Good morning everybody&#33;<br />
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I&#39;m feeling much better physically but still have that nasty cough even though it&#39;s not as bad as it was on Friday. The meds seem to be doing their job.<br />
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I drove up to Westchester yesterday and took care of some things around the house and picked up the mail. On my return I picked up the 4 year old who is the ward of my roommates mother. You&#39;ll hear more about this 4 year old in my response to Gregswife. It was really good to see him because I hadn&#39;t seen him in a week. When he saw me he came running and almost choked me to death from his strong embrace. I&#39;m so used to having him around the house now.<br />
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terumim,<br />
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This particular church does rock now but it took a while to find the musicians who could play inspiringly, yet do pieces that were true to the liturgy.<br />
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How are those preserves coming along?<br />
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JoeyandDavid,<br />
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This house sounds much bigger than your house in LA. That&#39;s a plus isn&#39;t it?<br />
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Good luck on finding something that&#39;s satisfactory to both of you. It may take some compromise. Congratulations on a second find.<br />
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We would love to have traffic problems with only 8 cars.<br />
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teacp,<br />
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Thanks for the good wishes. It&#39;s good to hear that you enjoy the music ministry and the livliness of the spirit in your church.<br />
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I was glad to hear that your plants survived the winter. I would love to plant fruits and vegetables but there are so many squirrels, skunks, rabbits, and other critters that roam around that there wouldn&#39;t be anything to harvest.<br />
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How do you all protect your produce from wild creatures.<br />
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zebra,<br />
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Is there something you can do to salvage your herb garden before you cross over into Canada? Can you jar them in olive oil or something?<br />
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I wish I could tell you to follow a route that always had WiFi, but that would be selfish of me. I really enjoy reading your updates and will miss them when you&#39;re out of range.<br />
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Are you able to find may free WiFi services as you travel?<br />
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Gregswife,<br />
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I&#39;m glad you got that whatever it was out of your eye. It can be very annoying.<br />
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Congratulations on that island project almost being completed.<br />
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The 4 year old is a much longer story than I think members would want to read but to make a long story short, he is a ward of my roommate&#39;s mother. She had serious female surgery at one time and came to stay at our house so my roommate could take care of her. Of course the 4 year old had to come along with her. <br />
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I thought I could mind my business and stay in my room and not get involved in providing care or interacting with the child and at first we hated each other. I felt he was invading my space by all of his whining and he thought I was standoffish. One day when he was giving my roommate and his grandmother a hard time I went and took control of the situation by giving him a 3 minute timeout because he was 3 years old at the time. After that event, for some unexplainable reason, he wanted to hang around me all the time. My resistance broke down and we became extremely close. Now we&#39;re inseparable.<br />
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One day my roommates mother said she was ready to go to her own home but she couldn&#39;t take care of the everyday things needed to provide care for the child. My roommate decided that he would take over the care of the child and I had mixed feelings about having a child around. My roommate registered him into a headstart program and makes sure that he gets there every day. I help out with homework and reading and writing assignments.<br />
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Strangely, the four year old likes to spend a lot of time in my room and carries many of his toys and stockpiles them in there. Of course, we have to do a nightly cleanup before bed to get the toys back in the toychest. He hates to go to bed and he hates to wake up in the morning.<br />
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I&#39;ll tell you more about him in some future posts.<br />
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cruisetarp,<br />
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I&#39;m sorry to hear about the Easter egg hunt. At least you&#39;ll have hardboiled eggs for a bit.<br />
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Enjoy your leisurely day.<br />
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mercedes,<br />
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I&#39;m glad you&#39;re back in one piece. Are there some twins in there are are they cousins? I don&#39;t know why I&#39;m always telling you to get some rest. You don&#39;t listen anyway.<br />
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terumim,<br />
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I hope you get your puter runnin like you want it to.<br />
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Spikesgirl,<br />
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It&#39;s great that you have theater year round. Break a leg&#33;<br />
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Please send some of those avocados east.<br />
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