Today is Butler Reunion day.
I tell you every year about Elvera’s mother’s family reunion. It started in 1931 and for Elvera it was always bigger than Christmas because she always got a new dress and got to play with hour cousins.
She and Polly used to drive down from Virginia to attend the Butler reunion. The only ones she missed have been the ones when she was in Texas
😦 Elvera isn’t going to the Butler reunion.
Polly’s husband has congenital heart failure, is awaiting a pacemaker and Polly decided not to go. Elvera can’t go by herself. She can’t drive down there by herself, though she has done it from Virginia when she was younger. She wouldn’t’ want to anyhow.
I told her that I would take her. I really would.
But she knows that I don’t want to go to the Butler reunion. I told her it would be OK for a few hours. But she said no. She isn’t going.
She will likely never attend the Butler Reunion again.
I told you several times that when you get our age, all change is bad. “Things are about the same.” Is a positive statement.
The good things are the birth of a grandchild and seeing one come to the Lord. Right RKessler?
😦 Watching my own father-in-law deal with the ugly sides of aging and declining health, and Mom, his wife of 60 years, suffer by watching it, and my Chicago mama having list a leg to diabetes.
🙂 I’m finally making good progress on the book I’m editing, with some rewriting.
🙂 It has been a really wonderful week for shots of creatures in the back field (mostly deer and turkeys) with some good butterfly and songbird shots thrown in.
😦 Hunters had better start going after those turkeys, because adults have no real predators in this area, and I can’t imagine we can sustain many more (they can be aggressive, and they eat a lot). If every breeding female manages to bring three young per year to adulthood, obviously the numbers can grow quickly. (As I was writing this, our group of eight toms entered the field; about 20 hens and young were already out there. I see eight very often, occasionally ten or twelve, so I don’t know if eight is a subgroup of the larger one, or separate groups. Just that we had several hundred pounds of good meat eating out there.)
🙂 The ability of modern optometrists and eyeglass makers
😦 The need for bi-focals and an adjustment to them
🙂 Our daughter’s boyfriend is making lunch for us today–while our daughter is at work
😦 Family tension over stuff so silly as our lack of interest in a sales party
😦 I am also sad that Elvera will not attend the Butler Family Reunion. I am sure the rest of the family will miss her.
😦 My own personal WWII Veteran is home on hospice. It hurts him to be touched. He is on morphine drops they are giving him orally.
🙂 He told his son he didn’t want to leave the hospital. Most older people want to go home to die. They moved into assisted living in 2013. I think he doesn’t want to die where he will leave his wife. It is a small apartment. I think he wants to take care of her this one last time.
😉 If my time line is correct they have been married 70 or 71 years.
🙂 Saturday — and the weather bonus: seems like we’re heading into a bit of a cool spell
🙂 The paper is still posting & publishing, I still have a job
😦 New alternator for the Jeep cost a bundle.
😦 Got the SS breakdown on what I’ll get at various retirement age and I’ve decided to keep working as long as possible. 🙂
🙂 There’s a rumor that we may — MAY — get 2-3% raises next year, the first increases offered in more than eight years if they come through; it’s still iff-y, though
😦 One of our 2 summer interns had her last day with us yesterday, she heads back to Georgetown for her junior year later this month — we had pizza for lunch to send her off
🙂 Feeling more encouraged about next year’s presidential election, although it will still be an uphill battle for conservatives on a number of fronts, I’m afraid. But there seems to be a deafening (worried?) silence on the other side right now, which is rather refreshing for a change.
😦 It is difficult to get my mom to go or stay at some events because of her short term memory issues. She does not want to get caught not remembering someone or something during a conversation.
😦 Funeral for us for a former in law. It is always sad to see the impact of divorce on a family.
🙂 The gospel was given at the service.
🙂 Five days of musical doings this week. On the one hand, they are enjoyable and enjoyed by those who cannot always get out to other places. OTOH, it makes for a short week for anything else for us!
🙂 little boy who was so sad that he didn’t come to class one day is back and happy
🙂 made it back to the weight room this week
🙂 😦 feeling slightly sore, but know that is good. Means I am using those muscles again
😦 still no hot water in the kitchen sink, but I did turn in a work order
🙂 🙂 Facetimed with one daughter and her 4 daughters from my classroom this week, during odd moments. Even used her as my writing example and facetimed quickly to show my family to the class.
Elvera’s older sister and her daughters went to the reunion. Elvera called Argeree last night and they talked a while.
Polly just called and they’ve been talking 30 minutes, so far. 🙂
Did I tell you about the time when we were living in Annandale (Polly lived in Fairfax, nearby.), she and Polly went to the Butler reunion together. They returned on Monday. It’s an eight hour drive if you don’t stop. Elvera got home, said she forgot abut something and called Polly.
They talked 45 minutes.
Glad Elvera’s getting the full report from this year’s reunion.
🙂 Talked to Carol — she’s made a friend at the Hollywood Pres. church that’s right around the corner from where she lives (with another woman who’s also a Mo. Synod Lutheran but is out here from Michigan, she works in the entertainment industry — not sure doing what — but she’s called Carol and offered to pick her up for church in the future, which is great).
There’s no Mo. Synod church in that area and going back to her former church takes Carol 2 hours each way by bus, so the Hollywood Pres church may be her best fill-in option, though she really misses the liturgy, especially the corporate time of confession. But it’s an active church that is evangelical for the most part, with Bible studies and some outreach ministries; and it’s summer, so a lot of things are temporarily on break, including their mid-week services, but come September those will pick up again.
Liturgy, meaning the specific Lutheran liturgy that Carol has been used to all her life.
But she’s also attending the Presbyterian church’s so-called “contemporary” service because the traditional service (which would be more to her liking and probably closer to what she’s been used to) conflicts with their summer Bible class time that she feels is important for her to attend (hopefully there will be more time options once the fall schedule resumes — it’s a big church with what seems like a large congregation).
The church also has an early-morning contemplative service, but I’m afraid that might have some new age leanings, who knows. The traditional service would be the best fit, I’m pretty sure.
🙂 Physical therapy and daily doing the exercises are continuing to yield good results. Today for the first time in months I could pull a shirt off over my head the normal way: arms crossed in front so my left hand was grasping the right side of the shirt, and vice versa, then lifting my elbows up over my head. Couldn’t do that last week.
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Today is Butler Reunion day.
I tell you every year about Elvera’s mother’s family reunion. It started in 1931 and for Elvera it was always bigger than Christmas because she always got a new dress and got to play with hour cousins.
She and Polly used to drive down from Virginia to attend the Butler reunion. The only ones she missed have been the ones when she was in Texas
😦 Elvera isn’t going to the Butler reunion.
Polly’s husband has congenital heart failure, is awaiting a pacemaker and Polly decided not to go. Elvera can’t go by herself. She can’t drive down there by herself, though she has done it from Virginia when she was younger. She wouldn’t’ want to anyhow.
I told her that I would take her. I really would.
But she knows that I don’t want to go to the Butler reunion. I told her it would be OK for a few hours. But she said no. She isn’t going.
She will likely never attend the Butler Reunion again.
I told you several times that when you get our age, all change is bad. “Things are about the same.” Is a positive statement.
The good things are the birth of a grandchild and seeing one come to the Lord. Right RKessler?
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😦 Elvera can’t go to the Butler reunion.
😦 Watching my own father-in-law deal with the ugly sides of aging and declining health, and Mom, his wife of 60 years, suffer by watching it, and my Chicago mama having list a leg to diabetes.
🙂 I’m finally making good progress on the book I’m editing, with some rewriting.
🙂 It has been a really wonderful week for shots of creatures in the back field (mostly deer and turkeys) with some good butterfly and songbird shots thrown in.
😦 Hunters had better start going after those turkeys, because adults have no real predators in this area, and I can’t imagine we can sustain many more (they can be aggressive, and they eat a lot). If every breeding female manages to bring three young per year to adulthood, obviously the numbers can grow quickly. (As I was writing this, our group of eight toms entered the field; about 20 hens and young were already out there. I see eight very often, occasionally ten or twelve, so I don’t know if eight is a subgroup of the larger one, or separate groups. Just that we had several hundred pounds of good meat eating out there.)
🙂 The ability of modern optometrists and eyeglass makers
😦 The need for bi-focals and an adjustment to them
🙂 Our daughter’s boyfriend is making lunch for us today–while our daughter is at work
😦 Family tension over stuff so silly as our lack of interest in a sales party
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😦 I am also sad that Elvera will not attend the Butler Family Reunion. I am sure the rest of the family will miss her.
😦 My own personal WWII Veteran is home on hospice. It hurts him to be touched. He is on morphine drops they are giving him orally.
🙂 He told his son he didn’t want to leave the hospital. Most older people want to go home to die. They moved into assisted living in 2013. I think he doesn’t want to die where he will leave his wife. It is a small apartment. I think he wants to take care of her this one last time.
😉 If my time line is correct they have been married 70 or 71 years.
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;-( Fancy Feast cat food
🙂 visiting cats
🙂 friend receptive to salvation
🙂 other friend growing in Christ
🙂 new friends@writer’s group
🙂 beautiful cloud formations lately
😦 friends suffering bad health
🙂 watermelon
🙂 thinking of B.O. no longer Pres
🙂 church off sabatical
🙂 son almost done w/summer school
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😦 That’s sad about Elvera not attending the Butler reunion.
🙂 My rave is my praise on the prayer thread.
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🙂 My parents actually let take their photograph (Daily Thread).
😦 Strange health problems (Prayer thread).
🙂 😦 One day at a time.
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🙂 Saturday — and the weather bonus: seems like we’re heading into a bit of a cool spell
🙂 The paper is still posting & publishing, I still have a job
😦 New alternator for the Jeep cost a bundle.
😦 Got the SS breakdown on what I’ll get at various retirement age and I’ve decided to keep working as long as possible. 🙂
🙂 There’s a rumor that we may — MAY — get 2-3% raises next year, the first increases offered in more than eight years if they come through; it’s still iff-y, though
😦 One of our 2 summer interns had her last day with us yesterday, she heads back to Georgetown for her junior year later this month — we had pizza for lunch to send her off
🙂 Feeling more encouraged about next year’s presidential election, although it will still be an uphill battle for conservatives on a number of fronts, I’m afraid. But there seems to be a deafening (worried?) silence on the other side right now, which is rather refreshing for a change.
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😦 It is difficult to get my mom to go or stay at some events because of her short term memory issues. She does not want to get caught not remembering someone or something during a conversation.
😦 Funeral for us for a former in law. It is always sad to see the impact of divorce on a family.
🙂 The gospel was given at the service.
🙂 Five days of musical doings this week. On the one hand, they are enjoyable and enjoyed by those who cannot always get out to other places. OTOH, it makes for a short week for anything else for us!
🙂 Rain, which we desperately needed.
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😦 So sorry about Elvera missing the reunion.
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🙂 Back into teaching with renewed energy.
🙂 little boy who was so sad that he didn’t come to class one day is back and happy
🙂 made it back to the weight room this week
🙂 😦 feeling slightly sore, but know that is good. Means I am using those muscles again
😦 still no hot water in the kitchen sink, but I did turn in a work order
🙂 🙂 Facetimed with one daughter and her 4 daughters from my classroom this week, during odd moments. Even used her as my writing example and facetimed quickly to show my family to the class.
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🙂 Great visits with two cousins who are believers. After not seeing this art of my family for 50 years it has been good to be here.
😦 Leaving tomorrow.
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Safe travels Peter and Mrs. L
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Elvera’s older sister and her daughters went to the reunion. Elvera called Argeree last night and they talked a while.
Polly just called and they’ve been talking 30 minutes, so far. 🙂
Did I tell you about the time when we were living in Annandale (Polly lived in Fairfax, nearby.), she and Polly went to the Butler reunion together. They returned on Monday. It’s an eight hour drive if you don’t stop. Elvera got home, said she forgot abut something and called Polly.
They talked 45 minutes.
😉
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Great story Chas.
Glad Elvera’s getting the full report from this year’s reunion.
🙂 Talked to Carol — she’s made a friend at the Hollywood Pres. church that’s right around the corner from where she lives (with another woman who’s also a Mo. Synod Lutheran but is out here from Michigan, she works in the entertainment industry — not sure doing what — but she’s called Carol and offered to pick her up for church in the future, which is great).
There’s no Mo. Synod church in that area and going back to her former church takes Carol 2 hours each way by bus, so the Hollywood Pres church may be her best fill-in option, though she really misses the liturgy, especially the corporate time of confession. But it’s an active church that is evangelical for the most part, with Bible studies and some outreach ministries; and it’s summer, so a lot of things are temporarily on break, including their mid-week services, but come September those will pick up again.
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Liturgy, meaning the specific Lutheran liturgy that Carol has been used to all her life.
But she’s also attending the Presbyterian church’s so-called “contemporary” service because the traditional service (which would be more to her liking and probably closer to what she’s been used to) conflicts with their summer Bible class time that she feels is important for her to attend (hopefully there will be more time options once the fall schedule resumes — it’s a big church with what seems like a large congregation).
The church also has an early-morning contemplative service, but I’m afraid that might have some new age leanings, who knows. The traditional service would be the best fit, I’m pretty sure.
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🙂 Physical therapy and daily doing the exercises are continuing to yield good results. Today for the first time in months I could pull a shirt off over my head the normal way: arms crossed in front so my left hand was grasping the right side of the shirt, and vice versa, then lifting my elbows up over my head. Couldn’t do that last week.
Thankful for progress!
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🙂 I was finally able to attend church again for the first time since June.
🙂 It was a great message and very pertinent to me
😦 We had to leave before the service was over as it ran long and I needed to get to work – gotta get those campers registered 🙂
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