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Michael's was having a yarn sale this week. Bought lots of yarn, for some pretty ambitious (for me) projects. Let's see if those happen. Also used a 50% off coupon to buy a sock loom. Again, we'll see... Reading through the instructions the first time, I don't quite get it. But hopefully it will make more sense once I'm doing it and reading along.

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Sulking as i found the Miniature Adopt a puppy series 1 I have been looking for (vending capsule toys reall) on Amazon, but the seller won't ship to Sweden and the Doesn't answer a query.... A<grumbling a little> Oh well, I need to keep looking then.

 

 

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To avoid going stir crazy we took off in the car Saturday to head for Florence Marina State Park and spent three nights in one of their efficiency cottages while we spent most of Sunday at the Army Infantry Museum in Columbus.  It has expanded considerably since our last visit and we spent over 4 hours seeing everything inside (it rained, so we skipped outside).  We spent the next day visiting the hubs' cousins and his aunt; on the way to visit the aunt we stopped in Richland, GA, to tour their latest new business:  https://www.richlandrum.com/  The couple have a farm where they raise the sugar cane used to make the product.

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Lawson started his new job on Wednesday afternoon, and yesterday I received the first "Lawson is the most awesome person" email. :) It was from the Media Specialist, whom I "know" from when I worked the help desk. She bragged on how he was helpful and did so much more than the guy he replaced. He did the library orientation for one of the 9th grade classes for her so she could eat (and she was sick). Today he ran the VR stuff for the classes that came in because she was sick. I'm so proud and glad for how fast he settled in there and got to work. And no, he's actually not the library helper... He's the guy the kids come to when their Chromebook breaks. So he really is going above his assigned duties. They love him there, and he really likes it too.

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That certainly sounds like the Lawson I met!

Well we are home again.  We spent two days in the Wetumpka area, we finally found a spot in a public place where we could see part of the impact crater ("Stars Fell on Alabama" about 52,000 years ago, killing off all the dinosaurs in a 40-mile radius).  We didn't get to go to Jasmine Hill because the gardens are closed during the week (I didn't remember only going on weekends before...), but we did get together with good friends who live in Montgomery.

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For the next 4 days my garage is being used as a district campaign staging center for a state political candidate. Volunteers will be arriving from 10 this morning until 7 tonight to pick up packets to remind voters to vote this Tuesday in our Primaries. I’m also providing  sleeping arrangements for an out of town staff member. I don’t envy these hard working people who’ve worked 10 to 12 hours a day, 7 days a week since early June. 

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Today the construction crew will be here to paint the new wood on the screened porch, stretch the screening, and hang the screen door. At least that's the plan; they tend to be a bit optimistic with their promises.

A garage door opener repairman will also be here; the Genie went on strike yesterday, something a new battery didn't cure.

And cousin Tita Marie will be here to pick up the genealogy report I did for her father, who doesn't even know who his grandparents are. Not only did I track him back 3 generations on both sides, I found a 1908 photo of his grandparents with five of their children. She doesn't know about the photo; can't wait to see her reaction.

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18 minutes ago, KathieB said:

Today the construction crew will be here to paint the new wood on the screened porch, stretch the screening, and hang the screen door. At least that's the plan; they tend to be a bit optimistic with their promises.

And cousin Tita Marie will be here to pick up the genealogy report I did for her father, who doesn't even know who his grandparents are. Not only did I track him back 3 generations on both sides, I found a 1908 photo of his grandparents with five of their children. She doesn't know about the photo; can't wait to see her reaction.

You are going to love your porch! Furnishing it is always fun too.

We had a wild surprise when my 2nd cousin did a search on my grandmother to find out that she was raised in an orphanage. My mother had no idea. My great grandmother was a widow so an orphanage in Buffalo housed, fed and educated my grandmother and her sister. They were trained to be seamstresses so that they had skills when they turned 18. This was very common during the times of tuberculosis when only one parent was left with the children.  Almost like full time childcare. Weekly contributions were expected from the surviving parent.

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45 minutes ago, Sable said:

You are going to love your porch! Furnishing it is always fun too.

We had a wild surprise when my 2nd cousin did a search on my grandmother 

Ordered indoor/outdoor rug for the porch. Living up to their jingle, Wayfair had just what I need. :D 

I love the serendipity of genealogical research -- it keeps me plugging along.

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My Gt Uncle (who wasn't an uncle but some sort of cousin) did a huge amount of geneology research and thankfully I got a copy of everything before he died a few years back.  That was my Mum's side - my Gt Grandfather was the British Consulate of Nicuagua and 'incited an uprising of the natives'!    Apparently he and a business partner were thrown in jail and the Queen had to send a ship to get him out!  On my Dad's side - we learned a huge amount more when we went to the UK last year to meet my Dad's family for the first time.  Apparently his Grandparents or Gt Grandparents were bootleggers into Canada!  :D   What was really, really cool is that I found my Gt Grandparent's graves in the little churchyard of the little village we stayed in.  Was so amazing to know I had generations of family from the same little area of England!

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Didn't realise you were another on here with Fibro!!  Have you found that the meds you've been given from the surgery help with the Fibro pain?  It's a real bugger isn't it when metally and emotionally you are up for doing something but your body just says 'NO'!  :D  Good luck with the recovery!
 
Rebecca- actually, the pain meds from after surgery didn't do a thing for my Fibro pain. Some days the Fibro pain was worse than the surgery pain! :(  I actually had to go off one of my meds because of the interaction with the aspirin I had to be on for 30 days....well now that I am past the 30 days I can go back on my Fibro meds and I am feeling MUCH better! 
 
Therapy is making progress, slow maybe but I can now venture down to my work room again. :clap: I am just doing some little diddly things with the fireplace in the Newport and working out the details of the stair railings - nothing too intense since I generally can't stay down there long.  But it feels good to be at it again.
 
In other news, we are meeting with the moving company this evening to set the plan for moving my mother to the retirement home in early October.  Doing lots of paperwork for her right now (she isn't really capable of doing it herself) and trying to keep her from just giving her stuff away to anyone. On several occasions now she has given away or promised an item to another family member or even a random neighbor when the item in question had been already been promised to a particular family member.  Oh the issues of family treasures and who gets what! :doh:
 
So anyway, my "time off" should prove to come in handy as we make this next venture with my mom.
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45 minutes ago, jbnmini said:
Rebecca- actually, the pain meds from after surgery didn't do a thing for my Fibro pain. Some days the Fibro pain was worse than the surgery pain! :(  I actually had to go off one of my meds because of the interaction with the aspirin I had to be on for 30 days....well now that I am past the 30 days I can go back on my Fibro meds and I am feeling MUCH better! 
 
Therapy is making progress, slow maybe but I can now venture down to my work room again. :clap: I am just doing some little diddly things with the fireplace in the Newport and working out the details of the stair railings - nothing too intense since I generally can't stay down there long.  But it feels good to be at it again.
 
In other news, we are meeting with the moving company this evening to set the plan for moving my mother to the retirement home in early October.  Doing lots of paperwork for her right now (she isn't really capable of doing it herself) and trying to keep her from just giving her stuff away to anyone. On several occasions now she has given away or promised an item to another family member or even a random neighbor when the item in question had been already been promised to a particular family member.  Oh the issues of family treasures and who gets what! :doh:
 
So anyway, my "time off" should prove to come in handy as we make this next venture with my mom.

I haven't found any fibro meds that make much difference to my pain.  I'm on a natural remedy now which I 'think' has made a slight difference.  So saying I still have pain every day - last night I was wide awake due to hip pain.  Didn't help that I was plotting how to do the outside walls of my Apothecary building!  :D I've been getting out into my craft cottage almost every day lately - even if it's just for an hour.  I'm sure I'm a much nicer person for it! :D

Understand your family treasures dillema.  My mum and two sisters live in Christchurch in the South Island - so a plane ride from me.  So my sisters had to get my mum comfortable into a retirement home after she broke her hip.  Dementia doesn't help either.  So then my sisters went through most of mums stuff as she couldn't take much with her into a single room.  I didn't want much from mum but did want a couple of specific things and, to be fair, I got those.  Plus I got a heap of stuff I really didn't want!  Obviously mum's jewellery will stay with her until she passes - I don't want anything for myself but I would like her silver locket for my daughter.  We'll see.  Her emeralds were always supposed to go to my oldest sister but then Mum gave them to my middle sister having decided that my oldest sister had too many rings already!  Up here I have my Uncle to look after.  He has schizophrenia and has lived alone all his life.  Thankfully he's become really close to our family (as in myself, husband and kids), as growing up we only saw him on Christmas day.  For a few years he came to visit us here every weekend.  Then he ended up in hospital for 7 weeks and we had to go through the process of selling his house and organising to get him into a home.  It was fascinating going through his things!  He had stamp albums in every room and cupboard of his house!  Some of the stuff he had in his pantry dated back a few decades!

Yesterday we had some flooding here and today I am under strict directions from my husband to phone the council to complain that the drainage work they did has created a direct flowpath across our neighbours and into our property.  Oh yay....will have to sit on the phone for a while today then. :coffee:  Time for that first coffee of the day methinks!

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I had a CT scan a couple of days ago, I am hoping that it shows some damage that can be surgically repaired, this was the point of the scan,.Still waiting for my IV iron therapies to start, I wish they would get that organized as it could make a huge difference to me,. I am a bit bothered that the idea that they could redo my back and my blood may not amount to anything but I must try to be more positive, but if they can I could have a new lease on life !!

Yesterday I had a lady come  and collect ALL my card making stuff, there were boxes and boxes of it so I have big gap now in my workroom, it was hard to let it go as there was so much stuff and a lot of dollar value but it has gone to a group that do crafts with the mentally ill so it has gone to a great place. Now I have to pluck up the courage to let all my cake making supplies go..that is going to be very hard . I also need to let go of much of my cross stitch stuff but I have boxes of kits, some very expensive ones so again it will be hard. I have all my husbands kite making books and kiting supplies that should go also. I can't bring myself to let go of the huge kites I made for him as I have so many memories about the trips we made to kite festivals with them but as I won't be making anymore the supplies can go.

I find it very hard to let things go but it has to be done.

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I was hoping you were OK, Jeannine. I was getting worried about you what with all the fires up there. And if I had had a passport, I would have visited you. There was a horse jumping show over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and when they said it was in Vancouver, I was YEAH! But it was Vancouver, BC, not Vancouver, Washington state. So I still had plans to go, but with no passport, I was afraid I couldn't get back into the US. *sigh*

Hey, have you thought about hanging the kites on the wall? I think those would make fantastic wall art.

Me, I'm just sitting here wiping the drool off my computer monitor after looking at Jodi's blog and her Storybook Cottage. Ooh la la!

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1 hour ago, Thimble Hall said:

Yesterday I had a lady come  and collect ALL my card making stuff, there were boxes and boxes of it so I have big gap now in my workroom, it was hard to let it go as there was so much stuff and a lot of dollar value but it has gone to a group that do crafts with the mentally ill so it has gone to a great place. Now I have to pluck up the courage to let all my cake making supplies go..that is going to be very hard . I also need to let go of much of my cross stitch stuff but I have boxes of kits, some very expensive ones so again it will be hard. I have all my husbands kite making books and kiting supplies that should go also. I can't bring myself to let go of the huge kites I made for him as I have so many memories about the trips we made to kite festivals with them but as I won't be making anymore the supplies can go.

I find it very hard to let things go but it has to be done.

Good for you Jeannine!  What a fantastic place for your card supplies to go to!  I'm not looking forward to when we move from this house - in a few years from now.  I have so much crafty stuff - and yes, the creative tools and supplies are so much harder to let go of than decorative items etc.  I agree with Kelly - kites would make amazing wall decorations!

25 minutes ago, rodentraiser said:

There was a horse jumping show over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and when they said it was in Vancouver, I was YEAH! But it was Vancouver, BC, not Vancouver, Washington state. So I still had plans to go, but with no passport, I was afraid I couldn't get back into the US. *sigh*

So you're in Washington State Kelly?  That's one of our favourite places in the US.  We always said that if we were ever going to move to the US it would be to Washington State.  Probably helps that environment-wise it's the most like NZ.  We've spent lots of time in Lynden up by the border (we have friends there) and in Bellingham!

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Yes, I'm an economic refugee from the Bay Area in California. Everyone hates California, but I'd move back in a heartbeat if I could afford it, fires, earthquakes, and all.

I'm in Bremerton, directly across from Seattle. I'll be moving to the boonies next spring, just outside Belfair, which is about 8 miles from here.

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One of my husband's childhood friends and his family moved to LA last year - just before a whole heap of fires.  I love the California heat - it's dry not humid like we get here.  But too hot for me in summer.  It sounds like how a lot of NZer's view Auckland - too expensive to live in etc.  We're out on the coast though and if we want to go into the city we catch a ferry - so it's one of the best possible places in Auckland!  I'll have to look up Bremerton and Belfair on the maps!

 

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14 hours ago, rodentraiser said:

 

Me, I'm just sitting here wiping the drool off my computer monitor after looking at Jodi's blog and her Storybook Cottage. Ooh la la!

Thanks Kelly! I'll post tonight with photos of the landscape board with fencing, a arbor made with spare parts, and a simple potting bench.

Hey - have you thought about Patreon? If you make weekly videos about settling the new homestead, you might get some folks to sponsor you. Your story is very interesting!

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Ah, I don't know what I would make videos on. I mean, I only have the digital camera. And don't forget, for the first year or two I won't have any electricity. I doubt that I'll be able to make weekly videos anyway. Videos every couple of months would be more like it. There really won't be that much going on. I'm going to be playing a waiting game. All I can do is wait for money to come in every month and save what I can. Wait six months until I save enough for a shed, wait another year until I can afford to bring in electricity, wait another year to eighteen months to have a septic dug.

I'll be starting a garden if I can, but everything is so up in the air. For all I know, the county may come along and boot me off the land. Not much excitement in that. And besides, I don't really think what I'm doing is that unique and I really don't think anyone would be that interested in reading about it. I wouldn't be. LOL

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Kelly I think what you are doing is fantastic, I admire you very very much for what you are doing.

By the way, you don't need a passport to cross the border by car, you just need your ID that satisfies them. eg your birth certificate if you were born in the US or your citizenship paper and some picture ID . You can get what is called an enhanced driving license too if you are a US citizen, it is like a regular driving license but it shows that you are a citizen so you don't have to carry tons of ID. The above is only good for crossing the border in a vehicle, you need a passport to fly in. So find your stuff and hit the road!! I have all of the above plus I have a Nexus card which is also acceptable. It takes a while to get but it pre approves you for crossing and there are special lanes so one doesn't have to wait so long in line ups.It works both ways too as it is a  combined  ID from Canada and the US.

What kind of garden are you going to start, if veggie, I can give you seeds.

Re the kites, I agree they would usually look good on a wall but these are rather large, I think the smallest is a 18 foot wing span, most are over 30 feet.

The fires are not close to me but there are air pollution warnings in  my area due to the smoke and that has caused a few problems but nothing serious.

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9 hours ago, SewMini said:

*runs in hyperventilating* I FOUND A DOLLHOUSE SHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I’m so excited! It’s only a 20 minute drive from me in gorgeous Hillerød! I’m so excited!

wooohoooo! At least you have a place to wander and inspire and share!

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We found out Friday night that this was the weekend for the Greek Orthodox Church in Ft Walton Beach to have their annual festival, so off we went and had a wonderful time watching the dancers and scarfing lamb gyros.

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