Hi everyone,
Just to let you know, these questions were Deb’s idea since I’m a bit tied up! :o)
Todays question:
What’s one thing on your bucket list?
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
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Hello and thank you to Deb! Jeanne, I hope things are progressing well with George, and he will be able to go home soon. I’m sure he’s heartily tired of being in the hospital! (And you, too, I’m sure!)
I enjoyed reading everyone’s comments about languages. Marilyn commented about sign language, so I thought I’d add that that would be a good one to learn, too. Actually, I can sign the alphabet. How did I learn? When my son was little, he watched Sesame Street, and every now and then they played a little video of the alphabet in sign language. I would watch carefully, every time I saw it come up, and that’s how I learned! Every now and then I’ll run thru it, just to make sure I still remember the signs. It would be awkward to try to communicate that way, though, so I think I would like to learn more.
Anyway, to today’s question: Well, that’s easy. I want to go to Michigan again! Especially to the Upper Peninsula, where I grew up. I haven’t been to the U.P since 2014, for my 50 year class reunion. I couldn’t go to the 60 year one, because Ron was doing so poorly, I didn’t dare leave. I’d like to see my cousins who still live in the UP (there are four of them now, plus several in the lower peninsula), and I would like to visit our church there in Stephenson, even though there probably aren’t many that I would know any more–it’s the church I grew up in, and I have fond memories. And see the house I grew up in. (I actually got to go IN that house about 45 years ago when my girlfriend Joyce, my son, and I went back. The pastor and his wife invited us after church; the pastor fed the kids, including mine, and his wife took us thru the house! 🥰)
My big “bucket list” thing (before we knew there was such a thing as a bucket list!) was to go to Africa, something I had wanted to do since childhood when a missionary to Africa spoke to our Vacation Bible School one year, and I did get to do that, back in 1999, when I went on a short-term mission trip to Swaziland.
Oooh U.P. yes! My sister in law lives up there. Very tight community in Marquette.
I learned the sign language alphabet in Jr High. Big mistake for an instructor to teach that 😂 – – – lots of sign language communication in class haha
Rosemary, my parents were both born in Ishpeming, which is right next to Marquette! My cousin John lives in Marquette now, and another cousin lives in nearby Gwynn, and one in Ishpeming, and another in Escanaba, which is further south, closer to where I grew up!
Yes, I can see how sign language in class could be an issue!! haha. I had a girlfriend since 9th grade who had fairly profound hearing loss; she didn’t sign–she could speak–but she could read lips very well, so I could mouth things to her and she would understand, but no one knew what was going on!!
We are heading out! Going to settlement on the old house! Yay, new happy family moving in. I truly hope they have the best time ever in this new happy house.
I do not know how long this will take, probably not long at all for us.
I can’t wait to get home and get started on my day three of LeMoyne Star sew along.
you can check my flickr page for my last two days. Yes, I am adding them to my Flags “American Sweetie” quilt (google that) https://www.flickr.com/photos/195523105@N06/with/55426688338
I will check comments later, it will be a treat for me to read everyone’s wishes.
I just want to go to the beach and stay one night in a fancy hotel on the boardwalk. I need to look way into the ocean! Maybe Rehoboth Delaware.
Other than that, I donot like traveling so much (over dose in childhood) but Greece would be nice, also perhaps, yes, Go back to Michigan, Rex’s home state, a beautiful state. Also Tennessee?
Jeanne, I hope both of you are doing okay and “smooth sailing” with a lot of assistance.
Hugs to both of you, so dearly loved.
I will return later. Happy Wednesday
Great news for you, Happy for you.
Hope that everything went smoothly with the house. You’ve both worked so hard getting it ready to sell.
I had a lot of bucket lists at one time but our wishes are not the same now. A couple of ones we had planned on trips or a train trip were ditched when covid came along. I do have one left and that is to go on the American Cruise Lines to travel up to Maine. Maybe next summer.
Nothing new today, really hot weather. A friend gave us some of his tomatoes yesterday so I will deal with those. Will make cookies for tomorrows free church dinner. Our neighbor takes them because she goes to help with the dinner. Work some more upstairs to fill bags for Goodwill…just the usual.
TCM has one of my fave movies tonight so we will watch it again.
Will enjoying seeing more of your Bucket lists.
Of course as always prayers keep going up for George and Jeanne. That never stops.
I don’t think I could survive a long train trip, but that cruise sounds great. I’ve looked at the one that goes up/down the Mississippi. Looks interesting. I really would like to take the cruise that follows where Lewis and Clark made their way west. I’m not interested in a cruise on a huge ship though.
Same here Joy. Not interested in ocean cruising on a giant ship!
Sissy, it is really warm here too but bearable and a breeeeze and 81º on the screened in porch! Have fun making cookies and filling bags with good things to share
I wonder if there’s a malfunction — how could I be 2nd today? Maybe 12 of you are writing and will finish before I do.
When I was in the hospice, I said I hoped to live until we were back on track as a country. Everyone laughed at me and said I wanted to be immortal. Now I hoping to get my house clean — somehow it’s always trying to get messier than I can clean it. I do have trouble walking and my hands don’t work very well, but if you consider that on Halloween, it will be 7 years since I was sent to a hospice to “get it over with” and couldn’t arrange my pillows, let alone get out of bed, this isn’t half bad.
I’ll keep working on the house and we’ll see if the house or the country gets straightened out first.
In the meantime, I’m celebrating our 250th year by reading about Lafayette’s return for our 50th anniversary. I hadn’t realized that he was only 19 when he arrived in 1777. He was also one of the richest men in France. During the next 50 years, he spent his fortune for the cause of Liberty, including outfitting and arming many soldiers to fight here — a huge help, because Washington was having trouble getting enough shirts to keep his army decently dressed.
When Lafayette returned in 1826, he was in debt, as were many Americans, who were borrowing to move West, where land was cheap and there were new opportunities. Banks were printing their own money — we had no standard banking system or standard money. There were 24 states and the population had tripled. New immigrants brought their languages and customs. The country was becoming industrialized, and was growing increasingly divided over slavery. James Monroe was president — the last of the Revolutionary War presidents. 4 Declaration signers still lived, but their generation was disappearing. Americans had a lot to celebrate, but were also unsure of the future.
Lafayette’s return reminded Americans of their courage and their pride, and helped reunite them. During 13 months he traveled to every state, which welcomed the Nation’s Guest with parades, fireworks, ceremonies, honors, reunions with old friends, and all the hospitality anyone could dream up. It was a time that the US needed Lafayette to remind us of the importance of our Great Experiment, and a moment when Lafayette needed a reminder that his life and fortune had not been spent in vain.
Great story about Lafayette. My mother’s step mother came from a well to do family in PA. The story goes that her family entertained Lafayette, and my mother was gifted two of the chairs from the huge dining set. I still have them. 🙂
WOWW Those are pretty cool treasures to have, Joy.
I hope you have your girls all dressed and playing on a big bed.
I can dream. The big bed is covered with dolls already and the big tent that I made some years back. Definitely need to organize. 🙂
That’s great that Deb, could help with the thoughts for the blog. I hope that George is healing and that there is a going home date in the works. Who’s minding the chickens and tomatoes?
As to a bucket list, not exactly all fun. I would love to have the yard finished enough so I could hire a weeding gardener for here. Another is to have the yard also done at the other house as well as the major remodel and a new roof. If that was done and water wise irrigation also installed, then I would consider a little travel. I would love to see the areas where my ancestors lived in MO, Illinois, Indiana, PA, and many other places in the 1700 and 1800’s. And then, some European travel to their original homes. Other person would love to visit the home of his grandparents in Bucita, Italy. I think that covers it.
It was so hot yesterday. We camped out inside between trips and watering at both houses. And, it’s supposed to remain hot hot hot for the next week at least. Shorts are on tap for this morning and I hope that we can get in a walk before it is scorching. It might be a good time to do some sorting out around here, but all of that hotness makes the idea fade rapidly. 🙂
Daughter sent a pic of oldest grand with icepacks on his cheeks and giving a thumbs up. He had all four wisdom teeth removed yesterday. I vividly remember when I had my two on the bottom removed. Didn’t have them on the top. I looked like a chipmunk with a mouthful of nuts. Not fun. Anyone else have wisdom teeth memories?
Keep cool everyone.
YES! I had my two bottom impacted ones removed! I went to the surgeon for a consult, I was pregnant with Christina and he said “Oh the second trimester is a perfect time to have your impacted wisdom teeth removed”
He must have been kidding. It was pretty horrible. Fortunately, he did them one at a time and the fact that they were impacted…. when I left the office the first time, everyone wished me a good restful afternoon (as they looked at me with raised eyebrows😳). I was numb, but wow, half way home I felt like half of my face had been removed. The pain was incredible. Then I got dry socket. I can’t remember if the second removal was as bad…. probably was. Horrible memory😂
Oh, that sounds awful and PG as well. But, glad that you survived. 🙂
I also only “grew” two wisdom teeth, and they were fairly shallow rooted. I think I was more terrified of having them removed (having heard others’ experiences) than I needed to be. The oral surgeon said one of them just kind of popped out, it was so shallow rooted. The other one he did pull. I don’t remember a lot of pain or anything, and certainly no dry socket or anything. I guess I got off pretty easily compared to some of you!!
I’ll start with the wisdom teeth memories, since my bucket list is not really finished yet! I was a young g mother when I had mine removed, and a ck then, in 1972, it required an overnight hospital stay. The actual hospital stay wasn’t bad, ut my poor mother-in-law having to with a 1 and 2 year old, both still in diapers, and not disposable ones!
As far as a bucket list, I do need to make an appointment for cataract surgery. Not the most fun thing to look forward to, but everyone says it is a piece of cake! Next, I would love to get going here and get the woodwork in my house painted, since we have the paint, but the time seems to get away from me. I thought with all this hot weather, it would be the thing to do while inside, but the hot weather made me feel more lazy than anything!
I would love to travel to our first home in Virginia, close to Williamsburg, then up to New England to see the fall colors. Not happening this year for sure! That takes planning, and we are pretty much booked up to do things already.
I could go on and on, but if I could get the first two things out of the way, it would be enough for me!
Thanks to Deb for keeping us going! Prayers for you and George, Jeanne!🙏🏻
Interesting about your wisdom teeth. I had mine out about 1972, also. I never heard of anyone requiring a hospital stay. I just went to the oral surgeon like everyone I knew. Glad your MIL survived.
No way we could do painting here in the heat. The fumes indoors would do me in. Have to have the windows open for ventilation. Of course, a lot of paint now is not nearly as toxic as what we used to use.
Joy, oral surgeons here did the wisdom tooth removal in a hospital setting. That’s just the way it was here then. I wasn’t sick or a special case requiring hospitalization.
Interesting. I’ve never heard of that before. So, you didn’t have to stay overnight? Guess I didn’t get that when I read earlier.
It’s 86 here, and I have to go out and give my plants some more water. Poor things.
Jeanne, I hope things are getting better for George. Keep the faith!
My bucket list is: I want to visit all of Great Britain. Especially Scotland. Look up ancestry too.
Then.. and I’m working on it now- cleaning out drawers and jewelry boxes and getting rid of many things- donating or selling. The older I get, it’s a priority. Fortunately, I enjoy doing this- seeing that special family things are recorded and left for the kids to throw out or save to pass on down the family line. Haha. One example- my mother handed down to me a steel bracelet that her brother-in-law made for her and it is made from metal debris pieces from on a war ship he and other military men and women worked on. His design is very unique. I just handed it down to my niece and hope she hands it down some day to another niece or great niece.
Anyway, it’s things like that, that I want organized and cared for and the rest thrown away or given away.
I’d also like to visit Springfield, Il. and Watertown, Wisconsin, where we use to live when I was child.
You are doing the right thing with organizing and disbursing. I should do that too, but always find something else that takes my time. 🙂 That bracelet sounds so unique. So nice to give it to someone who appreciates it. And, have you looked up your old addresses? You can often with Google locate the house or one that sold on the street and find your old address and check out the house. Until you can go there yourself. 🙂
I agree with Marilyn that sign language would be great. I do know the alphabet and a handful of words. My daughter took a class and is quite fluent. Even though she has no hearing issues she just thought it would be a fun class to take. She’s had a few chances to use it and has to be careful not to watch when she sees people signing because she can understand every word.
Thank you, Deb, for keeping things going here.
As far as a bucket list – I would LOVE to go back to PEI and Nova Scotia. Also a return visit to Williamsburg and to see surrounding history -Jamestown etc.
Then back to Cape May (we also went to the Barbara Fritchie house in Maryland on that trip) and more of New England to see Revolutionary War sites. Then down south to see more of the Antebellum houses again. So basically, I just want to revisit where I’ve been before first to see historical places. After that, I would head to Scotland, Ireland, and Wales along with Germany and England to see the locations of my ancestors and my ancestral family homes.
Sounds like we want to visit a lot of the same places in Europe. Have you tried looking up your relatives on the various census? Because, I was able to get the address of my relatives in Somerset, 1850, I think, and Googled it. The place is still there! Amazing. One of those rock/brick houses with a chimney at both ends. Maybe a duplex. Don’t know. But, it was fun to think that my relatives walked along the same road. 🙂
That is cool. You can also go to Ancestry at the local library for FREE.
My father traced our families (his and mom’s) back to the 1600s all in Holland, and one place that used to be part of Germany and is now part of Holland. He made a cool circular diagram of the families, names birth death and places for each.
In his last years, we also found some other relatives, his uncles, then we also investigated the story that no one wants to talk about. My dear Uncle married a woman when they were still in Holland, came to the US and my Uncle was very energetic and worked as a general contractor in building. The wife (no blood relation!) , started hanging around bars and stuff and at some point arranged for my uncle to be assassinated!
The plan fell through when the hired assassin backed out, but it ended up in the paper bc my uncle filed for divorce. So daddy and I spend massive hours at the library on the computer looking through Newspapers.com and also I spent many hours searching deaths while treadmilling.
… good times
Our library here has online access to several of the ancestor search venues if you have a library card. I used to use it a lot before I subscribed to Ancestry. And your search about your uncle sounds very interesting. Sometimes you find out more than you want to know. 🙂
Yes, Joy. We signed up for the free trial of Ancestry at some point and my daughter worked like a dog researching all she could from the names in the family Bible as well other info we already had. We found a bunch of fascinating info including stuff stateside that we were one of the first families in Boonesboro and can join the DAR (Daughters of the Revolution). Loves all the “old country” info we pulled up as well. especially more royalty than I knew already (Scottish (our castle is still standing) and English)and on the Welsh also that I had no knowledge about. 🙂
Joy, I read your comment yesterday about not knowing about netball. More girls (mainly girls) play netball here than both sexes play football or rugby. They usually start at about 6 or 7 years old. I played at school, I was quite good at it but didn’t carry on.
New Zealand played Wales this morning I think the score was about 58-32. something like that anyway. Wales played a lot better than the score line suggests but NZ didn’t have their best team on and it showed!
I don’t really have a bucket list. I would have loved to go on a cruise but not so sure about that these days. If I get enough money together (after buying a new, bigger TV (I can’t see any writing or numbers these days because of my cataracts), a new mattress, a new shower/bathroom, and all the other things that need fixing around here, I would like to go back to Texas to visit my brother (I don’t think they would give me a visa at the moment!), to Australia to visit my son and granddaughter and UK to visit my sister and brother there before I am too old to undertake long trips. I always wanted to travel and see more of the world but never had enough spare money.
When we were talking about languages I forgot about sign language. I have never learned but it would be a good one. It is an official language here after English and Māori.
I don’t think I told you but my friend, who I gave my old computer to, absolutely loves it. I does everything she wants it to and is so much easier than the tablet she was using. She is the friend who is learning Māori and she is finding it so much easier for her assignments.
Jeanne, I really hope that you and George are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and you will soon be able to go home to the tomatoes and chooks. Will keep praying.
Have a good day everyone.
Maybe netball will catch on here. I’ll have to see if the grands have heard about it. 🙂
“There’s a hole in the bucket, Dear Liza, Dear Liza…” Sounds nutty, I know, but this was the first thought that popped into my head when asked to think about my bucket list!
I used to think about various things I might like to accomplish, before I was in my late seventies….Like, see a couple of our favorite beaches on Lake Michigan that were only an hour or so away from our home in northern Indiana….lots of fond memories of my girls playing on the beach and my Mother driving us often to spend the day there together. Sometimes Mother would rent a cottage on Lake Michigan and we would have a wonderful week of sun and fun and relaxation. Good memories!
When I was in my twenties, I wanted to travel to Hawaii for a vacation, but as I got older, that dream became visiting England instead. And then when I read about Carl Larsson, the Swedish artist, I wanted to visit Sweden and see his home in Sundborn, Sweden which is open to the public. To this day, he is one of my favorite artists, and I love reading about his family life.
A cruise trip down the Mississippi was mentioned and I have thought that sounded like fun, since my retirement….I like the idea of the slower traveling pace and being able to see land on either side of the cruise ship!
I guess a “bucket list” can exist as wishful thinking because since reaching my current age of 77, and needing to be careful of what foods I eat, needing a rollator for assistance when walking a good distance, requiring a daily nap nearly everyday, I no longer think about traveling. I do not enjoy traveling long distances in a car and I could not handle flying…never did like flying. And there is the issue of living on a retirement income and knowing that traveling expenses would be out of the question…then you are okay with how the elder years play out. With large screen TV’s now, and the plethora of movies filmed in different countries and locations, you can almost feel like you have “been there!”
I too, am facing cataract surgery at some point, still have not done anything about hearing aids due to the expense which would put me in debt (and I can still hear, while researching about different types of hearing aids/costs), plus paying off a crown…just taking care of living on the home front as best as I can! I have read that if a person has a roof over their head, food on the table, and clothes on their back, then they are very wealthy! Some dolls on a shelf and a working sewing machine & a fabric stash are a bonus!