LeslieDean

Thank you. I should know all our GB members. But this way their identify is safe with me! 😜 I think I need a nap. Has anyone checked on Bro Splane? 🤔

So three GB and one helper? In the past all were GB members? Do you think we should tell Bro Splane? 🤪😂😜

@Dolce vita and @LeolaRootStew I can not enlarge photo well enough to see but the brothers on the board---are they all GB helpers?

@Dolce vitait just looked a little blurred /fuzzy to me but I liked where you were going with it!

I live in senior apt complex. Ground floor living. Very small 550 sq ft. No garage. There are 9 witnesses here and several more on the waiting list. The manager is also a witness but I would not have known it without her telling me. Very aloof, not warm friendly like I am use to. I have way to much stuff for the space I have. But I have bought a rocket stove that would cook off liquid sterno. I bought a bed tent so when I loose electric for heat my Poppy and Maggie Mae and I can stay cozy and warm. I have two Tupperware type totes that I have dry food in. They are large like 2.5 ft long by 2 ft tall approx. I hate what little space I have no longer feels homey and pretty but looks like a old lady hoarder. I have gone to all the friends and told them where I live so we all know where to go, who to trust. I know my neighbors. Alma who lives directly behind me is a character. She looks like granny Clampett but smokes weed like Willie and Snoop. I do believe she could smoke them under the table. I thought weed makes you hungry but it looks like she does not eat at all. Yes Granny Clampett described her size, stature and shuffling gait. Instead of a shotgun she totes bear spray holstered on her hip and a life alert hanging from her neck. In just under one year that I have been here she has been to the hospital 3 times. She asked me if I ever 'got a good look at our fire men (department)? I said no I am sure they look good. 🤪 It never hurts to have an attractive face to look at as all muscle and brawn lift you to what might be your final destination. Our maintenance man cautioned me to avoid her baked goods because she gave him a gummy candy that put him in the dirt. I do believe the GT will be very interesting in my neck of the woods. I also bought heavy contractors bags to put in bathtub and hopefully can have enough notice to fill them up with water and they are used as a bladder to hold a 55 gal bag of water. Life straws and a solar batter. I've thought about small freezer but just no space. I must rely on Jehovah for the rest. I pray for all our friends everywhere that we stick tight like Velcro.

I count on 90 % being Aj now but the thought remains the same

Hopefully she is a sister as calm and collected as she appears. Able to go forward while the world around her crumbles. Heartbreaking the whole tragic scene

World powers continue to struggle for dominance, just as the Bible foretold. However, we wait on Jehovah rather than trying to identify every political development as prophetic.

Such a full and rewarding life you two shared. I know your memories continue to comfort you. The time after an intimate is so hard to explain for me. It seems like yesterday then it feels like you are watching a movie about someone else. I sure hope I can meet your precious spouse soon.

I found it fascinating that the way Jesus dried her tears was with a job to do. Focus on informing others.

Did you have a half bath and a pink princess phone?

I understand about your feelings re your son’s lack of appreciation for good music. When I asked my son Jason, who lives in China, if he wanted any of Rick’s photography equipment or the steel pedal guitar. He said he had enough “junk” of his own. Some of those special Cannon lenses were 2800.00 . I truly understood then the meaning of one mans junk is another’s treasure and vice versa. I guess he understood he hit a sensitive spot and started to explain. “I’M sorry. I just meant I have no use or need for it. You should sell or give it to your friends.” The Bible scores again. In the end its all really just refuse. What was precious memories to me was not a part of his memory bank thus no attachment.

I understand. There is definitely a difference between the way I live and other people's . As a child we went to visit my parents friends. I can remember my mother talking about their HALF bath! One and a HALF baths their new home had! And an oversized garage. A pink princess phone in their daughters bedroom. The car ride home my mom could not quit talking about the half bath. I kept thinking about the pink princess phone. I know my dad chocked on the oversized garage yet all he could say was he was not going in debt to keep up with the Jones's. I remember asking if we were poor and both of them turned around and yelled 'NO'! Then are we just jealous? That would have been early to mid 1960s.Funny thing is I don't remember ever visiting them anymore but do remember my parents saying they had been out classed. One measley closet size room with a toilet and a sink, a a garage with a few extra square feet and don't forget the pink phone sure stirred alot of emotion/grief.

With Rick's sudden death I too gave away everything except a Thomas Kincaide portrait I adore. Opened up the house to the friends and said take. It was all gone in less than 48 hrs. Generac generator, all furniture , Vitamix blender, instapot etc. 35 years of quality stuff. Even a steel pedal guitar used in a Dirks Bentley video from a famous music store outside Nashville. It had a certificate of authenticity that was framed that showed the steel pedal with the band and the video featuring it. I told the brother who it was gifted to that maybe he could teach Rick how to play after the resurrection. It was weird to watch the friends as they took what they wanted. Some were hesitant and thanked me profusely while a few grabbed till arms full and came back for more. Others bringing a pickup for beds,n dressers, bar, and refrigerator. The ache inside was real. I knew immediately what keep a simple eye now truly means. For 3 years I had no desire for anything permanent or nice. But boy did that chair reawaken a desire I thought no longer existed. It was two voices competing in my head. 1) You can't take it with you. 2) Watch! But as soon as I got out of the store I could feel reasonableness return.

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