Reflections of My Life

Sliverfox said:
katlupe,,I like your calendar idea's.
Our son used to make calendars using the pictures from ATV trips.
All the family birthdays were on it.

I think it got too costly for him to do.
I miss alot of birthdays with out his calendars 😞 .
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The calendar I will be making will be one page for one month with all the birthdays, activities, events, etc. on it for tenants to put on their refrigerator door or wherever. A new one is made before the start of the next month. No pictures on it. But I know what you mean, I always thought of making one with all my pets on it.
 
Right now I am doing laundry. I put together a pile of clothing I bought but did not particularly care for. Never sent it back. So one of my friends/neighbors said she would like them. I will take them upstairs to her later. After I am done with the laundry. It is the beginning of cleaning out my storage area. My friend across the hall said he'd take anything to the thrift store for me if I want to donate stuff.......which I do and will. Happy about that.

I ate potato chips yesterday at the coffee hour and today my mouth is so sore. It is from the MSG. I cannot eat it if there is a lot of it in anything. I know it gets snuck in as "natural flavoring" or "yeast extract". Today the only thing that tastes good is ice tea. Soothing.
 

After reading the thread on the afterlife, I thought I would share something I have written on my blog a bit about death and what I believe. This is a link to one post called An Inspiration to Her Faith. This was printed out without the photos and given to everyone at my MIL's funeral (which was huge and had to be done on a Sunday so no other funerals would take place that day). But I have seen even more after that through my father's death process.

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Oh Katlupe, this is so touching and so inspiring. My eyes filled with tears as I read every word. I'm so glad you shared this because anyone reading it will be so blessed by it. She is still changing lives through your writing and sharing her story.

What happened at the time of her passing brought a chill from my head to my toes. And to think that you have seen so many deaths in the nursing home and this one was so different. It taught me something I'll share with you sometime.

And another thing, that filled my heart with joy while reading this is that you shared your complete journey with her before she passed. That is special beyond words. What a testimony.
 
Lara said:
Oh Katlupe, this is so touching and so inspiring. My eyes filled with tears as I read every word. I'm so glad you shared this because anyone reading it will be so blessed by it. She is still changing lives through your writing and sharing her story.

What happened at the time of her passing brought a chill from my head to my toes. And to think that you have seen so many deaths in the nursing home and this one was so different. It taught me something I'll share with you sometime.

And another thing, that filled my heart with joy while reading this is that you shared your complete journey with her before she passed. That is special beyond words. What a testimony.
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Thank you for taking time to read it. She touched so many people. I mean her funeral was huge for our area and most of the people were from other churches. They even wrote a story about her in the local paper before she died and a reporter came out to interview her. I hadn't written anything about my father's death and I should. That touched me even more since he was not religious at all.
 
Yesterday I made some progress in cleaning out my closets. I put together a box of clothing to give to my friend who lives upstairs. That made a dent in my closet and the bag I had downstairs in my storage locker. I am also taking my carpet shampooer down there to store instead of taking up room in my closet. I think I only use it about twice a year.

One thing I really like about being my age is that if I don't feel like doing something I can just put it off till another day. I do this often. I make plans but then say to Rabbit, "Naw, I think we'll (like he helps me! lol) just skip that for today." He agrees. He likes to lay under the table while I work on my computer. If I sit in my recliner, he moves to the tunnel box next to the recliner and will sleep there. We have our routines. Unless Sonny is coming here. Then there is no routine.

The one drawback to having a house bunny for a pet is the hay. Hay is messy. I should be used to it by now since I have had hay in my life since 1999. At least the hay for my horses was outside and in the pockets of all of our clothes. Funny I don't remember putting it my pocket. But one time when we desperately needed money for food I put my hand in the pocket of my barn jacket and there was $80. in it! I was never at the point that I could have hidden that much money somewhere and not missed or needed it. I always needed it. I figured my mom must have told God to put it there for me. She always helped me out with money if she could. I didn't ask her, she just seemed to know.

So I am working on the hay problem. I keep it in a box in the bathroom closet and clean the cage in the bathroom so it is easy to sweep up. Sonny usually buys a bale and keeps it in a black plastic (you don't know how much I hate that plastic bag) bag on his porch. Then brings me a flake at a time. The last one had flies in it! From sitting in the black plastic bag on his porch that has the sun beating down on it. I have some ideas and will see if I can make it work.

If you are reading this, thank you and I appreciate it. I hope God is good to you today.
 
It's intriguing to imagine how the $80 got in your pocket.
Your mom who thought you might need it someday? An angel who knew you needed it? Divine intervention?

I love your sweet bunny story. I never heard of a house bunny. Why do you keep hay in the bunny box. Is it where he sleeps or leaves weewee/pellets or both? If he doesn't sleep in it then just one of those blue absorbent puppy-pads would be perfect. If he only sleeps in there then why not a stuffed dog bed with 7" sides and a lower 5"opening. Petco sells them specifically for bunnies for $12.

It's a lovely day here. May yours be lovely too.
 
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Lara said:
It's intriguing to imagine how the $80 got in your pocket.
Your mom who thought you might need it someday? An angel who knew you needed it? Divine intervention?

I love your sweet bunny story. I never heard of a house bunny. Why do you keep hay in the bunny box. Is it where he sleeps or leaves weewee/pellets or both? If he doesn't sleep in it then just one of those blue absorbent puppy-pads would be perfect. If he only sleeps in there then why not a stuffed dog bed with 7" sides and a lower 5"opening. Petco sells them specifically for bunnies for $12.

It's a lovely day here. May yours be lovely too.
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I felt that maybe it was my mom who had died a couple years before that happened. She had never been to my house because she was bedridden her last few years of her life. She told the angels maybe.

Rabbit has a cage and I do use the puppy pee pads in the bottom with newspaper on top (to absorb urine) and then hay on top of that. Rabbits like to lay in their litter boxes (some people use kitty litter boxes but he likes his cage) and eat their hay at the same time. 80% of a rabbit's diet is hay because they have a complicated digestive system. They need to chew on those long strands for their teeth also, which like a horse's would keep growing.

His cage is kept open so he can come and go as he chooses. He has many sleeping spots all over my small apartment. Rabbits should be free roaming inside a home. Being locked up in a cage is the worse thing you can do to them.

This is his a-frame cage which he loves. It is his safe place.

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You can't see the door on it real good but it is in front of that pad on the floor.


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Here is Rabbit and he looks scruffy because he is in his molt (shedding). He is sitting on his cushion that is on a puppy litter box that didn't work for that purpose but he likes a cushion on it and sleeps there when I first go to bed since it is near my bed.
 
Oh my, I am afraid I have worn myself out and it barely past afternoon!

I put my laundry in the washing machines and went to my storage locker. I am trying to clean it out. I need to have a spot to put a container of hay down there and will have one upstairs. When this one empties out, I can take it downstairs and exchange it for the other one. They are Rubbermaid ones with wheels. So the hay should be safe and not get damp.

Well, have you ever started a job or a project and then in the middle of it wish you hadn't? That is how I felt. I was so hot and luckily I had used "Jazzy" so that I could do this and not give up. I had an empty box down there that my air conditioner had come in when I first bought it in 2018. So I put all the stuff I wanted to throw away in the box and carried it on my lap to the dumpster. Not easy but I have the hang of it now.

Now I am upstairs waiting for my laundry that is in the dryers right now. Drinking ice tea and working on a new blog post. I'd really rather be sleeping............haha.
 
This week they are repaving our streets. This morning it is my street. Sonny is bringing me hay this afternoon but will have to come in the back way.

I spent most of my morning writing a new blog post and then changing the layout a bit. Made a new header and didn't come out exactly the way I wanted but it will do. I don't understand Blogger. They send me emails that my pictures are too small and the fonts are too small. Then when I change it they tell me it is too big! That's Google for you.

I went through a bag of clothing that I did not want any more and gave a box of them to my friend upstairs just now. She is on the third floor and it is like a whole different world up there. Very quiet. I like my floor the best. Not all apartment have window sills like mine. Especially on the third floor. Their sills are too high to stand in front of to look outside. I wouldn't like that.

I feel good today and am looking forward to my day. I hope God is good to you today.
 
MarciKS said:
I enjoyed using the html language and designing my own blog but these new sites want you to pay for that honor now and the premade stuff seems too user unfriendly for me to figure out.
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Blogger is easy, so that is the only blog I kept. I had 4 when I moved 3 years ago and had my own server. My husband did all the html work so it was either ask him to do it for me or take them down. I took them down and kept the one on Blogger which is free. I have had since 2005 so thought I'd just keep it.

Glad to see you!
 
MarciKS said:
I hadn't been in my Blogger for some time. One day when I returned to it the thing wouldn't let me post. Gave me some kind of message about foreign countries or something. I tried the premade ones but I finally gave up.
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Yeah, they posted something about that on mine too. I think I hit a "fix it" link and never saw it again. I have a premade one but change the sizing and colors, fonts, etc. I took all my affiliate links off because I do not want to make any more money. Whatever I do now, I cannot make money or I have to pay more for rent. So I write for fun.
 
Yesterday was a tiring, but turned out to be a good day. VERY hot though!

One big problem for me was deciding what to do about Rabbit's hay supply. Sonny would buy a bale and bring a flake here which I kept in a Rubbermaid container in my bathroom closet. At his house, was the problem. He put the rest of the bale in a black plastic bag............which I absolutely HATED! On his front porch which is in the sun all day. I really hate plastic but plastic garbage bags are one of the worst. If plastic sits in the sun or a very hot place it brings the toxins out of it. And Rabbit eats and lays in that hay. But my hands were tied. One of the worst things about being dependent on a another person.

I cleaned out 3 Rubbermaid containers in my storage locker the day before yesterday. Two have wheels. Yesterday when Sonny brought me the hay I filled one with hay and put it in the bathroom closet. The other two I filled and put in the storage locker right near the front door of it. So it is easy to get to. They are totally contained with tight lids so nothing should be able to get in (like a bug or fly) and no hay should be falling out. When I empty one container, I will take it downstairs and exchange it for a full one.

Rabbit hadn't had fresh local hay for over a month so when I gave it to him yesterday he was a happy camper. This hay makes his cage bedding fluffy and he will lay in it for hours, napping and snacking on hay. A rabbit needs those long strands of hay to clean out his gut and digestive system.

I had to do this hay work in the hot sun in the parking lot from Sonny's car. He couldn't help with me taking it inside and putting it away. He had his dog, Cinnamon with him. When I came back to get more hay he had about 4 ladies from building around him and Cinnamon. Everyone loves Sonny here!
 
Yesterday Sonny and I took his new dog, Cinnamon back to Bowman Lake State Park. We got chopped salad and burgers for Cinnamon and went in the afternoon after I finished my hay work. It was overcast and breezy. The temperature was 82 but due to the breeze it felt beautiful. Just sitting there near the beach with just a handful of people was soothing. There is no connection to the outside world when you are there. Phones do not work. So people are not walking around looking at their phones. Many stopped by our table to talk to us because Cinnamon caught their eye.

We stopped at Walmart on the way home so I could get some spring mix for Rabbit. Sonny stayed in the car with Cinnamon. I got the very last package of spring mix..............produce bins were pretty empty. I got the next to last package of fresh blueberries. The store was basically empty of people. Maybe because it was so hot. They took down their sign about wearing masks, maybe that is why. Anyway I was in and out pretty fast.

Today I will not be doing a lot to recover from yesterday. I find that works for me.
 
I enjoyed reading your posts about Rabbit! Thanks.
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It was 86 here today. I stayed inside. I hate hot weather. Fall is my favorite time. When I had a garden Spring was my favorite. The only reason I kind of like warm......not hot, weather is because I can go to the park and ride around town on Jazzy. As long as it is not raining or snowing I can go on Jazzy. I didn't go outside at all because of the heat. Tomorrow morning, I will go out to the dumpster before the sun is out. I get up early.

Today was kind of a sad day because I am reminded of my father dying 9 years ago. As I say though, life goes on. He kept telling me he did not want to live to be one hundred. He was 93.
 
When I was growing up, we lived in about a mile from the St. Johns River in FL. Our house was eight miles from Crescent City and set way back from the road. Now when I think back it was such a happy place in my life. My parents picked that place to move to from NY because it was called the Bass Capital of the World. I do not know if it really was or not but my life there consisted of a lot of swimming and fishing. My favorite memories are helping my mother pack a cooler of food and heading to a fishing hole somewhere.

It was such a different life from what I gave my son. I married a man who had his own business and we had more money than my parents had. And he was from NYC so what he considered normal was completely different from the way I grew up. Instead we took vacations and went out to eat often. I feel sad that my son doesn't have the memories I had from my childhood. At the time though, I thought it was great. I guess looking back does that to you.

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It’s always interesting to hear the little memories that stick with us for a lifetime.

My sister is three years older than I am and we grew up together but our memories of home are so very different.

I’m sure that your son has many fond memories of his childhood that might surprise you.
 

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