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Amen, Marilyn.
Judith, your New Year's celebration sounded lovely. I have never seen anyone do that over here. About the digital book, not sure the printers allow people to make them available outside of their platform. I was talking about making it with Snapfish, for example. They are in the business of printing photos snd photo books for their customers. I've done that for various special events in my life but have never been able to share the digital files. I guess Snapfish would not make any money if they made digital books available. So I don't know how to create a digital book I can share. It's really lovely to know you would want to read it, though!
I can share more photos here though.
We may go exploring again today. Yesterday we looked at Battery Point, an old part of Hobart that has lots of charm. We saw the Richard Branson ship called Virgin. Hobart is full of character and sandstone and brick and wrought iron. We also found the university Antarctic studies building.
School of Antarctic Studies
The Virgin
Sample of Battery Point life.
Sample of Battery Point life.
Hobart Street scene
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Those pictures of the houses are so cute. I love the scallops that are on the edge of the roofs. We called them gingerbread decorations' This is what Google says " Victorian builders used “gingerbread trim”—fancifully cut and pierced frieze boards, scrolled brackets, sawn balusters, and braced arches—to transform simple frame cottages into one-of-a-kind homes...North America’s romance with gingerbread trim dates to the 1830s and ’40s, when builders began to interpret the masonry details of Europe’s Gothic Revival architecture in wood. Things started out simply, with a steeply pitched roofline here, decoratively carved gable trim there." The "Virgin" ship looks huge even from afar. Do you know how many people it carries? We had thought of going on a cruise ship but never got that done. Have any of you been on a cruise?
Judith - I am praying for your appointments this week. Your feast you had for the New Year sounds scrumptious. Did you cook att of it or did your have your children help? That must have taken a lot of organization to get it all done at the same time.
Marilyn - Each day we have life is a gift from God. It is so appropriate to open it with God!2 -
Susan loved the pictures of all the houses and buildings the architecture is so amazing! Thank you for sharing. About the digital posting of your creations we will have to look into this and see what is permitted and how to go about it all legally! I am sure there is a way!
Marilyn, yes Amen, every day is a gift from God and we should start the day in prayer thanking our God for granting us another day!
Linda, you asked about the preparation: I prepare the Shrimps and layer the platter with lettuce placing in fridge to keep chilled, same with oysters placed in a bowl all clean ready to assemble quickly and the dish put in fridge to keep chilled. I cooked the meatballs in the morning placed in large bowl and kept chilled; then I pre-heat oven, then at 5:00pm layer trays with sausage rolls, wings, put trays in oven, while they are cooking I place crackers on trays, put meatballs in slow cooker with sauce to get them piping hot, made punch, ice cubes are made with juice so punch won’t be diluted, I have warming trays as food comes out of oven it is covered in heavy foil and then the shrimps placed on platter and stemware glass filled with shrimp sauce and placed on serving table, all hot food is on island counter with tongs for serving, slow cooker is kept on warm so meatballs and sauce can be served to guests piping hot.
Then I quickly wash up change clothes and welcome guests who have already arrived sitting with punch in hand! The chips, nuts festive candy is placed in various spots around the living-room! 2 friends look after filling guests plates for first time then after guests can help themselves. It is a fun evening. Yes it takes organization but I love hosting fellowship parties! We all have a great time and the great thing, all are Christian. 😊
Have a great night, see you tomorrow! God Bless 😊❤️🙏1 -
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That's for sure, Marilyn. I love the faith chapter in Hebrews and what all those believers accomplished by faith. Especially the part about them receiving God’s favour by faith.
Judith, your party sounds amazing! I am so glad you had energy for that. You must have been out of spoons by the time everyone left! Hmm. Not sure about becoming a digital book creator, but I will have plenty of material to work with when I get home. So we'll see.
Linda, I looked up facts about the Virgin ship:
The ship has over 1,400 cabins that can accommodate more than 2,770 passengers on board, assisted by a crew of 1,160 people to ensure Virgin's distinctive style.
Yes, I have been on two cruises. One was from Sydney NSW Australia to San Francisco,
Ca USA and it happened in 1964. We were on board for 32 days. The other was on a P&O ship called Pacific Dawn and we went to several South Pacific islands for 10 days. Thst happened in about 2013. Have you been on a cruise? We opted for more travel in a caravan rather than more cruising.
Yesterday we drove as far south as we could to Southport. That's where the Huon River empties into the Great Southern Ocean. Here's Colin with the dogs at the white sand beach there.
Colin's fav is this photo of a little island out in the bay, with the thought of Antarctica being further on:
Southport is a tiny fishing/holiday village with loads of tiny houses. They are mostly named (eg Bob's Inn, Oyster House, Love Shack). Here's a pic of the beach road:
Here a sample of the kind of fish you can catch here:
We also visited other little towns on the way down. I snapped this pic of an old wooden building with a water wheel at Franklin:
There was a forest town called Geeveston that had huge logs with these welcoming signs set up at the entrance:
That might be enough for one day!
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I can't stay here too long since we have people coming over at 7:30pm to join us in our 40 days of prayer to start off the new year. We got back to Grand Junction at 4:40 then had to unpack all that we brought back, then eat and now get ready for tonight's prayer. We are using the words "STEP IN" as we move into a new year. The "S" stands for listening to the Spirit, "T" stands for transformation of our lives into what God wants us to be and "E" stands for having empathy for the lost as well as each other. The rest of the words will be revealed to us the rest of the week then we will repeat it each week until we have done it for 40 days.
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Good Morning All
I am a the hospital today for surgical follow up. Will check in tonight providing I am strong enough!
God Bless your day!
Love the pictures Susan, great picture of Colin with the “puppies” so sweet your Dogs are!
See you later!
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Judith I am praying that your appointment will not take more spoons than you have. I would gladly give you some of my spoons if I were closer. Rest, my friend, as much as you need when you get home. We are cheering for you in the background!
Marilyn - great verse to remind us that we can not do anything on our own but need God's strength in all things.
Susan - cute picture of your fur babies. I am so glad you are able to have them with you as you travel. Just looking at them makes me smile.2 -
Linda, that sounds like an excellent thing to do, to pray with others for 40 days and have an acronym to learn as well. I will look forward to hearing what the other letters mean in due time. Glad you like my photos. We think our dogs are cuties too.
Marilyn, I love that verse.
Judith, thinking of you today as you spend time in hospital. Thank you for letting us know what is happening. 🙏
It's calm and warm today. We are having a bit of a rest. Our friends are on the Spirit of Tasmania ferry all day and will be in Devonport by nightfall. We go to Launceston to meet up with them on Sunday afternoon. We may come back to Hobart with our friends eventually, and have been able to extend our stay in Tasmania till March 13th so we can explore a bit more with our friends.
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Marilyn, this Scripture has always been a great blessing and an encouragement knowing it is only Jesus who can strengthen me and give me what I need for the journey I am currently on and over the years I have walked with Jesus! Praise ye the Lord! ✝️
Susan I join Linda with a big Smile seeing your fur babies, they are so sweet. Thank you for all the pictures you share here. Thank you for your prayers and words of encouragement. Safe travels as you continue on your journey! 🙏
Linda, thank you for your words of encouragement and support. They are so appreciated.
Yesterday I was at VGH for my follow up appointment with my Surgeon. He removed the excess skin that covered my lips and suture line from the pooling and bubbling that continues. The swelling and an area that Surgeon is watching closely is still bringing some concern but right now it’s a part of the recovery period which he hopes will settle down.
I’m at the worst stage of the recovery where everything is flaring up! Hoping the swelling and pulling ridge from side of nose across left side of face will smooth out and settle down.
All I can do is leave it in the Hands of Jesus! He has all things under control and continues to watch over me. Praise the Lord❤️🙏✝️0 -
Judith - Healing does have stages and I am sorry that this is a difficult stage you need to go through. Having the excess skin removed should help although you may have more with the continued pooling and bubbling. I am sure the surgeon is excellent in what he is doing to help things heal. The great physician is also standing beside you all the way holding you with His love.
Susan the letters from "Step In" stand for S - recognize the work of the Spirit and join Him in what He is doing. T - Transforming our lives into Jesus' likeness and growing the fruit of the Spirit. E - Empathy is compassion for the lost as well as the saved. P - Planting - pray for direction in saturating the Colorado Western Slope with the gospel. I - Inspiration of God. What is He inspiring you to do? N - Pray over prayer needs of the church (people wrote out prayer cards) and for those outside the church. People meet at the church and there is also a zoom option. Glenn is doing the zoom portion and three of our friends come to our house to join the zoom with us. We had 13 people join us in the zoom last night. Some of our members are older and do not like to drive at night or have small children they need to get to bed at that time so the zoom option really helps.1 -
Oh Linda, I do love the inspiration of your prayer acronym. I am saving that. I think Zoom is a great option for all the reasons you mentioned. Our church does Thursday night YouTube Bible Study for the same reason. I am thankful for that because we can stay in touch with our church as we travel, though we interact only in the chat while our Pastor presents the study. Zoom can be much more interactive.
Judith, I am also very sorry you are going through this most painful time. Your body is amazing. It is doing its job fighting during all the surgeries and issues you are going through. Rest and recover in the Lord. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knoweth them that trust in Him. Nah 1:7
Marilyn, thinking of you also today
Tomorrow we travel to Launceston. Today we will prepare what we can to make uprooting easy. We will meet up with our friends on Monday and will travel with them from now on, as much as we can.1 -
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Marilyn - that is so true. Today for our 40 days of prayer, we prayed for individuals who had put in prayer request cards. It was interesting and inspiring to see what people wanted prayers for themselves, their families and for the church. I was not very wide awake because I had only had 3+ hours of sleep so I just listened. I am not used to getting up as early as they did to gather to pray. I may need to take a nap later today.
Our little Bible study group will be having brunch with us in place of the regular service. I am making stuffed french toast casserole. I have not made it before so I made a little one last night for practice to see if it was any good. It is slices of french bread put together as a sandwich with strawberry jam and cream cheese in the middle in a dish then an egg mixture with pineapple and orange juice is poured over the top and baked. It is almost like a bread pudding. I hope they like it.
We took down our Christmas decorations yesterday and will put them in storage today. I also need to mop the floors to get ready for our group tomorrow.1 -
Linda, I hope you get a nap and a good sleep tonight. The stuffed French toast sounds interesting and I hope everyone likes it. You are a hospitable woman.
Marilyn, it sure is destructive to talk about others destructively.
We spent today moving to Hadspen near Launceston. All went well. We just finished dinner after setting up. Tomorrow our friends will finally be with us.1 -
Amen Marilyn, it is better to pray one for another, this is so pleasing to the Lord and we sure get better results. Thank you for sharing. My thoughts and prayers are with you my friend. Hope this day finds you well!
Linda, like Susan I also enjoyed the inspiration of your prayer acronym, thank you for sharing. Our church also has Zoom and has done Prayer and Bible Studies for those who can’t be in Church for whatever reason. I have also used FaceBook Messenger Live Video for Ladies Bible Study when leading the group. They are great tools to use that keeps everyone in the loop!
Susan, safe travels to Hadspen and enjoy meeting up with your friends. It will be so nice for you and Colin to spend time with them as you travel and visit the places you stop in.
Thank you Susan and Linda for your kindness and all your prayers, you are so appreciated.
Have a Blessed Lord’s Day! Enjoy your Sunday Services and Family Time Together. ✝️📖🙏❤️1 -
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That's so true, Marilyn. Heaven is going to be marvellous, even though we can't describe it now! The best IS yet to come. Thank the Lord.
Judith, so good to see you felt up to posting. We did arrive at Hadspen safely and got all set up. The rain started overnight and is continuing today. We were blessed to be here to set up in the dry. Our friends arrive today in the rain. They could only get a spot here for four days. We are booked in here for three weeks. We'll work something out. Sites are at a premium because families are still on holiday from school till January 22nd. It's their summer break. My posting pattern on pur team may change a little as there will be four of us deciding how our days will go. But I'll be posting!
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Yes, Susan, it is so much better to set up when it is dry. We have had set up our tent when we were much younger in wet weather and is can be miserable. Where we set up our trailer, there is water that is coming down from the higher ground above us so we have little streams coming into our site. We do have to wait until the spring runoff is over also otherwise we have a lot of wet and spongy ground to set up on. We are thinking of putting a cement pad to set our trailer on to make things easier for the Summer. We would need to put a lot of drainage holes through it so the water does not puddle in front of the pad. I hope your friends are able to find another place to set up after 4 days. Having a long period of time between movings is optimal but if there are no spots there are no other options. At least you know that after school starts again, it will be easier to find places for them.
Marilyn - it is good that our destination is not our present state. Even though we do not know exactly what our destination will be like it certainly will be wonderful. I know we will have different desires when we get there and all the problems and wishes of this earth will disappear.
Judith - I'm praying that your weight will get back up to what it was last week. It is so encouraging to see when it goes up. It did not go down much but I rooting for you to get on the increase again.
It was a busy day today. I got up early (for me) to have time to get things done before people came at 11 but unfortunately one person got mixed up with the time and got here an hour early. I was still in my pajamas and needed to take a shower. She was very embarressed but I put her to work to help me so it was nice to have an extra hand. Our food was delicious and we had good fellowship and Bible study. At the end of the Bible study it started snowing. One person traveled two hours to get to our house and was a bit disappointed that it was snowing. We checked on her and she did make it safely to her home. The snow did not last long but it is snowing again so we will see in the morning how much accumulation we will have. Our temperature is 30F right now so it will not be melting overnight. It shold be mostly sunny and high of 37F tomorrow.2 -
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Marilyn - each day builds on the day before it. We need to be aware of where we are going and our path to that goal so we can accompish our goals.
I am making sourdough bread today. I hate to have to throw away the "discard" so I am trying different methods of using it. We did like the sourdough pancakes but they were not very good as leftovers. Fresh they were crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. they were not crisp and fluffy as leftovers and they tasted like baking powder.
We are still waiting to hear back from the insurance to see if our oldest daughter will be able to get her weight loss surgery next Monday. We are getting confusing things like they scheduled her post op visits but canceled the surgery. We need to know soon because we are planning to go back to Denver to take care of the house and take our granddaughter to school for the first week after she has surgery.
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Linda, it IS embarrassing when someone shows up early like that! Glad you still had a wonderful time and your friend got home safely through the snow. Maybe it will melt in the 37F. If it freezes again overnight, I know how icy that makes it. Praying your family gets answers about the surgery very soon. I like your idea about having a concrete pad for your van, with plenty of run off holes. Oh my, sourdough bread! Does it take several days to make? I hope it turns out well. The hot pancakes sound wonderful.
Marilyn, wise words.
Judith, I am praying you will regain your weight too. You need your strength!
Our friends have arrived and we are going to see the Beaconsfield Mines Heritage Centre today once we all get ready. They are late risers like me. Poor Colin is the only early bird so keeps himself busy washing our laundry.
I have a sunset picture from Hadspen for you:
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Susan, how beautiful is the Sunset picture. I am sure it was so spectacular seeing it in real life! Thanks for sharing. I hope as the holidays wrap up there will be more spaces for your friends to stay! Appreciate all the pictures you post here.
Linda, reading about the water run off during the rainy time when setting up your trailer and you speaking about putting a cement pad to park your trailer on is a great idea. Hope you can do that. I am praying for your daughters weight loss surgery that the Insurance will come thru and it will be booked soon and for you to have safe travels back to Denver so you can help with your Granddaughter and help your daughter the first
few days she is home.
Marilyn, I so agree with your latest post; thank you for sharing.
Thank you all for your concerns about my weight, I think you will be happy to know I am getting closer to the 95 pound mark the last two days I weighed 94.8 pounds and 94.9 pounds! Yay me!
It’s after 1:00am and I am finally feeling I can sleep! So it’s good night and God Bless! 😴🙏🤗1 -
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Good morning, friends.
Marilyn, I like that sentiment. 👌 Maybe we should spell it Sonshine. 😊
Judith, that's encouraging about your weight! We're cheering for you! Glad you enjoy my pictures. I have some more for you today.
Linda, thinking of you both and hoping Glen is getting better and you are staying well. ❤️ 🙏
The Beaconsfield Gold Mines Heritage Centre was fascinating yesterday. We'll do something today too but Lyn gets to pick so I am not sure what it will be yet.
Colin and Greg right before we went inside the Museum.
Blacksmith shop for looking after the water wheel
Water wheel
Views from the stairway up the top of the mine shaft elevator
This building was the Winder house. The cable that lowered people and things in to the mine is housed here. It also brought things out of the mine shaft which was three Eiffel Towers deep.
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I'm sorry that I lost all that I wrote today and I do not have time or the brainpower to remember what I wrote. I'll just sy that I am praying and thinking about you all and will see you tomorrow.1
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Evening Hello Everyone,
I was here at 12:30 and 1:00am this morning, yup wee hours of Tuesday morning, for most of you, probably you were in bed sleeping. I should of been but I couldn’t sleep so came here posted my Devotions for you all and spent time updating you all in what was happening with me. Enjoyed playing our games too.
Linda, so sorry you lost all your post to us, it’s frustrating when it happens but please don’t worry about it and have a good rest and you can catch up with us all later! Sending you Love & Hugs!
Susan, I so loved these pictures of the Mine, Water Wheel, Black Smith Shop, Winder House, Mine Shaft Elevator, Colin and Greg in front of the Museum before entering. Such awesome pictures. I am sure it was an awesome day viewing the Museum! I have always enjoyed visiting Museum’s as you learn so much on those tours. Please let us know what Lyn picked for you to visit. I am sure it will be interesting. Can hardly wait to hear about it and hopefully see some pictures. Safe travels my friend! Love and Hugs!
Marilyn, love the quote by Walt Whitman about keeping your face towards the Sunshine as the Shadows will fall behind you.
Amen, so true. For us as Christians we keep our Eyes Fixed on Jesus on His Word and as we Look to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith and commit our lives to Him, God will have His way! Yes, Let’s Fix our Eyes on Jesus.
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