Albertsons of Northern Kentucky: June 2025

June 1 was a Sunday, so we had some church friends over for dinner. Jim and Judy Southerland on the left, Rachel Hill and Doug and Joan Hodnett on the right.
Elizabeth wasn't there because she was helping host the church bus kids and their families at the pastor's house for Sunday dinner. She had prepared food all day Saturday in preparation, and they had a wonderful time, as did we with our guests. Our picture was taken with the timer.
On June 7, we went to a graduation party for our friend Seth O'Donnell.

Cute display of his senior pictures with his kindergarten and high school graduation robes!
Seth and his sister Megan. They are such sweet kids in our church.
On June 4, I started my 5th bookshelf quilt.
A high school friend of mine asked me to make it for her granddaughter.
Pinning the "shelves" to the "rows of books."

The 5 rows of books done

The granddaughter wanted yellow borders, and she loves daisies, so this is the finished product.I finished it on June 12. This will fit a full size bed and hang down on the sides and bottom nicely.
Personalization on the quilt

My initials on the bottom of the bookshelf.

June 8, we had other dear church friends over for dinner:
Rick and Mary Tallman on left and Dewaine and Sandy Caldwell
on the right.

On June 13, Rowen and I drove over to Bedford to buy a van from a missionary family who are headed to Costa Rica on July 9. On their to-do list was to sell their van, Ebenezer.
It's very similar to what we drive, only less miles and 5 years newer. Since ours has heated seats and steering wheel, and the red one didn't, we decided it probably needed to live somewhere down south.
We had taken a picnic lunch, so we found a place to eat and took this picture showing the two vans parked beside each other.

One day when we got home from an outing, we found that Elizabeth was washing the living room windows on the inside. Rowen finished up on the outside, and this week, he took time to wash all the exteriors of the windows around our house.

On June 14, Jenny and Abigail Albertson came to spend some days with us and to quilt the quilt top Jenny made as a wedding gift for her son, Daniel and his wife-to-be Stormi,
who will be married July 2.

That afternoon, while Jenny and I got the quilt top in the quilting frame, Elizabeth and Abi made a strawberry rhubarb pie for a Father's Day dessert.

It was really yummy, and beautiful.

Father's Day Sunday Dinner

Our "token" child for Father's Day. We are blessed with six, but only one close enough to celebrate with us. Jason had to work his weekend shift at the hospital, so he wasn't available.

The men who sang the special song for morning service.

We are blessed with a good group of godly men in our church.

Monday, June 16, we quilted. I did several rows, teaching Jenny, and she got brave enough to try it!

She did the quilting for close to 2/3 of it. She said she enjoyed it!

This was after we were done quilting.
We did not go forward with binding until the next day.

It turned out beautiful! Jenny had made the top out of flannel. The pattern is the same one
I made for Rowen in January called Simply Serene.

The writing on the top says Daniel and Stormi July 2 2025.

The next day we bound it.

In the evening after our quilting blitz, we put together this 750 piece puzzle. It was a lot of fun.

We took several evening walks with Jenny and Abi, played games, and did a lot of visiting before they flew back to KC on June 19.

Flowers blooming that week

Balloon plant

Easter Lilies

Crested Cocks-comb (Celosia)

Jenny and Abi flew out at 5 am, and Jeffrey and Lesa flew in at 12 noon!

They brought Punto,

Dahlias,

and Catan for two players.

We sat on the porch and visited,

and walked around the block.

Ate on the patio

They drove us to the oncology appointment and dropped us off in the parking garage, then they got ice cream and went to Eden Park.

On Saturday morning early, they left to drive home to Houston in Ebenezer!

On Tuesday and Thursday of that week, I had a bone scan and CT scans to determine if the chemo pill I had taken for three cycles had helped to slow the cancer down. It seemed to have progressed instead, so the oncologist took me off that chemo medicine.

Now I am taking anti-androgen pills that are often used for prostate cancer patients, but also used for breast cancer metastasis patients. I am still on the anti-estrogen pills. There are no other options for further medications except for IV chemo through a port. I am not interested in that option. No option is going to be curative, outside of a miracle from God. I am thankful I am feeling well, and able to walk around the block every day, and exercycle 5.5 miles a day.

A picture of us on Sunday June 22.

June 24, Seniors and Friends gathered for lunch at Washington Square Cafe in Burlington.
We had a very nice time eating and visiting. Rowen took the picture, so he isn't in it.

That evening, we drove up to Middletown to see Ron and Becky and to return the wheelchair they had loaned us quite a while ago. It was nice to see them and to visit a couple hours. Elizabeth was with us and took this picture.