First the Iffy update........so those who don't wanna read the rest can just scroll
through it
A couple of weeks ago they finally told Iffy that Patty was in a facility. I thought they had done that some time before, but I know they were taking the advice of Dr's and waiting til they felt he could understand it and deal with it. He was quite emotional about it, but had been asking, so it was time to tell him.
The great news is........although it took a lot to pull it off, they were finally able to arrange a video call between Johnny and Patty!! They were both so excited to be able to see each other and talk to each other!! They are hoping to be able to do this on a fairly regular basis. I don't know for certain, but I think the issue had been not being able to get a
device to Patty. More good news is that they are both safe and there has been no virus in either facility! She also said that it's a toss up as to whether he's able to talk better, or they are better able to decipher what he is saying, but the last few video calls the girls have had with him have been an improvement! Still praying that God restores EVERYTHING the devil has tried to steal from him and Patty!
Keep Mandy in your prayers too please. She's got 2 doses of the chemo left out of 12. She'll have a few weeks to let her numbers rebound, and are currently looking at surgery about the end of June. She didn't say, but I expect that's a mastectomy. Don't know if it would be single or double. When she recovers from that, she'll have to have 6 weeks of radiation 5 days per week! I can't even imagine all her poor body has been
through and will be going through, but I know some here have done some or all. I think about things like this when the pain seems more than I can handle. Other than constant pain I'm fine and tremendously blessed!!
Sorry if I am misunderstanding but are you saying when you right click on the avi and save it as...that it won't let you? I just tried it and I could save yours. I realize you would then have to add it to the text or to a page naming the person as a reference for Iffy.
Sorry, sometimes (most of the time) I'm not real clear. It wasn't that I couldn't copy it, it was that I couldn't paste it in the wordpad or whatever it was. But, david told me about Libre, so I'm going to try that. It's a free thingy that is similar to MS Office.
To use google docs you need to be signed in to your Google account. On a computer, open Google Chrome; you will see a little box at the upper right that says "Sign In". Once you have signed in, try Google Docs again. If you're using a portable device (phone or pad) let us know what kind, and one of us should be able to help.
It shows I'm signed in, but now I don't recall what the issue with google docs was lol Anyhow, gonna try the Libre thingy.
Deb ... much to my surprise my old Photobucket albums from the Odyssey are still available. I gave up on P-bucket years ago when they screwed everyone with the unannounced change to a paid service and locked down everyone's pictures. Which pretty much destroyed 1000's of picture posted to 1000's of forums around the world.
Anyway
Odyssey Album#1 link:
Odyssey by MikeEbner
Odyssey Album#2 link:
https://s1095.photobucket.com/user/MikeEbner/library/Odyssey/Odyssey continued?sort=3&page=1
Parasailing Pictures of Iffy and Kay:
Parasailing by MikeEbner
If you click on the 1st picture it starts a photo show and you can click through the album. When a picture is displayed it should look like this. If you then click the 'gear icon' top right there's an option to download the picture.
I just tried all this without signing into my P-bucket account, so it should work for you. Let me know if it does.
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(((((((Mike)))))))) yur a doll!! Jup I can see them!! Will try dl'ing them in a bit. I had more emoti thingys in my Pbucket than pics, but jup, still haven't forgiven them for holding all our stuff hostage! lol
FYI:
For "Iffy" /
@Debadoo and anyone else who wants a copy . . .
Hope this is helpful . . . And - Although my abilities are limited (since I can only use online graphic program) - If I can assist Ya' any more let "Me" know . . . Just Sayin' . . .
BTW: Anyone hear from "Semi" lately ? Wondering how he and "Wifey" are doing. . . .
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(((((((((Uncle))))))) yur a doll too!!! Then again for you and Mike, this is well established fact!
Talking about making flower pots made me do some googling and somewhere along my searches I found this great use for an old wheel and tire. Now I need to find one.
step by step guide on how to make your own tyre plant pot. : Grows on You
That's kewl!!
Big planters are expensive.
Jup they are. I've bought cheapo trash cans in the past........then just found out a couple weeks ago that plastic buckets etc need to be a certain kind of plastic or they'll kill the plants. Jup that's what I'm blaming it on......the wrong kinda plastic. Not the fact that I'm so bad at growing anything, that I buy silk flowers and inna week they start looking wilty. Good thing I was better at raising a kid than raising plants!
Ten more days until we're supposed to actually sign the contract and get the keys to the "new" house.
Counting down, hoping nothing goes wrong between now and then.
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(((((((((((Teresa))))))))) so happy for y'all!!!
We successfully signed on our new place. Now it's just getting the place ready to move in. We've done the painting and bathroom remod; we've updated the wiring (sadly deficient as found); now we have to get the carpets cleaned and the ducts vacuumed out (previous owners had shedding dogs). Then we can let the movers, who have had all our stuff in storage, bring everything in to get unpacked. Then it will be a year of getting everything sorted out and finding a place for it (or find a way to dispose of it). Downsizing is hell.
Glad you'll be able to be in the new place soon, but I sure don't envy all the moving and everything that goes along with it!
I was actually a bit depressed at first, realizing that this one room is all I'll have for the rest of my life.
I do understand how you feel, but ya just never know what God may have in store for either one of us!
(made more difficult by my tendency to play with everything I dig out of old boxes)
hehehe Jup I do the same thing.
Some of the things are items that my father collected in much the same way, that I saved after he passed (like old wood whiskey boxes that he collected in the 1920s to house his own growing accumulation). This means that there may be items over 100 years old that will need to be curated for historical or family value
Uhmmm.......start a museum???
I think I may video some of the sorting with some commentary. My daughter and grandchildren may someday be able to use the videos to make sense of all this stuff and make some decisions on their own about what to preserve and what to discard.
That's an excellent idea!!
I feel for you as I am in the same boat. In two days, I move from a 4 BR house to one BR at my daughter's house. I sold or gave away most of the furniture but still have a garage full of boxes that will have no place to go. I plan on having a huge yard sale to get rid of it.
It was so hard to let go of stuff I loved and I fought it for over a year but the time has come. New chapter and all that.
(((((((Rose))))))))
She came into work and shook her finger at us and said, "If you love your kids, get rid of all that stuff now and don't leave it for them to have to deal with!!"
lol Jup. I told my SIL that many times. She realized that her kids really didn't want all the stuff she was hanging onto for them.....and that was a hard realization. She had looked into folks who had businesses that dealt with antique dealers and they would sell stuff for people and pocket 30% I totally understood she felt like that was too much, but I kept telling her that at that point not only was she getting Zero instead of 70% of what they could get for the stuff, but for a good bit of it she was paying each month for a storage locker! Getting 70% was better than paying but she wouldn't do it. Now my nephew has it all to deal with.
The worst way of getting rid of LPs was the way taken by my late friend Elessar. He converted his entire LP collection (two walls, floor to ceiling) of LPs to Phillips cassettes and got rid of the LPs. (A huge loss in audio quality.) Then he converted the cassettes to MP3 on CDs and got rid of the cassettes (illegal to distribute copies of copyrighted material, whether for profit or not). (Another and further loss of audio quality.) He was left with a huge collection of poor versions of a great collection. To me the final result was unlistenable.
Ohhhhhh Noooooo that was hard to read! I lost all my vinyl decades ago. I had some stored at my dad's. He was selling his house, but the folks who bought it said he could leave some of his stuff there (and what I had there) because it wasn't in their way and he'd given them such a great deal on the house. Our neighbor told him the week after he left, they had a yard sale and sold all of it. His stuff that was there was mostly his power tools and things in the shed. But again.......stuff is stuff.......and if ya don't believe me........ask George Carlin.
(So regret that I lost too much "Stuff" and Saved the wrong "Stuff")
Jup, that is typically how I did it!
Well, that cost me $50. I went to get the book and somehow ended up buying four more books.
hehehe Not sure that's how that was supposed to work......but.....it's a process lol
I'm a great helper, from a distance, and provide excellent oral support.
Don't smack me.......but I suddenly envisioned you in a short skirt and sweater with pom poms
