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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aL9rKJPr4&feature=player_detailpage ______________________________________________

Anyone have a QoD?

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

  2. okay, Mumsee, you are confusing me again. What squirrel??
    Did a squirrel get in your house? A friend in Boston had a squirrel running around her bedroom last week, what a story, it ran over her while she was nursing the baby.

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  3. Jo, did you send me an e-mail? It said something about trying with this account, and it said something about a file, but nothing seemed to be attached and as far as I know we hadn’yt discussed anything. Did you e-mail me yesterday, is someone using your name, or what?

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  4. Hi Cheryl, yes I think that I did. I was on my phone or ipad and noticed that there was an email in the outbox that had never been sent. as soon as I opened it, it sent nd I just had time to see your name. I think it was from several months ago, sorry.

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  5. no comments today? busy day for me now to have the energy to keep going this evening. Oh, I spoke to the fella who is going to drive to St. Louis for me to return my van. I told him how much I would give him to cover gas and lodging. He told me No, that is part of the gift I am giving you of returning your vehicle, all expenses are covered. Wow, blessed and blessed again.

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  6. There are a lot of nice people around.

    This is the day to actually leave the property. Drive down to Kamiah for an eye check, which is much better than driving all the way to Lewiston for an eye check.

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  8. Well, I got there, but they had no record of my appointment. Oops. They had the letter from the surgeon’s office saying I needed the follow up, but they had just had a shake up in their office and it was the fired person who called, so she probably did not get it recorded properly. Mike will reschedule when he is in town.

    The van was unable to back up the driveway into its parking spot so I don’t know if I will be making it to Grangeville for daughter’s counseling session. No big loss there. And I have snow tires on. But I am not putting on chains for such a trip so we will see if I give it a go or not.

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  9. I believe you came up the grade from Kamiah after highway twelve from Montana. We came up the grade. I just don’t like going down in the fog when there is snow and I might meet a snowplow. They take up a lot of room and don’t slow down. Worse is when they are grading and there is a large pile of gravel running down the road. Not enough lane for a car to drive down without straddling the gravel, if the car is high enough. Otherwise, you have to drive down the left side and cross back and forth on the gravel pile if a car comes. It is a beautiful road and an amazing road construction feature. It used to be used by horses and wagons to carry grain down to the river for barging.or to the tracks for railroading. I would not like that.

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  11. I see we’ve gotten to 5,000 now! Congrats on getting the big number, Kizzie. 🙂

    And now it’s five days to the secret room’s anniversary. Cool that it’s been going nearly three years now.

    The crazy-busy time with preparing for the Christmas piano concert, interviewing potential new students, and helping 5th and 6th Arrows prepare for their Sunday School program is all done now, so I can do some catching up on the blog.

    Cheryl, from the previous page (November 23, 2017 at 12:52 am), thanks for the encouragement. I may still do that some day — write an adult piano method — but I was happy to find a week ago a different adult method on the market that I had not seen in the music store I first went to a while back — a store with a large inventory. The store I visited last Friday, with a smaller inventory, had an adult method that looked better than others, and I may purchase that and supplement with some of my own compositions (probably yet to be written) that will help fill in gaps where I think more substantial treatment is in order.

    That is, if I get any adult students. The adult I interviewed in late November does not have an instrument yet. I told her she would need a piano before beginning lessons. I’m not sure when she will get around to buying one, or if she will sign up for lessons with me. She says she is interested, but … well, there were a couple red flags that went up with her, and though I offered her a position in my teaching schedule, I don’t know whether she’ll take me up on the offer.

    It’s in God’s hands, and I trust He will work it all out for the best.

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  12. The mom of a former piano student of mine came to the piano concert I played in December 2, and said she would like to study piano with me. She is having cataract surgery this month, though, so she said she’ll get back in touch with me probably next month after she sees how healing goes.

    So I might still get an adult student, even if the one I mentioned in my previous post doesn’t enroll.

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  14. Jo, I have not heard that it is. It is generally only closed for avalanche danger or fire. No fires currently and it is just starting into the avalanche time. We did get some snow last night, perhaps the mountains got more. I don’t think the grade has been closed more than twice in the twenty years we have been here and that was for a couple of blizzards.

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  15. So, just a few days until the 3rd anniversary. Any big plans for this? Let’s see, I could provide some Spanish food or music. I’d leave the cake making to mumsee. 6 Arrows could play some classical music. And I’m sure others could provide something of interest.

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  18. I have not been outside yet, it is still dark. But a lot of wind and I am wondering if it is a warm wind or cold. Guess I will find out when I step out the door.

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  20. Looking forward to tomorrow’s birthday celebration! I’ve got my playlist ready, but won’t tell you what it is, because, well, this is the secret room. Come back tomorrow to find out. 🙂

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  22. whoops, forgot to come on here during my travels. The grands wore me out and they had an indoor dog and a cat. So I was having some allergy trouble. So nice to have a quiet place to retreat to at the end of the day. Except for the night that I kept all three of them: 8, 6, and 3. I quietly let the three year old do battle with his conscience. I told him he needed to wear a life vest in the pool. He did not want to. I quiet ly watched him out of the corner of my eye, take it off and then just stand there for most of an hour. I didn’t make an issue of it, the decision was up to him. Brother had a life vest on and was having a great time learning to do cannon balls into the pool. Little one never relented and missed ll the fun. no lectures from me, but that didn’t look like much fun.

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  24. Yay for us!!!

    Three videos to celebrate three big years since the birth of this secret room! I’ll intersperse them with the festivities of the day. Jo opened the door to the 3rd Anniversary room, and I’ll start the music. Can’t wait to see who all shows up and what treats we have at the party — come on in! 🙂

    Now how did Mozart, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Dvorak know it was the secret room’s birthday? Beats me, but watch the video to the end — there are some cool jazzy guys who swing into the room and really get the fun rolling!

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  33. Mmmmmm, yum. Healthy indeed. We don’t serve no junk here.

    (But we do use double negatives.)

    So is it a birthday or an anniversary celebration here today? I say both — the anniversary of the birth of this thread, or, in other words, a birthday.

    Huh?

    Anyway, on to some music for the afternoon. If it’s not afternoon yet where you are, I can’t help it. When it gets to be afternoon on the West Coast, I will be at church for our last Advent service. So here is a very short piece, sticking to the birthday theme, and kind of cute, if I do say so myself.

    And don’t worry, these mice are too busy playing on their Steinmouse & Sons piano to get into all the delectable treats we have here today. :O

    Now don’t all go running away!

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  34. Am I an outsider? Someone, I think it was Janice, invited me here two years ago when I returned to WV after a long hiatus. This room had been born while I was gone. So what am I, member, invited guest, intruder…?

    I once intended to read this whole thread from start to present, but got bogged down somewhere in early 2015. I got far enough to learn all about cold dog parks, though.

    How do you decide what to talk about on the current Daily Thread and what to keep secret here?

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  40. It seems like we are in great need of a plate of brownies!

    These are standard brownies, right here.

    These are dark chocolate with a few chocolate chips.

    These here have raspberry jam–they’re about my own favorite.

    These have coconut. The ones on the right over here have coconut and walnuts.

    And these over here have, hmm, let me remember: chocolate chips, coconut, and walnuts, with the ones on the right side having all of that plus raspberry jam. Those are the ones that are really my favorites!

    Enjoy! And happy anniversary to everyone!

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  41. Mumsee brought a veggie tray, and since she included black olives, I think we are covered on that front. But here is some fruit salad. It has a few grapes, but they’re out of season so I didn’t include many. It also has mandarin oranges, gala apples, and bananas, and I’ve sprinkled in some coconut and walnuts. I thought about pineapple, but the store didn’t have any ripe ones. And I thought about kiwis, but they’re expensive and I wasn’t sure they would work, so here’s what I made.

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  46. More delicious treats!

    Alright, it’s past 5:00 on the West Coast, so I’m ready to go with the last version I picked out of Happy Birthday — complete with fireworks!

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  47. …And I was thinking, let’s celebrate with something other than happy birthday.

    How about more fireworks? 😉

    Thanks, secret roomers, for all the fun times in this little corner of the web. Will we keep going to the fourth anniversary? Time will tell.

    I’ll let this fourth video I’m posting be in anticipation of that happy event, if the Lord wills.

    See you back here tomorrow?

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  48. This reminds me of the last day we were on the old World Mag blog. There was so much food. Mumsee was baking all day long.

    I’m ever grateful to AJ for making a new home for us.

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  50. That sounds tasty to me.

    Time to head upstairs and do the dishes and other kitchen work with the arrows. We’ll come back downstairs when we’re done and clean up the party room here after y’all have hit the sack.

    And we’ll maybe feed a few scraps to those little mice above so they don’t jump around on the piano keys and keep us all awake tonight. 🙂

    Goodnight, secret wanderers.

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  56. WOW, I am glad that I didn’t miss the dessert. Incredible music, Six arrows, thanks so much for making a wonderful celebration for us. and Mumsee, thanks for all the food. You two know how to celebrate in style!!

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  57. Kevin, to answer your question, no one on the main blog is on “outsider” here, or it wouldn’t be mentioned periodically on the main blog. Some people come over here when they want to say they’re feeling sad, or to complain about something more privately, but for the most part I myself don’t do that, because while fewer people see this thread it actually is sticking along longer than other threads. But in some sense it is a “retreat” from the other thread, because fewer people come over here on any given day and the conversation is slower paced.

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  61. Rather interesting, though, I discovered upon reading the ingredient lists more closely this afternoon, that there was some sliced bear and sliced cougar.

    Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

    That Mumsee’s got courage.

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  62. Jo, I’m glad you enjoyed the music. I had fun picking it out. Great if you play it again for your birthday — I’ll love to hear it again, if you post it here. 🙂

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  63. Yep, I saw the unusual animal meat, and goat and sheep cheese. But the cake was only traditional ingredients. Oh, and I don’t usually watch the music videos, but you had some func choices.

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  66. Good to hear, Mumsee. I have a few things to do today. Hoping a friend is home so I can take her a gift and I want to go to the car wash and get the van detailed. Mostly I want to go to the post office and pick up the things that I ordered for my self! 🙂

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  69. prayers appreciated for communication. I am going to younger daughters for brunch, but have heard not a word from other daughter where we have Christmas dinner. pretty sure I am invited, but no invitation has come my way.

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  70. still waiting. The service this morning was very special nd lots of folks there, especially visiting family. Got some hugs from two very tall boys, men that I taught their Sunday school class years ago. There aare two more services tody. I may go to them all. Keeping busy is good. I am packing.

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  74. oh, guess I was anonymous. Going to a second service alone didn’t work for me, but God is good. Finally heard from oldest daughter and they re having a drop in for soup afternoon. And I had the wonderful privilege of my youngest bringing Archie and joining me for the 7:30 service.

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  76. Yes, I mean it was very hard not knowing of ny plns until 6pm on Christmas eve.
    oh, well, it went fine. I got to be prt of Christms with youngest and her hub and Archie. I am giving up on the aa key. it hs a mind of its own.

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  78. I am having two grands over to spend the night tonight. Prayers appreciated as some things need to be worked out. That I may love them and speak with love and kindness. I am noticing some things that I am praying about.

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  80. It was, but I survived.
    Now two more grands are coming from Portland for the next few days. Mom is coming to be with a friend whose mother just died and I will have the kids. The three year old stayed home with Dad. Just the 6 and 8 are coming.
    there are beds upstairs, but not sure if I want them up there. Maybe the couches will work.

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  81. Children enjoy the idea of camping in the living room or wherever. It works.

    Almost to the end of this year. Amazing how time flies as one ages.

    When are you headed back to the other side?

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  83. I think this is about one of the grandson’s birthdays. Somewhere around New Year’s. The other is August 28, I remember that one as it was my grandmother’s birthday as well.

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  86. And then there is always Opie Taylor, disappointed when the expected company didn’t seem to be going to stay overnight. He was going to be allowed to sleep on an ironing board between two chairs–“adventure sleeping!”

    When we had guests growing up, sometimes the guests slept on the couch (our brothers would sleep on the couch if they visited) and sometimes they had the girls’ room and we got the living room. And sometimes we’d just ask if we could sleep in the living room. I remember that on one of those nights we were in the living room, I decided to sleep in the narrow gap between the couch and one chair, on my side, just “to see if I could do it,” and I did. We had two couches, so I had no particular need to sleep on the floor, and certainly not to sleep wedged between furniture on my side, but I chose to do so. We also chose at times to sleep in cots in the backyard, which was nowhere near as comfy in our own beds.(Our cots were simply stretched canvas, not the mattresses some of today’s cots have.)

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  90. Youngest asked if I could watch Archie today. So much to do, yet I want to have time for my family. I said that I would come to the store as am not up for this house getting torn apart again. He likes to take everything out of the cupboards.

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  92. So tired today after speaking to a combined Kinder and pre kinder class. One little girl had a question or something to say every minute. Went very well, but, oh, so tiring.
    Then I went to one store to shop. Got several new tops. No more shopping now. I did go get some food as the frig is empty. Now I am set.

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  106. so nice that I have a car here. A Toyota sprinter which PNG listed as springter. All wheel drive which means I can mke it up these hills. Lots of errands to run. I have been to the store three times the clinic, directors office, finance, post office and of course, the school. Plus for meals at three different places. so convenient.

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  109. I have had the car for a couple of years. I had a van before that. I bought this one from someone who was leaving. Originally, my friend decided that I needed a vehicle and sent out a letter to folks asking for them to help. After it is dark at 6:30 or 7 each evening, it is not safe for a single to go out. If I have a single gal over for a meal, I need a way to take her home. anything happening in the evening, I need a way to get there. Now I get to be the one giving others rides.

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  112. I was, as you adjust to your other life. No adjustments here. Amazingly, daughter who is nonstop hungry, declined a bowl of ice cream I gave her last night as she was too busy yelling at how evil I am because I give the others treats but not her.

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  114. I try to engage her in conversation, there is none. Then I try to ignore her. But then she approaches, gets right in my face, and sometimes destroys (like if I am working on a puzzle, she might tip the table over). Now I have told her to not enter the living room as there is no need to do so. She bounces around on the fringes, putting a toe in, or even entering and then backing out. When I turn the recorder on she stops, just like she does when in public.Bizarre. She says she is leaving this morning and won’t be back until after lunch. That means she is planning to walk to the Catholic church.

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  115. How are things going on your side of the world? Getting your home back the way you like it? Getting the classroom back to how it works for you?

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  117. Home is good enough for now. Time to go work on the classroom. I also need to figure out how to renew my driver’s license. Which involves going into the nearby town, not easy to do. I learned yesterday that before you get your license you have to go to the bank and pay the fee. The banks have very long lines, could take an hour or more. But they told me to go out to aviation near here and where I can drive, and there is a small bank there with almost no one in line where I can pay. I may try and do that today.

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  118. Please pray as another young teacher wants to go into town, not a safe place. She needs to shop the secondhand clothing stores as her luggage has not come yet. That could take a while and she is talking about renting a vehicle and me driving. Yikes!! I have done it once.

    Also need to register my phone, but can’t get it to work.
    Always something, but only two more days before school begins.

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  124. Time zones. How did your first day of school go tomorrow or yesterday or next week?

    “Now I can spend a day planning the first day of school tomorrow.:” You do see how that might be confusing. Were you spending the day tomorrow planning for the first day of school? Or were you planning for the first day of school which starts tomorrow? Which would have been yesterday. Or next week.

    Remember, I am trying to get by day to day here and though I can pray for people, I am somewhat out of the loop. Crazy.

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  125. School began on Wednesday the 17th, so I have now completed two days of school. We always begin on a Wednesday.
    I appreciate the prayers. I had them do self portraits. It is a very mature class. Only two boys showed that they were very young, one especially.

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  128. My boy needs continual reminders to focus on his work and to quit cheating on his work and to do his work and to stop skipping work and to stop pretending to do his work and to do his work.

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  130. My aide is sharing more than she usually does. Wendy knows I value her opinion. Yesterday we got the last boy back from break. He was sitting next to a new boy. Within an hour Wendy was whispering to me that we needed to separate those two. The new boy is very bright, but does not want to do his work. Another boy, when I told the class, let’s go to our seats and get out our math, headed for the door. I stopped him and sent him to his seat. Wendy said he likes to just go look out the door or play with his backpack. Not any more. We will both be watching him. He and another boy left the back veranda the other day and we running across the playground. Yup, we have our eyes on him.

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  133. slightly better. I did ask a neighbor if one of her children could come over and help me take out the wet garbage, banana peels and the like. We have a home in our yard with a concrete top and then you need to move the iron lid. I cannot bend over that far. so a child will help.

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  134. I have been there, it is painful and disturbs the flow of life. But it does end. Rest it, stand correctly, don’t lift stuff, you know the routine. Praying for you, your attitude, your willingness to ask for help, and quick recovery.

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  135. My flat looks slightly funny as I have a straight chair next to my bed and to the couch to help me get up. I even put a little chair in the girls bathroom at my classroom. So helpful to have something to put a hand on as I rise. Am I am appreciating my small bathroom here with the cabinet almost touching the toilet and the window ledge on the other side.
    Creating help where I can. And leaving things alone that fall on the floor or moving a chair over to sit on while I pick something up. Being creative.
    But, the pain is much less and I am grateful.

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  136. I was reading Psalm 74 this morning. Talk of the enemy destroying the land, demolishing the worship areas, where is God. Still there. Still loving, still just, still righteous and still planning to save us from ourselves.

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  137. Snow here this morning, not much but it is pretty. Daughter asked what my plans are for April. That is when she plans to deliver my fifth grandchild. I don’t know if I am supposed to go to labor and delivery with her, or babysit or what. It is up to her. But I have to organize my small flock.

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  140. Daughter has one other child, a one year old daughter. I was there for that one but had to take the then fourteen year old with me. Husband and sis in law had the others and a neighbor took care of the place. Daughter stayed at the house while we went to the doctor. She sat and watched movies. The woman in the downstairs checked on her periodically. She was fine. Now, I would not do that as we never know what to expect.

    Daughter requested not having any children in her house this time, other than hers. With the allegations a few years ago, we never leave one of the girls alone with husband. So, it is not looking to likely I can go. I might be able to get a babysitter for the sixteen though that has never happened before. I had planned to take ten and let her stay and watch movies. We will see.

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  144. That is funny about the mail. Over Christmas it usually just piles up in Port Moresby until our flights have room to bring it up to Ukarumpa.
    They announced last week that they had finally gotten it all up here and we were grateful.
    We don’t expect much.

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  146. When it is over it makes us much more appreciative of our backs, until we forget and do something impossible again.

    Mail is not something present day children have much respect for. They like to get letters but with little understanding of the complexities or the timeliness of it. But I do. I am always amazed at how things have changed in so many ways in such short time.

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  148. No, but it does look a little like Tahoe.
    Monday morning and time to get ready for school. I have three more half days and then we go to full day kinder. This class is ready, except for two of the boys.

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  151. Got my ipad working after the battery totally drained. Now it is up to 100% I bought one of those devices that charges your phones etc, before I left. I decided that was a better way to do it. Charged it all night last night and only went up 10% Then today I charged the device fully and it worked. Of course it took it two tries to get to fully charged. We have a different current here and something drained the battery so this may be safer. I knew there was a reason I bought that.

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  152. One boy in class does not pay attention at all. He is either poking the other kids or staring off into space. I talked to him today and found that he was in grade one in a PNG school in another town, where his mom lives. So, the dad has three wives, and dad brought him here to attend our school. Both Wendy and I talked to him today. Hopefully he will pay attention now.

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  153. It sounds like you have my sixteen year old in your class. He has a difficult time leaving others alone in class. Not that there are three wives running around.

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  157. so tired after my first longer day. And then the principal came to talk to me about another thing that may be happening. It will involve a lot of work and I am tired. Also, it isn’t yet public knowledge, so not sure who I can talk to.

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  158. I have a short video I recorded on the smart phone that I replay for a cheering moment. Eleven year old sitting on the couch with a Geronimo Stilton book to his nose, reading sort of out loud and laughing and laughing!

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  160. oh, so glad you have that video clip. I harassed a student this week. Went up to his mom and told her that he said that he couldn’t read nd then he read me a book!!. Meanwhile he is standing there just beaming. Love those special moments.

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  164. They are showing a video during evening church and I am trying to decide if I want to go or not. It is in tok pisin, so I will not understand anything that they say. But this is the sorcery video that friends have spent the last year working on. I am delighted it is ready, but not sure that I want to see it.

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  165. They are saying not to bring children under 12 or something like that, which probably means that it will be too scary for me. This is the sort of thing that children here see all of the time, it is real and what goes on.

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  166. So I did not go, but just downloaded the video for phones.
    We are getting a nice soaking rain tonight. I love being inside in a nice, dry place and listening to the rain on the tin roof. The air should be so much clearer. And my hay fever should be better.

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  168. I’ve been listening, Jo. 🙂

    That video does sound interesting but scary.

    I’ve heard missionaries from certain lands telling us that American Christians may scoff at the idea of demon possession, but that it is a very real thing they deal with.

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  170. I’ve been dealing with sixteen year old, who wants to cast spells on me. Sometimes my daughter reminds me of that topic. She asks if she is demon possessed and tells me she wants to be.

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  171. Oh, Mumsee. I don’t know what to say. The situation you have with her is heartbreaking. I pray for God to get through to her, to do a healing work in her heart.

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  173. Part of the practice here is that when someone dies, instead of assuming that they were ill and died of natural causes, they try to find out who caused it by sorcery. It involves revenge killings.

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  176. Rather frustrating at work. I cannot find things. I was going to watch a little of that video with my aide and realized my speakers weren’t there. At least my aide knew who the other teacher had given them to. Not in her room, but when I called her she told me where they were. Those were speakers that I had purchased to use. Oh, well…

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  179. My aide left for several hours today trying to enroll her son into high school, or the last two years of high school. There was a crowd and they told them that they didn’t have certificates from the other school yet. So frustrating.

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  185. A very sweet birthday. It was truly a God thing to invite the other three singles to dinner. We got to know one another better and I had such fun giving them gifts. One shared the pain her family is going through. One is leaving at the end of the school year, but we will keep in touch.

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  186. As we near a new room, the posts are slowing down. I got another gift from the anonymous group that I have no idea who they are other than that they are from my town. Mysterious. I decided that I need to be thankful and to send them another note. God is working in this in some way that He chooses.

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  187. Mumsee, do you ever feel the need to get away?? I am content to be here in this lovely place, as your place is also lovely. yet after about three months I need to go somewhere to see what is over the hill. Of course your trip to church is longer than any trips I take in those three months.

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  188. Nope, I used to. I used to long to go camping but now my home is close enough and solitary enough and comfortable enough that I am not so stir crazy to go. Though it is still fun to go hiking about in the mountains, it does not happen like it used to.

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  189. Of course, I do wonder at times if I am doing my part to share the Gospel. But I am working with these children and folks in church and the sheriff dept and teachers, in my interactions.

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  190. We might or might not have freezing rain in the morning, might or might not have enough additional snow that it will be hard to get out of the driveway (which has already had one snowfall this week since it got plowed), so I gave my husband instructions not to wake me for church if it isn’t safe to go in. My sleep has been too erratic to be awakened needlessly, though I do hope to be able to go. I want to go anyway, but this will also be our first week in a month or more that we won’t be meeting in the basement, but in newly remodeled space; the workday today got the sanctuary set up and ready to go, and it would be nice to be among the people in it tomorrow.

    But if we have freezing rain or deep snow, I’m not going to be pushing myself to get there, and it’s yet another week my husband will be staying home sick. 😦

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  191. Cheryl – Sorry to hear your husband is still sick. Has he had the flu?

    A few days ago, we had some snow followed by freezing rain, and then the temps dipped. The lane was pure ice. There was only one day that I had to walk up the lane (to leave the bag of clothes by the mailbox, as I mentioned on the daily thread), and I was so scared as I shuffled my feet up the lane and back down again, with my feet slipping a bit a few times.

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  193. We’re not quite sure what all he has had. We went away for a few days in November, and he was starting not to feel well (and had already been on one antibiotic), and everywhere we went people had bad coughs. We suspect he probably picked up more than one bug at once. He is still coughing up phlegm and has missed multiple weeks of church. The antibiotics didn’t take care of it, so he’s flushing with saline, continuing to take probiotics, etc., but it’s hard on both of us.

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  195. Husband had/has a similar cough, been going on for a couple of months. A couple of days ago, he upped his prednisone to thirty rather than the five he was taking. That seems to have helped. He was on antibiotics twice for it.

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  196. Mumsee, I assume he is taking the predinosone for something else? Is it a med he is supposed to take continually (the rest of his life)? My husband and I would both like to avoid such things.

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  197. Cheryl – Tammy, who doesn’t comment here anymore, but I see her on Facebook, wrote about being sick for a long time, with an awful cough. The other day she wrote about going to the doctor again. I don’t know if this will be helpful, but here it is:

    “Okay, people, I really need to figure this out. I went to the doctor again yesterday. I was miserable. Took FOREVER. However, the doctor I saw called what I had “one of the flus going around.” Then, he gave me five prescriptions, including Prednisone. (I’m thinking he noticed how miserable I felt.) The most significant ones are the Prednisone and the pill to help control coughing. [Which she later said was Benzonatate.]

    First of all, the anti-cough pill. Why didn’t the doctor two weeks ago give me that??

    Then, the Prednisone. After ONE Prednisone (now two), I feel better than I have in 3 weeks. Not well, yet, but better. And, I’m thinking better than I do normally, even when I’m not sick.”

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  198. Hmm, I thought I replied to this. Anti-cough medicine wouldn’t help him, because it isn’t that he has a cough that he can’t shake, but that he is (voluntarily) coughing as a necessary way to bring up phlegm. I don’t know whether prednisone is a good option–what is its purpose in this case? (I am not good at researching drugs online–plus I am on deadline today and really just don’t have time–but my brief research told me it is used for all kinds of things, and also has all kinds of side effects, not really narrowing down for me the use in this instance.)

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  199. I think Prednisone decreases the inflammation that often causes various other symptoms, excessive coughing being one of them. But it wouldn’t do anything for the phlegm he is coughing up, I don’t think. I’m assuming he’s seen a doctor?

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  200. Kizzie, yes, he has seen doctors several times since October–his regular doctor a couple of times at least, a clinic twice, ER once (to check and make sure it wasn’t going into pneumonia) . . .

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