Friday, January 31, 2025

NEW TECHNOLOGY

 We all have gone through a change....there used to be a phone booth on st. corners if needed to call your parents or need a ride home. And only 25 cent for the call. If called long distance you had to pay into the phone. 

 Now everyone carries a phone in their pocket and can call anyone anywhere in the world. Wow!

T.V. was just black and white, now in color a huge TV that hangs on wall.

 Videotapes to DVD....just a click away!  Maybe one day no more movie threaters.

Family cars like lots of station wagons to a SUV

WRIGHT BROTHERS first flight to a Commercial Plane that fly's at 540mph

Writing letters to mail off...waiting weeks for reply.  Now just a text away from anyplace in the world.

Technology has changed our lives forever.

We are never far away from our devices, in home or school or work.

 Never to pull out our Encyclopedia Britannica

Here to stay!!!   not to FORGET our IPAD  

 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WENT A DAY OR EVEN AN HOUR WITHOUT USING ONE OF YOUR DEVICES? AND THE QUESTION IS HOW WELL DO YOU MANAGE ALL THESE NEW THINGS AND REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THE THINGS THAT REALLY COUNT?   HOW ARE WE SPENDING OUR TIME?      JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!


Old telephone and obsolet electronic equipment on wooden floor Technology Stock Photo

 

Closeup of an old-fashioned vintage black telephone and a modern mobile phone on the table. Concept of old and new technology in telecommunications. Generative Ai

old tv isolated on white background

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

BACK IN 2000

  APRIL  YEAR 2001.....ON WED. WENT TO TALLAHASSEE TO PICK UP JEN WHO IS GOING TO SCHOOL THERE AND BRING  HER HOME. 

STUFFED ALL HER THINGS INTO ME LITTLE HONDA WHICH WASN'T EASY. ... LEFT SETTING ROOM FOR HER .  IT WAS A GREAT TRIP THERE AND BACK. SHE SHOWED US INSTITUTE BUILDING , MET HER FRIEND DANA , TOOK HER TO BOOK STORE FOR REFUND AND SOME PERSONAL TIME WITH HER WE HEADED HOME. 

ON WAY HOME JEN TOLD US A FEW STORIES . BOY WHO SPILLED HOT GREASE ON HIS ARM , DIDN'T PANIC AND ONLY SAID SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL. SHE SAW A BIRD WHO HAD A SMALL BIRD IN HIS MOUTH ,SAW BLOOD AND THOUGHT HE MUST HAVE KILLED IT !   SHE TALKED OF A OLD MAN WHO HAD LOTS OF CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD AND SAID ITS LIKE PLANTING FLOWERS ALL OVER THE EARTH.

 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT??

JUMPING TO SAT. ...DAD STARTED PAINTING THE HOUSE,  IT WAS TIME!!

SUNDAY ......WENT TO CHURCH ALONE ,  WHERE IS EVERYONE? THEY HAVE THERE OWN LIVES  AND TODD AND JEN WENT TO THE SINGLES WARD. 

I MAKE A BANANA BREAD AND IT FLOPPED...  CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT! SO I MADE BROWNIES , WHAT HAPPENED TO MY GREAT COOKING SKILLS ?  HA HA!

 OCT. YEAR 2000

SAT. TOOK JEN TO DO BAPTISM AT THE TEMPLE , WAS 2 HRS. LATE FOR WORK. NO ONE EVEN MISSED ME. NO MANAGEMENT WAS ON DUTY.😉

SUNDAY....WENT TO CONFERENCE AND TO JACOBS BIRTHDAY PARTY... HE IS ELEVEN WOW!   AM I GETTING OLD?

MONDAY-   KRISTEN AND I TOOK A NAP....TOOK CAR TO HAVE BRAKES FIXED , COST WAS 192.OO. HATE THAT!  AND TO TOP OFF THAT THEY GOT GREASE ON MY SEAT COVERS WHICH UPSET ME....WENT TO WORK AND IT HELPED RELEASE THE STRESS. 

TUESDAY-EMAILED JEN ...KRISTEN STAYED HOME CAUSE RANDY`S JOB WENT BROKE. 

I SPENT DAY CLEANING HOUSE , PAYED BILLS AND SHOPPED.  WORKED HARD THIS EVENING AT WALMART AND EVEN WITH A NEW HELPER I WORKED MY BUTT OFF.

WED/ ...DAY OFF OF WORK ...ALWAYS LOVE IT!  GOT CAR CHECKED OUT , JOHN FIXED THE PROBLEM FAST....WENT BY VAL'S THEN WENT TO RANDYS ...I PLAYED AT PLAYGROUND WITH KRISTEN....STACE AND I SHOPPED FOR GROCERIES.... IN EVENING WE WATCHED MOVIES AND RELAXED.

THURSDAY .....RANDY IS LOOKING FOR NEW JOB ...HIS COLLAPSED.  I SHOPPED FOR A FEW THINGS TODAY AND LEARNING THE COMPUTER.  ITS FUN!!  MY TIPS OF FINGERS GO NUMB AT WORK AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE THEY CAN HANDLE SENSE ZONING AT WALMART THIS WEEK.

FRIDAY .....EMAILED JEN AND DID SOME CRAFT WORK AND SPRAYED A BIG FAN THAT I GOT AT GARAGE SALE FOR 50 CENT.....PUT FLOWERS ON IT AND IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!  LIFE IS FUN MOST THE TIME. 

SAT. WORKING SINCE CHANGED HOURS.  BY BY FUN DAY!!

SUNDAY .....OFF TO CHURCH WITH DAD AND HE ACTUALLY WENT TODAY. HE MUST BE IMPROVING HIS OUTLOOK . HE HAS DROVE ME CRAZY THIS PAST YEAR.  FUN EVENING , MEAL WITH KIDS THE FIRST FOR ALONG TIME. AND WATCHED MOVIE "MY DOG" GOOD  MOVIE.

YEAR 2000

13TH OF OCT.....JEN SLEPT IN LATE ...STACEY HAD TO WORK AND SO WHEN I GOT UP I TOOK JEN TO VISIT RANDY AND KIDS AND THEN OVER TO VAL'S TO SEE THEM. JEN HAD A LITTLE FUN ON JACOBS SCOOTER.  WENT BACK HOME AND SHE RELAXED IN TODD'S HAMMOCK AND THEN I HAD TO GO TO WORK . THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER THAT EVENING FOR A COOKOUT AT 8PM.... HAD ENJOYABLE TIME/ WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE.

12TH OF OCT. WE ALL WAITED FOR JENNY TO SHOW UP. ..SHE ARRIVED ABOUT 2;30 OR SO. SHE RODE HOME FROM FSU WITH ANOTHER JENNIFER WHO IS  A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH.  I FEEL SHE IS EXCITED TO BE HOME. I KNOW WE ARE HAPPY TO  HAVE HER HERE, WE LOVE HER SO MUCH AND ARE EXCITED SHE IS HOME!

14TH....I GOT UP AROUND 9AM WENT TO ROSEMONT COMMUNITY YARD SALES . JENNY SPENT NIGHT AT LESLIE'S . THEY SHOPPED SOME AND WENT OUT THIS EVENING WITH DAVE AND STACEY. ...STACEY  HAS BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS EVENING OF SISTERS TOGETHER. 

15TH.   ...DIDN'T GO TO CHURCH , SAW JENNY OFF TO SCHOOL. GOOD NEWS TODAY IS THAT I NO LONGER WORK ON SUNDAY'S.... NEW GIRL HIRED YA!!

HALLOWEEN: TUESDAY OCT.31 ...DRESSED UP FOR WORK , FRECKLES ON NOSE , HAIR IN PONY TAIL , A FAKE CHICKEN STUFFED HANGING ON MY HIP, BASKET OF EGGS , BOILED JUST IN CASE ...BUT DIDN'T GET TO SEE GRAND KID'S ..SAD ...MADE THE ROUNDS TO VISIT MY SISTERS AT CHURCH THOUGH.  

WED. MY DAY OFF,,,JARED AND LESLIE GETTING READY TO MOVE INTO A HOUSE DOWNTOWN  OFF OF MILLS.  SHERRY DAD HAS BEEN IN HOSPITAL WITH LEG PROBLEMS

THURS. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT DAY, ONLY THING I REMEMBER IS ITS TRASH DAY . HA! I HAVE BEEN A HOUSE WIFE WAY TOO LONG. 😊. 

JUMPING TO SUNDAY ...WENT TO FRANKIE AND DONNA'S .... ATE AT PERKINS AND STROLLED ALONG EUSTIS LAKE ...WATCHED SUN GO DOWN... . BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

A testimony

Have you > HEARD OF THESE NAMES?  Had to write this!

NEPHITES, 

JACOBITES,

 JOSEPHITES, 

ORAMITES

 LAMANITES 

,LEMUELITES 

AND THE ISHMAELITES   look them up, they are real groups of people that lived on the earth long ago, SOME you might find in Bible. And now also in Book of Mormon times.....YES / B OF M was another TIME IN HISTORY.

So putting this quote in here so you can remember .....

"Don't sell or trade your Birthright for a mess of porridge"

In other word don't let the world change you!


THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI.....TELLS US TO TO BELIEVE BOOK OF MORMON FOR THESE OUR JESUS WORDS. Just read the first book of Nephi, its amazing!!

 Lehi , Nephi's father was told the city Jerusalem along with people were going to be destroyed because of wickedness ....told Lehi to take his family and  leave but was also told to send back his sons to get the PLATES SO THEY COULD BE KEPT SAFE.

THE LORD TOLD Lehi to write his history to add to them plus  NEPHI also to WRITE UPON THE PLATES WITH HIS HISTORY AND WITH HOPE THOSE THAT READ THEM WOULD BE PLEASED WITH WHAT WAS WRITTEN AND EACH RIGHTEOUS PERSON WHO HELD THE PLATES WOULD CONTINUE TO WRITE AND PASS THEM ON down to us. 

STARTS WITH......

 NEPHI SAYING HE WAS BORN OF GOODLY PARENTS.  AS SAID BEFORE HIS FATHER  Lehi WAS TOLD BY A VISION THAT Jerusalem WOULD BE DETROYED BECAUSE OF WICKEDNESS.  HE WAS TO TAKE HIS FAMILY AND LEAVE AND LATER TOLD TO GO BACK AND GET PLATES , THE HISTORY WAS TO BE PASSED ON. MUCH HAPPENS WHICH IS GOOD TO READ AND LATER THE PLATES ARE HANDED DOWN FROM NEPHI THEN TO HIS BROTHER JACOB. 

 SO THEY COULD BE KEPT SAFE AND PASSED ON FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

AND FINALLY TO BE PASSED ON TO US. ....SO IT WAS.

 JACOB GETS THEM AND PASSES THEM ON TO

JAROM AND HE PASSES PLATES TO HIS SON OMNI WHO IS WICKED

THEN HE ON TO HIS SON AMARON AND THEN TO CHEMISH WHO IS HIS BROTHER 

THEN IT GOES ON TO OTHERS....A VERY TOUCHING STORY PASSED ON FOR US!

 LATER THERE ARE WARS.....GOOD VERSES EVIL

Now King Mosiah  comes along...a good king ...He later dies,  King Benjamin comes next.

BENJAMIN IS A REALLY GREAT AND GOOD KING!!

 King Benjamin wanted all his people to be RIGHTEOUS and hoped the records would be reserved and kept safe .....FOR ALL GENERATIONS TO COME.

 PLATES  EVENTUALLY ARE GIVEN TO MORMON AND HE SAW ALL THE KILLING AND WAS HIMSELF DYING AND GAVE ALL THE RECORDS INTO THE HANDS OF HIS SON  MORONI. 


Now King Benjamin had taught his sons

{had 3sons.}

HE passes his kingdom over to THEM

KING B. tells the people we need these plates and their help and told them to believe the records for they are true!

Dying KING BENJAMIN  said bring all the people here to me.  I am dying and he gives a great talk upon a tower so all could hear.  A must read.  Then gave all the plates to Mosiah. 

The plates brass, plates of Nephi, sword of Laban, Ball /director...all prepared by the lord. ...ALL OF IT!!

THEN COMES Lehi along with his sons and Lehi was told the city alone with people were going to be destroyed because of wickedness ....so Lehi takes his family to leave but sends back his son to get the PLATES SO THEY COULD BE KEPT SAFE. 

a great speech was given by King Benjamin before he died. families came in crowds to hear him and he spoke on a tower....please check it out and read it...so Great!!

       Oh Remember Remember... he said.

MOSIAH WAS VISITED BY A ANGEL AND WAS TOLD CHRIST WILL COME AND ATONE FOR SINS , WOULD HEAL PEOPLE , TEACH PEOPLE AND WOULD DO MANY GOOD THINGS AND  HE WOULD BE PUT TO DEATH AND RISE ON 3RD DAY.   TAUGHT MANY GOOD THINGS SO PEOPLE COULD HAVE HOPE.  

HE CAME!!  AND WAS PUT TO DEATH TRYING TO TEACH US ......THERE WAS BATTLE AFTER BATTLE.


ABINADI WHO DID NOT THINK THEY SHOULD CRUCIFY THE SAVIOR SPOKE OUT

Now wicked King Noah has a hard heart and didn't want  to hear it.  Abinadi was burned to death and then later along came Jacob , Enos, Jarom , Omni , who all were believers and Mormon who was dying from a battle and he handed over plates to his son Mosiah  and then on to Mormon and then on to his SON MORONI who buried them till the lord told Joseph Smith who asked with a sincere heart what church he should join?   He was  told where to find the plates and He would be set apart to bring back His true church and teachings to the earth.  WOW!!!!!!   that church is :

   ( THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF 

              LATTER DAY SAINTS)

THIS IS THE RECORD THAT WAS SAVED FROM VERY BEGINNING STARTING WITH NEPHI

             "THE BOOK OF MORMON"




 

 



Sunday, January 19, 2025

Keep Swimming

 Clear thinking is hard when under Stress! In movie"Finding Nemo" we need to do as Dory did

 " just keep swimming, swimming , swimming."   We all struggle in certain areas... I Do......I feel  over whelmed sometimes and then I read this from our Prophet...

  " Mortality is a master class in learning to choose the things of greatest eternal important"...

So as he invites us all , I will take the long view and think what really is important  and I will choose to persevere by what is worth worrying  about  in this life!


Roscoe Todd

 April 5, 1929 -January 10, 2025....

I have some great memories of my brother and spending time at his home in Vincennes, Indiana. 

My brother Paul whom we called (Bump) a nickname started back in childhood days. Roscoe lived in a valley down a h ill which we called the hollow ,  we loved hanging out there cause we would swing on grapevines , play hide and seek in his cornfield , and evenings we would wrestle in his living room with Roscoe being the referee.  His wife Lillie was someone Bump and I could count on to take us to a drive- in theater plus feed us and she even taught me to drive, had a old Studebaker and I remember driving off once into a ditch. As I remember Lillie never got upset much with us kids. I think Roscoe really loved her but later she had an affair and that broke Roscoe's heart and I remember the day he found out and he cried like a baby, it was a sad day.  They divorced and later he married Carol and they were together till her death. Roscoe was a hard worker, was right up to his old age. Never known a man who worked any harder than Ross and he generally cared about people. Of course he was hurt by many who took advantage of his goodness.  Roscoe was not educated. He dropped out of school at a very young age learning some from just living life!  Even so he started his own business and became a huge success all around Vincennes and counties around there.   I could tell more stories of Ross, like the time he hired a young guy to help with work and found that he stole her money. He was devastated  , he even did work for some who could not afford  to pay but I think this is why his work was so successful,  he also donated a special bark of wood to the city and if you go there you can see it, they had a bust monument made of an historical Indian that came to Vincennes. 

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Love this saying......

 May you like the work that is yours to do

May your purse always hold a coin or two

May you be happy with life, a smile light your face

May the place where dwell be a wonderful place 


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