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Morning Devotional...

Heavenward by Scotty Smith


It's Time for Personal Retreat with Jesus


My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away." Song of Songs 2:10

     Lord Jesus, the evidence is clear and convicting. It's time for un-rushed, uncluttered, Spirit-kissed time with you. Emotional tiredness and wandering thoughts, more being busy than beholding your beauty, quicker irritation than lingering adoration... but above every indicator, you tell us it's time to seek your face--to come away to be with you.

What a Lord, what a Savior, what a Bridegroom... you say to us, "Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away." That you address us as "my love, my beautiful one," is astonishing. The only beauty we have is what you've given us--the robe of your righteousness, our hiddenness in you, and your life in us. But what a magnificent supply this is. Thank you for your kindness and generosity.

That you desire rich, intimate time with us is life-giving. Jesus, it's hard to live as a Mary in a Martha world (Luke 10:38-42). Obligations, distractions, empty-nothings, and crises all conspire to crowd you out. That's a confession of sin, an excuse.

Since our calendars tell the real story, and our schedules are the measure of our sincerity, we will make time for you--you, the One who loves and delights in us as none other; the One who is the Lord of all time and space; the One whom to know is eternal life; the One who prays for our joy and who is our peace.

Jesus, in these last weeks of August, speak to us afresh; renew our affection for you; center and settle us... by your Word and through your creation, in stillness and aloneness, in tears and laughter; in our brokenness and by your beauty. So very Amen we pray, in your great and grace-full name.


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Jeanne Lee

Pat, how wonderful to see a devotional from you.  I hope it means that your health is starting to improve - at least a lttle. 

Thank you for the very timely message from Scotty Smith.  We do certainly need to keep close to Jesus in all of our "ups and downs".
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Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

I went out for a little while today, but got sick and had to return home in a rush.

Ah, well, there will be another day.  That's one of the joys of retirement.

Thank you for the devotion, Pat. I have been reading other comments about passages from Song of Solomon, so it was interesting to read your contribution.

May God be with each of you this evening.

Love,
Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Jacqueline

Pat...
...thank you for posting our Devotional...I am not familiar with Scotty Smith so shall look him up...
...I hope you are now over your worst...for every bad day there are at least two good days, well at least we need to hold that thought...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW

There are two days in every week
about which we should not worry,
Two days which should be kept free of fear and apprehension.

One of these days is YESTERDAY,
With its mistakes and cares,
Its faults and blunders,
Its aches and pains.
YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control.

All the money in the world cannot bring back YESTERDAY.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;
We cannot erase a single word we said.
YESTERDAY is gone.

The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW
With its possible adversities, its burdens, its larger promise.
TOMORROW is also beyond our immediate control.

TOMORROW, the sun will rise,
Either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds,
But it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in TOMORROW
For it is as yet unborn.

This leaves only one day TODAY.
Any man can fight the battles of just one day.
It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities
YESTERDAY and TOMORROW
That we break down.

It is not the experience of TODAY that drives men mad.
It is remorse or bitterness for something which happened YESTERDAY
And the dread of what TOMORROW may bring.

Let us, therefore, live but ONE day at a time.

Author ~ Anon...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like we are in for another cloudy day with a higher percentage chance of rain throughout the day and evening than for the last couple of days.  The prediction is a high of 81 degrees today and that is most welcome.  Nothing on the schedule for today until this evening when we are going to go to the buffet at Pizza Hut. 

I got up at 6:30 this morning and took my shower and shaved and got ready for the day.  Then I laid back down and did my daily reading, including reading the postings in the discussions I follow each day.  About 8 am I finally got up and got busy in the kitchen and have that work done.  Last evening Pat made pancakes and sausage for our evening meal, something we hadn't done for a long time. 


Janet, I hope the rented house will work out well for the three girls.  I hope she is successful in finding the job she is looking for. It sounds like those pictures were extremely expensive that were taken for the Church directory.  I shudder everytime I read about implanting chips into humans.  I suppose if you have no knowledge of the Bible or are not a believer many people wouldn't think there was anything wrong with this.  Unfortunately once this takes off it will infiltrate businesses and to be employed you will need this to access your work place.  It sounds like the young man wasn't really serious about learning to paint.  We all have the same 24 hours and usually find time to do those things that are important to us.  We have a metal roof over our back patio so when we have rain we also hear the noise. 

Jackie, many of our young people are in for a rude awakening when they actually have to get out in the real world and try to earn a living.  They are being sheltered in our Universities lest they hear or see something that might offend them.  I always thought higher education was to prepare us for our future life and to broaden our views of the world not to wrap us in cotton.  I see in the article you linked that your Health and Safety Executive holds a similar view. 

Marilyn, did that large cat try to do a little typing as you typed?  :)  I hope your local shelter benefited from your activities on Sunday at the Farm Store. 

Carol, it sure shortens the morning when we sleep in late (but don't ask me how I know it).  For years I have had short afternoons since I try to lay down and rest every afternoon if possible.  Those were good suggestions for Jackie.  Even those many months my wife wasn't up to attending Sunday School and Church she was able to do the card ministry for our Sunday School class.  It was something she could do from home. 

Jackie, good for you in volunteering to do another Bible reading.  I know you worried a bit about the last one but didn't it turned out to be an enjoyable thing to do?  Your piece about "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" are right on and is one of the foundations of the Al-Anon program.  Unfortunately it was pretty late in my life before I learned this lesson but what a difference it has made as I try to stay in today.

Pat, thanks for getting us started for a new month.  That is a very good reading you shared.  I sure hope you are beginning to feel better. 

Jeanne and Ruth Ann, thanks for your postings.  Ruth Ann, I hope today finds you over the sickness that you experienced yesterday. 

Jacqueline

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Larry Hanna...
...yes she does...I am sure this was the same lady who was speaking on our early morning tv, yesterday or the day before...she is against all this cotton wool smothering of our young children....she says we must concentrate on the " real " dangers...

Well once again I have to rest my body, it really doesn't take much to mess it up...I took the hoover - vacuum into my bedroom to clean inside my carpeted wardrobe, so had to empty it first of shoes, boots and bags...I noticed in the corner at the back a triangle dark looking mouldy patch, I tried to get low but couldn't reach the back, holding a soapy sponge in my hand but had to give up, I was losing my balance...and I certainly wasn't prepared to get on my knees, my body by that time was heavy, my head dizzy, and my legs although heavy were getting like jelly, wobbly underneath me, my lower stomach was heavy and pulling down, so I gave up as I was back to walking like a puppet on string..now of course I am back to resting my body until it gets back to its usual MS way...
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Marilyn

It is so n ice to see4 a post from you, Pat. How are you feeling any progress on your condition?

All is well here. Keith seems to be alright most of the time, however, from time to time there is some little thing that is not quite right. I put his blood pressure pills on the table in front of his placemat so he will remember to take them all was fine until Saturday when he looked at me and asked "Am I supposed to take these pills? I told him "yes just one from each bottle".
He takes two pills at bedtime and I hand those to him with a glass of water each night. He has been working in the yard doing some odd jobs that have needed doing for quite some time so that is a good sign, he is not just sitting around doing nothing.

Freckles and I have a few days off, tomorrow we visit the Cancer Center, that is all she has to do this week. Next week is going to be hectic. I have two visits with Freckles, Keith needs to get a hair cut and a new pr of shoes and I have to get things packed up for the trip next weekend for the wedding. We are going to have to leave very early in the morning as there are millions of visitors come to Oregon to view the eclipse and the traffic is going to be horrific. It would normally take about 3.5 hours to get where we need to go, but with so much traffic on the road, it could take all darn day. The wedding is the day of the eclipse so there is no staying home. It is Keith's youngesat son who is getting married.
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Janet

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Whew!  I'm tired!  We ate ham and beans with cornbread for lunch at the senior center, so knew we needed to get some exercise this afternoon, as tonight the Mennonite Youth are serving us hamburgers, salads and home made ice cream!  :) Yum!  So we went out and weeded the garden, and believe me, that is exercise.  My back, legs and arms are all hurting.  Some of it is from the gym workout this morning, though, can't blame all of it on the weeding.  ;)

Beth's friend Mindi is coming to see her tomorrow and wants to see me, too, so that's nice.  Maybe we will all go to lunch together or something.  (I know--eat, eat, eat, right?)   :-\  Oh, my goodness!  Just as I was typing this, on Dr. Oz, they started a segment on women who use their fat to make money.  The one on the show weighs 542#!!!  She said "Who wouldn't want a wonderful job like this?  It's easy money, it's fast money, just sitting on my butt and eating!"  Dr. Oz and a psychologist are doing tests on her to see what the fat is doing to her health-wise, then she says if she won't die because of the surgery,
she may have the by-pass surgery.  And she has five kids!!!  Unbelievable!!  And shocking!  Men pay women like her to eat obscene amounts of food, "squash" them by sitting on them, and other such things.  Can you even imagine?  Maybe I will skip the ice cream tonight!  :P

I'm going to sign off and watch the rest of Dr. Oz.  See you later!
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Carol

Janet:  After reading that - I am glad that I only had one taco for lunch and water.  Amazing news.

Jackie:  Atta Girl - (that is a big "Hooray") for you in taking on another reading.  Can you possibly have someone help with the deep cleaning?  Just a few times per year would be good so you don't hurt yourself.  I know it is expensive - but you deserve a treat.

Pat:  Thanks for sending on Scotty's devotions.  You are in prayers!

Tonight, I go to the twice monthly quilt meeting and Don will be playing cribbage.  The "boys" play the same night we have our meetings.  Today, we stopped at Hobby Lobby for me to buy some supplies - then, two grocery stores.  One is mainly vegetables.  Tuesday is $1 taco day and I only cost $1 because I drank water.  Don's meal was $3 in total with a mini  chocolate shake.  Supper is going to be a bit of meat loaf and fresh corn - two Colorado peaches for dessert.  You will notice, I am not going to comment on our treats at quilting - it is always great desserts. 

We are still dog-sitting Loki and that ends on Friday.  I feel that he is so smart - he is really "herding" us.  We are spoiling him a bit because of his illness and age - so, he was given bacon treats on top of his regular dish three nights ago just to entice him to eat.  The next night, he made sure we saw him staring at the jar of bacon treats he wanted added to his food.  Such pushovers we are....  Don was out on a long walk with him and the rain came so hard that they were both soaked - thankful for the invention of a clothes dryer.   

Jacqueline

#10
Carol...
...I always consider myself a hard worker, not afraid of hard work, like my late father and his " rough and ready " family were....In the past I have held many office -school- private house cleaning jobs...one time I would clean offices in the early morning, some small, some large, then again in the evenings, hoovering, polishing, filling and disposing of large black plastic bags of their rubbish but...now with my Illness just the simplest of things mess my body up...life for me just gets so so frustrating...when the mind and brain says do it but the body tells you different, and if you go ahead, you suffer afterwards...
Its not just the physical jobs but even hand washing a few cashmere jumpers, then putting them into the spin dyer before hanging them on coat hangers can mess up my body, I think its the bending forwards and my shoulders moving back and forwards...guess its my brain, and central nervous system ( optic nerves ) playing up...MS is one of those silent illnesses-diseases, we look normal on the outside but what is going on inside tells another story that only we experience...

Ha ha, yes the next reading is a tad more straightforwards than my last session was...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. I woke up to rain and we expect it on and off for the next two weeks, according to the weather forecasts.  We had a lot of rain yesterday and it, like this morning, was a nice continual and gentle type rain rather than those downpours we sometimes get.  This is to be another day, like yesterday, when we didn't get much above 80 degrees.  While I was thinking about it I went out to the garage and turned off the sprinkler system so it won't water early tomorrow morning. 

If it is not raining too hard this morning I plan on a quick trip to Costco to get Pat more frozen strawberries plus a couple of other items and to get the car gas tank filled up again.  This afternoon I plan on making a lettuce salad to go with the mac/cheese and ham crockpot dinner Pat is making for our dinner with Scott and Jennifer this evening.  We did go to Pizza Hut for our evening meal yesterday and got to spend just a few minutes with our son. 

Jackie, sorry to read that you overdid in trying to do that cleaning job.  It sounds like it might be time for you to consider finding someone to come and help with some cleaning.  We have used a cleaning lady or ladies for probably around 15 years and it is worth every penny we pay to get it done. It is not a matter of not being a hard worker but that physically we can no longer handle it well. It sounds like you were a very hard worker as you were able. Do you have one of those grabber tools where you can pick up things without having to bend over?  We have these throughout our home and they really work. I hope today finds you feeling much better. I think your explanations of MS as it progresses is giving us all a better understanding of this dreadful disease. 

Marilyn, hopefully Keith's progression of his illness will be a slow one and he can have many more years of enjoying his retired life.  I don't envy you having to be out on the highway in the midst of the eclipse traffic.  South Carolina is also in the direct path of the eclipse and the State is expecting at least one million visitors.  Our county is just on the edge of the path but about 70 miles from us will be right in the middle of the path.  There are all kinds of events, parties and other activities being planned around it.  I read that all 11,000 motel rooms in Columbia, South Carolina, are booked and I expect the Augusta, GA area will experience the same thing and it is an easy drive on I-20 to get from this area to Columbia.  We will be staying home and off the highway on that date.  I sure hope it doesn't take you all day on the road to get to the wedding site.

Janet, it sounds like you didn't have much cooking to do on Tuesday.  It sounds like you worked off the noon meal with all of that garden work.  Nice of Beth's friend Mindy to come and see her again.  She is obviously a true friend. Your Dr. Oz story is really quite disgusting as to why anyone would encourage someone else to keep gaining unneeded pounds.  I am convinced that the gastric bypass surgery my DIL had lead to her death after she had to have it done again due to complications. 

Carol, fortunately most of us have some common sense about eating and when enough is enough.  I find one of the things that has happened to be as I have aged is the reduction in my appetite (not that I don't eat enough) but just not as much.  Hope you enjoyed your quilting evening and that Don won the cribbage games or at least some of them.  It sounds like you will miss attending to Loki when Friday arrives. 


Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

I'm checking in tonight, as the eye dilation medicine is beginning to fade away. The eye appointment and tests show that my dry macular degeneration is a bit worse, but the deterioration is not going very fast, thank You, God. And although I have a readout that suggests I may develop glaucoma, it hasn't yet shown up.

So, I praise the Lord - I've been diabetic since  early 1973, and still have my vision. Isn't God good!

Thank you for your good comments.

May God bless each one who comes here to participate either by reading, posting, praying, meditating, presenting really interesting photos.

Love to all,

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. Another cloudy morning and headed up to 85 or a little higher this afternoon.  We did have more good rain yesterday morning.  There is a low percentage chance of more rain today.  I will go to coffee this morning and then, if not to tired, will go back downtown after getting my friend home and attend the Wisdom Group.  Nothing else on the schedule for today.

Ruth Ann, it sounds like you have done a great job of dealing with your diabetes. 

Carol

Just stopping by this morning and reading the latest notes. 

Ruth Ann:  You always stay positive and faithful. 

Don wanted to watch the Dunkirk movie yesterday.  It was painful to watch. 

Janet

Good morning!

It is overcast here and more rain is predicted, so Darrel is out on the mower, trying to finish up before the rain comes.  I have some errands to run, so as soon as I finish this, I'm going to town.

Ruth Ann, I also have Macular Degeneration.  My mom was nearly blind from it and glaucoma, when she moved to heaven at almost 95 years of age.  I pray daily that the Lord will allow me to continue to read until He calls me home!  I just cannot imagine my life without reading! The lady from the Low Vision group is coming to see me again today at 3:00.  I am needing a stronger magnifying glass!  Ruth Ann, I admire you for always looking for the good and maintaining a positive attitude.  :thumbsup: 

Carol, Darrel likes war movies, too, and I find them painful and upsetting to watch.  I know they reflect reality, but reality is brutal sometimes.  Much prayer is needed for our sin-sick and broken world.
But there is much good to be seen still, when we are looking for it!

I enjoyed a nice visit with Beth's friend Mindi yesterday.  She's such a faithful and loyal friend to Beth,
I thank God for Mindi!

I'd better hurry, I hear thunder starting now!
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Marilyn

Ruthann and Janet I too have Macular Degeneration, the dry kind I will see my Ophthalmologist again in December for another exam and scan. The last scan showed that the gel like substance that is behind the retina has only detached part way. I will also be seeing a retina specialist. I hope I don't have to go to Portland the eye institute like Keith does because that is a very long trip and I am tired of driving to Portland anyway. I will continue to take Keith since the only airline that was doing the northwest has now stopped that service here. We were going to fly to Portland for his next appointment.
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Jacqueline

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~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We will be back into the 90's today with a low chance of an isolated thunderstorm.  The housekeeper will be here a little later today.  I had planned on getting a haircut but just not feeling peppy enough to do it, at least this morning.  We do plan on eating our main meal out today. 

Carol, was Don glad he has now seen the Dunkirk movie? 

Janet, hope Darrel was able to get the yard finished before the rain and that your trip to town accomplished what you wanted. 

Marilyn, is Macular Degeneration catching as Ruth Ann, Janet and you all have it.  (Of course I know it isn't catching.) Fortunately my worst eye problem is cataracts that seem to be progressing quite a bit this year.  I found a extension for the Google Crone browser called High Contrast that helps make the print darker.  You can easily toggle it on and off and it needs to be off to view pictures but sure helps read.   

Jackie, beautiful graphic with a very good message. 

Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

Thank you so much for your kind messages. May each of you be blessed.

Larry, I was taught that in the workplace, it's easier to set up the monitor for black background and white text, which I thought strange at the time. Now, I truly understand. I have all my Bible apps on the phone set with the reading screens with white text and black screens.

My sister in law is back in the hospital, so, I must go to her apartment to feed her cat.  Therefore I must go for today.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Jeanne Lee

Cloudy and dark with pretty high humidity.  So even though the temperature is low I still need to run the air conditioner in order to breathe.  Thank the Lord for the a/c even though I've always hated it.  What would I have done 100 years ago?

I've spent the last couple of hours putting together my food order.  Another love/hate situation.  I hate online shopping, but if Walmart hadn't instituted the new grocery pickup program, and if I didn't have such wonderful neighbors willing to do the pickup, I'd really have problems.  So again thanking God for what He provides - even if I don't like it!   ;D
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Carol

We only have one more trip to son's home to feed the dog his supper.  This entire week, we have been concerned that Loki would not feel well or worse - but thankfully, he is doing great.  Don needed some sugar in his system so we drove to the nearest Kneader's.  They have a wonderful bakery and we like going there because they actually are closed on Sunday.  There is a Kneaders in Tucson too.  Yum

Larry:  We could have had a bit more history on the situation at Dunkirk.  I am searching for some of that history.  It should not have happened but perhaps the intelligence on the size of the German army wasn't spot on. 

Ruth Ann:  You are cat feeding and we are dog feeding.  Cats are easier to care for - but we are called upon to stay at our children's homes and dog-sit - -- we like being asked. 

Jeanne Lee:  It is different to shop online.  I usually set it up a few days ahead of time and go in and add to the list.  But--- there is always something I forget if I am not actually in the store.  Well, to tell the truth, we stop by the stores too much because something is always forgotten or never crossed my mind until cooking time.  The funny thing is we lived in the tiny town - really 7 miles from a grocery store, and church.  All those years, I only borrowed one thing from a neighbor and she only came over once as well.  Yuck on high humidity! 

I made a pasta casserole and baked brownies for Philip's homecoming tonight.  He said the weather was nice all week (unlike our tremendous downpours) and he hiked a mountain as well as a lot of trails.  Glad they could get outdoors this week.  For fun (not fun) I have had to change a quilt pattern because the last part of the pattern is missing.   Really disappointing. 

Janet

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Our area has had more rain than we can remember this time of year--ever!  It's wonderful, but Liberal had flooding last night, from five inches of rain in a short time.  We got another 3/4 inch, but all around us, people are reporting 2, 2 1/2 and 3 inches.  It's really staying nice and green this summer!

I want to attend a going away party for the PA I have gone to for the past several years.  It's supposed to be at the park by the gym, so will go see.  I'd like to at least say goodbye and tell her how much I have appreciated her.  They are moving to South Dakota.

Then tonight is also a meeting called Sisterhood Nights, and I want to attend that.  But will have to ask someone for a ride home, or else call Darrel to come get me.  Not being able to drive at night is unhandy.  The low vision lady didn't make it yesterday.  She was in town but ran out of time with her other clients, so she asked if next month will work for me, and that's fine.

Marilyn, sorry to read that you are also dealing with Macular Degeneration.  Many "older" folks have it. (There's that pesky "O" word again!  :-\)

Jackie, I loved that pretty graphic!

Time to get going!  See you tomorrow!

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Jacqueline

" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone.  It looks like it will be another relatively mild day.  We did have a good rain again last night and there is a possibility of more today.  My only plans for today are to attend a meeting this morning and then will watch the 3rd round of the big golf tournament.   Last evening we did go to a new BBQ place for us and it was good.  It seemed like ti took forever to get there and a much shorter time to get back home.  I guess that is always the case when you are not sure where something is.  I did see it as we drove by but had to find a place to turn around and come back to it.  Unfortunately their A/C had gone out yesterday and it was quite warm in the restaurant although they had fans running. 

We had a very unexpected event happen yesterday as a coffee friend and fellow Church member called me saying he was going to bring over his dehumidifier for us to try for a few days.  I had mentioned at coffee on Thursday the problem we were having with very high humidity in our house.  It wasn't long became he drove in and unloaded it and brought it into the house.  It is working like a charm. He will pick it up on Tuesday and in the meantime I will be ordering one for us to use permanently.  They now have them with pumps built in so you can drain the water into a sink through a small hose and not have to empty a tank.  It really brought the humidity down in the house but Pat turned it off when she came to bed so it let the humidity rise again during the night so have to basically start again.  This should solve our humidity problem. 

Ruth Ann, the little extension I mentioned yesteday has a toggle to go to a black screen with white letters and I am using it as I type this morning.  You are correct in that it is easier to read.  Thanks for letting me know about this.  Sorry that your SIL is back in the hospital.  It sounds like she is reaching the point where she really shouldn't have a pet as taking care of it as you have had to do is really a burden.

Jeanne, I have often had the same thought in remembering how hot the summer were in Missouri without A/C as I was growing up.  There is no way I would want to go back to those days.  I am glad you can use the online ordering.  I use a very handy new Google program called Keep and for lists it is very handy (as well as for other things you want to quickly access).  You create the grocery list with each item having a little checkbox at the front of the line.  Then after you have ordered you can put in a checkmark and it moves the item to an inactive stage.  The next time you order just go down the list and remove the check mark from any items you want to put back on your current shopping list.  I find it helpful for my Costco and Aldi's lists as it appears on my phone, which I keep with me, and as I shop I can just click on the item and it is out of my current list. 

Carol, I bet you will miss the daily contact with Loki but sure glad he remained healthy while you were in charge of his care.  As far as I know we don't really have a good bakery around here and it is probably just as well.  However, the Publix and Costco bakeries do have some pretty tasty items.  Glad your son enjoyed good weather for his hiking.

Janet, we also have had an unusual amount of rain and everything is still very green outside.  Our last rains have been the kind that really soak into the ground rather than being a downpour, although Pat told me the one we had last night came down hard.  I did hear it as was asleep. 

Jackie, another very nice piece you posted yesterday. 

Carol

Have a wonderful Saturday and Sunday.  May all your prayers come true.

Janet

Jackie, that graphic is so pretty, and meaningful, too.  Thanks!

Larry, Can you explain to a total non-techie how to access the place to change to black background with white print?  That listing app (?) sounds so handy, whether shopping online or in person.  I need to learn this stuff; I am still toting paper lists and a pen.  :-\  So nice of your friend to lend you his dehumidifier!  When you get yours, it should make life more pleasant for you and Pat.  Glad you won't be having to lift a tank full of water!

I did go to the going away party, for only a few minutes, but got to talk to Christine and tell her I appreciated her.  She invited us to come visit them in South Dakota.  Very nice, but I don't really expect that to happen.  Then I went to the other event but was a total disappointment.  The music was painfully loud, and they sang the songs over and over and over and....well, you know.  Then, when the speaker came up, she would say (more like scream) a few sentences in English, then switch to Spanish.  She spoke so fast I could barely understand her, and they had the sound system way too loud.  After only a few minutes, I went outside and called Darrel to come get me!  At least ten other people left as I was waiting for him, and each of them commented on it being too loud.  You could actually still hear her outside the building!  Yikes.

I went out to the Farmers' Market this morning.  It's chilly today, so a sweater jacket felt really good.
That's a good place to go to see and visit with people.  I saw many whom I'd not seen for a long time!
I bought tomatoes and nothing else today.  It looks as if we may start getting some from our garden in another week or so, especially if they get some sunshine!  This weather is wonderful, but it makes me wonder what the Fall will be like!

I'm thinking I need to start cleaning out cabinets and pantry.  Not my favorite chore, but it's a good day to tackle it!

Hi, Carol!  Blessings on you, too!
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Jacqueline

Janet and Larry Hanna...
...thank you for commenting on my graphics...I am happy they both have brought meaning to you, as they have to me...I need these daily reminders...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Janice

Hello, Janice here.  It has been so long since I posted here that I forgot how to log in. Asked for a new password and here I am. I hope to stay in touch better now.  It's after 10:00pm so for now, I need to get to bed. G'night all.
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Jacqueline

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Janice...
...good morning or a goodnight, and a warm welcome...I have just gotten up...it is 7.am here in UK...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

It is now 10.25 am, soon leaving for my 11.am church service, this morning is Holy Communion, ( goes on a tad longer, ) which now we have to walk a tad further, open space before steps and rail bar...it is the open space I cant cope with...apart from my MS walking..I also have to deal with my head spinning, ( brain ) and my vision...the main thing is that I go for the 1 hour and 15 minutes, staying for the cup of tea, and possible chat, is optional... Last week I took my rollator, I plan on doing the same today but, It does get left somewhere at the back, so I am then left to grab hold of anything and everything...
...Wishing everyone a Blessed Sunday....
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. After a very hot day yesterday we expect basically the same for today.  There is a higher percentage for the likelihood for some rain this afternoon.  I am going to Sunday School and Church but I am doubtful that Pat will make it to Sunday School but hopefully will want me to come and get her so she can attend Church and we can go out to eat our main meal of the day.  I will rest this afternoon and then watch the end of the golf tournament.  They sure had a long day yesterday and the playing conditions appeared to be difficult.

Carol, I do hope you also are having a nice weekend. 

Janet, I have made myself a note to send you instructions on making your screen darker.  I will need to do a little research.

Janice, glad you found us again and look forward to seeing postings from you.  Welcome back.   

Jackie, I hope you got along fine at your Church service this morning.  Can't you take Communion in your seat if it is difficult for you to go up to the altar rail or ask one of the ushers to bring you your Rollator?  I know in the Churches I have attended those unable to come to the front are served in their pews.  Pat is no longer able to kneel at the altar for Communion but does go down to the front of the Church to be served.  I hope you were able to enjoy some socialization after the service. 

Janet

Good morning to Janice--wonderful to have you back!  I was thinking about you just a few days ago and wondering how you are!

A;so good morning to Larry, Jackie and the others who will pop in later.  I'm ready to go to church, so using the last few minutes to pop in and greet you. 

I hope everyone has a blessed Lord's day, wherever you are!
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Jacqueline

In church this morning whilst our vicar was giving a sermon we all heard what we assume was an ambulance's siren as it came into our village and past by our church..our Bishop paused for that moment and offered we say a prayer for the person it was on its way to...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone.  We don't expect to be as hot today as we were yesterday.  We did get a little rain yesterday afternoon and a much higher chance of rain this afternoon. 

I just placed an order at Home Depot for a new dehumidifier and will go to the store in a little bit to pick it up.  It will save about $80 by picking it up myself.  I am sure they will load it into the PT Cruiser and if I can't handle it when I get it home I will ask my good neighbor across the street to help me get it out and into the house later this afternoon.  That is all that is on my schedule for today.

Pat did go to Sunday School and Church with me and then we met a couple from our Sunday School class at a restaurant for lunch.  We really enjoyed it.  It turned out to be a pretty exciting golf tournament and another young player now has won a major championship that will forever change his life. 

Jackie, that was a nice thing your Vicar to offer a special prayer for whoever needed the ambulance. 

Marilyn

Hello everyone, Welcome back Janice, good to see you made it back.

This is a busy week for all going to the Wedding over the weekend. I took Keith to get his hair cut this morning. Tomorrow I get my very first ever pedicure and have my nails done. I do have two facilities to go with Freckles this week as well Then I will either have to take her to be groomed or try to bathe her myself. It has gotten too hard for me to kneel by the tub to bathe her then attempt to get up/ getting old isn't easy.

Keith's sister is in town from North Carolina for her 50th reunion this past weekend. We spent yesterday with her going out to Charleston for seafood lunch then an afternoon of visiting, no computer yesterday was good too, but I sure had a lot of emails to catch up on today.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jeanne Lee

Janice!  Great to see you here.  I hope you'll be able to come in here often, now.  ;)

Marilyn, it does sound as though you've been busy.  But that's not really unusual!   :)

We have a new photo challenge.  Here's hoping this one will be less of a fiasco that the last one.  HERE
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Janice

Hello everyone.  I am still in the dark concerning how and where to post!  I must have been AWOL for a longer time than I realized.  Thanks for all the welcome greetings.  Yes, I agree, getting older is not for sissies!...I never expected to reach my age, but here I am.  Ailments and all.  Speaking of eye problems, I have Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration and Cataracts.  Have been going to Amarillo well over a year to see a glaucoma Doctor.  Our little town does not have any kind of eye doctors other than those who fit you glasses. Optometrists.  Must stop for now,  iPad needs charged!
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Jacqueline

#38
Janice - Marilyn...
...I have learnt old age is no bar, it has no boundaties to Illness's - diseases...I was 64 years young two years ago, when I was diagnosed with PP- Multiple Sclerosis...I have a rarer form which attacks people over the age of 50...

Janice, I think you are just going to bed as I get up in the morning...it is now 6.am...I have just this minute gotten up to put my box outside my front door for collection, for my organic vegi - box delivery man, he comes early and it always starts our dog Toby barking...

Jeanne Lee...
...I will have to take a peek at what photos I still have left...I know, not many...nor do I get myself out and about to take fresh ones...

Marilyn...
...good luck in bathing Freckles yourself...I gave up on that one several years ago...

Larry Hanna...
...It must have felt good for Pat, that for once she felt up to going to church with you...

Janet...
...a good morning to you when you pop in later...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We start out the day sunny with expected high temperatures in the mid-90's.  We had some thunder yesterday but no rain and not a big chance of rain today.

I did get over to Home Depot and picked up the new dehumidifier yesterday and Scott will be over later today to help get it out of the box and set up.  It weighs about 50 pounds.  I don't want to turn it on its said as they told me I would have to wait for 24 hours to use it if I did because of something about the Freon.  I am hopeful that Scott on one side and I on the other we will be able to lift it out of the box so we can start using it today.  My friend, who loaned me his dehumidifier will be here before noon to take his unit back home.

I am also awaiting the delivery of a UPS package, which is out for delivery,  of a new small combined Windows 10 and Tablet computer that Kim Komando has designed.  It is relatively inexpensive and if we don't like it we can return it in 30 days for our money back.  I have been wanting to get a lighter weight computer for Pat and while this is smaller than her laptop it is much lighter.  Once it is delivered today I will get it setup like her current laptop and she can try it out.   

Marilyn, you do have a busy week ahead.  I hope you enjoy the pedicure.  I had three of those done and then decided I would have my toenails clipped by the podiatrists office in the future.  Had you met Keith's sister before? 

Jeanne, if I can remember I will look through the few pictures I have taken as I like to take pictures of flowers.

Janice, like you I never expected to live as long as I have.  I am just grateful for each new day and while I don't accomplish much anymore I always try to do a few things each day as that is important to me.  I would say you have more than your share of eye problems. Do you like the iPad? 

Jackie, it would be great to have fresh vegetables delivered.  Do you have any choice about what you will be getting in your box.  I was most happy to have Pat go to Sunday School and chur


Carol

Good Day and Welcome again, Janice.  Nice to see you and I hope you spend more time in here.  What is happening in your neighborhood?

Here in a SW suburb of Denver, the mornings are now cooler and we have windows open.  We are planning a drive to Minnesota in a few weeks.  This will be in four sections of the state - my mother's home town with lake, the north (Duluth and Lake Superior), the twin cities then south of the cities to see a grandson at Gustavus Adolphus college.  Always exciting for us - Don is from Duluth so he is happy to get started. 

Larry:  That sounds too heavy for you to handle --- take care. 

Don just walked out with bandage over his chin.  He has irritated a cut on his chin every morning for a week and today was the granddaddy of all bleeding.  He needs to not shave for a while. 

We are trying to visit a grandson in Fort Collins and he has such a busy agenda.  Both school and work full-time.  Yes, he is a super man!  Graduating with honors in 3 years.  We just want him to smell the roses a bit.

I am giving many thanks for being able to sew a complicated pattern (why did I do it?) of a quilt top.  I had a good talk with The Lord and calmed down, then it just seemed to take place.  As mother used to say, "Everything will be alright".   

Marilyn

Larry, yes I have met Sandee a few times before this past weekend. Freckles and I have been out for a walk already. Tomorrow we go to the Baycrest residential facility to visit the residents.  Then I will give her a dry bath with the bathing foam and brush her real good to get it down to the skin. Thursday we visit the hospital so she has to be clean for those visits.
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Janet

#42
Oh, my, am I ever sleepy this afternoon!  I can barely keep my eyes open!
And I had a good night last night, too.  Guess I just need more z's!  ;)

Janice, tell us what's happening in your life now, please.  We are way behind on your news!  It's so good to have you back!

Larry, glad you're waiting for Scott's help with the dehumidifier.  We sure don't want you hurting yourself! 

Marilyn, you will surely enjoy that pedicure!  Anyway I really do, on the rare occasion when I get one! Freckles is such a lucky dog that you got her.  I think she is more pampered than a lot of grandchildren!   :)  I hope you have a good trip and don't have to fight too terrible much Eclipse traffic.
I heard on TV that people in the path of the total eclipse are renting out their back yards for as much as $1000 per night!   :o  I want to get some safe glasses so I can look at it, as we will have 80% or more eclipse here.

Carol, glad the Lord helped you get that complicated quilt pattern sorted out!  Hope Don's chin heals up nicely.  Darrel has been having so many zits on his nose, and he just won't leave them alone.  He always tries to squeeze them too soon, so his nose is bright red.  I told him if he doesn't stop it, people will think he's a wino!   ???

I had some errands this morning after we went to the gym, came home and had breakfast, then got dressed for the day.  As I passed her house, a friend of mine was out working in her yard, so I pulled in and chatted for a few minutes.  They have their house up for sale and I hadn't seen her in ages, have been intending to visit her.  Anyway, I went on and took care of my errands, and as I was driving home, I saw Mary putting her yard tools in the garage, so pulled in again, and we went in her house and visited for an hour, until her husband came home for lunch.  I'm so glad I did.  We both enjoyed it so much!  Mary is a very talented artist, but now has MD and is nearly blind in her left eye.  She is also almost totally deaf, but has hearing aids that go way deep into her ear canals, so she can hear normal conversations again.  Their family all live away from here, so they are moving closer to them, as they feel the years pressing in.  Sigh.....

Maribel is here cleaning for us.  I'm so thankful for her help!  Her two hours are almost up, and when she leaves I'm going to try to catch a short nap--even 15 minutes would help!

See you tomorrow!
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We are in for another very hot day getting up to 96 or above this afternoon with little chance of rain. 

I did get the new little computer/tablet last evening and probably 3 hours working on it.  However, I am very disappointed this morning as it will not start up.  I think it may well have a defective battery as I noticed when using it last evening that the battery kept going down rather than charging as it should since it was connected to the electrical power.  It is a shame as I think Pat would have enjoyed using it.  I will call Kim Komando later this morning but am pretty sure I will have to return it.  Scott did stop by for a few minutes yesterday and got the dehumidifier out of the box and It ran all evening.  I wasn't able to hook the hose up as couldn't get the little plug out and will see if Scott can tonight.  By about 10 pm the tank was full.  I told Pat to just turn it off and I would empty the tank this morning, which I have done.  The unit is easy to move and I could roll it to the bathroom door and remove the tank.  That way if any water spilled it would be on the tile and not the wooden floor. 

We will go out this evening with Scott and Jennifer for the evening meal.  Pat does have a 10 am appointment with the Pain Clinic but I won't need to go with her. 

Carol, I was a bit embarrassed when after Scott had lifted the dehumidifier out of the box we discovered the box was open on the bottom flat, which had been held to the box by straps.  Live and learn I guess.  Does Don use an electric razor?  I have used one for years and wouldn't consider going back to a blade razor.  Later your grandson will ask himself as to why he was in such a hurry to finish college unless he plans to go on the graduate school.  I got my degree in three years by going to the summer sessions but was anxious to be able to leave the farm. 

Marilyn, that Freckles must bring a lot of joy where ever she goes. 

Janet, it sounds like you need to get some extra rest.  Your schedule would wear anyone out.  People paying $1000 for a 2 1/2 to four minute view of the eclipse staggers my imagination.  Sure hope it won't be cloudy or there will be a lot of disappointed people across the country.  I am glad you are having someone come and help you with the housecleaning. 

Carol

Janet:  Blessings to Maribel!  It sounds like the right decision to move closer to family. 

Larry:  I had a issue with my cell phone not charging at son's house and then realized that the bottom of the outlet was not working because it was on a timer for the light.  DUH - I should have thought of it. 

:coffee:  time for my coffee.  I drink a concoction with water in the morning the first minute then switch to coffee. 




Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We are in for another day with over 95 degree temperature and little chance of rain.  I did water my yard this morning. 

We had a very pleasant surprise yesterday afternoon when the phone rang and it was Chape and Beverly on their way to Vermont.  It was a pleasant, although brief visit and much appreciated.  We did meet Scott and Jenifer for our big evening meal at Diablo's Tex Mex restaurant and had another delicious meal.  We then came back to the house and talked for awhile and then they and Pat played several games of Farkle, which they have started doing each Wednesday evening they are here. 

It is going to be a pretty busy day for me today.  I have to get the defective new computer boxed up and dropped off at the UPS store, which is on our way down to coffee.  After I spoke to the customer service (an actual human) he sent me a mailing label and after checking out the unit for themselves they will send me another computer.  After I return my friend back to the assisted living facility following coffee I will go back downtown to Aldi's to restock the pantry.  Our Wisdom group is not meeting today as the Minister took a few days of well earned vacation.  We are going to have a salad supper, which is easy to do and is tasty. 

Carol, sure glad it was a simple plug in problem and not a problem with your phone.     

Janet

I'm waiting for Darrel to get dressed so we can go to the gym.  We need to go earlier because I have a 10:20 dental appointment.

I see I missed posting yesterday, even though I did come in and read the postings.  Guess I hadn't anything exciting to report.   ;)

I wasn't able to find any of the eclipse-safe glasses (procrastination causes these things!) but Toni and Curtis have two extra pairs, so we will go over to Moscow and get those.  They are going to drive clear to St. Joe, Mo. to watch it.  He said it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing, which it is, but for me, seeing the 85-90% eclipse is sufficient.  And there will be lots of photos to see of the 100%, I'm sure.  I'm thinking that a lot of people will spend so much money to be in the path of the total eclipse, and then it might be cloudy and they won't get to see it after all.  That would be a big disappointment!

I have a lunch date with my friend Dee today.  She's my painting buddy, and we have been friends for many years.  Painting has brought me so many friends, but she has stuck closer than any of the others!  :)

Larry, it sounds as if you have a really busy day planned.  Don't overdo it!  I know you are careful to listen to your body and not push it, and that's a good thing!

Hi, Carol!  Are you going to post a photo of that complicated quilt when it's finished?  I'd love to see it!

Hello to the rest of you when you pop in!
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Carol

Janet:  No, I am just going to send it to you for finishing  :cool:

Around dinner time yesterday, the coyotes went crazy with two sirens heading into our neighborhood  - Rescue Squads plus another siren, a Sheriff.  Our friend and neighbor who is terminally ill, had fallen.  His wife with her two injured hands and one elbow could not, of course, lift him.  He did go to the hospital.  So many times this has happened and he just wants to go to heaven. 

I could only make phone calls for prayers yesterday. 

Today,, the sun is shining.  There are two packs of coyotes in the ravine - on both sides of the road. They sound like sirens themselves.  Don made the fashionable lighted mason jar outdoor light for me.  All from the dollar store - I used mini mason jars, the solar lawn light, and blue opaque marbles.  Without much sun yesterday, they are still glowing this morning. 

Otherwise, I felt useless yesterday and surprised at how weepy I felt because Gene really does want to go to heaven - he feels he is such a burden.  His wife needs elbow surgery and perhaps more hand surgery.   


Larry:  Nice that you can trade your tablet/computer for a new one.  It will be interesting to see how this works for you.  Really nice for you to have unexpected company while they were driving through your area.

Janet:  The news tells us that even the special glasses are not completely safe.  I'll just look at the shadow on the ground - thank you very much. 

Our beautiful free country - watching it being manipulated.  Praying

Marilyn

Janet, I thoroughly enjoyed my pedicure and the stylist gave me a deal because I have been her client for 8 years. She painted my fingernails and toes the same color with silver sparkles on the tips and white flowers on my big toes. Fancy stuff!!


Everyone just loves Freckles, she is so friendly and loving and really loves her job and the love she gets and well as the love she gives. I washed her good with the dry shampoo and brushed her good as well this morning getting her nice and clean for the hospital visit.

Carol, when I lived in the desert coyotes used to come into my yard all the time. One time a young one came under the fence as my dogs and I were sitting outside. Happy chased the little one out into the desert. Pretty soon I saw happy coming back with the little coyote chasing him nipping at happy'ss tail. It was so funny. My landlords used to come up there on the weekends, the brought some bones and food up and put it outside one time, two large coyotes came into the yard to eat, My dogs were in the house so they didn't chase the coyotes. I am glad they were because thoe guys were big ones. I told my landlords never to leave food out again. they thought there were leaving it out for my dogs.
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Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

I'm weary tonight, so won't talk too long.

I'm still caring for the kitty and his owner (my sister in law) - she needs for me to pay her bills and fetch things from home to take to the care center. The center is only 2 blocks from my apartment, much  closer than the 20 miles across town to the hospital.

I got choked today and thought I was gong to pass out before I could slowly regain my breathing, so I think the extreme stress on me is why I'm so tired tonight.

Jackie, thanks for the graphics, and the saying in this last one. I really enjoyed it.

And, all the wonderful comments. - Absolutely great.

May God's richest blessings be with  all of you tonight.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Jacqueline

Ruth Ann...
...that is very frightening when we choke and lose breath...You are doing a very thoughtful deed looking after your neighbours cat...Here is another morning graphic I hope you enjoy and appreciate its words...


" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Janet

#51
 Ruth Ann:  Does your SIL not have anyone else that can help out?  This is getting to be too much for you!  I sincerely hope you don't have any more choking spells.  Scary!  May God bless and reward you for your caring, loving heart!

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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is a bright and sunny morning and headed into the mid to high 90's this afternoon with only a very low chance of rain.  Yesterday turned out to be very busy and accomplished what I had planned to do plus fixing both breakfast for Pat and dinner for us.  I am hoping for a quiet and easier day today. 

I slept for eleven hours last night but still not feeling very peppy this morning.  If I get motivated later this morning I will go and get a haircut and perhaps watch golf later this afternoon. 

Janet, I have had the same idea concerning people traveling far to see the eclipse and then perhaps having it be a cloudy day and they would miss it.  I will settle to see the eclipse on the news.  Hope you enjoyed your lunch date with your friend.  Friends are special jewels in our lives. 

Carol, do you send your quilts out for the final stages of doing the sewing in of the quilt with a pattern or "in the ditch"  (I have been listening to Pat on that one).  :)  Sorry to hear of your neighbors added burden with the fall and hospitalization. Your outdoor lights sound very nice.  Don is so talented.

Marilyn, I sure hope no weeds appear in your toenail flower gardens!  :)  Glad you enjoyed the experience and they sound very pretty,  When I had the pedicures done I made it clear at the beginning that I did not want any paint on my toenails.  Coyotes can certainly be dangerous for small pets.  I haven't heard any of them around here. 

Ruth Ann, glad that your SIL is located much closer to you.  Paying bills for someone else isn't an easy job.  Sure glad you didn't pass out with the choking. 

Jackie, another very nice graphic and wonderful saying on it. 

Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

It is good to hear from y'all this morning. I'm still tired from yesterday's activities, but I needed to get some things accomplished so I'm up and about.

My poor sister in law has no one else to help. She was a young widow, with one multiple handicapped son. He died a few years back as a result of brain cancer. And, her brother who held her power of attorney died in 2015. So, I will help her as long as I'm able to do so.

I must go for today. Jackie, thank you for the nice graphic. :)

May each of us experience God's love and blessings today.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Janet

#54
I hit something I shouldn't have and lost half my post this morning; then Darrel said, "Let's go!" so I didn't have time to fix it.  Oh, well.

In the part I lost, I did thank Jackie for the beautiful graphic.  I love those, and don't make them myself, so appreciate what others do.

We went to Hugoton, collected sweet little girl hugs, also big girl and boy (Toni and Curtis) ones, then went on to Garden City.  I had two friends who really wanted some of the eclipse glasses, so we ran all over Garden looking for some, to no avail.  I had walked probably two miles this morning outdoors, as it was a nice, cool morning.  Then, running into and out of at least eight different businesses, asking for those glasses, and all over Walmart, and I feel like I've been  :run: all day.  When we got home, I put away the groceries, then collapsed in my recliner and took a nap! zzzzzzz.  :)  There were more things I had planned to do in Garden, but I was just too tired.  We will probably go back next week.

Darrel got a pleasant surprise in the mail today!  He has been invited to go on the next Kansas Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., the last of October and the first few days of November!  They think they have taken all the WWII Vets still living and able to go, and are working through those from the Korean and now the Viet Nam wars.  They will take them on a bus from Garden City to Wichita, and fly them from there to DC.  I'm so happy for him to get to go!  He served in the Army for seven years.

Larry, you had a really busy day!  Glad you got eleven hours' sleep!  And I know you won't overdo things, for which I am glad.

Carol, I just want to say how much I appreciate your posts!
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Janice

Janice here...I just got caught up reading your posts.  Nice to read all of your news and happenings.  I have been tolerating a very painful neck, thinking it was a vertebrae problem, from the symptoms.  It began in April, and I was finally able to see a doctor last week.  X-rays show it is not the vertebrae, but a degenerative arthritis instead.  A relief to know I don't have to have surgery.  But the pain remains regardless.                                                                          For the last 2 or 3 years I have been making quilt tops, and a few finished for a recliner cover for watching TV.  Average size abou 56x70.  None bed size.  I estimate I have made 35 or so.  It has given me so much pleasure, I just can't quit making them.  I started out saying I was going to make one for all my girls...1 daughter, 1 step dtr, 2 grand-dtrs, 3 or 4 dtr-in law, have lost count!  I have  stack of tops with no backs.  My dtr will inherit my house when I am gone, so she can have. Garage sale ang include these tops for sale!  😃
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Janet

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Hello Janice!  I would love to buy two of those little covers from you!  We use them all the time for Beth, in her wheelchair and in her recliner while at the home.  And I haven't been able to find any around here.  The ones for her wheelchair wouldn't need to be as long, probably no more than 60" so they don't drag on the floor or get in the wheels.  Since she is unable to move at all, she gets chilled easily.  Let me know how much you want for them and I'll send you a check!  Recently,
when I was looking for a new one, I wound up buying a pretty tablecloth with butterflies on it, to use. Not ideal, as it is slick and slides off easily.  We wanted something lightweight for summer.  She has really warm ones for cold weather, but the two light ones are worn out and look shabby.  :(  I don't do that sort of thing, so if I can help you out by buying some, it will be a blessing to both of us--and Beth!  Thanks so much!

I came back to edit and say--we could really use two of each size!  Don't stress about it, though, Just whenever you can get to it will be fine.
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is going to be another mid-90's day here after it got to 97 yesterday afternoon.  The heat index was 107.  We did get two nice but short afternoon rains.  Today is to be in the mid-90's again but no indicated chance of further rain.

I stayed home all day yesterday.  I did call the AC man who installed our AC unit.  He was able to be here in 20 minutes and checked everything out and found nothing wrong with the unit.  He told me we should keep the fan on Auto during the AC season and use fiberglass filters rather than the pleated filters and to keep the door open upstairs as it is zoned and it helps the air circulate.  He did not charge me for the visit, which was a shock.  The fiberglass filters are much cheaper than the type I have been buying and said they do as good a job but allow more air to circulate. I plan on watching some of the golf tourney this afternoon.   

Ruth Ann, your poor SIL certainly is in a bad situation and it is good that the Lord has provided you to be there to help her.  Has she considered giving up her cat which would certainly lighten your burden in helping her?

Janet, I heard yesterday that libraries had been given a huge number of them so you might call and see if they have any.  There are going to be a lot of disappointed people if the sky is cloudy where they are.  Our forecast indicates that could happen in our area.  How wonderful that Darrel got the invite for the Honor Flight.  That should be a wonderful experience but probably a painful one as well for the memories it will bring back.  A well deserved honor for him for his seven years of sacrifice for our Country. 

Janice, my wife can relate to your neck problems as has a lot of back and neck pain and takes muscle relaxant and pain medicine almost daily.  She has spinal stenosis and it is unlikely that surgery would help her although she will see the surgeon in a few weeks to get his opinion.  You are quite a quilter, another thing you have in common with my wife.  She is not able to do much each day.  Her mind is willing but the body just doesn't agree. She does watch quilting videos daily and loves the quilting magazine put out by Missouri Star Quilt Company.  It is a bit expensive but no advertising and beautiful high quality paper and printing. 

Carol

Another beautiful morning - we are waiting for our oldest grandson to arrive with all the wood, etc. to make a low table.  I need to go to W-mart.  Ugh

Ruth Ann:  Your choking episode is just plain scary and exhausting.  So very sorry.  Do understand that you are the only one to help your S-in-law.  Would her church or any of her friends be able to step in with at least one of her assistance issues?  You probably have to continue with the money matters just for safety sake.  Be safe - we all want you to have your rest and healing. 

Janet:  Hooray for Darrel having the Honor flight.  Thank him for his service from both of us.  I wish I had a quilt that size for Beth.  When this dreadful thing is over, I'll only make smaller sizes. 

Marilyn:  We attended a lecture on coyotes from an expert once.  She thought they were the smartest animal - learning to survive in the suburbs so well.  keep the dogs away. 

My haircut yesterday was from a person who had each fingernail painted differently.  He - works for a national salon and I asked him about insurance.  Nothing from the corporation.  Trying to figure out his income on a daily level, I cannot even understand how these working people can live.  One gal I used to see had a young son and when he was sick or out of school, he needed a sitter.  So - everyone who can - please give generous tips for good service.  It is a very good time to also say, "I will pray for you" when you have the opportunity. 


Janice

Janet, my email is xxxxxx_nm@yahoo.com.  Please use my name in place of the xxxx's.  Would rather talk by email than online.  Thanks.
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. Today will be more of the same weather wise getting into the high 90's by late afternoon.  Pat had a not so good day yesterday and last night.  She is feeling better so far this morning but I just want her to take it very easy today. I feel she did too much in the kitchen yesterday.  I will go to Sunday School and Church and bring home our main meal as usual. Then I plan on listening to Don Reid's last classical music program as he is leaving radio after today.  Finally I will enjoy the end of the golf tournament.

Carol, did the coffee table get made yesterday using the hockey sticks?


Carol

Larry:  I think I was able to send you a picture of the top of the table.  The metal you see for the top is hollow so that may be an issue.  A glass top will be put on last.   Anyway, I took the picture on the Kindle Fire and this is the first time I could see how to send a picture.  The Kindle is attached to my old laptop - why it works, I will never know.  Now, I am trying to figure out how to store pictures from the Kindle Fire to somewhere -

:coffee:  Such a lovely morning here.  Thankful for sunshine and cooler evenings. 

Be glad you are nowhere near the eclipse.  there is road rage out there.     

Janet

We have been ever so thankful for Beth doing better for a few weeks.  But that seems to be over now.  John has been sick for four days and hasn't been to see her; I went yesterday and again today.  She isn't doing well at all now; the awful, thick mucus is again pouring out her mouth and she can barely swallow anything; says her left arm is hurting.  Her color is bad again, no sparkle in her eyes.   :'(  God knows; and Jesus is our help and hope.  I called John for her, he said he's feeling a bit better and will try to come see her tomorrow.  Sigh.... :'(  Sorry, TMI.

I took the last box of Colorado peaches out of the refrigerator and plan to get them into the freezer tomorrow.

I'm glad we aren't trying to go anywhere in the path of totality to see the eclipse tomorrow.  The 85-90% is just fine for me, that's more than I have seen to date!  I'm wondering how many will travel and spend money to go, then have clouds obscuring their view?!

I'm feeling so tired suddenly and know it's because of the disappointment I feel at seeing Beth so down again.  Prayers for all of us appreciated!

Carol, I would have no idea how to send photos from my Kindle Fire!  Of course, I don't know (or remember) how to do lots of technical things.)  :-[

I'm going to read for a while, maybe take a little nap!  :thumbsup:
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. The eclipse day has finally arrived and according to the our local weather report it is to be partly cloudy here this afternoon when the full eclipse hits us around 2:40.  It looks like we will only get to 90 this afternoon, which will be better than what we have experienced the last few days. 

I have to get a haircut this morning and find the right type of filters for my heat pump.  That is all that is on my schedule for today.

Carol, First of all Happy Birthday.  I did get the picture you sent and I thought it looked like maybe a number of hockey sticks had been put together to form the top but see I was wrong. If you don't have a lot of pictures on your Kindle to send to your computer the easiest way would probably be to email them to yourself and then save them on your computer from your emails.  Since neither Pat nor I use Kindle Fire I can't be of much help but know that Pat's sister send us pictures that way all the time. I don't anticipate any road rage in our area but there are suppose to be a lot of people coming to the Aiken and Columbia area and on down to the Charleston area. 

Janet, certainly not good news regarding Beth and it sounds like you have reason for great concern and understand your lose of energy. I hope John will be able to be with her tomorrow as that will probably give her a lift of her spirits.

Jackie, another very pretty card you made for Carol.  Were you able to get to Church yesterday?

Jeanne Lee

OH JOY!  I lost a cap from a tooth and it looks like it too the top of the tooth with it.   :'(  I suppose the fact that it must be about 40 years  since I got it have anything to do with it.

I'll watch the eclipse strictly on TV.  There won't be much to see here anyway, plus the talking heads will tell me exactly how excited I get - probably about 30 times.   :lol:
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Carol

We had a wonderful visit with grandson.  He put the sawed off hockey sticks to use - Larry, they are colorful and all names on them.  It will be unusual for sure and probably all of his game friends will want a table just like it. 

Jackie:  You are so talented - love the picture.  Thank you very much. 

Janet:  My prayers for you - Beth and all. 

It is a quiet and cool morning with the sun rising.  I have been thinking over and over of a song that they play at church (loud).  It is "The sun goes down and the stars rise up".  Unless you have been in a mega church, you cannot believe how strong that message comes across with a huge number of choir on stage.  It is almost overwhelming and I love it.  Having come from quiet and medium sized Lutheran churches - I do love the peaceful setting as well.   

Larry: Thanks for your photo tip.  Stay safe.  We are going out for breakfast for a treat and staying home - praying for safety of all on the roads to view the eclipse - it is close to total here and around noon time.   

Janet

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Well, we got to see the the eclipse; it started around 11:30 max was just about 1:00 (we had about 90% here) and was over by 2:00.  We were processing peaches for the freezer, so we kept grabbing the glasses and running out to look!  And listened to and watched some on tv as well. It was quite a day!  I am satisfied to have seen a 90% partial eclipse.  :)

I did go check on Beth this morning.  They had put a new patch behind her ear, to help with the awful mucus problem last night, and she was much improved.  John wasn't there yet, and I didn't make it back to town, but I hope he came today.  They were just bringing her out of the shower when I was there. ( I meant they put the new patch on her last night.)

:hb3:  Carol!!  And many more!  A hockey stick table  sounds very unique!

Hello, Larry!

Pretty birthday card for Carol, Jackie!
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. This morning is starting out sunny but by afternoon we have a 60% chance of rain with a high in the low 90's.  This is going to be a busy morning as Pat has a 9 am appointment with the podiatrist and his office is about 30 minutes away.  Then later this morning I have to go downtown and pick up a grocery online order at Walmart. 

We watched the eclipse on TV as they tracked it in our area.  It got darker, but not dark here with a weak light outside.  As far as I know people here were able to view a total eclipse or almost total eclipse.  They showed many students at Clemson out watching the total eclipse up there.

Carol, were those hockey sticks I saw on top of the table? 

Janet, glad to see your posting that Beth was doing better yesterday.

Carol

Larry:  Reid cut the bottoms and tops of many hockey sticks and put all together tightly to make the top.  Then, he used the bottoms (curved) for the legs and other pieces to stabilize all.  He has more work.  He has friends from Finland, Slovakia, Sweden and even plays with Russians.  It is really interesting.  Of course, he plays with Canadians and they all visit - a regular United Nations.

It is windy and possible rain.  We sat on our deck yesterday and did not look up - a big tree shades the deck - we watched a shadow.  That was enough for us.  Our neighbors drove to Nebraska most likely their son wanted to see the bigger eclipse.  Just hearing about traffic was enough for us to stay home.  I am staying home from quilting tonight as my project is now laying on the floor and about 1/4 finished in total - taking many breaks at this point.  One break turned into a little nap.   ;)



Jackie:  the flowers look like orchids - is that right?  Oh, so talented!  Thank you. 






Jacqueline

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I am not as talented as you all think... :-[ I hunt for these cards, then use my Coral PaintShop Pro to play around with them, which usually is not much playing around....Carol...yes I think they are orchids...
Edited: I am proud of myself, just looked the name up...it is called " Pink Phalaenopsis  Orchid..." ( majestic Queen of Orchids ) which have to admit, is much prettier than it is on your card..

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Larry Hanna

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Hi everyone. We are in for another very hot day.  We got no rain yesterday and none expected today.  I plan on staying in until later this afternoon.  I did fix Pat's breakfast and emptied the dishwasher.  In a little bit I need to grind up another pound of cheddar cheese and fill my medicine boxes for the next two weeks. I think that will be about all the work I will do today.  Late this afternoon we will go to Texas Roadhouse for our dinner.  I think I will have to get a takeout to bring home for Pat as her back is giving her fits again and she doubts she will want to get out this afternoon. We might just order take out meals for us all and then share them at home.

Carol, I thought those must be hockey sticks I was seeing in the picture.  He will certainly have a unique piece of furniture.  It is nice that he has friends from all over the world that play hockey.  I like the way you take breaks as a good nap is always welcome and your quilt will get done when it is suppose get done.

Jackie, don't you wonder how all of those plant Latin names were arrived at and then remembered.  I have often wondered about that.  Guess I need to get something important to think about!  :) Orchards are certainly beautiful flowers. 

Marilyn

The wedding was so wonderful. There was a lot of smoke in the air from the forest fires, but the day of the wedding it seemed to be above where we were. We watched the eclipse in the morning after our brunch. The air sure got cold when the moon covered the sun. Freckles was such a good girl and got lots of pets. I danced while holding her leash and Keith stood on the sidelines with his brother-in-law and watched while holding my purse. Some of us danced without a partner but it was so much fun.
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is another bright and sunny morning and headed into the lower 90's by mid-afternoon.  I did have to leave the sprinklers on so the yard could be watered this morning.  It has been several days since we had rain.  I do plan on picking up my friend from the care facility and we will go downtown to coffee this morning.  That will be about it for the day as the Wisdom group was cancelled again this week. 

Our plans did change yesterday.  Neither Pat nor I felt up to going out to eat last evening so I asked Scott to stop at Wifesavers and get us all takeout dinners.  The food from Wifesavers is very much like home-made and we all had delicious dinners.  I spent most of the day resting and a lot of that time just laying down with my eyes shut and listening to an audio book.

Marilyn, glad the wedding went well and the smoke wasn't a bother.  Were there a lot of guests at the wedding.  I do hope the trip wasn't too hard on you and Keith.  I bet Freckles ate up all the added attention. 

Janet

Larry, I really hope you are feeling stronger today.  You are wise to listen to your body and heed it, so as not to overdo.

I kept trying last night to post, but our internet was going off every few seconds, so I finally just gave up.
We were away from home most of the day yesterday.  I messed up my right hearing aid so we went to Liberal to get it fixed.  We got to meet our son=in-law Jeff for lunch and catch up on his life a bit.  We don't have enough time with them to stay up on things.  Then we stopped in Hugoton at Yardmaster so we could visit with Diane a little, too.  Nice!

Time to go to the Senior Center for lunch--chili and cinnamon rolls today!   :)
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like we are in for a mostly cloudy day today and temperatures in the low 90's.  The housekeeper will be here in a couple of hours and I may try to make a quick trip over to Costco for just a few items.  Other than that expect a nice quiet day. 

Yesterday I did pick up my friend and go to coffee and later helped fix the salad supper we had.  After supper we decided to go to Dairy Queen to take advantage of their special offer of buy one blizzard at regular price and get one for $1 more.  Pat had the Triple Truffle and I had the Heath small blizzards.  Health has always been my favorite. 

Janet, I did have a much better day yesterday as my eyes wanted to stay open.  Nice that you could have lunch with your SIL Jeff and then see Diane as well.  Were those homemade cinnamon rolls.  Do they have good cooks at your Senior Center and do they prepare meals for the Meals on Wheels program in your area? 

Janet

Yes, Larry, they were homemade cinnamon rolls, and would be perfect if they would realize there is a reason to call them CINNAMON rolls!  The put such tiny amounts of cinnamon on them you have to look for it, and can barely taste it.  Cinnamon is not that costly!!  :-\ The cooks they have are pretty good on most things, but are all Hispanic, so some things they cook don't taste so good to a lot of us, or we don't even recognize what it is!  ;)  They are interviewing for an assistant cook next week, she said today.

It's always good to have a visit with any of the kids or grandkids.

I'm going out tonight!!  Or I should say this evening.  The Main Artery, our local gallery, is having their annual Rendezvous with the Arts from 6 to 8, and will have door prizes, specials, refreshments, and lots of opportunities to connect with artists and friends.  I want to go, and since it isn't dark yet at 8:00, I should be able to drive home before it does get dark.  I told Darrel if he prefers, he can take me, then come back and get me.  It really isn't his "cup of tea".

We had a good hamburger with homemade buns and all the fixings, baked beans, baby carrots and for dessert, strawberries today at the Senior Center.

John is still sick.  He hasn't been to see Beth in two weeks!!  :o  When I call, he says he's better and will be there tomorrow, but tomorrow hasn't come.  She is getting depressed because she misses him.
He wants to have a birthday party for her, so today I told him we need to be planning, because her birthday is Monday!!  He said no, it's the 28th, and I said, John, Monday IS the 28th!  Hoo boy!!  ???
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Carol

Janet:  John has been sick for two weeks?  That sounds serious enough to visit a doctor.  I have to wish Beth an early Happy Birthday because we will be ... on the road again ---.  If you ever have a chance to shop at a COSTCO, I buy the large bottle of ground cinnamon.  It is strong enough for a lot of baking and toppings.  Enjoy your evening of art.

We did visit our friend in rehab - I should say he is in a wound rehab separate room.  Lovely view on the 1st. floor of an inner court yard loaded with flowers and trees.  Such a serene and colorful view.  He was strong in voice and manner, we were so thankful.  So strong in faith.  We had some good laughs and left with happy praises. 

Prayers for all in the path of Hurricane Harvey! 






Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We are seeing the sun this morning but will be partly cloudy throughout the day with a high in the low 90's. 

I stayed home all day yesterday but this morning will definitely go to Costco for about 9 different items.  Pat is going to the Church this morning as the ladies are doing the pillow ministry this morning.  This is a project they each year to make pillows for people fighting cancer.  Last year they made well over 200 in about 90 minutes and will do the same this morning.  They have a good group of women and they have it set up so it is very efficient. 

I am looking forward to watching the golf this afternoon as it is a close match and Jordan Spieth and several others are tied for the lead.  Next Saturday the College football season starts.   

Janet, cinnamon rolls without enough cinnamon are not very tasty.  That must not be a spice in wide use in the Hispanic community.  I hope you enjoyed your evening out.  Sorry to read that John is still sick.  He certainly should be seeing the doctor but that has to be his decision. 

Carol, I guess you will be busy packing the car so you are ready to hit the road.  Pat gets the large bags of cinnamon from Pensy's Spices.  She has a been a good customer of their's for a long time. Glad you found your friend in rehab improved and were able to have a nice visit with him. 

Jacqueline

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How easy and quickly one can forget they are the offspring from a tough breed of family...I seemed to have forgotten that...Well I am pushing my MS body over its limits, I have to stand on my own two feet ( excuse the pun, ) even further than it should be pushed...if I dont want to see any more four cornered brick walls..To say MS is a B of an illness is an understatement...
If we never try, we will never know....and if we suffer afterwards, so be it...oh and I have gone past that stage of what I look like to the outsiders, the residents who spot me on my struggling journey...

Giving a  :wave: and a blessing to all who are dealing with tough day to day challenges...
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

I was feeling a little sorry for myself while tackling the upkeep of this house - until, I realized that it is good that I can still do this stuff.  We may have relatives of our friends staying here if their dad (friend to us) isn't well.  So, everything is ready just in case they come when we are away and one of our sons will take care of hot water, etc. 

Larry:  there is a good spice store in Tucson - it may be the name you mentioned.  Expensive but I don't buy much.  Their garlic is strong enough to just use a little. 

We are having no luck emailing a note to one of Don's relatives and also calling. 

Just looking at the hurricane damage - it reminds us of when we volunteered at Port Arthur, Texas after hurricane Rita damage.  It must have been 2 or 3 years after that storm and still many houses with black bags flying in the breeze on the roofs.  They are in the range of hurricane Harvey as well.  Those poor people.  Praying

Janet

Hello!  At the Farmers' Market today I bought a whole pound of fresh spinach, clean, as it was raised in a greenhouse (I will wash as I use it) for $1, a nice frozen casserole that will be two meals for us, for $10, and another loaf of bread from my friend Anita, $2.75. 

Then I went to see Beth.  She is really missing John.  I called him and he said he would be there after a while, "I have some things to do first," he said.  I asked him to call so we can plan for Beth's birthday, but that was hours ago, and I haven't heard a word.  I'm really concerned about his health, but feel my hands are tied until he agrees to accept help from a doctor!   :(

Darrel made more ice cream today.  Well, at least he carried it out to the garage and plugged the freezer in!   :lol:  So we will have that ready for Beth's birthday.  I told her I will make her a chocolate cake.  John told me a month ago that he had ordered a fancy candle, one that when you light it,
unfolds like a flower and rotates.

Jackie, I was going to ask about you today.  Yes, MS is horrible!  I'm watching it steal my daughter's last abilities.  Good for you for keeping on trying!  Don't let it get you down!

Carol, where are you and Don off to this time?  Wherever it is, I wish you good and safe travels and health at all times.  We will be leaving on the 16th for Kentucky, to visit Noah's Ark and the Creation Museum.  This is another bus trip.  I'm excited to have my sister and niece going along!

Larry, enjoy the golf!
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Janice

Hello, friends,
I have been absent several days, haven't felt up to commenting here.  I don't know what is causing me to feel so weak.
I fell earlier this week trying to catch my little dog.  First time I ever fell, and I hope it's the last! My right knee is still sore, and it is the one that has been replaced twice.
None of my relatives are in town this weekend, so I am trying to stay safe.  Daughter went to El Paso Thursday to visit her younger dtr and family. You might remember that Patty and family lived in South Korea for 2 years, or was it 3She has to come home tonight because she is the organist at our church. And my other Gr-dtr and friends went to Ute Lake to camp out in a tent! 
Janet, about the quilt tops, that is all they are: tops.  When I want to give one to someone, I buy a 2 yard of fleece and sew it on for a backing.  I checked to see how many of those I still have . Close to 10 I think.  I have given away a lot of the quilts. Both to my family and to my late husbands family..
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is another beautiful morning in the mid-70's and headed to the upper 80's this afternoon.  Today will be our usual Sunday schedule with Sunday School, Church, out to lunch, rest and then watching Golf later this afternoon. 

Yesterday morning I took Pat to the Pillow Ministry sewing session and then went on to Costco.  I came home and put everything away and got the hamburger wrapped in small packages and into the freezer.  At noon I went back to the Church and picked her up.  After resting I caught the last three hours of the 3rd round of the golf tournament.  Nothing exciting but it turned out to be an enjoyable day.  Yesterday evening we watched a most interesting program on PBS called the Queen's Garden.  It was all about the gardens at Buckingham Palace that have been there for well over 100 years and how interested the Queen is in it.  The time lapse photography of the beautiful flowers and the commentary was so interesting.

Jackie, good to see your posting.  When the day seems bleak just keep in the back of your mind what the Bible tells us that God will see us through our trials.  I do think we have to find our limits and then try to stay within them or we pay a higher price than necessary.  However, these are things that we each must determine for ourselves. 

Carol, nice of you to be willing to make our home available, if needed while you are away, for the relatives of friends. Several members of our church have worked in the last couple of years on homes basically destroyed by South Carolina floods.  It is obviously hard work but from what they have said is very rewarding.  Our Church actually has a disaster relief trailer equipped to respond when needed. 

Janet, it sounds like there were some real bargains at the Farmers' Market.  A pound of spinach is a lot of spinach.  I like it uncooked in salads but not cooked.  I sure hope John made it to see Beth as he told you he would.  A birthday party with homemade ice cream sure sounds nice.  I can't remember the last time I had homemade ice cream.

Janice, sorry to hear that you have been feeling weak and falls are never good and especially for people in our age category.  I bet your quilts given to family or friends are greatly appreciated.   

Jacqueline

Well to prevent myself going crazy from not speaking to anyone from one day to the next ( yes I live with someone, ) I pushed myself once again to do another downslope-upslope walk...glad I did as I had a lengthy chat with the wife of another onsite MS sufferer, told he has now progressed from the one he was in to Progressive, the same as I have, as he has deteriorated since the last time we spoke...he was inside the home with the curtains closed..we are going through a Bank Holiday of heat, and although I ventured out, heat does not go hand in hand with MS..
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

Good Sunday to all!  Sending prayers to anyone affected by this massive storm.  It has to be heart wrenching just to look at the damage and for those who have so much work ahead and no financial means to fix things.  It always affects the poorest people.  May they keep faith. 

Janet:  That trip to Kentucky sounds like an interesting get-away for you two.  You certainly deserve any break you can get.  We are going to 4 separate areas in Minnesota and the farthest place is Duluth on Lake Superior.  Fantastic view.   You would never believe how cold it can be and really no one misses work because of the cold.  That would not be an excuse.  Our first stop is in Spicer (which is 100 miles west of the cities).  My mother's relatives and tons of my cousins live there - a beautiful deep lake is right in the town.  Deep enough that a WWII plane went down and wasn't found for years.  My grandfather used to cut ice in the winter for ice boxes and the ice was stored covered with hay near the lake.  Enough history.  Last stop for us will be to see Gustavus Adolphus college where grandson is studying math. 

Janice:  So sorry to hear you had a fall.  Something like that can make you feel so vulnerable.  I have never sewn fleece on quilts but have made flannel quilts.  It can be theraputic or agonizing depending on how the sewing day goes.  Take care. 

Larry:  Nice thought of making pillow cases.  If Pat did that sewing, her back must have better that particular day.  I do hope she finds something for total relief. 

Last night, we heard the loudest and longest singing from coyotes - they were gathered in the ravine and up to something.  No, I am not going out there to take a picture just to prove they are so near.  :)

Janet

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Janice, so sorry to hear that you took a fall!  Not good, but so glad you didn't break anything.  About the quilt tops, if you would like to email me, just click on my name and my email address will come up.  I tried to email you, but think I must need your last name, which, sorry to say, I cannot remember at this moment.  Nor when I was trying a week or so ago to remember!  I will be so happy to pay you for a couple of the tops, and if you sew fleece onto them, that will be great.  Just let me know how much I owe you.  It's nice to have something like that, made by someone you care about.  :)

I am going to start painting on Wednesdays at the gallery downtown.  They have Open Studio days then, and it will be fun to paint with others, besides keeping me going so I don't get rusty.  I'm going to start with watercolors, as they are so much more portable and cleanup so much easier than oils.  And I want to get better with them.

Carol, I have a niece and family in Minnesota, Benson is the name of the town.  She hosted family reunion some years back and I was so excited to go, but then we had a big crisis with Beth and were in Wichita with her for eight weeks, so of course we didn't get to go.  I'd still like to see that part of the country, though.  And maybe I will!  You and Don drive safe and watch out for those who don't!  And have a wonderful time.

Larry, I never seem to find such interesting programs to watch on TV.  Probably because Darrel is always watching something I'm not interested in seeing.  But it's okay.  I always have a good book or three--or five--to read!

Jackie, good to see you got out and had a nice chat with a neighbor.  We shared a table at a restaurant today after church with some young neighbors.  He grew up out here as neighbors, when my girls were growing up.  Then five years ago, he came back here where his parents were, and married a girl who was teaching art in the Jr. High School.  Now they are expecting a baby boy in about three weeks or so, and are so happy and excited!  He is in his 50s, and she in her late 30s, so they are older than the average first time parents.  I always enjoy visiting with them.

Oh, how my heart aches for the poor people in Houston and elsewhere impacted by Hurricane Harvey!
I cannot even imagine having every item I own soaked with flood water--every piece of paper, every cloth item, all furniture, the drywall, literally everything you own would be ruined!  Well, I guess you could salvage the dishes and other things like that, but...... :'(

John showed up at my door this morning, bringing my framed photo from LifeTouch.  He still looks terrible, and like he's lost even more weight, which he cannot afford to lose.  He brought Beth to church, so I got to talk to him a little about her birthday.  I'm going to bake her a cake this afternoon,
and we can use some of the ice cream we made yesterday.  I told him to let me know how many people he invites.  I will go up and ask about a room in which to have it at the Home, in the morning.

I think a short nap is in order before I go to buy some sour cream or buttermilk for the cake!
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Jacqueline

Janet...
...I worry so much over John and your Beth...I truly wish he would ask for help, and accept help...but at the end of the day....it is down to him, guess he will when he feels he cannot cope no more...it is all in the hands of his-our God.... tut, tut, why are men so stubborn? :ticked: ok, before I get lynched, not all men... :P
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

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One really has to push one self...again I done two walks, just back from my second...I know on this parkhome site I am aware men out and about walking their dog or dogs tend to talk to men, I feel it is very men orientated...yet today I struck lucky on my second walk, I have had a lengthy chat with not one but two ladies who I have not even met before...First lady her small dog came to me which got us talking, a very friendly lady who moved to our site just a few months after we moved here...walking a tad further on, the other lady I found out flits between our site and Spain, and is back there this Sunday, again both ladies were outside tending their front garden, second lady clearing dead leaves, her small dog was also making the most of our hot weather, the other dog looking on through the window from inside, but came out to see what was going on....Our sun is shining and this is a hot Bank Holiday weekend which if lucky and timed right I may or may not see someone pottering to their front or side of home...As for my first walk, it was 8.am, but I never saw anyone...although the time the menfolk could be out, possibly they walk the opposite direction, upslope, our private road, there is grass up high on the hills for the dogs to do their business, as many homes dont have grassed gardens and most people here do have small breed dogs.....although downslope there is a small woodland walk onsite...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

We were invited for cheese and crackers last night a few doors up the street.  We all chatted for three hours.  These neighbors have stayed with us on trips to Arizona and I think they are coming our way again - when we finally get down there.  Don is so happy we are going to his beautiful Minnesota.

Janet:  I do know Benson and have been on farms there.  Also, visits to a little white Lutheran church - (what else in the area?)  My mother's village is not far but her place is known for the mile wide Green Lake.  My cousin who is hosting us this week will be gone but the door is always open.  Yep, they still do that -

The news from Houston is so sad.  I am so glad that Don's sister and family moved away years ago.  Our nieces are in Fort Worth. 

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like we should have a delightful day with it only getting into the mid-80's today.  I have nothing on the calendar for today so will use it as a slow and restful day. I am feeling pretty weary today and guess I need a day or recovery from our busy Sunday morning.

I enjoyed watching the golf yesterday and it turned out to be a very close finish requiring the extra hole to be played.  The news is showing the incredible damage that the storm is causing in Houston and other areas.  So many lives impacted and the economic loss is unbelievable and still the rain is falling. I know there are many others communities in Texas and Louisiana that also have devastating damage.

Jackie, glad you were able to get out and find someone to speak with.  Men aren't the only ones who can be stubborn.  :)  Nice to see you were also able to get out this morning and meet more neighbors. 

Carol, my wife did no sewing on the pillows but did the turning and has the tool to push out the corners.  Their goal Saturday was to make 300 pillows but I heard yesterday they ended up with about 230. 

Janet, more and more we are turning off the TV in the evening and just listening to our audiobooks. 

Jeanne Lee

Jackie, it is wonderful that you are able to take your walks.  I can just barely make it from my door to a car before I collapse.  I just thank the Lord that people are willing to come pick me up for doctor visits.  It's also a blessing that the doctors' offices and hospital labs have wheelchairs available to travel the long (or seem long to me) hallways to the various examining rooms, etc.   The Lord does provide and care for His own.   :)
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Jacqueline

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Jeanne Lee...
...thank you but that is not always the case..I wont attempt a walk if I cant trust my body...as most now know, with MS, it is very unpredictable and changeable....There are times I go walkabout but by the time I decide to turn to come home, or if lucky to stop for a chat, my MS body by then has taken a downhill turn before I reach where I was going in the first place... and believe you me, it is a d**n struggle getting my body back home, upslope and pushing and stopping my rollator...Jeanne you are right, without mobility aids...thank the Lord for the Items that help us put one foot in front of the other...I want to continue using my feet and legs for as long as I can, before I give there use up...and succumb myself to a wheelchair or scooter..
...Yes our hospitals are aware and do provide the use of wheelchairs, that too is a welcome blessing...You hit that word on the mouth.." long " corridors.." what seems a short distance for most, is never ending and tough work to the likes of us...and it sure doesn't help when the able bodied person you are walking with has a different attitude and thinks you can walk at there " slow " speed...which of course is still too fast..
...I am also saddened to read of your now failing walking efforts, we do take our feet and legs so much for granted, dont we?

Larry Hanna...
...I rest my case... ;D


The Stubbornness of Men is Overwhelming!

Four members of the clergy had a theological argument, with the three male ministers siding against the female minister.

The woman prayed, "Lord, I know I'm right. Please send us a divine sign to prove it."

A big storm cloud materialized, and there was a clap of thunder, "See," said the woman. "It's a sign from above."

The three clergymen disagreed, saying thunder is a common phenomenon.

"Dear Lord," the woman prayed, "I need a bigger sign."

This time a bolt of lightning slammed into a tree.

"See! I told you I was right," the woman said.

But the men insisted nothing had happened that couldn't be explained by natural causes.

"Help me, Lord," the woman implored.

And a deep voice came from the heavens: "SSSHHHEEE'S RRRIIIGGGHHHTTT!!!"

The woman turned to the three clergymen and asked, "Well?"

"Okay, okay," they said. "But it's still three against two."
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Janice

Good morning, everyone.  So thankful I can say good, so many cannot, thinking of Houston...one of my brothers and wife lives there, a suburb called The Woodlands.  Two nephews as well.  One of them reported all is ok at Katy where they live.  But his wife's parents had damage. No one will forget the name Harvey...my older stepson has that name, they recently moved to Georgetown, TX, I don't know where that is. Harvey is so sweet, he treats me like I was his real mother.  His own mother died long time ago, so I inherited 3 children when I married Earl.

Janet, I tried getting your email by clicking on your picture, and it did not show up.  My email is janice_nm@yahoo.com so when you email me, I will have your address.  OK?  I need to get specifics, and I don't use the phone much, hearing difficulties.p

I am still having pain in my knee, so I put a sleeve on it to help.  My neck another story, the pain is awful.  Don't know if I mentioned that before.  I thought I had a problem with the cervical vertebrae in my neck.  Dr sent me to get X-rays and he said I have degenerative arthritis there. This all started in April. Stiff neck followed by this pain. Not fun!
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Janice

Janet, I said picture, but I meant your name, as you said.
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Jacqueline

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Jeanne Lee...
...I forgot to ask..did you manage to re-cap ( is that the correct term? ) your damaged tooth?

Janice...
...I am sorry to read you are living with painful neck trouble...not making light of this but..." Arthur " doesn't care where he goes, or who, or where he next attacks...I know cold, wet or damp weather plays a crucial part in the pain factor...

Jeanne Lee...
..I dont post in S S but I have just seen your post and I am overjoyed with emotion on seeing Joan and her little red head boy...I am now shedding tears of shock, sadness and happiness at seeing our 80 year old Birthday girl...what a pleasant surprise and to see a smile on Joan's face...God you are so wonderful...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Janet

Wow!  It's been quite busy in here since yesterday!  That's a good thing!

Janice, thank you for the email address.  I will send you one today, if not, then tomorrow.  I need to go to the Care Home to take care of Beth's birthday party this afternoon, don't know what time I might be back.  So sorry to read about your neck pain, and pray it goes away, or at least greatly improves quickly.

Larry, I hope you are feeling better, and know if you are not, you will rest and take care of yourself,
and I am thankful for that.

Janice, good you had a couple more walks along with a couple more nice chats.  Is there a building on your site where some of you could get together to visit or do things together?  That would be so nice for you, especially if you didn't have to walk far to get there.  Thanks for the chuckle, re the joke.  :D

Carol, nice to hear you know where Benson is.  My niece is a teacher, and her husband is a mechanical engineer who designs things for farm machinery.

I baked Beth a chocolate cake (her choice) yesterday.  That's the first cake I have baked 'from scratch' in years!  And it's so easy I wonder why people rely so much on box mixes which have all those chemicals in them.  We very, very seldom eat cake, so I just don't make them.  I was going to buy a can of frosting, but after reading the ingredients, decided nope!  I will make it myself, and I did.

John is buying the paper products, and I'm taking cake and ice cream for Beth's party.  I think there won't be more than ten of us there.  Just guessing.  And I need to get moving, as we are starting at 2:00.

See you all later!!
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Marilyn

The air quality here on the Oregon coast is not good today. There is smoke and ash in the air from all the fires burning in Oregon. I was out walking this morning twice with Freckles, however, I am not going out anymore today unless it is absolutely necessary. All this makes it difficult for me to breathe. Our house is not air tight, we need new windows and the sliding glass door in the bedroom has a gap at the top that is letting the smoke in today and the cold in the winter.

I am having problems with my right wrist like I did before I have the lower thumb joint on my left hand replaced. I knew this was going to happen eventually. I dread having to have the right hand operated on because Keith doesn't drive anymore nor can he cook.Plus I need to be able to drive him to Portland for his eye appointments. So my surgery will just have to wait until I can no .longer stand the pain.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jacqueline

Janet...
...no, sadly, we have no buildings on site...wish we did have some form of a club room or social room, but our site is not large, not sure any residential sites would have one either....all we have is an open corrugated largish shed where our Christmas mulled wine - mince pie, music, and our annual summer BBQ takes place...there isn't even any seated benches available to sit on unless they belong outside someones home...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Janice

Happy Birthday to Beth!  How did the party go?
I am sitting here shaking..something terrible happened in our little town late this  afternoon.  A man entered our local library and started shooting. I don't know details yet but has been reported multiple fatalities.  Thank God, my grand daughter who is employed there, was not hurt. She called her mom (my daughter) to let her know she was ok.  Just had to tell someone to vent a little bit.
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Jeanne Lee

Oh my goodness, Janice!   :yikes: No wonder you're shaking - I sure would be, too.  Thank God that He protected your granddaughter. 
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like we are in for a mostly cloudy day and nice temperatures not getting above the mid-80's later this afternoon.  After a very restful and unproductive day yesterday, I awoke this morning feeling ready to take on the world.  I have the morning chores in the kitchen done.  In a little while I will leave to go to have my teeth cleaned and then pick up a couple of prescriptions for Pat at Walmart.  Scott is bribing over some clothes around noon to dry as he dryer died and the new one he purchased won't be delivered until Friday.

Jeanne, I well remember the very long hospital halls when Stacey would be hospitalized.  Sometimes I had to sit down and rest a couple of times on the way to her room.  On occasion I would ask for an aide to come with a transport chair and help me get to the room.  The parking garage was a long ways from her room or other places one needed to go in the hospital.  You do well to be able to live on your own.

Jackie, is there no place you could go in the car where you could have a flat place to walk.  Our Church just started a program three times a week for walkers to come and walk in the newly refinished gym at the Church.  I thought about going but then better judgment prevailed.  You are being a bit ornery posting that little story about the stubbornness of men. :) However I liked it. 

Janice, glad your brother, wife and nephews are still OK in the Houston area.  Unfortunately, it sounds like there is a lot more rain to come.  Hope your knee is feeling better today.  You have about the same thing that Pat has with the degenerative arthritis in her neck so I have a good idea of what pain you are experiencing seeing how my wife suffers from it.  However, some of her pain may be the fibromyalgia as the pain moves every few days to a different part of her body.  What is going on in our world when these crazy people go into public places and kill innocent people.  I expect that will be reported in the news today.  Glad your grand daughter is OK but must really be shaken up. 

Janet, I saw the picture you posted on Facebook of Beth and her 55th birthday cake.  I hope that brightened her spirits and that she was able to enjoy some of the cake and ice cream. 

Marilyn, smokey air is certainly not something that folks with COPD or other lung problems need to be around.  Sorry to see that you are also having trouble with your right wrist.   

Jacqueline

#102
Firstly a Happy but Belated Brthday to Beth...

Janice...
...what is happening to our world?...a library,  ???  what next...I fully understand your shaking and worry of your grand daughter, when something like this happens so close to home...just thankful your g-d was safe from this maniac..

Larry Hanna...
...glad you saw the funny side in our menfolk...yes of course us women can be just as bad, if not worse... :P
...Larry as tough as this is walking up slope, I really need to shift some of this excess weight of mine, for my own sake...

I am not long back from my first out and about walk, left it till mid day as I wasn't feeling too confident in my walking earlier...Glad I timed it as I did as the lady from home opposite came out to specially speak to me, she is the daughter of the 90 plus lady undergoing chemo, although to see her mother you would not have a clue she is or has been dealing with cancer, she looks so neat and immaculately dressed, a slender and elegant looking mother...I have yet to introduce myself to her even though she did poke her head out of the door to briefly speak to her daughter, but she wasn't aware I had said good morning to her...My new neighbour and myself had a lengthy chat and she said after all the works they are still having done to the outside of their home, they will invite myself and Richard over for a cup of tea and a chat...I originally had thought they moved in January-February but they had a home to sell, which is now sold, so had been flitting backwards and forwards but, they are here now and settled once all the work is done and dusted...

These last four days I have met and spoken to more people on site than I have done in two plus years of living here...again it is down to me to push my body to venture out as and when..another downslope - upslope walk, after I do a slight walk to the right then the left towards the alleyway which is all on flat ground, and back, only if I trust my body to let me do it, otherwise I cut the walk short, or only turn to the one way....In the centre there is a small woodland area but the entrance is part blocked with logs, this was the walk I done with our Benji, before we lost him, but there is a slope to climb at the other end, near to the alleyway opening, which I might find tough going...so I might be stupid even thinking of giving this a go..
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Marilyn

Jackie it is good that you get out and push yourself to maintain some sort of exercise., that will keep you able to keep moving longer.

  The smoke is not much at this time. It has been pretty damp overnight and this morning so I hope that will cut down on the smoke and ash from the fires. It was pretty bad yesterday and if the wind turns NW like the forecast says we will get a lot more smoke or if it is coming from the NW it will blow the smoke the other way.

It is terrible what is happening in Houston, Texas and other communities there. Oregon is dealing with quite a few fires but is getting a group of volunteers together to go to Texas to help there.

Larry today my wrist is not hurting at all. I must have done something to it the other day. What, I do not know.

Janet I also saw the pictures you posted on facebook of Beth's 55th birthday.

I was able to get out with Freckles this morning and not have to wear a surgical mask. I do have to be careful to take care of my lungs since I have COPD.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Janice

Re:  the shooting at the library...so thankful Sara, my Gr-dtr, was not harmed.  Believe it or not, the shooter was a 16 yr old sophomore in high school. How on earth did he have access of a gun?  He was a troubled kid, according to the pastor of a church where the boy had been attending a few weeks.  2 employees of the library were the 2 ladies shot dead.  Not sure the status of the 4 injured.  Sara was here at my house last night for awhile.  I asked her if the police interviewed her and she said yes.  I hope she was able to sleep.  No telling when the library will be open again, and she said she was still clocked in! 
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Marilyn

"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Janet

Good evening!  I'm just now getting here, very busy day again.  We had an appointment with a wonderful young woman who works for the investment company that handles our funds.  She is a delight!  Before that, it was gym, shower, errands in town, lunch, trying to get my stuff together so I can go paint tomorrow, etc., etc.  Just stuff!

Marilyn, glad the smoke settled and that your wrist stopped hurting.

Larry, always good to hear you're having a good day!  I looked to see the photos I posted on FB last night but didn't find them.  Strange.  Anyway, happy they are there!

Thanks to all who wished Beth a happy birthday.  She wasn't feeling at all well, having the mucous problem and trouble swallowing anything.  But she was happy to see her friends and me, and to have the attention.  :)

Janice!!  How awful that was for your granddaughter!!  To lose two co-workers, and have others wounded in front of her!  I hope she doesn't have too much trauma from it. I'm so sorry.  And to think it was just a boy who did it, so very sad.

Jackie, good that you are still getting out and walking a bit.  Good to keep moving as long as we can!

I still have stuff to do and want to get to bed early.  Tomorrow is the first day to go paint at the Main Artery, and I still have to gather up my stuff.
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Jacqueline

One also has to think of this young boys parents, after all they brought him into this world, he is still there baby...they now have to live with the shame of how he turned out...assuming his parents are respectable living persons...I ask this question of..." what happens during a young persons life that turns them into the monster they turn into..." why do they so waste the life they have been given? and why do they take the lives of innocent victims that have so much to live for, and leave so many family's to grieve for them? How does s newborn baby turn into someone like this? Sadly this is becoming an all too familiar scene...
God gave us one life to live, we are placed into this world to live to the standards God would expect us to live...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

#108
I always have said that for me, the early mornings are the best part of the day, well it is for dog walking...I never mentioned that some of my outside walks have been with Toby, as of this was this morning at 8.am, more so if the weather is dry, pleasant with a little fresh breeze as it was...I even bumped into the lady I met and talked with the other day, she too was out giving her small dog a short walk, and on her way back home in my opposite direction, although I was soon to follow once I reached the opening to the alleyway...We stopped and made conversation, which was very pleasant, and of course it gave Toby a few minutes of fun with her dog, although we both had our dogs on lead... I know they would have enjoyed  chasing off lead but afraid of barking dogs, or at least one excitable barking dog, my Toby would wake the whole neighbourhood up, so I had to keep him quiet as we passed by the homes, of course he spotted another dog at the top of the slope on its way coming home back down, that was a challenge for me keeping him quiet as I approached my journey back up....oh I always take some treats out with me but if he wants to bark, Toby will bark, with or without treats to temp him with keeping quiet...

" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

#109
Hi everyone. It looks like it will be another cloudy day and have a fairly good chance of rain but it is suppose to stay in the high 70's today. 

Pat and I will make a quick stop at Walmart this evening so she can get a pair of the Sholl's shoe inserts where you stand on a machine and it tells you what pair to get.  Our son has used these for several months and raves about what they have done for his feet.  He used to come home with his feet hurting very badly but the inserts have stopped that and he is on his feet for many hours at a time.  We will be in the Walmart outer ring this  evening as we are going out to eat with our son and granddaughter at the new Dairy Queen. 

I had a good dental cleaning yesterday and no new dental work needed.  This is the third good report from cleaning I have had. 

It seems the situation in Texas just gets worse by the day with new cities being flooded and more in the path of that terrible storm. There is a tropical storm off the coast of Georgia and the Carolina's that may bring problems to the coast.  Then this morning I heard there is another storm forming out in the ocean that may turn into a hurricane that could affect some of the Atlanta Coast states.  It looks like this may be a very bad year for hurricanes. 

Jackie, nice to see you are now meeting your neighbors and that you were able to get out for another walk yesterday. Nice to see the picture of your beautiful dog.  It looks like he was barking at the camera.

Marilyn, it was good to see that you were experiencing less smoke in the air yesterday.   I was also happy to read that your wrist pain had gone.  That is a lot of acreage that the fires have affected. 

Janet, hope you have a wonderful time painting with your friends.  Sorry to see that Beth wasn't feeling at all well to enjoy her birthday.  At least she was able to enjoy having family and friends there with her that made it a special day for her.   

Janice, there are many things we will never understand as to what causes people to do what they do.  Certainly this was a troubled young person who chose to destroy other's lives as will as his own. 

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We have a good chance for rain today and tomorrow and cooler temperatures.  Yesterday was a very nice weather day as well although we got only a little bit of rain.  This is coffee day with friends downtown and then I hope to go to the Wisdom Group at church.  Beyond that the day will be quiet.  Yesterday I went down and got Scott and he came out and then borrowed the Cruiser as his car needed a little repair on his brakes and the part wouldn't be available until this morning.  He will also need it in the middle of next week so told him to keep it at his house until after that as we seldom need it.  Later we met them and had our evening meal out. 

Janet

#111
Good morning!

When I came to post last evening, I couldn't, as I had forgotten to charge my mouse!  This isn't a touch screen, so plugged mouse in and waited until this morning.  My old computer's mouse used batteries, so I haven't yet developed the habit of charging regularly.  Sorry, TMI, again!  :-[

I had such a good time painting yesterday!  It has been far too long since I used my watercolors, and a lot of them were dried up, or when I tried to squeeze them out of the tubes, the tubes busted and made a mess.  So I spent too much time getting set up.  I will be better prepared next week, and will buy some new supplies.  I had Darrel stop on the way home from the gym so he could take photos of me with the wild sunflowers which are so big and lush this year.  Pat Scott Halbach has wanted so much to come to Kansas and see our sunflowers, and I wanted to send the photos to her, which I did.
And, since I had them on my phone, I painted a little card of them.  Not great, but not too bad, considering how long it's been since I used my watercolors.

Janice, any more word about the troubled teen who went off the deep end and destroyed his life, along with taking the lives of others and doing great injury to still more?  I always ask, if they want to die, why don't they take their own life first, and not kill people that they don't even know?  It just makes no sense to me.

Larry, it is so handy to have an "extra" car around, isn't it?  We are so glad we still have our old 1995 Mercury.  It runs really good, gets good mileage, and is worth more to have in emergencies than they will pay for it, even as a trade-in.  Darrel got it out yesterday, so we can drive it some and get the battery charged up good.

It is heart warming to see how the people are responding with all kinds of help for those impacted by the hurricane!  We hear so much of the bad news, but there are so many good people in our country, and this event is showcasing the goodness of so many, from all over the country!  Praise the Lord! I cannot imagine what those in the flooded areas are going through, but so happy they are getting help from so many.

It is past time for us to go to the gym, so I'd better get with the program!  Later, Peeps!
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Janet

Janice, if you pop in, check your email.  I sent you one!
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. The day begins with some sunshine but we do have an 80% chance of some rain this afternoon.  We did get a brief shower yesterday afternoon after having severe thunderstorm warning for our area during the afternoon.  It is to be in the low 80's again today. 

Pat suggested that we go out to breakfast this morning, something we haven't done in a long time.  We need to take a birthday card for her sister  to the post office as Pat thinks it will need additional postage and then we will probably stop at Aldi's for a few items.  There is nothing else on the schedule for today.  Last evening I watched the first half of the Indiana/Ohio State football game as the college football season got underway with just a few games.  The golf tournament didn't start on the normal Thursday but will start today and continue through Monday. 

Janet, I hope you will post a picture of your sunflower painting when it is finished.  I didn't realize that water colors came in a tube as all I have ever seen were dry and then water was put on them to use them.  I am certainly not tuned in to the art world.  :)  Glad you had an enjoyable day yesterday.  I also wonder why people just don't hurt or kill themselves and leave innocent people alone.  Obviously something is amiss in their minds.  I was talking with a lady yesterday whose daughter-in-law committed suicide a few weeks ago and she was speaking of how that event had about destroyed their family, especially a 17 year old young son.  We can never know what tips the scales to cause such events.  Having the second car has proven to be helpful to our family several times since we moved here.  Often it just sits in the garage and I have to make a special effort to take it out and drive it a few miles once a week or so.  However, it has come in handy for our son as he has only one car that is running and it gives him a backup when he needs it and is therefore worth keeping.   

Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

I've enjoyed being online this afternoon with y'all. So, many topics, and each of them interesting.

My sister in law is still hospitalized. We are trying to get the kitty a new home. I'm supposed to hear soon if the lady really intends to take him.

I'm rejoicing that my Houston son is safe for now from the floods. The water came to the door, but not inside his apartment.

It was difficult to sleep last night. The remnants of the hurricane have been in Nashville, so either one electronic device or another was constantly sending weather alerts - tornado alerts and flash flood alerts - almost all night. In one location there was almost 10 inches of rain!

I must go to feed that little kitty. Y'all have a good day.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Janet

#115
Oh, my!  It is nearly four and I just had lunch!  I got out our new electric pressure cooker,
and it took a while of reading the instructions to learn how to use it. But it cooked a small pork roast in just over an hour!  I think we will enjoy it, if we will just use it!  Darrel pulled and brought in a few beets, so I cooked those; a friend I painted with Wednesday gave me some really small yellow squashes, so I cooked some bacon crisp, crumbled it and fried the squash in with it, along with some pizza peppers out of the garden.  Yummy!  In the middle of all that, Curtis and Toni (Grandkids) showed up, so we had to visit some.  Anyhow.....here I am.

Beth is not at all well today, in fact she looks terrible, and can't eat because she's having terrible pain in her mouth!  :'(  I went and read to her a while, until she fell asleep.  How I pray the Lord will heal her, or at least take away the pain.

I pulled a good one yesterday!  I fell off the treadmill, walking at 4 MPH.  That hurt!! :(  The thing can abrade the skin off you very quickly!  But I got up and finished a mile and a half, then did some weight work and abdominals.  Oh, I was trying to step off for a minute, and missed the side rail with my left foot, so it wasn't entirely just being clumsy!  :-[  Anyway, I'm sore today, so didn't work out as hard this morning.

Darn!  I hate this keyboard!  I have typed the same paragraph four times, and it keeps disappearing, all except the first few words!  I am giving up for now, maybe I will try again later.

And I'm sorry the print is so small.  Must not have hit the size right!  Not my day today!
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Janet

It's me again!  What I was trying to tell you was that my granddaughter Abby was in a vehicle accident yesterday in Manhattan, Kansas. Another college student, a boy, pulled out of a parking lot too fast, and when she realized he hadn't seen her, she slammed on her brakes, he swerved, but hit her and hit another vehicle!  Thank God, she wasn't hurt, but her car had to be towed to a body shop.  Today his insurance said they will provide her a rental car until she gets hers back.  So she is on her way home now.  She loves her car, so I'm glad it can be repaired.  It's a big car, sort of an SUV style,  and she told me she plans on it lasting through college and at least her first child after she marries. :)  She doesn't currently have a boyfriend, and seems content with that, and we are all really happy about it, too!  She is too busy for a boyfriend right now!
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Jacqueline

There was a time I would tell anyone who was looking to do exercise or to lose weight....dont pay money to go to the gym, get out there and do a walk, look at the scenery, be amongst nature...you have a good pair of legs, and best of all, walking is FREE...Well of course I told anyone that who would listen, believing everyone has the capabilities for walking, WRONG, we so take our legs and feet for granted, I have found that out, even I should have walked my three dogs more than I once did, as sadly my three dogs aren't here anymore....we dont know what we have until its gone, so much is taken for granted...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like we are going to have a sunny day with the high in the upper 80's this afternoon.  I am looking forward to a pleasant day.  My morning kitchen chores have been completed and  plan on attending a meeting this morning and then spending the remainder of the day resting and watching college football and perhaps a little of the golf match. 

Ruth Ann, I hope the lady will take the cat and thus relieve you of those daily duties.  It is pretty obvious that your SIL is not likely to ever be in the condition to care for it again.  Glad your Houston son is safe and without damage.  They said yesterday that the waters were receding quickly in that area and now the cleanup begins.  I heard that Nashville was really getting pounded and the rain is continuing toward the NE.

Janet, hope you will like your new electric pressure cooker.  Glad you were not seriously hurt on the treadmill accident.  So sorry that Beth is not doing well and hope today finds her doing better.  I wish I had a suggestion for you regarding your new keyboard but really have never experienced that problem.  Sure glad that Abby wasn't hurt in the car accident.  Often young people think they can drive fast and often get themselves into trouble.  Glad her car can be repaired and that her insurance doesn't have to pay the bills so her rates shouldn't go up. 

Jackie, your comments are so true.  We often think we know what someone else  should be doing but how could we as we don't live in their mind or body and thus cannot know what is right for someone else regardless of how well intentioned our suggestions may be. 

Jacqueline

Not one of my better days but, not one of my worst...I haven't ventured out on any of my short walks...my MS is not only affecting my walking and my stomach, but is also affecting my head, eyesight and ears, feels like my hearing is part blocked and a slight mild ringing sensation...this too shall wear itself out...I just have to listen to my body, then act on what it is telling me..
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is starting out to be a beautiful and sunny day.  By late afternoon we will be in the low 90's again and there is no indication of any rain.  I did watch a lot of football yesterday and all the teams I follow won including the two here in South Carolina although that game wasn't decided until the last few plays. The other two games were lop-sized scores.  We anticipate having our normal Sunday with Sunday School and Church and then out to lunch.  So this should be a very pleasant day.
 
Jackie, sorry to read that your day yesterday wasn't as good as the couple before it.  I sure hope today finds you feeling better and more able to get around and your head, eyesight and ears feeling back to normal. 

Janice


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My GrDtr Sara is getting married today!  She and Kevin have been engaged for several months but never could make plans for a wedding date. I think this scare caused them to decide pretty quick! They chose going to Ruidoso for the wedding this afternoon.  If you know about Ruidoso, it is a popular vacation spot, mountain site, lots of pines and a stream or two.  Also, it is about halfway between here and El Paso where her sister Patty lives, so she will be able to be there too.  I would love to be there, but too much pain to deal with.  Sara's middle name is Janice.  She was born in England where her military dad was stationed at the time.  Earl and I flew over there and picked the right day! Sara was born that night, after we arrived.
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Janet

I will try to condense this as much as I can!  Beth hasn't been eating NOR drinking, because she's having such severe pain in her mouth!  We believe this is caused by the MS.
Anyway, the nurses in charge at the Home weren't doing anything to help her, just trying to crush Tramadol and give it to her in yogurt.  But it was too painful, as when the spoon or anything touched her teeth, she literally cried in pain!  And Beth is nor nor has she ever been a crier.  So I knew the pain was terrible!  Yesterday, when I saw how she was suffering, and that she was dehydrated, I took matters into my own hands, talked to our wonderful chiropractor friend, followed his suggestion to call the doctor who used to take care of her, who works in a neighboring town now.  Anyway, he arranged for that small hospital to take her, and John and I took her there.

The diagnosis was:  Bad UTI, severe dehydration, highly elevated liver enzymes indicating either a blocked duct or liver failure!  Not good, for sure.  The wonderful nurse there really struggled to find a vein in her dehydrated state to use for the blood draw and to insert an IV.  But I was behind her, praying for her, and after she succeeded, she said she could feel my prayers and they made the difference.  John and I stayed until she was settled, then came home.  I could tell she was starting to feel better, just getting some fluids into her system!

I called this morning and they said she'd slept soundly through the night, woke very early with mouth pain, they swabbed her mouth with Lidocaine and she was sleeping again.  I'm relieved she can rest, as she had been suffering so and not sleeping.  We are leaving as soon as I get to the car, more tomorrow!
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Marilyn

Janet Praying for Beth.

I wish I could get out and go for a walk with freckles today, but, the smoke is so thick that we are keeping the animals in the house and we are staying in as well.   We did go to church this morning on the way home we couldn't even see the bay from up on the hill road we were on. It is only about a quarter mile from there to the bay.  Quite a few people in the church were coughing from the smoke that came in every time some one opened the door.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Janice

Janet, I am so sorry that Beth's health is so compromised that she had to go to hospital for help.  I pray for her and for you during this time. Hope she improves from now on.  Sometimes those homes are not all they should be. 
My sister in Arkansas has been in a home for several years.  She has been taken care of quite well, but they had to send her to hospital one day last week, she was full of congeation and poor blood pressure.very difficult breathing.  She has been unable to talk for a long time, the last stroke she had did its final damage that she cannot seem to overcome.  Her 3 daughters keep the rest of us notified, and Wilma was improved enough to go back to the home a couple days ago.   She had a bad case of Lupus for several, make that many, years and that has led to strokes etc

Janet, I also got one of those Instant Pots last week.  I have not cooked anything in it yet though. I hear they are very popular. I have been reading the manual to learn more about it.

I was not able to go to Sara and Kevin's wedding. To much neck pain and weakness.
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

SmokeytheDog

Something completely off topic.
I have a church member I know who is moving to Sheffield England to attend college. I was wondering if anyone here knew of any good churches in Sheffield that a college student could get to.
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Jacqueline

Smokeythe dog...
...I dont come from that area, nor do I know that area of South Yorkshire, the Midlands but...I have done some googling and distance finding and have come up with two very close to Sheffield College Churches...seems they are both C of E with the first being United Anglican and Baptist traditions...

St Thomas ( Crookes ) Church 2.08 miles from the College....

St Marys Church 0.06 miles from the College...

Both seem to be large Churches...I hope this helps...

I wish your friend the very best in his move to UK and in his chosen College course subject..and wish him a safe journey..
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like we will be having a very nice day on this Labor Day with sunny skies and a high of around 90 degrees.  I have to meet my son downtown at 11 this morning to take care of some business.  The rest of the day I will be working on Pat's main laptop as am going to restore it to factory condition and then put it back as close to how she likes it as I can.  It hasn't been acting right for sometime so decided this was the best way to address the problem.  It will likely take a couple of days to get it set up again. 

Janice, congrats to your great granddaughter on her marriage. 

Janet, it sounds like Beth is where she needs to be so they can at least keep her reasonably comfortable.  Being dehydrated alone would have caused her to feel very badly and then to add the other complications on top of that certainly are alarming.  I will continue to pray for Beth and for you and the family during this very trying time.  I feel for your poor sister as can't even tell someone how she is feeling. 

Marilyn, that smoke sounds terrible.  You are wise to stay inside as much as possible. 

Smokeythe Dog, sorry I can be of no help as have never been to England. 

Jackie, hope today will be a reasonable good one for you. 

Janet

Hello, friends,
I was up early and left for the hospital before 8:00.  Beth was doing a little better, in that her kidneys are functioning well and they have her completely hydrated again.  The terrible pain in her mouth was from Thrush!  The Dr. said the whole inside of her mouth was raw!  No wonder it was so painful.  They have learned to watch hr eyes for answers to their questions, and are already growing fond of our girl.

Beth's prognosis is not good at all, because of the liver problem.  She will get a sonogram on Thursday which will tell them what we are looking at, whether a plugged bile duct or liver failure.  Dr. said it is just the normal process of both the terrible diseases she has, and she likely hasn't much time to live.  I sat John down and tried to get him to understand this, but he is in total denial, and he just keeps saying, "I know she will be all right!  God wouldn't have me come out here from New York and marry her and then take her away this soon!"  No matter what I say, he keeps denying the gravity of the situation.  Sigh......

On a happier note, we just got home from G-Granddaughter Jenna's 5th birthday party.  Boy, they grow up so quickly!  I guess it's always seemed this way to grandparents, huh?

And I had a lovely chat with our Pat last evening.  She is still in bad pain and has limited mobility. How I wish there were something I could do to help her!  Paul was there, but was planning to leave today, I believe.  And she sends greeting to each of you!

I need to call my youngest daughter and update her on Beth.  If she wants to see her again, I think she needs to come soon.   :'(

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Jacqueline

#129
Janet...
...I feel so sad hearing of your Beth, especially that we both share the same Illness-disease, although mine is Progressive...I hope this gives you and hubby John some peace and answers but, MS itself, does not kill, but, complications due from MS sure can shorten or take our life, same as anyone else, it is just that our bodies cant fight off as well as a non MS persons body can...our body attacks itself.....Why would that Doctor say to John..." it is just the normal process of both the terrible diseases she has, and she likely hasn't much time to live...."
It is not MS that kills but what we suffer due to MS, where our bodies fight - attack, rather than heeling as a normal healthy body would be doing...so basically, although our lives me be shortened, in theory we can live as long as anyone else...but we may die of MS complications, otherwise we may die of any other illness, same as anyone else..

Guess what I am trying to say is...please dont give up on your Beth...Janet and John...shame on that Doctor telling John she may not live for much longer, and placing this extra burden and worry on him, who himself, is not a well person...I hope and pray John hangs onto what he believes...

" "I know she will be all right!  God wouldn't have me come out here from New York and marry her and then take her away this soon!"
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We are to have a mostly or partly cloudy day all day today but still getting up to around 90 degrees this afternoon.  I expect to spend most of today working on Pat's laptop.  I have run into no snag yet and don't anticipate any but it just takes time to deal with the little details of loading and setting up various programs and games that she likes.  I had a good but busy day yesterday.  Our son needed a new bed and we decided that would make a good early Birthday and Christmas present so yesterday I went with him and he selected the one he wanted.  I did enjoy the final day of the golf tournament yesterday afternoon.  It was another good ending with the lead changing hands several times close to the end. 

Janet, glad the report was that Beth was doing a little better after being completely hydrated again. It sounds like the birthday party was fun.  Glad you were able to chat with Pat but so sorry to learn that she is still having bad pain and has limited mobility. 

Jackie, I hope today is being a good one for you and you are having some nice weather over your way. 

Jacqueline

Larry Hanna...
...no day with MS is a good day...ask anyone who suffers with this disease, and they - we, will all tell you the same...MS is what it is...Our today weather is non stop rain, not heavy, just grey, no sunshine...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Marilyn

It is still pretty smokey here, I did manage to get in two walks so far today for a total of 10,899 steps and 45 minutes at the gym this morning. I did take a fall this morning coming back into the house after taking a bag of trash to the trash bin. But all I did was scrape my elbow a bit, no other damage.

Jackie, I can tell you that Janet's Beth has some other serious problems with the Neurofibromatosis.  Google that. Janet has written a book all about Beth's life with this disease. I believe it is called Rising Above.

Janet, I'm so glad you had a chance to talk with Pat. Sorry to hear she is still in so much pain with limited mobility. I will keep her in my prayers.


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Jacqueline

#133
Marilyn...
...had no Idea that Beth suffered something else...something I am not familiar with...I made my posting on what I was aware of...MS...I hold prayers on behalf of Beth and hubby John...

Edited: yes I now have the picture of Beth and John on their wedding day...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is another overcast morning with a good chance of some rain today and a high of only about 80 degrees.  Tonight is our first Wednesday night dinner at the Church for the fall and Pat has decided to go again this year.  Then we will enjoy having Scott and Jennifer out for a couple of hours to visit. I spent most of yesterday and last evening working on Pat's laptop.  About 9 pm I did something and lost the shortcuts I had spent several hours getting set up on it.  I got up early this morning and recreated them.  Now have only a few other programs to install and then will be done with the restoration. 

Jackie, I know that your days are not going to be good but my comment was met to say I hope maybe if you had a bad day the day before it might be less so.  It sounds like your weather gave you a very dreary day yesterday. 

Marilyn, it sounds like yesterday was a pretty active day for you.  Glad you didn't hurt yourself any worse with the fall.   

Janet

Jackie, the doctor didn't say that to John, but to me.  He knows I always want him to be honest with me about my daughter's condition.

Beth was so very weak and not able to eat nor drink; I was really afraid this was to be the end for her. But, as she has done many times before, she rallied!  Yesterday she was so much improved, I was really thrilled to see her color better, the sparkle back in her eyes.  I could see that she felt better and wanted to stay with us a while longer.  She was having TMJ pain in her jaw they had to address before she could eat or drink, but then she did start eating.  I'm sure that after over a whole week, she was hungry! They will cook her anything she wants, at any hour of day or night!  For a tiny hospital, they do a super job, and are wonderfully caring and kind.

I have a list of things I need to do, had thought I might not go over to the hospital today, but Beth has already had John call and let me know she needs her Mom.  So of course, I will be going!  How could I not?

That's all the time I can spare this morning, but wanted to let you know the good news.  I need to go to the care home and see if they are going to give me any trouble about readmitting her.  Hope not.
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Jacqueline

#136
Janet...
...happy to read of the latest news, re, your Beth...sounds like she is a fighter...I shan't poke my nose in again if I am not familiar with all the facts...

Larry Hanna...
...I hope my post didn't come over blunt or sharp, if so, is wasn't meant to be so...

I think apologies on my part are in order for you both...Larry and Janet...I have learnt when to listen and not comment...at least I hope I have... :-X

I took a phone call from a " Community Angel, " seems a group of volunteers attached to my local GP surgery and a local Church, one I have not attended, yet...but it is on my agenda to go as soon as I can make sense of the " circuit " schedule..although to use this volunteer group I dont have to be a part of their churches group, but I feel it may help if I did...I was given this leaflet by my GP doctor,
in aid of broadening my social life, and befriending, so although I hung onto this leaflet for some time, until Dr was going to offer me the leaflet again on my last visit, I had to be honest with her and tell her I hadn't yet made that phone call since she first gave me the leaflet, re, a previous visit...I told her I will, so I have...He phoned and said today 3.pm, he was in the area, that was only 20 minutes away, he arrived 15 minutes late saying he has another appointment at 3.30...anyway he took various details to see how I can be helped, he will soon get in-touch as they hold a once a month mid day meet up, so I can get to meet the people and find out more of what they do, how they can help...
The leaflet says, Befriending - Shopping and running small errands - Transport - Accompanied walks - Help with correspondence - Gardening - Companionship - Provide Information of other agencies - Dog walking...
Until my GP gave me this leaflet, I never knew this charitable organisation existed, seems it is only linked to my surgery, and covering our areas..
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We are expecting a beautiful day with sun all day and only getting to around 80 degrees.  I had a good day yesterday and finished up Pat's laptop and showed her the few things that are different for her than the previous setup.  We did enjoy a great meal at the Church last night and then some nice visiting with Scott and Jennifer.  Scott returned our PT Cruiser as he had his car repaired.  Today will be a more restful day.  I will go to coffee and then after returning my friend to his home I plan on going back to the Church for our Wisdom group. 

I am just now watching the Weather Channel and it looks like South Carolina is now in the path for Hurricane Irma.  They are showing that the entire State is covered in the area that may be impacted by the high winds.  I will be keeping an eye on the situation.  It is still early and I know the path can change daily.

Janet, certainly good to see that Beth is doing better and is starting to eat again.  That sure sounds like a caring staff at the hospital.  Did you have to vacate her room in the care home when she went to the hospital? 

Jackie, certainly no apology is needed for me.  I would never take offense from what anyone writes on these boards.  Doing so requires an action on my part to "take" the offense and my philosophy is to just not take it.  It sure makes my life more enjoyable.  So please give this matter no more thought.  I am happy to see what you have written about the " Community Angel" group.  It sounds like they have a very caring group who recognize a need in the community.     

Janet

Jackie, I was not offended, either.  I knew you probably didn't know about Beth's Neurofibromatosis and all that entails, just as I don't know all about MS--neither hers nor yours.
As Larry said, it's far better just to not take offense.  And I'm happy to hear about the "Community Angel" group.  Sounds like it should really be a blessing to you.

Marilyn, how kind of you to explain about Beth and mention my book.  The head nurse who was caring for her bought one book to send her nurse sister for her birthday.  :) 

AND,,,,,,,,DRUM ROLL,,,,,,,,,,BETH IS HOME!!!  She arrived at lunch time and was hungry!  So good to see her able to eat again!  And her sonogram showed no liver damage nor problems, for which we are thanking our merciful God.  I went and talked to two of the Registered Nurses at the home, told them we were very upset that everyone dropped the ball and let Beth get into such bad condition.  They blamed the fact of the new owners taking over, all the meetings going on, etc. but said after they learned I'd taken her to the hospital they two agreed to let the DON go to the meetings and they concentrate on Resident care.  I agreed that their care should come first.

Dr. Appling called me this morning and told me about the sonogram, and he also said if I'd not seen she was in trouble and gotten her to the hospital quickly, she likely would have died.  My answer was that I'm glad I'm still here to be her advocate!  Thank God for caring physicians, and Beth has had many, all through her ordeal, not just now, but for years.  I'm so thankful!

I need to get a few things done, but wanted to let you all in on the good news!  Our Beth will be with us for a while yet!  :) <3 :thumbsup:
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Jacqueline

" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

Janet, thanks for the good news about OUR Beth.  <3
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We are to have another beautiful day in the low 80's and sunny.  I have an 11 am 6 month routine appointment to have my pacemaker/defibrillator checked.  Then I have an appointment to have the Hyundai checked for a possible leak of some type and will wait while they check it.  The housekeeper will be here this morning and I expect Pat and I will eat our big meal out this evening as we usually do on housecleaning day. 

I have been keeping my eye on the hurricane reports as it appears our area will be affected by it at the first of the week with wind and rain.  This weekend I will get all of the emergency lighting and the radio gathered together as we likely will lose power.  We have plenty of food and water so we should be fine.  It is comforting to live at the top of the ridge so have little concern about flooding.  I should be able to keep my iPhone charged as the battery powered lantern I got a few months ago has a usb port.  The Augusta area is preparing for an influx of people who are evacuating. 

Janet, what good news concerning Beth's return home and the results of the sonogram.  It sounds like you had a good talk with the nursing staff.  You are a wonderful advocate for her. 

Jackie, I loved the little graphic you posted about the mysterious ways that God works.     

Jacqueline

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I have a social meet up tonight, be leaving within the next hour, starts 7pm-ish....last week Thursday when we went to the church's mid day tea, cake and biscuits, and I sat with the small group of seniors, we put our names down for their next social meet up, tonight we have fallen in with a fish and chip supper...My MS is not great ( it is affecting my stomach, walking and head ) but, otherwise my mind is on the ball, and I will make sure I not only go but, actually enjoy myself...I would have gone again yesterday but Toby was booked at the groomers mid day for the couple of hours...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

Almost forgot, we are both going but he is hardly talking to me as usual, he is just going for the fish and chips, he is not part of, nor ever will be, a part of a church, seems once we are there, we will go our separate ways with who we socialise and talk with, although as usual, I will be the talker, and laugh'er....I am just happy I shall be communicating with live, real people for a couple of hours.... :thumbsup: 
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Marilyn

I just finished dividing up some homemade dog food into containers that hold two days each of food for Freckles. I  will give her   ? cup of that mixed with ? cup of her low-calorie kibble to equal  264 Calories per meal she is allowed 550 calories per day for weight management. She will be getting 528 close enough. When she gets to the weight the vet wants her to be I will increase her food just a bit. I just want to be able to monitor her food intake and not have all the additives that come with commercial dog food.

All is well here, Keith is doing better since he started taking the Aricept., I have noticed the difference. Air quality has improved since we had some rain yesterday.
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Jacqueline

I am back, been an enjoyable couple of hours...tables were laid out and the volunteers gave out our fish and chip meals followed by a bowl of fresh fruits and vanilla ice cream, that came as a surprise...I still have my MS stomach bloat and even had two MS spasm-ings, I really dont want them to start up again...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Janet

Please, please pray for Beth.  She has already regressed so much since coming back here.  Terrible mouth pain, not eating, not drinking.  When I was there this evening, I asked them to offer her sweetened, thickened iced tea, as she likes that.  I just called and they said she took a pretty good amount of that.  She had taken only a few spoonfuls of liquids throughout the day, and three tiny bites of food.

If things haven't improved, we will take her back to the hospital tomorrow.  I'm really afraid for her this time.  Thanks for praying.
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Jacqueline

Janet...
...I will willingly pray for anyone who is suffering with MS....I will have no hesitation...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. Another beautiful, sunny and cooler day here in South Carolina.  According to the Weather Channel projections this morning our State appears to be out of the cone of the anticipated hurricane path as it has moved to the West. On Monday we still will be getting some heavy rain and fairly strong winds.  So I really don't know what to expect.

Yesterday I did keep my appointment regarding my pacemaker and all was well.  I still have 2 1/2 years before it will need to be replaced when the battery runs out of power.  I decided to cancel my appointment at the garage as the burning type smell has greatly lessened so think it must have been something I picked up rather than a problem with the car.  I will just keep an eye (or nose) on the situation and take it in later if needed.  Pat and I did go to Ruby Tuesday's yesterday at noon for our main meal of the day.  I think I will probably stay home today unless I decide to go to a meeting later this morning.   

Jackie, I see you had a nice time at your social meet up.  It is nice to see that Richard went with you even if it was just to eat.  Perhaps he will meet some folks that he will want to get to know better and will attend with you regularly. 

Marilyn, nice of you to prepare special dog food for Freckles.  Nice to read taht Keith is doing better. 

Janet, what a quick change of the situation for Beth.  I will keep her in my prayers. 

Jeanne Lee

Janet, special prayers for Beth and for you.   <3

Yesterday afternoon I woke up from some ZZZZ's and saw a truck outside my window.  Closer inspection revealed it was my son's camper - here for a quick visit.

Two of my daughter-in-law's daughters are on St. Marten, stranded of course.  And the third daughter is heading to the Outer Banks of South Carolina.   My poor daughter-in-law is a nervous wreck, even though she's heard from the "girls" in St. Marten that they are safe in a protected hotel and the major concern is the long delay that's anticipated until they can leave. 
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Janice

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I read in today's newspaper that the 16 yr old shooter at the library will be tried as an adult.  And if convicted, will get an adult sentence...life in prison.  I think he will have to go through exam for mental problems first.  And obviously he has problems there.  Sara is out of work now because the library is undergoing a renovation right now, not because of the shooting, this work was already planned by the city. They decided it was a good time to make improvements.  And she jokingly said "I am still clocked in!"
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Janet

Quick update on Beth:  She is very, very weak, and so very tired.  But when I asked if she wants to go back to the hospital, she said NO!  I believe it is her right to decide for herself,
and if I were in her place, that would be my choice, so I understand.  John keeps saying he knows she doesn't want to leave her husband.  But she has fought so long and so hard to live, she just has no reserves of strength left with which to fight.  I told her again  that if she chooses to go home to Jesus,
it is okay, we will be all right, and anyway, we will be there in just a moment (in God's time.)  Of course we will be very sad, we will miss her terribly, but how could I not want her to be set free?

I'm spending all the time I can with her, but she was sleeping, so I took a little time to come home and regroup a bit.

This is very unsettling for us in another way.  We are scheduled to leave on the bus trip to Kentucky one week from today.  Can we go?  Should we go?  What to do?  :-\  I am just leaving everything in God's hands, for He knows what is ahead.  And he loves us.

Wishing all of you many blessings.
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Marilyn

Oh Janet, we all knew this day was coming sooner or later, my heart goes out to you and the rest of the family. I will keep praying for all of you and especially for Beth. One thing that I told a friend who is waiting for Jesus to come at any moment, " When your mansion is finished and ready for you to move in, He will come for  you."
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Jacqueline

I will soon be leaving for a different church this morning, this is a large more modern type church with halls, stairs, even a lift, and several off rooms where other things go on, the main church entrance is to the front....The lady who came to meet me the other evening for the fish and chip social gathering, gave me her phone number to phone her as to whether I shall be coming or not, so that she can meet me and take me in, which I already have done, bless her, she is like me rather chatty...Told no Holy Communion this morning...unlike my other small village church I can expect a good 130 -150 parishioners attending....Not sure if this church will become my regular church as I still have a more local church that is attached to the " Community Angels..." to go to, once the update their Sunday programme so I know which one of their 4-5 circuit churches will be on each particular Sunday...wouldn't it be just simpler to attend the same church each and every week but, I guess a shortage of church Vicars and small parishes that have to be shared...

Wishing everyone a Blessed Sunday...however we choose to worship...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. While we are fine here this morning by tomorrow morning it is going to be another situation.  We will be getting wind and heavy rain and a high chance of tornadoes from the outer bands. 

This afternoon we will get our emergency lights, radio medicine and some important papers together. I will also take the chairs and table from our front porch, fill the bathtub with water and turn the freezer down  to its lowest setting.  We are going to put two chairs in our laundry room as this is probably the strongest point in our house for protection.  Undoubtedly we will experience power outages and have no idea of how long these could last.  If I don't post it probably means we don't have power although should be able to make a short post with my phone if the cell towers stay up.  We certainly don't expect anything like what the coast cities and Florida and perhaps up through Georgia and Tennessee will experience. There are a lot of evacuees here from the coast area and Florida with many in shelters that have been opened. 

I plan on going to Church this morning but have no idea whether Pat will go as she didn't have such a good day yesterday.  She was on her feet too much.

Jeanne, glad you have heard that your DIL's daughters are safe on St. Marten.  I hope the other daughter rethought her travel to the Outer Banks of South Carolina as those have been evacuated as far as I know.   

Janice,  the 16 year old would be a danger to society and should be tried as an adult.  I take it your daughter would have been out of work for awhile due to the renovation regardless of the tragedy that occurred. 

Janet, I so with I had some words to ease your pain at this time but just know that I care and will be praying for you.  These are the times we just have to rely on our faith and remember that our loved one will no longer be in the terrible pain. 

Jackie, it sounds like the new Church you attended this morning is better equipped to deal with your situation.   

Jeanne Lee

After a whirlwind visit from late Friday to early this morning, Ken has gone back to New Jersey.  :(   We watched the tennis tournament, finished up the Power of Attorney, took care of a few little chores and talked.  And talked.  And talked.  His wife's daughters are now safe and sound  Puerto Rico, where they were transferred by the army.  What a story they'll have for their grandchildren some day.   :D
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Janet

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Oh, Jeanne, how happy I am that you had the visit with your son.  And that the daughters are safe, as well.  For sure, they will have stories to tell!

Larry, our grandson Mark is in the Orlando area, but he says they are on high ground and don't anticipate any serious problems.  Said they have plenty of food and water; the neighbors have a generator, and have offered them storage for some food items in their refrigerator and to let them charge their cell phones.  He said only one house in their neighborhood has boarded up their windows.  Since this is their first year there, I hope they aren't being overly optimistic!

I pray you and Pat are safe, well-stocked and have everything you need, and especially that no emergencies occur during the storm.  Isn't it great that they can now predict so far in advance when those things are coming?  Thank you so much for the kind words.  My heart is hurting for dear Beth,
and today we got even more bad news.   :'(  She has C-Diff, a terrible, dangerous and contagious type of diarrhea!  So now she's in isolation, and all who enter her room have to gown up and put on shoe protectors, and if feeding her, wear gloves.

When I visited twice today, she was so very tired, but Kerri got her to laugh a few times.  She's still our Beth with that great sense of humor.  I fed her, and she ate about a third of a big pancake, also spooned around four ounces of liquids into her.

Both my other girls told us they think we should go on the trip to Kentucky.  As much as I want to go,
I know she will be heavy on my mind the whole time.  I'm torn!

Beth will be put on Hospice this week, if all goes to plan.  I hope they will be able to manage her pain better.  Edit:  They just called and said if there is a delay getting her on Hospice, they will immediately put her on Comfort Care.

Marilyn, thank you.  Another friend made the comment that Beth's mansion should really be grand!

I'm trying to get the laundry done and pack for the trip, in case she makes a big turn for the better.
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Larry Hanna

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Hi everyone. It is a rainy morning and the winds are increasing in intensity.  So far the rain is not really heavy yet.  Our forecast this morning is talking about wind gusts of 35 to 40 MPH but hopefully those won't be sustained gusts.  So today will be just keeping an eye on the weather and hoping for the best.  This is such a huge storm. 

Jeanne, glad you had a nice time with your son even if it was a brief time.  Sure glad his wife's daughters are safe in Puerto Rico.  It has been a tense and dangerous time for many people.

Janet, hope you will hear from Mark today to assure you that they are safe.Nice of their neighbors to be willing to share their freezer space.  Don't worry about us as we will be fine and have plenty of food and water and it sounds like the wind gusts are not going to be as strong as we once feared.  Poor Beth with a new problem with C-Diff.  What else can happen to that poor woman.  Hospice should help her stay as comfortable as possible.  How does Comfort Care differ from Hospice care?

Carol

So glad to read of the safety from storms for many of the relatives in here. 

Thankful for any news on Pat!!!

We drove back from Minnesota yesterday and saw a lot of dust and a very red sunset as we entered Colorado from Wyoming and South Dakota.  Very thankful for a safe trip.  Chatted with my 102 year young auntie n MN and Don's 97 -year- young cousin in Duluth, MN.  (His cousin lives alone in an apartment, quilts and volunteers at church a little bit less now.  We attended a graveside memorial for another of his older cousins as well.  Spent time with grandson in St. Peter, MN and several friends wanted to treat us to meals out since they have stayed with us on trips.  I had Walleye fish 3 times (yum). We stayed four days at my cousins lake house and relatives and friends came so often that we filled the dishwasher 3 times most days.  We ate out too and so many loving people came to visit.  Highlights of our trip.   

Janet:  I am keeping you in my prayers. 

Janet

Updates from my corner:  Mark and Tiffany are safe.  Their house has some damage, nothing Mark can't repair, once he can get the needed materials.  So grateful for God's protection!

Beth was again very tired, but I had a good 2 1/2 hours to pray, sing, read to and love on her, then feed her breakfast, before John came.  The DON and another RN wanted to talk to me, and by the time we finished it was noon.

Larry, the difference between Hospice and Comfort Care seems hard to explain, but after asking three different nurses, I think it is this: Comfort Care is all done by the  home, and if they need stronger pain medication, they have to get a prescription from a doctor.  Hospice is expert in managing pain and have the meds available; and they also have good family support.  Since the home is under new ownership, they have to get a new contract signed with Hospice, which hasn't happened yet.  So they will give her Comfort Care until they can get Hospice for her.  :-\

I'm really tired.  Last night, every time I moved my legs, cramps would grab my calves, until I was afraid to move.  So not a good night.

There is a meeting this evening at the home, supposed to be for answering question from families of the residents, so I need to go to that.

Carol, sounds like you and Don are having a great time.  Good for you!  :thumbsup:

I shall return............
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Liz

Janet, I am so sorry about Beth.  Please know that I am still praying for her....and you!

We are starting to experience cool weather here and the smoke warning has been stopped.  So many fires burning here in BC.  Some days the sky has been really dark and the early morning sun a dark red.  We get the smoke from the mainland and from Wash.  I am not sure what will be left of our forests and wildlife.  Many, many people evacuated in so many areas. 

I am so sorry for the terrible things happening in US with floods and hurricanes, etc.  Stay safe Larry.  I have been following things on CNN and it is sad beyond words. 

I am chugging along as best possible.  Will be 85 in a couple of weeks, so do not expect much in the way of relief from discomfort.  Grateful for all the many blessings in my life and especially for my daughter and son in law and their kindness.  God Is Good :)

Liz
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is a quiet and overcast cool morning.  The effects of the hurricane have now passed our area.  I am very grateful that we really had no impacts from the storm other than the 3 1/2 inches of rain and a lot of very gusty wind.  There were  3 or 4 shingles in my driveway but an examination of my house roof shows they were not from it.  I think they came from a trash pile in front of a new home being built on the next street. I looked at my roof this morning and all seems to be in place.  We did lose power for  about 3 hours starting a little before 3 pm. We sure were happy to see the lights come back on before night time. 

I have already put most of the things I had out for an emergency back in place.  I still have to move the patio furniture back into place and move the plants back outside.  I also need to take our cooler back up to the attic.  There were trees down in certain areas of Augusta and North Augusta. 

It sure has been good to see the messages from or about our folks living in Florida that they had weathered the storm.  Pat has a lot of relative in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area and it sounded dire for them but the storm also pretty much left them alone.  I haven't heard anything from friends over around Atlanta but know they also got a lot of wind and rain.  I just see on the Weather Channel that over 7 million people are without power this morning. 

The main thing on my schedule today is to see the foot doctor this morning to get my toenails trimmed.  I have been looking forward to this appointment for several weeks as my big toes have been very sore to any pressure on them.  I plan on taking it easy the rest of the day. I found the uncertainty  yesterday to be stressful and was very tired when I went to bed last evening.  I had a good nights sleep and feel rested this morning.   

Carol, nice to see you are safely home from your trip to Minnesota.  It sounds like you and Don had a wonderful time and saw a lot of people. 

Janet, glad to see your note that Mark and Tiffany are safe with damage he can repair.  I expect getting building materials is going to be a big problem with so much destruction in Florida.  Thanks for the explanation of Comfort Care.  I hadn't realized that care homes had to have a contract with Hospice.  Hospice was so good to Stacey and to us when the end came.  No wonder you are tired as you are under a lot of stress. 

Liz, good to see your posting and see the smoke situation is better up your way and that you are getting cooler weather.  Let me be among the first to wish you a Happy Birthday.  It is fortunate that you daughter and SIL are good and kind to you and can help you out as needed. 

Carol

It looks like we are going to have some cooling here and that is normal at this time in September.  We have even had short snow storms on this month - such as, the day we moved here from Texas.  Tonight is quilt night and I hope someone else will drive as I am iffy about going in the dark anymore with the influx of masses of newcomers.  Still a bit weary of that drive two days ago.

Liz:  Smoke is east of the fires, I did not realize you were in the smokey area too.  You have a great attitude and it is so nice to read your notes. 

Larry:  glad that you have not had damage to your new home.  The damage to many southern states will take years and in some areas, Texas for instance it will never be finally fixed.  All the homes damaged by hurricane Rita years ago were damaged once again. 

Janet: Praying!

Jacqueline

At last we have gotten round to my MS social evening, we never had one last month so been a long long wait....There are always two months each end of the year we dont have one but...tonight's social sounds intriguing, mysterious and fun....We have someone coming in and " entertaining " us with...Romance through the decades 1890 to 1950's in popular song..." our newsletter is telling us..." this is an audience participation event, and should be fun..." have no Idea what to expect...
My MS body has taken a slight downhill since I broke up some delivery boxes today, but this will not deter me from going...I will be still looking forward to our, this evening's do...just got over an hour before we leave...best go get myself ready....
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

That does sound like fun, Jackie.   Be sure to let us know all about it.
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Marilyn

Good Morning I  am baking bread this morning and have already been tio the gym and taken Freckles for a walk/ 

Larry good to hear that you escaped the heavy part of the storm as did the Agusta area. As you know one of my Son's is working at the Nuclear Power plant they are building in the Augusta area. I also have a grand daughter in the Columbia SC area.

We are getting a bit of smoke today but nothing like it was last week, I can still see blue sky so it can't be that bad, And I don't smell smoke in the air.


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Janet

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After almost two weeks of constant stress and concern over Beth, I was really feeling tired and sore all over last night.  But I had a good night's rest, and felt much better this morning.  And when I went to the home, I found her so much better I was shocked!  :o  But, of course, very pleased and happy!  She really does amaze me, the way she has bounced back from near death, time after time!  So today has been a day of thanksgiving and praise, and packing for the Kentucky trip, as we will leave early Saturday morning.  I talked to Beth about it, and she assured me she will be fine, and will be here when we get home.  Our other daughters really encouraged us to go, even while Beth was so sick.  I think maybe they are concerned about me and know I need a break.  John will be with her and will call me with daily updates; and Diane will come up to check on her mid-week and apprise me of the situation.  Of course, the nurses can also call me anytime, too.  (Aren't cell phones wonderful?) The nurses said she will still be assessed for Hospice, and that for now, she is on Comfort Care.  They are being cautiously optimistic.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers!  I know it's likely we will need them again in the future, and it is wonderful to have friends I can call upon for prayer support!

I have read all your post, won't comment tonight as the aches and pains have returned and I need to get some supper and get to bed.  I love each and every one of you!

Janet
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Jacqueline

#167
Jeanne Lee...
...I really enjoyed our tonight, even though not many of our MS'ers turned up...our 70s something entertainer was fun, we held a conversation about his entertainment singing, when and how he started...His commentary on the years and how men courted, then with the songs, he had humour, we laughed, we sang along to the likes of...( these are just the ones I can remember us singing )....

Put your arms around me Honey, hold me tight...
By the light of the silvery moon...
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do...
Lily of Laguna...
I'm shy Mary Ellen, I'm shy...
Let me call you sweetheart...
Yes sir that's my baby...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

Janet...
...all I can add is that Beth is hear to stay, she isn't going anywhere yet, and that is a blessing...Now you take some healing time for yourelf...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

Janet, I'm so happy to read that Beth is once again on the "up" side.  Enjoy your trip.   ;)

Jackie, it does sound as though you had a really enjoyable evening.  Love those old songs, even though if I joined in the singing it would surely end the performance!  :lol:
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Jacqueline

Jeanne Lee...
...Luckily for him, he handed out a leaflet with the words to the songs but....as to the singing in tune.... I can assure you, if I can get away with it, so could you... ;D 
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

It has just dawned on me it is my daughters birthday today, my only child...she is 48 but, sadly we are now estranged...but it was just three hours ago I had pushed her out of my tummy...now she is a mother and grandmother herself....where have these years gone?...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

#172
Just back from a down-slope-up-slope short walk...I now have to rest as my body is now messed up, my lower stomach and legs are so heavy, I can hardly move my feet and legs, or rather, I am not in control of them...but I got myself out, and that was my main objective..and of course back home again, all in one piece...Surprising what one can do, if one puts their mind to it...my body was not too great even before I started but it can change in the blink of an eye..and it does...
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone.  It looks like it will be a beautiful day with it getting only into the low 80's this afternoon.  I think I will go to coffee with my men friends this morning and then this evening we have dinner at the Church and Scott and Jennifer will be coming to the house afterwards. 

Carol, hope the snow stays away from your area for awhile.  Did you make it to your quilting group last night.  We had a schedule Home Owner's Meeting last evening and I totally forgot about it as had planned to attend.  Needless to say I was relieved to see there was no damage to my home or to our area. However, there were still thousands of people in our County who were without power as of yesterday morning.

Marilyn, that Nuclear Power plant isn't too far from where I live.  I didn't realize, or have forgotten, you have a granddaughter in Columbia. 

Janet, sure glad you found Beth better and that you are going to be able to go on your trip to Kentucky.  I am sure your daughter's are concerned about you and the toll all of this stress is taking on you.  You will obviously be in touch with the situation and Beth knows where you will be. 

Jackie, your MS gathering sounds like just the thing you needed to lift your spirits.  Those songs are familiar to my growing up years except never heard of "Lily of Laguna" or "I'm Shy Mary Ellen".  Glad you made it back home from your walk today. 

Jeanne, it sounds like you are being too hard on yourself regarding your singing.  :)                                                   

Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

It's wonderful to have had the time to catch up with y'all today.

My sister in law is now back in her apartment. She is thinking positively,  prayers continue for and managing pretty well.

May God richly bless each of you.

Love to all,
Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Janet

Beth wasn't doing as well today as yesterday.  And I am feeling the effects that continued stress can cause an "older" body.  But I will be fine, I'm sure.

I have read each of your posts, as always, and send blessings to each of you.
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. After some rain late last evening we start today seeing the sunshine and it is suppose to be nice all day.  In a little while I will pick up my friend and we will go to coffee and then I hope to attend the Wisdom Group at the Church after taking my friend home.   

Ruth Ann, so nice to read that your SIL is finally back in her apartment.  I bet it sure looked good to her after these past few weeks. 

Janet, sorry to read that Beth wasn't doing as well yesterday as the day before.  Hopefully today will be a better day.  Please take care of yourself.  I know what stress can do to us. 

Janet

Beth seems a bit worse today then yesterday.  But she still says she wants us to go, so we are planning to go.  I know God is with her even when I cannot be; and as her husband,
I need to let John assume more responsibility for her.

I have been to my chiropractor, so that should help a lot with my soreness.  And I'm praying for a good night's sleep tonight!

Blessings to all of you!
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Carol

Just catching up on your news -  Janet:  your life is like a roller coaster now - I hope John will step up to responsibility. 

Larry;  Snow is a way off - except in the high country.  But - we did move here in mid-September one year and had a blizzard on moving day. 

Don has a cough so he cannot visit our good friend - in care for another week or so.  We are really fixed on taking care of umpteen projects now plus trying to visit friends and relatives. 


Jacqueline

#179
Well soon I am in for another noisy morning....yesterday we had a couple of workmen digging up alongside of our parkhome site road, opposite to our home, only this morning just told Richard as he was leaving for his Doctors appointment followed by his Friday shop, so Richard will be out of the home for the next few hours and will miss the noise, I of course cant escape it...It is now 8.20 am they will soon start of their digging machine, the fumes that were going into our back garden yesterday were bad...only this morning they will be digging up the road our side, right outside our driveway...as yesterday they told Richard they couldn't find what they were looking for, so yesterdays dig was a pure waste of time, they seem to be looking for an electrical pipe, or cable underground...I am dreading when this machine starts up, it was so noisy yesterday and yesterday it was further away...as I type, I hear the clanking of pipes...Once this machine starts, it will go on to mid day, if like yesterday...Of course Richard wont be in any hurry to get home, with his luck it will have stopped by then...It should be me they are apologising to, not Richard.. :ticked:

This is it, 8.45 am, they've started...they are literally taking up the road...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

#180
Well my day just gets better...NOT...
Richard forgot to ask for, or I forgot to hand him my debit card, as this is the day he transfers money into my bank account...so he phoned me to relay my card details to him, over the phone, he out and about in a public place, me indoors with the machine digging racket outside my window...so I have no Idea who maybe picking up my details as both myself and Richard were shouting, with Richard not hearing numbers correctly, and me having to repeat them, louder..so much for security...He needs to hand over my card to the bank cashier - teller,  to put the money in...my card number with its expiry date...

What next is in store for me today? ::)
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

Oh almost forgot...I wont be able to get to Church this Sunday...due to our annual IRONMAN  triathlon running through our main road and toward our sea town areas...all roads will be closed off, we have the roads route-planner planner...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

#182
Oh almost forgot...I wont be able to get to Church this Sunday...due to our annual IRONMAN  triathlon running through our main road and toward our sea town areas...all roads will be closed off, we have the triathlon route-planner...

And now of course Richard has come back, all is now silent outside, ( isn't he the lucky one? ) the road outside and our end of drive is a mess,  (I wouldnt be able to get my rollator over it but, ) either they are on their lunch break or they have finished for the day, the machinery of course is still outside...I am just glad I have another means of getting out, from the back, to the concrete steps leading to the car..as we have our nights entertainment tonight, the follow up to last weeks fish and chip supper, only tonight I think it will be the challenge game of " Pointless..." not sure what that entails...something to do with giving factual correct answers but the least known answers scoring the higher points...this game is on our tv but not a game I watch on a regular basis....
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is a beautiful sunny morning and we are headed up into the high 80's this afternoon.  The main activity for today is to do some grocery shopping at Costco and perhaps Aldi's, although Aldi's may wait until tomorrow.  I did go to coffee and the Wisdom Group yesterday but was so tired when I got home that I skipped lunch and laid down and rested.  Last evening the weariness seemed to leave and I am feeling good this morning. 

Janet, don't you think it is giving Beth some joy to know you and Darrel can get away for a few days and not have to cancel your long planned trip. 

Carol, in watching the weather in the Denver area over a number of years it seems you can have great variations with it being snowy one day and up well above freezing the next.  I guess that is the joy of being close to those beautiful mountains.  I guess you and Don are probably thinking a lot about returning to Arizona for the winter before long. 

Jackie, I hope the workmen found what they were looking for and didn't have to dig all morning.  I am surprised they aren't able to use a detecting device to locate the pipe like the utility companies do here in the USA.  I see they are tearing up your road which will mean more work near your property as they ultimately repair it.  I hope there is no problem with your debit card numbers by having to give them over the phone.  To bad you won't be able to attend church.  I notice that often the races hear start early and are over before Church time. I have never heard of that game you mentioned.  I hope you have a good time. 

Jacqueline

#184
Once again our today tv news has not been good, re, the London tube train terrorist bomb explosion...why must people think life's purpose is to upturn everyone else's daily commuting life...

Larry Hanna...
...not too sure who has authorised this work as our parkhome site is on private land, I am assuming our parkhome site owner, who I have yet to ever see or meet, as he lives off site, but, probably our Parkhome site resident manager gave the go ahead, yet no previous warnings had been given of this work to be undertaken...it is still going on, but been quieter, think they are now clearing up...

...Larry you are wise to listen to your body, and act on what your body is telling you...

Apologies for my multiple posts of today...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

:coffee:  It is a beautiful morning "Oh, what a beautiful morning"... and so forth.  We slept well and I have put in a treadmill time.  The radio station had an interesting author of Martin Luther stories - a history lesson while on the old treadmill was the start to my day.  I hope to work on finishing a quilt and yet to decide the size.  Now, it is about a twin-plus size. 

Grateful for:  Don didn't cough last night. 

Jackie:  Sorry for the terror attack - it has to be troubling for your countrymen.  Our g-daughter wants to take a semester at the school of Economics (like her mother did as a student). 

Larry:  Don loves to go to Arizona.  He feels so much better there in lower altitude. Here, we both love being near three of the children and the 4th one is always on a plane - every week so it is rare to see him.  We saw an Aldi store in Minnesota and after talking to a cousin, we really hope they build some in this area. 







Jacqueline

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Carol...
...that seems to be in the heart of London ( The London School of Economics, )...We cant allow these terrorists to frighten us not to take London Transport or to venture into London, as I remember once being so so near to an IRA bomb at Oxford Street tube station..I had been oblivious to the street commotions of busses and taxis turning round, bomb squad cars, police sirens and ambulances as I was underground opposite in Top Shop, only when I had taken the shop escalator to the street was I aware of what was going on, sheer mayhem...I was there as it came live, on our 6.pm tv news...The police ushered me up to Bond Street where I took the tube which did not stop at Oxford Circus but carried on to Tottenham Court Road, where I got off and changed over to another tube train, as the train sped through, I prayed, " if there is a bomb, please dont go off yet " at that time I had no Idea as to whether the bomb was live or a bomb hoax...

13 February 1976: A 30-pound (14 kg) bomb was found in a small case at Oxford Circus station and was defused...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Janet

Oh my, Jackie!  Seems a lot is happening in your world today!  Earlier, when I read your first post, I was about to ask if you had some head phones and could listen to music,
to drown out the noise, but then the next post said they had stopped the digging.  So sorry about yet another terrorist attack in London.  Terrible!  And yet there are so many people here who just want to allow anybody to come into our country!  If we do, soon we will be being attacked weekly!  I am all for border security!

Beth seems to be almost back to her "usual" for Beth, though she is still very weak.  I feel confident she will be all right while we are away.  Thank God for her courage and determination!

Larry, good to read you're feeling better!  I am, too.  Stretching exercises, plus a chiropractic adjustment plus an ice pack on my neck plus a good night's sleep and I'm feeling like myself again!
God is so good!

Carol, are you going to spend the winter in Arizona again? 

Time to think about lunch!
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Larry Hanna

#188
Hi everyone. It is another clear and sunny day up this way and we will probably get to 90 degrees this afternoon although we are starting the day in the 60's.  This morning I plan on attending a meeting and then stopping at Aldi's to get a few items.  Later this afternoon and evening I will watch some college football.  Yesterday afternoon Jennifer came over and had dinner with us and  spent the evening.  She played a game called Farkle with her grandmother. 

Jackie, they had the London bombing on the evening news here.  It is terrible that people want to hurt and kill people they have never seen before.  You certainly had a close call with the IRA bombing.  Where I live our streets are owned by the city or the county or are State roads.  The only roads owned by the Federal Government are on public lands.  I hope they have finished up the work outside your home. 

Carol,  this next Thursday we have another chain like the Aldi's opening here in North Augusta.  It is Lidl's and is a German owned chain.  They opened two other stores in Augusta two days ago. 

Janet, glad that Beth is back to usual and hope she can maintain that for a long time.  Nice to see you are feeling like yourself again so you will be able to enjoy your trip.

I just watched this short video made from one of Paul Harvey's commentaries and felt it was worth sharing as he hits the nail right on the head.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Az0okaHig&feature=player_embedded

Jacqueline

#189
Larry Hanna...
...seems like the work is finished, they have now moved down to the bottom, guess again, they never found what they were looking for...

Re, yesterdays train bomb incident, I haven't caught up with today's news, so not sure whether he-she has been found-caught yet...I sure hope so...although if the information on my computer screen page is correct, they have arrested an 18 year old male...

Larry, not heard of that game of " Farkle " but I do have on order a VERY " expensive " game of Scrabble that should be here very soon...I decided on this particular one as the one I recently bought was cheap and flimsy and the pieces keep sliding off...more hassle than it is worth...
Richard thinks I have flipped  :idiot: but, I told him..." I know what I am doing..."  after he found out how much it is costing him...well it is leather...and should last our lifetime...however long that may be...

( Scrabble - Luxury edition (English) )

We both enjoyed ourselves last night...we never played for prizes, of course our group of three never won but we never embarrassed ourselves either, not too sure where we came, we didn't come last...our evening ended with a couple of our senior gatherings volunteers making teas, coffees and bringing some plates of mixed biscuits in...Before the quiz game was started, one lady who like me uses a rollator ( Arthritis ) was our host with the questions and answers, but first she gave out notices, such as a couple of our usual team are in hospital and send their wishes to us, although we personally dont know these members...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

Janet: Have a pleasant trip and enjoy the peace of knowing who is really in control.  We will come home for at least one of the holidays - to answer your question.

It is a really Fall day here and the house is chilly.  I am in my usual flannel shirt for this time of the year.  I have a call in for our neighbor and something is amiss - will check on her later.  Her DIL is staying the next two weeks while our friend recuperates from hand surgery - while her husband is in care at a nursing center.  Some people have tremendous loads - just as many in here have as well.

Don is working on getting electronic stuff fixed.  There is smoke from Montana - huge fires as well as a report that another area in Montana is having a 2-month early snowfall.   :coffee:

Has anyone heard from Big Sky Ken?  Is he alright?

Jackie:  Your note of an evening of visiting and Scrabble is so nice - good to have friends.  Glad that there was an arrest -




Jeanne Lee

Where is everybody?  Has there been a problem getting in here?
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Jeanne Lee

Hi, Pat.  I hope you're feeling a little better.

I wrote to Michael - there's been nothing except us (admin access) since yesterday morning.  That's not normal.
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Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, ladies,

I had no difficulty getting in to read and post tonight.

Sorry the others haven't been able to come here today.

I'm grateful I'm moving around and sister in law still seems to be doing fine.

Y'all have a good rest of the day.

Love to all,
Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Jeanne Lee

Good evening, Ruth Ann!  I'm glad to see a post from you.  Maybe whatever the glitch was has been fixed and we'll get some news from other people now.

Glad to see you're still "moving around" and your sister-in-law is coming along.
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Jeanne Lee

Past my bedtime and I have a Dr. appointment tomorrow so I'm going to shut down and I'll check in tomorrow.

Good night and God bless.
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Jacqueline

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I am here, no problems-glitches, yesterday, just nothing in particular to report in about...

Jeanne Lee...
... how did you get on with your Scan, I remember your next one is-was due September or has that not taken place yet?

My guess is Larry Hanna's post slipped his mind as I noticed he had made a brief posting on S & Fs yesterday, so I know he is ok...I was concerned with no posting from him in here, which for Larry, is unusual..

Pat-Ruth Ann... :wave:

Oh no not again, just heard some outside noise and peeped through our kitchen blinds, the road digger is back outside our front of home and the time is just touching 8.20am..the last few days it was happily sitting somewhere down the bottom of our parkhome slope..
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is another beautiful morning with no chance of rain today.  We are to get only into the mid-80's.  My calendar is clear for today.  We may go to the shoe store so Pat can get a new pair of shoes. 

I did go to Sunday School and Church yesterday but didn't bring home lunch as Pat said it hadn't been very long since she had breakfast and I knew we had plenty here to make a sandwich. Last evening we did go to the Dairy Queen and had our meal out for Sunday. I watched very little football and no golf yesterday as just wasn't in the mood.  I guess it just wasn't a sports weekend for me.

Jeanne, I must have goofed in getting my posting actually send as I did write yesterday as the system seemed to be working fine when I was here yesterday morning.  It seems the older I get the more little things like that seem to be happening.  However, in the big scheme of things it really isn't very important and I will try to be more careful and be sure my posting appears today. 

Hi Pat.  As Jeanne commented I also hope you are having better days.  I know it has been very long journey for you dealing with the pain and all that goes with it. 

Ruth Ann, glad your SIL is doing fine.  My lack of posting yesterday was an "operator error".  :)

Jackie, I didn't forget to post but apparently forgot to click on the "Post" icon and didn't notice it hadn't been recorded.  I actually wrote to all who had posted since the day before including you and Carol.  It sounds like the diggers were told to go back and try to find whatever it is they were looking for.

Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

I'll be here for just a brief comment this morning.

Quarterly inspections are going on in our apartments beginning today. Naturally there are a few more things I want to do before they 'come knocking. :)

Y'all have a good day.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Marilyn

Hi everyone I have been here to read and now I am posting really short because I am going to the nursing home to visit my friend then on to my Tai Chi class
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jeanne Lee

Looks like we're back to normal.    ;)

This afternoon I had an appointment with the doctor about the CT scan last week.  The good news is that the spot on my lung had not grown in two months, which means it is not cancer.  And the lymphoma had also remained unchanged.  So this was a good afternoon with prayers answered.  Praise our wonderful Lord.  :thumbsup:
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Jacqueline

Jeanne Lee...
...that is a big weight off your mind, or shoulders, whichever way you look at it...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. We have an overcast morning and will be in the low 90's this afternoon.  This morning Pat and I will go to a specialty shoe shop so she can get a new pair of shoes (obviously we didn't make it yesterday).  Following that we will eat our main meal of the day at a restaurant called "Honey on the Rock" that is owned by a ministry here in the area.  Pat has eaten there several times but this will be my first time.  Our granddaughter came over and had dinner with us last evening and then the ladies played the Farkle game.  Pat fixed a good meal.  I think she plans to come over again this evening to continue to games and have a light supper with Pat.  I am sure after a big lunch I won't want any supper.  Scott missed work yesterday at the direction of his doctor as he had a sore throat and swollen gland in his neck.  Apparently there is a viral something going around this area.  As he sees the public six nights a week he likely picked it up at work.  He hopes to feel up to working today as this is really their busy day as they have an evening buffet on Tuesday's. 

Ruth Ann, hope you inspections go well. 

Marilyn, it sounds like you had a busy day yesterday.  I bet your friend was happy for the visit. 

Jeanne, that was indeed good and positive news from your doctor.  Prayers work. 

Jackie, good morning.  I hope this will be a reasonably good day for you.  Are they still digging outside your house?

Jacqueline

Larry Hanna...
...isnt it brilliant, I can google map your restaurant and Whole Life Ministries...it is a long green and white double building...I can sit comfortable in my tiny office in UK and visit the outside world where you and Pat will be eating today...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

Jeanne: Wonderful news on your check-up. 

I needed to read some good news - I am about to visit our neighbor who is recovering from hand/ elbow surgery finally done after waiting months from a fall on ice.  Her husband is in care right now - and we have not been able to visit since Don has a cold.  I was afraid of passing it on since I couldn't tell if I was catching the cold either.  The headache I have I think are just allergies.  It is too dry here.  Red Flag warnings all over the state for fire alerts. 

Our oldest son is visiting tonight as he has an early morning flight tomorrow.  It will be nice to see him and visit.  I am going to the store to find fixings for soup or something easy.  Walmart has messed up my prescriptions one more time.  Between the doctor's staff and them - I cannot count the times this has happened.  Once again.  It is cool this morning and I am wearing a new sweater present from Don - it is an Alpaca sweater from Peru.  Nice and softer than wool.  It looks like a denim color and now there is a yarn supposedly like a denim so I will try to find it and perhaps make a scarf.  Church always has a cool breeze going so sitting for an hour is downright uncomfortable at times. 

We attended an old church in Minnesota on our visit and it is a replica of the Scandinavian stave church   made of all wood.  The pews had slats for seats and were so uncomfortable but realistic.   It does keep one alert and happy to stand for a song or prayer. 

Jeanne Lee

Does the name "Hannah Manderson " mean anything to anyone?
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Jacqueline

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Jeanne Lee..
...NO, not to me, but, this was something I found under that name...

Now I am inquisitive as to why you are asking? and on S & Fs...

https://www.1418now.org.uk/somme100/gallery/hannah-manderson-medical-staff-somme
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

Jackie, I received an email from that name with the subject "photos" and no other information.  That person is not registered either here or S&F and I need to know it's legitimate before I open it.  One more day without identification and I'll delete it.
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Carol

Jeanne Lee:  Isn't it terrible that we have to worry about a hack or theft of information when something unknown comes in the mail? 

Watched the damage in Mexico, watching the storm in Puerto Rico and also ready of the massive problems with migrants in Sweden (too much too soon).  Not in our hands -


Jacqueline

#210
Jeanne Lee...
...wont hovering your cursor over - above it, ( don't press or click on it ) should Identify its source, by looking at the bottom corner of your screen...if in doubt delete...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

Jackie, that was one of the first things I did - no help.   :)   I just thought it might be someone with a unique ID that I dont recognize.
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Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. The day starts out overcast and we are headed to about 90 degrees again this afternoon with a 20% chance of some rain.  I got up this morning, showered and shaved and got partially dressed and laid back down with the head of the bed raised and read my email, devotionals and other readings I do each day.  I also read through all of the postings in the five discussions I follow each day. This seems to be becoming a habit as I am awake but not really ready to get up and start the day.  So it was about 8:15 before got out into the kitchen to start those duties.   

The main activity for today will be going to the dinner at Church this evening and then we will stop by Walmart to pick up an online order.  Yesterday in the paper I read that starting tomorrow there is a delivery to home service that will be instituted for our area.  It will have a $5.95 charge or you could get a yearly membership.  While we don't need this service now the time may come when it will be needed so was really happy to see that the service will be available. 

Yesterday Pat was able to find a new pair of shoes.  She is very hard to fit.  Following that we did go to the Honey on the Rock restaurant.  The meal was excellent and the surrounding very nice.  I was very impressed as a Bible  was on each table. I ended the meal with a big piece of pineapple chiffon pie that was delicious and Pat had their banana pudding.  We will definitely go back.  They offered a full or half portion meals, which was plenty of food for us and left space for the pie and banana pudding.

Jackie, it is amazing what you can do with Google maps and the ability to see buildings and homes.  The restaurant is a separate building at the street end of the big building of the Whole Life Ministries.  I just looked this Ministry up and see it is a full Gospel non-denominational Church. 

Carol, I hope you were able to visit your neighbor yesterday.  Sorry to read that your have many red flag warnings out in your state now.  So far we have not had any problems with Walmart messing up our prescriptions.  That sounds like an interesting old church in Minnesota.  I guess the uncomfortable pews would help people stay awake.  I prefer pews with cushions myself.  :0  This is going to be a year probably long remembered for the hurricanes and earthquakes.  I had the Weather Channel on this morning and they showed what is happening in Puerto Rico this morning. 

Jeanne, that name has no meaning to me. In recent weeks I have gotten a repeated email from someone I know what the email subject line looked strange and I didn't open it. Since I had this persons email address I did email her and asked if she had sent me anything and she said no.  So I have deleted it each time it has appeared. 


Jacqueline

#213
Not long home from a church mid day luncheon run by another church's volunteers...although told that they are not the regular meal volunteers, so not so good...I was rather full up with small breakfast of berries and muesli two hours before we left for our 20 minute journey, so not really hungry for a meal and ice cream with lemon cheesecake, I have to admit I enjoyed the cheesecake more than I enjoyed our only choice of lamb, peas, sliced carrot and baked potato, more lik a small Sunday roast...our meal donations went to the Air Ambulance...

Jeanne Lee...
...I knew you were on the ball... :thumbsup:

Larry Hanna...
...now that is Impressive, a restaurant with a bible on each table...Before our meal today we started off saying Grace, not something Richard is used to...he is only interested in the food in front of him...This was held in the large opening foyer before the church with a partition separating...but sadly no Bible was in site...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

As I am going about my way this morning in the kitchen preparing our Toby's dinner, I found myself mumbling to myself, or to Toby...that I have to give thanks for what we once had...and for what we now have left...not too sure how that came to my mind, but it did... ;D
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like today will be a repeat of yesterday in terms of the weather with a high around 90 degrees.  This being Thursday I will pick up my friend and take him to coffee this morning.  On my way I will make quick stop at Walmart to pick up a prescription and a couple of other things. I doubt I will try to attend the Wisdom class today as have been tired all week and today starts the same.  There is nothing else on the schedule for today.  We did have a nice dinner at Church last evening and then Jennifer came out and played Farkle with Pat for a couple of hours. Scott had traded work days with someone on the day he was sick so he was working last evening and couldn't be with us.

Jackie, nice you could attend the luncheon as it gave you a chance to get out of the house and met other folks.  Ice cream and cheesecake would top off any meal.  I think I have eaten lamb only once or twice in my lifetime. I am sure sitting through Grace at a meal won't hurt Richard.  At our evening meal at Church the little children go up on the stage and do a little singing Grace before the meal.  They love doing it and the group is quite large this year.  Making or thinking a gratitude list helps us focus on the many blessing we have.  I think about the people in the recent hurricane, and especially those in Pureto Rico where the whole island with 3 1/2 million people are without power and the people who have lost their homes and many probably their jobs and I realize how grateful I am for my life.   

Jacqueline

Larry Hanna...
...totally agree with you...we-anyone of us on our forum could have been born in a trouble torn Country...many's the time I sit on a comfortable sofa in a warm and comfortable home with a roof, watching our world wide news and thinking how lucky I am to be where I am and not where they are...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

I agree, too, Jackie, except that I don't consider it luck, but God's blessings.   :thumbsup:
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Jacqueline

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Jeanne Lee...
..so right, I will swap that word lucky for blessed also...which ever it is we give praise and thanks...when we think that our own life could be so so different...

Larry Hanna...
...In hindsight I got that wrong...it wasn't lamb it was pork...the lady opposite me said her piece wasn't cooked properly, it was on the pinkish side so had it returned then replaced...I found the same, I only ate half but Richard finished mine off with no problem...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

Wondering when Janet returns and how Beth is faring this week. 

I fell asleep in the chair and Don dropped something so now I am contemplating whether to take a real nap or do something more important.   ;)

Marilyn

Good afternoon from the west coast. Freckles and I went visiting at the hospital today. We took the 4th floor with another team. Yesterday we went to the nursing/residential home around the corner and then in the afternoon I visited a friend from church who is in the rehab place not far from here.

Our weather has been on again off again ran for this past week, I am hoping for some better walking weather as I miss my walking with Freckles several times per day. I have started cooking for freckles, that way she is not getting all the preservatives or fillers that are added to commercial dog food. I am trying to keep her healthy and give her a long life. I also give her Fish oil, Vitamin E and Glucosamine/Chondroitin daily. She gets Blueberries in her breakfast meal and Dried cranberries in her evening meal. Well, enough about Freckles.

We are doing well and will be making another trip up to Portland to the Eye Institute for Keith to see the neuro-ophthalmologist in October. The Aricept seems to be helping him too with his memory. I still say it is the little things that I notice on a daily basis that are not right.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jacqueline

Marilyn...
...I can recommend " Lily's Kitchen " dog food, this is what I feed - fed my dogs on...I notice you can order it from Amazon.com...these food have meat and veg, berries and herbs and other goodness that dogs would eat in the wild...It is one of the dearer and top branded dog foods here in UK...This is just a suggestion..
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. Another sunny morning and again headed into the low 90's on this first day of Fall.  We do have a 40% chance of some isolated thunderstorms this afternoon. This is the day for our housekeeper to be here and I anticipate we will go out for our big meal today around noon as we usually do on housecleaning day.  Yesterday Pat made a Mexican soup and this morning some brownies and we are taking some of each over to a member of our Sunday School class who is laid up with a cracked hip and has been ordered to keep all weight off of it for a couple of months in hopes it will heal.  Nothing else on the schedule for today. 

Our granddaughter came over again yesterday afternoon and fixed sloppy Joe's for our dinner last night.  She and Pat got in a few games of Farkle as well. So far this morning I am feeling much less tired than I have all week for which I am grateful.

Jackie, although we all have our own problems we are very fortunate to live where we do.  We had just the opposite of the not fully cooked pork at our Wednesday night dinner when it was probably overcooked and thus had become a bit tough.  However, I will take that to under cooked any day. 

Jeanne, you are so right that these are blessings from God and we need to remember to thank him for them every day.

Carol, I have been thinking about Janet and Darrel and Beth this week also.  I do hope Janet and Darrel have an enjoyable week.  It sounds like Don may be like me that when I try to be very quiet if Pat is napping or still asleep in bed I seem to do something that makes noise. 

Marilyn, it sounds like you have been kept busy doing kind things for others with your hospital visits and visiting your friend from Church.  It sounds like you are taking very good care of Freckles.  I do hope the Aricept continue to extend good days for Keith.     

Carol

It is sunny and most probably one of the last warm/hot days of this year.  It is so unusual to have hot days  into this month.  We did visit our dear neighbor last night - she is recovering from surgery for three places on her arm and hand.  For two weeks now, one of the children has been taking care of her while her husband has been in a care home.  The 2nd. son will drive from Texas coming up the soon.  She asked me to fix some hems on newly ordered slacks so I can do that little bit.  I am going to take her to visit a mutual friend sometime soon.   Her very caring and lovely family is all involved in  as well as grandchildren come to help.  It surely speaks to the gifts from raising children in the words of the Lord.

Larry:  Taco soup - that would be nice on a snow day.  I plan a beef stew for tonight and now make it in a crock pot after browning the meat.  Today is still a warm day but the weather people lied again and said this would be really cool.  Time to get moving -it is late.  I did my exercise and now back to real life.   

Jeanne Lee

This has been an "interesting" morning.

First, the cable went off completely, including the internet.  Only for a couple  minutes, then after 5 minutes off again for about 10 minutes.

A half hour later, the power went off - first for just a few seconds, then for about 45 minutes.  Thank God for those tall cans of auxiliary oxygen, and I was able to hook up to one very easily.  The only other problem with no power, at least in summer, is no water.  You can imagine what that could mean with an extended outage.  But at this point, all is well. Thank God
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Jacqueline

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Jeanne Lee...
...oh isn't it typical, when one bad thing happens it all happens together...I am not sure which is worse, a long power-cut or a one minute power-cut, which we tend to get, then its going around the home while resetting everything...

...oh that is an annoyance that you have the extra worry of your oxygen supply, which I was unaware you were on...

This evening I-we have our social evening, which is I believe to do with the church although not all faces I am seeing at the social do, the lunchtime meal and the morning tea-cake and biscuits we had attended, dont all attend the church...One lady who sat beside me at our recent lunchtime meal attends another church and tonight she wont be attending as she attends a singing-choir session...I told her I would love to come and join her but I dont have a singing voice...

Not sure if tonight we are playing beetle drive or 20 questions, whichever one it is, I will need to take my brain along... ;D
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

Well that was a fun night, we both really enjoyed ourselves...there must have been 30 to 40 of us seniors, with the exception of a lovely young pair, not sure if they are married or boyfriend and girlfriend but a very young pair of students over here from Taiwan learning English...Strangely the girl sat next to me the boyfriend took the last seat the other end of the round set of tables as they were the last people to arrive, so got separated, so I got to speak to her and we laughed and helped each other with the rules and playing of the game and cheered each other on as we got the roll of the dice to add another piece of the beetle, its body, its head, six legs, tail and antennas-feelers and eyes, it was very fast moving around the table with the seven or eight dice's that were being passed around..no sooner had we thrown number one dice, it was then turn of number two, then three, four and so on...I had beginners luck and got all pieces of my first beetle drive game, so had to call out, only I had forgotten what it was I was meant to call out, then after several non stop games we totalled up our points...I had high points but was not the outright winner, no prizes of course, just pure fun all round...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Marilyn

Jackie, my Freckles is on a low-fat, grain-free diet.  Her dry food only has 7.5& crude fat and she only gets ? cup of that, then I add ? Cup of the food I have prepared for her so the total calories is only 275 per meal. She gets 55o calories per day. This is to maintain a healthy weight of under 35 pounds. We are trying to get her down to 32 pounds at the most. That is what her Veterinarian has recommended, although,  I have just started cooking for her.
Here is the recipe.

3 pounds ground turkey
1 pkg frozen peas and carrots,
1 can unsalted Black Beans
Then I cook 1 cup brown rice and let that cool before I add it to the meat mixture.
It make 12 cups of food or 24 servings for Freckles.

I can add other vegetables such as any kind of unsalted beans, spinach, broccoli, string beans, or sweet potatoes. But I haven't done that yet. I have to go to a website and figure how may calories and how much protein is in what I have prepared.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jacqueline

Marilyn...
...Lily's Kitchen do some grain free dry foods....not sure of the calorie intakes...
...I cant believe our Toby is now on " Senior " food...he will be seven November but I have already started him on it, both tinned and dry food, so limits the rest of their varieties for adults, thankfully he enjoys the Senior foods and laps them up...

Well now the weather temps are turning colder I seem to be sleeping an hour or two later, which of course is good, although I still get up through the night for my loo visits.... 
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It looks like we will have a mostly sunny day today getting up to around 90 degrees this afternoon with no chance of rain.  Yesterday afternoon we had a lot of thunder and severe thunderstorm warnings but ended up getting no rain.

I awoke at 4:30 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep.  I laid there for about 90 minutes and then decided to get up and get my day started.  I expect today to be a pretty quiet one.  I do plan on going to my weekly meeting around 10:30 this morning and that will likely be it.  Yesterday morning we took the soup and dessert Pat had prepared to our friend from Church that I mentioned yesterday and we had a nice visit with her for 30-45 minutes.  Then we went from there to the BBQ Barn and had a big main meal for the day and so we didn't have to mess up the kitchen on housecleaning day.  By the time we got home it was almost 2 pm and I laid down to rest for a couple of hours and then had a quiet rest of the day. 

Carol, your neighbor is fortunate to have you all as caring neighbors.  It sounds like her family is also very caring and is looking after her in this time of great need that she is experiencing.  I haven't tasted the soup yet but will probably get it for dinner tonight if there was enough left.  It apparently was very simple to make with only 4 ingredients and all cooked in the crock pot. 

Jeanne, glad you were able to hook up to the auxiliary oxygen.  Is that the first time you have had to do so?  Do you keep extra bottled water on hand in case of an emergency.  I did buy six gallon of water in preparation for Hurricane Irma but we didn't lose the water during the short power outage we had.  It will keep for many months and I have a place to store it in my garage.  We also keep some small bottles of water on hand. Sure glad you didn't have any problems during the outage.   

Jackie, I see your social evening last night was  enjoyable. It sounds like Richard is also enjoying these events. Sure nice to read that you are now being able to have more social contact with folks as this is how we are able to gain new friends.  Winning prizes    is certainly not the main benefit  we get out of playing games but fun to have the high points.  It was nice that the young lady from Taiwan sat next to you and you were able to help each other with the game.

Marilyn, I must say you and Jackie are really taking excellent care of Freckles and Toby by preparing or buying the special foods. 

Carol

Fall season arrived today and the house was at 66 degrees this morning - fresh.  We like cool sleeping but I did touch the heat later for we are not doing much activity today.  Don is taking a nap - he is really 'all in" with this head cold. 

Larry;  Those early awakening are hard to deal with later in the day.  After years of rising at least by 5:30 AM, it still hits me that I might as well get up and start something.  Usually, I first read some devotions then go downstairs to the treadmill or walk outdoors (meeting everyone who has a dog).  How is your friend from church? This is the best caring neighborhood we have lived in - we call it a blessing to be here. 

We watched a video on the state of Idaho and even though we have driven through it many times, we certainly did not know of all the beautiful wonders.  Makes us think about a trip to Idaho and going to the north side for a change. 

Jeanne Lee:  You are smart to have extra oxygen and other supplies on hand.  It doesn't take much for power to go out and sometimes takes hours or more to get it back on. 

Washing clothes and being thankful for dryers being invented.  Dish washers too. 

Marilyn:  Do you grind your own ground chicken?  I buy the larger pieces and use some for dishes or saute alone and also grind the big pieces and it saves $ to do that - only takes a minute.  Sounds like fresh food for the doggies. 


Marilyn

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Carol, I buy the  Organic ground turkey at the Grocery Outlet.
I think some of the fires are still burning but not much is said on the news lately with the hurricanes and the earthquakes in Mexico.
We are having decent weather here on the coast no smoke here.
I have been on the run today and I am so tired. I had Keith rub my feet for me and that part feels somewhat better. We had tires installed on my car this morning and they messed up the check by putting in the wrong amount. So we had to come back home to get another check. We had done our grocery shopping while the tires were being put on so back we go with the other check, Come home unloaded and put away the groceries. rushed out to the Fire Department to take part in the disaster Awareness program representing Furry Friends. After 1 pm when I got home, fixed lunch for Keith ( I ate at the FD) took freckles for her first walk of the day. Keith hadn't even taken her out to pee. So here I am now. Tired Mama.to say the least.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jacqueline

Be leaving for church in 30 minutes, by the time you all read this, I will have been to church and be back home...Well not sure how I am feeling, as as usual, I look normal on the outside ( my invisible deteriorating-debilitating, MS illness) but only I am aware of the feelings and what is going on, on the inside, the list is too long for me to go through...Although I see my eyes show I am not a well person...even behind the smiles and laughter...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. It is another beautiful and sunny Sunday morning here in South Carolina and our temperatures are only to get to the mid-80's today.  I expect this to be our typical Sunday except we will not go out to lunch after Sunday School and Church.  We have some left-overs in the refrigerator that need to be eaten so will just come home and have lunch.  After resting awhile this afternoon I will probably watch a little football and keep my eye on the golf match. 

Carol, sorry to hear that Don is still fighting the cold.  If you are referring to the lady we took the soup to we found her much improved as she was considering driving her car to do something yesterday or today.  She has to use a walker but seems to be doing well.  I think every State has much beauty and we often are not aware of it as if we take a trip it is usually to a few places in another State and then it is usually to only one or two places.  I still remember the beauty of the mountains and arriving in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho about five o'clock in the evening and driving around a most beautiful lake.  It was spectacular. 

Marilyn, glad to see that smoke has cleared your area.  It sounds like you had a very busy day yesterday.  I hope you can have a more restful today. 

Jackie, isn't it wonderful that God gives us the ability to smile and laugh even when we don't feel well.  I hope you enjoyed your Church service this morning.

Jacqueline

Larry Hanna...
...yes I did, we have a large screen in front for singing to, so dont need to bend my head low into a Hymn book, nor need my glasses, so much better when we hold our heads higher, and the Hymns are more joyful, and happier at this church...It is not a " happy clappy " church but a handful of parishioners do often raise up one hand-arm high in the air, as they are joyfully singing...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

Well I am glad I woke up to my favourite sound of Blackbird this morning...more than I can say for other parkhome site neighbours...once again for the second or third week we have the road digging machine outside our home, clanking and banging, last week it was somewhere middle of the slope, previously at the bottom, think they must be digging up our road, laying pipes, have no clue what they are doing...just that once again it has become very noisy outside, and the time is only 8.15 am....
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

#236
I stand corrected, we now have two machines digging and moving rubble into a piled heap, outside our  window...I am just making my breakfast porridge with blueberries and honey, so I doubt I shall be eating it in peace...as for Richard it has gone 9.10am and he is still curled up under his duvet...then he will as usual spend half hour to 40 minutes inside his bathroom before he finally emerges back to his bedroom to get dressed and count out his medications...followed by counting out his loose change in his dish on his dressing table, so as to make sure the " fairies  " never took any through the night...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone. The forecast is for partly cloudy all day long with a high in the upper 80's.  I expect to enjoy a very quiet day as have nothing on my calendar.  I am sure I will find something to keep me busy today.  We enjoyed attending our Sunday School class yesterday and then had a fine Church service. 

I was very saddened yesterday evening when I read of the man attacking the church service in Nashville, killing one and injuring several others. 

Jackie, I have attended Church services where the words to the hymns were projected onto a screen and I think this is also quite common in the contemporary type of Church services.  For the last couple of years I have been using an app on my iPhone that has all of the words of the hymns for the hymn book we use.  I have found the hymn book we have to be very heavy and so I can easily hold my iPhone up where I can read the words without having my head down.  However, yesterday when I went to load the app I found it is not compatible with the new operating system that was released a few days ago by Apple.  So it is back to the hymn book, which I need to rest on the back of the pew and thus have to keep my head down.  It sounds like you are in for another noisy day with the diggers outside your home.  I guess we all follow certain routines each day as you indicate Richard does.   

Carol

Happy Monday morning to all and have a good night to Jackie!  It is 66* F inside  even with the furnace on - we keep it at that for nighttime.  Low 40's outdoors. 

Marilyn:  Glad to hear the smoke has somewhat abated for your part of the country.  Here, it is clear now and snow will put out some of the fires. 








Jacqueline

They say laughter is our best medicine...

Then Laugh - by Bertha Adams Backus...

Build for yourself a strong box,
Fashion each part with care;
When it's strong as your hand can make it,
Put all your troubles there;
Hide there all thought of your failures,
And each bitter cup that you quaff;
Lock all your heartaches within it,
Then sit on the lid and laugh.

Tell no one else its contents,
Never its secrets share;
When you've dropped in your care and worry
Keep them forever there;
Hide them from sight so completely
That the world will never dream half;
Fasten the strong box securely-
Then sit on the lid and laugh.


" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

It's a pretty day here in Nashville.

Yes, Larry, the shootings was the first such incident in Nashville's history. Based on the strange comments in the shooter's Facebook account, he must have been having some emotional or mental issues. It truly is a blessing to hear of gatherings in churches and schools to pray for the victims. Prayers help.

Y'all have a good rest of the day.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Janet

HONEY, I'm home!!!!   :D
We arrived about six last evening, and I started immediately on the laundry, so this morning when I got up at 5, it wasn't long until I had it all done!

Next on my agenda was visiting Beth.  She was still in bed, but awake, happy to see me, gave me a big smile!  I stood by her bed for a long time, talking to her and showing her photos on my phone from the trip; until the girls came in to get her up.  They called another nurse in to do a skin assessment, as she has places very near to becoming sores, also several neurofibromas that have broken open and are bleeding.  Sigh....  Before  they finished, there were five ladies in the room:  two RNs, the one who checks her skin, and two CNAs.  Bless them; they do take good care of Beth.

Beth is still weak, and so painfully thin!  It hurts to see her like this.  She will be assessed for Hospice this week.  Still has the C-diff, not a good thing at all, so still is in isolation.  John wasn't there, but I saw his car there as I was leaving, just didn't see him.

We did have a good time, and I was in daily contact with the nursing home as to Beth's condition.The Ark Encounter is amazing!  It is so well done, so biblically correct, very educational, encouraging,
and a wonderful testimony of the love of God.  I highly recommend it.  And, since you have been talking about googling things, google The Ark Encounter.  There are some great videos of it on line.

Of course I have a lot of things to do, playing 'catch up" so I'd best be about doing some of them!
Thanks for thinking of us and Beth, and for your prayers, the best gift anyone can give--or get!
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Jacqueline

" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

Oh, not again, just touching 8.05 and the road drillers have already started up, outside our home again, wouldn't have been so bad if our site manager had notified us that this work was soon taking place and apologising for the noise in advance, but we had no previous notification...think we are into our third week...As my late father often would say...." there's no peace for the wicked..."
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

#244
Now dont you all agree? isn't it nice of Richard to TELL me the road outside is wide enough for me to walk..( wish I could show you a photo of the rubble dug up, and now the large wide pipe - tube, running alongside of it, and its machinery... ) he is able bodied and he believes, if its ok for him, it is ok for me with my Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis...not forgetting manoeuvring my  4 wheeled rollator...until the day he walks in my shoes... :ticked:
Oh for the last week or two he has been tinkering around doing some outside gardening but, when I mentioned yesterday if he has cleared back the shrubs from the path I have to lift my rollator to get over, without killing and squashing them, some are squashed already...he said NO... thought that would have been his number one priority....my safety... :ticked:
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi everyone.  We are headed back into the low 90's for today. Our Senior Adult Monthly luncheons resume today after the summer break.  Our speaker today is a lady involved with the rescue dogs and I understand we will be having several of those dogs also in attendance.  If the menu is the same as we had last year we will be having soup and a sandwich for our lunch.  I can't remember whether there is a dessert served or not but we can always have an apple or banana to take home.  That is all that is on the schedule for today.

Jackie, I liked your laughter piece as it is good advice.  Unfortunately most of us fail to head such wisdom and perhaps forget to put the lid on the box and sit on it and laugh. I hope they get the road work finished soon and your peace and quiet restored.  It sounds like trying to walk on the roadway would be very dangerous for you.   

Ruth Ann, I saw on the news that the young man had attended that Church.  We never know what goes on in the mind of someone. I hope you will have a good day today.

Janet, glad to see you are back safely from your trip and it sound like you immediately started working again. I am sure Beth was happy to see you. I sure hope she doesn't develop bed sores as she certainly doesn't need anything else to add to her discomfort.   

Jacqueline

#246
Larry Hanna...
...there have been, there still are two types of driven machinery, one a digger the other a Caterpillar type machine, one of the machines sat right across the end of my driveway, blocking my way if I was to venture out my front...but hey ho, Richard would be able to maneuver it... :thumbsup:

I doubt he has even made them aware there is a disabled lady stuck inside this home...Oh I can go out the backway, if I could maneuver those 7 or 8 concrete steps carrying my rollator up them, only problem would be, where do I go from there, from the car parking bay...only to the car...Photo...


" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

Janet:  Glad you are home safely and Beth has been cared for - so glad it all worked out for you to get away.  I'll check out your site on the ark exhibit. 

Ruth Ann:  It is such a shock to the community and especially the church members to have such a tragedy.  I remember a pastor's son damaging the interior of his own church and no one could understand that either. 

Tonight, Don has cribbage pals over while I just walk down the street to my quilting group this time.  It is easy for the guys like to nibble on nuts, and so forth so there is no baking.  We gals have ice cream and fruit or something baked.  More calories for us. 


Janet

How quickly things can change!  I know all of you have experienced this.
When I left the care home after second visit yesterday, Beth seemed pretty good; one hour later the RN called and said I probably should come back!  Beth was groaning, her legs were very cold, and her color bad.  I went; and stayed with her for five hours, stroking her brow, singing to her, praying for her,
and reading to her.  John left around 8:30, but I stayed until 10:30, when she finally settled down,
stopped groaning and was ready to go to sleep.  I asked her if she wanted me to stay the night, she said no, I asked if it was all right for me to go home, she said yes.

Today the hospice nurse came, and we had all that paperwork to do, then she assessed Beth.  Knowing they deal with people all the time who are nearing the end of their journey, I asked what her best guesstimate would be for Beth, because the planned trip to visit Mark is coming up in a week.  She advised us not to go, to postpone that, if possible.

I am heartbroken, crying many tears, and yet knowing that my precious daughter, who has suffered so much in life will soon be set free!  I cannot wish her to remain and endure more.  Much better she be set free to run on those streets of gold, and anyway, I will be joining her in just a blink of time!

Prayers for strength appreciated.  And please pray for John.  He is not accepting the reality of the situation at all.

I will try to keep you posted.  Love to you all.
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Jacqueline

Janet...
...sadly the danger in asking that question is hearing the answer...sending a group hug, with God standing right there in the centre... :grouphug:
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

Janet, I'm sure you know that Beth has been in my prayers over the years sence we "met", along with you and the family. 

Since I've been unable to get to church the last couple of years I've been sending Sunday mornings with several of the great preachers God has provided on TV.  This past Sunday, in the middle of one of those preachers I suddenly felt a heavy burden for Beth.  It brought me as close to my knees as I can get these days. 

Then you came home and let us know how well she seemed to be doing.  I want you to know  I have continued to feel that burden and I have been saying special prayers at various extra odd times during the days and wakeful spells at night.   Asking for peace and comfort for Beth and for the Lord's peace and His strength for you.

May God bless you all. 
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Oh, dear Janet....

I'm so very saddened to know how sad you must be.  Please know that you'll be in my prayers during this very sad time.

Please look after yourself.

Love to both you and Darrel and also to John

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Marilyn

Janet, I will continue to bombard heaven with my prayers for Beth and add you and Darrell to those prayers.  I've worked with hospice patients in California and I am a Hospice volunteer here as well. I know that she will be kept comfortable and that you can trust them to take good care of Beth.

Pat, it is so good to see your post.
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Carol

Janet:  Something told me to check in here twice today.  Just remember that Beth has an inspiring story to tell.  I send you prayers for strength and peace.   

Janice

Janet, I am so sorry that the outlook for Beth is so dire. It is so hard for us to lose our child.  My son passed away at age 50.  The autopsy was very slow coming so we did not know what happened for months.  Turns out he had a stroke.  I am praying for you and John as well as for Beth herself.  May she feel peace and contentment looking forward to her joining with Jesus in Heaven. Love you, Janet. Not to worry about anything unfinished here.  Just take care of yourself and lean on the Lord for strength and comfort. 
This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Â  Ps 118:24

Jacqueline

#255
As expected I am back to getting up at 5.am'ish...been pretty good these last few weeks, been getting up around 6's and 7's...I knew it wouldn't last... ::) Guess it was expected this morning as I got out of bed on my third through the night loo trip...

Well for the first time since I became a member of my local MS society group, I have booked a mid day luncheon with them, this will be held in a country style pub about 12 miles away...throughout the year they pick different venues of eating establishments, until now I have never taken advantage of them but, on trying to give myself and Richard some form of a social life I have been going all out with booking social gatherings, re, my church group, or my MS group, of course Richard is not interested in any of these two, ( MS or Church, ) just is interest in the social scene or the food...in the past he never included me into his... :-X
I will try and skip my breakfast of muesli and berries this morning, seeings we will be leaving at 11.30, in order to meet the group at 12 mid day...we dont know the venue but I have google mapped it and printed out the AA route-planner...Richard would be one of the first to tell you how fussy I am when it comes to pubs, if it doesn't look pretty from the outside, ( I like seeing hanging baskets, ) or the location is not to my liking, or inside it doesn't look my type, it looks rough or dirty, I dont or wont stay, I will give it a miss...Basically I am not a pub person, unless the pub has a warm feeling and a burning coal fire, a real country village pub would be my Idea...just so thankful that smoking inside pubs is now banned..otherwise I definitely wouldn't step in...

Well as expected I have come down with Richards cold, ( the times I tell him to cover his mouth when he sneezes, but still he doesn't ) been slowly coming these last few days..any colds I now get may play havoc with my MS...not the best of timings...
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

It is going to be another sunny and hot day here in South Carolina with it getting into the mid-90's again this afternoon.  I expect to have a pretty quiet day.  Pat will go to her craft group this morning and then plans on going out to lunch with a couple of the women from the group.  I am delighted to see her do this as it has been a long time since she has done this and know she always enjoyed it in the past.  I need to go get a loaf of bread and a couple of other things and may eat my lunch out.  This evening will be the Wednesday night dinner where our main item will be beef stroganoff.  Then Scott and Jennifer will likely come out to the house for the evening. 

We really enjoyed our senior adult luncheon yesterday.  There were six ladies there with their therapy dogs and they presented our program by telling us about the program and a bit about their dogs.  One of the ladies had a big Mastiff dog that she said weighed 180 pounds but was a gentle giant.  After the program we had a nice lunch of a big sub sandwich with salad, chips and a chocolate chip cookie.  This is my kind of lunch.

Jackie, sorry to read that you have come down with a cold and expect that prevented you from your planned social event yesterday.  Steps and rollators just don't go together.  I hope the road work will soon be completed.

Carol, we men have simple tastes with our snacks.  I hope Don enjoyed the Cribbage and you your quilting group.  That must have been quite a shock to have your cutting table collapse.  Pat has two of the long banquet tables and she uses one of them as her cutting table.  Glad your quilt wasn't harmed.

Janet, I think many of us here have a good idea of the pain and anguish you are now going through.  I think you expressed your feeling very well in terms of the sadness you feel but understanding that Beth will soon be free of the pain that she has endured for so long.  I also feel for John as he must face the reality of the situation.  At least now Hospice will be able to ensure that during these last days Beth will not be suffering.  I will certainly be praying for God's comfort to you and John and all of the family.  It is a difficult time. 

Carol

Janet:  I think of you waking each and every day - thinking that this may be the day.  Sending you prayers of strength and courage for the days ahead. 

Carol

Janice:  You have already walked in Janet's shoes so your words are true and comforting.  My best to you for your courage.



Larry:  My quilting group was last night.  There is a new gal and her name is Carol as well - she had a nice size table top to show.  Several are widows and this is nice for them to get out - and the craft is something to take ones mind off reality.  It sure is  a caring group. 

Don has such a good time with the cribbage gang.  It is nice to see him have friends - everyone has some sort of ailment but they trooper on. 

tomorrow, we will drive north to Fort Collins and meet with a grandson - a senior at CSU.  He works full time and goes to school, contemplating more education.  He is graduating most likely in 3 years total.  Yes, he is our Eagle Scout, such a go-getter.

We have been watching the series on Vietnam - it is just appalling to be reminded of that terrible time.   

Jacqueline

Larry Hanna...
...no, my cold never stopped me this lunchtime from my pub- restaurant meet-up...We were a small MS group of seven, of good company...mainly committee members, and, or their spouses...conversation kept flowing mixed in with the odd piece of humour for the two-three hours we spent there...All I know is that my stomach is now full, and I most probably have gained some added weight.....
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Ruth Ann Bice

Hi, friends,

I'm trying to get better at typing messages.  I've had the wonderful privilege of being with my son who lives in Houston. I was with him last night and then today along with my daughter who recently went with her husband and a group of friends to Ireland. It made for a nice lunchtime.

I'm sad for Janet and her family. Beth seems to be a lovely person, and one who will be greatly missed.

Much love to all of you.

Ruth Ann
...his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


Jacqueline

#261
Well, not often you will find me typing - posting at 3.am but, after 4 hours of interrupted sleep as usual in the dark I ventured to the loo, but dribbling all the way the short distance, then after emptying what appears a full bladder, this is part of my now MS norm, I got into bed then straight back to the loo to empty again, got back into bed still in the dark and found my cold after I came back yesterday from my meal out, that my cold had now peaked, my nose is so blocked so...couldn't get back to sleep so, here I am 20 minutes later...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

It is going to be another mid-90's afternoon with no rain in the forecast. It was just Pat and I at the dinner last night at Church.  Scott plans to come out early this morning and install the pull out shelves, which won't take very long.  Today will be my typical Thursday with picking up my friend as the assisted living facility and going to coffee, then taking him home after about an hour.  Finally I plan on attending the Wisdom group this morning. As far as I know that will be it for today.

Carol, I hope you and Don have a great time with your grandson in Fort Collins after getting through that Denver traffic.  It sounds like he is quite an achiever and has a bright future before him. 

Jackie, glad you got to attend your social function even with the cold.  A group of 7 or 8 is a nice size as it allows everyone to interact.  You certainly had an unpleasant start to this new day. 

Ruth Ann, did your son in Houston weather the hurricane OK?  Nice he is there to visit with you and his sister. 

Janet

Quick update on Beth:  She was alert early yesterday when I arrived, and we had a good conversation (she talks with her eyes!)  I had always told her, through her many times of being so near death, that as long as she wants to live, I will fight for her to my very last breath; but if she ever comes to the point where she's tired of the struggle, it's too hard and she just wants to go home to heaven, just to tell the Lord that.  I feel He will honor her request, and that we will be okay.  And anyway, we will be joining her very soon!  She always said she wants to go to heaven, just not right now.

Yesterday, I asked her, "Beth, do you understand what is happening?"  Yes.  Do you want to stay here?
No.  Are you tired of fighting, and ready to go to Jesus' arms now? Yes.  Her eyes are clear and bright,she is still our Beth.  But her poor body is just worn out, she has no reserves of strength physically,left to use in the fight.  I know if John would give her "permission" to go, it would make it so much easier for her.  But he is totally in denial, like if he refuses to see it, it won't happen.  I do hope the hospice counselor can help him, for I'm afraid for him if he doesn't come to terms with reality.

The family are all so loving and supportive, and her friend Mindi, from college days and her friend Cindy came last evening to see her.  Their talk, banter and laughter did Beth good.  Her sister Diane also came again last night.  We are keeping her surrounded with love, Christian music, the Word,
and many prayers.  She did eat a little bit yesterday.

My heart is breaking, even though I'm so glad for her to be set free!  Darrel is sick and can't get in to the doctor until Monday.  I feel I'm being ripped in two!  But I pray each day for strength for today,
and He never fails!  Love remains.  The greatest of these is LOVE.

Thank you all so much for your love and caring, and for your prayers.  I love you!
My book Rising Above available at JanetDamon.com

Jacqueline

#264
Janet...
...you know its not for me to poke my nose in but I fully do understand the MS side, if not Beth's other ailment-aliments....and although I too have come to terms with my MS future, ( I am going to get worse, before I get better )...I still do not have the right to say what your dear Beth's future should, or would, be...only Beth knows where this is all going, how she wants her story to continue or end...All I can do is offer my heartfelt love and a prayer to help her in her decisions, ( MS also interferes -messes, with our head, makes it fuzzy, ) although at the end of the day, It is really all down to our Maker...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jeanne Lee

Janet, I love you, I love Beth... and so does Jesus. 
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Marilyn

Janet, Lots of love and prayers for you, beth and the family.
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jacqueline

Think I am ready for bed, just touching 9.50pm been up since 3.am...

I will wish you all a good night and wish for less troubles in the morning than the day we had before....hm, now if only...




" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone.  It is going to be another sunny and hot day in the high 80's or low 90's.  I have nothing on my schedule that requires me to leave the house today.  I am glad as days I am away for a couple of hours or more seem to now require a day of rest following.  Yesterday went as planned.  I did get to coffee and the Wisdom class.  Just as I got home Scott was about to drive away after installing the slide out shelves but got out of the car and gave me a big hug and came back inside for a few minutes. 

Janet, I sure wish I had some words that I thought could bring you comfort in this time of trial.  You know where your strength to face the days ahead is and rely on Jesus to be holding your hand each moment just as he is there to be with Beth when her spirit is released from her broken body.  Denial is a tool many of us use or have used sometime during our lives to be able to get through some really tough things and it appears this is what John is experiencing.  I also hope that Hospice can be helpful to him.

Jackie, I like the little graphic you shared yesterday.  It is always the darkest before the dawn and it seems this happens over and over in our lives. 

Carol


Carol

We did visit with two of the grands plus one friend in Fort Collins.  It was just super as everyone took time to chat - go out for coffee or eat a meal out.  the two students are such a joy to visit.  Now we have seen all three grands within a weeks time. 

Don's fishing buddy, a retired pastor, is doing well and has been inspired to write another book. 

The drive through our now mega city was atrocious and it will never get better.  Now, we are told that the tallest building in the country will be here.  Traffic and building is out of control now -- how awful this will be for people living here.  'nuf said"..

It is our anniversary today and we are going out for breakfast - even though I did fix a crock pot of steel cut oatmeal overnight.  One grandson cooks in his apartment and I gave him the portions of water to oats so he can have that ready in the morning too. 

Larry:  Hugs are important and so welcome. 

Jacqueline

#271
Carol and Don...on your Special Day...

" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

#272
Within the next 30 minutes we will be leaving for my weekly Church social evening...Tonight we have a a performance from a female from the stage...She has been before and it sounds like all are greatly looking forward to her return...as for me, I dont know who she is but, I think we will be joining her in the singing...not sure I have my singing voice with me tonight as I am still suffering with a cold...I sure dont want to stay at home waiting to recover and missing tonight...
Looked her up I believe she is a " Soprano "  Anna - Maria Geare..... this should be interesting...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jane Walker

Well, I've come; I've read; and I've prayed through tears .... now I will make myself known to you all. 

Your lives are all complicated and full of problems but we all know that our God is totally aware of it all and He is in control of what happens -- or not -- and when.

Janet, as you know, I have had two daughters move on to Heaven ... One went quickly and I was not allowed to be with her but her sister, Joy, battled cancer for nearly two years, went through some horrific surgery and chemotherapy, and finally decided to give it all up and go home .... Once she stopped the chemotherapy and accepted hospice care, she was at peace.  She told me she was "Just waiting..." and she was in complete peace when she drew her last breath ... it was while her husband, a good friend, and a man from her church were standing around her bed and reading the 23rd Psalm, praying after each stanza.  When they got to the end "And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever" she sighed and peacefully slipped away.  Up to that point, I've been told, she was struggling to gasp for breath.  Her last entry in her journal was the 23rd Psalm.  She was ready. 

I know how you must be feeling ... I've been there, too.  I would love to be with you now to put my arms around you and wipe your tears ... I was alone when I got the news so I had to cry by myself.  I don't know if it would have made much difference if someone had been with me or not, but I do understand the hurting heart and pray for you and all the others who love Beth and who will be heart broken to see her leave.   :'(   :grouphug:
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass .... it's about learning to dance in the rain!

Jacqueline

Jane...
...that was a heartfelt story, and thank you for sharing...the final story of your dear daughter, waiting for a certain bible passage, to let her know, to let herself go...her wish was granted..
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Jacqueline

Another episode of my windpipe closing up this morning...Richard in the kitchen hearing me gasping, spluttering and choking, assuming it was my cold...until I walked from the lounge sofa to the kitchen, then he realised I was in trouble...anyway, all's well, that ends well...Somehow I had kindof done an inwards swallow - in-hail, so not that something had gotten stuck in my throat, just the closing up of my airways...again, a rather frightening experience..
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone.  We are to get a break in our high temperatures today as expect only the low 80's with a slight possibility of some rain.  I do have a busy morning planned for today but the rest of the day should be quiet. 

Carol, at least you have a reprieve from that awful traffic in your area when you winter in Arizona or is the traffic as bad down there with all the folks coming there to winter.  I don't think I told you and Don Happy Anniversary so will do so a day late. 

Jackie, I hope you enjoyed your Church social evening with the special guest singer.  Glad your windpipe episode ended well but know that must be terrible frightening. 

Jane, good to see your posting.  You certainly know what Janet is experiencing and as you say God will see us through such times.   

Carol

Saturday morning here and it is a real Fall time of the year.  Time to break out the sweaters. 

Jackie:  Thank you for your beautiful gift card.  I am sorry to read that you had a closing of your throat and hopefully that never happens again. 

Jane:  You have lived every parents nightmare that of losing children.  So generous of you to write of your experience and that unselfish deed will ease the pain of many parents.  Loving hugs to you.


Carol

Larry:  Thank you for your anniversary greetings as well.  It doesn't seem that long ago but it surely is that long ago.  I chose to be married in a small village in Minnesota (mom's town) so my parents and cousin would make the drive from Seattle.  The reason was - Don's parent's were deceased when he was a senior in university - but he had a ton of relatives in northern Minnesota including sister and two little girls.  By being married in the same state, a lot of his relatives could participate including his grandmother.  I already had grandparent there and many cousins and others.  The little church only held 100 and it was packed.  I laughed when I saw the two ladies who sold popcorn at the park were sitting on a bench too - they just decided to come and see me get married.  I had to time everything because after the ceremony several of the farmers had to go and milk cows then come back for the supper.  so, that is my story.


Jacqueline

Larry Hanna...
...one day I know I shant be so lucky, re, my windpipe...

Carol...
...thank you, you are welcome, I so hope you both had a fantastic days celebration...well my card doesn't have " two ladies sitting on a bench..nor are the couple holding any bags of popcorn.."  :P

I am now off to play scrabble with Richard, this will be our first game since I bought this very expensive board game two or three weeks ago, and I told him I am ready to give him a thrashing... ;D
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

I had to give up on sewing this afternoon - mom never sewed on Sundays so I hear her voice.  My reason is--- something is wrong with the stitching and I cannot fix it by myself.  And, I only have about 20 inches more to sew. 

Jackie: I hope you did give Richard a thrashing in Scrabble! 

Pat

#281
Please pray for Beth, John, Darrel and Janet...


"Singing to my sweet Beth today, for hours.
It's the thing that seems to bring her comfort
during her times of unbearable pain.
Prayers appreciated".








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Janet

Thank you, Pat, my precious friend.  That's such a beautiful song!

And thank you to everyone else for your prayers.  I'm very tired, and sang until I almost have  no voice left, but around 6:30, Beth finally stopped groaning and seemed she would be able to sleep.  I stayed until she was sleeping, then slipped out and came home.  They doubled her Fentanyl patch yesterday,
but still she needed morphine every hour.  I don't understand what's causing the terrible pain.  :'(

I'd better try to get some sleep, tomorrow may be another long day.

Jane, my friend, you surely do know the heartache I'm going through, as does Larry.  Thank you for your kind and encouraging words. 

I love all of you, so much!
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Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone.  We are going to have a much cooler day today, which is sure welcome.  I expect this to be our normal Sunday with Sunday School and Church and then out to lunch.  Hopefully another couple from our Sunday School class will be able to join us for lunch.  The rest of the day will be one of rest. 

Carol, I don't think you told us what anniversary was being celebrated in terms of years.  While we didn't have many relatives at our wedding we did have a full church.  It sounds like you had a wonderful and joyful wedding.  I wedding was held at 7:30 in the evening, after milking time.  :)  It has rained all day but the sun had come out as the wedding started. 

Jackie, my experience has been that often things don't turn out as I have anticipated, both good and bad. That is why I spend no time worrying about the future and will deal with it when it comes.  Did you win in the scrabble game?

Pat, thanks for sharing that very touching picture of a mother's love with Janet singing to Beth to help her stay calm in the midst of pain. That was a beautiful video of some.

Janet, I am praying for you and that Beth's pain can be controlled.  I am sure Jane and others can share the feeling of the uncertain as to when that last breath will occur and the pain and suffering will be over for our dear loved one.  Those are long hours and yet so short.   

Carol

Pat:  Thank you for the lovely song you posted for Janet and Beth - all the family. 

We have snow in our mountains - such a glorious sight as that brings water to so many. 

Larry:  55 years of marriage.  Gosh, I was only 10.   ::)  Smiling at your plans to be around milking time.  There are not many small dairy farms anymore.. 

Peace be with all.


Jacqueline

Larry Hanna...
...quoting:  " Did you win in the scrabble game?...
No, I let him win... ;D


" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Marilyn

As I continue in my prayers for Beth and you, along with your family, Janet, I have tears in my eyes as I cry to the Lord. He understands our tears and keeps them safely in a bottle. I don't know what else to say. I have a very good friend who is in the nursing home facing her last days who is "waiting  to be with the L>ord each day." I visit with her a couple of times a week and see the changes she is going through, some good days and some bad,
"Good people take care of their animals, but even the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel" Prov. 12:10
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Jane Walker

#287
My post was in response to this one of Janet's ... While we will always miss our loved one, there is a time when that one is so tired of the struggle and pain and just wants to go.  It is good when we know they have made the decision and are at peace with it.  Janet's post is what prompted me to share Joy's experience.
QuoteYesterday, I asked her, "Beth, do you understand what is happening?"  Yes.  Do you want to stay here?
No.  Are you tired of fighting, and ready to go to Jesus' arms now? Yes.  Her eyes are clear and bright, she is still our Beth.  But her poor body is just worn out, she has no reserves of strength physically, left to use in the fight.  I know if John would give her "permission" to go, it would make it so much easier for her.  But he is totally in denial, like if he refuses to see it, it won't happen.  I do hope the hospice counselor can help him, for I'm afraid for him if he doesn't come to terms with reality.

I do pray for John, especially, as he so wants to believe he is not losing Beth.  It's okay to hold onto a positive attitude ... sometimes it's almost "expected" ... But there's also the time one must face the facts.

I remember that's how it was when my mother was terminally ill and definitely with my daughter Jean.  I was told "we don't want anything negative said around here."  I broke that "command" when I told my 12 yr old granddaughter (Jean's daughter) it was okay to cry .... I was banned from visiting after that (and there are still some family members who don't speak to me). All her friends, and even some pastors, were voicing their "faith" that she would be healed and be a great testimony to the church and the rest of the community. 
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass .... it's about learning to dance in the rain!

Carol

Jane:  I cannot imagine telling a child that it is not alright to feel sorrow and tears.  I went through training as a volunteer hospital chaplain and believe me - there was an entire list of every emotion in all the cases. 

I just came in to check on Janet - still praying.

Jacqueline

:bible: prayers being said for the 100 injured and the 20 dead in Las Vegas...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone.  We have a cool morning with a clear sky and low humidity.  Yesterday was truly a delightful one weather-wise with a nice breeze and low humidity.  I ended up going to Sunday School and Church alone yesterday as when Pat went to get ready her back was hurting a lot and she said she was feeling a bit nauseous. I picked up  lunch and brought it home.  Our main activity for today is an appointment with the back surgeon so Pat can get an evaluation of whether surgery would help her back problems or not.

Carol, Pat and I have also been married for 55 years.  When we look at those wedding pictures we were really young.  I was 21 and Pat turned 21 two days after our wedding.  Little did we know what life had in store over these 55 years.

Jackie, that was thoughtful of you to let Richard win at Scrabble.  :) On the news this morning they are saying that 50+ people were killed and 200+ injured by this terrible massacre in Las Vegas last night. 

Jane, if we think a 12 year old isn't aware of what is happening around them it seems to me that it is denial.  We all need to be free to feel our feelings. You helped prepare your granddaughter for what you knew was coming. 

Marilyn, thanks for posting.  It is difficult to see your friends and loved one go downhill. 

 

Carol

Daily, there is something tragic in our news.  The command is to "love one another".  Peace be with our hearts today. 

Jacqueline

#292
Larry Hanna...
...yes, that is what they are now saying on our afternoon news...since I posted the numbers have gone up...I am always wondering what next when I turn on our morning tv...
....................................................

I belive our generation grew up with the words of our elders telling us..." children should be seen and not heard..." yet children are not immune to the various emotions that come with the loss of a loved one, yet maybe not so many as our elders such as...shock, the difficulty in accepting...anger and bitterness, guilt, relief, not forgetting the loneliness, these are all natural parts of our bereavement process...sadly a lot of young children feel as if they were part to blame, that they were somehow part of the cause and had done something wrong..I remember I was 10 or 11, when my grandma of 81 who we lived with passed away upstairs in her bedroom, my parents were dealing with it, I had no Idea what was going on, nor even that she had been ill....she was just gran, a person I saw every day..
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~ Muriel Donnelly

Jane Walker

Quote from: Carol on October 01, 2017, 07:05:13 PM
Jane:  I cannot imagine telling a child that it is not alright to feel sorrow and tears.  I went through training as a volunteer hospital chaplain and believe me - there was an entire list of every emotion in all the cases. 

I was sitting on the couch with my two granddaughters, 12 and 14, when their father got the phone call confirming Jean's cancer had metastasized to her liver (stage 4).  He turned from the phone and announced that "Now we know what to pray for..." and proceeded to tell the girls "You will spend 1 hour every day reading your Bible and praying for your mother. And there will be NO TEARS"  I couldn't believe what I was hearing!  I noticed a tear running down Laura's cheek and that's when I said "It's okay to cry ... " and added "but not in front of your mother"  I shouldn't even have added that, because why not let your mom know you are sad?  Anyway, from that moment on, I was never allowed to be alone with the girls (their dad had to be present) and only saw my daughter when he would drag her to church .... I had disobeyed his rule!  To this day, neither he nor the girls have any contact with me.  In fact, I've been blocked on facebook and their cousins (Dot's girls) have had a few conflicts with them as they've voiced their hatred of me.  Oh, well, I know it's because of their dad's influence and I don't blame them.  They only know what he tells them.

I have been listening to the news from Las Vegas in shock and with a broken heart for all those victims who had been so happily attending a concert.  As always, the news is continually being updated.  The number of victims keeps changing as the investigation progresses.  Greatest mass shooting tragedy in our history.
:'(
.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass .... it's about learning to dance in the rain!

Carol

Jane:  Praying for you to be reunited someday. 

Janet

#295
What a long time it seems since my last posting!  Following the terrible day of pain on Saturday, Beth spoke the first coherent sentence in over two years when she said, "I want to go to church tomorrow!"  I was so surprised, but quickly told her I didn't think that would be possible, as she would be up in her wheelchair for so long, they are carefully watching places on her 'sitter' because they look ready to break open (pressure sores).  I was just afraid it would be too much for her. But when I told Darrel, he said if she wants to go, we should probably take her!  I thought about it and thought it might well be her last request.  So I left before Darrel yesterday morning, and when I go to the home, she was up and dressed!  Then I knew she really wanted to go to church!  John walked in and I told him to go get the van, we were taking Beth to church!  Then I asked the nurse to give her extra morphine, and we went to church!  She made it just fine, and I only heard her groan once.

As soon as we got her back, she wanted into bed, an when John stepped back into the room he asked why she wasn't in her recliner.  I told him she'd been up long enough, so he said, "then I'm going to take a nap!"  And he was gone for three hours! 

During that time, the pastor of the church in Hugoton that Beth's sister Diane and family attend,
came to pray for Beth.  She told her that she felt God was saying, Beth today is your miracle day!
One way or another, you will get your healing TODAY!  We prayed, and then when John came back,
Beth turned her eyes to him and said clearly, "John, I want to go home."  He looked at me, startled,
and I said, John, she means to heaven.  So he told her if that's what she really wants, it's okay.
Just save me a seat at the table, he said.

Well, within 15 minutes of that, Beth's respirations began slowing, her color turned to an ashy gray,
and she would stop breathing for several seconds before resuming.  It seemed to me she really was going home.  Diane came to be there to support me, and the hours ticked slowly by.  John went home around 8, and we were relieved to be able to turn off the tv!!  Grrr.  He had it on mute, but was watching cartoons.  Seriously!  We had been playing Christian music softly, and singing to her.  Well,
her color came back, her respirations increased from 12 to 14 to 16 per minute, but she was still wide-eyed.  I kept urging Diane to go home, but she wanted me to take a nap before she left.  That wasn't possible, as there wasn't a comfortable place in the room, other than the bed.  The recliner is miserable, for me, anyway.  They make Beth comfortable with lots of extra pillows, etc.

Diane finally left at midnight, texted me, "I'm home" when she got there, and I kept trying to get a bit of sleep.  Finally, Beth seemed drowsy and not in pain (she really hadn't had much pain all day!) so I called Darrel to come get me, at 3 A.M.

She's had a pretty good day today, ate all three meals, and has mostly slept.  So I'm home early enough to get a good night's rest.  I guess she just changed her mind and decided to stay a bit longer! It surely leaves me wondering from day to day what to expect!

One of the nurses said she thinks Beth is realizing how very much she is loved, and wants to enjoy it a little longer, because every nurse on the day shift came in and told her they love her and gave her a kiss before leaving for the day.  All of her siblings called to tell her they love her and say goodbye to her.  What a day!

Thank you all so much for your words of love, care and encouragement.  They mean so much to me and help me make it through another day.

And I do read each of your posts!  Jane, I'm so sorry for the way you were treated in the midst of such great sorrow and pain.  Why are we so cruel to each other sometimes?  I pray I, nor any of you,
ever have anything like that on our consciences!
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Jacqueline

Janet...
...reading between the lines I would say your Beth knows exactly what she is doing, ( thank you, her MS brain is still very much functioning ) she is preparing herself...and she has it all under control...just my opinion...Sending a special (((Hug))) to you, especially that you spent time with her until 3.am, now that is devotion as a loving mother...just please be careful you dont push yourself into becoming ill in the process...

Jane...
...it is heartbreaking to hear someone telling - demanding to a child, or anyone else come to think of it, " There Will Be No Tears..." I know it seems natural to a man not to cry or I guess that was once the norm back in the day, maybe they felt if they cried they weren't a man but, deep down we are all human, whether we are male or female, and that goes for our children too...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone. We are in for another beautiful day with the high around 80 degrees this afternoon.  Yesterday Pat saw the surgeon and he told her surgery would not solve her back problems.  I think she was relieved as now doesn't have to make that decision.  Unfortunately, she will have to live with the back pain treating it with medication.  After her appointment we went to Walmart to pick her prescriptions for her.  Then we stopped at the Dairy Queen and had a good and filling lunch/dinner.  It was 3 pm before we got home. 

The only think on my calendar for today is a routine appointment with my cardiologist.  I have two doctor appointment on Thursday and had them mixed up in my mind thinking the two were today and the one I have today on Thursday.

Jackie, the count of dead and injured in Las Vegas is almost too much to comprehend.  The last count I heard were 58 dead and over 500 injured.  I have to wonder how the medical facilities could handle so many wounded all at once. If men are not suppose to cry I certainly didn't get the message. 

In reading your situation with the granddaughters and their father the thought comes to mind as to who made him God.  I guess he forgot the Commandment to love one another.  I guess this is beyond my comprehension. 

Janet, thanks for your update on the situation with Beth.  May God walk with you all in the next days and give you strength to face whatever lays ahead.  It sounds like the morphine is keeping Beth comfortable.  Glad she was able to go to Church. God's plan for Beth has not yet been completed as she has more love to give. 

Carol

Signing in to see Janet's report.  /strength and courage for all.  Janet, everyone has different ways of coping with trauma and I see John as trying hard to focus on other things (even cartoons) for a break from reality.  Just take care of yourself, Beth and Darrel first - that is enough of a load.  Praying for a peaceful journey. 

Carol

Amazing Grace - Beth was able to attend church and she so wanted to go - you could write another book! 

Don is off to meet a former employee from years ago - these girls like to catch up with him once in a while.  So nice of them to remember him. 

Larry: A prayer for Pat regarding her constant back pain.  May the medication work wonders and may the pain ease.  Perhaps there will be a better answer in future? 

Janet

Another long day, but pretty peaceful.  Beth was very drowsy and listless today.  She only had the morphine 4 times, so not too bad, but hospice nurse said she recommends upping the dosage of the Fentanyl patch again as that would be better than giving morphine so often. At least Beth isn't refusing the liquid morphine when she's hurting.

I truly don't know what to expect--up and down.  Dare I get my hopes up?  I know, as long as there is life, there is hope, but none of the medical personnel is giving me any idea of what to expect.  (Because they don't know!)  I understand that, but....living with such doubts is hard.  I was there today from 8 till 6:30, with one short break to meet Darrel for lunch.  I do need to see him sometimes, too!

I've been thinking about Jane's son-in-law and his unreasonable (cruel, even) demands to his girls about reading their Bibles an hour a day, and NO tears.  He probably thought he was doing the right thing, but one cannot demand for God to do anything!  He is Sovereign!  He's the Creator!  He does all things well, even when we do not understand what He is doing or why.  And to keep the girls away from Jane is just awful--adding heartbreak to heartbreak.  She needed them and they certainly needed her!  Sigh.....just so sad.  Jane, my heart aches for all the losses you have had.  But how much sweeter heaven must seem to you because your two precious daughters are there, happy and whole,
waiting to greet your arrival when that day comes.  Blessings to you, my friend.

I did something bad today.  I had asked John several times to turn down the TV, because hearing the Las Vegas tragedy over and over was not what Beth needed, but he just wouldn't.  Every time he left the room, I turned it off and put on soft Christian music for her, when he came back he turned it right back on.  So finally, when he went out of the room again, I turned it off and hid the remote!  So he went home and got his computer, which is fine, as that's quiet.  But he couldn't get online, so when I went to the bathroom, I came back to find him pushing buttons on the TV.  He got it to turn on, LOUD again.  I said, 'John,please turn it down!'  But he said he didn't know how, without the remote!  So I waited until he left again and turned the volume down to a reasonable level, and he didn't say a word about it.  Am I mean?  I don't want to fuss with him, but Beth needs her sleep.

Okay, off my soap box again.

Carol, thanks for staying tuned in, it means a lot to me.  I just hope I'm learning whatever it is our Father is trying to teach me through this experience.

Thanks for all your love and prayers.  I appreciate all of you so much.

Off to lay my weary body down now.
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Pat

Hi Janet....

No, you are not mean telling John to "TURN IT DOWN!"  Hope he's got the message.

Please know, Janet, that you are being thought about many, many times during the day and during the night time hours.


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Jeanne Lee

Janet, you are doing the right thing with the TV.  If John wants to act like a 5 year old, he needs to be treated like a 5 year old. 

Like Pat, I am thinking about you and Beth and all the family so often during the day and during the night.  For some reason lately I am wide awake at 3:00 a.m. every night.  That's such a lovely quiet time for special prayers. 
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Jacqueline

I can understand John wanting to watch this tragic news on the tv but not why he had to have it on so loud...very inconsiderate under the circumstances...By the way John is acting, I too think he is trying to block out " reality..." and trying to do this by the only way he knows it works for him....

Janet...
...the hardest part is the " not knowing..." playing the waiting game...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Carol

Janet:  You have such a heavy load now and John is behaving quite immature. There again, it may be his way of coping in that he doesn't want to "hear" any more sad news.  He doesn't face reality very well.  It is nice to read that Beth can have an oral morphine instead of a shot. 

I called my neighbor who has the very ill husband and he was being moved to another room with one step higher care and comfort.  The next move will be home and hospice will take over.  We won't be here to help and I have so wanted to be here - but Don needs to get to Arizona (lower altitude) where he will feel better. 

PAT:  Very nice to see any little note from you. 

It is winter in the high country and that hit suddenly this year at about the normal time.  When we moved back to this area, we had a blizzard on moving day - the 11th day of Oct.  What a time - and I was coming down with the flu as well - everything was set in the wrong place and on wrong floors.  We came through that eventually. 




Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone.  It is another nice and beautiful day here in South Carolina and it isn't suppose to get out of the low 80's this afternoon. I had a long morning at the doctor's office as my appointment was for 10:30 but it was noon before the doctor made it into the room.  She apparently had an emergency that required here presence in the cath lab.  I don't mind the wait as I realize that someday it might be me who needed her immediate attention.  With my iPhone I something to keep me occupied.  When she got to me she spent probably half and hour with me. After my last appointment with her she had ordered an overnight oximeter test and it showned my oxygen level at night had gone down to 69.  So she is contacting my lung doctor and wants me to start using oxygen with my CPAP machine.  She also wants me to suspend using the Renexa medication to see if it could be part of the problem why I am so weary and have shortness of breath when I do anything. 

Today will be a day of stay home and take it easy to try to recover from the last three days that were pretty busy, at least for me.  We do have dinner at the church this evening and then Scott and Jennifer will likely come out for a couple of hours.  Pat will go to the Church this morning for her crafts group.  Their bazaar is coming up later this morning so they are meeting every week until that is over. 

Carol, it is nice that Don's former employees have wanted to maintain contact with him.  He must have been a fine boss.  I know Pat appreciates your prayers.  She has lived with back pain most of her life.

Janet, nice to read that Beth had a peaceful day yesterday.  Just take each day an hour or a minute at a time as we can tolerate those increments of time whereas when we focus on all day or tomorrow or next week it can become overwhelming.  Only God know what the next moment or day will bring.  It would appear from what you say that John really isn't a very mature person in his thinking.  Good for you in taking the action you felt necessary to be in the best interests of Beth.  I do hope you were able to get a good rest last night.

Jeanne, you expressed my thoughts better than I did above in terms of acting like a 5 year old. 

Jackie, you are very right that waiting and long hours of sitting with someone in the hospital is sometimes harder than doing a lot of physical labor. 

Jacqueline

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We must not forget that however old John is acting, he is soon to lose HIS wife...maybe then, and only then, will
he grow up...no one should tell him how to act anymore than anyone telling someone not to cry...
" there is no such thing as an ending, only a place where you leave the story "
~ Muriel Donnelly

Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone.  Just checking in this morning as have a very busy morning ahead.  When I came to my desktop this morning I had difficulty getting the computer to function correctly.  Think all is in order.  I have two doctor appointments this morning.  I have read all the postings but will make no individual comments, but will try to do better tomorrow when I won't be rushed.

Carol

Larry:  you mentioned weary and that is the problem for Don living at this altitude - we are over 6,000 ft here just southwest of Denver and a bit higher than the city.  I can feel the difference just returning from any trip when going up stairs from the basement.  I really feel the difference at son's cabin which is over 8,000 ft.  sorry that you had such a long wait at the doctor's office but happy that she took a half hour with you.  The normal checkup is calculated to be under 20 minutes - I have a wonderful doctor (losing her) who always allows all the time we need. 

Time to keep on keeping on..... :coffee:  - coffee or tea is ready. 

Larry:  two appointments for today - you will need a nap.

Good morning John B:  I see you peeking in - how about a little note telling us how you are faring? 

Jeanne Lee

Looks like we skipped a month so, although we're late, let's begin a new place HERE
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Larry Hanna

Hi Everyone.  We have another overcast and muggy day.  Yesterday was very humid but last evening, after dark, we did finally get some more rain.  It is to be in the upper 80's today. 

I did see the eye doctor yesterday and will have my cataracts removed in the coming weeks.  I have another appointment on Oct. 20th at 8 am so they can take more measurements and then schedule the first cataract removal.  Three weeks later I will go back for the second eye.  I am pretty sure this is the normal procedure.  The appointment yesterday took about two hours and I have never had such a thorough exam of my eyes.  It seemed to take forever for the dilation of my eyes to pass.  It was lunchtime when we finished at the doctor's office so we decided to have one of the $5 lunches at Dairy Queen for our main meal.  The main thing on the schedule for today is the dinner at the Church this evening, when we are having fried chicken as our main item with a vegetable, salad, bread and dessert.  Scott plans on joining us and then will come out to the house for awhile. Jennifer has decided to pass on the dinner and coming out this week. 

Janet, what else can attack poor Beth.  So glad you knew of the apple cider treatment and will pass that on to my SIL who has had several bouts of shingles.  Glad to see you got a good night's sleep last night.  You know that Beth and all of your family will remain in my prayers as long as needed. 

Jackie, it sounds like you had a short social.  That doesn't sound like it was very much bingo.  Were you playing blackout on the card as that would take more time than just a one line bingo to win.  Sorry you didn't bring home any of the prizes but better luck next time.

Carol, those javelinas sound just terrible and dangerous.  Are they a protected animal down there and if not I wonder why there hasn't been an effort made to eliminate that large pack.  Glad you got away from the Denver area before the snow storm and hope your property escaped any damage. Nice you have a son there who can keep an eye on your property and take care of problems while you are gone.