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Amana colony they had fall fest first weekend in October. First few pics from Des Moines. My iPad was on Wi-Fi but lost it so pics not on it form my phone. At least an easy fix once I figured it out.
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My computer is still at the repair shop and they will hopefully with get it done tomorrow. I am using Glenn's computer which is easier than my tablet but the keyboard is smaller than mine and I am hitting wrong letters frequently. They said they are checking out the "operating system" error which they have seen a lot with the computers that are newer. They did not mention my mistake I did yesterday so maybe there are more problems to look at when they get the operating system fixed.
Susan - that is scary to hear that your friends had their garage broken into and the thieves were inside the house. Did the friends not lock their house door? I am glad that Colin was able to secure your garage and your have your furry security system. We have an alarm system on the Denver house but Grand Junction seems to be quieter and we feel safe. I have set off the system in Denver before when I am up after everyone is asleep and I open one of the outside doors by mistake. Fortunately, they give us a few minutes to shut off the alarm before the police come incase it is a false alarm. Yes, it is much too cold to have any citrus trees growing in our area. When my Mom lived in California, her neighbor had grapefruit trees and she would give them to Mom. They were so much better than the half ripe ones that are in the grocery store. We have apple, peach, apricot, plum, cherry trees and grape vines in our area. There have been years that the frost killed the blossoms on the apricot and peach trees if they blossom too early. They put smudge pots or heaters in the orchards and have huge fans running all night to protect them when they first blossom if cold weather is expected.
Barb - thanks for sharing the butterfly pictures. We have a Butterfly Pavilion near our house in Denver that the grandkids love to go see. My granddaughter can get the butterflies to land on her hand. They also have a tarantula named Ruth that people can hold. She is about the size of the palm of my hand including her legs. When you hold her, an employee holds your wrist to keep you from jerking when the spider climbs on your hand so she does not get flung into the air by someone who decides they are too scared to hold her. It was an odd feeling to have her walking on my hand.
Judith - Have you gotten rested up with the celebration you had for your birthday and Thanksgiving? I am so glad that they had food you could eat also. What vegetables are in Autum Soup? I hope you were able to get an appointment into the Oncologist office so he can look at your mouth. It would also be great if you could get your surgeon's appointment to very three weeks so the area has time to heal between debriedments.
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Judith. I hope you have recovered from all the excitement you have had. So nice you had a nice bday & then Thanksgiving, guess that’s normal for you. Glad your family makes sure you have foods you can eat.
Did you get the appointment you needed? Praying.
Linda. Glad you could use Glenn’s computer to respond. I hope you get your computer soon & it doesn’t cost much. I don’t think I would like to hold a tarantula on my hand. I can kill small spiders but a big one like that I’d be scared.
We have fruit trees around us but we don’t have any. Lots of trees big ones from my. neighbors. 3 oak trees so lots of acorns & branches I’m picking up.Susan Can the police catch the robbers of your neighbors garages? Any leads? Praying for Joe. well we are in Wisconsin taking the. North River road so along the Mississippi River. It’s been nice. We’ve seen some color but it’s cloudy & light rain so no really any pics. I hope to get some tomorrow. It is colder up here but not bad jacket weather.
It’s still dry & warm back home in 80’s3 got his walker today, & he will go to a 3 day therapy Tuesday, Thursday & Friday. PTL. That starts next week & we will be home.
My mom got home but is having constipation issues. Cheryl will stay tonight with her. Sandi, BC sister, isn’t coming since she has a cold & USA govt shut down. Pray she can come some other time soon. Jan youngest sister, who lives in Ri hadn’t seen my mom yet this year either. All in God’s time. .1 -
How wonderful that your mother could come home, Barb. I am sorry she doesn't feel comfortable yet. I hope she will soon. Your pictures were beautiful and you both looked so happy. I sure hope Harry3 gets the hang of his walker very quickly and he stays well. Poor Mariposa being sick again so soon. You stay well, too.
Linda, that's encouraging that the computer people might fix your machine soon and that maybe you didn't cause the problem. Isn't it funny how different devices feels so strange. We're just glad that you are able to post. I also remember the abundance of variety of trees in California. My paternal grandparents lived near an olive grove. They also had plenty of freshly picked grapefruit, oranges, artichokes, watermelons, etc. One place my family lived in there long ago had a very productive apricot tree. My maternal grandmother had grapes vines, peach and apricot trees.
Judith, i am not surprised that fruit trees would have trouble in your climate. Yes, lemons and limes are very similar, especially when young. They are pretty much the same shape and colour. I counted 6 lemons on my tree this morning. Many fell off before they got a chance to develop. If there is a storm or strong wind , this happens even more. I also noticed a few tiny limes, but they are funnily enough, a pale yellow! They get darker with age while the lemons get lighter. Lol! They also wind up being much smaller than the lemons. They are good for zesting, not so much for juicing. The lemons are good for both things.
The whole village is angry about management's handling of the theft and about maintenance issues. Many are writing letters and sending emails and having meetings about the best way forward. Some have even suggesting we stop paying site rent until they fix a few things and increase security. (We own our houses but not the land they sit on. Part of our land rent includes maintenance of common gardens and facilities and roads etc).
One other thing Management has not fixed in a hurry is the sanitizer in the village kitchen. The chef who comes here often has threatened to stop coming. The internal groups that hold food events have switched to paper plates and disposable cutlery. Everyone is especially angry about that as with 500 people in the village, someone is bound to get sick if the dishes are not sanitized. Yes, we all cook at home most of the time , but there are a lot of events in the clubhouse.
As for what the police are doing or how close they are to catching the carr and key thieves, I have not been told. The doors to the house that was robbed were locked but they have a cat and had left the cat flap open. Somehow, the teenager thieves were able to reach in and unlock something. They saw them on a security camera so I assume they at least know what they looked like unless they wore masks. I am just glad the residents were not hurt at all, but they are dealing with the mental horror of being broken into while they slept.
I appreciate you praying for Joe and Eileen so much. Colin is with Joe now. Joe has slipped into a coma. We're not sure if he will wake up again. Eileen is with him as well..
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I wish I had good news about my computer but I do not. This morning they computer people talked to Glenn and said that the whole operating system is corupted. They can leave it as it is since it does work but I am missing things on the bottom bar that is a quick way to get to things, we could fix it for $150 but another option is to buy a new one. They can not guarantee that they would be able to transfer all the data off my machine on to another computer. Glenn went to pick it up and they did a final check on it and the Wi-Fi was not working although it was earlier in the day. We are leaving on Friday to go back to Denver so I hope they can get the Wi-Fi working before then. We decided to not fix it although I will have to go to "settings" a lot to find what I need like to increase the volume, change the brightness, I check to see if the Wi-Fi is on, or how much battery I have which is what is on the bottom of the screen. It is a problem that is a luxury to me when I think of all the people in the war torn countries that are starving or do not have homes to live in. They do not even have computers to worry about. Maybe our lives would be better if we did not have modern conveniences.
Barb - Thanks for the pictures of the Amana Colony. It is fine if you do not get any pictures of colors since it is not good picture taking. Do you have lots of colors in Kansas? I am glad to hear that your Mom is home but it is frustrating that she is having constipation. Does she get much exercise? I am hoping that the therapies helped her be more mobile.
Susan - I can imagine that your management is feeling the heat of everyone because of the safety, security and sanitation issues. Everyone not paying rent would get their attention. That is interesting that you do not own your property. It sounds like it is with the trailor parks here. The difference is that if The trailor owners do not like the rent, they can move their trailor but you would have to sell your house and buy a new one somewhere else. You saying that the thieves got in the house of your friend by using the cat door reminded me of my middle daughter that would go home from school with her friend to play and she would climb through the doggie door to let her friend in the house if she had forgotten her keys. As far as I know she did not get into any other houses that way. LOL Her friend gave her permission to use the doggy door.
Judith - I assume that we are posting at the same time as we did yesterday. I hope you are doing well.
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hello everyone,
As you can see I edited my post at 12:17am and then came back at 3:07pm, my device is adding letters and words I didn’t type. Not sure if it’s a MFP or a device thing??
I am on later but see everyone’s post! YAY 😀 It’s good to be able to see and read all your posts.
Susan, I saw your post on our prayer Thread. My sincere Condolences and Prayers for Eileen and the whole Family in-the resent passing of Joe who went Home to Jesus last night, Joe is now at Rest, he is free from pain and is now in the Presence of the Lord! My heart goes out to Eileen as even though she has Peace knowing her beloved husband is Safe and is with Jesus it still is hard, as she is here, missing her husband she spent so many hears with, that is what is hard. Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord, Is the death of His Saints! “NKJV” I am praying for Colin as he was with Joe when he passed, and Eileen was there also. Before Joe passed he said to Colin, “you will be there too in Heaven” then he slipped into unconsciousness and that was the last words I believe Susan said on the Prayer thread. I am praying for Colin as it has to be so hard for him. I am also so sorry to hear all about what’s going on with your community with the Management not keeping up the grounds or any repairs. And the way things are with the way things are being done regarding the theft of car. I feel for the owners having to deal with their emotions of knowing it all happened while they slept. That is so hard to deal with. I am praying for it all, Hope the managers start doing what is right, it’s concerning and the issues with the sanitizer in-the kitchen that is not repaired.
Linda, so sorry about the computer..I was hoping it could be fixed. Let us know what you will do. Did you have any of your College Files on that computer, or hopefully you backed up the Files for Glenn’s computer. You said you leave for Denver on Friday, will you take the computer with you to see maybe it can be fixed in Denver? Just the same here’s hoping you get the WIFI at least up and running. I hear you about maybe our lives would be simpler if we didn’t have all these modern conveniences. You sharing about the Fruit trees in your area and your Mom in California with all that she did, one thing in particular that started my mouth watering was thinking about your Mom’s neighbour giving her grapefruit, I loved grapefruit but can’t eat it now! The memories of my Grandparents back in Eastern Canada they had Apple, Peach and Pear trees on their land. They also had blueberry bushes and rhubarb beans, carrots, Corn Potatoes, Squash, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Pumpkin, Peas, Tomatoes… And yes, they had grapefruit, and much more but can’t think of all the names now. I grew my own produce back east also. Here in BC I grow Tomatoes every year, last year I grew green peppers but missed out getting the starter peppers this year. One of my a neighbours does Squash, corn and other veggies, my Daughter and Son have big gardens of Produce. One thing we have to be mindful here is to pick the fruit of the trees and clean out our gardens before the first frost. Usually by mid to late Autumn is the last of our gardens brought in before the first frost. My grandmother did a lot of canning and I helped her with mega baking. Do you do any canning Linda?
Barb, so glad to hear Harry3 got his Walker and his therapy is moved to 3 days a week. So happy your Mom is home but sorry she has constipation. Hopefully that can be brought under control. How is your Mom’s mobility and is the pain under control with good pain management? So sorry Mariposa is sick, it seems she just got over a cold not long ago. Will pray for the household that everyone stays healthy. I am praying Harry3 will get stronger and his balance improve, trusting his swallowing improves so he is not coughing and choking on his food. When I was at Speech Language Swallowing Pathology Clinic the Pathologist helped me with using thickened water or putting it in juices and eventually I was able to eliminate it, I believe Harry3 had that but doesn’t need it now, my speech improved. My vocal cords and mouth were affected due to all the cancer surgeries. Harry3 has done well in all his therapies and I believe this last few things will be resolved very soon. Yes, as you say, In God’s perfect time.
I’m off to bed, came back to edit my post and ended up by sharing more. I had everything done by 11:45pm later than my usual but now I need to go to bed 🛌 So will say Good Night 😴 God Bless! 🙏🤗
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Thank you all for your condolences. I got it wrong about Joe waking long enough to speak. It was Colin who whispered those words to Joe. Joe heard the words, as a single tear rolled down his face when Colin said them. Joe never regained consciousness but obviously retained his hearing to the end...Eileen is coping right now but I think her loss will be felt deeply in coming days as she adjusts to life on her own after 66 years with Joe. We'll be keeping an eye on her as will many in the church. Pastor Joe and Eileen are well-loved. She will have help organising the funeral too.
The Village is settling down a bit. One of our residents was able to contact upper management as our 'on site' manager (who is rarely on site) wasn't helping and the more senior manager arranged for the sanitiser to be fixed immediately. People are installing extra security in their houses. (Police have not said if they have leads about the theft, but we heard a store caught them on camera using our friends' credit cards). We each own our house, just not the land the houses sit on. Technically we could buy land somewhere else and have our house shifted there as the homes are supposed to be relocatable, but no one has ever done that to my knowledge. People who move from here sell the house and buy another place with the proceeds.
Judith, glad you saw my post even though it was wrong. I'll edit my post in the prayer thread to be right if MFP will let me. Your memories of gardens and harvests were good to read. Wherever we lived, my Mom always had a garden and she and Dad would grow vegetables and fruit. I remember we even had a Fig tree once. She wouldn't can things. We would just eat everything as it came and she would give away the surplus.
Linda, that is not a completely good result about the computer but I am glad you didn't lose all your data. Life throws curve balls from unexpected places. I am thinking about upgrading my laptop. It is about 10 years old and won't allow me to upgrade to the next operating system. I don't think I'll be able to use my word processing software any more next month. I'm still thinking about it.
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Susan. So sad to hear about Joe in you all will miss him but welcome home Joe as he’s with Jesus with no suffering. Prayers for you all & Eileen especially. That’s how long my folks were married before my dad died. Praying. It’s good that people are installing extra protection.
Prayers they get thieves. I know of a house that got moved 3 blocks away but it’s not too often.
Judith. Praying for you. My dad in growing growing up grew lot’s raspberries 2 times a year we pick them, gooseberries, Swiss chard, lettuce tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers asparagus, peas. Etc. we would freeze a lot of peas and such.
Linda. So sorry about your computer. Maybe in Denver you can get it fixed. Prayers. Prayers for your safety too in traveling.
We are in Thunder Bay Ontario. Yes Canada. With new passports we went for one day hoping to see things tomorrow but it was pouring all the way here. We got here in the dark. It’s on Eastern time and we have central time so it’s an hour sooner.
Lake Superior visited the largest golf the lakes and trees have colors. Mariposa did some seeing with boards so she must better.
My mom is in a lot of pain. Cher can’t take care of her so not sure what we can do. If she goes to assisted it be in a different place & have to get her on Medicaid. Please pray for wisdom for us. She is not texting us as wants not to be a burden on us. Please prayWe go back to Minnesota tomorrow. Pics of today colors, willow river falls in WI, MN colors m, plus Lake Superior.
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Barb, such beautiful memories you have stirred up with sharing the pictures of Thunder Bay. My aunt and Uncle lived in Northern Ontario, their home was in Englehart Ontario. We spent a lot of time in North Bay but we did visit Thunder Bay often. What I remember about Northern Ontario was the tall Birch Bark Trees. So beautiful. Both my Grandparents and Aunt and Uncle had cottages outside of Englehart Ontario. My Aunt Bette my Mom’s sister lived in Englehart, they bought their house there after they were married but built their own cottage nearby Englehart. My Memories of swimming skiing on the lake, and picking a lot of blueberries with my Grandma. She made the best Blueberry pies. In Hamilton Ontario their house sat on a large piece of land. The produce and fruit we ate all summer and they gave a lot away to their friends and to all the family. Then in October they canned the rest which took them through the winter months. Every summer my Mom and I had a holiday just Mom and daughter time would to take me up to the cottage but always stopped at different places in the North to visit with friends. Thank you for sharing the pictures. Such a nice picture of you Barb and your husband Harry. The picture of Mariposa is precious. Love her smile. Safe travels as you continue to visit and tour so many places. I am so sorry about your Mom being in pain, and your Sister not able to look after your dear Mom, will keep this in much prayer.
Susan, you sharing about Colin whispering in Joe’s ear saying he would be in Heaven with him soon, it brought tears to my eyes reading what you shared and I could almost see the tears rolling down Joe’s cheek, so precious, yes Susan the hearing is the last to go, so I always encouraged family friends to keep speaking to their loved ones as they do hear, and for sure Joe heard what Colin said…My Grandparents were married 66 years before my Grandfather passed away. It’s a long time, a life time for Eileen and Joe. So glad the Church and friends family will rally around Eileen as it will take time to adjust to life without Joe by her side. I am glad to hear the Villagers were able to get in touch with upper management and get the maintenance things looked after, especially the sanitizer in the Village’s Kitchen. It’s also good the owners are putting locks on the doors and getting better security. Glad the store owners got the picture on their security camera of the robbers using the owners credit cards. My goodness these individuals need to be arrested before they disrupt anymore families and communities. They need to be stopped. I am praying for all your safety.Take care all. Will say good night 😴 and God Bless. 🙏🤗
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The saga goes on with my computer. They worked on it all day and never were able to get the WiFi to work. The repair show called Glenn and dicussed it and they decided to not buy a new computer but to put all my stuff in the "cloud" (what ever that is) and to erase everything on my computer, put in a new operatering system and download everything back from the cloud into my "new" refurbished one. Although it took so long for them to do all of this, he said he would only charge us what he quoted when he first looked at it and thought it was an easy job. I am so grateful he was so generous to us! We will pick up the computer tomorrow before we leave for Westminster. All the schools info is on Google drive in all the staff's computers so it would just be putting that drive back into my computer if it were lost from mine. We brought all our green tomatoes in the house today since it will probably freeze before we get back. I also took some sprigs off my geranium plant to sprout and keep in the house during the winter and I will replant it outside next Summer.
Judith - I did not can anything this year. I did dry some peaches and apples and froze some things but we did not have an excess of much of anything. We will be freezing the apples from our tree in Westminster next week - both unpeeled apples to make applesauce later and sliced ones for pies. They should be ripe by then. Glenn's sister said she has a lot of apples on her tree too and wants us to take some from her but I am not sure how many apples we can process. It will be a lot just to do ours. A friend who is going through some hard emotional times, usually gives us pears from his tree but he was in such a dificutl mental state that he forgot to tell us the pears were ready until it was too late. I did can quite a lot of them one year.
Susan - that was so sweet that Colin was able to say good-bye to Pastor Joe and he reacted to it with a tear. As the apostle Paul said in Philippians 1:23, it is hard to not want to go to be with Jesus but hard to leave your loved ones too that need you. (That is a poor paraphrase.) It was interesting that you said you could take your house to another property if you wanted to since you own the house. Over close to our mountain property before they made the Blue Mesa Lake, there was a small town of Sapinaro that was in the area where they wanted to make the dam and therefore the Lake. They moved the whole town up quite a bit to save the buildings and keep the town together. That was a huge undertaking but needed to be done before they could proceed with the dam and lake. Otherwise the town would have been covered with water.
Barb - I did not know you were going to be international travelers by going to Canada. I am sorry that the weather was not cooperating and I hope it clears up for you. I will pray for your decision about Assisted Living for your mother. Is she is agreement with it? There would be a lot of things to do to get ready for that as you said. Applying for Medicaid can be quite a process with the goverment looking over all the details of her life making sure she does not have any money hidden that she has not used. My job at a nursing home was to fill out forms for Medicare and Medicaid. My Dad was able to get veteran's benefits to get into Assisted Living. That was a huge help to us. Willow River Falls looks so beautiful. I love to see waterfalls and see the amazing power they had to carve rocks into different formations. Thanks for including red trees for me.
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