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Aug 28

And Things Go On….

I am at a loss.  Things are quiet.  School is delayed.  I don’t have a schedule as such.  There’s the photography club lunch on Tuesday and church on Sunday.  I need more structure.  I am thinking things will be better next week.  School is still scheduled to start on Wednesday.

I will be picking Elaina up for sure.  Damion maybe, at least for the first week.  Logos starts back the next Wednesday, on September the 6th.   I have volunteered to help with the meals.  I am thinking I may start helping with the community garden on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings.  I keep thinking I should try to do the Cancer Support Group on the first Wednesday of the month at 3pm.  But it’s almost impossible with school pickups. 

Tracy thinks she should get a regular job and wants me to pick up her kids from school and keep them until she gets off work. She vacillates though between getting a job now or continuing to Door Dash until Tim is able to get back to work full time. 

If the older boys have sports practices and I only have to pick up Elaina, the Cancer Support Group is more feasible.  

I’m also feeling called to make a cash donation on Sunday mornings.  The kids don’t see the check I mail every month and I’m feeling like I get credit for that anyway.  Doesn’t that mean that I’ve already got my reward?  Admittedly, it’s not exactly a public thing.  I mail the check with all the other bills and no one knows about it except the people who handle it. Still I get a statement from the church regularly stating how much I’ve given.  Cash in the offering plate on Sundays would be more anonymous, like our giving is supposed to be done.

I am still trying to get the credit cards paid down so I can make a larger donation.  Something closer to 10 percent.  Maybe next year.  I paid off one, then ran it back up.  It’s a never ending cycle.

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Aug 14

Postponements

Hopkins County Schools have been postponed again.  They aren’t scheduled to start now until August 30th. The Wednesday before Labor Day.  The traditional day to start used to be the day after Labor Day.  I don’t understand why they didn’t just push it on out there.

My pickup schedule this year is still up in the air.  I’ll be getting Elaina for sure.  Damion is probably going to have basketball practice.  Jayden is, for sure, going to have football practice.  Xavier is probably going to walk home most days. It’s left me feeling like I’m in limbo.  I can’t plan until I know more.

In the meanwhile, I’m still editing pictures from our roadtrips.  I’ve posted a few to Facebook and I’ve made myself a new folder for my desktop wallpaper. The Eastern Kentucky trip brought me to looking at my WIP again.  I may start work on one of them soon.  I’m doing research now.

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Aug 07

Traveling in Kentucky

I find it somewhat strange that we’ve now visited all 48 contiguous states, but we haven’t seen all of Kentucky yet.  We’ve been many places in our state: Mammoth Cave, Cumberland Falls, Louisville, Bowling Green, Paducah, Red River Gorge, etc.  But there are still places we’ve missed.  

This past weekend, we went to one of those places.  We visited Kingdom Come State Park and The Big South Fork Railway.  Along the way, we stayed overnight at Benham Schoolhouse Inn.  Kingdom Come State Park is named after the popular Civil War novel, “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,” by Kentucky author John Fox Jr.

The park is beautiful, the railway featured a coal mine tour that was very interesting and the Inn was comfortable and nicely furnished with friendly, helpful personnel.  

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Jul 03

Trip Over

Well, the trip was mostly successful.  Washington State was beautiful.  We saw lots of new stuff and got lots of exercise.  In spite of that I gained a pound.  From eating more than usual, I’m sure. 

I took a lot of pictures with both my iPhone and my Nikon.  Now I’m struggling with getting them all copied to my computer.  Getting the ones from my Nikon was fairly simple. From the iPhone not so much.  I’ve tried 3 different methods and none of them have worked very well.  At the moment, I’m trying to copy from iCloud to the computer.  It didn’t put them where I said, so I’m trying to copy them from the iCloud folder it made on my computer to the folder I had prepared for it.  It says it will take hours.  The time varies widely from 3 days to 8 hours.  

In the meantime, I’m trying to upload the trip photos from the iPhone to my Google drive since the iCloud didn’t appear to have them.  It has said Preparing for about half an hour now.  It went fairly fast at first, then it bogged down with just a small sliver of the circle left to clear.  

This is why older people don’t like technology.  It just isn’t consistent or simple to do and errors are hard to define.  I will, however, continue the fight until it comes back and says it can’t do what I want.  Then I’ll try another method.  I am nothing if not stubborn.

The photos above are a random sampling without any edits.  Just a few from the Nikon.

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Jun 21

On the Road Again….

We are in Seattle.  We got here yesterday.  It seems longer.  We went to the Chihuly Museum yesterday evening.  It’s gorgeous. We both took lots of pictures.  These two are just a small sample. 

This morning, Jim took the car to the Toyota dealership to check it out.  It suddenly lost power and started making a strange sound on Monday.  It had used 3.5 quarts of oil during the trip. Jim filled it back up and took it to a dealership in Hermiston, but they couldn’t find anything wrong.  They put a dye in and told him to get it checked again in Seattle.  They didn’t find anything wrong either.  It’s a mystery.  The mechanic told him to check the oil every thousand miles and take it to his regular mechanic when we get home.  Now we’ll have it in the back of our minds all the rest of the trip. Faith will see us through though. 

Since our planned venture for today was too long for the time left after the emergency trip to the dealership, I spent the morning doing laundry, then we went shopping afterwards.  This was our plan for Friday.  We just switched the days.  We’ll do our planned trip to Olympic Park and Rialto Beach tomorrow instead. 

Somehow, my hangup bag with my church clothes and jackets got left at the house (I hope).  So I went to Penney’s and bought an outfit for church Sunday. Jim planned on going to a camera store while we were here to get himself a bigger bag for all his photography equipment. While we were out, we had lunch at a small place called Patty’s Eggnest.  Their main focus is breakfast stuff, but they also have salads and sandwiches, etc.  The food was good.  I forgot to do a check in though, so no pictures this time.  Jim is out looking for trains now.  He said this would be his only opportunity since we will be driving to points of interest the rest of our time here.  Like he won’t chase trains along the way….

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