Monday, Monday - What's new with you?

Elaine,

A big welcome to the OFF to you. Margo and I will be picking your brain for sure. I am an oh so NOT professional genealogist but I love family research. I"m hoping to finally get to Salt Lake City to the Family History Center this spring. Since my trip to Italy got canceled I think I will finally make this trip that I have wanted to do for so long. My maiden name was Clark my GG grandfather was Richard Elijah Clark. I know he was a Civil War vet. I have his records and everything from there forward. . . nothing backwards. I want to go to Salt Lake and concentrate on him. Have you been there? Suggestions??

Again welcome. You will enjoy this summer so much. I can do so much that I was unable to do prior to losing a lot of weight. I'm sure you can too.

WELCOME ELAINE !!  Book on cemetary weird?? No way !! I make scrape books on cemetaries, that is one of my joys of seeing spring come so that my granddaughter and I can get back out  exploring the back roads and finding old cemeteries. Yes people look at me like I am odd, but I tell them I just love the art and history of a cemetary plus, no one ever talks back to me there( grin) My bf is a city councilman in a tiny Iowa town and their cemetary needs to be documented I told him I would LOVE to help. He couldn't believe someone would actually want to do that.  Yes you are in the right place. Your 3 day sounds wonderful. There is so little we can do to help our friends who are hurting, this sounds likea wonderful way of support.. Again, welcome to our great group.Blessings

Elaine, it is so good to see you. Welcome to OFF and to our little family. It is so good to see new ones post and let us know about them. Please keep on posting and letting us get to know you.

I am in awe of you being a professional genealogist. I am working on the family tree and I just keep hitting road blocks but I have found some new relatives so that is always nice and so much fun. I wish I had you to sit down with and do some conversing. I could learn a lot from you I am sure! I love cemeteries. I know that sounds strange but I was raised loving them. My grandma always use to tell us that we didn't need to be afraid of cemeteries since they won't hurt you it is the living that hurts you. Bill (my DH) on the other hand is afraid of cemeteries and now I preach that to him! I guess it is true what goes around comes around! Anyhow......cemeteries have so much information to share......I would love to read your book.

Again.......welcome!

Aloha Elaine and welcome to the OFF!

I love reading about the process of our OFF members......and you are definitely on your way to freedom in your body. Imagine doing a walk!! I think back three years, and my "walks" would be from my front door to my car....and I would be winded. Today....I walk freely without thinking about how much farther do I have to before I can collapse.

Your research on cemeteries makes me remember my ex-husbands adventure last summer. He WALKED from Portland, Oregon, to San Francisco....over 850 mile!! The first night he called me from where he was sleeping.....IN A CEMETERY!! He said it seemed like the safest place to make camp....Ha! Interesting perspective, eh??

Good luck on your your journey, and I'm so glad that you have joined us so we can share it with you.

Aloha nui loa,

Maui Karen

welcome out of lurkdom!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm down by the toledo area in ohio- well -east of there-so not real far

and as karen said will pick your brain--

i personally love cemeteries- so much info there!! i do photos for findagrave.com
my mom and i are planning a weekend trip to "do" the cemeteries in our family over memorial day weekend--- ours are ranging from kalamazoo to sturgis and points west-niles, cassopolis, jones, etc.....some of tehm she has never even been to and it's her family!!!!

anyhow-hurrying out the door but wante dto say hi!!!!

George
 Glad you had a fun filled weekend & Yes I will put your Church friend on my prayer list & also put her on our Prayer list at Church. God is good all the time & all things
are possible. Have a great Monday!!

Monday Wow The days all seem to run together when you are not working. So Much
for the summer weather around here. yesterday was 50 mph winds & it dropped 20 degrees from Saturday to yesterday. The clouds moved out quickly, & headed towards
Texas, Sorry George!! Today it's suppose to make it to 70, so I guess that will have to
be better than the cold stuff you in the midwest & east have been getting.
Take care & hope you have a good week.

hoep you have a better today.of course its monday and that my down fall its monday.getting my pt for my left knee its getting better.i have my last one in about a week from now,hopeing it will have move more than its doing.the leg machine they have pick up.so its on mine own moving this leg,

marylyn

Hi George and my OFF family:

I was AWOL yesterday ... just didn't feel like getting online. I woke up feeling lousy and spent a good half  hour in the bathroom before I could do much of anything. I was just too depressed about this upcoming meeting today.

I'm not going to the meeting until later this afternoon. I wasn't going at all but decided I want to hear it for myself. But before I get more depressed, I'm going to a movie. I'm going to see "Slumdog Millionaire." I need something to make me feel better. Then I may go out for lunch. I think after the meeting I may need a beer ... maybe two (I'm just kidding on the two ... I know two beers will get me drunk.)

I meant to add ... my brother says our friend Bruce is not doing well. He's down to 200 pounds, and Bruce is a big guy. Bruce is the guy who lives in Lubbock and has Hodgkins. Anyway, he's near the end. Bruce is a sweet guy and he and his wife have 7 dogs, all shelter rescues. (I dog-sat for him a while back ... what a trip that was!)

Well, I'm on the phone with Carla ... I should get off. Have a good day.

Good morning, George and my OFF siblings. I hope that everyone enjoys the day today. Take for what it is.........another gift for our lives. The way I look at it is.....we could have woke up dead and then the day would be a real bummer!

George, I am keeping your friend Lynn in my prayers. Like you said, God heals in many ways and death is the ultimate healing. May God bless her and her family.

Nothing much going on here. I was suppose to go to the doctor with my sister but that was changed. Yesterday she called me and told me and told me that she was having terrible pain in her stomach and it is going around her side and into her back. I took her to the hospital and after waiting and x rays, lab work and more waiting they announced that she has kidney and bladder infections. Then I had to take her into another town to get her scripts for antibiotics and pain. What a night and it was a long one too. But now she is on the way to better health and that is the important thing. Needless to say she isn't going to the new doctor today. She doesn't like the doctor she has now (I never have liked her) and so she is going back to the ones that she had when she switched to the one she has now. She stopped going to the old ones because she had to travel a tiny bit to get to them since they moved out of Chesterton and into Valparaiso. I told her why go to a doctor you don't like just because they are in the town you live? If you don't like them you aren't going to go to them like you should and that is what happened with her......she only went when she was sick and not on a regular basis. Oh well the important thing is that she is changing now.

I am going to stay home today and finishing up the living room. That is my main goal for today.......get rid of the stuff sitting around here and find them new homes other than the ones they took over in the living room.

I am going now and so I am sending love and hugs to all and prayers for the life we are all living. Have a wonderful day and remember to smile so that it makes others days happy and bright.