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Evening Hello All
Thank you Marilyn for this quote, yes, we all should love ourselves enough to live healthy! Sorry I haven’t hardly been on face book but will and find your profile and request a friend add!
Susan, continued prayers for safe travels.
Linda, sounds like a blessed Lords day having church at your house and going to your sister in laws home to pick apricots, yum yum 😋
Blessings all, have a great week ahead.
Keep the Sparkle 💖 and Shine ❇️ On… see you all tomorrow!0 -
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Good morning. We have changed plans. It is raining day and night and floods could happen, so we are cutting out last week short and returning home over the next two days. All's well, we just need to get home ahead of some of this weather. Take care, all.1
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Evening Hello All
Susan, my prayers are with you for safety and safe travels home. Please keep us posted as you travel home.
Thankfully for us it’s cooler temps for us and it’s raining here too but not flood type rain that you have my friend!
Marilyn, thank you for the great quote today.
Linda, praying for you, thinking of you with your family and celebrating your anniversary!
Take care all. See you all tomorrow! God Bless! 🙏❤️🤗0 -
I thought I posted yesterday but evidently I lost it. I can't remember all that I said but I do remember saying that all my cans of apricots had sealed. I still have some apricots left but they are not quite ripe so I can wait a day to work on them. I may dry some or freeze some because I ran out of canning lids.
We went to the hospital this afternoon to visit a friend that had a fall. She was trying to exercise but fell off the equipment and hurt her leg and ankle. They x-rayed it and nothing is broken so she is on crutches for a while and resting. At her age, broken bones can happen so quickly.
Susan - I hope the weather cooperates and you do not have a lot of flooding on your way home. Prayers go with you.
I is almost 1:00am so I need to get to bed. We are going to a movie tomorrow called "The Sound of Freedom". It is about child trafficking and all the damage it is doing to our little ones. I have heard it is really a good movie to inform people of what is going on where we can not see it.
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All is well at our house. We had a wind storm last night -plus some rain but this morning they are telling us that the wind did not help with the fires. The city is completely surrounded by fires and lots of friends of ours are on the border line re evacuation- and some have been. They say now that the winds from last night only caused more damage though it did rain some. The one big fire close to is has more than tripled - we have 2 major rivers that flow through the city and they are telling us that we are starting that of a drought as the rivers have not been this low in over 40 years. Scary times for sure.
Went to my TOPS meeting today - am down another 1.8 pounds and was the biggest loser for the week which was nice. Works with keeping a food journal taking notes on what the nutrition levels are in all the food I am eating - if I just count calories I gain but when I work on keeping the sugar / protein / potassiu / fibre / sodium all where they should be then the calories are in line and I know I am getting the proper nutrition. My journal consists of what I am eating with the numbers as mentioned, the amount of water I drink during the day, starting to record how much I walk as hubby nicely put up the treadmill for me so will be working on that with daily small goals. And the last that I record is some Scripture that I have read for the day. At our church we are going through the book of Ecclesiastes so that is what I am recording along with a prayer to go with it. Rather than a paper journal this time around I am doing here on myfitnesspal - it is private but should you want to journal along with me let me know and you could join me on my private group but only if you are going to work at journalling daily.
At any rate am feeling rather good today though I am very tired so need to sign off so I can stop and have a power nap.
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All is well. Last day on the road...1
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Marilyn - all those fires around you sound so scary. I hope they get them under control soon. I pray for your safety and those affected. Congratulations on your weight loss. I agree counting calories does not help me but if I focus on nutrition it really helps.
We went to see the movie "Sound of Freedom" today. It was a true story and very informative about what is happing behind closed doors with young children and sex trade. It is so sad that these things are happening to these innocent souls.
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Here is one of the pictures my daughter took of us for our anniversary.
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What a nice picture of the two of yo - now when I 'talk' with you I can think of this picture - always nice to 'see' who are talking to
We celebrate our anniversary in December - this year we will be celebrating our 40th - seems like yesterday that we met and now look at all the time that we have spent together1 -
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Good morning! We are on the road to home. Be there in a few hours.
Linda, I love your picture 😍 Happy anniversary to you both!
Marilyn, how are you going with the fires? I do hope they are getting to be under control. Happy 40th anniversary to you and your husband too.
Judith, hope all is on track for your surgery.
I will be back on Wifi at home which will be great as I can then catch up properly!! Have good days all of you.1 -
Afternoon Hello All
As you can see I was here (today) in the wee early hours of Wednesday morning. I posted Bible Reading Devotional, Goals, played the games, I see that Linda saw both JC and my story line, I think we both kept the Suspence going 😆 I was wondering how you were going to keep it going and what word you would use. Fun Fun this game it.
Anyway now it’s almost 5:00pm supper time. It’s been a long day, for me!
Linda, love your anniversary picture you posted.
Sounds like you are having a wonderful vacation with your family. You will have to let us know what recipe you used for the apricots you picked off your SIL trees. Continue to have a safe vacation.
Susan I know you are on your way home, safe travels.
Marilyn, thank you for updating us on your health. And thanks for letting us know about the conditions near you with the wild fires. Praying a hedge of protection around you my friend. I am further away but earlier in the month the fires were closer and we had affects of the smoke. Some days beginning of July and last week our skies were grey and Smokey, but not anywhere near as severe as you Marilyn. Please stay safe. Prayers are with you!
Take care all, be back later or even early morning! 🤗🙏❤️0 -
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Marilyn - thanks for this thought provoking quote! It is so true.
It's been a busy few days taking care of all the apricots. The last batch of the ones I am dehydrating will start today so I should be done. My fingernails have had a brown shade to them from all the apricot juice. It reminds me of the old men in the nursing home who were smokers and their fingers were all stained brown from the tobacco. I assure you, this is not my problem - just juice stain. LOL
Our Bible study group is meeting today to make "hospitality bags" for the homeless. I may have said this before but we have a lot of homeless people who stand on street corners asking for money. We do not know what they are spending the money on but that is not my business to deal with. Istead of giving money, we have hospitality bags to give to them which has useful things in it such as water bottles, snacks, socks, deoderant, toothbrushes and toothpast etc.
We had a nice little shower last night for about 10 minutes. It was enough to wash off the dust but we need a much bigger rain to do much good. There is a possibiity that this weekend we will get some good rain.
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I love your hospitality bags, Linda. It's sad that they are needed, but Jesus did say the poor would always be with us. We collect food for our homeless several times a year. And we have filled handbags with useful things for women and children in addition to getting things together for the men. It's a good thing to do. There are many hundreds who are homeless in this area alone...Your apricots brought back childhood memories for me. We had a fruitful tree in our yard when I was a kid. We loved that tree and all its fruit.
Marilyn, I appreciated that quote too. Are you safe from the fires yet?
Judith, we got home safely and it has been non stop washing and cleaning since, and getting house supplies in. I even washed the dogs today! We'll go out and clean the caravan tomorrow. It was the car's turn today. It's good to go away but good to come home too. Thank you for posting all the things you post for us. You are so appreciated!
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Evening Hello All
Linda you made me chuckle about the old men in nursing homes with stained fingers from smoking, yup I’ve seen them too. I am sure you will enjoy the dehydrated apricots, I look forward to the day I can eat that fruit again. Right now it’s all pureed into a smoothie.
Enjoy your evening. God Bless..
Susan. It was good connecting with you on Facebook, welcome back. You were missed just as Linda was when you both were travelling.
Marilyn, yes a very good quote today… much to think about! thanks for sharing.
God Bless you all… Good Night Blessings…😴0 -
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Marilyn - that is a great quote. I may use some of it in my renewal vows for our anniversary.
Susan - I am so glad you are home safely and understand all of the work that comes with getting back from a trip and getting into the old routines.
Judith- I do look forward to the time you will be able to eat regular food. I know pureed food just is not the same.
Today I spent time with our IT department (one person) working on syncing my various e-mail addresses. I have two for the school and two personal ones. It woudl be nice to have the two school ones synced but I still need to have them separate for official transcripts. He told me what to do and now we are waiting to see if it worked. I will be able to see all my e-mail on one screen if it works. I am glad I do not have to figure all these things out by myself.
Tonight we are going out to Red Lobster restaurant for a friend's birthday. I prefer to not eat seafood so I hope they have some alternatives on the menu. Shurely there are a few others of us who like other things to eat.
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Good Morning All
I will be back early evening. Have some things to attend to. Left Bible Reading and Devotions for you to read. See you soon! Below is my message for you all until I’m back at Supper time! ❤️🙏
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Good morning. We're off to clean the caravan today. I had bad news about the passing of a cousin this morning. He lived in California so I can't be with family, but I loved him.
I might come back later if I can.
Judith, I always checked in while away, never missed a day. But thank you for missing me. 💕
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Susan, I remember you did check in and you never missed a day what I meant was I missed you longer posts with sharing pictures and other news. Those things I miss seeing you signing in with. You are a blessing to me as you are to us all!
I am thankful for everyone on this Team, you all are such a blessing in which I thank God!
I said I’d sign in again, so here I am, finished playing games, it’s bedtime now.
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We picked our first tomato crop today but it will probably be our last also. We put new soil in our planters because the old soil had become alkaline from our water but this soil (which includes a lot of wood chips) is not doing well either. Next year we will be putting all potting soil in to see it that is better. We thought the wood chips would help with getting the water down to the roots but we are having more mushrooms grow than anything else. We did not plant mushroom but they are coming from the wet wood chips. This wood chip mixture had been advertized as good for the garden. Next time we will be more wary about not using plain soil! We still have carrots, beets in this soil which are looking very small and cucumbers. zucchini and grapes that are growing in the dirt next to the fence. They are looking great! Plain dirt that God provided is working best - we should have known. 😏
Susan - I hope you have all your cleaning done and can rest now. Do you have any more trips planned in the future? I am not excited about cleaning projects that are waiting for me to do today but I know when they are done, I will be excited about how much better things look.
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Linda how wonderful to have such good results from your vegetable garden! I haven't had success growing anything but shallots and leeks in my pot garden. I tried numerous other seedlings with no success. Not sure what is wrong as I have always grown vegetables. Maybe it IS the potting mix. I need to get some good river soil from somewhere. Yes, we sure are planning more trips. We'll do some short ones with friends who just got their new van last week (they are experienced at travelling on the road. This is just a new van,) and in October we start a five month Odyssey with the same friends. We're going to Tasmania with our vans which involves boating across the Bass Strait. We'll spend a week travelling to the boat from here then explore Tassie at our leisure.
Marilyn, that all makes total sense.
Judith, now I see what you mean! Yes, my posts were short while I was away. I'm sorry. We just have no Wifi on the road so I rationed my upload times. You are a blessing to all of us , by the way. None of us would even know of each other without you!
As for photos, I will share one with you now. Here's a card I made within a day of coming home:
I must photograph the beautiful Crucifix Orchids in my pot plant garden for you. They are so cheerful and colourful.
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Susan, thank you for sharing the beautiful Birthday card. I love it! I had forgotten about the lack of WIFI you had when you were on the road. I love the future trips you and Colin have planned, sounds like a wonderful adventure! I will look forward to hearing all about your travels. You mentioned a plant that isn’t familiar to me; Crucifix Orchids. We have a lot of Orchids here and have had them but never seen or heard of a Crucifix Orchid. I look forward to a picture when you can post!
Linda, happy you had a good tomato crop but sorry to hear about the issues you have had with the soil that is not producing the produce you are accustomed to having grow in your garden. Happy you are seeing good results with your grapes, zucchini and beets growing in the soil by the fence line. Too bad about your other plants, when you put so much work into gardening it’s disappointing when you don’t get the results.
Marilyn, the last quote you shared gave me a chuckle 🤭 with it being a play on word all the way through! Too Funny but Cute and yes, Bottom line Healthy is what we all want to be! Thank you for sharing! 😊
It’s late so this gal is heading to bed, have the Family here tomorrow; Celebrating my Granddaughter’s Birthday and My Daughter and Son in law’s Wedding Anniversary! God Bless, be back tomorrow evening! 🤗🙏0 -
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Judith - I made the recipe (with a few tweeks) you shared this week last night and it was delicious. I did not have all the ingredients so I got creative and I included vegetales in it, added some herbs, broth and put some meat with it that I needed to use up. It made enough to fill us up and more to use on another day.
Marilyn - I can identify with your posting. Some of those plastic bags are really hard to open! I is great to see you playing long with us on our games. I hope you are getting more energy.
Susan - your next big trip sounds daunting to be gone so long. It is wonderful that you have friends to travel with. I did not realize that Tasmania is a state of Australia. I have learned something today. You help keep my brain sharp along with the games we plan on here.1 -
Linda, it's hard to know about al foreign country, isn't it. Glad to give glimpses into the vast land over here. The ferry trip will take us 15 hours! That might give an indication of distances between the mainland and Tasmania. Once a long time ago, some cousins visited from the United States states. They rented a car in Sydney and started to drive north to surprise us. At the time we lived on the Atherton Tablelands, way up but n Far North Queensland. It would have taken them at least 4 full days to drive the distance. They realised halfway through New South Wales that their surprise visit wasn't going to happen, so they turned around and went back to catch their plane home. People tend to think of Australia as being just a big island, so it is really the same size as mainland USA. There is a lot to know about it. Yes, I will feel it being away from home for so long, but we did do a 15 months trip in 2017 and 2018. I know how to live on the road at least. We are looking forward to getting to see much of a country that we have not taken the time to visit before. We have had short trips to Tasmania in the past and have left a lot of it unexplored.
Marilyn, lol about that awful plastic produce bag!! 🤗
Judith, yes, it's hard to have Wi-Fi when you are travelling. When we do a longer trip, I usually load up a mobile modem but it is never unlimited data. Closer to the time we intend to travel, I will check to see if I can find a good deal somewhere. I can't go 5 whole months limiting my internet! Lol! I haven't taken a photo of the Crucifix Orchids yet but will certainly do so. I want to post this before MyFitnessPal decides to lose it. In fact, I will post this now and go out into my little backyard to take picture for you. Be back soon.
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Crucifix Orchids
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