Telling my story in Chapel went well this week. Had a 6th grader come up and thank me the next day and a mom told me several families had discussed it with their kids. 🙂
Is it Saturday already? Amazing how much days of the week can get messed up for a freelancer when Sundays “don’t happen” several weeks in a row!
Is it already February, too? Or, rather, finally February?
😦 The weather reports are for a lot of rain today, which might end up in a really icy mess. (We have a five-foot-tall drift the entire width of our backyard except the shoveled walk.) Then more snow in the next few days. And this is another weekend storm. Enough already. Uncle. Whatever the password is, can we turn it off now?!
🙂 Since January is nearly always a month with no editing work, I’ve learned to “schedule” it for other things, and this year a big part of that was family photos. I scanned in hundreds of them and am finishing up a book for family (I lack only the names of some uncles and cousins for one photo) and a book for me (I’m mostly finished with it, too, but have prioritized the one for family).
🙂 In the process, I have gone from knowing the names of two grandparents (my mom’s parents) to knowing the names of all four grandparents, the nicknames of two grandparents, the names of several generations of ancestors on both sides, and the birth- and death-dates of most of my uncles and aunts and several ancestors.
🙂 I have also seen photos of several of them, including some very beautiful ones.
🙂 I have established contact with one cousin I’d never heard of (our first contact with anybody on my dad’s side since his death 30 years ago!!), one cousin on my mom’s side whom I’ve never known as an adult, and deepened contact with a cousin I’ve known somewhat since my days in Chicago (and whom I remember seeing twice when we were children).
🙂 I have worked together on it a bit with my oldest brother, who is 14 years older than me and not someone I’ve ever known all that well. (When a brother is that much older, and moved out of the house when one is three, he’s more like an uncle than a brother during those childhood years, we haven’t lived in the same town for half my life–more than half–and overall for most of my adult life we’ve talked by phone once or twice a year and seen each other once a year or less.)
😦 So far we still have not one single photo of my dad younger than 35. It’s barely possible the re-established connection with his side of the family may change that, but I’m not counting on anything.
Hey, Cheryl, you told me you could not visit me in Idaho when it was winter because you were not going back to snow. We don’t have any five foot tall drifts, we mostly have clear ground. What happened?
😦 I need a job. I have two kinds of experience. Retail; which would require night and weekend work that I can’t do with a child and a husband who travels. Media: I am 57. Media is the most ageist industry in the world. I have also been out of it for years and it is one of the fastest changing industries in the world.
I’m not even sure where to start looking. Some have suggested teaching sub but I am really not that good with kids.
Cheryl- get ready for more snow. The one inch we were supposed to get yesterday turned into 3, and we are getting more today. It should be to you today or tomorrow.
🙂 Another week in the books. 😦 But midterms are next week and with all the days off we’ve had, I don’t have much to put in the grade book. Funny, though, we took 4 weather related days off in January, but none for snow, just extreme cold. And now there are predictions for several inches of snow on Tuesday.
😦 Boring meetings yesterday getting us ready for Common Core. Yawn. Get ready for more news reports about how poorly our schools are doing. And then realize it’s not all the teachers’ fault, but those educrats in ivory towers who haven’t seen the inside of a real classroom in twenty years. They have all these “wonderful” ideas on what to do which look good on paper, but not in the classroom. When will they see that if they just let us teach we’ll do okay?
Kbells you are a clever, resourceful and entertaining woman. Have you considered getting bonded and working with the elderly? You could drive them to appointments, attend doctor visits, get them organized (scan their photos and write their stories), pay bills, take them grocery shopping, make arrangements for house repairs, cleaning, do laundry and simply be another set of eyes for family who live too far away?
Check with pastors you know to learn if there’s such a need. There’s a big need for folks like that where I live. We paid a lot of money for an aide to my father 15 years ago.
😦 Fence battles. Me vs. a very determined dog. I need to fatten him up.
🙂 So far my reinforced temporary barrier from this morning seems to be holding. Although the real test will be after I feed the dogs. For now, they’re both anticipating the morning meal to come soon.
🙂 Excellent speakers Friday night as part of an eschatology conference being hosted by my church (and continuing today). The debate tonight will be between our pastor (post-mil) and another local pastor (dispensational pre-mil). I think I was sitting right behind the other pastor and a companion of his last night in the audience.
🙂 Formal speakers both flew in from the east coast and were excellent. I believe we’ll post video/audio laster if anyone’s interested.
🙂 Kirk Cameron came to the conference opening last night. I’m not as familiar with him as some of you may be, but he was fun to listen to. We also had a Christian script writer from Hollywood in attendance whom our pastor knows via FB, though he didn’t speak.
🙂 Throw a conference on eschatology and you’ll almost always get a crowd. 🙂
Many of the ladies at our church work for schools doing things other than teaching. Some are teacher’s aides, one works in the library, another is an assistant in the administration bldg. All share their children’s schedules.
kBells, praying for an opening — working your personal contacts is key, I’m told. (I’m reading up on all that because I never know when I’ll be having to scramble to find something else at some point).
Are you on LinkedIn? They have a premium account for active job hunters. I’ve not upgraded to the premium account but I would if I were out there looking. I’m told it’s quite helpful. LinkedIn also provides hubs and member groups for particular kinds of job searches (media, writing, etc.).
🙂 Had a lovely weekend visiting with my daughter, her husband and the four grandchildren. In addition we had a great afternoon and evening with my other daughter and her two children.
🙂 My four year old grandson was thrilled to show me how to play foosball and win against me. I had seen this game played years ago when in college, but had no time or inclination to play it then. We had a lot of fun and were sometimes joined by the other grandchildren who don’t normally play.
🙂 Enjoyed the dinner and play (Steel Magnolias) that my daughter was part of.
😦 Started home on Sunday as soon as we could, but were stopped on a highway intersection and told the road was closed. The person who stopped us advised us not to try to keep going. We were hoping to beat the worst of the storm, but conditions were already whiteout bad. We decided to be wise and stay. We ended up staying two more nights, since windchills were too bad to be out in, if anything went wrong with our vehicle. I did not want to inconvenience anyone else, if something went wrong, either. We had an appointment, but it was easily postponed.
🙂 Two more fun days with the grandchildren and my daughter. The grandchildren had school cancelled, so we all played games and read books.
:{ SIL still jobless, except for substitute teaching.
😦 Two funerals today at the same time, but miles apart. We will just attend the one for my husband’s step-sister’s husband. He has been sick for quite awhile, as has the other acquaintance.
🙂 My parents were married 65 years ago! My dad tells everyone they are like a well matched pair of Clydesdale or Percheron horses. 😀
The other thing is, get yourself some training in the latest computer techniques–you can buy a program, or watch the videos on Youtube. You want to know as much as you can about Excel and Word, but your skills from media can be very helpful for a small business. Learn HTML, if possible, the point being to help a small company with sales on the web.
Since you have experience at least around the cameras, experiment with shootings short videos–all of which are in demand in this visual community we now call cyberspace. You’d be surprised how much you know–especially if you did any of the producing/money management type work.
If you could take some sort of accounting course, or learn how to run a program like Quickbooks (the program IS expensive), that would go a long way toward preparing you for whatever comes your way.
I’d aim, too, at volunteering during the day while your son is at school in a ministry that can use/help you gain such skills. Our local PCC, for example, could use a lot of help in the webpage side of things. Editing, writing copy, producing videos, learning HTML (through WordPress, or send me an email and I’ll start forwarding you information I regularly get).
This would serve several purposes: enable to brush up your resume, but also put you in contact with people who could use your services if only for a short time, while letting you meet quality people in your community who would remember your service and if you let them know you’re job hunting, might very well consider you.
This would allow you to learn and increase your marketing potential while not neglecting your son (assuming you did this while he was in school).
The trick is to be flexible, pray that God will give you imagination and take baby steps. You’ll be surprised to learn just how valuable you are. You’ve got skills and abilities, you can do it!
I, for one, was not looking for a job when I got tapped. Here I am 10 years later trying to figure out why the account won’t balance with the 1099 the bank sent. Urgggg. I wish I had a little more sophisticated accounting background!
There are some cute houses—I took photos. I thought it was one of the ones I had walked past but it is behind the school not in front of it. I bet you could teach writing or or something. There is a darling WWII Veteran who would live just around the corner from you. He is quite the writer…you two could collaborate on a book.
You may not want me to do the actual painting – I am quite a klutz. I told my husband we needed to buy the 2″ wide masking tape because I kept going over the 1″ wide stuff, so we bought it AND I put it 2 strips wide and STILL managed to get paint where I didn’t want it. Sigh… oh well, it wiped off and we had a good laugh.
And yes, it is close to the airport but that is just the cropdusters in the spring and fall. Early in the morning. And it is quite close to the local newspaper. Put out every week.
So Donna, when are you going to move? It sounds idyllic. Not a bad bit of the country that, if you can take the periodic drive into the valley along hairpin curves on cliffs that drop a few thousand feet. Not that I’m trying to discourage you or anything. After all, you don’t have to cross international borders to get there.
🙂 I bought Michelle’s book two weeks ago. I enjoyed it and read it twice. I only paid 99cents. The charge disappeared from my Visa account. Michelle did you reverse the charge????? Thanks for the wonderful gift. 🙂
I have no control over that, Jo. Watch your Kindle, though, to make sure Amazon doesn’t take the book back! 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Once I clear the backlog of historical fiction to write (sigh), I’ve got a sequel in mind bringing back most of the characters. 🙂
okay, I had my geography lesson for the day. I didn’t understand how Mumsee could be in or near Nez Perce since it was in the wrong time zone. Wow, Idaho is really confusing to follow that time zone line and figure out which side is which. Now I see a little more clearly.
Mumsee, she doesn’t need a dog park. Cowboy has learned to walk himself, and Tess can’t be trusted at a dog park. The “fence” is a cover for the neighbors to think she owns the animals; in fact they only come to her when they want food. (“Good person, good person!”)
It’s Groundhog Day!
‘m afraid the groundhog will see his shadow in Hendersonville.
But the WTZQ weatherman says the worst is over. Not that winter is over, we just won’t see any more single digits.
I can live with that.
If I have to.
🙂 Stimulating church conference covering a number of different aspects of eschatology, from a biblical understanding of caring for creation to apocalyptic or siege language in the Bible to how we are both to be at work in the world while also looking up and thinking on the things of heaven. More later.
😦 I’m really tired — speakers went long yesterday (when a professor told us he was used to giving 3-hour lectures we chuckled; but he was serious, as it turned out 😉 ) which shrank what I thought would be a 2+ hour break between the afternoon and evening sessions to just under an hour in which we had to scramble to grab a quick dinner before returning. I also picked up my friend from Downey who wanted to attend yesterdays sessions so there was a heavy walker to load, transport and deal with off and on throughout the day (she also tends to bring several heavy bags packed with books wherever she goes). After dropping her off last night I didn’t make it home until about 11 p.m. and, after feeding the dogs, didn’t get to bed until close to 1 a.m. Now I’m trying to wake up for church!
🙂 The back fence held. When I got home last night, all 3 animals were in. Poor Cowboy, so frustrated. Dreaming of the fenceless land in Idaho.
Well, yes, there is no leash law, but one is expected to keep ones’ animals close to home. Now and then the cows will get out, but one is expected to retrieve them without too much delay. Troublesome animals are expected but I did notice a nice chain link fence in the picture of your place.
😦 This reminded me of a huge rant I’ve had a long time.
Someone sent me a voice message on my mobile phone. It’s certainly an advertisement because no one ever texts me. I don’t even remember my password, so I can’t view it.
The thing is, it cost me a dime. A dime is trivial, it just bugs me.
And, if I answered it, it would tip me off to another business on my don’t patronize list.
And speaking of commercials, as I was, There is a dumb radio commercial in Hendersonville where a couple of women are talking. She is telling about her husband trying to fix a furnace, but she has the number of a furnace mechanic who will fix it when “he inevitably fails”. He does and she has the number. Problem is: To whom is the ad directed? If it’s to the women, it is misdirected because women don’t do the calling for furnace repairmen. If it’s to the men listening, they just turned him off. On my list of people not to call.
And I never go to Hardees. The reason? Their commercials are obviously pitched to someone who isn’t me.
And a TV commercial shows a car zooming through the snow for some reason.
And another has a woman riding the top of a train to somewhere.
Commercials have an effect on lots of people. That’s why they have them.
Many have a negative effecft6 on me.
The ones I like best are the Budweiser commercials. If I drank beer, it would be a Bud.
I don’t intend to buy a car anytime soon. But when I do, it will be one that doesn’t slide sideways.
I had all the texting eliminated from my phone, because of those charges, Chas. Then we had to get a new plan and it is back on. I haven’t done it yet, but probably will at some point. I also find the soliciting irritating. I am on the do not call list for my cell phone, but some businesses don’t pay any more attention than they do on my land line.
The ground hog has no bearing on our having six more weeks of winter or not. There is no way we would not have at least six more weeks. Silly ground hog or his promoters. 😉
Free texting is included in my plan (200 texts a month which I don’t use up). Texting is very handy, we use it a lot at work. But I suspect that more and more plans now include a certain amount of free texting as it’s become a fairly common way for people to communicate.
The thing I least use my cell phone for is … as an actual phone. 🙂
oh, Donna, that is a long way from the ocean. My first thing to check on that house would be the insulation and the windows. Winters will not be as warm.
Very good to hear from sixth son today. He is doing well. He says he is glad he decided to go, it is hard but it is fun. He is making friends. He did get into trouble for a blade. He apparently took the razor out of his disposable shaver to make into a weapon and now gets to clean the latrine. Live and learn. I am glad they let him stay. He can do this. Anybody curious to see what they are up to can see photos at Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy. They are doing snowshoeing. With big smiles.
Ha, I got 62 on both threads this weekend! I also, today, got 100 on the daily thread, and made the 100th comment on a blog post at another site. On a roll! 🙂
KI, my son has no trust. He does not have a happy childhood and a lot of adults let him down. He has loved living here because we have allowed him to have weapons and has reduced the number he needed to zero unless he had an especially upsetting day. Then he would improvise something, to let us know he felt threatened again. We would work on the issue. The Academy called to ask me if he had trust issues and we discussed that. So they are working with us and that is good. He is now around a lot of same age boys, some with the same ability to intimidate that he has. I lectured him that he no longer needs that stuff. Not only does he have God in his life, he has taken over a year of karate, and he has built his confidence so he no longer has to act like a jerk. He knows what I am talking about. But we would appreciate continued prayer for him as he works on his confidence.
🙂 Lee took me out to a nice local restaurant today for lunch, to spend some quiet time together. We don’t go out much, so when we do, I feel special.
Our habit over the last few years is to not get dessert at the restaurant, but stop by the grocery store to buy something for dessert. Then when we get home, I make some decaf coffee or tea, & we enjoy our dessert relaxing at home. Much cheaper than buying it in the restaurant, & more of it to enjoy the next day.
I never get dessert at a restaurant. I wait and get a cookie when I get home.
It isn’t the money so much, but that counts too. But I know that if they brought me this humongous slice of pie, I would eat the whole thing.
And that ain’t good.
We’re usually too full right after a restaurant meal for dessert right away anyway. Of course, I hardly ever finish a whole meal, as the portions these days are so large, but I love having the leftovers the next day.
So tomorrow I will be enjoying some more Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo, & the rest of my salad. 🙂
yes, Mumsee, I am thinking of coming by. However that would not be until next year when I am home for six months. My sons are in Portland, then there is a friend in Puyallup, then a friend in Richland, so I am already so close, Then someone else in Three Forks, Montana. So.. we will see. I love to plan way ahead and love maps, so fun
Wandering Views 
Telling my story in Chapel went well this week. Had a 6th grader come up and thank me the next day and a mom told me several families had discussed it with their kids. 🙂
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Is it Saturday already? Amazing how much days of the week can get messed up for a freelancer when Sundays “don’t happen” several weeks in a row!
Is it already February, too? Or, rather, finally February?
😦 The weather reports are for a lot of rain today, which might end up in a really icy mess. (We have a five-foot-tall drift the entire width of our backyard except the shoveled walk.) Then more snow in the next few days. And this is another weekend storm. Enough already. Uncle. Whatever the password is, can we turn it off now?!
🙂 Since January is nearly always a month with no editing work, I’ve learned to “schedule” it for other things, and this year a big part of that was family photos. I scanned in hundreds of them and am finishing up a book for family (I lack only the names of some uncles and cousins for one photo) and a book for me (I’m mostly finished with it, too, but have prioritized the one for family).
🙂 In the process, I have gone from knowing the names of two grandparents (my mom’s parents) to knowing the names of all four grandparents, the nicknames of two grandparents, the names of several generations of ancestors on both sides, and the birth- and death-dates of most of my uncles and aunts and several ancestors.
🙂 I have also seen photos of several of them, including some very beautiful ones.
🙂 I have established contact with one cousin I’d never heard of (our first contact with anybody on my dad’s side since his death 30 years ago!!), one cousin on my mom’s side whom I’ve never known as an adult, and deepened contact with a cousin I’ve known somewhat since my days in Chicago (and whom I remember seeing twice when we were children).
🙂 I have worked together on it a bit with my oldest brother, who is 14 years older than me and not someone I’ve ever known all that well. (When a brother is that much older, and moved out of the house when one is three, he’s more like an uncle than a brother during those childhood years, we haven’t lived in the same town for half my life–more than half–and overall for most of my adult life we’ve talked by phone once or twice a year and seen each other once a year or less.)
😦 So far we still have not one single photo of my dad younger than 35. It’s barely possible the re-established connection with his side of the family may change that, but I’m not counting on anything.
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Hey, Cheryl, you told me you could not visit me in Idaho when it was winter because you were not going back to snow. We don’t have any five foot tall drifts, we mostly have clear ground. What happened?
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🙂 Our snow is gone. I can send this Kid back to school Monday.
😦 I’m hearing rumors that more is coming.
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😦 I need a job. I have two kinds of experience. Retail; which would require night and weekend work that I can’t do with a child and a husband who travels. Media: I am 57. Media is the most ageist industry in the world. I have also been out of it for years and it is one of the fastest changing industries in the world.
I’m not even sure where to start looking. Some have suggested teaching sub but I am really not that good with kids.
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Cheryl- get ready for more snow. The one inch we were supposed to get yesterday turned into 3, and we are getting more today. It should be to you today or tomorrow.
🙂 Another week in the books. 😦 But midterms are next week and with all the days off we’ve had, I don’t have much to put in the grade book. Funny, though, we took 4 weather related days off in January, but none for snow, just extreme cold. And now there are predictions for several inches of snow on Tuesday.
😦 Boring meetings yesterday getting us ready for Common Core. Yawn. Get ready for more news reports about how poorly our schools are doing. And then realize it’s not all the teachers’ fault, but those educrats in ivory towers who haven’t seen the inside of a real classroom in twenty years. They have all these “wonderful” ideas on what to do which look good on paper, but not in the classroom. When will they see that if they just let us teach we’ll do okay?
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Kbells you are a clever, resourceful and entertaining woman. Have you considered getting bonded and working with the elderly? You could drive them to appointments, attend doctor visits, get them organized (scan their photos and write their stories), pay bills, take them grocery shopping, make arrangements for house repairs, cleaning, do laundry and simply be another set of eyes for family who live too far away?
Check with pastors you know to learn if there’s such a need. There’s a big need for folks like that where I live. We paid a lot of money for an aide to my father 15 years ago.
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🙂 mumsee 1, Cheryl 0.
😦 Fence battles. Me vs. a very determined dog. I need to fatten him up.
🙂 So far my reinforced temporary barrier from this morning seems to be holding. Although the real test will be after I feed the dogs. For now, they’re both anticipating the morning meal to come soon.
🙂 Excellent speakers Friday night as part of an eschatology conference being hosted by my church (and continuing today). The debate tonight will be between our pastor (post-mil) and another local pastor (dispensational pre-mil). I think I was sitting right behind the other pastor and a companion of his last night in the audience.
🙂 Formal speakers both flew in from the east coast and were excellent. I believe we’ll post video/audio laster if anyone’s interested.
🙂 Kirk Cameron came to the conference opening last night. I’m not as familiar with him as some of you may be, but he was fun to listen to. We also had a Christian script writer from Hollywood in attendance whom our pastor knows via FB, though he didn’t speak.
🙂 Throw a conference on eschatology and you’ll almost always get a crowd. 🙂
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Good ideas, Anonymous!
Many of the ladies at our church work for schools doing things other than teaching. Some are teacher’s aides, one works in the library, another is an assistant in the administration bldg. All share their children’s schedules.
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kBells, praying for an opening — working your personal contacts is key, I’m told. (I’m reading up on all that because I never know when I’ll be having to scramble to find something else at some point).
Are you on LinkedIn? They have a premium account for active job hunters. I’ve not upgraded to the premium account but I would if I were out there looking. I’m told it’s quite helpful. LinkedIn also provides hubs and member groups for particular kinds of job searches (media, writing, etc.).
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Good ideas. I do tend to get along well with seniors.
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🙂 Had a lovely weekend visiting with my daughter, her husband and the four grandchildren. In addition we had a great afternoon and evening with my other daughter and her two children.
🙂 My four year old grandson was thrilled to show me how to play foosball and win against me. I had seen this game played years ago when in college, but had no time or inclination to play it then. We had a lot of fun and were sometimes joined by the other grandchildren who don’t normally play.
🙂 Enjoyed the dinner and play (Steel Magnolias) that my daughter was part of.
😦 Started home on Sunday as soon as we could, but were stopped on a highway intersection and told the road was closed. The person who stopped us advised us not to try to keep going. We were hoping to beat the worst of the storm, but conditions were already whiteout bad. We decided to be wise and stay. We ended up staying two more nights, since windchills were too bad to be out in, if anything went wrong with our vehicle. I did not want to inconvenience anyone else, if something went wrong, either. We had an appointment, but it was easily postponed.
🙂 Two more fun days with the grandchildren and my daughter. The grandchildren had school cancelled, so we all played games and read books.
:{ SIL still jobless, except for substitute teaching.
😦 Two funerals today at the same time, but miles apart. We will just attend the one for my husband’s step-sister’s husband. He has been sick for quite awhile, as has the other acquaintance.
🙂 My parents were married 65 years ago! My dad tells everyone they are like a well matched pair of Clydesdale or Percheron horses. 😀
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The other thing is, get yourself some training in the latest computer techniques–you can buy a program, or watch the videos on Youtube. You want to know as much as you can about Excel and Word, but your skills from media can be very helpful for a small business. Learn HTML, if possible, the point being to help a small company with sales on the web.
Since you have experience at least around the cameras, experiment with shootings short videos–all of which are in demand in this visual community we now call cyberspace. You’d be surprised how much you know–especially if you did any of the producing/money management type work.
If you could take some sort of accounting course, or learn how to run a program like Quickbooks (the program IS expensive), that would go a long way toward preparing you for whatever comes your way.
I’d aim, too, at volunteering during the day while your son is at school in a ministry that can use/help you gain such skills. Our local PCC, for example, could use a lot of help in the webpage side of things. Editing, writing copy, producing videos, learning HTML (through WordPress, or send me an email and I’ll start forwarding you information I regularly get).
This would serve several purposes: enable to brush up your resume, but also put you in contact with people who could use your services if only for a short time, while letting you meet quality people in your community who would remember your service and if you let them know you’re job hunting, might very well consider you.
This would allow you to learn and increase your marketing potential while not neglecting your son (assuming you did this while he was in school).
The trick is to be flexible, pray that God will give you imagination and take baby steps. You’ll be surprised to learn just how valuable you are. You’ve got skills and abilities, you can do it!
I, for one, was not looking for a job when I got tapped. Here I am 10 years later trying to figure out why the account won’t balance with the 1099 the bank sent. Urgggg. I wish I had a little more sophisticated accounting background!
Blessings,
M
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Oooh. Cute house in mumsee’s neck of the woods.
http://www.trulia.com/property/3009264416-705-2nd-Ave-Nezperce-ID-83543
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Well, the interior could use some updating and a better look …
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That is a cute little house. A bit of paint would go a long ways… well maybe a lot of paint…
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Kare’s hired.
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i think I saw Donna peering out the window….and a couple of dog faces upstairs….and I am certain that rocker just had a cat on it…
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See, mumsee, I always have a Plan B and a Plan C going. 😉
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But it does need a fence.
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There are some cute houses—I took photos. I thought it was one of the ones I had walked past but it is behind the school not in front of it. I bet you could teach writing or or something. There is a darling WWII Veteran who would live just around the corner from you. He is quite the writer…you two could collaborate on a book.
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Ok, so the rest of my life is settled maybe. 😉
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You may not want me to do the actual painting – I am quite a klutz. I told my husband we needed to buy the 2″ wide masking tape because I kept going over the 1″ wide stuff, so we bought it AND I put it 2 strips wide and STILL managed to get paint where I didn’t want it. Sigh… oh well, it wiped off and we had a good laugh.
I would help pick the colours 🙂
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No dog park around but it is right there by the open fields, if you get the landowner’s permission, and I don’t believe there is a leash law in town.
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What would the fence be for?
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And yes, it is close to the airport but that is just the cropdusters in the spring and fall. Early in the morning. And it is quite close to the local newspaper. Put out every week.
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4 bedrooms! One for each pet?
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So Donna, when are you going to move? It sounds idyllic. Not a bad bit of the country that, if you can take the periodic drive into the valley along hairpin curves on cliffs that drop a few thousand feet. Not that I’m trying to discourage you or anything. After all, you don’t have to cross international borders to get there.
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You exaggerate…the longest drop is barely a thousand feet. But you must admit, the view was nice.
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Yes, Mumsee, the view was lovely, especially the time we looked down on an eagle soaring over the valley.
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🙂 I bought Michelle’s book two weeks ago. I enjoyed it and read it twice. I only paid 99cents. The charge disappeared from my Visa account. Michelle did you reverse the charge????? Thanks for the wonderful gift. 🙂
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I have no control over that, Jo. Watch your Kindle, though, to make sure Amazon doesn’t take the book back! 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Once I clear the backlog of historical fiction to write (sigh), I’ve got a sequel in mind bringing back most of the characters. 🙂
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I love reading historical fiction. 🙂
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okay, I had my geography lesson for the day. I didn’t understand how Mumsee could be in or near Nez Perce since it was in the wrong time zone. Wow, Idaho is really confusing to follow that time zone line and figure out which side is which. Now I see a little more clearly.
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Nez Perce is the tribe, Nezperce is the town. The town of Nezperce is on the Nez Perce reservation.
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Mumsee, she doesn’t need a dog park. Cowboy has learned to walk himself, and Tess can’t be trusted at a dog park. The “fence” is a cover for the neighbors to think she owns the animals; in fact they only come to her when they want food. (“Good person, good person!”)
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By the way, I don’t want to hear anything tomorrow about “six more weeks of winter.” It is February. This snow will melt soon. Period.
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i hope not. I love winter. So much less work than summer….okay, now you know just how lazy I am…
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Californians like fences.
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ho hum, doesn’t seem to be anyone awake on this Sunday evening.
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It’s Groundhog Day!
‘m afraid the groundhog will see his shadow in Hendersonville.
But the WTZQ weatherman says the worst is over. Not that winter is over, we just won’t see any more single digits.
I can live with that.
If I have to.
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🙂 Stimulating church conference covering a number of different aspects of eschatology, from a biblical understanding of caring for creation to apocalyptic or siege language in the Bible to how we are both to be at work in the world while also looking up and thinking on the things of heaven. More later.
😦 I’m really tired — speakers went long yesterday (when a professor told us he was used to giving 3-hour lectures we chuckled; but he was serious, as it turned out 😉 ) which shrank what I thought would be a 2+ hour break between the afternoon and evening sessions to just under an hour in which we had to scramble to grab a quick dinner before returning. I also picked up my friend from Downey who wanted to attend yesterdays sessions so there was a heavy walker to load, transport and deal with off and on throughout the day (she also tends to bring several heavy bags packed with books wherever she goes). After dropping her off last night I didn’t make it home until about 11 p.m. and, after feeding the dogs, didn’t get to bed until close to 1 a.m. Now I’m trying to wake up for church!
🙂 The back fence held. When I got home last night, all 3 animals were in. Poor Cowboy, so frustrated. Dreaming of the fenceless land in Idaho.
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Well, yes, there is no leash law, but one is expected to keep ones’ animals close to home. Now and then the cows will get out, but one is expected to retrieve them without too much delay. Troublesome animals are expected but I did notice a nice chain link fence in the picture of your place.
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😦 This reminded me of a huge rant I’ve had a long time.
Someone sent me a voice message on my mobile phone. It’s certainly an advertisement because no one ever texts me. I don’t even remember my password, so I can’t view it.
The thing is, it cost me a dime. A dime is trivial, it just bugs me.
And, if I answered it, it would tip me off to another business on my don’t patronize list.
And speaking of commercials, as I was, There is a dumb radio commercial in Hendersonville where a couple of women are talking. She is telling about her husband trying to fix a furnace, but she has the number of a furnace mechanic who will fix it when “he inevitably fails”. He does and she has the number. Problem is: To whom is the ad directed? If it’s to the women, it is misdirected because women don’t do the calling for furnace repairmen. If it’s to the men listening, they just turned him off. On my list of people not to call.
And I never go to Hardees. The reason? Their commercials are obviously pitched to someone who isn’t me.
And a TV commercial shows a car zooming through the snow for some reason.
And another has a woman riding the top of a train to somewhere.
Commercials have an effect on lots of people. That’s why they have them.
Many have a negative effecft6 on me.
The ones I like best are the Budweiser commercials. If I drank beer, it would be a Bud.
I don’t intend to buy a car anytime soon. But when I do, it will be one that doesn’t slide sideways.
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I had all the texting eliminated from my phone, because of those charges, Chas. Then we had to get a new plan and it is back on. I haven’t done it yet, but probably will at some point. I also find the soliciting irritating. I am on the do not call list for my cell phone, but some businesses don’t pay any more attention than they do on my land line.
The ground hog has no bearing on our having six more weeks of winter or not. There is no way we would not have at least six more weeks. Silly ground hog or his promoters. 😉
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Free texting is included in my plan (200 texts a month which I don’t use up). Texting is very handy, we use it a lot at work. But I suspect that more and more plans now include a certain amount of free texting as it’s become a fairly common way for people to communicate.
The thing I least use my cell phone for is … as an actual phone. 🙂
What color should I paint my new house?
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oh, Donna, that is a long way from the ocean. My first thing to check on that house would be the insulation and the windows. Winters will not be as warm.
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Time to get ready for school this Monday morning, but had to get 49 first!!
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Don’t forget, Lewiston is a seaport.
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hmmm… I did not realize that Lewiston is a seaport. That is very interesting….
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you are learning so much about Idaho, it almost sounds like you are preparing to travel here. Guest room is open.
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Very good to hear from sixth son today. He is doing well. He says he is glad he decided to go, it is hard but it is fun. He is making friends. He did get into trouble for a blade. He apparently took the razor out of his disposable shaver to make into a weapon and now gets to clean the latrine. Live and learn. I am glad they let him stay. He can do this. Anybody curious to see what they are up to can see photos at Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy. They are doing snowshoeing. With big smiles.
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Since I am the only one left standing, I guess I can proceed to take 57.
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And I ought to be able to do it without tripping over a bunch of folk. Tra la….
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So far so good….
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57!
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😯
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We have to humor her/ 😉
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What’s so special about ’57, except that we were married that year.
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What’s so special about ’57, except that we were married that year.
And some of us were born that year.
Oh, did I take 62 from someone? Or is this 61?
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That’s 61, and this is 62 (my number). 🙂
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Ha, I got 62 on both threads this weekend! I also, today, got 100 on the daily thread, and made the 100th comment on a blog post at another site. On a roll! 🙂
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Is this the most comments we’ve ever had on R&R? It doesn’t usually get this high that I can remember.
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mumsee: Does your son feel threatened?
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KI, my son has no trust. He does not have a happy childhood and a lot of adults let him down. He has loved living here because we have allowed him to have weapons and has reduced the number he needed to zero unless he had an especially upsetting day. Then he would improvise something, to let us know he felt threatened again. We would work on the issue. The Academy called to ask me if he had trust issues and we discussed that. So they are working with us and that is good. He is now around a lot of same age boys, some with the same ability to intimidate that he has. I lectured him that he no longer needs that stuff. Not only does he have God in his life, he has taken over a year of karate, and he has built his confidence so he no longer has to act like a jerk. He knows what I am talking about. But we would appreciate continued prayer for him as he works on his confidence.
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Mumsee – Praying for your son. Is this the same son who made those allegations last year? If not, what has happened to that son?
God bless you & Mike, & each one of your children, abundantly!
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🙂 Lee took me out to a nice local restaurant today for lunch, to spend some quiet time together. We don’t go out much, so when we do, I feel special.
Our habit over the last few years is to not get dessert at the restaurant, but stop by the grocery store to buy something for dessert. Then when we get home, I make some decaf coffee or tea, & we enjoy our dessert relaxing at home. Much cheaper than buying it in the restaurant, & more of it to enjoy the next day.
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I never get dessert at a restaurant. I wait and get a cookie when I get home.
It isn’t the money so much, but that counts too. But I know that if they brought me this humongous slice of pie, I would eat the whole thing.
And that ain’t good.
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We’re usually too full right after a restaurant meal for dessert right away anyway. Of course, I hardly ever finish a whole meal, as the portions these days are so large, but I love having the leftovers the next day.
So tomorrow I will be enjoying some more Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo, & the rest of my salad. 🙂
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🙂 I hear water as cars are passing by on the street out in front of my house. We may finally be getting some light rain.
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yeah for rain in California
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yes, Mumsee, I am thinking of coming by. However that would not be until next year when I am home for six months. My sons are in Portland, then there is a friend in Puyallup, then a friend in Richland, so I am already so close, Then someone else in Three Forks, Montana. So.. we will see. I love to plan way ahead and love maps, so fun
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And here we are, conveniently located right between Richland and Montana! Looking forward to your visit!
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