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Post by kitbop on Jun 4, 2020 21:14:56 GMT
Happy June ya'll! I'm talking this month to: angel97701 (our bible journaling Oregon based gardener who is recently having to do an elevated level of parenting and adulting), nylene (a Utahian. OK, that can't be right. What does one call a person from Utah? who has become tech-savvy and joined us on google hangouts, and who is our die-cutting paper-piecing royalty. She also devised an annual "cousin camp" which I am absolutely starting once I have grand-kids!), ComplicatedLady (an Arizona mom, who has dabbled in TN formats), joblackford (who makes amazing batches of cards both to donate and to sell, and has the best Covid-journal in production, IMHO), Linda (a busy East coast Mom who I imagine homeschools since her actual @ tag is NOT @{linda} and I have finally learned that. She truly embodies the record keeping aspect of scrapbooking with incredible 8.5x11 productivity), @bdhardy (an Illinois based wife of a pastor, parenting teens and making bread plus amazing cards!), sleepingbooty (who I imagine speaks with a delightful French accent, loves Disney, and organizes kick-ass pea-crops!), @ryannmarie (an introvert with an amazing Harry Potter wall in her beautiful scrap space), gmcwife1 (a lucky West-coaster, Samoyed owner, card-maker and Mom to people learning to adult), justjac (my fellow  Canadian Pea, but more rural than I, who amazes with both scrapbooking and cardmaking and never seems to have an "off" month!) So, that may jump start conversation - you can correct my limited board-based "knowledge" of you  Or fill in some gaps for me because I love those trivial tidbits. They make people feel much more real-life. Me: Although I'm in Canada, I'm only an 7 hour drive from Chicago, a 2 hour drive from Detroit, and a 9 hour drive from NYC. My youngest turns 17 on Monday and she and I had a trip to NYC planned for Oct/Nov this year to see Hugh Jackman in "the Music Man" with Sutton Foster. We're not too hopeful now. My middle DS is on the autism spectrum at the "quirky" end of it. I work in a hospital. I love animals of all sorts. I scrap 12x12. I'm growing out my bangs because now with wearing these scrub hats at work it gives me the opportunity!. Also - who is participating in the Christmas in June crop? I am, and I've warned DH I'll be doing less household adulting next week to have more time for it. However, I work all day, and DD's birthday will suck all of Monday away from me. I am planning to pull out my DD and finish 2016. Although I'm going to need serious motivational help on that one. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 21:52:54 GMT
I would love to know some more random things about our little team.  Let's each share something random maybe people around here don't know yet. I am a HUGE history buff. Love biographies about historical people - love to study about other countries and even did a tour around Europe before I got married to do some history tours. I'm also a voracious reader! Can't read enough books! I used to work at a library (put myself through college that way) and still want to buy every single book I see. Thank goodness for half priced books! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 21:55:06 GMT
I'm hoping to do the crop next week. I'm ready to start on my Christmas cards. Partly that depends on if DH will be working at the church or from home and how much driving I need to do to take our teens to and from work and things. My Christmas supplies are in neat boxes already so all I need to is grab some inspiration and start the card making!
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Post by joblackford on Jun 4, 2020 22:32:01 GMT
Haha, thank you for the generous introduction. (blush) I will add that I'm originally from NZ, now living near Seattle, Washington, and in between I lived in Kobe, Japan - 3 cities on the Pacific Ring of Fire, 3 earthquake or volcano-prone locales with really great mountains. I'm a geothermal geek. We vacation with family in Hawaii - the only thing better would be if it were specifically on the Big Island instead of Honolulu, or at Yellowstone! One day I'll get there... Also a big ol' book geek and library lover. Hoping they let me back in to volunteer looking for missing books in July/phase 3. Me: Although I'm in Canada, I'm only an 7 hour drive from Chicago, a 2 hour drive from Detroit, and a 9 hour drive from NYC. "only" - spoken like a true Canadian/North American! lol. Last random fact: I cannot drive. I have never learned. I am not a fan of cars at all. Japan was heaven - public transportation everywhere! |
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Post by Linda on Jun 4, 2020 23:02:20 GMT
Thanks for the welcome kitbop - I don't actually homeschool any longer (although that might change depending on what back to school looks like in the fall) but I did homeschool DS28 for 4th-7th grade, DD20 for preschool-3rd grade and DD13 for preschool. We weren't quite as rural then and could walk to our local parish where I co-founded a homeschool group, the library, and a playground/sports park. Then we moved and put the girls in public school (DS was already in public school at that point). joblackford - I don't drive either and it's a real disadvantage here in rural Florida. DD20 doesn't either although she's had a learners for 5 years - she's hoping to get enough practise this summer/fall to finally get a license. @bdhardy - history buff and voracious reader here also. I was a Russian history major in college (oh so long ago) although I didn't finish, I was one credit short and ended graduating as a Soviet Govt major instead. My current history focus has been on English history (Middle ages mostly). And I just hit my Goodreads book challenge goal of 52 books for this year so I reset it to 104. I'm hoping to participate in the crop - I want to get Christmas cards made (for me to send and also so I have a stash to send to the nursing home) and it would be great to get some old layouts done also. We'll see, I've been struggling with motivation between being on day 86 of staying safer at home and the current climate in America...it's all dragging me down. |
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Post by joblackford on Jun 5, 2020 0:50:54 GMT
bdhardy - history buff and voracious reader here also. I was a Russian history major in college (oh so long ago) although I didn't finish, I was one credit short and ended graduating as a Soviet Govt major instead. My current history focus has been on English history (Middle ages mostly). And I just hit my Goodreads book challenge goal of 52 books for this year so I reset it to 104. Oh wow, I've read 35 out of 94 books for my challenge, 4 books behind schedule, goodreads tells me! I also majored in history (and education). Mostly American history, which has been helpful. Reading, history, and genealogy (which I think you also do too?) all work together... Russian history and Soviet Govt - that sounds very interesting! |
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Post by Linda on Jun 5, 2020 1:07:49 GMT
Oh wow, I've read 35 out of 94 books for my challenge, 4 books behind schedule, goodreads tells me! I also majored in history (and education). Mostly American history, which has been helpful. Reading, history, and genealogy (which I think you also do too?) all work together... Russian history and Soviet Govt - that sounds very interesting! yes -genealogy is another of my hobbies - good memory. I don't have a particularly good grounding in US history for a variety of reasons but researching DH's family has taught me quite a bit (as well as some Canadian history) - his family were early settlers in Massachusetts, New York (New Amsterdam), New Jersey, and Quebec and fanned out across the country over time. Russian History and Soviet government was very interesting but not very useful especially since I was originally slated to graduate in 1992 (and I had all my major/minor classes by then - just needed some gen eds and electives - I didn't actually graduate until 1997)) and of course by then the Soviet Union was breaking up. |
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Post by justjac on Jun 5, 2020 3:39:13 GMT
Thanks kitbop. I haven't had an off month lately because I've been home from work since March 16. Being creative every day helps me stay sane. I am an adult upgrading teacher (kind of like GED) and we didn't switch to online delivery because between some students not having access to internet or technology and others having their hands full with their children's schooling and the whole pandemic, likely no one would have been very successful. I don't think of myself as living in a rural area because my city has 30 000 people, but I do teach in a rural area and I'm only an hour or so from grammadee who definitely lives in a rural area! I grew up in a small town with less than 500 people, so by comparison everywhere else is big. I'm in a book club, but thanks to my smartphone addiction I read way less than I used to. My goal for the year was 30 books, but thanks to the pandemic I will probably hit that easily. I share an audio book account with my mom but I don't listen to nearly as many as I used to before I found podcasts. I look forward to chatting more as the month goes on. |
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Post by angel97701 on Jun 5, 2020 3:45:17 GMT
Happy June ya'll! I'm talking this month to: angel97701 (our bible journaling Oregon based gardener who is recently having to do an elevated level of parenting and adulting), Thanks kitbop for the great introduction of everyone. Helps us to kind of have a place to start and understand one another. As for the garden I "think" I've killed all the voles who were reeking havoc on my straw bales garden sprouts. There were 7 in the traps at last count and now the plants are left peacefully in place to grow and produce. The tomatoes are still in their little wall-o-waters although 3 have the tops open because they are getting tall enough. I live in Central Oregon, aka the High Desert. We only have TWO dates on our growing season calendar that have NOT had frost since they've recorded this data. So it can be very challenging to garden here. In fact last Saturday I was running out in full rain gear to cover all the baby plants because we had pea sized hail coming down and about an inch of rain in 30 minutes! Saved all but 2 lettuce starts. Trying some experiments with grow bags and potatoes. Planted them 4 inches from the bottom of the bag and added 8 more inches of soil above the potato . . . and less than 10 days later I have 22 sets of leaves! I planted 33 seed potatoes. So far the experiment seems to be a roaring success. Also found some spaghetti squash starts in my compost pile so I rescued them and am giving them away to gardening friends. (I had already purchased starts about a week ago . . . .  )
A few other tidbits, I am a high school science teacher by training and have taught AP Chemistry, all other levels of Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, and ELL science. If school were still in session I would be busy with spring subbing jobs although school officially ends here next Friday 6/12.
Question, so how do we tag our Linda?
kitbop, I have to giggle because out west (here in the US) when someone asks how far something is, we generally say in hours of driving. Now in Southern California it is always prefaced with "depending on traffic"!
joblackford I lived in Himeji for my senior year of HS as an exchange student and visited Kobe a number of times.
I may dive into scrapping some events from last fall that we just about DH and I . . . as scrapping the boys right now might be a little too difficult.
For those new to our group a short synopsis: Our sons are bio brothers 6 1/2 years apart in age. Siblings 2 and 3 did not survive their Russian birth home. We adopted them at age 10 and almost 4 after they spent 3 years in Russian orphanages. They have extreme developmental childhood trauma. Both suffer from depression and self medicating through substance abuse. DS21 is in a local state funded treatment program, the basic 12 step with some mental health counseling provided (Day 40). DS14 is in Residential Wilderness Therapy (Day 38). DS21's influence over DS14 was extremely detrimental. It's been a very tough emotional time.
On top of that a hot water heater sprung a leak, causing water damage that took 10 days of drying remediation removal of tile, laminate flooring outside the room, and carpet and drywall inside the bedroom. We don't have an official start date for the remodel yet. AND our email provider (not our internet provider) upgraded their services and now DH can no longer send emails. I am able to because I spent time and $$ with my Mac guru remotely to barely upgrade my ancient iMac so it was compatible.
Okay enough for now, I'm off for a warm bath and bed!
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Post by kitbop on Jun 5, 2020 14:31:19 GMT
Morning! angel97701 - Linda is @ homeschoolmum. I don't know the other Linda, but I imagine she gets a LOT of erroneous notifications!!! Voles are so cute, but so destructive! I know I'm in the minority here - I do love rodents. But I own a good hunting outdoor cat who keeps our population under control. Our neighbours had a terrible rat problem a few years ago. We never saw one. My friend is currently struggling with a groundhog/woodchuck problem who keeps uprooting her tomatoes. My DD is a science freak. She is taking them all and plans to take biology, chemistry, or biochemistry at university. This year, just before covid, she discovered "quantum chemistry" and fell in love. Her plan: to be a prof. She LOVES being in the spotlight, and thinks teaching auditoriums full of people would be a blast. Despite this, I swear she is my biologic daughter  justjac - coming from BC, 30,000 is a good sized town. Here in Ontario? The small cities are 100,000. After 20 years here, my perspective is completely warped. I've done a good chunk of genealogy on my family. We've been in North America since the 1600s - Van Loon, Nelles, Swayze. They are so well documented and I actually discovered that my Mom and Dad share ancestors (my Mom's 8x great grandparents, my Dad's 7x great grandparents). I also discovered that DH has a great-great-great-great grandfather named...wait for it... "Hexagon Sextus". He went by "Sextus". He was the 6th son of an architect!!! I told DH it's too bad we missed this golden opportunity when naming our sons  But it's frustrating that other branches of the family are impossible to go back beyond great-grandparents due to their common names. joblackford - You are so lucky to have seen so much of the Pacific. Yellowstone was planned for us in May: we were going to fly to Vegas (cheap flights), rent a car, and do a road trip from Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon. I love road trips the most. We'd love to do New Zealand that way too. However, flights and car rentals there make the trip out of our price range right now. |
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Post by Linda on Jun 5, 2020 17:18:37 GMT
I've done a good chunk of genealogy on my family. We've been in North America since the 1600s - Van Loon, Nelles, Swayze. They are so well documented and I actually discovered that my Mom and Dad share ancestors (my Mom's 8x great grandparents, my Dad's 7x great grandparents). I also discovered that DH has a great-great-great-great grandfather named...wait for it... "Hexagon Sextus". He went by "Sextus". He was the 6th son of an architect!!! I told DH it's too bad we missed this golden opportunity when naming our sons But it's frustrating that other branches of the family are impossible to go back beyond great-grandparents due to their common names. I've gotten back to my 5th great grandfather (born 1734) on my Scottish line and my 7th greatgrandparents (born in the 1660s) on my English line but the Irish lines are harder - one side I haven't managed to trace back to Ireland (my 2nd greatgrandparents immigrated around 1850) and two others that immigrated a generation later I've found my 2nd great grandparents in Ireland but no further back yet. Dh's lines - many of which I have back to colonial days (1630s) and a couple further back in England/France but I still have a Danish line I only have back to the early 1800s (they immigrated in 1881) and a possible Metis line that runs out of records about the same time in the Wisconsin area. As for common names - one of my 2nd great grandfathers was William Taylor - he married his first cousin Ann Taylor and had 11 children. She died and he remarried, another Anne Taylor, and had another 9 children. The one I descend from married a Mary Smith. Those have been fun families to research and untangle |
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Post by joblackford on Jun 5, 2020 18:56:15 GMT
I've done a good chunk of genealogy on my family. We've been in North America since the 1600s - Van Loon, Nelles, Swayze. They are so well documented and I actually discovered that my Mom and Dad share ancestors (my Mom's 8x great grandparents, my Dad's 7x great grandparents). I also discovered that DH has a great-great-great-great grandfather named...wait for it... "Hexagon Sextus". He went by "Sextus". He was the 6th son of an architect!!! I told DH it's too bad we missed this golden opportunity when naming our sons But it's frustrating that other branches of the family are impossible to go back beyond great-grandparents due to their common names. I've gotten back to my 5th great grandfather (born 1734) on my Scottish line and my 7th greatgrandparents (born in the 1660s) on my English line but the Irish lines are harder - one side I haven't managed to trace back to Ireland (my 2nd greatgrandparents immigrated around 1850) and two others that immigrated a generation later I've found my 2nd great grandparents in Ireland but no further back yet. Dh's lines - many of which I have back to colonial days (1630s) and a couple further back in England/France but I still have a Danish line I only have back to the early 1800s (they immigrated in 1881) and a possible Metis line that runs out of records about the same time in the Wisconsin area. As for common names - one of my 2nd great grandfathers was William Taylor - he married his first cousin Ann Taylor and had 11 children. She died and he remarried, another Anne Taylor, and had another 9 children. The one I descend from married a Mary Smith. Those have been fun families to research and untangle Oh man, I was lucky to inherit some genealogical research from my grandmother going back 10 generations in some lines! Isn't it amazing to even read the names of people who were alive in the 18th century?! I have some brick walls, also mostly Irish. And argh, the Annes... I had one family who reused names like you wouldn't believe - they had so many Georges Annes Georgiannas, all in one generation, and several children died so they named the next with the same name. I was so glad when I found my Cockney bricklayer ancestor Epaphroditus Tolley. No mistaking him. He was the only one. His name means beautiful/lovely, as in Aphrodite, or Venustus (handsome) in the Roman period, and I believe it shows up once in the Bible. His brothers were Theophilus and John. lol. He named his son James! I haven't had any time for genealogy in ages. Between making cards, gardening, reading, and general time wasting here I never seem to make the time. I am looking forward to working on my virus diaries this weekend! I really hope I have more focus and energy than last weekend. |
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Post by joblackford on Jun 5, 2020 18:57:41 GMT
Hexagon Sextus is a really good name... Your boys really did miss out kitbop |
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Jun 6, 2020 6:10:41 GMT
I too enjoy reading but haven’t had the motivation. I was primarily listening to audiobooks in the car to and from work. That stopped in March and I’ve been working from home since. I’ve completed 4/24 for this year’s challenge.
My primary scrapbooking has been travel notebooks. I get a Cocoa Daisy kit monthly and I’m trying to actually use some of them. I’m using the April kit to document Covid experiences and the May kit to document protesting and police brutality. These seem like such rare life experiences that I want my kid to have something about what we were experiencing it because he’ll eventually learn about it from a schoolbook. My way of recording memories.
I still have my December Daily to complete but it is so close. With the extra push of this crop this week, I should be able to get it done and maybe even do a few cards before I put the Christmas bin away. Once that’s off my table, I’ll have a lot more room for other projects. I only have a couple pages left!!
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Post by angel97701 on Jun 7, 2020 2:45:27 GMT
 What a difference a really good nights sleep will do, 9 hours ladies! Well that and some time to process, and a friend stopping by with her 3 year old to pick up some spaghetti squash starts that were volunteers in my compost pile. It's been a rainy, sunny, hailing, type of day in the high 50s, so I spend some time outside and some inside! Yeah! My garden has more cucumber plants, and my flower bed has a new Foxglove. Foxglove are supposed to be deer resistant. I did have a pretty dianthus in that spot but the deer eat all the way down to the roots in the soil. Left the other 2 dianthus alone? BUT here's the real news for me! I actually felt like starting to scrap a little again! I have a layout started from my class reunion I might work on and some easy Hoover Dam layouts to finish on my table. So I got busy and got photos edited and sent to Costco to print.
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Post by Linda on Jun 7, 2020 5:28:14 GMT
angel97701 - so glad your're feeling better and back to scrapping I worked on a batch of postcards today - not quite finished but a good amount of progress. Working on a total of 52 to send to the residents of a nursing home (my sister and BIL run it). Using up a 6x6 pad from a summer themed EP kit from last year - it's not my favourite kit to use (doesn't work well for my summer photos or my style) but is working well for the cards. I have a few more to finish up and then just need to stamp and add sentiments and write a brief message on the back. used this as inspiration oldstablescrafts.co.uk/2020/05/flowers-for-every-season-miles-apart-cards.html
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Post by Linda on Jun 7, 2020 21:26:37 GMT
wow- quite an eventful weather day here. Pouring rain all day and we've had two tornado warnings where we had to take shelter in the bathrooms. One touched down a couple of miles away.
But I did get my 52 postcards finished plus 8 notecards fro my letter writing stash. I still need to write a message on the postcards though
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Jun 8, 2020 6:39:41 GMT
angel97701 it is AMAZING what a good night of sleep will do for you! If only it were easy to actually get a good night sleep every night—or even regularly! I know I’d be a whole different person! Linda thank you for sharing that card site. I’m going to take a look to see if I can use some of my 6x6 papers to make some cards. I’m looking forward to the Christmas Crop this week—I WILL finish my December album!! Maybe I’ll even get a few cards done and/or get some of my TN pages up to date. It’s not like I don’t have enough to do. It’s just that my free time and my motivation aren’t exactly matching up.
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Post by kitbop on Jun 8, 2020 13:44:05 GMT
angel97701 - hope you had a 2nd night of sleep Yes, I know foxglove is used here by friends who have deer in the forests behind their houses. I chose not to grow any squash this year. They take up so much garden real-estate and to buy them at market is only $2-3 each in season. But I love harvesting squash, it's so satisfying (and they do grow quickly...) Linda - so kind of you to help out the nursing home residents. I'm glad no tornados ripped through. I have to be so gentle about tornado warnings here. My kids flip out, like the warning means that the tornado is knocking on our front door! We get about 1 warning/year, but towns close to the great lakes get more because the storms come off the big water. ComplicatedLady - I want so much to really dig into the crop. But in my heart I know that until the weekend I'm going to struggle. Today is my day off but I have so much to do for DD's birthday that I'm just going to focus on that. I have 2 cakes made so far!
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Post by Linda on Jun 8, 2020 15:52:23 GMT
kitbop - thank you - my sister and BIL run a nursing home and they've asked for cards so I've been making a batch a couple of times a month to send them. I have to be careful with tornado warnings here too -I never mention watches but because we live in a mobile home, we have to shelter if there's a warning. D13 is getting better but still gets pretty freaked out though
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Post by Linda on Jun 14, 2020 22:54:58 GMT
Had an awesome crop! Completed December 2018 (need to go back and do November though - I skipped it to get the bonus Christmas points, lol) and completed ALL the crop challenges for the doubled 50 point bonus.
Now I need to go start dinner but I'm hoping to squeeze in a couple more pages before midnight - we'll see.
Hope June is being a great scrappy month for everyone!
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Jun 15, 2020 6:52:34 GMT
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Post by kitbop on Jun 15, 2020 11:38:20 GMT
Linda - I've been following your Christmas Crop (although I only managed 2 pages myself yesterday. I was in a funk this week). I'm sorry I didn't comment - your pages were amazing and we talked about you in envy in our AM virtual crop yesterday!!! ComplicatedLady - the more I see Robin's Egg, the more I think I'll buy it. Chipped Sapphire is one of my most used colours, mainly the oxid. it's the only colour I have a refill for! I LOVE rainbow inking of any sort. It may be one of the reasons I struggle more with Christmas scrapping - not a rainbow in sight Do you think the Hero ARts inks are as good as Distress? Are they in any way different than the distress?
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Post by Linda on Jun 15, 2020 13:27:52 GMT
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Jun 15, 2020 18:08:18 GMT
Sorry the pictures are so huge. kitbop the difference between the distress oxide ink and the reactive ink was very minimal with the water coloring and “smooshing”. On the dragon picture, the green is hero arts reactive ink and the red is distress oxide. The biggest difference is the hero arts ink doesn’t show up on dark paper. It’s nice on kraft and lighter colors, but it doesn’t show up on dark paper like the oxides. |
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Post by angel97701 on Jun 16, 2020 3:37:55 GMT
Hi to all, Been a few discouraging days . . . report from the field the DS14 was physically restrained again, for his safety for 25 minutes this time, first time was only 3 minutes. Haven't heard from his therapist specifically even though I've emailed her . . . . It is also recommended we have a full psychological evaluation which is another almost $7K  Plus working on finding him a therapist for when he is released plus transitional care for the family, and a plan if he relapses into substance abuse. Which means inpatient care at a facility . . . .
On another note, did you know that when you have home damage that is covered by the insurance that they will write the check to you and your mortgage lender? That the mortgage lender also has to endorse the check EVEN if they have no offices in your state! (Our loan was sold even though when we took it out 10 years ago they said they would not sell it!) Mortgage lender wants the line item estimate done by the insurance adjuster, which is not online nor has not been sent to us in paper form. The contractor's won't work, even though the adjuster agreed to their numbers! 
The brightest part of the day? DS14 carved me a ring of wood, and his program sent it to me in the mail. I received it this afternoon, I really needed this little reminder that at some point things will be better! My Bible Journaling reminds me of that as well.
I did stamp the inside of two cards today, no energy to make special birthday cards for my dad or sister. But at least they will get handmade cards. Next, I will make 3 Father's day cards. Probably CAS style.
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Post by Linda on Jun 16, 2020 14:24:41 GMT
((((Hugs))) and prayers angel97701 - the wooden ring sounds lovely and meaningful. I hope things start looking up for your DS14 soon and also that the insurance cheque fiasco gets straightened out - what a pain |
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Post by joblackford on Jun 18, 2020 0:59:37 GMT
Oh wow, angel97701 that sounds like a rough few days. Lots of worries, and the last thing you need is to mess about with insurance people. Sigh... I hope things are looking up now. {{hugs}} Sorry, I've been rather lazy about checking in with everyone and commenting on all the layouts. I'm not quite sure where the last 2 weeks have gone. Someone mentioned a campaign happening from the 14th-21st and I thought "why are they promoting that a week ahead?" and it took me 3 days to figure out they weren't and I was just mentally stuck in last week. (face palm) I caught up on a few things today. Maybe I should go back to doing FlyLady's AntiProcrastination Day on Wednesdays. Linda whenever people talk about tornado warnings I freak out a bit, even though when I actually experienced one while visiting my friend in IL it wasn't so bad, because it never came, I guess. She did show me the tops of the trees that had been sheared off at her parents' farm and her sister told a story about running to the storm shelter that sounded pretty scary. But I guess it's like when we talk about the volcano and earthquake risk out west, it's just what you get used to. Although there are a lot more random twisters to pray don't hit you than there are actual dangerous earthquakes. We did have one very random EF0 touch down near my MIL's, one town over (very unusual for us in Washington!!) and it damaged a few houses and businesses. Driving over to check on MIL's place after that was eerie. ugh, I can't believe I have to cook another meal tonight! I have baking to do too, but I can barely motivate myself to make dinner at this point. Take care, all. |
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Post by nylene on Jun 24, 2020 18:12:17 GMT
Somehow I totally missed this thread this month. Sorry for being absent! angel97701 , I am so sorry that you have had some rough weeks. I am happy that you received a ring from DS. There's goodness in him and you have helped add to that. Hugs to you for all you are dealing with. I hope he does well in treatment. I didn't know we had so many genealogists. I did genealogy in big books for many years and when things went digital, I got lost. I get started and can't remember how to get back where I started. I'm pretty techo-challenged. So now I volunteer to digitize old records so others can search them. Right now I am typing South African birth certificates into a format for digital records. Some is written in Africaans so I have to have a window open to translate a few words. It is very addicting. I just finished a bunch of Civil War troops, enlistments, deaths, etc. I have learned so much doing this. I live with my DH who is legally blind but still able to do lots of things he wants. He was an avid golfer and has worked as a GC Supt since before we were married almost 52 years ago. His dad was the Golf Pro at our local course, so he started young. He is still working a few hours in the mornings as a consultant at a local course. We lived just 3 houses apart when we were children. We have been best friends since we were 14 and 15. I don't scrap in any order. I just choose a photo or 2 from my many stacks and go from there. My books have all years and people grouped together. I know that drives some scrappers crazy! joblackford , we hosted a Japanese student from Kobe. We hosted several when our children were young. Our DD took Japanese in school and went to Japan as an exchange student, then got a job in Tokyo with a language program. DH and I got to spend 10 days there with her. I love Japan! |
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Post by joblackford on Jun 25, 2020 2:53:50 GMT
we hosted a Japanese student from Kobe. We hosted several when our children were young. Our DD took Japanese in school and went to Japan as an exchange student, then got a job in Tokyo with a language program. DH and I got to spend 10 days there with her. I love Japan! Oh, that's cool. I love Japan too. I met my husband and his sister there (they are from here though, one town over from where we live now). We all lived there - SIL for a year, hubby for 3, I stayed 4 years. We hadn't been back in 20 years until last spring. I'm not crafting so far this week. We have this big project to help SIL's FIL clear out all the stuff he and his wife collected since 1968. They had a LOT. MIL was very attached, but he doesn't care for any of it, so since she passed away we're selling it piece by piece on Fbk Marketplace. It takes up more time than my real business some weeks! But I sold 3 hanging scales and a mystery item today (a little metal shelf with random doodads, maybe from a ship) so I'm feeling more accomplished than last week trying and failing to sell copper coal scuttles... sigh. There's so much... I'm glad people are able to go out again, even if it's just to pick up stuff from my porch and post some money through the mail slot. |
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Canadian Pea, but more rural than I, who amazes with both scrapbooking and cardmaking and never seems to have an "off" month!)
Or fill in some gaps for me because I love those trivial tidbits. They make people feel much more real-life.
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But it's frustrating that other branches of the family are impossible to go back beyond great-grandparents due to their common names. 
What a difference a really good nights sleep will do, 9 hours ladies! Well that and some time to process, and a friend stopping by with her 3 year old to pick up some spaghetti squash starts that were volunteers in my compost pile. It's been a rainy, sunny, hailing, type of day in the high 50s, so I spend some time outside and some inside! Yeah! My garden has more cucumber plants, and my flower bed has a new Foxglove. Foxglove are supposed to be deer resistant. I did have a pretty dianthus in that spot but the deer eat all the way down to the roots in the soil. Left the other 2 dianthus alone?
Plus working on finding him a therapist for when he is released plus transitional care for the family, and a plan if he relapses into substance abuse. Which means inpatient care at a facility . . . .
