Sabbath Sunday

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Let's take a break from our days and sing!

Happy Birthday to Dee
Happy Birthday to Dee
Happy Birthday DeeClutteeerrrrrr
Happy Birthday to Dee!

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

After listening to 5 worship services and another 5 sermons last week, I'm debating church. I'll probably go, though, because my minister was at the conference too and I wonder what changes that made to her delivery!

I got my Covid Diary caught up last night but that meant going to bed late. And my brain wouldn't shut down and my back was sore so it was a rough night. On the plus side, I turned off the 'next alarm' on my sleep program. Unfortunately, I'm guessing that's tonight's alarm because I was woken by my seagulls at 6:30 (after getting up at 5 and closing the blinds so I could sleep in despite the sun.)

Time for breakfast.

[Lynlee]

Happy Birthday Dee. Best Wishes for today, and this year.
May many blessings come your way.

Tonight Watched todays ascension service. I remembered to open multiple tabs so I could read and listen to the readings, and the homily at that time during the service.

Today My dd and dsil picked me up and took me to the coast.
DD has the ok from her doctors to stay at their coastal unit as she can manage to be more independent and get around there. The wheelchair is easier there. We walked along the river, bought lunch, returned to their unit.
We looked at puppy/dog porn, the fantasy of what to get if you could. Dogs are hard to get atm. All snapped up, fought over in so many applications... overwhelming those who pick the winners.
Walked to the surf front and watched the waves and the surfers, body boarders. Took a walk around another block and picked up a thai food takeaway brochure. (I was invited to stay for dinner) Person came to the door to talk to us even though they weren't open yet.
(walked) Another couple of blocks to a well placed convience store close to their unit. Best meal in a long while. They drove me home. I think they chose the place for their investment property well, so much is handy within easy walking distance, plus its flat around there.

Tuesday I'll go down by bus and I'll go shopping with dd. I need more muscles for pushing the chair, but I did it a little today without wiping out in any doorways. Hoping that entry is possible without any 'up curb hills/ slopes' I can't manage. I need to look at replacement plates. I'm dreaming of china, I think No not necessarily matching what I have.
I have some I need to toss. Also, 70s items are so 70s. And I find the cor elle is cut in places, as well as stained now. Not all successfully bounced so a few pieces are missing..
Yes - charity shops are taking nothing atm here either.

[LadyMaverick]

Happy Birthday DDee!!

Lynlee - I love hearing about your visit with DD. Glad the location switch is working well for everyone.

I had a good night's sleep in spite of heavy thunderstorms which put DS11 into my bed. My heart hurts for him when this happens because his body is literally vibrating from the anxiety. Thankfully he calms down almost immediately and goes to sleep. This method of dealing with the anxiety is faster (and fewer side effects) than any pill so I guess we will just keep doing it. I have thoughts about whether it would be worth the time for us to sit outside during a thunderstorm so he can see there is nothing to fear. I'm not sure about this. I'll talk with him about it during a calm time and get his input.

DH and I are about 99% sure we are changing churches. DH will finish stepping away from his elder duties today at the cowboy church. We intend to start attending a local church that has strong children activities. It is a more traditional church building than we have been attending the last couple of decades but is still an independent, non-denominational church (that is important to us). The kids are thrilled with the switch because the number of their friends attending & youth activities are about 10000% more at the "new" church.

This morning I found a post that I started writing last night but never finished. This is what I wrote -
I have a happy kid again. He has been released from quarantine to return to normal life. DS11 has been playing with his friends all day. They rode bikes for 6.4 miles, walked 1.2 miles, plus an undetermined number of miles on gocart/ATV. They worked in the shop together repairing bikes (changed tires), went frog hunting, had target practice, and caught crawdads. IMHO, this is about 1000000 times healthier activity than sitting and playing video games.

[DeeClutter]

Thank you to all of you who have wished me a Happy Birthday. Sure there's things in the planning for today. Last night dh insisted I go for a ride on the golf cart -until we caught up to dcampowner's truck AND flat trailer. As a surprise he'd hired a very much loved band here and they played on the back as they drove over all the roads over & over at the campground. When we caught them dcampowner was pitch hitting on the drums and they broke into the birthday song.

DD and I had a good trip -we did take 495, Sunny, and the driving was pretty good all the way. Got here about 6:17 last night. I'm bushed today though. I got just a little bit done last night but have a lot to do yet. Remember dh has been living here pretty much 'out of the box' since mid March.

Campground is very full this weekend. People were pretty much adhering to the rules & restrictions. Now when some of them got falling down drunk it might have been another story.

Ds-R and family finally have their new camper here. They brought in Thursday, but were not happy. The RV place has had it and all its 'new' problems since October. When they got here the fridge wouldn't work. So DS called them & they told him he'd have to bring it back in. His answer was not nice for sure. They came out the next day to fix it, had to go back for parts & come back but now the fridge works. Dh had a tour Friday, but I'll probably wait. I might be too tired to make it up the steps into their fifth wheel. Next weekend.

Dh just left to go to tractor supply.

Will update on dggs5 later in J&C when I can get all my wits about me. I know Thursday & Friday were terribly rough and broke this Grandma's heart seeing him in such agony.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Dee: glad to see you are back with dh! There is probably no better birthday gift than that!

I found this video of when the Snowbirds were in our area.

https://youtu.be/v5C4flPSaCI

At the 1:56 mark you can see my apartment building just to the right of the bridge, under the wing of one of the planes and at the 14:39 mark the planes fly over ds's house. I won't try and describe which is his, it is just to the left of the rail yards.

Now to get moving. It is not as warm today so I hope the moving around will help me warm up. I'm cold.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

I didn't move far. I decided to re-listen the Otis Moss III sermon I loved so much from the conference and managed to just unload the dishwasher. I had to keep stopping to make notes. It was a prerecorded and I googled it and found the service where he first preached it so I can share it with you.

If you want to watch it, it starts at the 41 minute mark of the service and is less than 20 minutes including the blessing.

https://www.facebook.com/trinitychgo/vi ... 603845724/

This is on Luke 24:13 when Jesus was there and not seen. When the disciples were mourning the end of Jesus being among them.

It talks about how one of the greatest tools we have is mourning when we experience loss.

And how sometimes the greatest blessing is to have someone to speak with in our time of mourning. Moss surmises that might be why we are Zoomed-out, Facebooked-out, Instagramed, skyped, and talked almost into oblivion because everyone is reaching out. We are talking more with people now than at any other times of our lives, because we need the connection.

That is why this village is so important to us, it is a place where we can talk. Express our feelings. Be not alone.

The sermon isn't just about mourning, it is also about remembering to pan back the frame through which we view life, and to recognize we are not alone.

That had me thinking about how to reframe things. Originally, the new In-solidarity BWP was to give us all something to do while we waited for things to return to normal.

Maybe we've been in too much of a hurry to go back to the way things were without realizing we need to be going forward to the way things will be.

Maybe, our BWP needs to include some space to name our losses and help us process them.

While we are all in mourning right now as we give up the spaces and places and contact with the people we love, several of our SHE sisters are mourning more than just the losses of our current situation.

So I'm thinking that at least for tomorrow, the In-Solidarity theme will be Mourning Monday. I just feel we need to take a moment to mourn together, not only our personal losses but the losses of our SHE sisters.

That doesn't mean, I don't expect you to get your personal BWP work done! And in my case, the business books ready for the accountant. But, we also need to grieve and I'm wondering if my lack of grieving in a more formal manner is holding me back, stopping me from doing the other things I need to do.

[LadyMaverick]

Dee - so good to see you & DD had safe travels and your now posting from your summer home. Welcome Home!

Kathryn - I like the direction of your thoughts for taking time to mourn the loss and changes our SHE village has experienced recently. I think some religions and countries have a set number of mourning days ??40?? after a loss happens. Whether it is the lower of the flag on the pole for a number of days or some other way to stop and recognize there is a loss.

This morning DD8 and I teamed up to make breakfast. It was a simple meal - scrambled eggs and bacon. DD8 cracked all the eggs into a bowl and then learned the importance of making sure the broken eggshells are removed before cooking.

I went on a 23-minute walk with DD8 so she could finish her daily list. She is enjoying the experience of choosing where and how long we walk.

DH attended our "old church" this morning. DS11 attended our "new" church this morning. Hopefully next week we can all attend a church service together again.

[Sunny]

Happy Birthday, Dee!

I was awake at 7:30 this morning when dgrson-C came downstairs getting ready to head out to work. He usually works the closing shift, coming home after 11 p.m., so its unusual for him to be leaving early. He will be home for dinner today! I dozed a little until my alarm sounded, then got up and dressed then turned on the computer to watch church online. By the time that was over everyone else had come downstairs. Dson and ddil went out somewhere, don't know where, so I got my breakfast and made a fresh pot of coffee. Ddil's dmom made an orange poke cake with orange jello pokes and mandarin oranges with whipped cream topping. She wanted to take some to her brother. Looks like dson and ddil are home again. They must have gone to the farmers' market. And some of the stores in the shopping center have opened. Ddil showed me a video of the lineup of people waiting to get into the Ross store...over a block long!

Kathryn, thanks for sharing the video. That is a really different perspective on watching the Snowbirds.

Dee, so glad you had a good trip home and the new route worked out. It looked like you would miss the rain we had here.

Lady M, hope you have a good experience in your new church.

The sky is very overcast today, though we don't have rain forecast until later this week. Temperature is only 61*, supposed to be 74* today; windows are open.

I think I'll sweep the floor and do my laundry today.

[Sunny]

Well, don't know why my post posted twice; that never happened to me before this. When I hit submit Lady M's post showed as "a new post has been made", so I did submit again, then went back to board index.

NOTE TO SUNNY FROM DEE: I deleted your second post for you, Sunny.