Category: For Your Consideration

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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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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Jun 12

Onward and Upward?

Well, I finished with Discovering Fire.  Quite frankly, I was very disappointed with it.  I’ve begun “The Final Days of Jesus: the archeological evidence,” and I’m finding it much more interesting.  It seems to be mostly about the actual city of Jerusalem so far, but I’m sure it will get into more detail as it goes on.  

I will be spending a good part of this week driving back and forth to Evansville to pick Elaina up from her horseback riding camp.  It may interfere somewhat with my exercise goals.  I may have to shift my routines from the afternoons to mornings.  It will make my days much more compressed. I currently spend my mornings working on the computer, reading, and doing minor housework chores.  I will find a way though.  The exercise is important, especially as we prepare for our road trip.

Today, on the way to Evansville, I’ll be stopping at Walmart (shudder) to pick up essentials for that trip, like insect repellent and sunscreen.  That will provide me an opportunity to get steps in although I’ve been told that walking around a store isn’t the same as walking for exercise.  

We are still playing with our itinerary.  I’ve updated the list three times now.  I think any further changes will have to occur as we travel.  Jim says he doesn’t want to change any more reservations so it’s pretty much set, although we may adjust actual points of interest along the way.  Check out our Roadtrips blog to follow along. 

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Jun 05

Mary or Martha?

The first Monday of every month is my CWF meeting.  That acronym stand for Christian Women’s Fellowship.  We have a visitation portion while everyone gets settled, a short business section, including an offering, then a lesson.  The lessons vary greatly.  For several previous years we used a Bible study guide called Just Women (embracing life).  It was interesting, but we frequently found it difficult to apply the lessons to our own daily life.  This year our Leader, Mary Haylee Hancock, suggested we find our own way.  She began the year with an extensive dig into Esther that culminated, after several weeks of study, in a Purim celebration.  Encouraged by the success of this, we have continued to find our own way. 

This month, she turned the lesson over to Mary Zimmer.  Mary brought us to consideration of the difference between Mary and Martha in the book of Luke 10:38-42.  Martha is the doer, she worries about cooking, cleanup, all the preparations for guests.  Mary is the worshiper who sits at Jesus’ feet listening and learning His ways.  She then asked who, in our own lives, were examples for us of Mary and Martha, of the two different attitudes toward life.  Everyone had good examples and the discussion flowed well.  Finally, Mary Zimmer suggested we think about starting a Women’s Retreat to turn our thoughts more toward a Mary type of situation.

Next month, we will assemble in the church library to learn more about what books are available and choose one to report to the group about in August.  It sounds like another good discussion lesson.

I forgot to do my daily exercise by walking while I was in town, so I walked around the yard a couple of times when I got home and plan to do a Yoga session this afternoon.  I’m trying really hard to keep up the exercise routines I’ve scheduled.  I need to develop more stamina if I’m going to be able to indulge in hiking during our vacation.  Less than two weeks to go.  I am very excited.

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