Voting Day 2024

Gratitudes:
1. I'm grateful for books. They are so entertaining!
2. I'm grateful for that new big screen TV I bought.
3. I'm grateful for water, especially Crystal Geyser spring water from Mt. Shasta.
4. I'm grateful for prayers. Imagine that: God wants to hear from us!
5. I'm grateful for my new car. Now I can take my friend /and/ her husband places while her car is being repaired.
Plan for the day:
1. Painting - I'm working on foilage surrounding a woman standing there breathing in the garden fragrances, with her eyes closed.
2. I still need to hang up that second white board.
3. And I still need to build the little shelf.
4. Create a new video.
5. Take my friend and her husband with me to go to the polling place, to vote.
Currently reading:
1. Area 51, by Annie Jacobsen
2. The Bible: Gospel of John, a Psalm, and 2 Samuel 1
3. New Morning Mercies, by Paul David Tripp (a devotional)
4. Procrastination, by June Hunt
5. True Story, by Michael Finkel
6. Brave Intuitive Painting, by Flora Bowley

Here's how my day is going: I just woke up and don't have much to say except I'm happy to be alive and happy that I remembered to pray first thing after sitting up this morning. I want to be the kind of Christian who puts God first in my mind at all times. How else can we remember to call on Him immediately when we're sensing danger? I told this to my granddaughter last time I talked to her when I was still living in the trailer: "Always remember to call on the name of Jesus whenever you feel frightened." I said that because I know she gets frightened easily. She needs the Lord and she loves Him. Now I'm praying for her protection and that she has a good life, not a messed up life like mine has been. Enough of that. Alls well that ends well, and I found Jesus in North Idaho when I was 61 years old. Better late than never.

I got help from YouTube in filling out my ballot. I knew who to vote for, for the most part. A few of the candidates I wasn't familiar with (state reps for the northstate area I live in) and I found candidate statements from them on video. Also the California Insider had a man on explaining the pros and cons of ballot propositions, and I appreciate he was only explaining them, and not telling me which way to vote, or even how he intended to vote. That helped me make up my own mind on how to do it. I have the ballot all filled out now and will just drop it off at the polling place this afternoon.

I thought I was going to have to drive out of here today to the great civilization to the east, but my friend's car isn't ready to pick up at the car dealership in Ashland, so we're waiting. A part had to be ordered and she doesn't know when that car will be ready. In the meantime I am happy to be able to give her rides when she needs them.