Just a reminder, this will be the last post for a week or so. Surgery will be tomorrow, then a hospital stay for 5 to 7 days after. I will be back as soon as I feel up to it. Love you folks, and I will “see” you soon.
Just got back from seeing Boys in the Boat. Four friends went with me. I invited lots of folks.
Got the dough made for the croissants. I’m not sure if the family is getting together. So do I roll them out today or tomorrow??
jo
I know I’m a little early, but happy new year all!
Things are progressing and improving little by little. I’m back to solid food now and it seems to be ok. But after 16 days in bed I’m weak and in need of some serious PT. If all goes well, I may be home by the end of the week.
Happy New Year! We went out on the beach at midnight. So different than years past. No boats on the water off the coast shooting fireworks. No one else near us on the beach, but a few fireworks further down the beach. The moon was showing off, big and bright, wirh silvrr reflections on the water. We saw fireworks across the water over on Tyber Island at Savannah. No festivities or noise from visitors at this resort. Sometimes it seems we are in a different nation.
I suppose it is appropriate that a marathon of The Twilight Zone played the New Year in as Art’s screen choice.
Glad to see you here more, AJ! You have been so missed! We found that as it gets closer to time to leave the hospital that the comforts of the stay there were being weaned away to make a person look even more forward to being at home. Will you have in home PT or go to appointments at a PT location? There are advantages for either.
Continuing prayers🙏
Wonderful to see you AJ!! I know you’re looking forward to being home soon! Take it slow and easy until you get your strength back. And know we are praying for you and Cheryl.
Happy New Year to you all but especially to AJ – so good to hear your latest report – praying you are outta there soon and that PT goes really well.
Using my canner to make a huge pot of borscht today – using up so much garden produce from the last few summers (making room in the freezer). Husband peeled the carrots and said he didn’t peel some of the limp, soggy ones. My first thought was, “We could be grateful for soggy carrots in the future”. Gloomy thought.
yes, I plan on taking the ornaments off my little tree today. I found some old bubble wrap that I saved for the grands to use to wrap them up.
Such a beautiful sunny day here.
I have to plan on a walk.
Jo
I used to leave all the Christmas up until Ukrainian Christmas (I have lots of Ukrainian friends) but they switched to our dates this Christmas, so most of it is down except for a few trees that only have lights.
My feet are hurting from all the walking! Great that son is able to keep me up and moving. He cooked a stir fry tonight of kale, onions, garlic, mushrooms, lemon and chicken. He also added some extra sharp cheddar at the end. So good!
We are doing a throwback Charles Wysoki folk type jigsaw puzzle. Soon we will play Upwords.
Blessings upon the Jackson family for 2024. Prayers for healings on many levels and layers. Surgery is traumatic. Please, Lord, bless Allen and Cheryl in ways they had not imagined. Give them continuing evidence of Your love and care for them through each day. Thank You for healing and being their Providence in a multitude of ways. I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen
It was a busy working holiday yesterday, but my holiday shift is over – until the next one. Today it’s back to the normal schedule.
The tree. It’s ready to go out and I’m hoping the gardeners show up today (yesterday would have been their normal day) so maybe If I get it onto the front porch they can take care of it from there. I’m still packing ornaments though.
I also like to leave some of the greenery and a few little lights up as winter decor.
We’re getting more rain tomorrow night.
This year’s Christmas and New Year’s went by like a blink of an eye, didn’t much feel like “the holidays” at all, for whatever reason.
As to deer . . . well, other than their penchant for eating expensive plants out of the garden, it’s really the ticks. I doubt they want to carry them, either. 😦
Got the tree hauled out to the front porch. I’m hoping the gardeners show up today (yesterday would have been their regular day) so they can get it the rest of the way off the front steps, the stand removed, and ready to be hauled off.
Now there are needles everywhere… But the tree stayed nice and green to the end and still smelled nice. I’m only sorry I didn’t take some time off so I could have moved it inside and decorated it sooner than I did (at the last minute!). -dj
The surgeon was just in. I am going to be discharged Thursday morning! I will still have some drains and what not, but they will send in a nurse 3 times a week to help. Also I will have to keep the kidney drains for another 3 weeks or so, still a slight leak from the ureter, but I can live with that just to be home.
Now for the best news. My biopsies came back this morning. No cancer in the lymph nodes, prostate, or the “margins” as they call them. While the bladder showed cancer in multiple areas inside, it was non-invasive and zero signs anything escaped the bladder wall according to their dissection of it.
Praise God I’m cancer free!
I still have a long road to recovery, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
This ordeal has shown me the things most important, that God heals and lifts us when we can’t do it on our own. He’s a Healer, and ever present, even when it seems things are at their worst. He’s blessed me and my family, sustained us thru all of this, and blessed us with the support of our church, and the brethren like you folks who constantly lifted us before His throne of grace. I’m undeserving of such blessings and brethren, but so thankful for you all.
I thank you all so much for the part you’ve all played, and the petitions to Him on my behalf. You are such a blessing to me, and I love you all dearly.
God saved the best for the last part of my day, reading AJ’s special post! I, too, teared up reading such good news.
It’s been a busy day. Art and I attended a sales presentation offered annually, but rarely attended by us. We were given $125 in coopons for local restaurants so we had a nice seafood takeout dinner this evening.
We did our usual shopping excursion at the library book sale and Goodwill store. Then we went to the Coastal Discovery Museum and gardens of old camelia varieties. It seems like there are at least a hundred of the bushes all in bloom now. So beautiful. We continued working on the puzzle and played Upwords. This was Art’s second time to win. He enjoys it greatly. Why did it take all these years for him to finally decide to play it with us?
Sounds like a wonderful day, Janice. I am glad Art finally joined in on the fun.
Some people do not realize that sometimes it is valuable to play games, even if you do not enjoy them, just for the social aspect. It was a revelation to my grown daughters that I did not always enjoy playing those children’s games. It was for their benefit and enjoyment that I played them. They learned that when they were parents.
Games have value on several different levels and for different reasons are worthwhile.
The right mindset makes a difference when playing games. A desire to show off, win at any cost or feel superior can make any game unpleasant.
We played several games of Fast Track this year with our grown daughters and grandchildren. It is a combination of luck and strategy, which makes it a good, relaxing game to me. The grandchildren played some of their own games, such as Phase 10.
So, what are some favorite games. Are there new ones you enjoy?
We played that one as well, Michelle. One of my grandchildren told me I was way over-drawing. 😀 We didn’t play Apples to Apples this year, but that has been a favorite.
We played Bananagrams recently. I had enjoyed it with old church ladies but found myself in utter frustration playing it with son who constantly called out, “Peel, Peel, Peel!” My vision and dexterity makes me too slow. I liked the second version we played without the Peel.😀 We used to play the card game Set. I liked that. We also brought Rumicube (sp?) which I need to learn to play.
We enjoy playing Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Cataan, Pandemic and Pennies (basically Phase 10 with a twist of being able to buy discards with your 10 pennies and played with two or more decks of regular cards). I like Pandemic because you play as a team and either you all win or all lose. I’m pretty competitive and need slower calmer games (I’m no longer allowed to play Risk or Dutch Blitz)
Telestrations! We played that one last year with our daughter in law’s family. It is too fun. Tim laughed so hard he basically passed out because he couldn’t breathe!! Oh my. What memories.
I like the game Set. It is all about spatial relations and so fun. I also love that everyone is playing at once, no waiting around.
Got a haircut and then took my friend out for her 75th birthday. We are both so young.
She gave me a gift of three pillows that she had cross stitched covers for, lovely.
Jo with another 49, I think
Have any of you heard of a card game called Nerts?
About 40 years ago, I worked in an office with a manager who every now and then liked to have us take a break for a while and play Nerts. I don’t remember much about it, except that we sat in a circle on the floor, and the game required quick thinking and quick reflexes (quickly throwing down a card, or something like that).
We don’t play games much, but when we do, Uno is a big favorite in our family. Boy and Nightingale play some other games, one of which is similar to Trouble, but I can’t think of the name. We played that together a while back.
Basically Nertz is solitaire with everyone playing at once. You have your pile and have to wait for a place to play your next card.
Way too fast paced for me.
Jo
I usually play that game when I get together with the grands. I have never heard it called Nerts, however. We just call it Double Solitaire, which is not quite accurate since there are many more playing. I am glad no one asked to play it this year, since my eyesight would have made it a real challenge for me. The (literal) headache would not have been good.
I regularly played with my oldest grandson. His younger brother would come and play for a while and then quit periodically. His brother and I would just play on. I laughed once when the oldest grandson got a call from a girl and told her he was too busy to talk. Yes, that relationship went nowhere. We lived in different states, so when I say ‘regularly’ that is relative to when we were together.
Lol, kare, about being banned from those games. One of my granddaughters is quite proud that she can trump me with Dutch Blitz. It is the same as Double Solitaire, but not so easy when one hasn’t played with the symbolic cards for quite a while.
Okay, I admit, I love this guy Chad Bird and read him every morning on X-Twitter. Tomorrow’s reading in my Chronicle Order Bible is the Tower of Babel (and I’m also reading Bird’s devotional on Hebrew words each morning).
Glory be to God! AJ can sleep in his own home/bed tonight. I am overjoyed to hear this good news. May you feel His protection and comfort during these days of resettling, AJ.
Afternoon discharges from hospitals are the usual agenda from all of our experiences. Sometimes people get lunch and sometimes they don’t. Depending on the hospital that can be a good or bad thing.😀
Cheryl is Charge Nurse tonight, tomorrow, and onward. Praying for her to know and understand God’s provision in new ways as needs arise. Praying for AJ to be keenly aware of the comfort God provides and that obstacles will be met with patience and perseverence to master them with God’s help. In Jesus’ name, Amen
We went to two small museums today. One was for Franklin Automobiles. (Fancy name for fancy cars.) Franklins were produced from 1902 to 1934. They went out of business because the depression hit, sales went down and a $2 million loan came due, so they went bankrupt. Beautiful cars!
The other was a Jewish History Museum in the oldest synagogue in Arizona. It also has a holocaust section, featuring testimonies of survivors who lived in Tucson afterwards. Very touching. The docent who gave us the tour was the daughter of 2 survivors, and wife of another one. Her husband was an infant when the war ended.
Oh, Aj, what a joy to be home. Nurse Cheryl will not interrupt your sleep as they do in the hospital. Praying for rest and time to recover. Time to recover your strength.
Jo
We came home a day early so today was mostly spent in the car. Art commented that unlike other trips, every day was a sunny day, but it was colder than usual. We started the trip home by getting peppermint mochas at Starbucks.😀
We are all exhausted. I am the only one still awake and I was the first one up and packing this morning.
I sent the game Upwords as a gift to my friend K and her husband. I hope they learn to play it so we might get together and play it w.ith them sometime.
It sounds like it’s raining outside. Glad we came home before the rain started.
Busy week, busy day, cold dog walk tonight. I had the hood up on my sweatshirt (with a zipped-up jacket over that) but the sweatshirt’s hood cord long ago made an escape and went missing.
So I had to secure the hood under my chin with a large metal binder clip.
Prayers for AJ and Cheryl tonight. The first days home after surgery are really hard and it can feel like a real guessing game to know if things are going like they should be. Thank goodness (God) for phone cameras to share photos with medical staff if anything needs to be asked for reassurance. Please, Lord, give Cheryl and AJ confidence that they can manage this part of recovery and become experts as they learn through experience. Give them wisdom, forbearance, patience, and a healthy sense of humor and compassion to carry on with all that must be done while in a state of weariness. Please provide good, healthy, and, healing meals, snacks, and hydration. Thank You, Abba, for getting them through one more day and night and then another and another until recovery is complete. I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen
Trending: Binder clips instead of drawstrings for hoodies. The newest fad out of CA moving rapidly across the States from LA to Hollywood Jr. (H’otlanta) on the East Coast. First seen in a cold LA Dog Park.
I love binder clips. They can be used for so much. I have a cup of them on my counter ready for anything
Jo
Got all my Christmas things put away today. I went over my ornaments and got rid of a lot. Then found some plastic tubs to store things in. Even got the tree back into its original box
I have a container of binder clips in a kitchen cabinet. I used one tonight to secure a large Sam’s Club giant Starbuck’s ground coffee package I am sending home with son. I use them to keep the bags of dry cat food closed because the ‘zippers’ on such bags never really work. They might even be a solution for missing socks in the washer.
A doctor pulls a shooting victim through, later asking him if he “saved a good man or a bad man.
“Are you a good man?”
Victim replies, “I don’t know.”
Doctor later tells him — when asked by the victim why he let him stay on to recover and then helped him out so much if he didn’t know if he was a good or bad man — that “only a good man would have given that answer.”
Up medium early this morning (8am on Saturday). Pulled all the stuff needed to make chili out and am defrosting the hamburger for husband to fry up.
Made some pumpkin dog treats. Kootenay is very food motivated so we go through a LOT of dog treats. The whole wheat flour was free (from my folks when they moved into assisted living) and the pumpkins we grew, so these treats only cost 2 eggs. Both dogs love pumpkin and hover beside me as I mix the dough and cut it out. Needless to say, they get to lick a few bowls and get a few raw treats.
My plan is to get the rest of Christmas back in their bins and out to the shop. I’ve been waiting for batteries to die in the candles and fairly lights and enjoying their glow, but I’m done having a dining room table full of stuff.
Miss Bosley is so happy to be back home today. She stayed at Camp Kitty. They have a Flicker account and post daily photos of cats staying with them. It’s a really neat place without any dogs barking and disturbing the peace. It’s always hard to get her in her carrier to carry her for boarding. I now give her one gabbapenton pill which helps but takes so long to go into effect. She heard Art downstairs making a sound when he opened the cage door and she went under the bed. Her tail was sticking outside so thankfully she did not fully hide from me. I offered her pill pockets as treats to get her out from under the bed. It is the hardest part of trying to take a longer trip.
Cold and rainy today. The daughter is at her house watching the entire LOTR trilogy–which makes it very tempting to drive over and join her, puzzle in hand.
But she started three hours ago, so I’m already behind. I’ll have to set it up here if the weather continues like this into tomorrow.
We attend the new-to-us church for the first time tomorrow.
The drama continues at the old church about our leaving, and we just feel so sad about it all.
Reading a surprising old book, The Upside Down Kingdom. I’m shocked by what I’ve learned about political life in Israel 100 BC–100 AD.
So many behaved in such despicable ways. So thankful God had mercy and Jesus came.
Unfortunately, there is nothing new under the sun. Sigh.
We watched the LOTR trilogy with the kids over Christmas – as soon as the littles were in bed. We were all just too tired after busy days to even play a game or two – so movies sounded about the right speed.
I came back to note that it’s Kim’s birthday today, but I see someone beat me to it. Happy birthday Kim!
I’m studying the CA drivers’ handbook (again) today, I’d picked up a fresh copy at Triple A a couple weeks ago after I failed on my first stab at taking the written test (due to too much time elapsing between when I studied and finally took the exam due to getting an license extension). I was (way) over confident thinking that surely I’d remember it all, right? Nope. I received the big RED ‘X’ at the end. Had to slink out of there …
I have until the end of February to retake it but would like to get it done sometime this month so I can just get it behind me.
The handbook is more than 100 pages long, but this one is brand new and unmarked so I now have a “system” — various colors of markers, blank sheets on which to take notes. And I will make a stand-alone sheet for all those pesky and specific “number” related things.
I would leave the carrier out, standing vertically, with the entrance facing up, door open, for several days or even a week or so before I’d have to put Annie into it. That way she was pretty unaware of “something coming” once she adjusted to it being there and I was able to just gently pick her up and “drop” her in when the time came, though she’d always sprout at least 3 new legs that sprang out to serve as blockages.
I miss that little imp. 😦 I think about her still in the mornings when she’d always be sitting on one of the floor heater vents to warm herself up. -dj
Not just the west coasters, but a Midwesterner visiting the Mountain Time zone.
We met up with a niece and her family and took a 3 mile hike over semi rugged terrain. I commented that the brochure said “moderate to difficult”, but some of it seemed easy. Her husband, who doesn’t hike much, said, “Easy? In whose opinion?”
Congrats, Kare! That’s a first for you, to break 500?
We are still recouperating from vacay. Son left here yesterday and met friends along the way for lunch and other friends along the way for dinner, and then arrived at his home at 10 p.m. Two days of traveling for him. As for me, I did laundry all day yesterday.
I hope everyone has a good Sunday and attends a nice service either in-person or online. I especially hope Michelle and husband have a welcoming and warm experience in their new church family.
I have thought of your church situation often, Michelle. We have been there and done that and it is so hurtful and sad. We really should leave again, but my husband is reluctant. Most of the church has moved on, some who have been for decades and in leadership. It is sad to see God’s church is such a sad state. The gates of hell will not prevail over the true church, however. I am praying for you and your husband.
I’ve come to once again ask for your prayers for us. Whole I’m home and happy about that, it has sadly greatly increased the burden on Cheryl. They sent me home with daily needs and maintenance, some of which they never trained Cheryl on. We got some from the visiting nurse on Friday, but it’s been a struggle. Cheryl is doing her best, and a fine job in my opinion, but she is a bit overwhelmed and struggling. Add to this the fact that meals have always been my responsibility, along with clean up. Now Cheryl is doing all that too, plus she must return to working from home tomorrow. The kids are helping, but work middle shift so their schedule isn’t really working with ours. Church is sending in a meal most days too, which we’re thankful for. It’s just been much harder than expected, and is way worse and intensive than we expected due to the additional surgeries and issues they presented. If it would have been just the surgery and issues associated I went in for, that stuff has been minimal, and we’d be handling it fine. But the other 2 surgeries and their maintenance is what is overwhelming us. I love Cheryl dearly and it hurts my heart to see her struggling so. So please pray for her. She needs it desperately and I know God answers prayer and can help ease her burdens.
Check your emails, I’ve sent you each one. Also, if either of you is in contact with Cheryl the photographer, I’ve sent her one as well. It’s important to me that I know you all received them.
Praying for Cheryl. It’s frustrating when they send you home with little to no training on how to meet daily needs with meds and such. That was our experience with delivering our daughter’s Lyme Disease antibiotics at home through her PICC line. I was postpartum with her younger brother and pretty much an emotional wreck.
May Cheryl find rest in the Lord, and may the helping hands of those in your area be a continued source of practical assistance.
AJ, I am praying for Cheryl, specifically, too. Art and I both had tearful moments during the times of figuring out things at home that we were not clear on concerning after surgery care. If your church has any retired nurses, they can be a wealth of helpful info, and they enjoy doing that.
I would love to send y’all a meal. A friend of mine in a Birmingham suburb did that for me when I was taking care of my brother. I found a local market nearby us that offers a daily takeout meal of high quality. I selected the two meals I wanted for one evening that week, and she called in to pay for it. She offered to do Door Dash but I preferred to pick it up. Please let me do that for Cheryl as a way to pay it forward from the kindness of my friend.
You have my email to let me know, please?
Praying for AJ’s Cheryl. Like Janice, I know in part how it is to take care of post-surgery and not know what you’re doing. And it wasn’t surgery nearly so serious as AJ’s and the ones Janice needed to deal with. Very stressful. Also praying for AJ as he recovers.
Well, I guess I was lucky when I had to take care of my mother-in-law after a serious surgery, when she had just moved in with us. The visiting nurse was great in teaching me exactly what to do. Maybe it was because it was an open surgical wound (due to it having been an emergency situation), and I had to be properly trained in the sterile procedure for cleaning, packing, and bandaging the wound.
I was very surprised to see how large it was, but was not squeamish about it. My mom told me that she would have fainted! 😀
I never saw my brother’s wound from surgery. I think it healed up nicely from what I’ve heard. The wound from my surgery was much longer than any Art had from either his heart procedure or the taking of kidney stones through the back. I probably would have fainted from what you saw, Kizzie.😳
We’re continuing through Luke in our sermons, this morning it was 2:15-20 with a look at the shepherds and Mary, who pondered all these things in her heart.
The pastor brought up a verse from 2 Corinthians (2:14-16):
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?”
Heavenly Father, it’s midnight here in Atlanta and up in PA. It’s the start of a brand new day. Thank You. You have given new days ever since the first in Creation. I lift up Cheryl to You on this new day. Please give her strength beyond her imagining because it is from You working through her. Please give her hope as she has visions of a good future as she sees with Your perfect vision the better days ahead. Please give her comfort overflowing to share with AJ and all those she encounters so that everyone will see her and know You are the source. Please give Cheryl peace at moments of frustration and unknowing because You keep her focus on You, on the only One who knows. Please give Cheryl a total trust and sense that everything’s gonna be okay because You are ultimately in charge and You are working oug Your good plans for Your children and You are a promise keeper who fulfills every single promise in Your word. I do speak the name of Jesus over Cheryl and also over AJ. I know His blood was not shed in vain. By His stripes we are healed. Please heal Cheryl of her weariness and bodily discomforts as she has been running on empty of herself. Fill her with a second wind, and fire up her energy. Please surround her with helping angels, seen and unseen. Lord, You are able. You are a present help in trouble times. This is a midnight cry out to You to help in this desperate time. Please bring greater faith for sustained perseverance, greater knowledge of what she needs to do, and greater encouragement than she has ever felt in her life. Please glorify Yourself through these astounding accomplishments. Thanking You now for Your best answers that You are already at work on. Thank You for loving Cheryl and AJ and all who know and love them through this storm on the fallen earth. Please cast out all fear through Your perfect love. I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen
Our yard has a small bulldozer digging it up with no warning that it would happen today. Most of my ajuga ground cover planted through the years is gone. Hopefully the Birthday Tree roots will not be too damaged.
good morning, all. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Snow expected. Son is still getting work done around here, along with youngest son, but that may come to a close a day or two early based on weather forecast. He may want to head back to Spokane before strong winds and heavy snows close him in down here.
Wandering Views 
oh, that sneaky Peter grabbed the next hundred.
I thought you were leaving town??
Jo
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Just got back from seeing Boys in the Boat. Four friends went with me. I invited lots of folks.
Got the dough made for the croissants. I’m not sure if the family is getting together. So do I roll them out today or tomorrow??
jo
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I have no idea, Jo. How was the movie?
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I know I’m a little early, but happy new year all!
Things are progressing and improving little by little. I’m back to solid food now and it seems to be ok. But after 16 days in bed I’m weak and in need of some serious PT. If all goes well, I may be home by the end of the week.
Praying and hoping.
AJ
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Amen, the real brother!
mumsee
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Thanks for the good report Aj!!! We too are praying you get to break outta there soon!!! Happy New Year indeed!!
I’m fixing to go to sleep. Just stopped in to say so long and good night… 💥💤 123123 is coming to an end!
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Happy New Year! We went out on the beach at midnight. So different than years past. No boats on the water off the coast shooting fireworks. No one else near us on the beach, but a few fireworks further down the beach. The moon was showing off, big and bright, wirh silvrr reflections on the water. We saw fireworks across the water over on Tyber Island at Savannah. No festivities or noise from visitors at this resort. Sometimes it seems we are in a different nation.
I suppose it is appropriate that a marathon of The Twilight Zone played the New Year in as Art’s screen choice.
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Glad to see you here more, AJ! You have been so missed! We found that as it gets closer to time to leave the hospital that the comforts of the stay there were being weaned away to make a person look even more forward to being at home. Will you have in home PT or go to appointments at a PT location? There are advantages for either.
Continuing prayers🙏
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Wonderful to see you AJ!! I know you’re looking forward to being home soon! Take it slow and easy until you get your strength back. And know we are praying for you and Cheryl.
Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone! ♥️
Debra
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I’m up and out— driving kids to the airport.
It never gets (sadly) old!
Happy 2024, all.
M
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I may have left town, but I haven’t left the Wanderers.
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Happy 2024 — we just shook and jolted it in with an earthquake right off our coast in my neighborhood. -dj
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https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=earthquake+los+angeles&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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I see Japan beat you though.
mumsee
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Happy New Year to you all but especially to AJ – so good to hear your latest report – praying you are outta there soon and that PT goes really well.
Using my canner to make a huge pot of borscht today – using up so much garden produce from the last few summers (making room in the freezer). Husband peeled the carrots and said he didn’t peel some of the limp, soggy ones. My first thought was, “We could be grateful for soggy carrots in the future”. Gloomy thought.
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mumsee, Japan quake was very large and lots of damage. 😦
Pacific Ocean is on the move today. -dj
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Good to “see” AJ, praying you’re out of there soon — and PT should help a lot.
Got the lights off the Christmas tree (ornaments came down first, a few days ago).
So now the tree is ready to get hauled out of here, leaving a trail of needles behind …
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yes, I plan on taking the ornaments off my little tree today. I found some old bubble wrap that I saved for the grands to use to wrap them up.
Such a beautiful sunny day here.
I have to plan on a walk.
Jo
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I used to leave all the Christmas up until Ukrainian Christmas (I have lots of Ukrainian friends) but they switched to our dates this Christmas, so most of it is down except for a few trees that only have lights.
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Tree is encased in the tree cover and stored the basement…I miss it up here!
I leave some of the pine garlands and pine cones as a winter decor… but the sparkly shiny ornaments are put away.
🎄🎄🎄
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I am not sure when my tree will come down. I am just relaxing after a crazy, but fun week with the kids and grandkids.
We did go see “The Boys in the Boat” and enjoyed it very much.
Our health insurance sent two cards in my husband’s name and none in mine. I need that card this week.
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My feet are hurting from all the walking! Great that son is able to keep me up and moving. He cooked a stir fry tonight of kale, onions, garlic, mushrooms, lemon and chicken. He also added some extra sharp cheddar at the end. So good!
We are doing a throwback Charles Wysoki folk type jigsaw puzzle. Soon we will play Upwords.
Blessings upon the Jackson family for 2024. Prayers for healings on many levels and layers. Surgery is traumatic. Please, Lord, bless Allen and Cheryl in ways they had not imagined. Give them continuing evidence of Your love and care for them through each day. Thank You for healing and being their Providence in a multitude of ways. I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen
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Good morning, all. Another beautiful day here with clear skies above. Fog may roll in later as it is heavy in the canyons above the rivers and creeks.
mumsee
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It was a busy working holiday yesterday, but my holiday shift is over – until the next one. Today it’s back to the normal schedule.
The tree. It’s ready to go out and I’m hoping the gardeners show up today (yesterday would have been their normal day) so maybe If I get it onto the front porch they can take care of it from there. I’m still packing ornaments though.
I also like to leave some of the greenery and a few little lights up as winter decor.
We’re getting more rain tomorrow night.
This year’s Christmas and New Year’s went by like a blink of an eye, didn’t much feel like “the holidays” at all, for whatever reason.
-dj
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The Latest Secret Government Mission in Washington, D.C.: Taking Out Deer
Sharpshooters and clandestine nighttime operations: the U.S. campaign against Bambi
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/washington-dc-local-deer-hunting-us-government-missions-4e3658e0?st=9nrqc50a9blfd9o&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
-dj
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How to deal with a growing deer population also is causing controversy on Catalina Island off our coast. -dj
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I read a couple of DJ’s articles. 🙂
They remind me of home. 🙂
As to deer . . . well, other than their penchant for eating expensive plants out of the garden, it’s really the ticks. I doubt they want to carry them, either. 😦
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Ticks, eww.
Got the tree hauled out to the front porch. I’m hoping the gardeners show up today (yesterday would have been their regular day) so they can get it the rest of the way off the front steps, the stand removed, and ready to be hauled off.
Now there are needles everywhere… But the tree stayed nice and green to the end and still smelled nice. I’m only sorry I didn’t take some time off so I could have moved it inside and decorated it sooner than I did (at the last minute!). -dj
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Our tree will stay up for a while. Maybe until Easter as it is up with a cross, joining the two big events, birth to resurrection.
mumsee
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Artificial, I take it, mumsee. -dj
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Hey wanderers, AJ here.
I have some good news to share.
The surgeon was just in. I am going to be discharged Thursday morning! I will still have some drains and what not, but they will send in a nurse 3 times a week to help. Also I will have to keep the kidney drains for another 3 weeks or so, still a slight leak from the ureter, but I can live with that just to be home.
Now for the best news. My biopsies came back this morning. No cancer in the lymph nodes, prostate, or the “margins” as they call them. While the bladder showed cancer in multiple areas inside, it was non-invasive and zero signs anything escaped the bladder wall according to their dissection of it.
Praise God I’m cancer free!
I still have a long road to recovery, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
This ordeal has shown me the things most important, that God heals and lifts us when we can’t do it on our own. He’s a Healer, and ever present, even when it seems things are at their worst. He’s blessed me and my family, sustained us thru all of this, and blessed us with the support of our church, and the brethren like you folks who constantly lifted us before His throne of grace. I’m undeserving of such blessings and brethren, but so thankful for you all.
I thank you all so much for the part you’ve all played, and the petitions to Him on my behalf. You are such a blessing to me, and I love you all dearly.
Your brother in Christ,
Aj
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Great news, the real! And God is glorified.
mumsee
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oh, Aj, such wonderful news. You have hope and a way forward. 2024 is truly a new year for you.
God is good, all the time.
Jo
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Well I am crying thankful tears!!!! Praise God!!!! Best news to start out this new year brother…❣️❣️❣️
Continued covering over you and Cheryl…. 🙏
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VERY good news, AJ. -dj
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Tearing up reading your update, AJ. Praise God! How He has bestowed on you His tender mercies.
Happy 2024 and wishing you a continued abundance of the Lord’s blessings!
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Praise God! What a wonderful relief that must be for you and Cheryl, and the rest of the family!
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Such great news!!
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-dj
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God saved the best for the last part of my day, reading AJ’s special post! I, too, teared up reading such good news.
It’s been a busy day. Art and I attended a sales presentation offered annually, but rarely attended by us. We were given $125 in coopons for local restaurants so we had a nice seafood takeout dinner this evening.
We did our usual shopping excursion at the library book sale and Goodwill store. Then we went to the Coastal Discovery Museum and gardens of old camelia varieties. It seems like there are at least a hundred of the bushes all in bloom now. So beautiful. We continued working on the puzzle and played Upwords. This was Art’s second time to win. He enjoys it greatly. Why did it take all these years for him to finally decide to play it with us?
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Sounds like a wonderful day, Janice. I am glad Art finally joined in on the fun.
Some people do not realize that sometimes it is valuable to play games, even if you do not enjoy them, just for the social aspect. It was a revelation to my grown daughters that I did not always enjoy playing those children’s games. It was for their benefit and enjoyment that I played them. They learned that when they were parents.
Games have value on several different levels and for different reasons are worthwhile.
The right mindset makes a difference when playing games. A desire to show off, win at any cost or feel superior can make any game unpleasant.
We played several games of Fast Track this year with our grown daughters and grandchildren. It is a combination of luck and strategy, which makes it a good, relaxing game to me. The grandchildren played some of their own games, such as Phase 10.
So, what are some favorite games. Are there new ones you enjoy?
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Telestrations. Ten of us played it on New Year’s Eve and laughed until we cried–over and over again.
It’s a combination of Pictionary and “telephone.” We ranged in age from 10 to me.
https://www.target.com/p/telestrations-board-game/-/A-14046225
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We played that one as well, Michelle. One of my grandchildren told me I was way over-drawing. 😀 We didn’t play Apples to Apples this year, but that has been a favorite.
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We played Bananagrams recently. I had enjoyed it with old church ladies but found myself in utter frustration playing it with son who constantly called out, “Peel, Peel, Peel!” My vision and dexterity makes me too slow. I liked the second version we played without the Peel.😀 We used to play the card game Set. I liked that. We also brought Rumicube (sp?) which I need to learn to play.
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Just read AJ’s great news from yesterday. Hooray!
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https://www.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2024/01/03/cat-saves-dog-from-coyotes-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn
Cat takes exception to coyotes attacking the family dog
-dj
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We enjoy playing Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Cataan, Pandemic and Pennies (basically Phase 10 with a twist of being able to buy discards with your 10 pennies and played with two or more decks of regular cards). I like Pandemic because you play as a team and either you all win or all lose. I’m pretty competitive and need slower calmer games (I’m no longer allowed to play Risk or Dutch Blitz)
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Telestrations! We played that one last year with our daughter in law’s family. It is too fun. Tim laughed so hard he basically passed out because he couldn’t breathe!! Oh my. What memories.
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I like the game Set. It is all about spatial relations and so fun. I also love that everyone is playing at once, no waiting around.
Got a haircut and then took my friend out for her 75th birthday. We are both so young.
She gave me a gift of three pillows that she had cross stitched covers for, lovely.
Jo with another 49, I think
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Mille Bornes, the racing cars card game is fun. Also Backgammon, but I would need a refresher course in playing it.
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Have any of you heard of a card game called Nerts?
About 40 years ago, I worked in an office with a manager who every now and then liked to have us take a break for a while and play Nerts. I don’t remember much about it, except that we sat in a circle on the floor, and the game required quick thinking and quick reflexes (quickly throwing down a card, or something like that).
We don’t play games much, but when we do, Uno is a big favorite in our family. Boy and Nightingale play some other games, one of which is similar to Trouble, but I can’t think of the name. We played that together a while back.
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I have heard of Nerts but do not remember anything except the funny name, similar to Nerds.
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Basically Nertz is solitaire with everyone playing at once. You have your pile and have to wait for a place to play your next card.
Way too fast paced for me.
Jo
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I usually play that game when I get together with the grands. I have never heard it called Nerts, however. We just call it Double Solitaire, which is not quite accurate since there are many more playing. I am glad no one asked to play it this year, since my eyesight would have made it a real challenge for me. The (literal) headache would not have been good.
I regularly played with my oldest grandson. His younger brother would come and play for a while and then quit periodically. His brother and I would just play on. I laughed once when the oldest grandson got a call from a girl and told her he was too busy to talk. Yes, that relationship went nowhere. We lived in different states, so when I say ‘regularly’ that is relative to when we were together.
Lol, kare, about being banned from those games. One of my granddaughters is quite proud that she can trump me with Dutch Blitz. It is the same as Double Solitaire, but not so easy when one hasn’t played with the symbolic cards for quite a while.
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Okay, I admit, I love this guy Chad Bird and read him every morning on X-Twitter. Tomorrow’s reading in my Chronicle Order Bible is the Tower of Babel (and I’m also reading Bird’s devotional on Hebrew words each morning).
This one is just too funny: https://x.com/birdchadlouis/status/1742868513545482604?s=20
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Oh, and the name nertz comes up on Amazon where they sell the game
Meaning ten packs of cards
Jo
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I’m home!
And exhausted.
Aj
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Glory be to God! AJ can sleep in his own home/bed tonight. I am overjoyed to hear this good news. May you feel His protection and comfort during these days of resettling, AJ.
Afternoon discharges from hospitals are the usual agenda from all of our experiences. Sometimes people get lunch and sometimes they don’t. Depending on the hospital that can be a good or bad thing.😀
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I think we called the solitaire game ‘Spider’ when my friend and I played.
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AJ! So thankful that you’re home. Praying for strength to do well with your PT.
I love hearing about all the different games.
I started following Chad Bird on X as well (on your recommendation) I like what I’ve seen so far.
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Glad you’re finally home, AJ!
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I hope you are sleeping now Aj….thankful you are home!!!! And don’t forget to listen to Cheryl….yes…we know how y’all can be … I married one 😂❣️
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There’s no place like home. And yes, what NJ says.
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Cheryl is Charge Nurse tonight, tomorrow, and onward. Praying for her to know and understand God’s provision in new ways as needs arise. Praying for AJ to be keenly aware of the comfort God provides and that obstacles will be met with patience and perseverence to master them with God’s help. In Jesus’ name, Amen
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Glad you’re home, AJ.
We went to two small museums today. One was for Franklin Automobiles. (Fancy name for fancy cars.) Franklins were produced from 1902 to 1934. They went out of business because the depression hit, sales went down and a $2 million loan came due, so they went bankrupt. Beautiful cars!
The other was a Jewish History Museum in the oldest synagogue in Arizona. It also has a holocaust section, featuring testimonies of survivors who lived in Tucson afterwards. Very touching. The docent who gave us the tour was the daughter of 2 survivors, and wife of another one. Her husband was an infant when the war ended.
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Welcome home, AJ. On to PT. -dj
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Good morning, all.
Expecting a partly cloudy day followed by days of snowfall.
mumsee
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Oh, Aj, what a joy to be home. Nurse Cheryl will not interrupt your sleep as they do in the hospital. Praying for rest and time to recover. Time to recover your strength.
Jo
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Here’s the Friday funnies to read while you’re resting, AJ.
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Glad you’re home, AJ. Take it easy. Prayers continue for you and Cheryl and family.
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Busy reading Tozer.
mumsee
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We came home a day early so today was mostly spent in the car. Art commented that unlike other trips, every day was a sunny day, but it was colder than usual. We started the trip home by getting peppermint mochas at Starbucks.😀
We are all exhausted. I am the only one still awake and I was the first one up and packing this morning.
I sent the game Upwords as a gift to my friend K and her husband. I hope they learn to play it so we might get together and play it w.ith them sometime.
It sounds like it’s raining outside. Glad we came home before the rain started.
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Busy week, busy day, cold dog walk tonight. I had the hood up on my sweatshirt (with a zipped-up jacket over that) but the sweatshirt’s hood cord long ago made an escape and went missing.
So I had to secure the hood under my chin with a large metal binder clip.
Ya do what ya gotta do – improvising.
-dj
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Prayers for AJ and Cheryl tonight. The first days home after surgery are really hard and it can feel like a real guessing game to know if things are going like they should be. Thank goodness (God) for phone cameras to share photos with medical staff if anything needs to be asked for reassurance. Please, Lord, give Cheryl and AJ confidence that they can manage this part of recovery and become experts as they learn through experience. Give them wisdom, forbearance, patience, and a healthy sense of humor and compassion to carry on with all that must be done while in a state of weariness. Please provide good, healthy, and, healing meals, snacks, and hydration. Thank You, Abba, for getting them through one more day and night and then another and another until recovery is complete. I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen
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Trending: Binder clips instead of drawstrings for hoodies. The newest fad out of CA moving rapidly across the States from LA to Hollywood Jr. (H’otlanta) on the East Coast. First seen in a cold LA Dog Park.
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I love binder clips. They can be used for so much. I have a cup of them on my counter ready for anything
Jo
Got all my Christmas things put away today. I went over my ornaments and got rid of a lot. Then found some plastic tubs to store things in. Even got the tree back into its original box
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I have a container of binder clips in a kitchen cabinet. I used one tonight to secure a large Sam’s Club giant Starbuck’s ground coffee package I am sending home with son. I use them to keep the bags of dry cat food closed because the ‘zippers’ on such bags never really work. They might even be a solution for missing socks in the washer.
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I am up late as my dad went to bed at five and got up at eight, thinking it is morning. Husband will stay up with him and I will go to bed.
mumsee
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From a movie:
A doctor pulls a shooting victim through, later asking him if he “saved a good man or a bad man.
“Are you a good man?”
Victim replies, “I don’t know.”
Doctor later tells him — when asked by the victim why he let him stay on to recover and then helped him out so much if he didn’t know if he was a good or bad man — that “only a good man would have given that answer.”
– dj
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Good morning all. Roosters are crowing. Children are walking or choring. Husband was snoring. My dad is snoring.
mumsee
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Up medium early this morning (8am on Saturday). Pulled all the stuff needed to make chili out and am defrosting the hamburger for husband to fry up.
Made some pumpkin dog treats. Kootenay is very food motivated so we go through a LOT of dog treats. The whole wheat flour was free (from my folks when they moved into assisted living) and the pumpkins we grew, so these treats only cost 2 eggs. Both dogs love pumpkin and hover beside me as I mix the dough and cut it out. Needless to say, they get to lick a few bowls and get a few raw treats.
My plan is to get the rest of Christmas back in their bins and out to the shop. I’ve been waiting for batteries to die in the candles and fairly lights and enjoying their glow, but I’m done having a dining room table full of stuff.
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Miss Bosley is so happy to be back home today. She stayed at Camp Kitty. They have a Flicker account and post daily photos of cats staying with them. It’s a really neat place without any dogs barking and disturbing the peace. It’s always hard to get her in her carrier to carry her for boarding. I now give her one gabbapenton pill which helps but takes so long to go into effect. She heard Art downstairs making a sound when he opened the cage door and she went under the bed. Her tail was sticking outside so thankfully she did not fully hide from me. I offered her pill pockets as treats to get her out from under the bed. It is the hardest part of trying to take a longer trip.
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Cold and rainy today. The daughter is at her house watching the entire LOTR trilogy–which makes it very tempting to drive over and join her, puzzle in hand.
But she started three hours ago, so I’m already behind. I’ll have to set it up here if the weather continues like this into tomorrow.
We attend the new-to-us church for the first time tomorrow.
The drama continues at the old church about our leaving, and we just feel so sad about it all.
Reading a surprising old book, The Upside Down Kingdom. I’m shocked by what I’ve learned about political life in Israel 100 BC–100 AD.
So many behaved in such despicable ways. So thankful God had mercy and Jesus came.
Unfortunately, there is nothing new under the sun. Sigh.
Happy birthday, Kim!
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Happy birthday, Kim!! And happy birth month!!!
Michelle, I grieve for you and for them.
We watched the LOTR trilogy with the kids over Christmas – as soon as the littles were in bed. We were all just too tired after busy days to even play a game or two – so movies sounded about the right speed.
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I came back to note that it’s Kim’s birthday today, but I see someone beat me to it. Happy birthday Kim!
I’m studying the CA drivers’ handbook (again) today, I’d picked up a fresh copy at Triple A a couple weeks ago after I failed on my first stab at taking the written test (due to too much time elapsing between when I studied and finally took the exam due to getting an license extension). I was (way) over confident thinking that surely I’d remember it all, right? Nope. I received the big RED ‘X’ at the end. Had to slink out of there …
I have until the end of February to retake it but would like to get it done sometime this month so I can just get it behind me.
The handbook is more than 100 pages long, but this one is brand new and unmarked so I now have a “system” — various colors of markers, blank sheets on which to take notes. And I will make a stand-alone sheet for all those pesky and specific “number” related things.
-dj
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Welcome home to Miss Bosley.
I would leave the carrier out, standing vertically, with the entrance facing up, door open, for several days or even a week or so before I’d have to put Annie into it. That way she was pretty unaware of “something coming” once she adjusted to it being there and I was able to just gently pick her up and “drop” her in when the time came, though she’d always sprout at least 3 new legs that sprang out to serve as blockages.
I miss that little imp. 😦 I think about her still in the mornings when she’d always be sitting on one of the floor heater vents to warm herself up. -dj
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Or down the slide into one.
mumsee
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Will we be breaking another hundred on here?
mumsee
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We just might. Yes, Annie the adventure cat!
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How do you eat an elephant?
mumsee
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Happy Birthday, Kim!
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How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time, and lots of mayonnaise. 😀
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I am reading the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. But I started with “The Silmarillion”, then went on to “The Hobbit”, before starting them.
“The Silmarillion” was dense and hard to slog through, but now I notice references from it in the “Lord of the Rings”, so I am glad I read it.
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I have not read the Silmarillion. I should do that once I’ve finished all the books I have on hold.
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Will we hit 500 tonight?
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We’re only 7 posts away.
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But I think I’m the only one around tonight.
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Should I just keep commenting?
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Nobody seems to mind…
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I would have thought some of the west coasters would still be up and around.
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499
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500
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And to all a good night.
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Good night. 🙂
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Not just the west coasters, but a Midwesterner visiting the Mountain Time zone.
We met up with a niece and her family and took a 3 mile hike over semi rugged terrain. I commented that the brochure said “moderate to difficult”, but some of it seemed easy. Her husband, who doesn’t hike much, said, “Easy? In whose opinion?”
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Congrats, Kare! That’s a first for you, to break 500?
We are still recouperating from vacay. Son left here yesterday and met friends along the way for lunch and other friends along the way for dinner, and then arrived at his home at 10 p.m. Two days of traveling for him. As for me, I did laundry all day yesterday.
I hope everyone has a good Sunday and attends a nice service either in-person or online. I especially hope Michelle and husband have a welcoming and warm experience in their new church family.
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I have thought of your church situation often, Michelle. We have been there and done that and it is so hurtful and sad. We really should leave again, but my husband is reluctant. Most of the church has moved on, some who have been for decades and in leadership. It is sad to see God’s church is such a sad state. The gates of hell will not prevail over the true church, however. I am praying for you and your husband.
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Good morning all. AJ here.
I’ve come to once again ask for your prayers for us. Whole I’m home and happy about that, it has sadly greatly increased the burden on Cheryl. They sent me home with daily needs and maintenance, some of which they never trained Cheryl on. We got some from the visiting nurse on Friday, but it’s been a struggle. Cheryl is doing her best, and a fine job in my opinion, but she is a bit overwhelmed and struggling. Add to this the fact that meals have always been my responsibility, along with clean up. Now Cheryl is doing all that too, plus she must return to working from home tomorrow. The kids are helping, but work middle shift so their schedule isn’t really working with ours. Church is sending in a meal most days too, which we’re thankful for. It’s just been much harder than expected, and is way worse and intensive than we expected due to the additional surgeries and issues they presented. If it would have been just the surgery and issues associated I went in for, that stuff has been minimal, and we’d be handling it fine. But the other 2 surgeries and their maintenance is what is overwhelming us. I love Cheryl dearly and it hurts my heart to see her struggling so. So please pray for her. She needs it desperately and I know God answers prayer and can help ease her burdens.
Thank you all,
Aj
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Oh, Aj… thanks for letting us know. I will be praying. Thanks for sharing this burden
Jo
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Praying specifically for Cheryl.
mumsee
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Kizzie and Dj,
Check your emails, I’ve sent you each one. Also, if either of you is in contact with Cheryl the photographer, I’ve sent her one as well. It’s important to me that I know you all received them.
Thanks,
Aj
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Church went well, thanks.
The praise worship was a guitarist/singer and a pianist— singing songs that worshipped God, rather than focused on self.
The sermon was straight from Scripture, which, alas, was refreshing.
People were friendly.
We are thankful.
Old church just realized they forgot to send us off, and we’ve been asked back for farewells.
I’m not sure, emotionally, I could go through that again— so painful last week hugging sobbing people. I was wiped out.
I keep writing explanations and then deleting them.
Pray for wisdom for us to speak truth with love.
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Praying for Cheryl. It’s frustrating when they send you home with little to no training on how to meet daily needs with meds and such. That was our experience with delivering our daughter’s Lyme Disease antibiotics at home through her PICC line. I was postpartum with her younger brother and pretty much an emotional wreck.
May Cheryl find rest in the Lord, and may the helping hands of those in your area be a continued source of practical assistance.
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Prayers for you, as well, Anonymous above.
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AJ, I am praying for Cheryl, specifically, too. Art and I both had tearful moments during the times of figuring out things at home that we were not clear on concerning after surgery care. If your church has any retired nurses, they can be a wealth of helpful info, and they enjoy doing that.
I would love to send y’all a meal. A friend of mine in a Birmingham suburb did that for me when I was taking care of my brother. I found a local market nearby us that offers a daily takeout meal of high quality. I selected the two meals I wanted for one evening that week, and she called in to pay for it. She offered to do Door Dash but I preferred to pick it up. Please let me do that for Cheryl as a way to pay it forward from the kindness of my friend.
You have my email to let me know, please?
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Praying for AJ’s Cheryl. Like Janice, I know in part how it is to take care of post-surgery and not know what you’re doing. And it wasn’t surgery nearly so serious as AJ’s and the ones Janice needed to deal with. Very stressful. Also praying for AJ as he recovers.
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AJ – Thank you. I read and replied, and I emailed Cheryl. God bless!
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I also sent DJ a message to check her email when she has time.
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Well, I guess I was lucky when I had to take care of my mother-in-law after a serious surgery, when she had just moved in with us. The visiting nurse was great in teaching me exactly what to do. Maybe it was because it was an open surgical wound (due to it having been an emergency situation), and I had to be properly trained in the sterile procedure for cleaning, packing, and bandaging the wound.
I was very surprised to see how large it was, but was not squeamish about it. My mom told me that she would have fainted! 😀
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I never saw my brother’s wound from surgery. I think it healed up nicely from what I’ve heard. The wound from my surgery was much longer than any Art had from either his heart procedure or the taking of kidney stones through the back. I probably would have fainted from what you saw, Kizzie.😳
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Thank you, AJ.
I would not make a good nurse, way too squeamish.
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We’re continuing through Luke in our sermons, this morning it was 2:15-20 with a look at the shepherds and Mary, who pondered all these things in her heart.
The pastor brought up a verse from 2 Corinthians (2:14-16):
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?”
-dj
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Praying, AJ. Such times are always harder on the caregiver.
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Heavenly Father, it’s midnight here in Atlanta and up in PA. It’s the start of a brand new day. Thank You. You have given new days ever since the first in Creation. I lift up Cheryl to You on this new day. Please give her strength beyond her imagining because it is from You working through her. Please give her hope as she has visions of a good future as she sees with Your perfect vision the better days ahead. Please give her comfort overflowing to share with AJ and all those she encounters so that everyone will see her and know You are the source. Please give Cheryl peace at moments of frustration and unknowing because You keep her focus on You, on the only One who knows. Please give Cheryl a total trust and sense that everything’s gonna be okay because You are ultimately in charge and You are working oug Your good plans for Your children and You are a promise keeper who fulfills every single promise in Your word. I do speak the name of Jesus over Cheryl and also over AJ. I know His blood was not shed in vain. By His stripes we are healed. Please heal Cheryl of her weariness and bodily discomforts as she has been running on empty of herself. Fill her with a second wind, and fire up her energy. Please surround her with helping angels, seen and unseen. Lord, You are able. You are a present help in trouble times. This is a midnight cry out to You to help in this desperate time. Please bring greater faith for sustained perseverance, greater knowledge of what she needs to do, and greater encouragement than she has ever felt in her life. Please glorify Yourself through these astounding accomplishments. Thanking You now for Your best answers that You are already at work on. Thank You for loving Cheryl and AJ and all who know and love them through this storm on the fallen earth. Please cast out all fear through Your perfect love. I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen
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Good morning! I am so happy to see that AJ is home. Many prayers for Cheryl.
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Amazing choral music:
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Our yard has a small bulldozer digging it up with no warning that it would happen today. Most of my ajuga ground cover planted through the years is gone. Hopefully the Birthday Tree roots will not be too damaged.
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good morning, all. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Snow expected. Son is still getting work done around here, along with youngest son, but that may come to a close a day or two early based on weather forecast. He may want to head back to Spokane before strong winds and heavy snows close him in down here.
mumsee
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Snow globe kind of morning here. Winds are howling over the Palmer Divide with limited visibility…thankful for a warm house in the woods!
lifting up Aj and Cheryl knowing full well our Lord is hearing our petitions on their behalf…❣️❣️❣️
Janice why is there a bulldozer in your yard? It does not seem to be a fitting start on this Monday morn!!
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For those who may come along and not realize it. . . There is a new daily thread up for January 8! See ya there!
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What, after 527 comments we’re just going to abandon this place? Maybe it will become another secret room.
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Not going to happen.
mumsee
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Everybody has moved on and this place is forgotten.
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just an empty shell with nothing to tell.
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Exactly.
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Nothing more to be said.
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Yes.
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all done here. We are getting snow! The deep freeze sounds much better with a blanket of snow to protect the root systems.
mumsee
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Oho, so we do have a secret room here, eh?
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nope, this thread is done.
mumsee
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