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Today my husband and I lost another friend. She had fought and won against colon cancer. She loved animals of all sorts. When she would find homeless animals, she would find them homes where they would be loved and cared for. She managed to find homes for many helpless animals with many lonely, loving people. She gave us our white cat that has adopted us and our older cat as family. This kitty’s name is Samantha.

Our friend’s name was Linda Frick. She will be greatly missed. She died today approximately around 3:30 pm. I do not know what it is that killed her, but her family does need prayer. We only knew her for a few months, but in that time she proved to be a very special person.

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With the problem that my sister is having with her leg, she will not be able to shop for any gifts for her family. I realize that many cannot afford to spend a lot for their families this year. I even wonder about businesses and any promotional business gifts that they might need to purchase to advertise their businesses.

I have heard a lot of different ways to handle things. One way to handle the idea of gift giving was to limit gifts to one per person. Try drawing names from a hat or bowl so that everyone will get at least one gift, and each person will only need to spend for one person and not a whole lot of people.

We personally will not be spending a lot because of so many things going on right now. What ever you do, try to avoid bankruptcy. That will not help any one. Most important, be with your families where ever and when ever you can. That in itself is a gift.

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I guess that sounds better than saying that I am stewing. My sister lives in Arkansas. It has been called the ‘arm pit’ in the US concerning health care. I have no idea what the life insurance rates are for people that live there, but they must be high.

She is stuck AT HOME with a severe leg infection. The doctor who saw her stated that he cannot check her into the hospital because the medicine that he wanted to give her for the cellulitis, she is allergic to. I know there is more than just one type of injectable anti-biotic available.

I do not understand all of the road blocks that she has had to face there. I just do not understand.

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It is ‘Black Friday’, and it is raining. I am so glad that we won’t be going out shopping.

My mother-in-law called and said that she ‘needed’ to go to WalMart. My first thought was YUK. I mean today should make that place a mad house. I do not want any part of that situation. My second thought was. why didn’t she want to go earlier this week when I asked? I do not know.

Then it started to rain….wheeeee ! Mom does not like the rain. So, it is raining and I am staying home. Besides, our car needed to be washed anyway.

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I wanted to say - Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We just spent the day at our niece’s home with family all around. This time I actually had a chance to contribute a lot to the food gathered for the dinner.

WE had many visiting family members that came and went, lot of laughter, food, kids, and fun. I wish everyone could have that type of day. There were no arguments from anyone. It was great.

I came from a family that only had 6 members. Mom, me, grandma, grandpa, 2 uncles and no one else - that was the whole family. Now I have my husband’s family which has members all over the place. I feel that is something to give thanks for.

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We have a tv stand that is more than just a place for the TV.

It is piled, and I mean PILED with all sorts of things. Videos, boxes, magazines, and all sorts of other stuff are now located on the stand. One big box is filled with sewing thread, Another big box is filled with videos. On the bottom of the stand is a hodge-podge of various things. We happen to be pilers in this apartment. If a spot is bare, it will get something piled on it.

We do not have any obvious organization to these things, they are there. Any decorating for the holidays is only done out side on the front porch. I mentioned its decoration earlier.

Anyway, our entertainment center does more for storage, than just entertaining. The tv is visible, the VCR, and DVD players are available. However, no bare spot is available for use. If I thought that i could get away with it, I would put up Christmas decorations in the house, too. Our cats of course would appreciate something else to play with. They even get onto the bottom shelf of the stand, or entertainment center and find a place to hide.

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Fall does not mean that you should fall over.

However, fall to me means that the leaves change color, start to fall down to the ground, the weather gets considerably cooler. Holidays are coming. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentines day, Easter. I do enjoy all of these holidays. I also do enjoy the decorating that can come with them.

Right now, I have a new seasonal decoration on the front porch. It has a white tree skirt that is spread out, a Christmas wreath in the middle, and the words around it that say - It’s About Jesus. Too many times Christmas has been thought about as gifts, Santa, Reindeer….yada, yada, yada.

Christmas might not be the exact day of Jesus’ birth, but it is the time that had been set apart in order to celebrate it. Where have all of the manger scenes gone? What about the angels? Too many times Santa is shown (He does not exist by the way.) in a sleigh. Gifts are nice to receive, but how many families go bankrupt trying to out give others when it comes to Christmas presents? How many give them selves to their families all year round? How many only think of giving during the ‘Holiday Season”? Please don’t forget that the best present that you can give to your family is YOURSELF. It doesn’t cost much, just time.

This fall, why don’t you rethink about a different type of ‘fall’. Fall in love with your family again. It will be a gift that can grow. It’s growth wouldn’t hurt unlike the National debt that keeps growing. This fall…please don’t forget to give yourself to you family.

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I love to do arts and crafts of many different types. I have created beaded bracelets, dream catchers (only cause I think they look neat), afghans, toboggans, necklaces, shirts, skirts, quilts, and other assorted folderol, too.

The reason why I am bringing this up is because Scott & White Hospital which is near by in Temple, Texas, is also a cancer hospital. A while past I crocheted some toboggans ( aka ski hats) and donated them for the people going through chemotherapy. Chemo will take away that person’s strength, and make them susceptible to getting easily chilled. Well, people going through Dialysis also have that problem.

The costs of those life saving treatments can be very prohibitive to a person’s wallet. It might not be much, but little things can also give someone heart to keep trying and fighting their illness. If you like to make things and then wonder what to do with them, giving to help someone else might add to your enjoyment.

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Many buildings these days are now marked as no smoking areas. Public buildings, private buildings. I have heard that there are even times that people want to make private homes no smoking areas. What ever happened to people having the right to choose?

I am not a smoker, but some of these laws bother me a lot. If a business wants to mark itself as a place where smokers are welcome, why can they not put up signs like that? Why do lawmakers want to define how private citizens live? Why do lawmakers feel they have to interfere in how private businesses are run? When has Big Brother ( George Orwell’s version) taken over private life? If people have the desire to pollute their own lungs, that is their choice. When the law makers interfere in private lives, they go too far.

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These days all we hear about is the coming change to tv everywhere. The digital change is coming, the digital change is coming, the sky is falling. OY VEY.

If people do not know about it by now, they must not watch tv at all. We have the converter box. The signal is not all that however. When we first tried it out, w got 15 stations. The picture kept breaking up and freezing, so we disconnected it and went back to the regular way of watching tv. Our favorite station was down for 2 WEEKS, so we tried the box again. We only got 3 stations this time, what gives? I heard that the digital change was supposed to be good - I can’t see it myself. ;/

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