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  1. It's a chilly 38F in North Louisiana at 8:30 this morning. Our area is rural with many trees, mostly pine. The air is clear, slight wind at 2 mph and gentle gusts of 4 mph. Even so, the humidity is 65%, enough to causes me to sense a damp chill when I came in from putting out the trash for pickup. In our area we tend to have only two seasons. We have "HOT" from early April to late November, usually cool mornings with temperatures from 60F mornings to 100+ as late as midnight. The HOT season is so dry that we yearn for rain. We have "Not-So Hot" the other months. We ordinarily get up to 30s/40sF but it may be 80s by late afternoon. This is also our wet season with rain, often 1-2 days, then the same within 10 days. The old folks say, "Thunder in February, frost in April." Regardless, each day is a gift from the Giver of "every good gift and every perfect present"!
  2. Brother Richard (and others who have posted replies to help me): Thanks so much! Y'all have helped overcome my obstacle. Agape!
  3. Here's an edited screenshot that removes first names. There are 4 FSGs. The image focuses on one of them with the name area for the group showing how it looks when I click to enter a name. It stays <Name> regardless of what I enter.
  4. Thank you, Brother Floyd. I am still unable to accomplish that. When I go to a GO's "spiritual", there's that area up there which should show the FSG's name. I've marked Overseer just under the FSG to which the elder is assigned. But at this time, the FSGs block shows <Name>. When I click to enter a name of the FSG, a drop-down appears with <Name> in a vertilcal lis4 times. I can't get a name for the FSG to appear. When I type, nothing appears: <Name> just stays there. If I double clickwhile on that Spiritual screen of the elder, I'm taken to the screen where all the FSGs appear plus the Unassigned ones. I'm still unable to accomplish entering a name for each FSG. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
  5. Brothers Carlos and Parale, thank you both! My headache's finally easing.🤔
  6. We're using it, and I need some help. We have changed the field service groups (FSGs) as well as which elders and assistants are assigned to the new groups. Question: How do I change the name of a group? How do I change the name of Group Overseers (GOs) and Group Assistants (GAs)? How do I create a new FSG and give it a name? Any help is appreciated.
  7. This short piece was touching...and familiar...kinda painful and sad, but also satisfying...don't know why I enjoyed it so much. Thank you, Sis.
  8. Hi, Brother Matthew...thank you for posting those dance videos. I'm in my 70s and was taught how to jitterbug by my mother when I was 6 years old back in the early 1950s. She would be in the kitchen with the radio playing. Rock and roll was just developing. She liked that type of music (me, too). She'd say, "Come on, Jimmy, let's jitterbug." I picked it up, and it's been my dance of choice ever since. I've been married to a nonJW since 1967...she doesn't dance but has no qualms about my dancing. I don't dance much these day, though, because there are no suitable dance venues within 100 miles of where we live.
  9. My, my, Sis. Pauline, you have pushed my button (one of many buttons from which I suffer )... With regard to the word "entitle," may I mention this: In the early 1970s I became employed by one of the largest federal (US) agencies and was sent to their "school" (i.e., classroom instruction all day) for 3 months. During our first week of training, we spent 2 hours learning the meaning of "entitlement" from the agency's standpoint. The word had to do with becoming due an agency payment. "Entitlement" was contrasted with the word "eligibility," a word defined by the agency as having a potential for entitlement. A claimant (i.e., a person eligible for some sort of payment) could move from eligibility to establishing entitlement. That required submitting an application along with legal evidence (e.g., birth certificate, marriage certificate, tax return depending on the type of application) sufficient to result in approval. That led to payment(s). When I finished my training and attacked the job, I experienced the importance of the distinction between the two words (eligibility and entitlement). Some folks would come into the office and merely discuss eligibility/entitlement (asking questions and getting answers), then leave without submitting a signed application. A month or three later, they'd call the office, saying (usually with attitude ): "Where is my money!?" It usually took all the patience and humility I could muster to deal with the misunderstanding at that point.
  10. Revelation 4:11 (one of my favorite scriptures) immediately comes to my mind, Mandi, as I read what your friend sent you. Thank you much for reminding me of Jehovah's deep love—a love that I'm still trying to grasp after almost 50 years of daily thinking about it.
  11. I find many of the TCM films to be decent and enjoyable. "Back Street" with Susan Hayward is a favorite.
  12. Hi, Leslie...I'm new to JWtalk and was looking at older topics and came across this one. Decided to respond for 2 reasons: 1) I also enjoyed Lewis Grizzard's writings. I mostly saw articles in his syndicated column years ago. He could really turn a phrase. 2) You and I share the same last name plus I noticed your mention of having lived in Louisiana...since that's where I'm from, too, it led to my wondering if you're a Dean by marriage or by birth? Our Dean clan has been in Claiborne Parish for 5 generations, having come here in the late 1800s. Wait a minute: rereading your post, maybe you wrote LA for Los Angeles...hmmm, this may be a "never-mind" response if you did not live in Louisiana. If so, my apology for any misunderstanding on my part.........

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