I really thought that I was doing a good thing.  Sheila had been gone for a couple of hours and not expected back for another few hours.  She had gone over to Sharon's to help get Zach to and from his class and then she was going to pick Sharon  up after her class.  I was about to bring my dinner tray downstairs and had a good service idea.  Since she probably wouldn't be back until after dark when I passed the light switch to the garage on my way I had the idea to turn on the light in the garage so she would not be coming in in the dark when she got back home. She did call me later and confirmed that she would be late.  I had my food and I had just finished my hour of 'stretchercises' when she got home.  She came down to the office and the first thing that she asked me was why I turned the light off in the garage so she had to come in in the dark.  I hadn't even looked in the garage.  I had just flipped the switch from inside the house.  Not a big deal but a good  lesson nevertheless.

My beard is getting quite uncomfortable.  Because of general conference weekend I did not take the opportunity to shave.  So I am in week # 2 and it itches.  I don't plan to shave until Sunday morning so I'll just have to tough it out.  Do you feel sorry for me?

I have been thinking about a gospel thought for a few days now.  I had a vague memory of a truth and so I looked in up in 'gospel library search' at lds.org. and I actually found it.  My memory was correct.  God does 'honor' agency.  By that I mean that God honors our agency by leaving us on our own when we for whatever reason do not invite his influence or presence into our heart and into our life.  I have been pondering on a way that I believe that I have closed Him out of a part of me and I want to change that circumstance.  So first I realized it, then I defined it and studied it to find it was true and now I need to figure out how to remedy it.  It has to do with my personal comfort zone and I am finding it to be quite difficult to get passed it.  Somehow it does seem important to me to do so, but it is also much harder then I thought that it would be.  I'll keep working on it and try to let you know as it comes along.  I do hope that this dog is not too old to learn something new.