Beneath the Wraps

  The Power Blinked off and returned – but the internet didn ’ t.   The lights in the office indicated that the internet was up and running.   But no internet on any device.   No internet.   No cable. I was in the middle of facebooking someone a message.   I need the internet to play games with my daughter – better be back up within a couple of hours I would hope.   But it ’ s been more than an hour that we ’ ve been without.   The weather ’ s been nice today.                             What is up with the Internet not working?!? And Alexa Stacey giving us attitude. Alexa Emily worked most of the day.                             That was yesterday. N...

             Actually, I don ’ t.  5 th Sunday used to mean a combined meeting among the Relief Society and Elders Quorum.  Did it change?  According to the LDS website (now referred to as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – we have been encouraged NOT to abbreviate)the fifth Sundays are under the direction of the bishop.  We have had some combined meetings, but mostly we ’ ve just had Sunday School.  Makes sense today as we have not had a Sunday School all month.            I ’ ve been fighting a cold since last week and had opted not to go to either of the meetings last week though there was an after meeting that my RS president wanted me to attend.  I did.  I wore a mask.  Last night I went to the Halloween party but left early.  Today I went to Sacrament meeting than had Richard bring me home.  I think he should have stayed home as well as he still has...

           Richard ’ s birthday is October 3.  Every year around his birthday or sometimes not until before Thanksgiving he will catch a cold that will seemingly linger more each year.  This year happened within a few weeks after his birthday.  He happened to be in San Diego at the time.  He picked up a cold!  I told him NOT to bring it home.  But he did.  First he shared it with our youngest son and brought it home to me.  Oh, gee.          Cold symptoms effect different people in different ways.   For me, it was like getting hit by a MACK truck – not that I ’ ve ever really been hit by a MACK truck mind you.   I just imagine that is partially  how it would feel.   Like every tissue and organ within your body has felt the weight of heaviness smacking into it until it is too weak to function on its own.          ...

  Played Phrasel with Jaime this morning and afternoon.   Still foggy outside.   Seems to be interfering with many of the sites on the internet.     Played games with Jaime but had problems opening other games or even continue with scrabble cheat.   It ’ s like the towers aren ’ t getting signals due to the fog.     Only YouTube hasn ’ t been given me problems.   Not the way the other sites have.  Even this site was  giving me a problem at first.

                 I am so grateful for the Come Follow Me program and have expressed my gratitude towards those that share their talents through Podcast and YouTube and for the Come Follow Me site on facebook.   I am really good at following the program until about mid-May.   Summer comes and I am not near as diligent and tend to miss out.   At least   this year.   It appears I had only missed one week of the Doctrine and Covenants.   And that was in November – the week of Thanksgiving when all of the family was sick accept for Jaime.   I do have another confession – though I’ve returned to the program and some sources I have not been so diligent about the Come Follow Me page on facebook.   It used to come up in my feed when I was diligent about my research.   I need to revisit.   I need to get back to my routine. I am better with the fall.   If it would only st...

 When you call a company - any company - make sure you are on their site and not just one that claims to be. Recently just saw another ad for JUSTANSWER promoting pet advice.  DON'T DO IT.  Just Answer is a fishing site.  BEWARE! You don't even have to click continue. This will come up automatically.   DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER!!!    You will be paying far more than just one dollar.

             Garbage day was Thursday when we were living on Jenny in Myrtle Creek.   It was easy to remember when we would load Jaime up in the car to drive her to the church for young women, we would put the garbage out.   The garbage pick up was on Wednesdays after our move to Tri City.   Same days we took Jaime to YW – and we haven’t always been good at remembering.           The garbage would get picked up just before 7:00 and if we hadn’t put it out when she started seminary, there was still time when we observed other cans out on our street.   But now the garbage gets picked up at 4:00 a.m.   Usually the trucks will wake me up.   Surprisingly they didn’t a couple of days ago.   Neither Richard nor I have been sleeping well this week.   We don’t know why.

        When Jaime was little she had this admirable persistence that I don’t recall having seen in many children.   She would go after something and keep at it until she accomplished whatever it is she was trying to do.   She didn’t get upset or frustrated.   She never gave up.   That was so admirable as it started before she could walk.           Two specific examples I remember were when she was in the tub and there was a sliver of soap floating around.   She was determined to pick it up out of the water.   Of course it would slip from her grasp and eventually became smaller and non-existent.   So it was the soap that gave out.   She continued to look for it though.           She would see me remove bottle caps from the water I was drinking and replace the cap.   She tried her hand at removing the cap also until she was finally...

             I don’t bend so well anymore.   My left leg often hurts and I wear lifts under my right foot to even them out.   I got up at 1:30 this morning to take Bonnie out and noticed a pain in my right leg.   What was that all about?   So both of my legs were hurting and I decided that I would soak them in the tub.            The knobs for the master bath broke off a long time ago and I haven’t used the tub for a while – perhaps a couple of times before Biff and his family moved in but never while they were living here.   I did not realize how tight the bathroom was until this morning.   No wonder Biff is so happy not living here anymore! I’m wondering how they were able to get along in such a tight space.  

           Many of us experience a devastation after an automobile accident.  We may lose sleep over replaying the situation in our mind.  We are more cautious when we return to driving.  After a while we return normal sleeping habits and may become a little more lax in our driving habits – or whatever it may be.  Automobile accidents is just one of many scenarios.  I picked that analogy as I think more people may be able to identify with it than to pitbulls or the learning impaired.          Last month Jaime and I had decided to take Bonnie to Millsite just for a change of scenery.  Unfortunately our day did not end well.  I lost a tremendous amount of sleep over the events that took place.  But it ’ s been a month and I have started sleeping better but not have completely relaxed nor do I expect I ever will.          Jaime and I were si...

  A week ago I taught the lesson in Relief Society.   I had read and listened to the talk several times in the course of a month and it just wasn’t resonating with me. As I prayed about how I should go about teaching the lesson I felt inspired to focus on the upcoming conference and how to prepare to hear whatever message we needed to hear for ourselves. I passed out a paper with thoughts I had collected from both the church website and Deseret News.   It starts out with how blessed we are to get to hear the words of God through our prophets and apostles and other Church leaders.   Let me emphasize other Church leaders as we heard from many that serve in other capacities.   And what a great blessing it was to hear from each of them. General conference is a gift that each of us can benefit.   Taking notes helps one to focus – at least it does me.   I know that there were some who were disappointed not seeing Pres. Nelson for three of the sessions. ...