Saturday, June 16, 2018

Following in Daddy's Footsteps (Happy Fathers Day by our friend Paul):

Ben's Caring Bridge

Dearest Paula, I am so deeply sorry for your loss. I am so glad your faith has brought you all so much peace and comfort. What a blessing that must be. Love to you all.

Greetings cherished ones

When I saw I had a Caring Bridge email today I just knew.....Deepest sympathy Paula. We all mourn with you.

Life goes on. So does the scale. Down another half today to 149 even with bacon for dinner. Its the weekend of festivals here. Today is the oyster festival. I will skip it. They have all kinds of places cooking oysters in fancy ways but its waiting in long lines at food tents plus everyone gets drunk. I would rather have oysters in a nice sit down restaurant. Then tomorrow is the Fish Festival at Trinidad. I work there at the gallery all day but at least will have a pal with me. They close off the main street and there will be no where to park. Hopefully I will be able to get out and look at the vendors for a bit. They used to have volunteers serve a fish dinner at the school but it was so terrible that they started getting outside restaurants to come in and serve good food. Hope I can get some. I think there is also some kind of a folk life festival which I have never attended.

Hey Bonnie150 I so love that lace work. What a great idea to make it part of a quilt. Can't wait to see the progress.

Peps, the cairn terrier judge picture is a great one. My mother told me that she always envisioned herself somewhere in her late 30's. Mostly I was fat in those days though there was one time when I got down to 140 or so. Good to have a personal image to keep in mind. Some time ago I stopped wearing makeup, quit dying my hair and just let go of that stuff.

But I did buy some cute turquoise loafers yesterday so thats my salute to fashion.

Well Ann, you never cease to surprise me. Nekkid yoga. Good for you.

Liz, I do get how you can get bored with a vacation. Hope you find some fun for the remaining days. Justice awaits.

Time to find something useful to do that is not endless paper shuffling. Whatever happened to the paperless society? Seems like half of all trees end up being credit card junk mail.

Diane S

Paula, My deepest love and sympathy to you and your family. May God's great love bring you comfort in your loss and to a place of healing and peace.

Love and prayers to Paula and her family. The news was sobering, but as usual Paula's words offered me inspiration and hope rather than sadness. I had Ron read Paula's Caring Bridge post and he agreed with me that it was a beautiful post.

Shel and Liz, thanks for the great words! Very much appreciated. Hoping I can readjust my "ideal", which in turn will help me feel as though I can be successful and maintain a level of success.

Totally get the boredom eating. I'm a pro!