Yesterday my husband’s music group played their usual monthly performance for an assisted living facility. When they ended, there were numerous calls for another song and, specifically for Detroit City. This song has been performed often, because one resident always requests it. Almost all the residents sing loudly on the line, “I want to go home.” No matter how comfortable these homes are, most remember the homes they had been in for years and miss them, even as they acknowledge the need to be where they are. When we become an adult and get into our first homes, they are not usually our dream home. When we end life, we are sometimes not able to stay in our dream home. There is only one dream home that will really be the dream home of eternity. Thanks to the Lord!
Good morning, all. My dad has, for the most part, forgotten his last home of thirty four years and his wife of thirty six years. He tells my brothers that this is the perfect place for somebody in his situation.
It’s a beautiful day here, too. It was 39° to start. Sunny and chilly.
My friend took me to Sunday school. She had something to do so she brought me home and I watched the service online
We went to lunch yesterday with my friend’s friend from her church. I was in a four Tuesdays program with her last summer so we’d already met. She went to my elementary school, but she attended a different high school. It’s great fun to talk with people who were in Atlanta in the fifties before things got super-sized.
When we went out to lunch yesterday, I had my first unicorn fish, blackened. It is from the Indian ocean near Australia. The small restaurant at the airport is ideally located to receive frseh shipments from distant places. I had never heard of unicorn fish. A really good flavor and texture.
No church here, husband is in Boise. But a beautiful day! Temps up in the forties, we sat outside earlier.
my brother brought down another packet of family history. Interesting. My great great grandmother married at sixteen, had two children with her husband before he died six years later, leaving her with the two plus her eight step siblings and a homestead to care for. She married my grandfather at twenty three, he was twenty one. Halfway through their eleven more children, he enlisted in the Army for the Civil War. In part to earn eight dollars a month and part out of moral obligation.
This particular great great grandfather actually wrote a book available on Amazon, addressing his time in the Civil War. It is interesting but I am guessing if grandma Sarah had written a book, it might be at least as interesting. In her spare time, of course.
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Yesterday my husband’s music group played their usual monthly performance for an assisted living facility. When they ended, there were numerous calls for another song and, specifically for Detroit City. This song has been performed often, because one resident always requests it. Almost all the residents sing loudly on the line, “I want to go home.” No matter how comfortable these homes are, most remember the homes they had been in for years and miss them, even as they acknowledge the need to be where they are. When we become an adult and get into our first homes, they are not usually our dream home. When we end life, we are sometimes not able to stay in our dream home. There is only one dream home that will really be the dream home of eternity. Thanks to the Lord!
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Good morning, all. My dad has, for the most part, forgotten his last home of thirty four years and his wife of thirty six years. He tells my brothers that this is the perfect place for somebody in his situation.
There is a lot to be said for forgetting.
mumsee
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today is the memorial service for our pastors mom. I’m in charge of the reception and so many are coming that it will be a challenge
she was directing a Christmas choir the week before she died
she has meant so much to us all. I told a friend in Oregon and she said I’m coming
jo
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Windy here today but my dad got a walk in. He is up to four meals per day and back to eating cookies.
Husband has three trips to Boise in the coming weeks. Left this morning.
mumsee
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I thought I had posted, but it got lost. No time to repeat, at the moment.
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Good morning, all, a beautiful sunshine day here.
mumsee
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It’s a beautiful day here, too. It was 39° to start. Sunny and chilly.
My friend took me to Sunday school. She had something to do so she brought me home and I watched the service online
We went to lunch yesterday with my friend’s friend from her church. I was in a four Tuesdays program with her last summer so we’d already met. She went to my elementary school, but she attended a different high school. It’s great fun to talk with people who were in Atlanta in the fifties before things got super-sized.
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Everyone must be very busy on the weekends lately!
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When we went out to lunch yesterday, I had my first unicorn fish, blackened. It is from the Indian ocean near Australia. The small restaurant at the airport is ideally located to receive frseh shipments from distant places. I had never heard of unicorn fish. A really good flavor and texture.
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Warmish windy and overcast here today. Church then home to rest😊
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No church here, husband is in Boise. But a beautiful day! Temps up in the forties, we sat outside earlier.
my brother brought down another packet of family history. Interesting. My great great grandmother married at sixteen, had two children with her husband before he died six years later, leaving her with the two plus her eight step siblings and a homestead to care for. She married my grandfather at twenty three, he was twenty one. Halfway through their eleven more children, he enlisted in the Army for the Civil War. In part to earn eight dollars a month and part out of moral obligation.
mumsee
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Wow, Mumsee! Great record keeping.
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Wow, is right!
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This particular great great grandfather actually wrote a book available on Amazon, addressing his time in the Civil War. It is interesting but I am guessing if grandma Sarah had written a book, it might be at least as interesting. In her spare time, of course.
mumsee
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I am watching the movie Rule Breakers. It’s quite good.
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