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Comments (15)Finished my web design classes last weekend, so now I have my weekends back again. Celebrated on Sat by doing a runaway weekend-day with DH. Went to Baltimore to see the old trains. Enjoyed it very much and the folks there were very very nice. Today I have been out in the garden all afternoon except for a short break to rest all those muscles that are going to be so sore tomorrow! Dug around in the mulch and replaced the soaker hose that I accidently sliced with my shovel last fall with shorter lengths of hose that can be more easily replaced if I do the same dumb thing again (!) Now I am going back outside to try and figure out how to attach the lawnmower bag to the lawnmower (we've never used it, but I want to recycle some old leaves into new mulch) and maybe divide some hardy geranium and bee balm into small pots for a garden club sale in May. Not done any planting out yet, because most of my seeds have only started sprouting in the last 2 weeks and are not growing very fast. I must be on the cold side of zone 6. Even my lettuce planted in Feb does not have true leaves. 'Ta for now! Lois in PA...See MoreSunday....What are your plans for today?
Comments (15)After napping in the car during the 24 hour jaunt down to NC from Ontario, beginning Fri. evening, I had a good sleep last night (after doing some email stuff and posting here after most Korea missionary reunion folks had gone to bed, I was up rather early (for me), waking at 7:20 a.m. (didn't know how to set the alarm on the bedside radio). Had to be in the dining hall for breakfast before 8:00 ... and I'd neglected to bring my razor from the car prior to lock up, so it was a fast clean-up. After breakfast there was a presentation for upwards of an hour about the various international and voluntary organization activities to help the people of North Korea have food (there was terrible flooding last fall, with three plantings of the crop that they use to make one of their staple foods - kim-chee, for those familiar with Korean cusine, and the final planting only growing to about a third normal height). They were telling also of bringing medical and educational supplies, capital goods, as well as food - generators to bring light to hospital operating rooms, and power the equipment, as much of it did not last long on the low-voltage current from the mains. There is increasing trust and cooperation among the foreign-based agencies working there, and a build up of it between them and their Korean counterparts - North Korea has been substantially isolated from most of the rest of the world for so long. When various missionary agencies agreed to work in various areas of the country about a century ago, the Presbyterians in Canada (later the United Church, after several denominations united), were assigned the north-east section of the country and some in Manchuria. Though none of us who were there 50 years ago had ever been to the North, we havbe long held a soft spot in our hearts for that area, and we are especially pleased to see the thawing that is taking place there. Then we had a hynmn sing for a while and a worsip, including reading the names of colleagues who had died within the three years since the last gathering - two pages, smallish print, with two or three descriptive lines for each. The offering to go to assist the various upgrading projects in North Korea. I was able to meet several of my friends, though I was only here for a short part of the program - with some of the Canadian group having come whom I hadn't expected. A good supper last evening, breakfast this morning and a delicious lunch has fuelled me for a time ... and I'm crying the blues over gas being $3.99 and $4.00 in this area - but not too large tears, as I filled at lower prices earlier and my little Mazda sort of sips gas (enhanced by my turning off the key and coasting sometimes on downhills - when there's no one close behind). And they have quite a few of those downhills in Kentucky and NC ... I felt a sense of respect for the folks who'd chopped off the large volumes of rock in the hills to dump into the vallies to build the roads, years ago. After yakking to you folks, I'm off across country to visit my niece in n-w GA ... and, leaving hastily, I forgot to bring her address, but I do remember the name of the street. I wrote her family in Alberta to ask them to send it ... but they appear to have not received the message. Anyway - missionaries (and former ones) have to learn to fly by faith (don't we all have to do that, a good deal of the time?). Last trip, I had a bit of a job finding their location, as Gainesville seems to be spread all over the map. Anyway - wish me luck. Plan to return to Ontario just before next weekend ... and Pooh Bear's to be vacationing, so won't see him. Have a lovely week, everyone. Start planning for your retirement - remember, every retired day is on (hopefully, prepaid) vacation. If it isn't prepaid, and one chooses to retire, or has the choice made for them, there's likely a problem down the road, for lack of food tends to make one seek re-employment at an advanced age (unless one plans to die within a few months/years of retirement - improbable with clergy or missionaries, as they tend to live to advanced ages. ole joyful...See MoreTGIF~What are your plans for today and the weekend??
Comments (21)I lounged quite a bit this morning and was watching some of my normal Saturday Morning TV that was boring this morning, or should I say yesterday (Saturday) morning. Somehow about 11 or so I got some unusual ambition. The power company had been by to trim the trees near the power lines. I have a huge brush pile in my front yard. I thought this is a good time to do some more trimming and let them haul it instead of me having to haul it. So I finished trimming the trees right, that they just kind of hacked, took down some bushes that were overgrown, trimmed a couple trees in the back yard too. I was going non-stop for over four hours! In my younger days, that wouldn't have been such a big deal. These days, it IS a big deal! I was real proud of myself. Tomorrow, or today rather, is supposed to be nice too so when I knocked off I thought I might do a little more today. My shoulders and hips really feel it but boy I feel like I accomplished something. Good feeling. I won't get as much done as I would like to, but I'm pragmatic. This is a lot just as it is. Anything more is "gravy". A lot more is dessert! LOL And I do need to mow the leaves one of these days but didn't make sense to do it yesterday since the brush pile took up a big area. OK, that's an excuse. But I have plenty of time for that. Schedule it right and get it done. I was SO tired earlier but can't get to sleep. And maybe I'll reward myself by going out for breakfast or brunch if I get some things done or maybe I'll do it before I go to work. But then, would I be feeling like working??? Ah, decisions, decisions. Then I have to set clocks sometime. As Roseanne Rosanadanna says It's always something!...See MoreSaturday~What are your plans for today?
Comments (18)Not feeling like doing much today...was up off and on all night with a tummy bug. Never the less,DH and I did finish painting the family room...well DH painted and I kind of cleaned up after him. My cousin dropped by for a coffee and we started talking about past Christmases and ended up laughing and crying. After she left I took a long hot bath hoping I'd feel better...Not happening!!! Have friends dropping by for a tea and chat after dinner. Supper will be a romaine salad with poached chicken breast,and whatever I can think of to throw in. Sure hope I feel more perky tomorrow as we plan on going for a drive and maybe drop in on old friends we haven't seen for awhile....See Moremorpheuspa (6B/7A, E. PA)
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