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Thanks Marilyn for the hug. I also need one after the past 24 hours. On Saturday, our plane to Denver was late due to mechanical problems making us miss our final flight so we stayed in Denver overnight and got another flight which was delayed 4 times for mechanical problems. We finally got a different plane and arrived at our destination 2 hours late missing the church service my husband was supposed to preach for. We did find a last minute substitute for that. We still have an hour ride home in our truck to our house. I am grateful that things did work out for us.
Thanks for the update Judith. You have a lot to consider for sure. Gentle hugs and prayers for you.1 -
I'll take one of those hugs, too, Marilyn. Sending a hug back for you.
Judith, all is fine here. Sometimes I have commitments in the morning so I post later, like today. This morning I was singing with Uke Jam. Yes, the things we did for Col's pain took the edge off it. He is just back from having acupuncture and massage for the pain so hopefully he will feel better for a little bit. I am so sorry about all the extra challenges to your healing progress, my friend. I do hope the medical team is able to help you and make things better than they are. You have certainly had battles with infections. Praying the antibiotics will vanquish them all. Sending you gentle hugs too.
Linda, those travel difficulties would have been a concern! So glad you could find a substitute preacher but I know your husband would rather have done that himself had it been possible. I am glad you are both safe. Hugs for you, also.
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Good afternoon to my Canadian friends and early morning greetings to you Susan. I am feeling so much better this morning after 7 hours sleep in my flannel sheets and comfortable bed and pillow. I am sorry that I was such a negative person yesterday. Yes, it was frustrating but I did not have any gratitude to add to that which I should have done. We did have a wonderful time at the conference. We learned things that I will share with you at some time but I am trying to get caught up on things at the house right now. I have 18 things on my to do list and I hope to get most of them done. Our night spent in Denver was nice because my daughter picked us up and we were able to see family and sleep at our Denver house for the night. If we had known we were going to have the delays, we could have slept in some more and gone to church to see friends but we were not aware of what was happening at the time. When we were in Montrose we were able to check our trailer that is in storage to make sure it was OK so we accomplished that too. The airline gave us EACH a $150 voucher for our next flight and $15 for a meal at the airport for our trouble. With all the mechanical problems we had with two of the planes, right now I am a little afraid to try flying with them if we have a tight schedule. My mind will change as time goes by. There was another aircraft at a gate accross from us that was also making announcements that another plane was ready and they had to get back on it to go to their location so we were not the only ones who were having mechanical issues. I am really glad that they were careful that we had a safe plane. I also realize that God may have been protecting us from some danger that may have happened while we were in flight so I am grateful for that.
I am praying that Col is getting some pain relief from the massage and accupuncture. I know it is hard to watch a spouse in pain and not to be able to help so prayers for you too Susan.1 -
Marilyn, l love that idea.
Linda, it's ok when you have an occasional day where it is hard to be grateful. You are usually grateful! None of us is perfect. You sure sound like today was a better day, so I am relieved.for you.
Judith, thinking of you and praying you are alright.
The church ladies got together for lunch today which was lovely. We celebrated an 87th birthday with one. Now we are going to collect the van from storage to get it ready for our first trip! 😊1 -
Good Morning All,
Thank you for your kind comments, not too worry I will get thru this and move on with what treatment is recommended.
Sorry I missed posting last night, I was here but guess I was so tired I fell asleep at table 🙃 so logged out and went to bed 🛌
Thank you Marilyn for your last 2 quotes, yes, good reminder for helping hands and like others I needed that Hug too! Thank you 🙂
Linda, so sorry about all the delays and mechanical probs with your planes. So happy that you got home safely in spite of the unexpected stay over in Denver and not getting to your Sunday service your hubby was to preach at. Great today is much better for you, my prayers are with you both.. 🤗
Susan, so nice you sang with the group on Sunday Service and Colin is doing better. Great the interventions and treatment helped Colin!
It’s snowing here, temps have dropped and my yard is filling with snow! Will go and check my Weather news and post my Weather for Todaya little later. Be back to post our new March Goals! Hope you will join me again! God Bless 🤗❤️🙏0 -
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We had a snow squall this morning that covered the ground but it is gone now. I will not be able to stay on very long today. I am getting an error message that my fan is not working and my computer is getting hot. I will try to post using my phone but that is not as convenient as this is.
Susan - where are you going on your maiden voyage with your new caravan?1 -
Hello everyone. It's the afternoon here and it is a hot day. I have been to a fashion show at the Village and bought an outfit I liked. Now I am thinking of last minute things to put in the van, but one of the dogs wants a cuddle since I was out all morning so I am taking a little break to write to you. Here he is on my lap!
Judith, your attitude is so amazing and admirable. Praying for your strength and fortitude to continue as you trust God for your healing.
Linda, we are going to a local Showgrounds for our maiden voyage. It is set up so we can park in a big field and have power and water, but we'll be away from home so rely completely on the van while we are there. We want to try out the air conditioning, fans, fridge, washing machine, lights, tv, oven, stovetop, microwave, hot water, etc etc. Now is the time to find out if anything doesn't work, before we go on a long trip. We'll be close enough to the repairer's if anything goes wrong in the next few days. I don't know what internet reception will be.like so if I don't get to come back and post, we will return on Sunday.
Marilyn, I do find being in nature wonderful. It's no one of the reasons I love to go away in the van. We spend a lot of time outside when we travel.
God bless you all.
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Marilyn - so true!
Well we have our tax information sorted and labeled and they are with the people who will put together all our information. We are hoping to get a refund but with my MIL's inheritance we recieved, I do not know what will happen. We did contribute quite a bit of it to the school and church which is considered a charitable contribution. Do you all have income taxes to do in Canada and Australia? I'm not sure how the government is set up for you.
Along with the midwife book I am reading, I just finished a book written about how to get your A1C down as well as get over insulin resistance. There are foods to avoid but also he suggested intermittant fasting to give your pancreas a rest and time to reset so it does not have to put out so much insulin. He suggests not eating for 23 hours and only have one meal 3 times a weel then eat healthy on the other days. I have also heard to eat a few healthy meals over a short time of the day then fasting for the rest of the day. I find that easier to do than fasting for 23 hours. I am trying to do this and see what happens. I am eating two meals over a 6 hour period then fasting for the rest of the day. Of course water is encouraged at all times.
My computer seems to be working today so maybe the error I got was just a fluke. I am watching it closely to make sure it does not overheat if the error was correct.
Blessings and prayers for all of you! 🙏💞
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Yes the “old time stars” reminds me when we had good clean wholesome shows on TV not the things we have today! We sure can see we are living closer to the time of our Lord’s return. Thanks for the quotes shared Marilyn.
Linda, sorry about your fan on your computer not working, hope you can get it repaired soon. One thing for sure you don’t need your system to overheat. Hope you don’t get anymore snow and it warms up in your part of the world.
Susan, going to the local Showgrounds for your Maiden Voyage sounds so awesome. Good way to test out all your devices and equipment to see if it is running properly. Good plan to be close to everything in case your Caravan needs servicing. Good to get all the “kinks” sorted out before going on a long journey! Like you I love being out amongst nature, it is so calming and healing. I might not be able to travel but where I live, my complex is right in the middle of towering trees that have been here for over a hundred years. I hear and see woodpeckers have wild finches in my yard living in my trees and have a friendly crow who visits regularly to my yard and drinks and bath’s in our birdbath. Hummingbirds who come and feed off my hanging floral baskets. Have wild flowers all through my garden and out front and my garden I plant every summer and spring. Yes, God’s Nature and Creation is right in front and all around me. God is Good! 😊❤️
Susan, love the picture of you and your puppy. So Precious! ❤️0 -
Linda, I hope your computer continues to work. You might find there is dust inside that could be blown away with a can of compressed air? Taxes - Australia taxes its working citizens about 30%+ then adds 10% Goods and Services tax for most transactions in stores/ with tradespeople. We also have compulsory superannuation deductions. We're a highly taxed society. Now I am retired, my income falls below taxable levels which is a relief in some ways and a challenge in others. We have to be creative to make our income stretch. We get a combination of pensions and superannuation benefits now.
I do AF as well with my keto way of eating. I do low carb, high fat & moderate protein, and have an 8 hour eating window when I am doing things right.
Marilyn I bso agree with you about the old time actors!!
We're off.in our shakedown trip in the van today.
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Today it is sunshine with a few think clouds. Another winter storm is coming to the mountains tomorrow so we will need to adjust our time for traveling over to Denver. We had planned to leave tomorrow but with the snow storm coming, we will leave early Saturday and hope we can get to our granddaughter's birthday party in time on Saturday evening. It will be a very short trip since we need to be back to lead our Bible study group on Thursday. We will be watching the weather reports closely to pick the right day to come back. Also on this trip we are taking 100# of ground beef back to our son. My BIL raises beef and we can buy really lean ground beef from him when he has some available. I like to buy from him because we know it has been fed really well with no extra antibiotics given to them.
I have been reading in Romans lately about how important faith is in our lives. Abraham had great faith that he would have a son even though "his body was as good as dead". We all have our times that we need to have faith even if it looks humanly impossible. The comentary I was reading along with the Bible said that some people think this passage means that we need to have huge faith or God will not work. What really is true is that the strength of our faith has nothing to do with the strength of his promises. He will always come through with the promise. Each of us has to have faith but it is not necessary to compare ours with anyone elses. Deep faith is cultivated with maturity and difficulties sometimes. I am glad that God always does what he promises. Judith, you are an example of deep faith for all of us.
Susan - I pray that you have an uneventful trial with your caravan and you get some rest and relaxation while you are gone.1 -
Thank you Marilyn for all these quotes, enjoying each one! 👍
Susan, I understand about the pensions you are talking about, we too here get some breaks as a Senior, with Senior supplements, however the cost of living here is so high, Food Costs have increased. One thing I have learned is to get creative in all this to cut costs. This year I am going to plant my tomatoes as usual but will add some herbs and maybe carrots and another veggie. I can purée them and make soups or
purée veggies.
I see you are going on your Maiden Voyage in your Caravan. Hope you have a wonderful trip and enjoy the great outdoors. My prayers go with you both! 🤗🙏
Linda, I love the Book of Romans! Thank you for sharing. Each time I read and study Romans I learn so much more.
I am humbled with the comment you made about my “deep faith” one thing for sure thru all this God has blessed me and provided me with so many precious friends like you all here who come alongside me with your kindness, encouragement, love and support and many
prayers. I thank God for each one of you!
Hope you had a wonderful day and your evening is blessed! Good Nite all, be back in the morning! 😴🤗🙏0 -
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Marilyn - I could put my face in your quote today and it would be true. Actually with warmer weather coming, I hope to be feeling better in my lnee and hip joint. I have a 3 year appointment with my ortho doctor to check my revised hip which is great. I am going to ask him about my knee and hip. I don't know if the knee is causing my hip to hurt or my hip is causing my knee to hurt.
I spent the morning working on audits for the school. If I keep up with it like every other month, it is much easier than if I let it go for longer. We have a new computer system that we are using now which is so much better than the old one. It will actually run the audits for you and then I just have to double check some things. In the past I have had to go through all the files manually and keep a document that needs to be updated with each new students information.
The mountains sure look like there are a lot of storm going on up there. I am glad that we decided to wait to go over them tomorrow. By that time the snow plows will have been out and the roads should be pretty clear. With the low humidity that we have, the snow on the dark pavement melts pretty quickly.
Love and prayers to you all. I need to get busy doing laundry and packing.1 -
So frustrating, lost what I typed here 3x with my computer crashing and loosing everything, not sure why!
Anyway, Thank you Marilyn for the quotes, the last one made me chuckle…
Linda, sorry about the pain you are having, hope your ortho appointment can find out what’s causing the pain and can look after it. I like your new computer that looks after the audit for you. Much easier that you manually sorting the files and entering the data. What new system are you working with? I have Microsoft Office and work with Excel, Spread-sheets, Word and Power
Point. You said you are heading over the mountains tomorrow. Hope the weather is favorable and you don’t have much snow. My prayers are with you, safe travels my friend.
It’s late and now it’s bedtime for me, Love and Hugs all! ❤️🤗🙏0 -
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It is traveling day today. There is a lot of snow along the sides of the road and the mountain sides but the roads are dry.
Traffic is not bad since it is Saturday. Friday traffic and Sunday are the worst days. We try to avoid those days.
The computer system I am using is called Kintone. It is especially made for colleges and universities to track classes and write transcripts. I enter the admission paperwork, assign student numbers then the administrator takes over from there.1 -
Amen Amen Marilyn on your above quote, thank you for sharing! 👍
Linda, safe travels my friend, trusting the mountain passes will be safe for you and all vehicles on the roads over the mountain passes. With me living amongst the mountains here in Western Canada I know how treacherous the passes and roads can be. I am praying for your safety. Once you are at your home I trust you will have a wonderful time with your family.enjoy your grand babies my friend.
Thank you for sharing the computer system you are using, Kintone, never heard of it. It sounds like a great system to work with. In all the years I have worked with the Church and Ministries, we have used Microsoft Word, Excel Spreadsheets and Power Point.
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I really would like to learn Excel spreadsheets. I can continue the information once someone sets it up.
We did have a good trip. We stopped to deliver the ground beef at our son's house and they invited us to lunch. We stayed for a while then came to our house to get ready for our granddaughter's party. It was downtown so we rode with our daughter. It cost $25 to park which was pretty expensive. I ordered a chopped salad but most people ordered deep dish pizza which took 45 minutes to bake. It was late when we got home and our bed felt so wonderful to snuggle in when we went to bed.
Today we had service in the morning and an elder's meeting in the afternoon. I spent the rest of the day sorting papers to throw away or to shred. The shredder got hot and I had to stop for a while for it to cool down then oiled it in case it was getting hot from lack of lubricant.
I hope you all had a good weekend and will have a blessed new week to come1 -
We're back! The van was great and everything works. Will spend more time here tomorrow. I have to be somewhere in 15 minutes but wanted you all to know we're fine. 😃🙏💕1
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Just wanted you to know I am ok and will be back in morning and respond to all your posts, love you all, see you tomorrow ❤️🙏0
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i'm so glad the van worked well for you and you will be able to have lots of adventures in the future, Susan.
I am still cleaning out a bedroom for my granddaughter to use as a study. This will be nice for her and nice for us to not have her computer and books all scattered over the dining room table when we get ready to eat. We had hoped to be able to take the old mattress over to our old house so we could dispose of it in the "Spring cleanup" each spring. You can put anything out that you want to get rid of and it sits for a week while other people look over things and take what they want. I works out for everyone so it is nice. What is left over, the city comes by and takes it to the disposal area. I do not think that they were thinking about people taking things when they first started this but it has evolved to a free garage sale for most people. ☺
We are going to a friend's house to eat dinner tonight. She loves to have us come over because she is a young widow and is lonely but also she likes to ply my husband with questions to get his opinion on things. I am not a big talker so I just sit and eat while they do all the talking. She also does not like leftovers so she gives them to me so it works out for all of us.1 -
Linda, thank you. We're excited about spending more time in the van. What a great arrangement with the 'free' garage sale. It kind of happens like that here too. And I am glad you have a solution for your granddaughter's study room and will be enjoying your friend's company tonight.
Judith, I hope you are working through the news from your Doctors and are getting information about your next steps. The weather sounds so cold where you are. Stay warm, cozy and enjoy some hot soup. 🤗
Marilyn, thank you for all the wisdom in the past few days. It was appreciated!
It's a quiet day here for me so I am going to reach out to some new card class ladies and get a class ready for next week. I have planned the menu around here for the day so don't have to make any decisions. Ooh, I like that 😊
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Afternoon All, I was here last night but was so tired, earlier in day I wasn’t my best but later felt a lot better. I began to read all your posts but became so sleepy I signed off and went to bed.
Marilyn, I sure have enjoyed the last two posts, thank you for sharing, one line stood out in the last quote; you are worth it, You are loved, Thank you for being you…
And one thing for sure, everyone here are so Worth it, You are loved and I Thank you for Being
You…
Susan, I am so thrilled your new Caravan worked out well on your Maiden Voyage, sounds like you had a splendid time. It’s always nice that you can be away enjoying your new vacation van and have everything working well. I am excited for you to spend more time in it and hear about new places you explore. You asked about how my doctors appointments: I see Surgeon and Oncology on Thursday and Friday: I should know about their thoughts on treatment and surgery. I start treatment for jaw in April. The concerning part is Pathology told my Family Doctor that they didn’t know how much could be done to reverse the damage from Cancer and Surgery. I am trusting God for a complete restoration of the jaw.
Hope you connected with some ladies to get a new card class arranged for next week.
Linda, I like the Garage sale you plan for the Spring, few years back we planned a Community Garage sale and often got some nice things for me and was able to clear things on here. So nice to have the bedroom cleaned out and organized for a nice study for your granddaughter to have her computer and books. Hope you enjoy your dinner out at your friends house. I know she will be so blessed to have both your company. Sounds like a win win for you all. Always nice when we can take left overs home, personally I like the taste of the food the next day almost better.
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