😦 I spent all afternoon yesterday working and got nothing done.
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I ended by taking my chain saw and edger to be repaired-tuned up.
I went to Ace Hardware, but couldn’t find it. My GPS kept saying “You have reached your destination on the left”
A McDonalds was on the left. I spent half an hour looking around. I learned that nobody in SW Greensboro is from here and they don’t speak English. I finally found a guy who directed me to ACE about half a mile farther down the road. It was on the left.
They will be ready in 4-5 weeks. Middle of October. I had hoped to have everything done by then.
Otherwise things are fine. I know my rant is trivial beside some of yours.
I mention several of you to the Lord every day.
Speaking of which, I need to get to it.
BTW. I am reading through I Maccabees now. I have read I & II Maccabees several times. I think they are two important books. As least as important as Judges.
Frustrating day? eh, Chas?
I do have to laugh that you, mapmaker, had trouble with gps. I can’t imagine you relying on the gps and not finding the address and using a map. I love google maps.
Not many here, but I use it to follow your adventures and look up the locations from the books I am reading.
Just looked at the lighthouse, that must be a US view and not Canadian as it shows the heliport to the south of the lighthouse not the north.
Jo mentioned maps. And she is correct. I have book maps of Washington, Northern Virginia and Hendersonville. I tried to find one for Greensboro.
They don’t make them anymore. Leastwise, that’s what the guy at the bookstore says.
I have one of those huge fold out maps, but my 86 year-old eyes don’t handle that well.
I do miss my map because I can orient myself well with one, even if I use GPS.
But a map wouldn’t have told me where ACE was. TomTom was just off by half a mile, that’s all.
I often print maps off the Internet since I’d rather figure it out myself than follow a disembodied voice who is (frequently) right . . . but, I’m the daughter of a geographer and was raised using maps and giving directions to drivers.
And that is one way folks get lost in the mountains. It is frustrating, though.
Husband was given the address of the place he was to deliver but when he got to the place, nothing was there. He looked around and asked around and eventually found out that the company had moved three weeks prior. He got there and went on, but it was time consuming.
I hate to rely solely on GPS. I have found their directions for local places often take people the stupidest way possible. I do need to upgrade our Garmin, I think. It was a gift and we have used it. It works best when you actually know how to properly use it, of course. 😉 That is not as simple as one would think, but I think I have it down finally. I am grateful for both paper and online maps.
😀 We stopped with friends at a bar that had recently been totally renovated. The couple said how wonderful the food and décor was now. The server was obviously quite new. My husband wanted coffee and I decided I would take some too, since they would be brewing it for him. The server said they had just gotten and new machine and she wasn’t quite sure how to use it, but would try. She did return with two cups of good coffee. Later (long story short) we asked for refills and she came with two new cups. I started wondering if we were being charged for each cup. When she returned I asked if there WERE refills on coffee. She said no, but it was ok because they didn’t really know how to use the machine anyway. On a hunch, I asked her the next time she returned if they were using the pods to brew separate cups. My husband enquired if it were a Keurig. Sure enough. Lol. I suspect they don’t get asked for coffee much and that our server does not drink it. The charge was $3.00 for ‘pop’. That is less than most places around here. Coffee here is like tea or sweet tea in the South.
🙂 😦 Saturday, except I go back to work on Monday after a week off
🙂 Got a LOT accomplished in the house this week
🙂 😦 Bathroom overhaul in the near future
🙂 Our pastor tonight is debating a rather well-known atheist at a local Christian university, a number of us are carpooling. I’m picking up a newer member of our church who lives just a few blocks from me and maybe can take 1 or 2 more, depending. Everyone’s gathering at the church but I’m wondering if maybe just the 2 of us should head out from here as it’s out of the way to go to the church first.
🙂 Dogs got a long-overdue grooming. 😦 Tess got shaved, but maybe it was a good thing, gives her skin a chance to breathe a little and she did have some dense mats in all that long and thick fur on her haunches. (She hates being brushed and gets very snappy.) She now looks very long and very skinny. 🙂
Donna, Misten hated being brushed, too. She wouldn’t get snappy, but she would look for chances to walk away. We had an agreement that if I pulled too hard and it hurt, she could walk away and I’d let her, and then a minute or two later I would call her back and she would return. And if the session was difficult or I got out the scissors at any point, she got a treat–two if it was a really hard session. The last month I hardly groomed her at all, since she hated it and she was so unsteady on her feet that it seemed like I was torturing her. (If she’d just lie there and tolerate it, it would have been OK, but she looked for opportunities to jump to her feet and walk away, and when she was healthy that meant keeping her from doing so, but when she was unsteady it just felt mean to be physically making her stay, and I wasn’t sure but that the brushing itself might hurt her hips.) Her coat was in fairly rough shape by that last week, and I hoped that the office didn’t look at her and think I didn’t do a good job caring for my girl.
😦 We were supposed to be in Grand Rapids this weekend for church business.
🙂 He suggested we might get a hotel room and go up there anyway, once he is better, to go to the bookstores we planned to visit while we were there.
🙂 A week ago the doctor told me I’d be experiencing pain and soreness for a couple of weeks after my fall, but I’ve rarely had any discomfort for the last half of this week.
🙂 This week I’ve had really good conversations with my husband, my sister, and one brother.
😦 My workload is not what I would wish it to be, and I detest the “self-marketing” side of what I do.
🙂 My physical went well on Thursday. My blood pressure & heart rate are good, lungs clear. I will going in one morning a couple weeks from now to have blood drawn for blood work. Onward towards my first cataracts surgery on the 28th. (Please pray that nothing more pops up to delay it. It’s already been delayed once.)
🙂 I don’t think I mentioned this when it happened three weeks ago. We celebrated my mother-in-law’s 91st birthday. She’s frail but her mind is sharp, and we are blessed to have her still in our lives.
When she turned 18 in 1943, her brother was a POW in Germany. She joined her mother, sister, and sister-in-law working in the giant bomber plant Henry Ford had built in Willow Run, Michigan, a few miles from here. She is so small that she could install wiring in the nose and wings of the planes where other people couldn’t reach. Every time I see a “Rosie the Riveter” picture I think of her.
She had two long and happy marriages, 42 years to my father-in-law, who died before I met my wife, then almost 20 years to a widower until his death. They each took the other’s family as their own, so I married into a big blended family. I had lost my own mother, so I have been privileged to call her Mom these past 25 years.
Chas, in google maps you can easily make the map as large as you like. On my ipad I take a screen shot of where I am going and then change the view and do it again. So anywhere I drive when I am home I have the maps I need. It worked in New Zealand too.
Kevin, my mother-in-law just turned 80, and she’s hale and hearty still, so we may well be celebrating 90 in a decade. I’ve only had her for five years so far, but I also have lost my own mother (and my father), so it’s a blessing to gain parents as well as a husband.
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😦 I spent all afternoon yesterday working and got nothing done.
ZERO
I ended by taking my chain saw and edger to be repaired-tuned up.
I went to Ace Hardware, but couldn’t find it. My GPS kept saying “You have reached your destination on the left”
A McDonalds was on the left. I spent half an hour looking around. I learned that nobody in SW Greensboro is from here and they don’t speak English. I finally found a guy who directed me to ACE about half a mile farther down the road. It was on the left.
They will be ready in 4-5 weeks. Middle of October. I had hoped to have everything done by then.
Otherwise things are fine. I know my rant is trivial beside some of yours.
I mention several of you to the Lord every day.
Speaking of which, I need to get to it.
BTW. I am reading through I Maccabees now. I have read I & II Maccabees several times. I think they are two important books. As least as important as Judges.
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Frustrating day? eh, Chas?
I do have to laugh that you, mapmaker, had trouble with gps. I can’t imagine you relying on the gps and not finding the address and using a map. I love google maps.
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Well, Jo, how many roads do you have on that compound, anyway? 😉
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Not many here, but I use it to follow your adventures and look up the locations from the books I am reading.
Just looked at the lighthouse, that must be a US view and not Canadian as it shows the heliport to the south of the lighthouse not the north.
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Jo mentioned maps. And she is correct. I have book maps of Washington, Northern Virginia and Hendersonville. I tried to find one for Greensboro.
They don’t make them anymore. Leastwise, that’s what the guy at the bookstore says.
I have one of those huge fold out maps, but my 86 year-old eyes don’t handle that well.
I do miss my map because I can orient myself well with one, even if I use GPS.
But a map wouldn’t have told me where ACE was. TomTom was just off by half a mile, that’s all.
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I often print maps off the Internet since I’d rather figure it out myself than follow a disembodied voice who is (frequently) right . . . but, I’m the daughter of a geographer and was raised using maps and giving directions to drivers.
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My internet maps aren’t very helpful.
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And that is one way folks get lost in the mountains. It is frustrating, though.
Husband was given the address of the place he was to deliver but when he got to the place, nothing was there. He looked around and asked around and eventually found out that the company had moved three weeks prior. He got there and went on, but it was time consuming.
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🙂 I love GPS – but sometimes the lady in the phone is wrong, especially up in the Hollywood hills with all those winding, narrow roads.
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I hate to rely solely on GPS. I have found their directions for local places often take people the stupidest way possible. I do need to upgrade our Garmin, I think. It was a gift and we have used it. It works best when you actually know how to properly use it, of course. 😉 That is not as simple as one would think, but I think I have it down finally. I am grateful for both paper and online maps.
😀 We stopped with friends at a bar that had recently been totally renovated. The couple said how wonderful the food and décor was now. The server was obviously quite new. My husband wanted coffee and I decided I would take some too, since they would be brewing it for him. The server said they had just gotten and new machine and she wasn’t quite sure how to use it, but would try. She did return with two cups of good coffee. Later (long story short) we asked for refills and she came with two new cups. I started wondering if we were being charged for each cup. When she returned I asked if there WERE refills on coffee. She said no, but it was ok because they didn’t really know how to use the machine anyway. On a hunch, I asked her the next time she returned if they were using the pods to brew separate cups. My husband enquired if it were a Keurig. Sure enough. Lol. I suspect they don’t get asked for coffee much and that our server does not drink it. The charge was $3.00 for ‘pop’. That is less than most places around here. Coffee here is like tea or sweet tea in the South.
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🙂 😦 Saturday, except I go back to work on Monday after a week off
🙂 Got a LOT accomplished in the house this week
🙂 😦 Bathroom overhaul in the near future
🙂 Our pastor tonight is debating a rather well-known atheist at a local Christian university, a number of us are carpooling. I’m picking up a newer member of our church who lives just a few blocks from me and maybe can take 1 or 2 more, depending. Everyone’s gathering at the church but I’m wondering if maybe just the 2 of us should head out from here as it’s out of the way to go to the church first.
🙂 Dogs got a long-overdue grooming. 😦 Tess got shaved, but maybe it was a good thing, gives her skin a chance to breathe a little and she did have some dense mats in all that long and thick fur on her haunches. (She hates being brushed and gets very snappy.) She now looks very long and very skinny. 🙂
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Donna, Misten hated being brushed, too. She wouldn’t get snappy, but she would look for chances to walk away. We had an agreement that if I pulled too hard and it hurt, she could walk away and I’d let her, and then a minute or two later I would call her back and she would return. And if the session was difficult or I got out the scissors at any point, she got a treat–two if it was a really hard session. The last month I hardly groomed her at all, since she hated it and she was so unsteady on her feet that it seemed like I was torturing her. (If she’d just lie there and tolerate it, it would have been OK, but she looked for opportunities to jump to her feet and walk away, and when she was healthy that meant keeping her from doing so, but when she was unsteady it just felt mean to be physically making her stay, and I wasn’t sure but that the brushing itself might hurt her hips.) Her coat was in fairly rough shape by that last week, and I hoped that the office didn’t look at her and think I didn’t do a good job caring for my girl.
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😦 My husband has been sick all week.
😦 We were supposed to be in Grand Rapids this weekend for church business.
🙂 He suggested we might get a hotel room and go up there anyway, once he is better, to go to the bookstores we planned to visit while we were there.
🙂 A week ago the doctor told me I’d be experiencing pain and soreness for a couple of weeks after my fall, but I’ve rarely had any discomfort for the last half of this week.
🙂 This week I’ve had really good conversations with my husband, my sister, and one brother.
😦 My workload is not what I would wish it to be, and I detest the “self-marketing” side of what I do.
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🙂 My physical went well on Thursday. My blood pressure & heart rate are good, lungs clear. I will going in one morning a couple weeks from now to have blood drawn for blood work. Onward towards my first cataracts surgery on the 28th. (Please pray that nothing more pops up to delay it. It’s already been delayed once.)
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Cheryl, I missed hearing about Misten’s passing when it happened. You have my sympathy at losing such as faithful companion.
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🙂 I don’t think I mentioned this when it happened three weeks ago. We celebrated my mother-in-law’s 91st birthday. She’s frail but her mind is sharp, and we are blessed to have her still in our lives.
When she turned 18 in 1943, her brother was a POW in Germany. She joined her mother, sister, and sister-in-law working in the giant bomber plant Henry Ford had built in Willow Run, Michigan, a few miles from here. She is so small that she could install wiring in the nose and wings of the planes where other people couldn’t reach. Every time I see a “Rosie the Riveter” picture I think of her.
She had two long and happy marriages, 42 years to my father-in-law, who died before I met my wife, then almost 20 years to a widower until his death. They each took the other’s family as their own, so I married into a big blended family. I had lost my own mother, so I have been privileged to call her Mom these past 25 years.
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Chas, in google maps you can easily make the map as large as you like. On my ipad I take a screen shot of where I am going and then change the view and do it again. So anywhere I drive when I am home I have the maps I need. It worked in New Zealand too.
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Kevin, my mother-in-law just turned 80, and she’s hale and hearty still, so we may well be celebrating 90 in a decade. I’ve only had her for five years so far, but I also have lost my own mother (and my father), so it’s a blessing to gain parents as well as a husband.
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Indeed it is, Cheryl.
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