and if the video is ever removed the words and music here without the pictures (which make the message more powerful) Thank you, Chris Mann for this message and beautiful song.
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Thank U FrontLine - Chris Mann
I was listening to pandemic parodys yesterday when Jenna and Roland were in Roseburg. For the most part I laughed and related to everyone. I relate to this one to, but from the side of the grateful one for those on the frontline. The video makes me cry . . . everytime. It's a beautiful song and message.
and if the video is ever removed the words and music here without the pictures (which make the message more powerful) Thank you, Chris Mann for this message and beautiful song.
and if the video is ever removed the words and music here without the pictures (which make the message more powerful) Thank you, Chris Mann for this message and beautiful song.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Fire on the Freeway
The Relief
Society Pres has felt impressed to make little banana breads and plates of cookies
to be delivered to some of the sisters in the ward. I volunteered to help with deliveries and had
Jenna with me as we drove around to deliver cookies.
Two
of the sisters we had delivered to live off the same exit as our friend
Caroline. So after we had finished delivering
the cookies, we stopped by Caroline’s house to visit. I think we were a bit closer than six feet
apart but did keep our distance.
We
could hear the sirens and then followed by a noise between a “pop” and a “boom”
– it didn’t sound like gunfire exactly, certainly not an explosion. I still don’t know if it was related to the
sirens or not, nor do I know what happened. Caroline said she could smell something resembling like burnt plastic. If I had gotten back on the freeway and headed south, driven through
Canyonville and back through Riddle I would have missed the “stand still”
traffic – but I didn’t know I5 had been turned into a parking lot until I was
part of the non-moving traffic.
I
had even pulled over to allow a firetruck to pass. We didn’t know that we would see at least
eight more emergency vehicles use the shoulder to pass the long line of trucks
and cars. We could see the smoke. Black smoke to the west and white smoke to
the east – or so it appeared. Some drivers
exited their vehicles and walked around in search of answers. I don’t know if they ever came. I watched three different news shows and
there was no report.
I
don’t know how long those toward the front of the line had been waiting. Jenna and I had only been a part of the line
only twenty to thirty minutes though it
seemed longer as it was over 80 degrees outside. I think the smelly smoke just added to the heat
that was felt. I don’t know if plastic was involved.
By the time we got pass the “source” it wasn’t identifiable. According to this report which I found this morning, the remains had once been part of a motor home.
This view was taken from above - I have no idea where the photographer was standing. I didn't know there were roads there |
This is how the smoke appeared on the west side; photo cropped from this link https://kobi5.com/news/i-5-temporarily-closed-north-of-canyonville-due-to-fire-128192/ |
Jenna took most of these. I think I may have taken this first one
There were several cars between us and the ones in photograph |
Taken from our car |
I took this one of Jenna handing out paper cranes she had made during our wait |
after about 20 minutes or so |
all of these vehicles had passed us on the shoulder |
hard to believe it had been a motor home as this was all that remained |
Friday, May 8, 2020
Feeling Blessed
On April 20
I received an email for a work assignment for the 13 – 28. I was scheduled to work at Coffenberry for
the rest of the year. I posted this
assignment on facebook and proposed two questions: If they wanted me on the 13th, why
did they wait until the 20 to tell me?
The schools are closed, but do you think if I show up that I will get
paid?
Roland had suggested that I qualify for unemployment, but he was still working and I didn't want to take away from somebody else who needed more than we. As it turned out I didn't even qualify as I hadn't put in enough hours or made enough. And that was okay.
Roland had suggested that I qualify for unemployment, but he was still working and I didn't want to take away from somebody else who needed more than we. As it turned out I didn't even qualify as I hadn't put in enough hours or made enough. And that was okay.
I haven’t been to any of the schools
since March 13. The school district has
payments available on the 10th but today I received a notification
about the automatic deposit into my account.
I WAS paid. Early at that. Today is only the 8th. Roland says that the school systems may be allotted so much money per year and are faced with a "use it or lose it" decision at the end. I hope that they were able to pay the instructors at least three times the amount of their normal paycheck as they have worked harder during the pandemic than in the public classrooms. It seems unfair as I haven't contributed to the online education in anyway. I haven't even volunteered at the library. I understand books can be reserved online for drive-by pick up now.
Currently there are
people who are afraid to work, jobs made available to those who quit,
businesses reopening too soon (in my opinion anyway) and people struggling. I thank Heavenly Father for all the
unexpected blessings that have come my way during this pandemic.
Monday, May 4, 2020
Two Leaders
All
of my life I have heard about the signs of the times and what will take place
in the last days – the speculations and the truth. I hadn’t questioned a lot of it as I planned
on being on the other side long before the majority of the signs came to pass –
which I still might. Things will only
get worse before they start to get better.
I don’t say that to be morbid or because I’m pessimistic. It is fact.
One
of the things I was taught was that the people may choose one of two
leaders. In today’s case it would be
either the words of a prophet or the leader of the country, state, whatever a
person feels. There are Trump
supporters. There are those who know
that Pres. Nelson is a mouthpiece for God.
Not all people are in favor of Trump.
Not all people recognize Pres. Nelson as a prophet. Not everybody has a testimony of God’s
love.
I
am choosing to follow the counsel of the prophet. Regardless of whether the world reopens or
not – if the Church doesn’t open for meetings and communication remains
virtual, then so-be-it. I will continue
with the stay-at-home order. I will
continue wearing a mask and distancing myself.
Even if it is no longer required.
Poor
Jenna. How horrible this situation is
for our youth right now. I don’t know
how to make her feel better. It’s an
unpleasant situation if we make it that way.
We can’t control other people’s choices.
We can only control our own. This may only be a dress rehearsal. It won't last forever. But I predict it will continue for quite a while before it gets better.
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Saturday, May 2, 2020
We Will Never Run Out
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