isn't that a great pic?
it's from the series pwayfarer sent me in between snowfalls
(quite a different view than when littlek and I and l'ks mom had tea with pwayfare)
here comes another one
I'm homesick for Fairbanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wayfarer - you are sooooo good picture taker. Quite the artist.
Please pray and send good thoughts for Anita and her family
From MagginKat:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but an update on the update on Anita.
Stuart tells me that he was totally shocked at how much worse she is than before she entered the hospital 3 weeks ago. When I talked to her earlier this evening she said that she would not be able to go home again because she cannot take care of herself.
Stuart now has to fight the "system" in Canada to try to get her moved to a hospice near him in Calgary and he has an uphill battle on his hands but he is determined to get her near them for the time she has left.
From Stuart: God Bless you for being such very good friends to Mom and to myself. Could you do me the very huge favor of letting her other friends know? I can't write this out much more than I've done already and I know she would want to let her online buddies know. Let them know as well that mom will not be back online again and that she misses them all very much and gives them all her love...
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For the time being her snail mail address is:
University of Alberta Hospital
8440 - 112 Street
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 287
Anita Bentley Unit 3E4
that's just lousy news
<sigh>
thanks for passing on the word
Big sigh. Good thoughts and prayers.
Morning all,
Clicked on another Friday - another tree saved!
Stradee,
Thanks for Anita's address - I'll snail'm a card to her. There will eventually be a time in all our lives when the only meaningfull thing is our friends.
Aww Danon, there isn't quite anything like good friends <and for me - my kids also>
Lots of luv ~ we've been blessed beyond measure.
You and your 282 friends have supported 1,726,055.6 square feet!
Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 59,739.7 square feet.
You have supported: (34,439.5)
Your 282 friends have supported: (25,300.2)
American Prairie habitat supported: 32,768.2 square feet.
You have supported: (9,270.0)
Your 282 friends have supported: (23,498.2)
Rainforest habitat supported: 1,633,547.7 square feet.
You have supported: (158,662.8)
Your 282 friends have supported: (1,474,884.9)
You're right Stradee,
I was thinking of Anitab when I wrote that sentence. Clearly, family should have been mentioned first - but, our thoughts of family and friends are the only things we can take with us when we pass on.
add on = later........
I've read over the years about different cultures thoughts on dying. They all have a common denominator - faith - and, apparently the stories told by people who have for all intent and purposes died and come back to life and spoke of their experiences. For some - passing consists of good memories of family and friends, for others it means seeing very undesirable things (which I think are our rememberances of unpleasantness in life). Whatever, those thoughts are our last - and should be good thoughts. It makes the transition a hell of a lot nicer - no pun intended (((((Naaaaahhh........Puns are good)))))))
A bit of trivia=
The folks in the area of Transylvania - present day Romania - began the practice of unearthing certain corpses - under the suspicion that they came out at times and did undesirable things to living people - and drove wooden stakes through the corpses in order that the corpses would not be able to get out of their graves and bother people. True story, and background to B Stokers vampire stories - Stoker, by the way was an Irish person.
1726055.6 Square feet equals 39.6248 Acres
ehBeth,
You're just too good. 39.6248 is almost 2/3s between 39 and 40 acres!! We are getting really close!!
Danon, I also included Anita in my comment ~ her son Stewart, friends and family supporting and caring for her. God love them.
Addressing "add on = later"
Well, if there is another plain of existance, and I believe there is, I intend arriving with a sigh of relief and after saying howdy to friends and family, plan sitting in the Hall of Records for a millinium or two.
I want answers!
More trivia:
All those terrible stories have origins, and I'm willing to bet began when before coroners, poor souls buried before they had died - were able to somehow resurrect from graves scaring the heck out of villagers.
"Bram Stoker's Dracula" did have some historical facts tied in with the fiction also. Stoker developed his most famous character, Count Dracula, from a real person. The person was prince Vlad The Impaler of Romania.
The character of Prof. Abraham Van Helsing is modelled after Bram Stoker. <Hilarious dialog from the character in the movie btw>
Contrary to popular belief Bram Stoker did not base his most famous character, Count Dracula, on Romanian Prince Vlad II. Most of his novel was completed and his vampire protagonist was to be named Count Wampyr. Then, during his research he came across William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia". In the book were brief passages about "Voivode Dracula" (never reffered to as Vlad) who crossed the Danube to fight the Turks and was betrayed by his brother. What intrigued Stoker was a footnote that in Romanian, Dracula meant Devil. Liking the name for that reason, Stoker changed the name of his vampire from Wampyr to Dracula.
Yes, and if memory serves me, the original story did not sell at all. Only later did it gain popularity.
Such is life - (grin) - we can only hope to "age" as well......
Thanks for the trivia..... I really dig it.
Still in the Middle East got a high speed connection pro tem and wanted to post to ask anyone sending e-mail to Anita to please include my good wishes also. I did send a huge bouquet of flowers last time she was hospitalized (signing for everybody here) but this time her son, Stuart, seems to be saying in private messages that Anita is now in a ward which permits no flowers or chocolates. Thank you!
Hi all,
Hi HofT, Middle East Ay?? Be sure to visit Acre - on the coast just South of the Lebanon/Israel border. It is where the Third Crusade ended and Richard I (Lionhearted) became instrumental in the making of the Austrian flag. A young Austrian prince had declared victory when Richard showed up and declared the victory to be his. It pissed off the Austrian prince who grabbed a blooded shirt from one of his fallen comrades and waved it on a staff. It was a white shirt - with red blood stripes on it. (The Austrian flag today is stripped red-white-red) Afterwards, Richard tried to sneak through Vienna in disquise and was captured in what is now the 5th district of Vienna. He was held prisoner in Durnstein, now in ruins, by the Danube river W. of Vienna. The ransome paid to free him actually led to the complete renovation of the city of Vienna. Anyway, all that started at Acre.
Danon - all western-looking folk have been warned out of the area. Informally, but I'm no hero so I left. I do hope it works out, most of all for the Marines now getting slaughtered, but I'm not optimistic.
The appalling treatment of animals will not abate if we leave - and to their credit lots of Brits, other European, Australians, American, Canadians now on the ground in Iraq have disregarded concerns to personal safety in order to tend to much-abused donkeys (here used as ammo repositories!!!!) dogs and other animals......
You and your 282 friends have supported 1,728,279.9 square feet!
Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 59,880.2 square feet.
You have supported: (34,439.5)
Your 282 friends have supported: (25,440.7)
American Prairie habitat supported: 32,768.2 square feet.
You have supported: (9,270.0)
Your 282 friends have supported: (23,498.2)
Rainforest habitat supported: 1,635,631.5 square feet.
You have supported: (158,686.2)
Your 282 friends have supported: (1,476,945.3)
39.675 Acres !!!!!
Thanks HofT, that's sad to think of those animals. The folks risking all to help them are the true heros.
