worst for too many years now.  Keep praying!  Pray our sense of division in this country will be healed, and we will all start to stand together, work together and not let our differing points of view destroy us!

3)  I've been following The Bulletin online, the Deschutes area OR newspaper, where we are moving.  It's fun keeping up with what is going on at my new home.  Today there was an article about a new book  by a Eugene resident (and prolific writer) Notaro, called Crossing the Horizon.
It's a novel based on the lives of the three other contenders for the first trans-oceanic crossing by plane by a woman--three women unknown where Amelia Earhart is a household name, of course.  I read the article eagerly, hoping one of the women pilots would be my distant relative, also a female pilot.  That was not the case, but I am very excited about the book, and anxious to read it.  [btw those of you who do reviews on Magnolia, get with it!  You know who you are! :-)]

4)  Watched a program about the Long Island serial killings on ID two nights ago to get our minds off the election results.  We like to watch detective/murder shows sometimes.  In another life, I would have loved to solve murders.  Our grandson wants to become a police detective.  Perhaps he will do so!  Anyway, that string of horrible murders is still unsolved, and may involve the police chief of that county who is now in prison, at least in a cover-up.  The really sad part was at the end of the program it stated that the mother of the young woman whose disappearance started the search that ultimately turned up 17 bodies, has been killed (allegedly) by her youngest daughter this year!  I opened my computer and looked it up...so sad!  After going through the murder of her eldest, now she is killed (allegedly) by her youngest, a schizophrenic, who stabbed her repeatedly.  Really tragic turn of events!  And as for the LI murders...I so wish they could be solved and that monster found!

5)  I am going to attend a going-away luncheon tomorrow with the ladies from church.  My hubby was invited by the men to a bar-b-q at one of their houses also.  So so sad to leave my sweet church family!  Going to miss them all so much!!!  Will post pictures of course at a much later date.  The date of Veterans Day was chosen, I think originally because of Russell's service, so they are honoring him that way as well.  Thank you to all the Veterans out there who have personally given so much for American freedom!!!!

My helicopter door-gunner husband in Viet Nam.  Thank you sweet guy for all you have done!