December, 2016
To those whom I love,
I wish you all a blessed Christmas and a wonderful
2017.
My year seems to have been uneventful on the
whole, but some events have left their mark.
In March, Mother (Lois) had a stroke that put her
in the hospital for a few days and in rehabilitation for about four more weeks.
Lori and I wanted to go up there right away, but John said that the roads were
bad with all the snow they had and not to come yet. As it was, Mother doesn’t
have any memory of that time and our trip would have accomplished very little.
In May, Lori determined to go north to see Mother
and she swung by to pick me up. We had a whirlwind weekend before we had to
return to work, but it was well worth it to see the northern half of the
family.
I tried a couple of new gardening techniques. One
worked extremely well, the other not so much. I plan to reduce the size of my
garden this coming year as it proved take more time than I had to keep up with
everything.
Instead of doing my own writing, I found that
there were a few people who had a story to tell, but didn’t know how to
accomplish the task. I’m not sure if I was ghost-writing or ghost-editing, but
I enjoyed myself and see ripples spreading out from the work I did.
I managed to completely shock my Mother when I
informed her that I was going on Medicare this June. She knows her own age, but
has failed to drag my age along with her. She couldn’t believe that I was “that
old already”.
At the library, I have been working with the same
boss (Becky) for the last 11 years. This Friday, she will retire and I will
have a new lady (Julie) to report to on Monday. Julie has been here training
with Becky for a week now and I think we will have a smooth transition. She
seems like the kind of person we will be able to peacefully and happily work
for.
Les has various ministries and a job that he
treats as a ministry, which is exactly what he loves to do. He has also done
some writing. This year’s opus was entitled Confessions
of a Job Gypsy. If you want a glimpse of the man I married, check out this
book.
John almost always visits me around Oktoberfest
which I look forward to every year and Angela always visits at Thanksgiving.
This year Angela changed employers and took off the month of July between jobs.
She came for an extra visit and I really enjoyed her time with us.
As final note, if you have my address in in your
address book, please add PO Box 39 to send anything to us.
God bless you and may a good year be inscribed for
you in the Book of Life.
Love,
Kathi (Eickstadt) Linz
