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Our Daily Thread 12-20-14

Good Morning!

5 Days!!!! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Kare.

*It’s now Sunday the 21st, so I believe someone has a birthday today.

Happy Birthday Linda. 🙂

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On this day in 1790 the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.

In 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union. 

In 1879 Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ. 

And in 1968 author John Steinbeck died at the age of 66.

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Quote of the Day

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

Dale Evans

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 This one is a request.

And this one is because I like it. From King’s College Choir

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Anyone have a QoD?

7,368 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-20-14”

  3. So I would complete one report card then wander around my classroom or play solitaire or have a snack and finally get back to work.

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  4. Part of the problem was that my aide had not gotten things ready for me as I had asked on Friday. So I had to organize everything before i began. Not sure what she did with the four hours that she had for prep.

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  5. I loaned her my camera so that she could take pictures of the two graduations for her children on Thursday. Well, she let another son use it whom I had specifically asked her not to let him use it. So that will be the last time that I loan my camera.

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  7. Then the gal that does the orders came to school. There were so many incomplete orders that she wanted to keep them all. I prayed mightily because that did not seem right as folks had paid for their books. She spoke to the vice principal and told me later that they would send them out on Monday.

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  8. So much packing to do. I am supposed to leave my small home here ready to rent out. I don’t think anyone will be in it, but I still need to put all of my things away.

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  9. Six days of school left. Four days this week and then two more days next week. We always get out on a Tuesday. Then Wednesday I begin the trip home.

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  13. Oh, I had been checking in, but seemed to be the last to say anything. Then suddenly….
    Well, here we are. Getting ready for a flight back to the States and other such.
    We are enjoying getting to know baby Linda.

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  16. Wow, Mumsee, that is a lot of new grandchildren in a short period of time. Glad that you are getting to play with Linda. Please pray that the 1 and 3 year old at home will warm up to me quickly. I sent them some cards, but we will see. Last Christmas the other grandma was there and they went somewhere with her so I didn’t see them much.

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  17. packing, packing, packing. One of my students got his mom to invite me to dinner tonight and then they invited another family too. It was loud, but a good visit. And I learned about some of the stresses others are under.

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  24. I went on a walk around the block today with my friend. The three mile block. I am tired. It had more hills than I ever noticed when I drove it. And I forgot to bring water.

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  25. The two of us also went over to inspect my house and see the repairs they had done to the woodpecker damage. They did a good job, we were pleased to see.

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  26. Then she walked me around and showed me what trees will be taken out later. It was very interesting. The property will look so much nicer. And she bought a hose for the renters to water a tree which I thought was dead.

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  27. We could see some rosemary and juniper that needed trimming and a bush that needed taking out. I found one of the property corner stakes. Then she thought that we could ask her husband and grandson to do some work and I would pay. Now the final plan is for all of us to go over there to work tomorrow. I know it needs doing, but I have not done anything personally on my property for fifteen years. I have only paid others to work. So strange.

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  28. oh, Lucy and Archie are fun to be with. They know who I am and we are playing games together. I have already mentioned taking them to Bible Study Fellowship. Pray that she agrees.

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  31. I moved into the missions house today. They have made changes and done some updating. But it looks bleak. The floors are the vinyl that looks like wood, but it has a gray cast to it.
    And things have been moved around. It just doesn’t feel friendly. The pictures that were on the walls have all been removed and a few things I don’t like have been put it. Several of them look to be from PNG. To make me feel at home???? But I do not like them and have already taken one down. I take a picture first so I can put them back where they were.
    I finally remembered that I brought some things home and just got out a small quilted wall hanging to put up. That makes it better.

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  32. It is time to begin the new year on here. I seem to be talking to myself.
    I took the sixth grade, 12 year old granddaughter out to lunch. I forgot how annoying that age can be. The lunch was wonderful. I took her somewhere I had been but she had not. Later we came to my house which I should have skipped. We even took a walk. She went a different way. When we got together again she kept asking again and again and again why I did not want to go her way. Mumsee I am feeling lots of sympathy for you.

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  34. Still haven’t seen any of my family near Denver. I am sorta planning on going next week, but the flights that I saw were not working.
    Fourteen year old is in a ballet performance next week.

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  35. Hi Jo. I was wondering if this was gonna continue. It seemed to have been stopped. Maybe we will eventually make it to 10,000 comments after all.

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  37. I have been rather busy lately with the little baby, but things are quieting down. Now that I have two grandchildren here. The baby is off to bed with mommy and the one year old went to sleep talking with grandpa. I had better hit the rack as well as I am sure they won’t sleep very late tomorrow. Just hoping he sleeps through the night.

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  39. This isn’t quite the same thing, but Boy slept downstairs last night, since his mom was at her friend’s house last night, and I put him “to bed” down here when I childsit him in the evenings. Throughout the night at various times, I would hear him coughing, and he woke up early because of that. And then he woke me up.

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  42. I am sad tonight because I can’t watch tv. I usually only watch one show a night. I have been enjoying The Voice auditions and Blue Bloods.

    I understand the church decided the bill was too much, but I miss it. I figured you all were safe to tell. I do not want to seem ungrateful. I stay here for free, Free!!

    But I miss it and it makes me sad. You see it was only ten channels and it was the same type of service that I have had since I was a kid. They say I can live stream things. That makes me even sadder. I have to learn something totally new.

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  44. I got my mammogram today. Then I went walking on the sidewalks around there.

    Then I drove to my doctors office. Which is funny because when they checked their records I had not been in since 2015.

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  45. So I went to the doctors office to make an appointment instead of calling. Because I need to get some blood tests and I would like to get those done before my physical so that they can explain the results to me. So next week I will go in to get the referral for the blood work and then have my appointment the following week.

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  46. Then later today I got an email from my friend who lives at Lake Tahoe. I forgot that we had tentatively set up two dates to meet. You guessed it. They said they could meet on the same day that I made my doctors appointment for. Oh, well. I will call the doctors in the morning and see if I can change the time. I plan to drive up there as it is such a beautiful drive.

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  48. Hi Jo! I thought maybe this thread had “died”, but I guess not.

    I like Blue Bloods, too. That was one both Hubby and I enjoyed. If you go to cbs.com tomorrow, tonight’s episode will be available to watch. I don’t how to watch it at the same time it is on, if there is a way.

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  50. Jo – I left you the link to last night’s Blue Bloods episode on today’s daily thread. I hope it works for you.

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  51. oh, it has only been a month since I have been around here.
    Mumsee, I am going to write a note to my single friend in Grangeville. Did you mention that you would be willing to help her out? I am not sure if I am remembering correctly. She lives in a fifth wheel trailer in a trailer park. She may work for social services of some sort.

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  52. Oh, I did write the friend whom I mentioned above, but the note came back. She must have moved on to somewhere else.

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  53. My youngest daughter dropped in with the two youngest grands. I had said that I would watch them on Monday. I also told her I was fasting today. So it was hard to have the energy for them..

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  54. The boy wants what he wants and does not obey very well. It is exhausitng to be around him. I expect my no to be listened to. He pretty much does what he wants. That will not happen on Monday when I am in charge. I think I will try to lay down some ground rules before they come in the house. We will see. They were so excited today as they had not been in my house for almost three months. A little wild…..

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  55. I like that picture of Chas and Elvera. I tend to walk like that with my hands on my hips to keep me going when I am getting tired.

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  56. Not sure what is going to happen, but I am feeling rather down. I received an email today without any prior notice that went out to my Bible study group. It said that the garden here at the house where I am staying has gotten overgrown and wanted folks to come over for a workday. I privately emailed back, not to the group. and said that I had been working in the garden today and felt that I could take care of it.

    No response.

    Another group response came setting the day for Monday.

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  57. I know I am taking it personally. The gal who oversees the house parked in the driveway on Sunday instead of at the church. I was pretty sure that she would do that so went out to meet her. I asked about where to dump the weeds that I had been pulling up. I also asked about the driveway which is really overgrown. She said that the church gardeners should take care of the driveway. Now that I knew where to dump the weeds, I spent today doing lots more work.

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  58. At this point I am planning on leaving on Monday before they come and just finding somewhere to hide out.

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  60. Jo – Maybe it is not anything against your ability to take care of the garden, but that they think you shouldn’t have to do all the work yourself. Maybe they just want to help you? Or possibly your email got lost in a spam folder.

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  65. OK, I haven’t actually left yet. I’m curious how many comments it takes to get it back on the “Top Posts” list.

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  88. oh, my, what a silly day on the blog. It is funny as quite a long time ago on this thread I posted the button that sends every comment to my inbox. So I knew you had all been busy. I don’t worry about making the top posts list. Kizzie taught me how to star the thread so it is always available.

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  90. yes, I am, though everything is uncertain right now. I am going through my clothes and packing. On the 30th I will be leaving this house and going to my friends fro the rest of my time. Then on the 1st of July I will head north to see friends, family and to return the van.

    It is that deal of each piece of clothing: do I need it for the next month here? does it go back to PNG with me, or should I store it. And then the same decisions with each piece of paper. Oh and then the rest of my food too.

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  91. So yesterday an older than me single friend who lives south of San Francisco emailed me. So I emailed her back and said if she wanted to come for a visit, this is the last week that she could as I would not have the house after this. She answered within five minutes and said that she would come. from Tuesday to Saturday. I think that she has been alone as I have been.

    However I am not sure that I know how to have company. I eat very simply, but I think that I have enough to feed her.

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  92. It will be fun and refreshing. She is probably as easy a guest as you are and the fellowship will be sweet. Enjoy!

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  93. I am looking forward to camping with eldest daughter and her family in mid July. A couple in church have offered to watch the baby for daughter who will be working, while we are gone.

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  94. Hello. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood.
    Beginning to make meal plans for the camping trip. Husband is now talking about putting his camper on his truck. We have never used the camper for camping, though he lived in it while working the Vancouver Olympics. It paid for itself as he set it up in the Olympic parking lot and just lived there.

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  95. Boy told me earlier today that he and his mom are going to be camping out in Virginia’s backyard. He seems to think it is tonight when they will be doing that, since Nightingale has tomorrow off, but I hadn’t heard about it.

    Nightingale had set up their tent in our backyard a couple nights ago, for the kids to play in it for a while. Last evening she joined them in there to play board games.

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  96. Another beautiful day here, but it appears Tina may be off to a rough start. She came out with a pleasant good morning, but that does not necessarily mean anything. The fact that she came out nearly an hour late says much more. She asked if she should go out and do her chores. Mike had told her yesterday that she should do them at seven thirty, gather eggs at three thirty, and do chores again at five thirty. She opted to not do so and Mike has been out doing them for over half an hour already. She missed the boat. And she has a clock and when is her “normal” is very prompt.

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  98. I have not accomplished anything today as we had the abrupt change in plans.

    I hope your visit is going well, Jo.

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  100. Those are good things. Mike hired Melody to do his chores in his absence, but I found her checking the baby chicks, who had no water. Then closing them up and moving on right after telling me the goats had plenty of water. Which they did not. I fired her. On the first day. She knows how, just won’t. So she is pulling weeds for free on the patio and walkway. Those jobs don’t matter. Nothing will die of hunger or thirst if she neglects to weed the patio. Did I mention she nearly did Barney in this winter? Tony was the dog walker and she was the dog feeder After he returned from walking them, I would ask if she fed them. Yes, she said. After a couple of weeks, twenty three commented that Barney was getting terribly thin. I went out to check and indeed, he was nearly starved. So I put him on intense canned feeding, several times a day, to get him back. He is back but she clearly did not learn the lesson.

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  101. That is very sad, Mumsee. Did she realize that poor Barney was starving or did she just not consider that that is what would happen?

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  103. All of her sibling group seems to like animals but do not seem to have compassion for them. More like they are nice tools to have around.

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  104. You might think Tony would have noticed the dog getting skinny as he was walking him twice a day every day for a good distance. But he is focused on “I am to walk the dogs”.

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  105. It is really disturbing how much early abuse or neglect can affect a child. Do you think that is what is behind these thought patterns, or do you think it is something else? Or maybe a combination?

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  106. My thought is they were exposed to quite a bit of drugs and alcohol in utero. I suspect there is a family trait of autism and low IQ. All that together, and abuse, bring us to this point.

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  108. It is raining here. Husband and granddaughter are off to get mommy from work. She does not have a car anymore so husband gets to drive over and back twice a day. Takes about forty minutes each way so that is about two and a half hours of extra driving each day. Once at ten at night, when all the deer are out. Last night, I rode along part of the trip, and we got to see little coyote pups. Every year some coyotes make a den in a culvert a couple miles down the road toward town and if you are there at the right time, you get to see the pups out playing and mousing along the road. Cute!

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  110. Okay, now daughter has two cars. Her brothers brought the jeep up from Boise and Mike bought one for her to buy from him in a neighboring community for fifteen hundred. The jeep will require her to remember to add oil. We may just give it to eighth son for a wedding gift, if he ever gets his driver’s license.

    Twenty three went to Lewiston with baby to meet a friend from her drug days. Hopefully, she returns and it goes well.

    Jo should be out of the ocean by now. If she stepped in. Watch out for those sneaky waves.

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  111. I had so much driving to do that I really only looked at the ocean.
    It was wonderful, what a drive. I am in Florence, Oregon now.

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  112. A beautiful ocean. Except when it isn’t. Kind of like my granddaughter: delighted child, except when she isn’t.

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  113. Not much happening around here. The grass is growing, the birds are singing. Mike and Tina went out and picked up trash for a few hours. The neighbor came by. I am reading a book on the Japanese internment (WRA) camp that was halfway between Kooskia and Lolo, Montana. People in other camps volunteered to come here so they could work on the highway and get paid. Not a nice thing our country did but perhaps made sense to some in the day and maybe could have been carried out with less corruption and more honesty.

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  117. Sometimes I miss when Boy was a baby or toddler, but then I remember how much more “labor intensive” that was. Now that he is nine, the “labor” is easier in some respects, but more mentally and emotionally difficult in others.

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  121. Well, I have just added to Mike’s burden. Tried to untangle a wire wrapped around the axle of the ztrack only to realize at the last microsecond that it was actually puncturing the tire. If I had left it alone it would have been fine. Instead, I have another flat tire.

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  123. Well, we are off. Mike has to return on Monday night for a Tuesday morning meeting and hopes to get it fixed then so I can mow upon our return.

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  127. Jo hasn’t been around here lately. I guess I haven’t, either, as far as commenting, but I do check in to see if there are any new comments.

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  132. Jo – I’m sorry. You must be so disappointed. But I know that you know that God has a plan. (I have had to hold on to that hope since Hubby died. It is indeed a comfort, even if I don’t know what the plan is. 🙂 )

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  133. Mumsee – I am doing pretty well, mostly content with this life that God has given me. My heart does ache for my daughters and grandson to know Jesus, so I put them in God’s hands each day in prayer.

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  134. Sorry to hear it, Jo, though at the same time, it had to be very challenging taking and making all those flights. Dealing with a challenging culture. But the children! We will see what God brings for you to do now, or even if things change.

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  135. Kizzie, glad to hear. We do have to let God deal with the children, as He does with us, with great Love and mercy and grace, in His time.

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  137. Doing okay. I feel God is simply telling me to wait. No one has even made it back yet and the virus is just starting to spike in PNG. Also, the doctor said that they had several discussions concerning me. What to do with someone who is healthy, but 71? I felt his concern and realized that they were doing this for my protection. I still feel led to go, but will wait.

    I am totally content with being in and teaching in Ukarumpa. But the whole idea of the flights fills me with dread. Can you imagine wearing a mask for two days worth of flights.

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  138. In the encouraging news department, I weighed myself today and had lost another 1 and 1/2 pounds. The walking is working. Plus my friends cooking and the small portions she serves.

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  139. That is how my thought runs toward travel. It does not bother me to live in a different country, it bothers me to get there and to get back and now with smaller spaces and masks, etc…

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  140. I am trying to stay away from the scale, it tells me things I don’t want to hear. I remind myself my goal is good blood pressure. A nice thing would be to lose another thirty pounds….

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  141. Mumsee – I have given up on setting a certain goal weight, and am focusing more on cutting down here and there for the health aspect of it. (Although I do have a conservative idea of how much I would like to lose.)

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  142. But I will not beat myself up over not reaching it, if I at least make some progress. Some is better than nothing.

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  143. Kizzie, my whole thing was to get the blood pressure down and between walking and eating slightly better, that has happened. I am happy. But to keep it down, I have to continue to ramp up a bit. And that is good.

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  147. Hi Kizzie! Sorry to say I’m likely not going to be much help getting the thread to 10,000. 🙂 It’s kinda fun knowing this is still here, but I mostly just feel like reading it (occasionally) instead of talking on it.

    I wanted a post about Chas here on his special day, though. It’s not every day one of our fellow wanderers turns 90. 🙂 So I mentioned it here to save it for posterity on this thread that keeps on going… 😉

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  150. Ah, deciding priorities can be tricky at times.

    In general, I try to do the hardest chore first thing in the morning, to get it over and make sure I don’t skip it later.

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  151. By “skip it” I can mean either run out of time or lose motivation to do it.

    “First thing” means after I’ve gotten ready for the day, had my Bible reading and prayer time, and done my few every-morning duties. But sometimes, especially if I really don’t want to do that hard chore, I will fit it in before those things.

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  153. This is true. I do my wake up stuff and Bible reading then head out for my walk and prayer and praise time. Then back to the chores like chopping wood and watering and such. Keeping the youngest two busy for an hour and a half before coming in for breakfast followed by school. And then I am basically done for the day, doing a little this and that but mostly spending time with children and granddaughter.

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  154. Jo, by the way, has been a big encouragement to me. I walk twice a day. The morning longer walk and the shorter walk to the mailbox, about half a mile. Blood pressure is generally below 120/80. Often quite a bit lower. And I have managed to drop twenty five pounds. Thanks, Jo!

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  155. I am hoping that my relationship with eighth son, Marc, and the girlfriend, Kayla, has been opened up. May God soften hearts toward Him and make all things new.

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  160. It has been almost a year. We aren’t going to let this thread die are we??
    I could not even remember what year it began, but I found it.
    It is amazing what you can do instead of report cards.
    Are we still trying for 10000?

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  168. Merry 2-Days-After Christmas!!

    We could keep doing this and get to 10000 in… 7.2109589041 years! When the thread is nearly 17 years old!

    I’m exhausted already. 😀

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