Hi everyone,
I’ll see you soon, but wanted to at least make this an open forum for today so you could all chat amongst each other…
Blessings, Jeanne
Hi everyone,
I’ll see you soon, but wanted to at least make this an open forum for today so you could all chat amongst each other…
Blessings, Jeanne
Hi all, sorry I was a no-show yesterday; I’ve been having computer issues, starting Saturday night. I can’t get one of my email addresses to load at all, and was having trouble with Facebook, too–at first, I couldn’t watch reels, scroll very far, or view any of the chat messages; that seems to be back to normal now, though. However, I’m going to take my computer to the Geek Squad tomorrow afternoon and we’ll see what’s what.
Jeanne, I’m sorry to hear George is still in the hospital, but it seems that is where he needs to be right now. That is certainly a LOT of fluid to be removed! Hopefully this will not recur! But if it does, they know what needs to be done.
Linda thanks so much for sending Jeanne those wonderful camping pictures. As others have said, the little stove is really wonderful.
Sissy, I do hope you are feeling much better by now!! You are in my prayers.
Camping memories:
I remember going to Fortune Lake Bible Camp in Upper Michigan when I was quite young–with my parents and brother, as daddy was the chaplain one week. At that time, only the main kitchen had running water, so the “bathrooms” were glorified outhouses with stalls! There might have been a cold water tap to wash hands. And I remember standing on the little stoop by the front door of our family’s cabin, brushing my teeth with a glass of water to wet my brush, and “spitting” over the rail! Later they did install real restrooms, etc., and I remember being a regular camper there, at least one year, possibly more. I think my cousin Carol was there one year, too, but memory of that time is hazy. I remember buying a bottle of RC Cola (which I still love and drink) at the canteen–put your nickel in the slot and slide the bottle along the tracks and pull it out!
My aunt and uncle had a cabin on Lake Michigan, complete with an outhouse, and we spent lots of time at their cabin every summer. Eventually they sold just the cabin, moved it over the frozen lake to its new home, and my uncle built a lovely big home on that site.
When Ron and I were dating, he enthusiastically talked about camping, suggesting he would get a sleeping bag that would zip onto his, and another air mattress, so after we were married we could go on camping trips! Oh, yay. 😑🥴 Well, I said, that sounded like a fine idea, as long as there was somewhere to plug in my sewing machine!! 😄 That took care of that idea. His little tent, sleeping bag and air mattress are still all rolled up in our basement, 52 years later! He did get the sleeping bag out once, when he was cold and wanted extra covers, I think, but that was it.
My idea of roughing it is no room service! 😂
I meant to add, today had its challenges. My car was hit as I was turning left and she was turning right (from opposite directions); I was in my left lane, but she crossed the line from the right lane. Fortunately this young lady was raised right, as she stopped, and so did I, and we exchanged information. She had insurance, too! I will be calling both insurance companies tomorrow; didn’t have time today. My son was in the car with me, and we are all okay.
oh, I just saw this added note. Thank God you are okay.
I am glad you had a safe interaction. Insurance will sort it out!
Even a minor fender bender can make a muck out of a day. So glad you are all okay.
Good morning Charlotte. I hope your computer problems are sorted.
I thought of you yesterday and hoped you were behaving yourself without us 😁
You have my sentiments on camping exactly.
I love your story of camping as a child. Those are nice memories.
When you are a kid, if they adults were on fire for it, then it usually went
okay if you were an easy going kid.
I agree, camping is a lot like staying in a really bad hotel. I have a lot of funny stories of bad (cheap, and not so cheap) hotels.
I am so sorry to hear about your accident but thankful you and your son are safe. Good luck with the geek squad; we have had success from their services as we are limited in computer knowledge. Working will spoil you for an IT department although our school secretary’s advice was always “turn it off and turn it back on”. HaHa
Or pull the plug. That used to work too, but today it seems problems are more complicated, so we keep our subscription to the Geek Squad current. We have to go into Katy but sometimes we can stop by or drop it off on the way home from church which makes only one extra trip necessary to pick it up.
So sorry to hear about the accident. I am glad though that you had someone with you because you have a witness. Crazy times with trying to get insurance to pay for anything. Very glad that no one was injured. Hope that everything goes smoothly for you and that the Geek Squad can figure out your computer problem. So frustrating.
Hi Charlotte,
When you mentioned camping around Lake Michigan, it brought memories of my family camping days. We spent many weekends or vacation days at Terre Andre State Park. It is now called something else. Our family and another close family to us, spent many times camping together. At first we had tents but eventually we went to camping trailers. We liked and swam a lot in Lake Michigan. We would also camp at Devils Lake, which had bluffs to hike in. The camping years continue, but at other lakes in Indiana when we moved from Wisconsin to Indiana. Then we not only camped but we got into boats. We had to drive two vehicles – one to pull a trailer and one to pull the boat. It was alot of very but we loved it so much.
So sorry to hear about the side swipe from the other car. Glad you are okay and hopefully car repairs won’t take long.
David and I had zip-together sleeping bags and since we did most of our camping in Colorado it made it toasty warm inside. Even in the summer it gets pretty cold in the woods at night.
Sure, Jeanne, we will chat along while you are busy with other things! While we miss you for starting our day, we understand that you have more pressing things to do now. Prayers for you.🙏🏻
Oh my Charlotte, what a day you had, and an accident to top it off! I was wondering why you hadn’t written early yesterday, and was hoping you weren’t sick or fell. Computer problems always are tons of frustrations, and who hasn’t had them? It just seems to be a fact of life now. And thank heavens you and your son weren’t injured in your accident.
It sounds like you had a lot of camping experience and roughing it! We had a farm for spending the weekends when I was young, and it too had no bathroom, just an outhouse, plus a cistern for water, but we girls thought that was fun! Of course, when we went home we had all the modern conveniences, so times at the farm were adventures, much like camping would be.
Thank you so much for your compliments!
I enjoyed your camping displays yesterday. Molly reminds me of my days at scout camp in Maryland. It was very rugged but I loved it. We had “cabins” which were raised wooden floors with canvas sides that could be raised during the day for air flow. The camp I attended was a twin to the one in the movie Parent Trap. I think I was the same age as the twins when the movie was released which made camp stays even better. My grandparents had a dairy farm when I was very young. There was no indoor plumbing or refrigeration. Perishables were stored in the spring house across the street. The farm house is still standing and inhabited. I believe it had an historical marker as it was built in the 1760’s. Hopefully electricity and plumbing were added: )
Thank you, Debbie! My scout camp sounds very much like yours. We also had cabins, but they were built of wood, no canvas sides, but certainly no plumbing or running water. We loved that, since it was so different than what we had a home!
This is a great memory Debbie.
Hello Linda, I always, always look forward to seeing your girls and the events they have! You do such a great job putting them together. I like how you put in the little surprises amongst the girls. Like the doggie with the sunglasses and the sit upons. I missed commenting on your last event which was equally fun to see.
I kept telling myself to set up my Molly with her 50’s girlfriends at school. One of these days I’ll do that.
Thanks Linda, for such a delightful viewing!
Oh Paula, thank you so much! Sometimes it takes a few days to get everything in a scene that I want, I keep forgetting things or think to add some others. Just now, I seem to remember that I have an old fashioned camp lantern, but now don’t know where it is, or where to start looking! Seems like everyday I discover something missing too, like Molly’s glasses, which I managed to put on her for the pictures.
Please make a scene with your Molly! August will be here before you know it and then school will be starting!
I was thinking about all of your lovely scenes and photos. It would be so fun to make a book of them. Maybe you have done that already? How fun to be able to go back and check out all of the wonderful scenes you have compiled. I suppose that we could look them up on the blog and save any we would like to keep, but only with permission.
Jeanne, You and George remain in our prayers.
I am glad you took the time to start the blog this morning.
This might be a good time for all of us to share email or contact.
You do not have to write out the email or number so it could be found in a search
just write it like this rosemarybolton at icloud dot com.
and my number is (texting would be better) 703 371 17 10
I will make note of all of yours. I care about all of you.
Jeanne, I wish I lived close by. I would help you.
Yesterday I have a headache all day but I feel sort of better today.
Sissy, I hope you are feeling better.
Well, I filed all 4 bank boxes of daddy’s bank and estate papers, all of the stuff!
Up stairs in the storage closet, gosh, the furthest corner, probably … I did not know
that was an inconvenient location 🙄 Yesterday we got a letter from the Virginia department of Taxation. It was actually just a notice attached to the front door of the old house!!??? We have had our change of address in effect for over a year and it does continue so that is annoying. Anyway, they claim daddy owes $5K in taxes for 2022. Well he was still alive back then… We have to contact the tax accountant and get some advice and help on this one. Hubbs had to go to the post office wait in line, show proof of address, they only had our new address, he had to go out to the car and find a document to prove our old address, — oh and it was hot out. Anyway, All of this was traumatising and I hope we can get some answers. Funny. The letter was non explanatory and at the end it even had a tear off form even with instructions to not staple the check to the form!
This made me sad.
We will have it sorted.
I have been in a sewing funk. I have a million ideas and I just need a push.
I might go to a Tai-chi exercise class this afternoon. I have never been to a class like this.
I hope all of you have a peppy happy day.
Starting at the end and working my way to the beginning.
Tai-chi! I highly recommend this form of exercise at this stage in life. I enrolled in a class after we moved to NC. My balance and strength have improved after 4 years of tai-chi, twice a week. Of interest, our class of 7 has 3 retired nurses.
It is surprising the issues that survive the death of a loved one. My mom’s neighbors were trying to organize a lawsuit because they did not like the buyer of her home.
I have noted your information. I will send you a text in the future with mine.
Hopefully your headache is gone. I wonder if it is this humid weather we are having as I had one yesterday also.
I sure hope that notice wasn’t a scam. I’ve heard of things happening where unscrupulous people leave notices on vacant looking properties using real looking forms as a ruse to get money. I’m sure that you’ve talked to the county directly to see if they actually tacked up the notice? Hope so. So sorry this is happening.
Thank you. Oh we are “on this” and have plenty of assistance to figure this one out. The notice is legit, but we will figure this out whether it is in error, or something daddy forgot? Anyway, No one is getting any $$$$$ until we get some answers. 😁
Great idea to check for a scam. Someone saying they were the NYC police kept insisting I had a fine and was late and had to pay a penalty and then another.
I had just moved and I went out and bought a TV to watch Charlie’s Angels, turned it on, and the news was talking about a NYC parking scam. I still have fond memories of Charlie’s Angels and give them undeserved credit for solving the parking scam. That was long before our email brought us scams every day.
Well stated Marilyn!
Scams are everywhere.
I would definitely question anything that shows up on my door out of the blue with a request for money, especially so much money. I’ve never seen a taxing entity do something like this and it usually starts with a phone call first. Thieves are definitely getting shrewder these days, making things look legit. I get them all the time in my e-mail, especially from banks where I don’t even have accounts. But I often see on the news where people fall for things without questioning.
Yes, it is almost shocking the number of ppl that fall for scams.
My sister was looking for instructions on line to figure out how to connect her printer to her computer. Okay.
Somehow, and I still do not understand how…. she had some guy call from the printer company? and tried to hack into her computer. Weird and I just do not understand what she did, but I love Joyce even though she is a space cadet.
Dear Jeanne, Continuing to pray for healing and recovery for George.
I was so hoping for a positive update this morning. Maybe Jeanne, will let us know something later today. I hope so and that George, is showing some improvement. I also hope that he isn’t allowed visitors, except family, or he would be swamped, I’m sure, with all of his friends wanting to see him.
I am going to respond to Charlotte’s post here.
I loved hearing about her relative’s cabin being moved across the lake while it was frozen. That must have been something to see.
We moved our cabin too. A couple of years after it was built, we had warm rain on the snow pack and the river flooded the place with a couple of feet of water. So, my ingenious dad and uncle decided to move the cabin back above the flood line. They built foundation forms and then jacked up the cabin and rolled it back on logs sixteen feet to the new location using a winch/come along attached to a big cedar tree up the hill. At one point, it slipped off the old foundation a little and tilted slightly. My aunt was inside preparing lunch when it happened. Boy, did she spring outside quickly. After that, there were no other mishaps. Then the cement truck arrived at the top of the hill. It couldn’t make it down the steep hill and at that time, there were not pumpers then so, a series of troughs were quickly made and the driver at the top of the hill let cement go in increments and it went down the wooden troughs. As it came to a rest, my friend and I had the job of using some wooden paddles to work the concrete towards the foundation and continue it’s journey to the forms under the cabin where my uncle and dad were awaiting it’s arrival. Even my four year old cousin was helping us. We have pics. It was an amazing job with yells from under the jacked up cabin to stop the flow and then we yelled up the hill to the driver to stop pumping above as they moved the troughs to the next location. You had to be there, but by the time we were done, we had a new foundation poured and the next trip up, the forms were removed and the cabin was lowered onto it’s new foundation. I must say that that driver was great with the concrete releases coming from our yells down below the hill. We think that he got a kick out of it. Wish we still had that old cabin.
Well, yesterday, I ventured out to do some more weed work and discovered that the dead lizard had disappeared. Whether Callie Cat moved it or it woke up and took off, I don’t know, but it was gone. 🙂 Thinking about the cabin reminded me of snakes. Now, we’re talking Sierra Nevada location here. Over the years, the only snakes that we ever saw there were water snakes and very rarely. In all of our sixty years there, no rattlesnakes on our side of the river. Not one was ever spotted. There was a bear once though. 🙂
What a story! We could take all of our collective memories and start a museum, with some dolls of course. 😉
yes, or just play with the dolls and let someone else do the museum. haha
I still feel the lingering effects of the head ache, and I am also wondering if it is the weather, even though I have not spent much time outside. Maybe I just need more tea.
Hope that you are feeling better soon, Rosemary.
That would be fun with all of the stories from this group. 🙂
Joy, your cabin story is incredible. Funny that your dear Aunt was inside still, just preparing lunch etc. What an image, I think this is an amazing memory. Just wow.
We never had a cabin or camping when I grew up. My dad “camped” for a whole year when he was a prisoner of war in Germany, actually taken up in a razzia from the Netherlands. He was fortunate, but I do not think either of my parents like roughing it, or camping for no reason other than to do it. 😂
After we got married, the next summer we went camping… on a road trip to Prince Edward Island. People in Canada camp all the time. The mosquitoes are as big as horses up there. We were sitting in our tent and the guy from the tent next to us drove up and came out with a suit on and a brief case “home from work” … funny. He got up really early the next morning and went to work again all suited up.
One night we were driving so long and did not know exactly where we would end up, and we were exhausted and stayed in a little “motel” called Half Moon Motel, just some little shacks really with barely any running water and lots of mosquitoes and spiders too. It was terrible. I think we only paid $25 for the night.
I had no idea, I am humbled reading of your dad’s experience.
Oh Debbie. he wrote a diary, in dutch of course.
He never really showed it to us as kids or even grown ups. I think I looked at it a few times, but daddy was reluctant to delve into the 300 pages of writing.
Just this year, my cousin in Austria and I here in Virginia, went through the diary and translated it all. My father’s hand writing was too difficult for me to decipher, so Roland, my cousin helped me.
It is quite a story and amazing that he survived when so many were killed by accident or on purpose, he saw a lot of bad things.
Yes, I have all of it.
Jeanne, I’m so sorry to hear George is having these problems. I pray that all goes well soon. Take care of yourself and I’m glad you can be with him.
Here it is, the end of the day. I hope everyone had a productive or up lifting day.
I really do!
Tomorrow I will tell you the latest on daddy’s 2022 state tax bill and the tai-chi
Love you all