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Hi James...good to see you out and about these days again.

OK, it's summer over here...we think...we aren't sure as of yet...but we think it is...after all the calendar says its June. At any rate time to hang up the "colds" for an few months... if not longer...so hope you all get better and STAY THAT WAY!...ahem...smiles*

Hello CathyE and Brenda...you get unpacked completely CathyE?...I think that was what you were working on the last time we heard from you. Time to drag out our cameras you know, get an few shots to share later on with others. Told myself I keep my posting down an bit......so better go for now...chit chat later.

That sounds to have been a good way to spend the day Brenda! 

Hope today will be the start of a great week for you all and that Chris & Sarah, Ron & Anna and Sue will recover and be back to normal soon.

I wonder if now you are all stars you actually feel that you "belong" more.  It is good to see so much more participation on the threads.  Keep it up folks it makes life on POE much more interesting, lol

Hi Shirley, Thanks for thinking of me. Not done yet. Amazing how much stuff you collect over the years. But I keep moving, unpacking and organizing. I will be so happy when it is all together! As soon as it is I will get some pictures for you.  Right now I am trying to deal with The ex stealing my mail. He thinks he can do anything illegal and get away with it.

Good Morning everyone. Hope everybody has a bright sunny day!                                   

I started out on my walk this morning at 5 AM and pretty soon there was lightening and a crash of thunder. You've never seen me hightail it back to the house so fast. Ha!

Talking via instant message to my son in Korea. So coming home early from my walk had its upside.

Housework today. So exciting! 

Sue..don't you know how to do the housework yet?..you plug in the old radio tune "He's an Rebel"..grab your feather- duster and go fer it!....get in an bit of an "cardio" workout at the same time. Glad to hear your talking to your son these days...more then just once in an while..probably does make the day go better.

I read that walking up an flight of stairs is like having "sex"..yes.. I did....and have for years tried to talk my hubby into puttling in an pully system for an dumb waiter between the downtstairs and the upstairs...and he won't do it. Needless to say..washing clothes, your tired of those stairways by the time you've spent all day long.. up  and down.. up and down....he did put in an laundry shute in the master bedroom for me..we had to design the thing ourselves.  He came home home one day...with me carrying up an heavy load of laundry....and he says brightly.".How was your day today?"...and I looked at him wearily, hung partly over the basket..... and said..."I feel like I've been "raped" deary...he just kept movin on.... and didn't say a thing...but I know "deep down" he was laughing his head off...I just know it!.... Wait until he retires....he can help with the laundry. Maybe by then he'll have the time for an dumb waiter in the house somewhere. Gosh, even Thomas Jefferson had an dumb waiter down to his wine cellar in the late 1700's.

Cathy...its hard to be divorced, let alone to have an nasty hubby creating havoc for you. Simpy tell him to lay down his anger...that it is an matter of your lives going in different paths.. possibly for your individual soul growth... and it's childish for him to waste his time harrassing you.... when he needs to get on to an more satisfying lifestyle of happiness. By harassing you.. he builds up an karma of "anger" to have to deal with later on... until its resolved by him. To break the pattern.. he must learn the art of forgiveness...you may be his "soul lesson" this time around anyway. Our expereinces include every facet of living life... so by the time we make it to our creator, we have complete and true "understanding" of everything we deal with in life. We have many expereinces to live... to accomplish that aspect .Our passing the test.... to overcome the bad in any expereince. I know that's very difficult to do at times, but it can be done.

I have an long time friend whose divorced...and even mention it and she say's immediately..."He's going to hell someday when he dies"...with no second thoughts on it. I said what did he do?..Did he beat you up or something?....she said he got me preggie at age 15, made me into one of his " relgious freaks" walking the streets for his "religion"..he lived the life of an businessman, not the wife trying to make ends meet with hardly nothing... raising an brood of kids...then he finds another gal,...could support his wealthy lifestyle better... and tells me to get out of his life...and take the kids with me, knowing I never granduated from school, never worked..because he didn't want me to...then he "black-mailed" me in his church..the thing I "served" for years on end...and his "prestige" in the area meant more to them  then my starving kids...... he's going to hell, Shirley. I said..what about now?..your looking better then I've ever seen you...she say's, in my desparation.... I ran into an man... trying to keep the family going,.... as "ex" refused to pay me an dime...we married, and he took on my kids and me. I work now..I'll never stop as I leanred not to the hard way. Why can't you forgive your "ex" then?...he hurt me so deeply inside... and deserted me when I needed him possibly the most.  I said...but look what you've got now..you have found "true" love..born not out of what you "admire"..but what you have learned comes out of "truth"...your kids are fine...and they have learned what it takes to be succesful in the world and  to get an education..your looking healthy... and seem to have an better  house now..you have an career too. I know its been hard on you...but its better now for you also.  Forgive and go on..it's an waste to have these kinds of feelings as it darkens your own "happiness". God tells us not to judge others. He doesn't tell us to put up with abuse either...even Christ left his own homeland... when they refused to accept him.  As for the church, if you had any real freinds...they are still around...if you didn't maybe its an good thing to leave them to themselves also. She was thinking about that..her "ex" came to my door one time with his church....first time I'd seen him out going from door to door, before he seemed ot proud in ways to do such an menial thing...he recongized me immediately...and knew I knew he had divorced.  I simply said that I ran into his "ex" wife and I felt she had been though an very difficult time...and it would of been nicer if he could of helped her more. It does more toward  God to see his church people try to live an better life through their daily problems..helping thier own sometimes... as it does in passing out door pamphlets.  Search your heart and know what's "right" for you. Charity begins at "home".... work on that one. He's never come back, the church has though...but not as much. I am not of that church anyway. Hopefully he's having and better lifestyle these days also. It has always made me think that there is perhaps.. even an valuable lesson in divorce also. I once read that "death" comes to us bodily... when our soul growth for some reason is caused to "stop".... either by others or ourselves. See you can literally "kill" another and not even pick up an weapon to do so. Never kill another"s opportunity for growth in life. Expect them to leave otherwise. Your actions have "caged" them undesirably...neither do you not expect responsible actions by others either. Enough said.

Someone was high on something when they came up with that statement. 

I tend not to like music playing when I'm working, Shirley. I prefer to talk to myself.  

Hi, everyone, Spent one last day with no work except weeding in the garden. Very nice in Pennsylvania today before the mid week heat wave we're expecting.

Glad to see Dean Martin again, James. It's a nice picture. 

Shirley, You were talking about have a dumb waiter in your house. When I was first married, we lived in an old Colonial style house that actually had a dumb waiter in it. It was the coolest thing. We had a lot of fun with it. Too bad you don't see them now.That was a beautiful old house. Big folding doors in the parlor, hardwood floors. It was part of the original Pettebone estate in the town I grew up in which is called Forty Fort. It stands for the fort that was here and the 40 settlers who inhabited it. Unfortunately, they've torn the house down now. People sometimes don't appreciate the older things. Now there's an ugly office type building there. Used to be three huge weeping willow trees in the yard, too, and they're long gone as well. 

I hope you get through all your troubles, Cathy. Things have a way of working out and I'm sure once you're all settled, life will be much easier. 

Have a great day all.