I am really stressed out - the webmaster is telling me my article for the week is due right now. It is very hard for me to be creative under stress--but here goes.......

It has been a pretty typical week here on Shelter Island. Church stuff, Lions Club dinners, dinner guests, bought stuff, got stuff, painted stuff and sold stuff.

Gramps yelled at me the other day. We were riding along Menantic Road (I was driving) and suddenly another squirrel jumped in front of me. Naturally, because I was concerned about him I slammed on the brakes. Because of my good reflexes that squirrel went on to live and run into the woods. Grampy yelled "You almost killed me! I almost hit the windshield. Are you more concerned about a squirrel than me?"  I ignored his question and answered, "If you had been wearing your seat belt like you are supposed to you would not have almost crashed into the windshield". He put his seatbelt on.

A lady (who I think might have some emotional problems) has been calling us for advice. She called the other night at 11:30 pm and asked Gramps to pray for her because she was going to go out and look for a job the next day. He prayed with her and being the good minister's wife that I am I made no comment about the late hour. At four AM when I was sound asleep, the phone rang. Oh no! I jumped awake - something must have happened to someone to call us at 4 AM. "Hello" I said groggily. "Can I talk to Jim?" this same woman asked. "Jim is asleep" I answered shortly. "Well" the woman said, "Can I talk to you? You are awake". "I was sleeping, too" I said. "Call back tomorrow" Sometimes I think I am suffering from burnout.

Hopefully by next week my creative juices will start flowing and I will come up with a good idea for an article. If anyone has any ideas send them to me at jimandsus88@msn.com