😦 I miss living in Hendersonville. I really do.
I miss the community.
I miss the church.
I miss the Lions
I miss the guys in my SS Class.
I liked living in Annandale because everything was so convenient.
But I adjusted and wouldn’t want to be there now.
But I miss Hendersonville.
I complained because of the mountains, everytime you went one way, you had to turn and go another. But I miss the mountains too..
I turned in the ATT U-Verse equipment when I moved.
But I had something left. Don’t know what it was.
I turned that in yesterday.
🙂 I also turned in my Wi-Fi transmitter!
I don’t really need one except to get downlosds for my Kindle.
I’ll get another.
😦 The program staff changed the time of the closing program and neglected to tell the director or me of this. I’ve already sent emails to half our summer campers telling parents when to pick up their kids!! Uh oh.
🙂 We’ll figure it out – we always do.
🙂 Great visit with future out-laws last Saturday – so thankful they will be my son’s in-laws. Such amazing Godly people.
😦 Severe migraine last Sunday so I didn’t get to church (last time for the summer). I couldn’t even get out of bed.
🙂 New friend and her children coming for a visit this afternoon.
Kare – After reading what you wrote about your son’s future in-laws, I prayed that someday I will be able to say that about my daughters’ in-laws. (I’ve already been praying for godly husbands, but hadn’t thought about praying for godly in-laws.)
Chas – I am sorry you are going through this. I know that you know that you will eventually adjust, & may even come to love your new town (city?), but it is so hard in the meantime. Let yourself grieve.
🙂 Summer in Minnesota is so beautiful. All the green and all the beautiful flowers make my heart sing.
😦 Only downfall are the hoards of mosquitos. Oh, my! Worse than lions, tigers and bears I think!
😦 Our pastor friends sister has passed away due to a drug overdose. Many, many people came to see her in her last days and to support the family. She was always a pleasure to visit with when we would happen to meet her. She is finally at peace, but oh, the sadness of losing someone so young and in such a way. She was older than her pastor brother, but still very young. We know too many of these young people caught up into drugs/alcohol that will rob them of so much.
🙂 The program at our church that has helped so many to break free. Thanks be to God! The gift of prayer to help each other and even those who don’t know they need it.
🙂 A 3-paycheck month (those hit only a couple times a year for us, but are a real bonus)
😦 Seeing how social media can harm a Christian witness — I spotted a very contentious back-and-forth thread on one of our local community FB pages last night in which one of the participants, a well-known professing Christian in town, said some very inappropriate & harsh things to one of the other participants. I cringed reading some of it, knowing that she “represents” Christianity in some way to some of these people who are nonbelievers. (And that’s when saying you’ll pray for the person comes off entirely as a passive-aggressive slam, somehow, better not to say it, just do it privately if you really are sincere about that.)
We need to be so wise and always speak with grace in those public forums (our pastor has been a good example of that online; despite some pretty nasty folks, he always responds with grace — which, in turn, often prompts them to raise their own level of discourse, interesting how that works).
If we feel we can’t disagree thoughtfully or with grace being shown to those who oppose our views — if we have become too angry or defensive or if we’re developing a contentious ‘history’ with someone who sets us off and we want to verbally lash out — it’s best to go silent & just step away from the computer for a while.
🙂 😦 Got a roof estimate in writing, it’s quite high. 😦 (And it would cost more than that, depending on how much damaged wood underneath needs to be replaced during the course of the job.) Sigh. Will show it to my real estate friend & former neighbor at the dog park who had someone who might do it a lot cheaper though he hasn’t produced a written estimate.
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😦 It’s hard missing “home,” Chas. I’m so sorry, too, that you had to move. But I hope this place soon grows on you as you put down new roots. Good dogs are wonderful social companions (and social connectors), by the way. 🙂 Have I said that before?
🙂 Some of you knew it and some didn’t, but we’ve been gone on the longest trip of my adult life, more than two weeks, some of it church business and some of it vacation–Alabama and Florida (we were in Florida, my first visit ever, on my birthday).
🙂 I met our sweet Kim.
🙂 If you include the trip to the Smokies that we got back from just two weeks before our trip, between mid-May and very early July, we
-were gone four weeks (26 nights, 28 days)
-drove more than 4,000 miles
-saw parts of seven states
-took several thousand photos
-slept in 11 beds
Florida was beautiful (and so was Alabama), and I’ll have photos to prove it soon. But for now, we are so very glad to be home.
🙂 I also got to see my sister and her family (that was two weeks ago and the time was sort of a blur).
🙂 or 😦 I had an 800-page book to work on, so in addition to sightseeing and supporting my husband and visiting with family and Kim, and so forth, I logged 50 hours of work from the road. Several more needed the next few days . . .
🙂 Chrissy, Emily, & I get a three-day weekend, amazingly. (Lee works on Saturdays.) With Emily in the healthcare field, with another part-time job in retail, it is amazing that she actually has these three days off (& if she didn’t, neither would Chrissy & I). This may be the last three-day weekend (other than vacation days) she has for a long time.
😦 Next week Emily has her training continuing at the nursing home, along with a couple days in a town at least an hour & a half away for a special class she needs to take (those will be our 12-hour, if not more, days). Chrissy & I will be babysitting six days straight, for a total of over 60 hours. Yikes! I love my little guy with all my heart, but that’s a lot! (I have asked her if she can see if Ryan can take him some hours, or if his other grandparents can take him on that Saturday or Sunday.)
Having a wonderful time in LA, though way too little sleeping because of all the great conversations! Hoping to catch Donna for lunch, but I should probably tell her . . .
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😦 I miss living in Hendersonville. I really do.
I miss the community.
I miss the church.
I miss the Lions
I miss the guys in my SS Class.
I liked living in Annandale because everything was so convenient.
But I adjusted and wouldn’t want to be there now.
But I miss Hendersonville.
I complained because of the mountains, everytime you went one way, you had to turn and go another. But I miss the mountains too..
I turned in the ATT U-Verse equipment when I moved.
But I had something left. Don’t know what it was.
I turned that in yesterday.
🙂 I also turned in my Wi-Fi transmitter!
I don’t really need one except to get downlosds for my Kindle.
I’ll get another.
If I can find a Staples. around here.
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But I remember the reason I moved.
It became too much for me.
Keeping the place up, I mean..
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It’s hard.
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🙂 Summer campers arrive tomorrow – ages 10 to 12!
🙂 I think I’m ready for registration
😦 The program staff changed the time of the closing program and neglected to tell the director or me of this. I’ve already sent emails to half our summer campers telling parents when to pick up their kids!! Uh oh.
🙂 We’ll figure it out – we always do.
🙂 Great visit with future out-laws last Saturday – so thankful they will be my son’s in-laws. Such amazing Godly people.
😦 Severe migraine last Sunday so I didn’t get to church (last time for the summer). I couldn’t even get out of bed.
🙂 New friend and her children coming for a visit this afternoon.
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Kare – After reading what you wrote about your son’s future in-laws, I prayed that someday I will be able to say that about my daughters’ in-laws. (I’ve already been praying for godly husbands, but hadn’t thought about praying for godly in-laws.)
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Chas – I am sorry you are going through this. I know that you know that you will eventually adjust, & may even come to love your new town (city?), but it is so hard in the meantime. Let yourself grieve.
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🙂 Summer in Minnesota is so beautiful. All the green and all the beautiful flowers make my heart sing.
😦 Only downfall are the hoards of mosquitos. Oh, my! Worse than lions, tigers and bears I think!
😦 Our pastor friends sister has passed away due to a drug overdose. Many, many people came to see her in her last days and to support the family. She was always a pleasure to visit with when we would happen to meet her. She is finally at peace, but oh, the sadness of losing someone so young and in such a way. She was older than her pastor brother, but still very young. We know too many of these young people caught up into drugs/alcohol that will rob them of so much.
🙂 The program at our church that has helped so many to break free. Thanks be to God! The gift of prayer to help each other and even those who don’t know they need it.
🙂 Beautiful picture of those butterflies.
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🙂 A 3-day weekend
🙂 A 3-paycheck month (those hit only a couple times a year for us, but are a real bonus)
😦 Seeing how social media can harm a Christian witness — I spotted a very contentious back-and-forth thread on one of our local community FB pages last night in which one of the participants, a well-known professing Christian in town, said some very inappropriate & harsh things to one of the other participants. I cringed reading some of it, knowing that she “represents” Christianity in some way to some of these people who are nonbelievers. (And that’s when saying you’ll pray for the person comes off entirely as a passive-aggressive slam, somehow, better not to say it, just do it privately if you really are sincere about that.)
We need to be so wise and always speak with grace in those public forums (our pastor has been a good example of that online; despite some pretty nasty folks, he always responds with grace — which, in turn, often prompts them to raise their own level of discourse, interesting how that works).
If we feel we can’t disagree thoughtfully or with grace being shown to those who oppose our views — if we have become too angry or defensive or if we’re developing a contentious ‘history’ with someone who sets us off and we want to verbally lash out — it’s best to go silent & just step away from the computer for a while.
🙂 😦 Got a roof estimate in writing, it’s quite high. 😦 (And it would cost more than that, depending on how much damaged wood underneath needs to be replaced during the course of the job.) Sigh. Will show it to my real estate friend & former neighbor at the dog park who had someone who might do it a lot cheaper though he hasn’t produced a written estimate.
😦 Houses
😦 It’s hard missing “home,” Chas. I’m so sorry, too, that you had to move. But I hope this place soon grows on you as you put down new roots. Good dogs are wonderful social companions (and social connectors), by the way. 🙂 Have I said that before?
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Well, yeah, of course it is high. If it was low it would be called a basement, not a roof.
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🙂 We’re HOME!
🙂 Some of you knew it and some didn’t, but we’ve been gone on the longest trip of my adult life, more than two weeks, some of it church business and some of it vacation–Alabama and Florida (we were in Florida, my first visit ever, on my birthday).
🙂 I met our sweet Kim.
🙂 If you include the trip to the Smokies that we got back from just two weeks before our trip, between mid-May and very early July, we
-were gone four weeks (26 nights, 28 days)
-drove more than 4,000 miles
-saw parts of seven states
-took several thousand photos
-slept in 11 beds
Florida was beautiful (and so was Alabama), and I’ll have photos to prove it soon. But for now, we are so very glad to be home.
Homebody Cheryl signing in from Indiana
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🙂 I also got to see my sister and her family (that was two weeks ago and the time was sort of a blur).
🙂 or 😦 I had an 800-page book to work on, so in addition to sightseeing and supporting my husband and visiting with family and Kim, and so forth, I logged 50 hours of work from the road. Several more needed the next few days . . .
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🙂 Chrissy, Emily, & I get a three-day weekend, amazingly. (Lee works on Saturdays.) With Emily in the healthcare field, with another part-time job in retail, it is amazing that she actually has these three days off (& if she didn’t, neither would Chrissy & I). This may be the last three-day weekend (other than vacation days) she has for a long time.
😦 Next week Emily has her training continuing at the nursing home, along with a couple days in a town at least an hour & a half away for a special class she needs to take (those will be our 12-hour, if not more, days). Chrissy & I will be babysitting six days straight, for a total of over 60 hours. Yikes! I love my little guy with all my heart, but that’s a lot! (I have asked her if she can see if Ryan can take him some hours, or if his other grandparents can take him on that Saturday or Sunday.)
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Fun violin concert and from there took a hike
Whiny kids are no fun to hike with
Got some great photos
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Having a wonderful time in LA, though way too little sleeping because of all the great conversations! Hoping to catch Donna for lunch, but I should probably tell her . . .
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🙂 Rain!!!
🙂 First day of summer camp – registration here I come…
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