What's Cool about Root Canals

Here's what:

• You get to hang out with fun people.
• You get to snooze in the dentist chair.
• Your tooth gets fixed.
• You get ibuprofen, which helps with other bodily discomforts as well as the sore tooth.
• You get the rest of the day off. Sort of. I did take a 1.5 hour nap though.

All is well. Enforced ibuprofen came at a good time. People were telling me, 'you know, you can take over the counter pain meds . .' Of course macho me would have none of it, but now the radiated area does indeed feel better.

Still grieving a bit for the extended baseball summer that got away. Their end of the season party is tomorrow. Way too soon. Well, kudos to those scrappy little giant killers from Raleigh Hills. Other grandmas are rejoicing, and working to fit a trip or two to Bend into their schedules.

Earlier, in the morning I had a serious burst of energy, and took it out on the house. Cleaned a toilet. When ever I do this, I always remember my friend Laurie E. The verse that follows had been part of a Bible study we did together back when her three boys were small, and she felt like her life was about cleaning toilets . . . So here's our verse for the day -

What ever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Colossians 3:23-24