tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10504313487478024852024-03-05T04:09:33.519-08:00Meemo in the MountainsPennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-29888098987726582502020-04-14T16:10:00.000-07:002020-04-14T16:10:26.339-07:00The Food Truck-- An Adventure During Stay Home Orders!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="text-align: left;">During these times of staying home and not being able to see or visit friends and acquaintances has been hard on me as I love socializing! One of the things I used to like doing was my monthly visit to the Food Truck. To begin my story we need a little background. Once a month on the second Tuesday, the Food Bank of the Rockies comes to Walden. It is a semi-load of food for people who need groceries for their families, senior citizens, volunteers who help distribute the food and, in Walden, about anyone else since they need to leave with an empty truck. I have been going for the past two years and it is quite entertaining for me. I don't get out much any more and it is fun to be able to visit with people I may or may not know while we wait for the food to be set out and ready for us to gather up. I hear all the latest gossip and see old friends and former students that I hardly recognize any more. I kind of wish we could wear name tags because it is sometimes embarrassing </span></div>
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to ask who they are when I know I should recognize them. I have exchanged recipes for some of the more exotic foods or ones we hardly see in our community, such as beets, some kind of vegan sausage patties, dried yellow split peas (I think they are what is called dahl in India), fresh hoseradish (we didn't get this but a lady told me how to prepare it when I would dig it up since we had some on our ditch banks). Also since many of us are only feeding 1 person we get more food than we can use. In my case, I only have a very small freezer, so we give each other tips on how to preserve or use the foods. Right now I have a gallon of Raspberry vinegarette I need to do something with! HA! The reason we have so much time together is that many times the truck is late getting up here due to bad weather or truck breakdowns and we have to wait until it can be unloaded by the drivers and set up in the big room for us to file in and gather up our food. </div>
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Here is the procedure. When we arrive we go into the kind of lobby of the Wattenberg Center. The truck is backed up to that same door and the driver and their helper bring the cases, bags and bottles of food off the truck and pass through all of us into the big room. It has been set up with tables around its perimeter. The food is set out on the tables by volunteers who have the boxes behind them so they can keep replenishing the tables. Meanwhile out in our little room there are chairs set around the room with a path through the middle for the carts loaded with cases of food to pass through. We like to speculate on what is really in those cartons and cases. We sit in order of first come first served and the chairs fill up pretty fast so people then stand in a line that kind of snakes back and forth trying to stay out of the way of the unloading process. When it is warm outside the line goes outside. When everything is set up we are allowed to start going into the big room. We must first sign in and sometimes fill out some forms which slows down the whole process. Due to privacy we can't get too close to those who are signing in. Finally we can start around the room cafeteria style filling up the bags and boxes we have all brought with us (well, we are supposed to, but most of the time I have used the empty boxes they brought the food in. This hasn't worked too well the last few months since someone is breaking those boxes down as soon as they are empty, so there aren't any by the time I get there. I now use my insulated big grocery bags.) At the end of the line are more volunteers waiting to help us carry our food to our cars. Sometimes they are teenagers and younger kids who are home schooled as well as adult volunteers. It is really wonderful that we have such great people in the community that volunteer their time for this.<br />
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So you may wonder what sorts of food comes up to Walden. There are always dried foods such as pasta, dried beans, and rice (although not so today), milk of all sorts, like today it was whole milk and Almond Silk, but many times it is 2% and even that kind that you can keep on the shelf until you open it. There is quite often breakfast cereal in boxes, alway some kind of canned foods, usually canned fruit and sauces like pasta sauce, and tomato sauce. There are frozen meats, whole chickens, fish sticks, pork roasts(one of my favorites), weird non meat patties, chicken tenders, drumsticks, and shredded cheese at different times. Also frozen vegetables and fruits. There are always fresh things too. Lots of times whatever is in season is available in large quantities to freeze or can. Almost always there are potatos, sometimes as much as 25 or 50 lb bags! A few times there have been lots of bananas. They almost always have some kinds of drinks like juices, pop, fizzy water or just plain drinking water. Several times they have had cases of individual yogurts which I love because they last a long time and I eat yogurt every morning for breakfast. Boxed mac and cheese is popular too. At the end of the line are all kinds of breads, rolls, and pasteries. We usually get a choice of 2 or 3 of these items. Their due dates are pretty current but they do freeze, if you have the space. Then there are the treats! Almost always there are some surprises One time I got a tube of Hello Kitty toothpaste. Another time it was a CASE of dark chocolate butterfingers! We have recently gotten candy canes, 2 boxes of 12 each. Another time it was 2 boxes of Russell Stover chocolates and another time it was like 2, 2lb. bags of pistashio nuts. Last month I got a 1lb. bag of shelled walnuts. 2 or 3 months ago we got maybe 10 lbs. of fresh (storage) beets. The kind you have to boil and skin. I made pickled beets and eggs. A summer specialty of mine. The eggs were also from the truck. We got 3 dozen, a dozen each from 3 different farms plus a quart of frozen eggs! Margarine and "plant butter" (I'm thinking it also is margarine) are also frequent items. Ok enough, you get the picture, we really are lucky to recieve these foods!<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody>
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I was really concerned about whether there would be a food truck this month since we have been hearing about the food shortages and the long lines at the Food bank of the Rockies in Denver. With so many people out of work I can see that it is a huge problem all over. Well, not to worry the truck arrived as scheduled today and our volunteers had it all worked out for social distancing and it went like clockwork! We barely had to leave our cars. we drove by the tables set up outside, stopped, opened our trunks, got back in the car and volunteers, who had filled the boxes earlier, put them in our cars and off we went back home. The foods were a little different but the food was plentiful and the basics were in the boxes. No sweet surprises but yes, there was some fresh produce. This could have been a problem since it was extremely cold this morning, around 15 degrees. It was 1 degree when I got up. I was a little worried the lettuce and spinich might be frozen but it wasn't. There were grapefruits, oranges and apples and potatos, as well. My freezer is stuffed full and there is plenty for me for another month! Hallelujah! Thank You to all of those who stood out in the cold to help us out! <div>
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Maybe tomorrow or the next day I will have a picture of my final project in my certification class! It is really kicking my butt!</div>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-82614999454024725632020-04-09T12:05:00.000-07:002020-04-09T12:05:29.841-07:00Random Thoughts on How Life Goes on While Under Stay Home Orders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been having random thoughts while showering, watching updates and specials on the Covid-19 virus on TV, listening to Classic Upbeat, Classic Country, 60's-90's music on my Echo. As a matter of fact, Alexa and I have been having all kinds of conversations! And, by the way, Audible, Chirp and the free books on Amazon have been very popular at my house too. Hallmark Movies and Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube have all been my friends as well. I have taken several sewing and embroidery classes online which has been quite intersting. </div>
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Now my blog has been taking up some time and, oh yes, I've made multiple face masks for friends and family! I do try to go for a walk around town each day that the wind is not blowing hard (which isn't real often, HA!). </div>
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My immediate family has formed a group on Messenger and we try to get together each day to update each other and just joke around. The filters on there are very popular as we are trying to have serious conversations. All of kids are working from home mostly. Marianne works from a tiny, one person office she walks a block to each day. Danny has the Bowling Alley he needs to go to but he can do a lot from his office at home. Carla and JJ are teaching preschoolers and kindergarteners online (quite a challenge for them as well as the parents) and Carla is trying online speech therapy for children which seems to be working quite successfully. Just trying to set up a home schooling office at home has been very challenging for the teachers I have talked to! I have been a guinea pig for Carla and, of course, my very outdated computer had troubles with Zoom!<br /><br />
Carla lives in Casper Wyoming where they have only suggested staying at home and have had no deaths from the virus yet in their city. She says that the 8PM "Howling and Cheering" for all the emergency responders is very popular up there. They go outside and everybody howls and cheers including all the neighborhood dogs. It is very cathartic and hopefully appreciated by everyone! Down here around the trailer park I haven't heard a peep. I wonder if anyone around town is doing it.....<br />
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I am amazed at what is being done for all us people who are at risk in this community. As far as I know there are no confirmed cases of the virus and the medical center has not had anyone call or come in with symptoms. Of course we would love to keep it that way! People have suggested putting up barricades on the highways that go through town but that is totally unrealistic. Trucks hauling supplies pass through town all the time and emergency vehicles and essentials must still be able to come and go! It would be nice to think we will be untouched by the virus but I'm very happy that most people up here are abiding by the suggestions and orders the state has put in place for social distancing. I do worry about our safety once the stay home restrictions are lifted and tourists will be coming up to North Park. Since no one has had the virus and we don't have a hospital, will we be vulnerable? I think so. One other thought. We live at 8500ft. elevation. We have less oxygen up here and that is one of the problems people have with the virus. They are having to life flight anyone who is sick with the virus to lower altitudes right now from other mountain communities. <br />
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It has been very hard on the eating establishments up here. They have a tough time keeping their heads above water in regular times. Our family is very grateful to all the people who have supported the Bowling Alley by ordering take out during this time. I know teachers are working hard and probably stressing over their classes. I have nothing but admiration for them. I'm sure parents are having their problems "home schooling" their kids as well. Good times for all! Hehehe!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">This brings me to what I appreciate about what is being done for seniors and others at risk in our community. Once a month the Food Bank of the Rockies sends a semi-load of food up to Walden for anyone who is in need plus Seniors and pretty much anyone else as they bring enough food for all, and they don't want to take any back. We all gather up at the Wattenburg Center and the food is set up like a cafeteria and people bring boxes, bags, carts or anything to hold the cans, bags, boxes, fresh produce, etc. There is almost always milk, juice, cereal, frozen meat of some sort, dry foods like rice, beans, pasta and breads of all kinds. Everytime there are some surprise things like bags of pistachios, Christmas candy, a gallon of raspberry vinegar salad dressing, a gallon of whole dill pickles, cases of yogurt, eggs, etc. They have people there to help you carry all your food to your car. It is very interesting and appreciated! Well, they have figured out how this will all work now that we cannot gather up there to get our food. Volunteers will fill boxes for all and then we will drive up there and line up in our cars. The volunteers will carry the boxes to our cars and put them in our trunk! Problem solved! I'll miss visiting while we used to wait in line inside the building but that's the way it is now! </span><br />
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Another service the Senior Center is doing is paying a different eating place in town each week on Friday to prepare meals for any senior who signs up and someone will deliver it to our doors. This will help the restaurants and the stay home people who are at risk! I guess they are doing a similar thing and delivering school lunches Monday-Thursday! How cool it is to live in a small isolated community!<br />
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-85606152424351392712020-04-05T18:20:00.000-07:002020-04-05T18:21:48.179-07:00A Day in my Life as A High Risk For Covid-19<br />
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This post may wander around a bit, but I thought that was a pretty catchy title for it. Now that all we hear and read seems to be related to the virus, my mind and imagination has been working overtime. Like I said, I am at risk because of my age which is coming up on 81. I think my overall health is pretty good and I have been following the rules since before the state mandates came out. I am not outraged that our health experts and government officials are asking and even in a lot of cases mandating that we do or don't do certain things. I don't feel like we are in a "Hitler situation". I prefer to think that most people world wide have enough common sense to take the advice of the experts and those countries who have been through this and know the science of epidemics and how the virus works. I also have faith that most people are caring , loving family members and friends. Granted young people many times are more selfish but can be reasoned with. Anyway, I decided to stay home as much as possible, not go to water aerobics and wash my hands, etc. about 3 weeks ago. Danny and Kathi have been getting my mail and groceries, but I still go out for a walk when the weather is nice. I figure it this way, now that I have been doing it this long, why mess it up by not following the guidelines even for 1 excursion to the store and possibly get coughed on, get sick and maybe even die. I would have done all those small inconveniences for nothing! A young person who feels they are immune to this virus may feel differently but I would hope they have enough compassion for family and friends to recognize they may be a carrier and could infect many others without knowing it. So much for my wandering thoughts.<br />
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I have been hearing a lot on mental health. It brought up some memories I have of my childhood. I remember when I was around 4-5 years old. There was talk all over the news (we only had radios and newspapers back then) about this new bomb (the atomic bomb) that was so powerful it could kill millions. In my young mind I pictured it as blowing up the whole world. Every night I would lay in bed and try to figure out where I could go to hide from the bomb so I wouldn't blow up. At that same time many cities even in the US had blackouts. We lived kind of out in the country on the edge of Milwaukee. We didn't do anything special for it but when we visited my aunts in Pittsburgh they had blackout curtains and we would sneak peeks out the windows at night to "see the blackout". I think our obsession with the War was similar to what kids are going through today only it is a lot closer to home for them nowadays.<br />
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As far as quarantines and social distancing go, this is nothing new. When I was young whenever a family member caught a contagious disease (like when my brother got Scarlet Fever) we were quarantined. I remember big red signs on all our doors with big black letters saying QUARANTINED. My sister and I were not allowed to even go upstairs where Tip's room was. And guess what? We never got it! Then, one summer when I was around 10, I kept stubbing my toes when we played night games, running around our neighborhood (another post about a time gone by). Our parents were sitting around a fire at a neighborhood cookout and Mom noticed it and asked what was the problem. It ended up that I had a very mild case of Polio (Infantile Paralysis) and had lost muscle control in my feet. That whole summer I was quarantined to our yard. this was not a problem for us kids as there were no fences or shrubbery so the property lines were very vague. I would set up my lounge chair somewhere along the line between our yard and Sue's yard (my best friend who was year older than me). All the neighborhood kids around our age would play at Sue's so I could be included. So much for quarantines! I recovered in time for school and I still kind of drag my feet when I get tired. Nobody else in the neighborhood got Polio. The visiting nurse who came to check on me every week was great. We heard she died of Polio several years later.<br />
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Fast forward to my sophomore year in high school. For years, every summer our parents never let us go swimming at public swimming pools or go to State Fair, which was only a few miles from our house, or even go shopping down town. It was Polio season and although it was never mandated, many families practiced social distancing even back then. Anyway, that summer a senior in my high school died from Polio. I think school didn't start for a week or two that fall and then when we did go, we all had to get a gamma globulin shot in our butts. They administered it at the nurses office as we came to school. It really hurt and we all sat at our desks in the "Gamma Globulin Tilt" for several days! My brother remembers it differently. He thinks he got it in his arm, but it still hurt. I know I got it in my butt! A year or two later the Sabin vaccine came out and Polio was practically wiped out.<br />
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Well I guess I've reminisced long enough! Now back to sewing face masks for family and friends! The governor and President Trump are recommending that everyone wear a face mask when they leave their houses, which we aren't supposed to leave unless it is for groceries or other essential things. Oh, and for walks if you can keep a 6 foot distance from others. Since Danny and Kathi are keeping the Bowling Alley open for take out, they and their employees need face masks. I made six yesterday and then a friend wants 2 and I'm sending a couple to my grandson, Paul, in LA and another one to my friend, Annie, in a group home in Phoenix.<br />
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My next post will be more about how my family and my life have changed in the last month!<br />
(Hint: as I am a retired teacher in a very small isolated community, with no confirmed cases of covid-19, you might be able to guess that it hasn't changed that much. HA! But that is not true of the rest of my family)<br />
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<br />Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-169567508811951332020-04-03T11:35:00.003-07:002020-04-03T11:35:22.322-07:00Putting Down Some Thoughts and Images of a New Normal<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Well, it is now 2 years and 3 months since my last post! I can't believe how long I have put this off but times have changed suddenly and radically in one short (well, it feels like a very loooong ) month. I keep thinking I need to put down some of my thoughts, impressions, images, and stories for posterity. This came about, of course, due to the advent of covid-19 into our lives. Several of my relatives and I have been reminiscing on Facebook about the stories my mother told about the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, and I think I will put down some of my impressions of this new pandemic for future relatives to refer to.<br />
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At the beginning of this pandemic in December 2019, which began in Wuhan, China, we were warned that what was happening there would spread all over the world. I just didn't believe it because I thought with modern medicine and so much lead time the scientists would get a handle on it and we would have cures and vaccinations long before I would be affected. Well, that didn't happen! Here we are at the beginning of April 2020 and the world has practically shut down! They are predicting that over 1 million people in the US will die from this virus! Whoa! And I am one of the at risk people since I am 80 years old and people over 60 are considered more at risk than younger healthy people.<br />
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So here is the deal (I am writing this for future generations since we, who are living this now, all know the drill): Wash your hands, don't touch your face, practice social distancing (no public gatherings, stay 6 feet apart, stay at home unless for essentials). Most states have stay at home restrictions in place. This means only people in essential jobs should be out and about. Most other people are working from home. These include teachers and students, as all schools have been closed. Most TV programs are being sent from the news anchors', actors', and hosts' homes. Teachers have had to adapt to online classrooms and teaching packets they made up and handout at the curb as parents drive by to pick them up. Online Zoom meetings and gatherings are very popular nowadays. In fact I have been Carla's guinea pig for her preschool classroom. Unfortunately my computer is so old it didn't work very well, but I think most Wyoming schools have some type of fairly new computer for each of their students.<br />
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Sit down restaurants and bars are closed unless the restaurant does take out. Danny and Kathi had to close down the bowling alley and lay off their employees. Kathi is doing the take out for lunch and dinner. They are making about 35% or less than when they were open. The grocery stores, gas stations and liquor stores are still open. Grocery stores completely ran out of many items the first week of the shut down in Colorado due to people hoarding cleaning supplies and paper goods, especially toilet paper. This is happening all over the country. Lots of jokes have been made about the toilet paper but it really is serious. I was in the Dollar store at this time and there were people from neighboring towns 60+ miles away in our stores cleaning them out of essential items! In our small town, we get a grocery truck in 1 or maybe 2 times a week. This did give us a big shortage for the locals.<br />
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Staying at home right now does not mean you cannot go outside. We can still go for walks around the neighborhood and the park, but must maintain the 6 foot distance. I have walked around town on nice days and have seen very few others out and about. One really cool thing that many neighborhoods all over have been doing is putting teddy bears in their windows and on porches so that kids (and adults like me) can see how many they can find on their walks. In Walden it is bunny rabbits in the windows, porches and yards. I have been taking pictures of them on my i-phone. I even put my Marde Gras bunny in my window (in case any Waldenites want to count it). The local library has cards the kids can get and check off bunnies as they find them. They get a little prize from the prize box at the library for every 15 bunnies they find.<br />
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I started my stay "home" rule about 3 weeks ago before it was mandated by the state of Colorado. Before that I really didn't do much different except I did water aerobics at the county swimming pool every weekday morning and went to bible study at church and "ladies lunch" at the bowling alley every Wednesday. Once a month I went to book club and I usually went to dinner and a movie at Danny and Kathi's once a week. I'd go get groceries, the mail, and gasoline when I needed them and that was about it. This was my schedule when I lived in town all winter. In May I would move back to the cabin (when snow was gone and mud dried up) and didn't go to town much. The last few years I worked at the Pioneer Museum 3 hours a day 3-4 days a week during the summer. I'm guessing that might not happen until later this summer! Anyway, I'm pretty used to finding things to do around the house and we have always bought groceries in bulk for the ranch so we wouldn't have to go to town that much. I have always made most of my bread from scratch at home and love cooking new things so I can get along on what is in the freezer and in the pantry. I have gotten used to ordering things to be delivered at home when I'm in town but contrary to their advertising, UPS won't deliver to our cabin and Amazon contracts with them here so it is a pain in the neck to do that in summer.<br />
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I guess this is it for today. Tomorrow I will get to what I have been doing to keep myself busy and hopefully healthy, physically and mentally. Now, the sun is out, the wind is down and I must go for my walk in search of new bunnies in windows and maybe some new chalk art up near the post office.<br />
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It's January and time to address some topics specific to the new year. But, what to choose! I have been putting off this blog because I am overwhelmed with ideas! HA! Here are a few:<br />
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1. Revisit my Bucket List from one of the first blogs I wrote after I retired. This is kind of a catch 22--Energizing to start working towards checking off some but depressing because too many cost too much for my meager pocketbook!<br />
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2. Talk about weight loss (a huge topic and advertising gimmick for the new year). This is also kind of depressing. I went in to get some stitches removed and had to weigh in. I discovered I'd gained back about 15 lbs since my big loss after my revision surgery 2 years ago! I better put my money where my mouth is and try to deal with my vertical sleeve properly!<br />
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3. Reminisce about many of our snowmobiling adventures! I think that has possibilities. Still not enough snow around here to actually snowmobile!<br />
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4. Because I am a Foodie I can always write about food and recipes! I actually am intending to add a recipe to this blog!<br />
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5. Plans for exercising. Yes, I do have some but I can't even motivate my self to write about them, let alone implement them!<br />
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6. Write about my sewing adventures. Now that I am living in town and have set up my sewing room this has a lot of possibilities. I actually do have a plan for a couple blogs but I know some of my readers are not sewists (sewers has several meanings). I would like to motivate them to take up this hobby but know it is futile to try with some of you! HA!<br />
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7. Write about my Backwoods memories, also known as childhood memories. I love doing this and as we grow older, I notice that my memories of certain incidents don't seem to match the memories of the other participants. It's kind of interesting to hear their take on what happened as opposed to mine. There are a wealth of stories from those days!<br />
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8. "Fun family trip" memories! The Manville family trips and Christmas debacles are legendary in our family. I'm sure all my readers can come up with some fun thoughts about their own "fun family adventures" as well!<br />
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Well, that just scratches the surface. There are all those blogs I wrote and said I would continue in a later blog that I never did contine! I also had some pretty cool blogs on the Blakeman Sewing and Vacuum sight that got lost when the sight was upgraded. Now that I have rambled on I need some feedback from readers, friends and family as to what I should start with! Today I think I will just post a recipe and a couple pictures and call it good. Then I think I will go back and look at my bucket list just to see if I need to check some off and add some new ones!<br />
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As I recall I said something about adding a new blog every day! I now know that is unrealistic for me. I am too perfectionist about my writing and it takes me way too long to post a blog each day. I have too many other things I like to do so I think it is more realistic to post every week or two.<br />
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Anyway, here is my recipe for my Yogurt Sundae Breakfast. It has developed over the last two years. Here is the backstory. Two years ago this month I had to have revision surgery from my lapband of 10 years to a vertical sleeve (a definite blog subject for later). During the 10 years I had the lapband I never was able to eat breakfast. Shortly after the surgery I spent several months with my college roommate, Annie, in Phoenix. She is wheelchair bound and I helped her fix some of her meals although she could do her own breakfast. I observed what she made every day except Sundays, but it didn't appeal to me. I thought with a few changes I might try it to see how my sleeve would react. I tinkered with it and now I have my version of breakfast every morning and I do love it!<br />
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It’s the end of the year 2017!
It has left me with a lot of memories both good and bad. I’m sorry I
haven’t blogged more often to document some of them. I’m getting old and the
short-term memories slip away more quickly!
I do love to go back and read the “so many years ago” memories on
Facebook. This past week Kathi posted a blog from many years ago about one of
our very memorable family Christmases on her Country Chicken Girl blog.</div>
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( <a href="https://countrychickengirl.blogspot.com/2010/12/manville-family-christmas-part-one.html?m=1">https://countrychickengirl.blogspot.com/2010/12/manville-family-christmas-part-one.html?m=1</a> )</div>
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We were
laughing about it and remembering some more recent Christmas adventures that
should be documented! So I have decided to take a stab at it. Kathi wrote her
story about her first Christmas with the Manvilles--kind of from a newcomers
point of view. My story is about a more recent Christmas adventure. I believe
it took place 2 years ago. We (at least me, Bob when he was alive, and whoever
of our family that was coming for Christmas that year) always planned to spend
it at “the cabin”. It was not a simple “over the river and through the woods”
type of trip to get there. It is at least a 2.5 mile ride in on snowmobiles or
other tracked vehicles through snow covered meadows, draws, several kinda steep
hills, up in the trees, and across a creek that is usually frozen and covered
with snow. We have to haul all our presents, food, clothing and sometimes
gasoline in on sleds pulled by the snowmobiles. Oh, and don’t forget computers,
and other electronic devices.</div>
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On this particular year, only 2 of Danny’s boys, Danny, Kathi and
I were in Walden for Christmas. Danny insisted we spend it at their house since
he had to plow snow at the bowling alley and do some other chores before he
could get away. He figured he could only leave no earlier than 4:00 and it
would be getting dark by 4:30. He did not want to try going in that late in big
snow! The rest of us insisted we could
go up earlier with Chris’s new snowmobile and get everything in to the cabin
before then and Danny could get whatever we couldn’t fit when he got there. He
still insisted it was not a good plan but was out voted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chris, Colton and I headed out from Walden to the end of the
plowed road about 2:30. We had 1 snow machine, some of the food and our
belongings plus Chris’s Labrador puppy. It was cold with blowing snow but the
sun was out when we got there. We unloaded Chris’s machine and he headed out to
get the sled we needed to haul in our supplies. He took the puppy with
him. We kept a sled at the neighbor’s
ranch which was probably 1/2 mile away. Meanwhile Colton and I organized all
the things to get loaded. Oh, and of course there is very poor to no cell
service up there. We could not see where Chris was and could not call town to
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So after about an hour and no Chris we
were pretty worried but had no way of looking for him. Finally Danny and Kathi showed up
with 2 more snowmobiles and all the rest of the stuff. We got them unloaded and
Danny went off to look for Chris. He had been stuck with the sled. Anyway they
came back with 1 sled and the dog and as predicted by Danny it was getting
dark. We loaded the sled with the necessities for the night and sent Danny,
Kathi, Chris and the dog into the cabin. Kathi had the sled and dog, I think
there was another sled involved that they had to abandon so that Danny and
Chris could break trail as nobody had been that way yet and the snow was deep
and powder. They also left Kathi and the puppy stuck in the middle of a meadow about
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Colton and I had no idea what was going on. At least we had a
heated pickup to wait in. Meanwhile Kathi was out in the cold blowing snow in the dark wrestling a puppy that wanted to run in the snow but it was too deep! None of us knew what was happening with each
other! There was nothing Colton and I
could do as time marched on. Should we go back to town and get help from my
nephews? Should we stay put? We couldn’t call anyone so we gave them until
8:00 PM and then we would go back to
town! Yes, it was several hours ticking
by! Colton took a nap, I was reading my
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Finally about
7:30pm Colton got a message from Chris
that they had just made it to the cabin!
They had to go back to get Kathi, the sled and the puppy. Then they
unloaded the 1 sled and came back for us and the rest of the stuff. As I recall
they had to leave the other sled where it was until the next day but had to go
out and get everything off it. It was close to midnight by the time we got
everything there and got some dinner!
Needless to say, we will probably listen to Danny before we ever attempt
a late afternoon expedition to the cabin again. Bob also always tried to get us
to be smarter but some of us never learn, I guess. I say this because there are
several more Cabin Christmas adventures that need documenting but they will
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*Note: This year Skyler and his wife, Kara, Danny, Kathi and I were the only ones here in Walden for Christmas. Skyler and I talked about going up to the cabin but decided not to even mention it to Danny! We had a nice quiet fun time at Danny and Kathi's house. <o:p></o:p></div>
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for the winter anyway. As many of you know by now, I moved into the mobile home
park about 2 months ago. I am living in this cute little single wide across
from the park, behind the swimming pool and kitty corner from the school. It’s
a great location and it is just right for a little old lady who loves to cook
and sew! Oh and I also love to socialize
so please stop in for a visit when you are at the pool, school or just in town
for groceries. My coffee pot is ready and I do have tea as well!</span></td></tr>
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I’m really not used to sitting at home not doing much, although I
have done that for a couple days at a time but it just isn’t me! Here is what I think is a fun thing to try. I
know several ladies who are really into quilting and we have decided we need to
get together to share what we are doing and to maybe learn some new things from
each other. Our plan is to meet in the basement of the Community Church to do
this. So far we haven’t picked a day or time but I will keep you posted. Now,
here is the snapper! As many of my
Casper friends know, I am not a true quilter!
Yes I have made some quilt tops in classes and even taught a couple
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friends know I am a machine embroidery enthusiast and most all of you know I
love to teach and share all my sewing knowledge with others. So, if you have a
sewing machine (or not) and want to join us to learn new ways to use your
machines or just to have a great visit, let one of us know and we’ll keep you
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: small;">This is an Advent Calendar I made.<br />The red and white pockets hold the<br />25 ornaments I embroidered to hang<br />on the tree during advent!<br /></span></b></td></tr>
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I have to tell you about a time when I was teaching on the
reservation in Nevada. There was a lady living near there that was a dedicated
quilter. She taught a quilting class every quarter through the Community
College in Elko. They used my room at the school so I felt obliged to join
them. I had never made a quilt before then. There were some ladies from the
tribe and some from the nearby town of Mountain City and some ranch ladies living
in the area who attended these classes. Our teacher was great and we had a lot of fun!</div>
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is how the older ladies from the tribe used their time at our meetings. They
made beautiful quilts at home and brought them to class to show us. Then they
got together in a corner and visited with each other in Paiute or
Shoshone. I never knew which it was but
they joked and laughed and had a great time while the rest of us worked on our
quilts. I really got a kick out of them!
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Another lip sync we did was not the teachers but the first public speaking class I ever taught. I was “flying by the seat of my pants” teaching speech. I had taken Speech as a very shy sophomore in high school. Our teacher was a highly recognized teacher in Wisconsin and probably nationwide! We all loved her. I tried to pattern my class after hers and I must say it was my favorite class to teach because it was so much fun and I could see my students grow and improve so much in one semester! Early in the class I tried to do some “bonding” exercises to loosen everybody up. It was getting close to Halloween and I decided we needed to do a lip sync just for fun in class. We picked Monster Mash and it turned out to be so much fun and really showcased another side to many of the students that we signed up for the lip sync at the next pep rally! That was fun! </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Many of you know that Wendover is in 2 states. Utah and Nevada. The Nevada side is called West Wendover. For years there was one high school on the Utah side and one Grade School on the Nevada side. Both school districts (and states) cooperated on the students’ education. About 3 years after I started teaching in Elko County School District, due to financial and political issues, each state decided to build their own schools. Nevada built a new high school and Utah built a grade school. I was transferred to West Wendover to teach in the new high school! It was a great opportunity and I was excited to outfit a brand new home economics room. There were some drawbacks! The students were NOT excited to be ripped out of their Utah high school and all their friends! Especially the seniors as you can probably agree. We had a lot of tears and hostility the first two years but the students did all big events like prom and homecoming at both schools.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> So, getting back to the lip syncing. At the Utah school it turns out that was a huge event. Each class developed costumes, dance routines, a medley of songs and a big cast for the competition! As you would expect, we teachers (who had only met each other a few weeks before) could not be outdone! Everyone was expected to participate and we had a great young bunch of teachers who chose songs, wrote the script and organized our practices. The plan was to have one of our teachers, Jim Wintermote, relaxing and listening to tunes on the radio. He would keep changing stations after listening a bit to each song we were lip syncing to. We must have had about 5 song clips including a head banger solo by our young female business teacher, Amber Watkins, who also had been an announcer at NASCAR races, a group dance and lip sync to Lean on Me ( I was in it), Some of the men teachers did a gangsta rap, and there were a couple others that were popular at the time but I don’t remember them and then, our grand finale which brought down the house was done by our female PE teacher, Karen Holmes, and our principal, Fred Gorton. It was “I Just Want To Be King” from Lion King complete with lion ears on head bands like Mickey Mouse ears! The kids knew our principal well as he had been their principal and a teacher in grade school. They loved it! It really got us off to a great start with the students who were pretty hostile for quite awhile but they saw us in a new light and maybe made school a little easier for all of us! By the way, I believe we did not win the competition. I think the Junior class did that year. The lip syncs became a tradition after that for all the years I was there but they never were as good as that first one!</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">My thoughts always go back to my dance partner from that first lip sync in West Wendover. Her name was Julia and she taught social studies. Her room was right next to mine and we had many good times after that. A few years later she got married and retired from teaching at our school. Several years later she developed a brain tumor that was malignant and passed away. I still miss her! Rest peacefully my friend and colleague! My other thoughts go out to the "head banger", Amber. She got married, moved away and has two darling children. Several years ago she developed breast cancer and so far is successfully battling it. My prayers are with her and her family as well. </span><br />
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-68889789479717478332017-10-05T11:14:00.001-07:002017-10-05T11:14:36.109-07:00Fried Mush<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’ve been missing my dad lately. He’s been gone for over 10 years
but is still in many of our memories. He was a huge family man and I didn’t
realize that all the “little” things he did for all of us were not the norm in
most families. Mom was the main cook of the family and a dedicated “foodie”
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Dad was always finding different breakfast recipes to serve us. He had his grandmother’s 100 year old cookbook and would browse through it to get his ideas. He wasn’t into the modern breakfast casserole types of recipes. He would try out these recipes or use our favorites on the weekends. During the week when we all got up early to go to work or school, he made the same thing every morning but that is a whole story for another blog! My siblings and cousins who lived with my parents for awhile are probably smiling right now! </div>
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Even when my dad was in his nineties and living in Florida he would get up and pick fresh grapefruits from his trees ( he was a Master Gardener) and halve them, cut around each section and serve them in china saucers with special spoons for all of us who were visiting him! By then he was getting pretty slow but we stayed out of the kitchen until he called us to breakfast. He would go out and pick fresh flowers for the table and have it set properly. Mom taught him well!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some of my dad’s favorite breakfasts were different egg dishes and pancakes, but the ones that stick in my mind were hoe cakes, which I cannot make like his and fried mush which I had a craving for this week. It is easy to make but you do have to plan ahead now days. Back in the “olden days” I think fried mush was a way to use up leftovers. I’m thinking we had hot cornmeal mush for breakfast and there was a lot leftover, ha! Not really a favorite in the family I guess! Anyway, the next day we would have fried mush with maple syrup that we tapped from our </span>maple trees (which was another one of Dad’s projects). Yummmm! Today, as I was making my fried mush, I realized that the molded (not moldy!) block of mush looked and tasted like Polenta! Hmmmm! I never thought about that before—I guess I could go to the store and buy a block of it from the refrigerated section....</div>
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Here is the way Dad made it and how I do it—pretty simple.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">When the mush is cooked butter a large loaf pan and pack the mush in it. Refrigerate it overnight or until it is chilled and set up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"> Unmold the block of cornmeal and slice into about 1/4 inch slices. Fry in butter or bacon grease until golden brown and crispy on the edges.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Serve with butter and syrup or jam and jelly. You know I love it with maple syrup! Wrap the rest of the block in plastic wrap and keep in the refrigerator for later! I haven’t tried freezing it but I think that might work too. </span></div>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-73740030179543300742017-09-23T16:19:00.000-07:002017-09-25T08:50:43.681-07:00Our Big Fitbit Competition!<br />
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I’m sitting in my hot tub at 5 PM on the first day of fall
feeling guilty because I'm indulging myself rather than trying to stay
fit! Now, you KNOW there has to be a
story behind this remark!<br />
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It all began when Carla gave me a new Fitbit last spring. I wore
it faithfully for several months and basically used it for a watch and an alarm
clock for waking up in the morning. One day early in summer I saw an invitation
to join a challenge for the work week from Marianne. I guess she got a new Fitbit
for Mother's Day and actually checked out many of the uses for it! I accepted the challenge as did some of the
family and friends. I then realized ( or remembered) how competitive many of us
are! For several weeks Kathi kicked our
butts but then Marianne crept up and was getting close. Carla couldn’t sit back
so she moved on up. I of course held down last place (except once when Carla
didn't wear her Fitbit for several days).
I used the excuses of sore knee and being too old, not to mention a fear
of meeting up with a moose or mountain lion!
Carla was complaining that Marianne would wait to see if she (Carla) was
ahead and then would go out after dark just before deadline to beat her out! Marianne insisted she and Brendin had Pokémon
Go things they had to do at the park. Anyway, suddenly there was a new person
on the list and she kept beating all of us. Apparently Kathi had accidentally
invited her and she became the person to beat! I actually had some competition
for last place with a friend of Marianne’s who had just had surgery and had to
take it easy! HA!<br />
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Then I went up to Burlington WA for a few weeks. Marianne’s stomping grounds! Nothing would do but I had to walk with her.
This included four miles on the levee plus a walk with the dog who has knee
issues too so can only go to a nearby park (about1/2 mile) and do the Pokémon
thing! Marianne made sure she did a lot
of walking at work so I couldn’t keep even! We did some great walks up in
Bellingham WA along the bay.<br />
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I took lots
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or her friend! One of the events we did
while I was there was to attend the Mount Baker Blues Festival! I danced at the
concerts and at the after hours jam sessions and got in way over my 10,000
steps goal each<br />
day but still never made it to first place!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A few weeks after I returned home I went up to Carla’s home in
Casper for the Eclipse. Carla had been doing 6 mile walks through the parks. We
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Carla, Jim, Paul and Caroline viewing the eclipse in Casper</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> I did the
parks walk and then danced until 1 AM one night at the eclipse festival and
then one afternoon at the river festival!
It was dang hot and lots of fun. I got in lots of steps but was never a
winner! I even walked and danced 20,000
steps one day and was still behind!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b>This was my biggest day when we<br /> were dancing on Eclipse weekend</b></span><span style="color: blue;">!<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I still didn't win</b></span></span></td></tr>
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Now that fall is here and things have settled down I think I have
found a secret weapon!HEHEHE!!! Nobody
is going to want to go out in the rain and snow for their walks least of all
me! Besides, after my bear scare I am
not wandering too far from the house!
The first two years after I retired, Bob and I stayed up at the cabin
most of the winter. I did some snowshoeing but the mountain lions were out and
about as well as moose and hungry coyotes.
I envisioned myself trying to run in my snowshoes away from them and
decided I needed to exercise in the house! So I got a CD called something like
walk away the pounds. I faithfully did it through blizzards and blowing snow
right in the comfort of my home! I
really felt in good shape! So I have now
dug out that CD and will see how many steps it has! Look out everyone! I might even have to break out my old Richard
Simmons Sweatin’ with the Oldies! I actually
loved doing those exercises. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">They are really old school but still get the job done! <br /> I don't need a Gold's Gym to stay in shape<br />when I'm off the grid!</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b>This was a few years ago in winter. The ambiance looks better!</b></span></td></tr>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-33128415075023203862017-09-19T10:48:00.001-07:002017-09-19T10:48:54.040-07:00My Bear<div class="Body">
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Last weekend I heard a story about a bear wandering around in a
suburb of Denver. This time of year we hear a lot of these kind of stories
because it is fall and bears are hunting for food to keep them going during
hibernation. It seems like most of these stories end with the “authorities”
loading them up and “relocating” them. I'm not positive but I think North Park
might be one of the relocation destinations!
There have been lots of stories about bears getting into my neighbors' dumpsters and hanging around people’s ranch buildings and cabins even when
there is a lot of activity going on. I have been living ( or spending summers)
up here for over 40 years and had never actually seen a bear around here
although I have seen lots of signs of bears on my daily walks. Our neighbors
have had plenty of incidents and sightings even on our land but I must not be
very observant. This brings me to the story of “My Bear”.</div>
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One evening about 9PM I was minding my business and reading my
book when I heard a light scratching on the screen of the west window. I looked
up thinking it was a chipmunk or bird even though it seemed too dark for them
to be out. I thought I saw a big paw but just then the phone rang. It is a
landline so I had to go across the room to answer. It was my brother and we had
some business to discuss. The phone is located next to a big picture window
with a smaller window on each side. The windows look out on our porch and then
down to the creek. One of those was open
maybe about 6 inches. As we were speaking I looked out on the porch and right
below the big window I saw a brown furry back of an animal. I thought it might
be a coyote, so I yelled out the open window “Shoooo! Get off the porch!” </div>
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To my horror a bear stood up, put his front
paws up on the big window and stared at me not 2 feet from my face with only a
pane of glass between us!!! The phone
was still in my hand up to my ear and I screamed and screamed as loud as I
could! Poor Tip’s ears must still be
ringing! (I had heard somewhere to make a lot of loud noise to scare bears
away). The bear quickly ran away and I “calmly” said to Tip, “Well, that scared
him away.” My heart was beating fast and
Tip had no idea what was going on! I
explained and he was laughing with me by the time we hung up. In my mind I was
thinking, “His face sure did look like a cute Teddy Bear!” That night I locked the doors and grabbed my
air horn that my son-in-law insisted I take with me on my hikes, and took it to
bed with me. HA!</div>
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The next night I was in town until after dark and decided to stay
with Danny and Kathi overnight. We were
visualizing me having to make a mad dash in the dark from the car to the door
with “my bear” chasing after me! </div>
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When I
told my neighbor about the incident she asked me if the bear had cattle sized ear tags, one in each ear. There were no tags. She had an
incident a few years before and the Fish and Game fellows told her if they were
tagged they were relocated bears. Mine had no tags so I guess he was wild. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, that’s my bear story!
I have some other wildlife stories to tell but none that exciting! Oh, and my grandsons wanted to know why I
didn’t take pictures! I told them I was
too busy screaming! Hehehe!<o:p></o:p></div>
Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-43382827314830261042017-09-15T18:11:00.000-07:002017-09-15T18:11:18.014-07:00Two Great Fall Recipes<div align="center" class="Body" style="text-align: center;">
<b>2 Great Fall Recipes<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The leaves are changing and there is a snap in the air.
Surprisingly we have not had our first frost yet! Usually it comes before fair but it didn't
this year! I think they are calling for
frost tonight. With that in mind I want to share 2 recipes I love that
really are old standbys in their generic form but I have tweaked them and they
are now extra special! Here they are:</div>
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<b>My Creamy Tomato Basil Soup<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I guess I don't know how to make the fancy design with the cream but here is the soup!</span></h3>
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2 Tbsp. Butter</div>
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2 Tbsp. Flour<o:p></o:p></div>
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1/2 medium onion, chopped<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 large clove garlic, minced<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 – 1 ½ Cup milk<o:p></o:p></div>
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8-10 large fresh basil leaves (I just pick a handful), chopped.
You can use dried basil, about 1-2 Tbsp.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 28 oz. can San Marzano tomatoes<o:p></o:p></div>
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1C. Chicken Broth<o:p></o:p></div>
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Salt and pepper to taste. I use Trader Joe's Everyday seasoning
if I have it. (I use it for everything--I buy several bottles every time I am
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1/4 C. Parmesan Cheese (in the can or shredded--your choice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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*optional: 1-2 Tbsp. heavy
cream. This really makes it exceptional but adds calories!<o:p></o:p><br />
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</span><!--[endif]--> Make the <b>white sauce</b> by melting butter in a
sauce pan. Add chopped onions and sauté until transparent. Add minced garlic
and sauté a minute or two. Stir in flour and stir to absorb butter. Add 1 C
milk and stir constantly until your white sauce thickens. You can add some seasoning
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</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Set sauce aside in the pan while you purée the
can of tomatoes with juice in a blender or Magic Bullet (I use mine almost
daily for everything!). You can put your basil in with the tomatoes to chop
them up a little more if you want. Place puréed tomatoes in another pan and
heat to boiling. Add the chicken broth and bring to simmer. Add the basil if you haven't already. </span></div>
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</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Dip out about 1 Cup of the tomato mixture and
stir into the white sauce/onion mixture and then pour this mixture back into
the tomato purée. This keeps the soup from looking curdled. (Even if it does
happen to do this, it still tastes the same).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">I like to add a little cream to my soup at the end. It makes it smooth and rich!</span></b><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stir in the Parmesan just before serving. You
can garnish each bowl with a sprinkle of it on top too. As for the whipping
cream, you can also stir it in at the end or add a Tablespoonful to each bowl
and make a design like they do in lobster bisque in the hoity toity restaurants! I just stir it into my soup bowl when I'm
having it for lunch by myself</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This </span>brings tomato soup to a whole new
level from Campbell tomato soup! Now
next is a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich that goes with our soup! I had this at a new restaurant in Casper
Wyoming last weekend and it was delicious!
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I am playing with this sandwich and I think anyone can, after
they try my original version. I actually
can’t get the Asian Pears here in tiny Walden, Colorado, so I am using the only
pears I could find which I think are Bartlett.
They still give that nice pear flavor to pair with the creamy Swiss
cheese flavor. I also think the restaurant
used some kind of fancy Swiss cheese like Gruyere that didn’t have holes. This, of course, was not an option for
me! Any way I made it and it still
tasted delicious. One other thing, I
think it mentioned in the blurb on the menu that it had some kind of jam—maybe like
fig jam in it. While I was eating the
sandwich I couldn’t taste it or see it so I think the sandwich is good to go
without that addition (which, of course, I couldn’t find at our grocery store
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3-4 thick slices of onion—about ¼ inch thick. They cook down a lot so use lots!<o:p></o:p></div>
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3-5 slices of Asian pear – thinly sliced—less than ¼ inch at
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*Possibly some kind of fancy jam if you are adventurous or have
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1 Tbsp. butter in a small frying pan. Place
onion slices (you can separate them into rings) and caramelize them. Toward the end add the pear slices and saute
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*Please note that I learned a lot more about caramelizing onions than I ever thought I would use! I googled it and found that it takes a long time to do it if you do what they say! I set my burner on medium and it did not take the 45 minutes the first lady said! Anyway I will give you a link if you want it and I also did add just a touch of balsamic vinegar to the onions and the pear slices. The pear slices only took a couple minutes to cook in the same pan with the onions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here is the link:<a href="http://dish.allrecipes.com/how-to-caramelize-onions-step-by-step/?internalSource=articlecard&referringContentType=search%20results&clickId=cardslot%206">http://dish.allrecipes.com/how-to-caramelize-onions-step-by-step/?internalSource=articlecard&referringContentType=search%20results&clickId=cardslot%206</a></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #4c1130;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Caramelizing the onions and the pears</span></span></b><br />
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take one slice of bread and arrange the Swiss cheese slices on it (if trying
the jam you will need to spread it on the slice of bread first).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"><b>Cover your choice of bread with the sliced cheese. Use lots so it is real cheesy. I used Whole Wheat</b></span></td></tr>
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<b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">When
the pear/onion mixture is done arrange onions and then pear slices over the
cheese in layers. Add the top slice of
bread to make a sandwich.</span></div>
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the butter on top of the top slice. Flip
the buttered side down onto a griddle or frying pan and grill until lightly
browned and cheese is starting to melt.
While this is cooking, spread some butter on the top of the cooking
sandwich. When ready flip it over and
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in halves or quarters and serve with your soup!
Yummmm!</span></div>
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I’m thinking of other combinations that sound pretty good to
me. One is the onions (which really make
the sandwich), cheddar cheese (coming from Wisconsin, I love the extra sharp
but use what you like best) and apple slices, I’m thinking Honey Crisp or
Granny Smith possibly on rye bread or whole wheat or sour dough. I bet there
are some other Adult type combos you can come up with too!<br />
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-36790136474251310462017-09-07T14:20:00.000-07:002017-09-07T14:20:40.499-07:00My Thoughts on Mother Nature<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Lately I have missed writing in my blog. My reasons may sound crazy--or maybe lazy is a better word but here goes my explanation: I have written dozens of blogs in my head but when it comes time to put them up on my blog site, I keep thinking about how long and how many problems I have to solve to get where I want to go! Do any of you get what I am saying? It takes almost a whole day to get it the way I want it and then 9 out of 10 times it still gets messed up and I have to figure out another way to do it! Well I just have to bite the bullet and get this show on the road again!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmK4oJjBKuv_uENOSddVYw7f-PW6MWiPW8fvub4g31VopHbMYCVTfPnlO8QuPkkeG04UdlV5FCe11Dm5rODQs5Y-_sYUGNrAO5xr5whwcffY02sc5Hly7oOU9xFSAXxNn86iAgPq3adaM/s1600/IMG_0497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmK4oJjBKuv_uENOSddVYw7f-PW6MWiPW8fvub4g31VopHbMYCVTfPnlO8QuPkkeG04UdlV5FCe11Dm5rODQs5Y-_sYUGNrAO5xr5whwcffY02sc5Hly7oOU9xFSAXxNn86iAgPq3adaM/s320/IMG_0497.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;">The smoke around our house was thick on Sept. 5, 2017!</span></h3>
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<tr><td>I keep thinking about subjects for my blogs but I never follow through! Here are some thoughts for today. The smoke
has been terrible up here in our high mountain desert. My eyes are scratchy and
the sun doesn't feel as warm as it should. I can't see the mountains or
favorite landmarks from my usual breakfast spot where I drink my morning
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<span style="color: blue;">Smoke makes for very pretty sunsets</span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;">A beautiful day for fishing. The fish don't mind the smoke, I guess.</span></h3>
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I do have to admit that the sunrise and sunset is quite beautiful seen
through a thick haze of smoke but I could forgo that when I think of all the
damages that happen from these persistent wildfires! We have had what I would call light smoke
almost all summer. This has come from fires in Montana and Canada, but this
past week there have been several wildfires burning just to the west of us on the other side of the
mountain. We even saw a helicopter with a bucket hovering over some nearby mountain lakes.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The old Haskins cabin. Also known as the "bat</span></h3>
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I know I am whining about my minor discomforts when I should be
grateful I do not live in Houston or Rockport (where we spent one winter and I
loved it and many people I met down there).
Or around the Gorge in Oregon, or just about anywhere in Montana where
they have over 40 wildfires burning or in Southern Florida where they are bracing
for one of the strongest hurricanes the Atlantic has had in many years! My heart goes out to all the people
struggling to survive these disasters. I
have visited many of these places and dread to see what people will have to
contend with in the aftermath. I guess I
just feel like I have to document my little slice of life, pray for all those
who are dealing with the abundance of natural disasters we seem to be having
and try to help however I can.</div>
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On that note I think I will share a few pictures just in case we have a lightning strike up in the</div>
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National Forest we border on and which is littered with miles of beetle killed trees. Yes, it is only a matter of time and we all know the thinking is to "let it burn" to get rid of all the downed timber.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Our winding driveway into our house</span></h3>
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Even the beetle kill has changed the beauty of our mountains and our privately-owned lands as well. Mother Nature will have her way! I still feel blessed to live in "God's Country". Please remind me of this about February of next year when we are snowed in and the wind is howling!</h3>
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<span style="color: blue;">As a matter of fact that might be way sooner than February!</span></h3>
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<br />My favorite time of year in North Park is just around the corner.
Every year I take pictures. It seems like the same trees are more beautiful
each year. I have included some from years past. They are from 2007 before we could see what the beetles had done to the pines!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">This photo was taken in 2007 before the beetle kill became apparent!</span></h3>
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*Note: I just got
information that the reason it was so smoky that day we saw the helicopter was
because there was a fire in the Forest about 1 ½ miles from us that had been
started by a campfire! This, when there
was a ban on all fires in the National Forest!
They did get it put out with the help of the helicopter!</h3>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;">Happy Valentines Day!</span> </strong> Yes, another Valentines Day is here and I am wondering how it is going to turn out for me. Is it a very big day for you? It never seemed very big to me, but then I start remembering some of those days and they make me laugh, feel very nostalgic, or bring back some very fond memories. So far today I planned a nice kind of fancy meal for Carla, Jim and I and even bought a "dozen" roses that I have chosen to believe Melvin Muffknuckles sent to me. Now you KNOW a story has to be coming next, right? First of all I had to put dozen in quotes because there were only 9 long stemmed roses, 2 stems and one blossom that had fallen off a stem. I got them from a bin in Walmart marked $4.67, a real bargain! When I checked out at a self check out station they rang up at over $15.00! Being self check out I messed around a bit and finally decided Melvin still would have bought them for me, so I got them anyway.</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff0000;" style="color: red;">The rest of this story has to have a spoiler warning for some of my own children--it will probably be a tear-jerker......</span></div>
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So who is Melvin Muffknuckles? That has been a question never exactly answered. Here is how it goes. Back in the day when I was teaching Home Economics at North Park High School in Walden, Colorado, my students had to raise money to travel to FCCLA conferences and competitions. At this school we did it on Valentines Day by selling roses. The first year we sold fresh ones that someone had to go pick up in Laramie (60 miles away over a snow covered pass). We took orders for about a week and then ordered them from a florist in Laramie and of course once we started delivering them more people wanted to order some so a parent had to make a quick trip back down there to get some more. It was very successful but stressful as well. Anyway, 3 of my 4 children were still in Jr. or Sr. High School at the time and some were involved in the fund raiser. Toward the end of the day a delivery was made to me of some roses from Melvin Muffknuckles. My students and my own kids all claimed they didn't know who it was.</div>
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The next year we all learned how to make silk roses and I got supplies from a warehouse in Denver and they turned out just beautiful! It was very successful and way less stressful although we all had to work hard to get so many made. I again received roses from Melvin Muffknuckles! Still no one fessed up to knowing anything about it. We continued making silk roses for Valentines Day for many years and I kept receiving them and no one ever did confess. Over the years I received other gifts from Melvin and I always suspected it was my husband, Bob Manville, who sent them. Today I decided these roses should be from him too. They are beautiful!</div>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-25451362306171849512017-01-10T11:59:00.000-08:002017-01-10T13:27:40.661-08:00Back With Online Sewing Resources for my Friends!!<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">It has been a long time since I was here but some friends requested these lists of good online resources for patterns and fabric so here they are and I think I'll just add the post I mentioned at the end of the lists! I needed to jazz up the blog so here are a few pictures from our Christmas at Palm Desert, California.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Christmas in California with some of my family! In front:</span></b></h3>
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online fabric sights that I or someone in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> my family</span><br />
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Since we have limited sources for fabrics, especially knits I </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">love these </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">knit fabrics! They have prints, Active wear fabric, some
stretch velvet, </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">. They do not
have a lot but what they do have is really great fabric! They</span><br />
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Charlee Fabrics is your online retail and wholesale source for top</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;"> quality
unique knit fabrics. We offer exclusive knit fabrics by the yard</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;"> at the
lowest price. You may find it somewhere else, but it will not be </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">cheaper! Girl Charlee Fabrics offers hundreds of
different prints and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;"> solid </span><a href="http://www.girlcharlee.com/cotton-jersey-knit-fabric-c-90_103.html"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">cotton jersey knit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="http://www.girlcharlee.com/cotton-lycra-knit-fabric-c-90_116.html"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">cotton lycra knit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="http://www.girlcharlee.com/cotton-ribbed-knit-fabric-c-90_102.html"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">cotton ribbed knit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">
fabrics, and</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;"> much more. We offer fabrics by the yard, in </span><a href="http://www.girlcharlee.com/half-yard-cuts-c-124.html"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">half yard cuts</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">, and
our</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;"> famous multiple yard </span><a href="http://www.girlcharlee.com/bargain-lots-38-fabrics-c-121.html"><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">bargain lots</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #663300; line-height: 115%;">!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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source for</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"> unique, fun,</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> quality fabrics. Lots to look at here!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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http://sosewenglishfabrics.com/ <span style="color: #585858;">Welcome to</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #585858;"> So Sew
English Fabrics! We are happy to be thriving and that you all are</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #585858;"> so excited
over our fabrics! We focus on supplying you only the best quality</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #585858;"> apparel
knits, wovens, trims and appliques. If we wouldn't bother sewing </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #585858;">with it, we
won't stock it in our store. For now that means that our order </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #585858;">processing
time is longer than we would like due to popularity. </span></span><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">The shipping</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"> time may
be longer but it is a cool sight and worth looking at. It has knits</span></span><br />
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You Made Something-- </span><a href="http://www.youmadesomething.com/"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">www.</span></a><a href="http://www.youmadesomething.com/"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">youmadesomething</span></b></a><a href="http://www.youmadesomething.com/"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">.com/</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">lots of fabric</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">from
quilting cotton, themed fabrics, knits, notions, bargains you name it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"> they
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-- </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 253 , 222); color: #111111; line-height: 115%;">Thank you</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: rgb(255 , 253 , 222); color: #111111; line-height: 115%;"> for visiting
Snowy Owl Custom Fabrics and Hawaiian Fabrics & More. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also</span></span><br />
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Knitpop</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 253 , 222); color: #111111; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b><span style="background: white; color: #006621; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">knitpop</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #006621; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">.com/</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"> Lots and lots of knits!</span><span style="background: white; color: #006621; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">French Terry, Poly blends,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"> sweater knits of all
kinds, Liverpool, you name it they probably have it! I have</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"> made lots of things from Knitpop and
have a stash for making more when </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;">summer comes!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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apparel, quilting fabrics plus notions,</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Hot tubbing on Christmas Day in the yard of </span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">our </span></b><b style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;">rented house</span></b></h3>
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Many of these sights have Facebook pages that </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;">have discounts, sales
and auctions on them if you</span><br />
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sight. I know I got a lot of </span></span><br />
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from Knitpop when they were having a</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666;"> for everyday, wearable clothes for the whole family.
From baby </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white; color: #666666;"> over and over again.</span> </span><a href="http://www.patternsforpirates.com/"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">www.</span></a><a href="http://www.patternsforpirates.com/"><b><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">patternsforpirates</span></b></a><a href="http://www.patternsforpirates.com/"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">.com/</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #006621; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">. Free pattern</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> patterns for </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #8c8c8c; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">the whole family. All patterns are instant downloadable</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: #f7f7f7; color: #474747;"> children.</span> </span><span style="background: white; color: #006621; font-family: "roboto"; line-height: 115%;">stitchuponatime.com/. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> Garments you and your children can wear everyday comfortably,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">sewing. Girls, </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Climbing rocks in Joshua National Park </b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><b>Evening as we headed back to Palm</b></span></h3>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-7414312947260273012015-01-11T11:32:00.001-08:002015-01-11T11:32:43.451-08:00Memories of Backwoods<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is one of the Backwoods Christmas parties. </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">The only</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Backwoods picture I have at this time.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="color: red;">Back row: Einar Erikson, Harold Zuehlke, Ransom Tyler (my
Dad), Ned Elton Sitting:Rick Zuehlke, Pug (my Mom), Tom Erikson, Tip (my
brother) in front, Henrietta Erikson, Janet Erikson(in front), KD Elton, Me in
the grey sweater, Lynn (my sister), Eddie Elton. Sitting in front on the
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chair.</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Now I am going way back to reminisce about the great times we had in our neighborhood which we called Backwoods. These memories were brought on because I just received word that the eldest of the Backwoods kids, Rick, has just passed away. There were 8 of us and Rick Zuehlke lived next door and was probably 5 or 6 years older than I was. The rest of the kids in backwoods were: Janet and Tom Erikson, Sue Zuehlke (my best friend and confidant of our childhood. She is a year older than I.), Lynn (my sister), Tip (my brother), and Ned Elton (Closest in age to me and my "boyfriend" through our childhood).<br />
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We were a close knit group of kids because we lived sort of "out in the country". We all went to the same elementary school (fondly called Jefferson Jailhouse) and were more like sisters and brothers than friends. All of our parents went together and bought a piece of property from a farmer and built 5 houses in the farmer's backwoods during the depression! It was so unusual that The Milwaukee Journal did a piece on the construction, complete with pictures, back when they were building the houses in the early 1930's. This was before I was born, of course. The property was located about a quarter of a mile from the Milwaukee/Waukesha county line. Jefferson School was 1.2 miles from our houses and we walked and then later rode our bikes to get there and back home. It had started out as a 2 room school (I'm pretty sure Rick and Janet were in school at that time), but each room was then divided into 2 rooms and by the time I went there, there were 2 classes in each room. There was no kindergarten so none of us except my brother (the youngest of the Backwoods kids) even went to kindergarten.<br />
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The backwoods was a pretty big piece of property of many acres and we had woods and ravines to play in. Each family had a large vegetable garden (WWII was in full swing in my very early days and they were called Victory Gardens) and the Eltons (who lived next to us on the other side) had grape vines and a raspberry patch down over the hill in back of their house.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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scene of one of our major adventures). </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> They had a chicken coop too. Dad had an asparagus patch </span>down there and there were currant bushes that Mom had us pick from to make currant jelly. We had a chicken coop, apple trees, and a place for a milk cow (Daisy) too. Dad had a compost hole that he made fertilizer in and he also tapped all our maple trees and Mom made maple syrup from the sap. It was our job to collect the sap each day in the spring. <br />
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Some of my other memories of those early times were of Dad picking honeysuckle blossoms and Mom making honeysuckle fritters with them. I never have tried it myself but I do remember how we loved those fritters! Dad also had crabapple trees and at least one plum tree. I remember that Dad would get up early and go out and pick flowers for Lynn and I to put in our hair on Sundays and he always had fresh flowers for the house all summer long.<br />
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Every week or so all summer the families of the neighborhood would take turns hosting a potluck Backwoods picnic. These were not quite the backyard barbeques we all think of now. None of our properties were fenced so we had all 5 yards to play in. The picnic sights were not too near the houses and we did not have barbeque grills. Our moms cooked over the open fire or made most of the food at the house and then brought it to the picnic sight. The grownups would sit around the fire visiting long after dark and all the kids would play 50 all scatter, Sardines, and other games using the whole neighborhood as our playground. There were no city streets, only our private dirt road that the 5 houses used to access West Howard Avenue.<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The other Backwoods event was an
annual Christmas party. It was hosted each year by a different
family. It was a potluck and I think our moms organized it so whoever
hosted it had the main dish and the family that had it the last year brought
the dessert and so on. All the kids drew names for giving presents and I
think there were family gifts given by each family to each family. We had
a big feast and then the whole group would play Charades (when we got old
enough). Oh how we loved playing that game! I guess the youngest
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and I to pose sitting under the hose you hooked up to the clothesline pole so
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-57913498118882267992015-01-05T16:12:00.002-08:002015-01-05T16:12:53.335-08:00Welcome 2015! I'm back.....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>The fireplace in Danny and Kathi's new home out at Eagle's Watch in Walden, Colorado.</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Kathi had great decorations up for Christmas.</span></b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Kathi and Danny at the big New Years Party they held at the bowling alley</b></span></span></td></tr>
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Here it is 2015! I certainly took a big break from my blog (like 6 months) but I am still around. A lot has been gong on in my life and with the new year here it is time to look back at some of the adventures that I have had since June. I am sitting in Danny and Kathi's new house in Walden, CO on New Years Day after helping them throw a very successful party last night at the bowling alley and restaurant they are purchasing. It was a lot of work but went well. They had to go back in this morning to finish cleaning up. I wasn't ready to go when they were so I was going to drive over later. It has been extremely cold (-31F) the last few days and my car wouldn't start. So today it finally warmed up into the teens. I went out to start it but it was totally dead! What a way to start the new year! Meanwhile Danny and Kathi still haven't made it back to the house so I am watching the Rose Bowl and wondering what they are doing. I feel kind of guilty not helping them but not guilty enough to walk to town.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paul, Thomas, Carla and Jim took a selfie during the Broncos game!</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Me, Jo, Diana and Jason ringing in the New Year </span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Someone photo-bombed me, Glen!</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7c-Yih-50swjukpje-EmbAfdPsH5WTcgXzoNcWU_9tSVJUPDWw65xeO7wVzoDzcYTMGyEiOgiy7ns0CpuDS3F2iTNTUZ3YNxtPb-AcB5-ouYuB6Ia2Qj91RpctE98raU6m7i2z7CR08/s1600/Heather+bowling-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>I was going to post some pictures taken during the party and of Danny and Kathi's new house all decorated for Christmas but I hit a wrong button while transferring my iphone pictures to my computer and ended up sending all my pictures since October to computer heaven! Maybe even since July 4! What a bummer! I am going to see if I can get some off of Facebook and messages I sent to family with a picture included! How I wish my computer savvy grandsons were around!<br />
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As you can see I figured out how to get some pictures off of Facebook of the party and I took some more pictures of Kathi's house decorations so all is not lost. On the Friday after New Years, Janet and Greg Ray invited me to have dinner and go bowling with some of their family and friends! These are pictures from that party. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>This is Heather Ray Kirby trying to pick up a spare.</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Besties Janet Ray and Bobbie Corkle had a nice visit along with the bowling.</b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Heather, Doug, and Tanner with their cheesy smiles.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-8543658069837896532014-06-11T13:41:00.000-07:002014-06-11T13:43:58.186-07:00Carla's Memorial Slideshow to Her Dad and Kathi's Tribute to her Father-In-Law<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Bob's CCA president picture</span></b></h3>
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On this final day of posting parts of our memorial service I want to post the link to Kathi's tribute to Bob. She has written a poem which I think is beautiful.<br />
<a href="http://countrychickengirl.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-once-knew-cowboy.html">http://countrychickengirl.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-once-knew-cowboy.html</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Kathi is giving Bob his last haircut. Danny and I tried but she had to step in and do the job right!</span></b></h4>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Carla with her Papa</span></b></h3>
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Carla made a <u>S</u>milebox slide show for the service. This is it. I think you can see the pictures a lot better this way. Enjoy. <b><span style="color: #660000;"></span></b></div>
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Now Darcy wants me to make Bob's Facebook page a memorial. I guess I will check it out on Google and try it.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Darcy helping Grampa spray the thistles.</span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Darcy is the last of our grandchildren to graduate from High School. I am in Washington to see him get his diploma this week. Here he is with his Grampa his sophomore year.</span></b></h3>
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<br />Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-1849701773703503002014-06-10T12:12:00.001-07:002014-06-10T12:12:20.832-07:00Erin and JJ Remember <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Grampa and Erin sharing the love!</b></span></h3>
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The post for today is the second in my eulogy series. Erin presented this tribute to her Grampa at the memorial service. Those of you who could not be there will be able to read it. She wrote the poem when she was in high school for both of her Grampas and then modified for each one at their memorial services. I think she did a great job!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Erin with Grampa and Meemo</span></b></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Charcoal CY";">By Erin Buckingham</span></i></span></div>
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Hands thin, old skin stretched tight over knobby fingers,</div>
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Both hands gnarled and achy from years of hard work and
arthritis.</div>
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One crooked fingered hand grabs a bag of popcorn and sticks
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It pokes the buttons with its slender fingers.</div>
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The other shaky hand stays at his side.</div>
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These hands had seen better days, when they held the reins
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Holding on till the horse was tame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Being there at the ranch was like being set free in the sky,
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To roam and wander all you wanted.</div>
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Now the hands were too tired for such adventures </div>
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And had to be stuck inside this old country house.</div>
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I asked Grandpa if he’d ride horses today if I lent him my
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I asked if he would show me how to ride.</div>
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“Come here,” he said, “and let me see your hands.”</div>
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Softly he replied, “Lend them to me, babe, and we’ll make
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Erin and her husband Brent</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erin’s Eulogy for
Grandpa Manville</b></span></div>
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Grandpa loved
everyone unconditionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He let us in,
all of us, and even if you aren’t an immediate member of the family, Grandpa
always treated you as if you were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
know for a fact that he loved me, there’s no doubt in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that he loved you all, too.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Love
isn’t always expressed in the simple words, “I love you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are powerful words, but Grandpa put
action behind them.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Bible gives the perfect definition of what love is and what it isn’t. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bible says that a person’s life amounts to
nothing without love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, knowing this
I can confidently say, Grandpa Manville led a full life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s what the Bible says about Love.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">1 Corinthians 13:4-13</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The Message (MSG)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">3-8 “If I give everything I own to
the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love,
I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do,
I’m bankrupt without love.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Love never gives up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Love cares more for others than for
self.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t
have.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Love doesn’t strut,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Doesn’t have a swelled head,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Doesn’t force itself on others,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Isn’t always “me first,”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Doesn’t fly off the handle,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Doesn’t keep score of the sins of
others,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Doesn’t revel when others grovel,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Takes pleasure in the flowering of
truth,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Puts up with anything,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Trusts God always,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Always looks for the best,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Never looks back,</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">But keeps going to the end.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Love never dies.”</span></div>
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Love never
dies!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The love Grandpa had for his
family, both blood related and “adopted” will live on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He taught us how to love and we will carry
his legacy on to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next verses
in this passage of the Bible go on to say,</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">“12 We don’t yet see things
clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long
before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see
it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">13 But for right now, until that
completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation:
Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of
the three is love.”</span></div>
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We’ve been taught
by one of the best how to love extravagantly, and now it is our turn to trust
steadily in God, hope unswervingly, and best of all love extravagantly.</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"> By</span> <span style="color: #990000;">Erin Jones Buckingham, May 27, 2014</span> </h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>JJ and Erin at the Cabin</b></span></h3>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span style="color: blue;"> Jeanette’s Eulogy for Dad</span></b>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
have a few words to say about my dad, but I am allergic to microphones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make me cry!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you Erin for reading this for me.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
memories of dad are many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only wanted
to share 3 memories with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved
spending time playing Rummy with Dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
would play on Dad’s bed and watch Barnaby Jones on TV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We played Dad’s rules apparently, because
when I played with mom, she told me, “Those were not the rules.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said Dad makes up the rules.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Another
memory of Dad was when he and I went haying together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would drive to the Buffalo Ranch and take
a detour for breakfast Ding Dongs and chocolate milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had to be healthy because I was pregnant
with Micah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would eat our breakfast
and then set to work on greasing the baler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would crawl in the knotter and Dad would do the rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We baled hay all day and then went home to do
it all again the next day.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
last memory I will share is the time we went to Sturgis on our motorcycles and
Mom and Dad snuck to Nevada and stayed at our house waiting for us to come back
so they could surprise us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad was so
proud of himself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is just how Dad
was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was all about his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved us all dearly,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>
and the love he and Mom showed us taught us how to love others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that the reason it hurts so bad to
lose Dad is because we loved so hard, and when you love that much, it hurts
that much to say goodbye.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
got to tell him goodbye the last time I saw him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him I loved him and thanked him for
loving me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let him know that it was an
honor to be his daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God gave us
such a wonderful gift when he gave us Robert and Penny Manville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I truly am blessed and loved.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Goodbye
Papa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you!<span style="color: #990000;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">By Jeanette Manville Jones, May 27, 2014</span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: #990000;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;"> <span style="color: black;">I just had to put up these two pictures of Erin and Paul. Erin is the only girl out of 10 cousins! There are only 10 days between Erin and Paul and he has always "taken care of " his only girl cousin. Well.....sort of anyway. He included her in all their night games and once rescued her from the "ballroom" at McDonald's when they were about 3 or 4 years old.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Erin and Paul (yesterday's eulogy). They have always been close cousins!</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Erin and Paul hiking up to Aqua Fria a few years ago.</b></span></h3>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-63340585813837585022014-06-09T13:53:00.002-07:002014-06-09T13:53:14.276-07:00Memories of Bob Written By His GrandkidsToday I want to start posting a couple eulogies that My Grandkids gave at Bob's memorial service. I am so proud of them! The first one was given by Paul Shriver, Carla and Jim's oldest son. He lives in California now and is a script writer for trailers for games. He has every young person's dream job. He plays computer games all day! Here is his speech:<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Paul on horseback with his Grampa</b></span></h3>
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<![endif]-->My grandpa is going to go down as the stuff of
American legends. Pecos Bill roping tornadoes, Paul Bunyun taming a blue ox,
Teddy Roosevelt’s walking stick, and Bob Manville’s shirtless singing.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span>
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<span style="color: blue;">Bob still his optimistic self.</span></h3>
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wouldn’t make it through the weekend. Ever the fighter, Friday night passed and
he was still holding on. Saturday night came and went, Bob Manville was still
with us. And then on Sunday, a couple hundred miles away, there appeared a
raging storm cell on Wyoming Highway 450 between Wright and Newcastle.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He made it through the weekend and died on a Monday. I like to think that that
storm cell was Grandpa’s spirit taking one last victory lap across the West
before departing to whatever’s next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span>
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stories of Grandpa from before I was born. Flying makeshift planes over
precarious mountains, navigating onto unfinished dirt landing strips. He was a
combat medic. He rode horses, four-wheelers, six-wheelers, three-wheelers, snow
mobiles, Argos, trucks, tractors, blue WWII-era jeeps . Anything that could be
steered, he guided expertly. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The man lived 78 years and touched more souls
than we could count. <br />
I want to share a few anecdotes.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLSNiKesLxpxFw9M2cRhCT-i7r8fL0l5NxtNVh2ZcnbSkwSbp7zPBH12QRHR9kGuZ6-Lr8j0xNpSIpMdi-TOpA-oS3zI1uQEOjgK6_GIWqm4C_gXqNmm6RBlIcWwDCi8EqyJoXEbKS9o/s1600/bob+national+western2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLSNiKesLxpxFw9M2cRhCT-i7r8fL0l5NxtNVh2ZcnbSkwSbp7zPBH12QRHR9kGuZ6-Lr8j0xNpSIpMdi-TOpA-oS3zI1uQEOjgK6_GIWqm4C_gXqNmm6RBlIcWwDCi8EqyJoXEbKS9o/s1600/bob+national+western2.jpg" height="214" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Grampa in the stockyards at the National Western trying to look gruff!</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As a kid, I’d spend my summers at the cabin. These
adventures with my cousins and Meemo and Grandpa into the realm of Manville
were the best possible way to spend the summer.</span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Through all the time I spent with him, Grandpa
remained a kind of stoic paragon of badassery. Tenacious, but a little
mysterious. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are a few things I can say with certainty
about my grandpa.<br />
He was absolutely a no bullshit kind of guy. Forgive me, I feel a little bad
about using the term bullshit in a church. But Bob Manville would have no
reservations. He didn’t sugar coat the truth. He told you what was what and he
did it in no uncertain terms.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Bob and Allen Koester loading up the pack horse on an infamous backpacking trip</span></b></h3>
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mom would always scold him, but that never stopped him. If anything it just egged
him on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
“Penny! The damned democrats are at it again!”<br />
“Ugh, the Broncos really got their asses kicked into the dirt.”<br />
“You kids knock off the nonsense or I’m gonna beat your butts!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It wasn’t ever vulgar when he cursed. To my
innocent virgin ears it was just… cool. Like he wasn’t afraid to wield this
harsher language.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Like any grandfather, he had a healthy stable
of stupid jokes.<br />
I’d say something like Grandpa I’m hungry.<br />
And he’d say Hi Hungry, I’m Bob<br />
Classic grandpa. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He had nicknames for most of his Grandkids. My brother Thomas, he called you
Tomasina, Colton was Coaltrain, Skyman. I don’t think Erin got one because she
was the lone granddaughter, his prairie princess. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And he would call me Red, or Redhead sometimes.
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Maybe not shirtless this time but still a familiar scene in recent years!</b></span></h3>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As any of us grandkids can attest, it was not rare
to see him sprawled on the couch shirtless. Watching his Westerns, or doing his
crosswords, not giving a damn what anybody thought.<br />
Most of the time he was also singing Way down upon Smokey River or Louie Louie
Louie Louie. Singing very loudly. Singing pretty close to in-tune. But the
words more often than not were ridiculously inaccurate. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He showed us a lot of the scars he had across
his belly from surgeries and cancers.<br />
Does it hurt? I remember asking him.<br />
Nah, they just keep cutting it out. He said. Only thing is they’re running out
of places to cut. And then he laughed. Like he really wasn’t afraid at all.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In high school and college, I would sometimes
bring girlfriends up to the Cabin. When he met a girl he liked, his eyes would
light up and out of nowhere he would activate this insane Casanova charm. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This genuine smile a mile-wide would turn on
and he would enter what I like to call “True Gentlemen”-mode.<br />
Tip his cowboy hat, say “Well howdy miss.”<br />
This old, weathered cowboy would captivate those girls and they would be absolutely
woo’d by him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That was the grandpa I knew and had seen my
whole life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But I sensed there was a layer below that was
sort of unknown to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Grandpa was a man who could recount the process
of something very well.<br />
I remember him describing his chemotherapy and the implications of his test results
and how the doctors would be doing X procedure with Y medicine. It was
technical and medical but he described it with knowledge. <br />
The thing he didn’t share was his feelings about the results. His hopes or
fears. It was all words related to the technical course of action. Matter of
fact. No bullshit. <br />
I think that’s a hallmark of tough mountain folk. It’s near impossible to get
them… us, to open up. Anyone who ever talked to him on the phone knows his
favorite phrase. What-not-so. <br />
I honestly have no idea what “what-not-so” even means. It’s not in the
dictionary. It’s not something I’ve ever heard anyone else say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I think its ambiguity makes it very versatile
as a phone phrase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It could mean anything from “I don’t want to
talk to you, but I’m being polite” to “You’re my family and I’m proud of you
and support you through thick and thin.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So maybe that’s the heart of “what-not-so”.
It’s all that’s left unsaid, that doesn’t need to be said because it’s deeply
felt.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The one time with me that Grandpa skipped what-not-so
and said what he felt was the last time I saw him.<br />
I remember I said good-bye to him and I knew it was going to be the last time.
He sat in that blue chair, a blanket wrapped around him, looking more frail
than he’d ever been. <br />
I hugged him and looked into his eyes and I saw something that I’d never seen
before. His eyes were soft and piercing at the same time. It was weird and
intense, but comforting and intimate. Like I was seeing him and he was seeing
into me.<br />
He said, “Goodbye Paul. I love you.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And his arms gave me a really firm squeeze that
surprised me, he was still super strong. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Grampa is telling Thomas how to set the headgate.</span></b></h3>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There is one distinct image I have of him
that’s probably how I’ll remember him forever, and I want to share it with the
wider world. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It was early on a summer morning, maybe around
7 am.<br />
I was going to use the bathroom or play gamegear or who knows what, and I saw
him standing, looking out the north window on the second story of the Cabin. He
had binoculars pulled to his eyes, surveying cattle or the last remnants of
melting snow on the ridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He was shirtless, of course. His boots were on.
His scars exposed for the world to see, and he was singing loudly, obnoxiously
some might say. Some. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But he towered there, studying the land, the
morning light splashing across his scarred stomach. And in this moment, I saw
him as this heroic figure. No fears in the world. A swagger that couldn’t be
measured by any instruments known to man. A conqueror of cancer. The American
Legend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He looked over at me and he said, “Did I wake
you from your beauty sleep Redhead?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He gave me a big ole grin. And then in his deep
baritone he went right back to singing, “Way down upon the Smokey River.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And that was my grandpa.<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b><span style="color: blue;">By</span></b> <span style="color: blue;"><b>Paul Shriver, May 27, 2014</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span></div>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-20830178382122901652014-06-06T11:10:00.000-07:002014-06-06T11:38:46.274-07:00Bob's Memorial Service, Part 1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the next few days I am going to put some things on my blog for family and friends who could not make it to the memorial service we had for Bob. Today I have the poem and picture from the little folders we gave out at the service. I still have some if anyone wants one. I also am posting the obituary.</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Cover of Bob's Remembrance Folder</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Cowboy's 23rd Psalm by William Kruse</span></b></span></div>
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the Lord Himself is my trail boss, <br />
I’m pretty well taken care of.<br />
He sees to my grazing and water rights<br />
and all the other needs of a maverick like me.<br />
He watches so that nothing bothers me much<br />
And keeps me well rested, for those hard times.<br />
He scouts the way ahead and leads me down the best trails.<br />
Even when the lightning strikes and the herd stampedes<br />
and I’m scared to death of dying, I’m not crippled by those fears<br />
Because, Lord, I know You’re riding herd. And that’s a comfort, that is.<br />
Then You go and throw a shindig for me and invite the whole county;<br />
even those who think I’m a scoundrel.<br />
And right there, in front of everybody, You pat me on the back and treat me
like I’m someone special.<br />
You’ve got me drinking from my saucer, because my cup has overflowed.<br />
Since I’ve been branded by Your mercy and grace, those two will chaperone me
my whole life.</span></b></span></div>
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I’ll just linger forever in Your presence and in Your love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sure will. </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Robert E. “Bob”
Manville as he was fondly known lived a full life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His life’s passion was spending time with
those he loved and working with his cattle and on his ranch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His quick wit and the twinkle in those blue
eyes put people at ease and let them know they were loved even as he teased
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a hero and a true
cowboy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On May 19, 2014 after a
courageous battle against cancer, Bob went home to be with the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He was born in Walden
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Manville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was raised on the family
ranch the only boy with four doting sisters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bob attended North Park High School where he graduated in 1954.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He attended Colorado A&M (now Colorado
State University) majoring in animal nutrition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was active in the Greek System and served as president of his Acacia
Fraternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon his graduation from
college, Bob entered the United States Army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His service was cut short when his father’s health necessitated his
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In November of 1959,
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</span>They raised their 4 children on the ranch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob was very involved in his children’s lives
actively supporting: NPHS Sports, Cheerleaders, FFA, and 4-H.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved kids so much that he hosted many
exchange students and was well known for “adopting” troubled kids and making
them “just part of the family”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the
years, many kids from town, relatives, and boys from all over the country came
to work as ranch hands during the summer and were mentored by Bob.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bob was service
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Soil Conservation Committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
active in the North Park Stock Growers Association serving as its president and
was awarded Stock Grower of the Year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
also lobbied for cattlemen on the state and national level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He served as president of the Colorado
Cattlemen’s Association from 1982 -1983.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was on the National Western Stock Show Board of Directors, as well as
judging, and exhibiting there. He was elected as a County Commissioner and
served Jackson County from 1980-1984.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was an active member of the National Christmas Tree Committee.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bob loved hunting and
fishing and enjoyed a number of trips to Canada to indulge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved to fly and was the co-owner of a
small plane for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He traveled
the world as an ambassador for the American Cattlemen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was among the first Americans to travel to
China in the 1970s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also traveled to
Africa, Egypt, and Singapore as well as all over Europe.</span></b></div>
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Bob lived in Owyhee and Wendover, Nevada during the school year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tried his hand working at a casino and
found he liked playing the slots more than tending them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also did a stint as a long term substitute
teacher and was voted “Teacher of the Year” by the students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But every summer he returned to his beloved
cabin where he would ride herd over his beloved grandchildren and other friends
and family.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bob is survived by his
wife, Penny Manville;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his sisters, Jane
Crocket (Jack), Carol Jean Wofford (Bill), and Barbara Ann Tyler (Tip); his
children, Marianne Manville-Ailles (Pat); Carla Jean Shriver (Jim), Jeanette
Jones (Ozzie), and Daniel Manville (Kathi); and his 13 grandchildren and 5
great granddaughters.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In lieu of flowers
donations can be made to Central Wyoming Hospice and Transitions; 319 South Wilson
St.; Casper, WY 82601 or Healthcare Foundation for the Yampa Valley; PO Box
883415; Steamboat Springs, CO 80488.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To leave your favorite
memories of Bob sign on to <a href="http://www.bustardsfuneralhome.com/">www.bustardsfuneralhome.com</a>
and sign the on-line guest book.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: black;">Tomorrow I intend to have the eulogies written and read by two of our grandchildren. They have fond memories of their Grampa from the many summers they spent with us at the Manville Cabin "summer camp"! There is also a slide show put together by Carla to look forward to!</span></span></b></div>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-77820670298119376982014-06-05T12:16:00.000-07:002014-06-05T12:16:56.494-07:00A Farewell To The Love Of My Life<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Bob Manville fighting the good fight!</span></b></td></tr>
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This is hard to do! Since last September Bob has been fighting a new bout of Cancer. This time it had metastasized from one of his former 6 cancers to his liver as well as to some other odd places. The doctors did not know where it came from but recommended he do a round of Chemotherapy and see where to go from there.<br />
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Even though Bob had kind of felt he never wanted to do chemo, he was fighter enough to give it a shot. We were still in North Park so the chemo was done in Steamboat Springs an hour away over Rabbit Ears Pass. The chemo was as advertised. He was quite sick after each treatment (1 each week for 3 weeks then 2 weeks off for 3 rounds) and was just recovering as the next round started. By the time the last round was done we were snowed out of the cabin and staying in Casper with Carla and Jim. We would drive from there to Walden and stay with our nephew Hughie and drive back and forth to Steamboat. One time we had to stay in Steamboat because it was snowing so hard!<br />
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Another time the drive from Casper to Rawlins was so bad I couldn't see the front of the car for miles! Poor Bob was miserable traveling those miles for chemo but he toughed it out. The chemo was finished just before Christmas and the family celebrated Christmas at the cabin. Shortly after we drove over to Steamboat to have a CAT scan and were told the chemo did not work. Bob decided no more and we headed up to Carla's for the winter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Bob and I at the Blue Shoe 5K race. I came in 3rd in my class!</b></span></td></tr>
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The residual effects of the chemo lasted for quite some time--especially the lack of appetite and weird taste of all foods never left. By the end of January we had made a trip to the emergency room and spent several nights trying to relieve pain and anxiety. We finally found a Doctor that recommended using outpatient hospice. What a blessing that was! I can not recommend hospice as a choice highly enough. The nurses and support staff were wonderful and have become close friends with all of our family. They are comforting, and supportive and tell it like it is, which we appreciated even though it was hard to take. The first few months went by with Bob feeling about the same.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>At the gardens in Bellagio with our great grand daughters.</b></span></td></tr>
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We took a trip to Las Vegas to have one last shot at the casinos and to be with our grandson, Micah's, family and our daughter JJ and husband Ozzie. Carla and Jim went with us. Bob was able to do a little gambling and the little girls took him for a walk in the wheelchair through the gardens at Bellagio.<br />
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The flights were pretty hard on Bob. Allegiant Air is not known for comfort--the seats don't even lean back a little! But he recovered nicely and we felt hope that a miracle might again take place for him. As the weeks went by he did start to decline and finally we accepted that this was the end of the line for our fighter cowboy! On May 19, 2014 he slipped away to be with his Maker! We are deeply sad but know that he is at peace now.<br />
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I will post his obituary and some of the eulogies his grandchildren and sons-in-law gave at the memorial service as well as the slide show Carla made for it, on my next blog posts.Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-37548717279115474162014-02-06T08:59:00.000-08:002014-02-06T09:01:48.993-08:00My Latest Project--Recipe Books!OK, I finally have something for the blog! This is a recipe book I made for my grandson Thomas. He has just moved out on his own and I thought he might like some favorite recipes from his summers visiting us up at the cabin. I am planning on making one for each of the grandkids, personalizing them with pictures of them from "the good old days". I may even have to change some of the recipes depending on their own favorites from those fun summer days.<br />
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Now, former students, don't get excited thinking I'll make recipe books for you anytime soon. I have 10 grand kids and 3 (right now) great grand kids! We'll see how long that takes! I'm thinking if I did do a recipe book for each school I taught at, it would be kind of fun but the pictures for North Park HS might not be as good as WWHS because I didn't have digital back then and so not as many pics--well comparatively speaking. It's a thought' though.</div>
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Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-5904984134203879622013-08-12T15:12:00.000-07:002013-08-12T15:12:04.015-07:00Miracles Still Happen<br />
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I 'm trying to think of an interesting topic to write about and not coming up with much. This morning a friend of mine that I first met online reminded me of how we met in person. We arranged to meet at a mall and we hit it off immediately. We shopped all day and decided our middle names were "shopping". I guess I could write of my memories of shopping with my mom, Pug, but not now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Carlotta Wheeler sings as her husband Bob works the music.</b></span></span></td></tr>
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Another topic could be the story of Annie's roommate at the hospital. It is kind of scary. In the first place, Annie was supposed to be in a private room on the third floor that is devoted to orthopedics but ended up on the fifth floor which is an overflow for everything, I guess. Anyway, it was very small and crowded with very little privacy. The curtains that wrap around the beds didn't even work right.<br /><br />They wheeled the lady into the room about early afternoon and she looked in bad shape. She had a big cut on her forehead, a big neck brace and a very swollen left arm. She was in a lot of pain for sure! We ended up hearing her story a lot because she had a lot of company plus a lot of doctors who wanted to know what happened.<br /><br />Her 26 year old son was driving her to work in his pickup. They were on I-17 just after getting on from the 101. She unhooked her seat belt to reach in her purse on the floor. She saw her son look back to his right and as he turned back she saw his eyes rolled up in his head! He was having a seizure. The car crossed two lanes of traffic and she was yelling at him. At the last minute he jerked the wheel so it hit the cement median at a glancing blow instead of head on. They did not roll and they were not hit by any cars. A miracle on the interstate during rush hour on a Friday morning! They were lucky to be alive. <br /><br />She ended up with a shattered L-1 disc in her spine with pieces floating around, a broken ball part of her shoulder, broken arm bones, broken wrist and broken fingers. She has a long "Frankenstein" (her word) cut on her forehead that took 10 stitches. She was bruised and whip lashed all over and her chest was very sore from the airbag. She had spine surgery yesterday and was supposed to have shoulder and hand surgery today. Ohhhhh, when they moved her to take her down for the MRI my shoulder ached for her. She was in great pain. <br /><br />Meanwhile, her son was across the hall with a shattered eye socket, broken cheekbone, and some other bones in the face. I guess his face was hugely swollen according to the friends that stopped in to visit. He also had some spine injuries. Many of his friends came to visit him and then dropped in to see his mother.<br /><br />Remember this room was crowded to begin with and then the parade of doctors, nurses, and visitors was never ending. We had been up since 4 AM and Annie had been through a 2 hour surgery so she needed rest. I'm sure the poor woman did too. She was in extreme pain and the medication was not touching it so they were trying ice packs and whatever. She counted the minutes until her next pills! It wasn't until 10:30 that night that the last 4 visitors left! By then Annie was exhausted and knew the whole story word for word.<br /><br />Needless to say, Annie begged her doctor to let her come back to the rehab center the next day and he finally relented so we made it back to the relatively peaceful quiet of the weekend here at the rehab center.<br /><br />I hope that Tracie has a quick and uneventful recovery and they can relieve her pain. I also hope her son,Travis, has a quick recovery and a good plastic surgeon working on his face. They are so lucky to be alive and to be receiving great care at the hospital.<br />
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This event got me to thinking about how quickly our lives can change and makes me feel grateful for how my life is going!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bob and Carlotta Wheeler</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11943961223098325089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1050431348747802485.post-64855911312357752342013-08-05T13:16:00.001-07:002013-08-05T13:18:07.309-07:00One Way to Idle Away An Afternoon<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="color: black;">I am just a little embarrassed to do a show and tell on this story but here goes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="color: black;">Yesterday the planned afternoon event here at the rehab center was "Painting With Cheryl". Annie and I didn't pay much attention to it because we both must have had some kind of traumatic art experience in our youth and are definitely stick figure types of drawers. Annie claims she can't draw a straight line with a ruler and I just knew I had never had much formal training in the basics of drawing and painting. It seems my early art experiences were mostly craft type things, although I do remember having to take some basic art class in college that had to do with the color wheel. There was also a class where I had to plan a house with all the furnishings and draw the outside elevations for it. I pulled an all-nighter on that, and my sister-in-law, Barbara Ann, had to come to my rescue and help me brick in the house exterior at the last minute to get the project done on time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="color: black;">When I was on my cruise in the Panama Canal I got talked into taking a watercolor class with some friends I met on board. We had a great time with a lot of laughs. I have to say the teacher was great, and I did learn a few basics, although my finished products certainly wouldn't win any prizes but were quite colorful. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="color: black;">Back to Annie and I ignoring the call for the painting class. About 10 minutes after the announcement a lady came to our door in an apron and invited us to come down and paint. We both let her know we were not painters but she was not going to take no for an answer. She told us she could teach anyone to paint and she didn't have anyone show up so we were it! I remembered my friend Tory the art teacher in Owyhee and Wendover telling me the same thing. I also thought about all the fun we had in the watercolor class so I ended up talking Annie into giving it a shot.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Penny's Work of Art.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="color: black;">By the time we got down to the rehab room where Cheryl had set up the painting table there were 3 others we had met on the way and talked into going too. Cheryl had a painting she had done of the desert in fog at sunset that we were using as a guide. It turned out that one lady was quite an artist and the rest of us were not. We had a fine time and some good laughs. It was very enjoyable and we got to take our pictures home with us. Our families will certainly be fighting over who will get our lovely sunset pictures! Cheryl did teach us some techniques and provided all the paint, brushes, canvases, and good advice while we painted. I do think with the proper teacher I could learn to like to paint. Maybe I need to stock up on supplies and go on You Tube........</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="color: black;">On another note, here is something both Annie and I are much better at. This is a recipe that Annie has made for many occasions through the years and people clamor for the recipe. It is quite simple but delicious! </span></span> <br />
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directions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pour half of batter into 9”X
13” greased pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bake 20 minutes at 350
degrees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Melt caramels with margarine
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melted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pour over the baked cake,
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<b><span style="color: #783f04;">From Ann Tenant</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #783f04;">Sorry, I don't have any pictures for you of this cake. But you can use your imagination all you Snickers lovers! </span></b></div>
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