tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40873958254903918492024-03-13T08:25:55.219-07:00Alias GGGailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06827998374559412037noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-34755261587050931472015-11-22T13:52:00.001-08:002015-11-22T14:09:19.276-08:00Thanksgiving with a Twist<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The tippy top of my thankfulness blogroll is </span>FAMILY<span style="font-size: xx-small;">. And here's wishing all of you the coming holiday week filled with gratitude. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• The nuances of the weather (no more spending all day indoors with one view of the outdoors).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• Being able to work on my yard when it needs it (rather than when I have time).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• I really am a PGer (rather than a Provoer).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• No alarm clock (which is a gift to my own circadian rhythm version).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> (Once my doctor said I could alter my sleep pattern with sleeping pills. He lied.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• I can drink the recommended amount of water in a day (closer to a bathroom)!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• Two checks a month (instead of one).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• More scripture study time (admittedly not ingrained daily, but doing much better).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• More time to map out my future (filed my taxes the earliest ever!).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• Available for the neighborhood FHE dinner and bookclub (dripping with friendship).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• Dressing more comfortably (*wink*).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• More available awareness time (picked up on a beautiful bargain table when friends moved)!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• Learning a ton about FamilySearch (with a ton+ more to go).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• Serving my two-year part-time mission</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> (in Orem, alongside local as well as missionaries from other states).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• More time besides that to serve (pre SA takeover!).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">• Walking at the rec center (no pollution, wind/sun on my dry eyes, no objects to trip over).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Lois and I also witnessed the same strip of glow off of autumn leaves across the bottom the first valley beneath Timp one day, from the upstairs window but I'd left my phone in the car.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And speaking of singles, here's the view of the lake Friday night, coming home at 1 a.m. from the county dance in Provo. Oh my aching legs! (I'm sure you know without my mentioning it wasn't from dancing, it was from keeping the food room stocked and then cleaning up after 300 attendees!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The food they provide is amazing, and I am quite certain from the amounts many of them take, they could survive on it alone from one SA event to the next! They had mac n' cheese with jalapeño peppers, salsa and chips, a spinach salad with many toppings, cheeses and crackers, cookies, sweet breads, cream puffs, oranges, grapes and pineapple with fruit dip, apple slices with caramel dip. One of the ladies on the activities committee (biweekly, sometimes more often) has served for 8 years, and she confided that it's time to get off so she can attend instead, and actually find a mate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And speaking of legs, the same ones were put to the test at the Saturday Singles Thanksgiving dinner (cluster) with all the trimmings - 160 came. Our stake was in charge of set-up, decorations, clean-up. Wish I'd taken pictures, but here's the visual you can draw in your mind: It took three hours to ready the cultural hall, and we even had lucked out not setting up tables and chairs since nothing was scheduled after the HP dinner the night before (which was also fun and delicious - pulled pork sandwiches). We rolled out painter's butcher paper on the long tables, spanning the "short" sides of the room - five rows of them. Borrowed decorations from three sources - the prettiest was ocean-green glass rocks in the bottom of wide mouth mason jars, with a burnt orange mum resting on a cluster of a few twigs in each. Sprinkled fake fall leaves down the line in-between jars, and then sprinkled 10 pounds of varied flavor/color candy corn! All that, plus delivering food from kitchen to serving tables, undecorating, returning the jars from the tables to the boxes to my car to the person who loaned them, resulted in another late night on ice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">For those of you who may not but care to know, the county ranges from Payson to Alpine, the cluster is from Lindon to North Field (most of Manila), and then there are stake singles events. As well as the responsibility to serve ward singles. We now have a stake missionary couple. I made them a calling card:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">As to SA killing me off, next up is tonight (county), a fireside at the church north of the temple. It's a goodie, however, and at least I'll be sitting for most of it: Al Swizzler, 4-time NY Times bestselling author. His topic will be "Living life at the level of Covenant; the important choices we make every day."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">[Followed by two county singles events in December. (I hope! More are scheduled but that's all I've committed to so far - Jennie Oaks Baker, violin soloist, and the Big Band New Year's Eve full afternoon of decorating - have to drum up additional set-up helpers and host dancing couples from the cluster. Tried to get out of that one due to having family here, but no dice. We all have "family" you know, and apparently "Houston" isn't far enough away to count. Next year I'll be the holiday visitor so it will be a blessed added omission feature to my then vacation!) Then followed by a quarterly seminar (cluster) and fireside (stake) in January (hoping to pass on the rest that month). I know I'm griping (on a thankfulness blog no less), but it's just because I'm old and worn out, not bewitched, but I am bothered and bewildered. It is impressive, all that is done just trying to help singles feel like regular people. Last Saturday was at a 7 a.m. breakfast meeting to discuss the stake theme for the coming year. I wasn't the source of it, but numerous people worried about including the word "family" in it from singles' reactions. Okay to imply it but not "say" it. So as representing them, I was asked my opinion. I said I was not speaking for myself, but yes, many derive a lot of throbbing pain from it, and I could promise it's numbers are not going to get better in the coming years. To which the stake president totally agreed. We have over 200 of them just in our stake, close to 80 in my very own ward.]</span></span>aliasgghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576138010152012691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-66540437709072304362015-09-26T12:03:00.000-07:002015-09-26T12:03:25.481-07:00Mission AccomplishedNot the "real" mission, the mission of the moment. And this blog is for my kids, Grant especially, who freaked when I answered what I was going to do today. Hehe.<br />
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First off, I need to give my two cents plug for physical therapy. Two weeks ago I wouldn't have been able to have this item on my to-do list. And I'm grateful to know the specific exercises needed to keep my knees as mobile as possible. I even bought a board so I could continue with this particular exercise (the rest need no specific equipment I don't already have):<br />
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And Grant, I'd love it if the next time you're here, you lug it downstairs for me.</div>
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Note the sky hook to more safely get down. :-)</div>
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All done.</div>
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(Next time I'll add socks and gloves relative to leaning on the rough surface.)</div>
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And no worries, I wouldn't think of doing the other two on the more angled sides.</div>
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(Have already paid to have them checked.)</div>
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And yes, I had my phone in a velcro pocket around my neck, just in case. ;-)</div>
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Not that I expect I'd survive the fall, mind you - </div>
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just in case I knocked the ladder over.</div>
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Went to Oregon for 12 days in August.</div>
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Early morning balloon show interloper.</div>
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The reaction to Sheryl informing an unnamed opponent,</div>
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"Don't play the game if you're not going to play it right."</div>
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The zip line pond.</div>
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Libby's Leap.</div>
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Uncle Michael, the baby whisperer. (Ava, Stephanie & Jeff's recent addition.)</div>
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Mike, the breakfast gourmet french toast griller (Safeway's Artisan French bread).</div>
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Janeil, at Alsea Falls.</div>
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The U&T & plates replica, courtesy of Carl & Eldon, for the church's Camp Alpine.</div>
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Ken's alien copter.</div>
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Janeil, beside the anchor to Eldon's confidence course contribution.</div>
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Neil with Gideon wearing my favorite t-shirt of the day.</div>
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The last morning - Ken swabbing the deck.</div>
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Huge pine in the rose park where the next picture was also taken.</div>
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Second best to the Olsen reunion, was when it was too stormy to go to the coast,</div>
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so Janeil and I spent the day researching Scarborough & Garner & two Baker lines</div>
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for Jewel's Johnny in FamilySearch and Ancestry.com!</div>
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(Found masses of them!)</div>
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Magnet handout for my VT conference lesson given the Sunday after getting home.</div>
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A lesson in patience - assigned out; failed to execute;</div>
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lucky for me FedEx was open until 9 p.m. that Saturday night!</div>
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Final projects of the year - new commode and paint</div>
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The painting was another exercise in patience, let me tell ya!</div>
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(Took two months & two weeks to complete.)</div>
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Spiffyfying the porch for the Fugal reunion visitors, the following Saturday.</div>
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Various angles of Hannah's spinning wheel, restored by Great Grandson Steve Holdaway.<br />
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He replaced the missing spindles, and foot treadle.</div>
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Now fully operational!</div>
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(Her loom was restored by Fugals Sons Company</div>
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and resides in the DUP Bell School downtown.)</div>
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Cool charts in the Seminary building were I serve my mission two days a week.</div>
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Talked in ward conference the following Saturday,</div>
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and the Stake President & his wife brought me a few flowers from the podium bouquet.</div>
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Fall, just around the corner.</div>
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The much needed evening calming view from my front porch.</div>
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Me, I'd call myself adequate, but infrequency is my weakness, and there's no avoiding that anymore!<br />
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However, my painter gave me this:<br />
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... which turned into this:<br />
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which turned into this:</div>
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Delish!!</div>
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Thought I was on a roll getting this year's projects done, but my painter didn't show up today. (And he's the one who suggested Saturday ... twice in the course of our conversations.) A tad aggravating since my knees took it on the chin (so to speak) getting it set up, especially bringing out the ladders. Obviously, if undependable, I'm better off moving on, don't you think?<br />
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But all is not lost! When buying all the supplies I commented upon my seeming inability to find someone willing to do the job (have been on the hunt for months), and the boss said for "next time" he had an excellent reference. So "next time" if I have any luck at all (keep your fingers and toes crossed) will hopefully soon become "this time". <br />
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I did have good luck getting this project done:<br />
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Still in decent shape on the porch but a rather strange mauve/salmon combo, and the stairs were awful, all crispy and black on the edge with the most shade (failure to dry fast enough over many winters).<br />
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Plus at the bottom of the steps, an ant colony was propagating and nesting under the lip of the carpet and the inch thick dirt den extended the length and height of it!<br />
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I've used this company twice before so no expectations shattered on this deal. They're actually kind of a hole-in-the-wall outfit but their carpets and crew are top notch!<br />
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This is the actual true color of the carpet (a tad more gold than other views):</div>
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And this porch plant is starting to bloom!</div>
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using straight mulch isn't recommended if you happen to prefer an annual repeat
of a combination of squash, tomatoes, and bell peppers. Even if you flip
the location the following year.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I left my grow box lie fallow this year, because of last year's legions
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has worked – no sign of them this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that it's dry (no drip line usage), the neighborhood cats have discovered it!
Who knew there were still farmer types who let their cats wander the
neighborhoods! I would've thought that went the way of the all the rest
of the PCness involved with them becoming like little pet children. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">And now the cats have discovered
it, they're not going to give it up without a fight! And even if I wait to tackle the issue until next year, all I would've achieved is a bigger pile
of poop to deal with!</span></span><br />
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best crop in the valley of cherry tomatoes. (Yes, I'm bragging.) Reminded me of Daddy feeding
the town out of his monstrous garden, in the sense of me taking cherry tomatoes to work and people
reminding me not to forget their share! Or coming to my office and chowing
down. (Was an interesting discovery – instantly my popularity grew by
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south side of the house, got a relatively decent crop of peas, but the tomatoes
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year in one fell swoop, as it came in exactly the right width. Might not need it in the sense
that the cats won't like moist soil, but I'm afraid the drip hoses left on
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been. Hanging out clothes in a stiff breeze reminds me of Holland. Hot, sticky, overcast days
remind me of Michigan. Big fluffy clouds and breezes remind me of mountainous Hawaii. This year so far has been the weirdest weather I remember (in Utah). It does not remind me of anywhere else I've ever lived. <span style="line-height: 22px;">One TV channel (which normally shuns or derides anything religious) with a straight face said the excessive rain </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">in May </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">(after months of the lack thereof!) was a "miracle"! </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">In Utah during June, 15 daily record highs were tied and 26 were broken, some as old as 100 years. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This flag was hung on a guy wire across Grove Creek Canyon. They lit it up at night as well, and from my house, you just saw the shadow, but just knowing what it was touched my heart as well. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who may hunger for more panorama of the event and the canyon: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGf_U1LqVZI">PG Flag Panorama</a> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flag is 30 x 60 feet!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(For Lucy's birthday July 1st, I picked a cat/kitten theme - Puss 'N Boots and Alice in Wonderland [Cheshire cat] movies, etc.) ...Did you know that in the late 18th century, purportedly cheeses made in Cheshire were marked with the face of a smiling cat?!</span></div>
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Next project - replacing the porch carpet.</div>
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Have really enjoying this plant's blossoming.</div>
aliasgghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576138010152012691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-77176216381959690112015-05-15T15:03:00.001-07:002015-05-15T15:29:15.610-07:00I suppose when you spend 26+ years at something... you're entitled to belabor the issue, especially if you actually liked it! When I reported on my retirement initially, I mentioned a dilemma in obtaining pictures. I suppose my sending to that person the pictures I took at our party last week was what triggered the guilt to achieve success! Yay! So now I will finalize all that celebrating.<br />
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Jenny, the boss, gave me an engraved paperweight (picture of it posted prior),</div>
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and I teased her enough I actually hoped she'd give me a black one</div>
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in honor of a lump of coal for Christmas, but no, it's pink (her favorite color).<br />
(Once she had the warehouse freezer floor resurfaced in pink.)</div>
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This is the room, all ready for the luncheon last December</div>
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Kneader's sheet cakes. The pink one's my favorite, chocolate peppermint.</div>
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The others were pineapple cocoanut cream and fresh strawberry french vanilla.</div>
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The rest of the eats.</div>
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The two guys in our department - Steve runs the warehouse</div>
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and Bill coordinates menus and kitchen operations.</div>
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This is the last clerk I trained, Alice for Independence High School.</div>
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We four in the district office: Colleen, Gail, Bill, and Jenny</div>
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(the director, who also retired at yearend).</div>
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This picture was sent to me as a joke. These are an annual vendor's Christmas gift</div>
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and the cookies are disgusting looking - all dried up!</div>
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It's a miracle we even ever ventured a taste, but are grateful we did,</div>
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because once you start nibbling, you're doomed,</div>
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right down to the last crumb!!</div>
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This is the set-up at Timpview High, all ready to go for last week's district retirement party.</div>
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Molly & Grant (Grant is my replacement,</div>
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My first boss, Vaughn Hawkes & his wife Arlene (in yellow).</div>
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They are currently serving a local mission with a couple from my ward.</div>
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The veggie & fruit art.</div>
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Three desserts - cheese cake, lemon bars, and these peanut butter bars.</div>
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Blendtec machines, all ready for tropical smoothies for everyone.</div>
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Entertainment - Bobby Koa and his wife, singing "M (as in Mother) is for ...",</div>
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pointing at me for the "O means only that she's growing old" - Ha!</div>
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Bobby was a teacher at THS and for years ran one of the lines at lunch.</div>
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The PHS jazz band - excellent!</div>
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because I've gotten a lot of extra (paid for) help in my yard this year and I
admire his handiwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if he'd
ever let me take his picture?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has the
kindest face I've ever seen - especially for someone who works out in the sun
on a daily basis!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Well, he's probably
in his 30s instead my assumption of 50s.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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bending over and then passing out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>*wink*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep it on the front
porch, and it turned out to be the accidental object of the post title!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love sitting on my front porch, but the
swing tips a tad too forward to be comfortable, and this makes it just right,
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Provo School District Spring Party, this year celebrating retirees, since we've
a bunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a good picture, but I
wanted one with my lei.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People taking
pictures of themselves so their phone shows (which I'd have needed to do to get
a decent one), bugs me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Including selfie
sticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's bad enough to be
"selfie" without being obvious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>*wink*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m talking single
selfies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Group selfies are great, no
matter how they’re taken! And so are singles, on occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This was a gift, the poem, and I'm sure you know it, by Marianne Williamson, starts with "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate...." Also nice to get it, on the doorstep of Mother's Day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Feeling sad about my lei biting the lack-of-water dust - and then I had an epiphany! It will last a few more days now it's in a bowl of water, and as a matter of fact, perked right up!</span><br />
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Society group to see the Payson temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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a ton of building going on down there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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glass to the carpets to the furniture to the marble to the themes, including
apples which Payson is noted for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Makes me wish I could fly in my entire family
(assuming I could even get tickets), so they could bask in the glory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They said 17,000 went through on Thursday! And this in wet weather on and off all day. </span>There were a lot of tears in the pre-video
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</span>Just makes me burst with pleasure that our people pay our tithing, so
that we can both honor God and present our beliefs so beautifully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a lot of tears during the
video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wish I’d have ordered my glasses
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And five chairs so any time you or Grant's families visit, the count is perfect!<br />
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So I'll end this with a funny story. I hope to travel enough that I'll need some assistance with getting things watered, i.e. the above flags and the strawberry patch adjacent. I have not had good luck hiring neighborhood kids. I have the drip hoses, both for my grow box and the front. But the referenced area above has been a dilemma since I didn't want to mess with splitters and all that conglomeration of hoses. </div>
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<br />aliasgghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576138010152012691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-29951515401736449872015-03-31T16:57:00.002-07:002015-04-17T17:45:38.772-07:00MAMA'S (not) ALWAYS RIGHTLove my new gardening shoes - their first bath! No doubt Oregonian's already know all about them! The old ones were missing big chucks on the bottom which is a problem especially when you get old and wobbly.<br />
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About finished cleaning it up, with the only thing left having my tree trimmer remove the large dead stumps that are too big for me. Actually, I'm not sure he'll show because he said it was such hard wood it was destructive to his equipment. It took hours upon hours, trimming dead wood and removing the decaying guts, and I actually think it might survive now. I filled up the garbage can twice with it's trash. I also have many wounds to vouch for my efforts.<br />
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Spent several hours on it today because the weather will not be conducive the next two days, so I tore myself away from my growing addiction to FamilySearch. Some of the cooler pictures I've posted of late:<br />
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Had a great visit at Jewel's, celebrating Hayden's birthday. Went to his first scrimmage football game, and you can tell, they worked him hard! He played defense first, then offense.<br />
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He really liked my birthday present which pleased me very much - Snap Circuits - very cool if you looking for a fun and educational gift ("ages 8-108"). It also comes in 200 and 300 (the 300 is inclusive of all of the projects).<br />
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<br />aliasgghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576138010152012691noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-44669947716297056322015-03-02T14:36:00.000-08:002015-03-06T13:10:42.596-08:00VANITYI'm putting up my current photo on my blog, per Hazel's request. And I've added a few more of my old favorites you've never seen.<br />
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When I was 11 (it's okay if you chuckle - if it were bigger you could see the freckles on my nose!):<br />
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These my senior year (but not taken at the school so the usual photographer's touch-ups) and my favorite haircut ever - only needed a hairdryer in those days, but I've apparently permanently straightened all my curl since...<br />
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This [last one below] is my current picture. Oh what a difference 50+ years makes! I can't say that I've aged gracefully but then again it never pay to get old. Ha! [Hayden said I should add pictures of my hairstyles prior, which are the ones you would remember. The first one he remembers, but probably not the rest of the grandkids, and then the one next to the last one isn't very good but is the former length for several years (give or take an inch or two).]<br />
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aliasgghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576138010152012691noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-52746985347752051282015-01-22T10:57:00.002-08:002015-01-23T11:11:23.429-08:00SPIRIT IN THE SKY<div class="MsoNormal">
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The kids don’t like me to speak of my demise but I have to
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[But first, an update on my blood disease, as it’s had an
adjustment for the first time in almost 10 years (great it lasted that
long!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the beginning, it took
several months for the chemo pill to settle in – Anagelide, busts up the excess
platelets, had to trial and error figure out how much to give you to keep the live ones at
the right level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This new chemo pill,
Hydroxyurea, instead, prevents them from forming, ditto right amount to keep it
at the right level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first one was a
killer (pun intended) to get used to, this one is less intense so far in
comparison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feels like my blood is
roiling (boiling but sans heat).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
truly surprised the old pill gave up the ghost, it has been so long, may it
rest in peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Made me feel a tad
tentative – why now at the cusp of “enjoying” retirement – but I’m determined to be
optimistic about that one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to
the same Dr. Bott who presided over my Dad’s cancer – he just started
practicing in 1984, and my Dad died in 1986.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also picked a new
local GP – Roger Brockbank – his office is in the same building as was
Donelle’s reception.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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My only request, as far as the actual service goes (back to
my first mentioned happy thought), is that the ward doesn’t pick/do my
music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I requested Janeil (organ) and Lois (piano) do all of it, and an old favorite I listened to them practice for
years, and they performed in my growing up ward:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>The Palms by Jean-Baptiste Faure</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We happened to connect as adults once, at
Lois and Don’s condo in Logan, where she had both the family organ and a piano, and I
requested it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked them to touch on
it enough that they could do it at my funeral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, apparently I didn’t die soon enough, because Lois said recently
that she has given up playing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
immediately made me want only a graveside service and no music since I can’t
have my heart’s desire. (Old joke the kids don't like either - obit lists my name, Gail Fugal Adamson, Pleasant Grove, Utah, and the only other words: "She died." [Because an obit is now charged for, so the shorter the better!] Graveside service, cheap pine box off the internet, sing Spirt in the Sky. *wink*)<br />
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I had to find my heart's desire on
youtube, since it's the only way I can get it:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuqomLDgApE"><b>The Palms, organ and piano</b></a>.</span> </span></span>(It’s actually not
as good as they were IM(not so)HO – too slow and stilted rather than with feeling - but the only
piano/organ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Close your eyes and picture
them at their respective stations as you listen to it - well, never mind if you're Janeil or Lois - it will drive you crazy!)<br />
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Now, there is one:<span style="background-color: white;"> <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ypqAt1hNs">The Palms, choir</a> </span></b></span>with better feeling and the vocals as well (but in a foreign language).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s one with vocals in English, organist not very
polished but a valiant attempt, and the soloist is very good: <b><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWuiz5MkpIE">The Palms, good sol</a>oist</span></b> (Oregon Sacred Festival Chorale, FYI<u>)</u>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And here’s one that’s just organ but with the best expression and cadence of any of them:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NMz8ItzoCU"><b style="background-color: white;">The Palms, organ only</b></a>.</span></span><br />
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I think probably more than any other factor, hearing them practicing over the
years created my love for music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
and hearing Mom and Dad crooning and Daddy's vinyl collection. But trust me, Lois and Janeil's rendition was better than any of the above! Only theirs could make me cry. Too bad youtube was nonexistent in those good old days - they'd have a hit on their hands!<br />
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So wherein lies the happy thought? That I actually found it on youtube! It was an epic googling project, figuring it out! (I've searched years past and only met up with disappointment.)</div>
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aliasgghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576138010152012691noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-76522255486276006012015-01-12T20:43:00.000-08:002015-01-20T14:57:02.224-08:00LAST CATCH-UP (December)<div class="MsoNormal">
Sorry, but this one's l-o-n-g - a lot happened in December!! You'll have to use your editing skills, Grant and Jewel, to pare it down for the kids.</div>
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The last leap getting out of Provo School District<o:p></o:p></div>
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The CPA who helps with PCSD retirement issues said
school districts were The Worst for all there was to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t get my replacement hired until well
into November, but luckily the FY start-up flood helper I had recruited was picked, so I’d spent
a lot of extra time training him, hoping that would be the outcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It almost didn’t!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A state office employee applied for the job
and logic would tell you she would have been the best choice because she’d know
all the regs and keep us out of trouble, especially in light of the upcoming
audit “AR” fiscal year 15-16!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turned out
she also got an offer from Wick, and chose that one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My boss was not happy I left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted us to retire together, and that
was the plan, but for June 2015.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’ll
be fine – the last half of the year is much less stressful than the first half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She gave her notice just before Christmas.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Work had a retirement party for me in December.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to get out of it very badly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure why I hate that fluff stuff so
much, no doubt because politics becomes involved and I’ve had it up to my teeth
with bureaucracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Eyeballs really, were
they functioning properly!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, “I’m
not dying!! And I do have a phone if anyone wants to say goodbye!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But my boss let me scale it down some, so that was good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than inviting the whole district and
having it last for four hours, we did a light lunch and only invited the
district people, our own people, and a few fringe people I’ve interacted with a
lot (and I told those people anyone could come if they didn’t want to pop in alone
or anyone felt rejected). Several retired from our department came, which was a
surprise. We had it in the PDC, the largest conference room, with white linen
and poinsettias on each round, and they bought me a much larger on which was on
the dessert table, for me to take home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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managers’ party the next week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got out
of having a line, and mingled with those coming in, and then they got to eat
some yummy food including four sheet cakes from Kneaders, and the scrapbook they made me
was there for people to look through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
forgot my phone that day and so got no pictures, and my coworker who has them
all, for some subconscious reason, isn’t coughing them up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She loves me but has this odd competitive streak involving other
people’s supposed limelight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s also
the one who created the scrapbook published by Shutterfly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s complicated.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <b>*</b></span><b>wink*</b><br />
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My portion to take home from the leftovers:</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Went to Jewel’s for
Christmas, flew down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was having major
trouble with inflamed knees (osteoarthritis) and slept on the main floor to
avoid the stairs (but they did feel somewhat better there, after a couple of
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I got back I had Kenalog
injections and was very happy with the results … as far as the knees go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope it lasts a long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had not realized how much trouble stairs could
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Jewel has a new job as of November, has no earned time off
(everyone given part of Christmas Eve day and Christmas Day), so she scaled
down festivities which were plenty fine as it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> She is an administrative exec assistant in accounting department for The Sands. The Sands owns lot of international properties, and the accounting department is in a business park downtown, not far from the airport. She has a key card to get into the building, into the elevator, out of the elevator, and a guard escorts the staff from the building to secured parking. She p</span>repared a yummy Christmas day dinner for extended family including the
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Grant and Ruth came up, 24 hours on the road, last bit
through Spanish Fork canyon at midnight through the snow! They were at the Rogers the first week+, then
at my place. Jewel worked over each day
that week so she could take off early Friday, and then headed up, arriving in
time for supper. Ostensibly to have one full
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We put the queen Aero up in the back TV room, but switched it out the next night. (Hard to get to sleep with three bouncing girls on it!) Ha! Hayden was a delight to have as he took extra care to look out after the girls. He didn't get much sleep due to antics and snoring and falling off beds, and I suggested he sleep on the couch, but he declined, saying, "They might need me." The last night he asked if he could sleep in the panty (close by but some privacy), and I took out the toy bins and put a mat down for him. They all went off to jump trampolines with Larry's family, and when they got back, that last night, Hazel was pretty much worn out. Hayden put this note on the door, and invited her into the panty to play for awhile which perked her up. And he ended up moving his mat back beside the futon. He was totally cheerful the whole time he was there, and I really appreciated his help.</div>
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Another reason for that Saturday's festivities was
they planned a surprise early 70<sup>th</sup> birthday party at The Pizza
Factory, and 40 people came! I was in
total shock! Even Janeil and Brenda flew in from Oregon. They worried I’d be upset,
having complained about having the retirement party, but I had no time for that
phase! It was a lot of money for
them to spend, but they assured me they’d planned and budgeted for a long time! I had a lot of chuckles after that, remembering the lies they told to keep it a secret!</div>
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Realizing work became a non sequitur in light of the two surgeries, and also that I'd have to start S.S. at 70 and would then lose a lot of money from the increased taxes on top of wages, it made working "blind" for the additional six months as if I'd work two and a half months of it for nothing! Turned in all of my work computers (naturally).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of them I could have bought and wanted to,
but as luck would have it, it crashed and the district never got around to
fixing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would have liked to keep it
mostly because it had a 21” screen I used for DVDs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*wink*<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bought a 15-inch 2.5 GHz Macbook Pro with Retina Display.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The biggest Air is 13" and I wanted 15" </span>Love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Other than the dumb idea of gluing in the battery to reduce the latch space for thinness. It's not so much the expense of having to take it in for replacement, it's the additional expense to replace what it's glued to! </span>At least I have a good back-up system these days, so will just run it to death and pack the cords with me when I travel until it kicks.</div>
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Almost killed it, taking it to show off to Grant at Thanksgiving, and
realizing I’d have spent over $3,000 for nothing made me sooooo happy it
survived a water spill! And I then bought a travel case and polypropylene cover
for the keyboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happen was I got
a free water bottle from the shuttle to the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drank it all, refilled it after security,
put it in my bag, and when I put the bag under the seat, the faulty cap (which
I didn’t realize actually wouldn’t screw tight if ratcheted down) leaked water
thereafter across the top of it and into the side ports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dabbed the ports repeatedly until no more
wetness, then put it in the open window for heat/air circulation, changing
positions, for three full days before I tried it, as well as on the dishwasher
counter for added heat when it was running, and on the warm router the last
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Brother and Sister Rogers, and two of Ruth's sisters, Esther and Mary Alice.</div>
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We went to a friend's birthday party (youngest daughter of Grant's political asylum friend Firmin from the Congo). Grant and Ruth had given the children (whom he brought over after years of a pro bono lawyer's help making it happen, as well as the ward's assistance), Hazel and Lucy's play kitchen.</div>
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aliasgghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576138010152012691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4087395825490391849.post-20326954128932083952015-01-09T09:08:00.001-08:002015-01-09T09:17:20.349-08:00BACK TO BLOGGING<div class="MsoNormal">
So now I'm free as a bird on the wing, I'm going to keep up my blog. It has become my journal over the years since my divorce and since have very little to complain about. In comparison. *wink*</div>
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and again with the
kids when her dad had four/five? bypasses – and it was nice so Hayden could have a summer
P.G. visit (he missed the 4<sup>th</sup> and Labor Day - his Dad's year for holidays).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would tend when she’d spend time at the
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The kids are now too big for the rocker, but had fun on it anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewel said it was totally reflective of their
personalities – Hayden the least interested but nicely participating and Raygen
being overbearing even so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha!<o:p></o:p></div>
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To back-track a bit, I’d been told for three years by my eye
doctor that I should consider cataract surgery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was becoming more and more common making number errors at work, but
it took going to Grant’s graduation in May for me to decide to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t have to do any driving while there
but was fully aware that I would be a menace to society driving in unfamiliar
areas, not being able to read most road signs quickly enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also rationalized that if I was going to
keep on working (planned at that point to retire June of 2015), I’d want to
avoid the error frequency embarrassment.<br />
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Had the first surgery just before Donelle’s wedding, with the plan to
have the other eye done two weeks later, getting it all accomplished while work
was slower and during the current insurance year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had a bare few days of hints of forthcoming
better vision when it suddenly turned worse due to a blind spot surrounded by
distortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The eye doctor (who also did
the surgery), said a macular hole was threatening and talked me into taking a
wait/see mode, as it had a 40% chance of healing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Having a macular hole after cataract surgery
is a 2% risk – lucky winner me.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
waited, which put me into the next insurance year and a new $2,000 deductible
(which I’d discussed with him)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Had the
next surgery for the macular hole on September 12<sup>th</sup> (scheduled the
week before).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t know what the % risk
for it was and I know it was likewise low (but there is a 10% risk of the other eye developing a macular hole "in sympathy", cross that irony off my lot in life please!), but after that surgery it took extra
time for the hole to close (closed from the outside edge down, so the bottom of
it remained open longer than hoped), then I still had to deal with the healing
of a new and enlarged blind spot (but less distortion surrounding it) created
by fluid leaking under the retina during the surgery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this date (January), I still haven’t replaced my
glasses, waiting for the best possible refraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Retina surgeon says it usually clears up
between three and six months, so the hope is I might be less of a risk on the
road eventually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Looks like I'll be crossing my fingers for remaining two months (and being retired should help - stress can be a factor in keeping the fluid inflamed). </span>Meanwhile, so far it
has cost me out-of-pocket $4,602.31 for worse vision (even after/if full recovery)
than I had the day of the first surgery.<br />
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The beautiful flowers sent by our cook's association:</div>
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I don't exactly know why on this either, but I hate people spending money they don't have. I have managed this account for many a year and knew they would have to "borrow" to send me flowers at the point of the cataract surgery and my boss had just prior commanded that an arrangement be sent for an unauthorized (per the bylaws) funeral - former employee, so I convinced the person who orders them to skip me to offset. By the second surgery, they'd accumulated enough to do so, so I had to bite my tongue. We didn't want to reveal the error in judgment, of course, so the order person said I wouldn't give her my address, which is also true. *wink* My boss promptly gave her my address, and that was that!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Attended the Best of State awards program for the fifth year in a row. Jenny, my boss, tells me we'll get to six then quit. (Because she and I will be goners by the next one.) Actually five suits me just fine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wednesday, Jewel's birthday, we got up before the crack of dawn and took in a temple session. We had lunch at The Pizza Factory in Lindon, and yummy Kneader's pie. Larry's family took them out for dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Which was fine by us, we got to see several launch, and then the next day when we came over for the parade we saw them all in the sky. (I dearly appreciate Johnny who is always a great support and was kind enough to be my Mr. Fix-it with various annual chores that are in the hard to impossible range for me.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">More festivities two weeks later! Celebrated Donelle's marriage to Adam Bringhurst. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Got all ready for it early as Lois had to spend the entire day with me Thursday for my cataract removal/lens replacement. Alan and Stu came Friday night to put out the tables and chairs. I got a gift out of the deal - the old wrought iron table had a loose leg I couldn't fix and it turned out another leg was on wrong, painted over, and Alan gave it a wrenching twist and voila!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Neil wrote the following to his daughter, Lois, when she was in the mission field: "... each day that goes by becomes a part of our unchangeable past. Omar Khayyam gives this verse which I have often quoted: 'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on; Nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.' We cannot change what we did yesterday, or last month, or last year, but we can profit by the experiences we have had and use them to help us build a better tomorrow. Not only that, but the glorious principle of repentance in the gospel of Jesus Christ together with His atoning sacrifice can remove all stains and scars of past mistakes and make us clean before God. It's up to us to do our part. God has done and will do everything for us that we are unable to do for ourselves, but he will not do for us those things that we of our own selves can do."</span></div>
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While were were there, the festivities compounded with multiple devices accessing the various webpage links to an article written about a 1,800-year-old Egyptian soldier's letter home, papyrus found 100 years ago, never translated, and given to Grant at a papyri institute he was invited to participate in at BYU the summer of 2011. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxSFzNvXn-o&feature=share&noredirect=1">Rice Video</a> which was made in honor of his achievement has (end of May) had almost 6,000 views. Some of the others were Yahoo.com, Fox News, NBC, Huffington Post, as well as a number of them on other continents. The original article has had close to 11,000 likes.<br />
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Lastly, of note, these are the last photos of the Norma's swingset. Took them almost 10 years to finally get around to removing it, alas without any grandkid photos since I had it painted late last summer (which, human nature being what it is, no doubt accounts for their desire to finally move it, but I made them cover my expenses). Oddly, the slide was new when Daddy moved the swingset over from Lehi (on a flatbed trailer then lowered it over the fence with a crane), but they took both. Oh well. Two grandsons came, sons of Robert, the oldest of the two BYU VPs, now retired. They wanted a tour, and even asked to see the new shed when I said I used it as a playhouse, and I said my grandkids don't get much use out of it especially Grant's since they are in Houston. How was Grant, and I said almost done with his PhD at Rice. What was his field, and I said Religious Studies. Is he coming back to the Y, and I said apparently he wasn't good enough for the Y, and the younger of the two said, "TELL me about it!!!!" (Apparently they have family members in the same boat.)<br />
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Out Forever as Ruth lead with on her blog post (more pictures).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(which Grant took pleasure in imitating the rest of the weekend).</span></div>
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Commencement was outdoors and it couldn't have been a nicer day.</div>
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Ruth and Grant pointed out that the best part was the lack of normal humidity.</div>
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This is a picture of the same event but not this year's,</div>
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to give you a feel for the lay of the land (podium up front, not included).</div>
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That morning's chair set-up.</div>
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This arch is called the Sallyport, and all the graduates passed through at the end</div>
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of the program and conferring of diplomas (verbal not literal).</div>
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We went around the building to meet up for congratulations and pictures.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it was my turn to tend.</span></div>
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