SoCal4me2

i read the details on your link and I would agree with you and not use it.

Because of the info here I got the Feedly Classic App for my iPhone and it is simple and easy. Thank you my brothers!

Recently found and actually liked a powdered coffee (loosely defined as such) from Singapore and Vietnam that are single serve packets that already have some cream and sugar in them. I do need to add more of each…but they work for my palate. My true love are teas from the UK. Yorkshire Gold, Barry’s Irish Tea (Red),Welsh Glengettie Aur (Gold). They are the best. With American teas, if you leave the tea bags in the water too long the tea gets bitter, undrinkable. But if you leave your British teas in longer they just get stronger…I never take the tea bags out. Sometimes it is nearly as strong as coffee. The key is that they must be tea from the UK, not teas of the same name and similar packaging made for the American market. American market teas by the same companies (I’ve only seen Yorkshire teas here) all get bitter the same as American teas. Weird I know.

Laphroaig has been my go to for a number of years…finishing any bottle on my own usually takes a year or more. Just finishing a Laphroaig Quarter cask, but I much prefer the Laphroaig Triple Wood…so much smoother. In 1987 after my first big bonus on a job bought a Johnny Walker Blue Label, shared it with a few friends, where it disappeared fairly quickly. Wasn’t impressed enough to buy another even though the price now is about half of what it was of my one purchase.

Russian Preist tells mothers sad about sons and war that they should have had more sons https://www.newsweek.com/russian-priest-mothers-sad-about-mobilization-should-have-had-more-sons-1754668 interesting comments at the bottom of the article. The wave building to the turning on BTG continues to grow…

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-orthodox-leader-dying-in-war-a-sacrifice-absolves-sins-2022-9 my apologies…I do not know what “unblock origin” is.

Russian Orthodox Church argues that sacrificing life in war against Ukraine <<washes away sins.>>

How is this now a few months down the road?

The elder that performed our wedding was one of my best friends. Maybe being short like me had something to do with it. Billy always had a smile, and when he died I know a light went out for all that knew him. Bill Ford of the National City North Congregation, National City, California.

Hello my brother! Beautiful photos here. I never had a job in photography, but I used to live with my camera (SRT 101) that I bought when I was 16. I shot weddings for friends in the congregation, car shows for myself, and anything else that caught my fancy over the years…sunsets, flowers, rocks, whatever. And from all the miles of negatives, thousands of slides, and now thousands of family iPhotos, I may actually have some and can point to that I was fortunate enough to capture just right (to my mind) and truly have joy when I look at them. For the most part I just try to make my picture “as is”. The way it caught my attention. Now it’s all iPhone shooting and has been for the last 10 years or so. I stopped using my camera back in 1990 about halfway through my 3 week trip to China and came to the realization that I didn’t want to remember my whole trip through the viewfinder.

Both Mom who was a Witness and Dad who wasn’t wrote poems. I found this one (Son) in Mom’s old KJ Bible after I had returned a couple years after she had unexpectedly died. She died faithful in 1992 at 58. To this day I can’t read that one without tears. I have other Poems, many written and shared as or at Memorial for brothers and sisters that have passed away. Try this one as if it were a Dr. Seuss rhyme…Gloria was in and out of the hospital over many years with kidney issues, and she preached to everyone there. She is still with us.

From Mom while I was inactive.

I have iPad Mini 1 and I never updated the system so while it stopped getting anything from the App Store, even with only 16 go I can still use it for all the apps and downloads from JWL that I had early on. It’s ok even if I just use it for the NWT when I need a Bible to follow along. I found with a newer Mini that you can go too far in downloading the latest OS. I went one update too far and the whole system slowed to a snails pace. That one works now as the slideshow system and some of our videos, and a note pad.Both still are running the original batteries. I love the Mini’s. I guess it’s time to get a new one.

I’ve never wanted to “go back”, but I have always had a soft spot for certain memories. But none that I’ve ever wanted to relive, not even those “if only…” memories. Happy childhood. Raising was what I call benign neglect. At 6 I led a group of neighborhood kids on a trek of about mile from the house, thru canyons and empty Hobo camps to and following some railroad tracks. Almost drowned on the way back home, but made it. Laying in bed with door just cracked a little and being soothed by the music as the folks watched Perry Mason. Ya, those were the days…maybe being an only child helped, and even with the occasional spanking I knew my parents loved me.