The easiest way to avoid regrets is to ask yourself this question, "If not now, when?" It's a powerful way to put life and our decisions about how we spend our time into perspective"
Thursday Grats?
Posted by Paula on 6/12/2025, 10:32 am
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Thursday Grats
Posted by Delta on 6/12/2025, 6:54 pm, in reply to "Thursday Grats?"
Celebrating the life of a wonderful man today. He was a man of faith who loved his wife and family and fellow man dearly, too.
When we first moved here in our 20s with young children, my husband worked with a lady about our age who was newly pregnant. She was a delight to know, and her father or mother often dropped by to take her to lunch and we quickly got to know her dad. After her baby was born, her dad would often pick him up from the sitter and bring him to the office during lunch. I was often called on to come in and pick up some of the extra work they had seasonally, and got to know her and her dad pretty well. I instantly liked him because his stature and red hair looked like my Daddy walking away, and he had the same unusual sense of humor, so we got along great. At the time, he was working as a sheriff's deputy and we would often see him out and about. He doted on our children and they on him.
A few years later, I got a job in a government office and was thrilled to find out that he had taken a job there as an assistant to my boss after retiring from the sheriff's office. I loved working with him. The children would beg to come spend time with him and he would welcome them into his office to teach them all kinds of things when they dropped by. He was a great mentor to me and my children, and I found that he was an even greater man than I had already known.
If anyone was in any kind of need, he was there to provide whatever they needed that he was able to provide, even if he had to take out a loan to help or he would keep on until he found them help from another source if he couldn't help.
He worked as a volunteer with the Search and Rescue squad and has rescued many people, never thinking about the peril to himself. While I was working with him, he started having heart trouble, taking nitro glycerin tablets frequently. he eventually had to have heart surgery and yet he never stopped helping people and only took a short break after surgery from Search and Rescue.
After working long enough to retire again, I saw him about town often, and he always left not just me but everyone with a smile or a chuckle. He never quit helping others in any way he could. I don't think he ever met anyone that he didn't consider an instant friend, and everyone felt the same about him. It will be sad that he is no longer here, but I am so grateful that I got to know him and call him a friend for 41 years.
Cinq Choses Pour Moi
Posted by Krista on 6/12/2025, 1:20 pm, in reply to "Thursday Grats?"
1) laying in the sun on my daybed for a bit of time this afternoon
2) making time to read - starting a new book today called Silencing Eve from Iris Johanson (sp)
3) started new prescriptions and cream last night - hoping they will be the solution
4) Blue Cross - it does cost over $400 each month for the 2 of us but one prescription yesterday would have cost us $350 which makes me feel happy that we're getting our money's worth
being able to lie out on your daybed today. We have had little sun here for the past three months and do have some today but it is miserably humid and hot. I'll just have to admire the sun from indoors with the AC. Even the kids at the lake are just looking at it instead of being on it today except for early mornings and they will probably go out in late afternoon.
Have you already read Taking Eve and Hunting Eve? I haven't read any of them but they are on my to read list.
Have fun at coffee tomorrow with your friend.
Mine
Posted by Paula on 6/12/2025, 10:54 am, in reply to "Thursday Grats?"
Having you all in my life and know I'll smile when you ooh and ahh over my pics later. LOL Sharing them helps me celebrate all that's good in my life. Im feeling a little embarrassed about posting all of this stuff this morning but I think I'm lonely right now and just a little apprehensive about how I'll be able to function once I'm well. Hope I'm not babbling too much. Oxycodone makes me babble.
Haven't seen Bill yet today. It's almost (not) funny now. I hurt a bit more today so took an oxy and put my back brace on. I'm sort of 'floating.' I don't like that feeling.
Of course you
Posted by Delta on 6/12/2025, 6:25 pm, in reply to "Mine"
know that we are going to ooh and aah over your pics because we love you and love your fur babies, and your gardens are just beautiful. I am sorry that you are feeling lonely and apprehensive right now. It is understandable and part of most recoveries, but I still don't want you to feel that way. I am glad that if you were hurting that you took the oxy and will try to stay ahead of it. Pain is hard to get rid of once it takes hold. Again, I don't like you having to go through that but grateful that you are staying on top of it. Yeah, I hate that floaty feeling too but it is necessary sometimes. Did you get your bagel? I hope you did.