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An open public prayer to God and Lord Jesus for my brother as tears flow.

Almighty God and Father and beloved Lord Jesus, my youngest brother JJ is near his death. My heart is saddened. He is part of love within me. I know not what you can do but know your ways are wise and just.

My dear father greatly loved JJ when he was born like he did all of his young children that created loving inner beings in all of us. And father a product of WWII, provided and guided us with love in those difficult times. So if my father is up there with you, I know your spiritual heart must be crying now and Jesus can see it. Thank you Dad for bringing us into the world within the path of God's son Jesus, not an easy way few have followed.

And my beloved mother loved all of us so dearly with JJ her last. Yes mother, I know your spiritual heart must be broken again as is the curse of mortal organic life. An ending in my heart I realize only God and Jesus with the Holy Spirit have power to change. We must die to be reborn spiritually. I'm deeply sorry Mom, that my own influences by example when younger during war times contributed to their addictive demise and separation.

And am sorry as you wished mother that I tasked so, have not been able to save them as you so dearly hoped for. I have not know what to do or say to those who feel lost, hopeless. I know not the extent of God's great power's but know he dearly loves you that followed his path to their mortal ends and can do as He wishes.

And loving sister D I know you are spiritually with mother too. Please console her and father.

May JJ Rest In Peace.

your loving brother David
 

Off to the vaccination centre today for our annual Covid booster. No problems, but I'm getting sick of being a pincushion. I'm not sure if I'll bother with any more. Spent some time with friends trying to connect a printer to their laptop. This should be very easy, but the printer didn't seem to have any way to display its IP address. Other connection methods either needed Windows to be taken out of 'S' mode and using a cable connection failed too. They're taking it back to the shop to get it sorted.

I've never had problems connecting printers wirelessly, but using Linux, not Windows.
 
The rugs didn't happen and neither did the Spritz. Invisible thread is too hard to work with so the rugs have to wait until I can get out to buy fishing line. I turned DSIL's tackle box upside down looking for fishing line...no soap, dammit!

The Spritz didn't happen because I didn't feel like it. Seems my motivation has gone into hiding again. I'll look around for it tonight, and if it's found, do Spritz tomorrow.

A week from tomorrow I'm going to DS/DSIL's place for early Christmas lunch. Just thinking about going down there/coming home again via Uber creates anxiety that makes me feel like I'm crawling out of my skin. I don't like Uber one bit even though I've always had really nice and personable drivers. Uber. Ugh.
 

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David777 said:
Just received a sad text message from a brother J that lives about 100 miles distant. Another brother JJ that lives with him had some kind of catastrophic intestinal bleeding today and is now in a hospital ER.

Both my beloved parents, a younger beloved sister (very religious, pneumonia during pandemic) and another brother (drug use) have passed into eternity. I have 4 remaining younger brothers with 2 of them suffering from serious kidney and more issues due to years of alcohol drinking, even now, after decades of other abusive drug use. J is in moderate health and another brother S regularly abuses himself with alcohol even though he has been warned not to.

None of them are religious so when they are gone, it is their certain end. I would pray now for JJ but wonder praying about for what reason? That he might live another day to walk down to his nearby convenience store for a case of beer? Or pray that his life he apparently doesn't value end peacefully without pain? Many of we seniors are increasingly facing similar issues in our mortal lives.
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I'm very sorry David. 😔
 
David777 said:
An open public prayer to God and Lord Jesus for my brother as tears flow.

Almighty God and Father and beloved Lord Jesus, my youngest brother JJ is near his death. My heart is saddened. He is part of love within me. I know not what you can do but know your ways are wise and just.

My dear father greatly loved JJ when he was born like he did all of his young children that created loving inner beings in all of us. And father a product of WWII, provided and guided us with love in those difficult times. So if my father is up there with you, I know your spiritual heart must be crying now and Jesus can see it. Thank you Dad for bringing us into the world within the path of God's son Jesus, not an easy way few have followed.

And my beloved mother loved all of us so dearly with JJ her last. Yes mother, I know your spiritual heart must be broken again as is the curse of mortal organic life. An ending in my heart I realize only God and Jesus with the Holy Spirit have power to change. We must die to be reborn spiritually. I'm deeply sorry Mom, that my own influences by example when younger during war times contributed to their addictive demise and separation.

And am sorry as you wished mother that I tasked so, have not been able to save them as you so dearly hoped for. I have not know what to do or say to those who feel lost, hopeless. I know not the extent of God's great power's but know he dearly loves you that followed his path to their mortal ends and can do as He wishes.

And loving sister D I know you are spiritually with mother too. Please console her and father.

May JJ Rest In Peace.

your loving brother David
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I'm so sorry for your sadness and your siblings' struggles, @David777. I encourage you to be heartened, for none of us truly knows the nature and judgment of our Creator, nor can we accurately predict exactly what's in store for us when we leave this mortal life.
 
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David777 said:
An open public prayer to God and Lord Jesus for my brother as tears flow.

Almighty God and Father and beloved Lord Jesus, my youngest brother JJ is near his death. My heart is saddened. He is part of love within me. I know not what you can do but know your ways are wise and just.

My dear father greatly loved JJ when he was born like he did all of his young children that created loving inner beings in all of us. And father a product of WWII, provided and guided us with love in those difficult times. So if my father is up there with you, I know your spiritual heart must be crying now and Jesus can see it. Thank you Dad for bringing us into the world within the path of God's son Jesus, not an easy way few have followed.

And my beloved mother loved all of us so dearly with JJ her last. Yes mother, I know your spiritual heart must be broken again as is the curse of mortal organic life. An ending in my heart I realize only God and Jesus with the Holy Spirit have power to change. We must die to be reborn spiritually. I'm deeply sorry Mom, that my own influences by example when younger during war times contributed to their addictive demise and separation.

And am sorry as you wished mother that I tasked so, have not been able to save them as you so dearly hoped for. I have not know what to do or say to those who feel lost, hopeless. I know not the extent of God's great power's but know he dearly loves you that followed his path to their mortal ends and can do as He wishes.

And loving sister D I know you are spiritually with mother too. Please console her and father.

May JJ Rest In Peace.

your loving brother David
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This was so nice of you to share. Written from the heart.
 
packleader said:
It may seem cheap to you but you have to consider distances here.
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You also have to consider the size of vehicles most people drive here. There's many high mpg vehicles available but we see far too many giant SUVs with only the driver on board. Europe and many countries have countered high gas prices with fuel efficient vehicles. Americans don't want to give up their large vehicles.
 
Rich said:
You also have to consider the size of vehicles most people drive here. There's many high mpg vehicles available but we see far too many giant SUVs with only the driver on board. Europe and many countries have countered high gas prices with fuel efficient vehicles. Americans don't want to give up their large vehicles.
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we also have very large SUV.'s with only one person driving.... especially on the school run..becase school buses here are virtually unknown
 
Another busy day. Before sunrise, I cleaned the litter box & swept in the bathroom before getting the garbage ready for my son to take out. I put away Deja's Chewy order, rotated more stock, sorted laundry & mended a small slit in a knit top to be washed. I did laundry in the afternoon.

I couldn't use the machine I wanted because someone's clothes were in there. He didn't come down to take them out in time. The machine I used went to quick wash when I pressed start and it wasn't supposed to do that! Even though I had a smaller load than usual, I still used the double loader. They're only 35 cents more than the single loaders and at least I see my clothes swishing around in water unlike the single load machines that look like there's hardly any water in them at all. I don't like that. Laundry day always makes me tired so I took a long nap this evening.
 
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Well I've been up all night because I fell asleep on the sofa at around 10pm.. and didn't wake up for 3 hours...so I've been awake all night since. It's now a little bit after 7am.. raining, dark.. but I've been bagging up stuff. I've got one large black sack for the recyle centre.. One large sack for the Charity shop.. and one large box of hardback books to take to the book shop.... Ive loaded the car up with it all no, ready to go...

If I'm still awake at 10am when they all open I'll take them to the various drop offs despite the rain...
 
My left shoulder is a little achy after yesterday's Covid booster, but no other effects over and above a cold which I've had for a few days.
No plans for today, maybe finish packing my suitcase for holidays next week.

Hollydolly, you mentioned the lack of school busses. It's a different case here because it's a rural area. Every school day morning, numerous busses drive round picking up pupils from the farms and taking them back in the afternoon.
 
Blowing snow, very gusty. About 21 F right now. Probably will continue for another 24 hours. Maybe 4 inches on the ground, up to 3 more expected.

I've been up too, congested. Probably because I was out and back in a lot in this cold and not quite acclimated yet. At least I made the rounds before the snow hit "yesterday."

Still adapting to loss of Rite-Aid stores. Small pharmacy has been great, but they seem to be having trouble getting a couple of non-medication items in for glucose testing. They are checking again, but if they can't supply the right items for my test meter I'll need to source those elsewhere, perhaps by mail.
 
Capt Lightning said:
My left shoulder is a little achy after yesterday's Covid booster, but no other effects over and above a cold which I've had for a few days.
No plans for today, maybe finish packing my suitcase for holidays next week.

Hollydolly, you mentioned the lack of school busses. It's a different case here because it's a rural area. Every school day morning, numerous busses drive round picking up pupils from the farms and taking them back in the afternoon.
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well..that's another thing Scotland has that we don't..because here the children who live on the farms and outlying villages have to be taken to school by a parent..

There are the odd school buses.. but not many.. and those that are only stop at certain bus stops, so parents still have to drive them to that designated bus stop in for example 2 villages away...
 
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Blowing snow, very gusty. About 21 F right now. Probably will continue for another 24 hours. Maybe 4 inches on the ground, up to 3 more expected.

I've been up too, congested. Probably because I was out and back in a lot in this cold and not quite acclimated yet. At least I made the rounds before the snow hit "yesterday."

Still adapting to loss of Rite-Aid stores. Small pharmacy has been great, but they seem to be having trouble getting a couple of non-medication items in for glucose testing. They are checking again, but if they can't supply the right items for my test meter I'll need to source those elsewhere, perhaps by mail.
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Brrr...sounds like a proper winter day there....🥶Hope you feel better soon Dilettante , rotten to be kept awake when you're feeling poorly
 
Rich said:
I had my car in for a recall a few weeks ago and they gave me a loaner to drive. It was a Genesis GV80, it felt like a school bus, it was just huge.
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I've never seen one until now... you're not kidding....very spacious


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David777 said:
An open public prayer to God and Lord Jesus for my brother as tears flow.

Almighty God and Father and beloved Lord Jesus, my youngest brother JJ is near his death. My heart is saddened. He is part of love within me. I know not what you can do but know your ways are wise and just.

My dear father greatly loved JJ when he was born like he did all of his young children that created loving inner beings in all of us. And father a product of WWII, provided and guided us with love in those difficult times. So if my father is up there with you, I know your spiritual heart must be crying now and Jesus can see it. Thank you Dad for bringing us into the world within the path of God's son Jesus, not an easy way few have followed.

And my beloved mother loved all of us so dearly with JJ her last. Yes mother, I know your spiritual heart must be broken again as is the curse of mortal organic life. An ending in my heart I realize only God and Jesus with the Holy Spirit have power to change. We must die to be reborn spiritually. I'm deeply sorry Mom, that my own influences by example when younger during war times contributed to their addictive demise and separation.

And am sorry as you wished mother that I tasked so, have not been able to save them as you so dearly hoped for. I have not know what to do or say to those who feel lost, hopeless. I know not the extent of God's great power's but know he dearly loves you that followed his path to their mortal ends and can do as He wishes.

And loving sister D I know you are spiritually with mother too. Please console her and father.

May JJ Rest In Peace.

your loving brother David
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Such a lovely tribute to your brother @David777. JJ sounds as if he has been much loved in his life and, when the the time comes, we probably all would hope that we meant this much to someone.
 
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