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Carole, it is amazing to see you! I hope you had a great birthday!
Cindy - Wow! What a schedule! And Barcelona twice.
I miss fun travel, but don't miss work travel. That was the reason I went to work at Old Navy...just a lower management job with no travel. My BIL asked me the other day if I missed camping and the camper. I told him that I missed being able to travel and pull the camper. I guess I should be thankful for my 46 states, and 9 countries and/or islands in Carribean. Someday I still hope for those last 4 NE states.0 -
Connie, I hope you eventually get to visit the NE states, although you have visited a lot of states and countries already. I'd love to see Alaska and Canada, but am especially drawn to New England and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's a combination of the beauty, small towns, fall color, quaint islands, and historical background. My two visits to Germany while Beth was in campus ministry there were highlights of my life.
Cindy, I hope you get to do some sightseeing on your trips, especially Barcelona.
Kim, I hope your back pain is getting better. I want to hear more about your Outer Banks trip. That area is so beautiful in pictures.
It was good to do a little reading today, but I'm playing piano tomorrow and spent a lot of time deciding what to play for prelude. I love to incorporate hymns when possible, and found the prettiest arrangement that uses I Need Thee Every Hour in a contemporary setting. Goodnight all.0 -
I've never actually counted all the states and countries I've visited. I think it would be fewer than 46 states but more than 9 countries and/or islands.
Carole, Marcia and her husband are Catholic.0 -
Cindy - Praying for Marcia and her family. This is going to be a battle for all of them. Also praying that this draws them closer to God.0
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That's my prayer as well, Cindy, that they will draw closer to God through this. God is reaching out to them, even in this very hard time! He wants to make something good out of this for their lives.
I'll be sure to take some good pictures, Carole. We are staying in the Kitty Hawk area. This will be our 39th Anniversary! We don't have a lot planned other than going to one of the four lighthouses in this area - Bodie Lighthouse, and then a drive, I suppose it would be north, up the island to see what is farther down. We are bringing breakfast and snack fixings and will eat out for lunch, which should fill us up! Mostly we are going to sit on our balcony and watch the ocean!
My back is doing a little bit better. I had too many steps yesterday, almost 4,000, but I laid down for at least two hours in the afternoon and that seemed to really help. I woke up around 6 this morning, my right hip was hurting and my right knee too - ugh! I have my compression wraps on and a knee brace on too! If I could take anti-inflammatory arthritis medicine I would probably do better, but I can't, so we do with what we have! There are a lot of people out there in the world who are hurting a lot more than me, so I praise the Lord for the little bit I have and trust in Him to keep me!
Love y'all.
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Cindy - I'm also praying that Marcia and her family feel God's presence through this medical journey and are drawn closer to Him.
Kim - Sitting on the balcony and watching the ocean is my kind of vacation! Not to mention visiting an Outer Banks lighthouse or two. On our beach trips over the years, we always fixed a big breakfast mid morning, then ate out in the late afternoon, ahead of the crowds. And we were usually able to make two meals out of it. How I miss those fun times, but have tons of treasured memories.
I hope everyone had a relaxing Labor Day. My holiday did not go as I envisioned. Activating and setting up new smart phones - a project that should have been fairly easy and quick - was anything but. First, in order to change our phone numbers over, we needed a transfer PIN from AT&T. We had log-in information, password and ID, but not the required passcode. In retrospect, I think the customer service rep assisting us just wasn't that knowledgeable and we gave up after two hours. We called back later and got a different rep who walked us right through it. Then the other time-consuming problem was in transferring data over. Everything I read said that backup and restore could be done through the cloud, or by using Smart Switch with the phones laying close to each other. End result, some data transferred, but not all. So I'm still manually adding things. But I love my new phone! It's a Samsung Galaxy 14, a little larger than my old one.
Took my cat for a follow-up vet appointment this morning. She has asthma, but that's a story for another time!0 -
Carole - I'm still getting by with my Samsung Galaxy 9. Transferring everything is one thing I dread about switching phones.
Thank you all for your prayers for Marcia. Her surgery is today. I'll have to ask Dave - who talks to her husband quite a bit - how she's doing. She and Bob have 2 kids, but we don't see them over a lot. Bob and Marcia are about 10 years older than we are. He and Dave have coffee in the morning a couple days a week when I'm out of town, so most of my information comes that way.0 -
Glad your back is a little better, Kim. But when one area improves, seems like another area starts acting up. Dwight takes arthritis meds, which I think help some. And he got shots in both knees a few weeks ago, which really seemed to help. Now that he feels better, he's focusing on some ways we can maybe cut costs - which is where our phone situation began that I mentioned earlier.
Spectrum is big in our east TN area, and we went with them for cable and Internet when we first moved. Cheaper and much improved over the DirectTV that we had in Atlanta. They advertise mobile phone service all the time, at a cheaper rate than our current AT&T plan, so Dwight began looking into it. We don't use much data since we only use our phones as phones, not streaming. So in spite of having to buy 3 new phones with payments spread over 3 years, we save around $40 each month. Dwight's also exploring mail-order prescriptions instead of local pharmacies, and it looks like we can save a good bit there. I suspect car insurance shopping will be next. Dwight is enjoying all this and it's very good for him, although hard for me to keep up with at times. I'm more of "let's look at it in the next few days," while he is "how about now?"0 -
Carole, I use GoodRx Gold (I do pay a monthly fee) for my prescriptions since I don't have a "drug" plan, it all comes out of our pockets. It's saved quite a bit for me. Let me know if you find a good mail-order site!
We have Spectrum Internet and would love to find something cheaper, but nothing else is offered here in the "boonies" as Mom liked to call it! We have Verizon for our phones. We've been with them since cell phones came out! LOL! It's just easier to stick with what we know, but there has to be a cheaper plan we can do as well. We have the iPhone 11s and have had them for at least two years, both are still working great. I, like you, use my phone for calls and texting and occasionally looking up something on the net, but Wade is on his very often doing a bunch of different stuff. He looks up stuff on YouTube and he does all his Amazon shopping from his phone! If I ever need a new phone I won't go for one with so many bells and whistles. Getting these two was cheaper than getting two older versions of other phones since buying two of these was a sale. Wade liked his iPhone from work so we went with that, but had Samsung Galaxies before that, which I had trouble with so was happy to change.
Back is doing much better today, not even noticing it. I'm wearing my knee brace for another day just to make sure it's doing better as well.
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I have a Samsung S21 FE and I love it. I had Verizon for years, but it just didn't work at my Mom's house or town, and she had one of the phones on the plan. I knew I had to do ATT for that area, but started shopping plans and we got to move our phones and phone numbers to Consumer Cellular (on
ATT network) and saved almost half on our plan. I did have to buy my mom a phone, but it was their cheapest and we just paid for it. I knew her old 3g flip phone was about to go obsolete. The best part of Consumer Cellular is that you speak with US tech support when you need it, and you can actually understand them. I usually don't buy my phones from the cell phone company, but either buy on Amazon or through the manufacturer. I found that I can get better prices and trade in's that way...plus we just pay up front.
Last night I was printing music for tonight, and Sunday for the musicians and my printer stopped. It was 10pm, and it looked complicated, so I decided to look at it this morning. Wow, the fix was easy, but there was an ink leak somewhere. There is a waste pad in my ink-tank printer and if it goes out, they printer stops. It looks like it is at the place where the pad is, but the printer is working fine and I don't see where it is leaking, now. I cleaned up the mess and put paper under it to see if it is acting strangely, but all seems fine. I have spent hours trying to find a replacement for it and found that the printers I was looking at do not have double sided printing. I still am finding replacement printers cheaper than I thought. The printer I have was about $300 and I found one for $250. I can't have a cartridge printer because I do so much printing that it is much cheaper to find an ink tank printer and pay more.....plus I have had this one for at least 4 years....about 4x longer than any other printer I have had.
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Home sweet home. I slept in my own bed last night. It's good to be back if only for a long weekend. I leave on Monday for Dallas (the 3rd leg of a 5 city program - I'm only working on the 1st and 3rd cities).0
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Connie, your printer sounds like ours. It will do double-sided, it is also not a cartridge printer. We have and HL-H2380DW from Brother. OOOLD printer. When I was connecting my computer up to the wi-fi for the printer it didn't have it on their list! Wade had to figure it out. It works great, so we will keep plugging along with it until it goes down. I hope your mess wasn't too bad though!
Wade is painting our cabinets. It's a brownish-grey color to match the countertops. We'll paint the walls in a very light beige color. It had black hardware but we are putting chrome ones on this time. Woohoo, can't wait to see it all done. We are painting the living room a pale tealish color to go with my lighthouses, pirates, sea captain and shells! I have those on the country cabinet I keep in there. I need to take a picture of my mantle wall. We have a lighthouse print from Thomas Kincade up there and then the seashore stuff and some lanterns on there - it's really pretty! My grandfather made us a clock for our wedding and it has our names on it where the numbers go - it's beautiful, it's up there too. We need to get new works for it though.
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Well, I did a ton of printing last night and this morning and all is fine. I put a piece of a disposable bed pad under it...and it is still white, so who knows. If it leaks, it should show against the white and it has a plastic backing to protect the wood. Sure am glad it is behind doors in a cabinet...looks like my printer has a diaper.
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That's so funny! Those things sure do come in handy!
We are keeping some of the things that we needed for Mom - we are getting up in age too and may need them some day!
Wade is working on the painting in the kitchen and in the living room. So far it is really pretty. It will be nice when it's all done. We went through and culled more stuff when we emptied the cabinets. It's just the two of us and we had at least 12 or 16 dinner plates in the cabinet. We pared down to six. If we have folks over for dinner we use Chinette! LOL! Wade and I have started using the paper plates, plastic forks and spoons almost all the time now. We even have these little red checkered snack bowls like you see at fast food restaurants so we don't have to wash something when we have a snack! I can go several days before I have to do the dishes! Yeehaw!
My back is doing better, thank you so much for your prayers!
Love y'all.
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I used to use a lot of paper goods, but the dishwasher is easy and better with soupy stuff. I have a huge supply of plastic flatware...some left from the camper, some from takeout. I need to donate to the church or something.0
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Well I'm off to Dallas tomorrow. My suitcase is mostly packed - just need to add my refrigerated food and my toiletries and hair dryer after I get ready in the morning. Hope you all had a great weekend0
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Dallas was pretty close to where I lived in Texas - Alvarado. We shopped a lot in Cleburne and went to Fort Worth more than Dallas, but we did get there a few times. Lovely place. There was another town that we liked to shop at, Burleson, they had a nice Mexican Grocery that had cheaper prices! Have a great time!
Connie, we started using paper when my dishwasher sprung a leak. Wade thinks he's figured it out, but it never really cleaned very well, so we still aren't using it. My new sink makes doing the dishes so much easier!
Dilly of a headache this morning, so feeling punky right now from the headache and the meds. Sigh. God is so very good and the headache was gone within an hour. Rather feel punky than have that pain!
Hope y'all had a good weekend. Our services were such a blessing yesterday. Love y'all.0 -
Cindy - hope you have a good trip to Dallas. I used to travel to Dallas about 5 or 6 times a year. Sometimes we stayed right at the airport, sometimes at other hotels. It was a lot more fun to stay at the airport, where the shuttle trams would get you from the airport to the hotel....that way we could leave the hotel and shop at the airport stores if we got bored between meetings or in the evenings.
Bill has still been having a lot of pain in his left hand and can't put pressure on it. I got a notice in the mail the other day about in-home urgent care. I called them and they came to the house yesterday. It was wonderful! It is just too difficult to get Bill downstairs, into the car, out of the car, into the doctors office, back into the car, out of the car and up the stairs. The chair lift is great, but a bit hard to load going up the steps. We need practice, I think. Anyway they were great. They ordered x-rays and they came back with a lot of arthritis. They couldn't get the x-ray equipment in the house (up the stairs), but they could get it in the garage, so we took Bill down the stairs and they got it done fairly easily. MUCH better than taking to the Dr. office.0 -
Connie, I'm glad that worked out. It sounds so much easier.
I'm dealing with a little hand pain of my own. I joined a group of co-workers for dinner last night and walked to a place called Velvet Taco. On the walk back i brushed up against a cactus! I immediately felt sharp needles in my leg and reached down to pull them out but it was dark and I couldn't see and I ended up getting a couple of those needle-like cactus slivers in my hand! 😖 I got the one in my finger out pretty easily, but the one on my thumb was harder to extract. I worked on it again in my room (after pulling out 5 needle slivers that were stuck in my leg - they went through my jeans!)
I actually don't think I got it all. I don't see anything, but I have a tender spot and it's pretty red in that area. I'll have to try again when I get home tonight.0 -
Oh my, Cindy! I hated trying to find those nearly translucent needles. I hope you are successful in getting those last couple of stubborn ones!
I'm so sorry Bill is going through that on top of everything else. How awesome that you have a service that will come right to your home! Between willow bark and hemp pain cream, the pain in my hands isn't as noticeable.
Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend. love you
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I'm currently researching ways to get out a leftover piece of cactus sliver. I've tried gently cutting back some of the skin, I think I've gotten it out and then hours later I'll brush that part of my hand (near the base of my thumb) against something and ouch(!) feel a stabbing pain there. I tried tape and even putting Elmer's glue on the area, letting it dry and pulling it off. Nothing is working. I can see a faint red line where I know a little piece must still be. I've read it can take 9 months for it to work its way out! 😭
ETA: I ordered some drawing salve from Amazon. My grandma gave me some that she'd made a long time ago, but I can't put my hands on it anymore.0 -
Hope the salve works! That would be handy to keep.0
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Cactus sliver update: I used the salve last night... put it on the bandaid, affixed that to the spot under my thumb around 8 o'clock last night and slept with it on last night. I took the bandaid off this morning and cleaned the black residue off my thumb and so far I haven't felt like the sliver is still there. 🤞🏻
My washer is officially on the fritz, so I started doing research. I'm looking at a Speed Queen. They're expensive, but I'm thinking Delta Airlines is buying it for me. (I mentioned that I gave up my seat last June for nice compensation, right?) I'm hoping it's the last washer I'll have to buy0 -
Well, at least Delta Airlines is paying! Sorry about the washer. It is so hard without being able to wash clothes...I don't even know of a decent laundromat anymore.0
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I know, right? Thank goodness, my sons live not too far away. My oldest son and his family live about 25 minutes south of me and my youngest son and his family live about 15 minutes north. When the washer finally died on Saturday (my spin cycle had been occasionally refusing to work) there was a small puddle in front of it. I reached out to my closer son and went over there late yesterday and spun out that load. Came back here to dry it though.connierandel wrote: »Well, at least Delta Airlines is paying! Sorry about the washer. It is so hard without being able to wash clothes...I don't even know of a decent laundromat anymore.0 -
Bought my washer today. 😁 The soonest I can have it delivered is Monday morning. I'm thankful I got pretty much all my laundry done before the last one gave out on me.0
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When we had to replace our dishwasher it took a month to get it delivered and installed. That wasn't handy, but hand washing dishes is definitely better than hand washing clothes!0
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I remember replacing my dryer last November. It finally quit a couple of days before Black Friday, so we went to Best Buy that Friday and I told the salesman I wanted a gas dryer made in America with a drop down door and in stock. He showed me 3 or 4. The Maytag I ended up getting was delivered the next week I think.0
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Our dishwasher happened during the Covid mess...when deliveries were terribly backed up. We had to have one that was a little shorter than normal, so we took the one that would arrive soonest. Most at that point were 3 months out and no one had one in stock.0
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I’m glad you had a way to get what you wanted, Cindy, and didn’t have to settle.
Our Outer Banks vacation was so nice. I have a sun burn, but everything else was really nice. We drove home Friday since the tropical storm stopped the ferries. The patches I got for motion sickness worked great on the trip to OBX. We left a little after six and were home by noon! Waiting now for power to be restored. Praise the Lord, just puddles in our yard! No flooding for us - our neighbors are a bit lower and have lakes in their yards, but no damage! God is good!0
