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I am following along with your report. Good to see you have your photo issues figured out. It is always nice to have photos to go along with the narrative. I have done a few live reports, and I know the effort that is involved, so thank you for that. Now, if I can offer a constructive comment. I always find the photos are much easier to view if there is a space between them. Not hard to do, just insert photo, hit return twice, then insert the next ones. Enjoy your cruise.
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What a beautiful, sunny day for us today. Enjoyed breakfast and lunch out with our grandkids, plus a little time exploring new life at the lake. Then, there is always time for ice cream. Meanwhile, our budding artist worked on her life size family chalk art. There may have been some tracing involved. Looking forward to granddaughter’s first traveling concert tomorrow.
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one of the newspapers I read this morning covered a fundraiser for a local food pantry, plus a food backpack program for one of the other school districts. They had a large turnout. We also usually buy cases of snacks at Sam’s Club, and give them to our daughter to take to her classroom. She gives them out to any of her students who don’t have snacks during the day. She was telling us that 40% of her class are on the list to take food home for the weekends.
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We got the card, only for the purpose of getting the OBC, and will cash it for our January cruise. As a bonus, they are currently giving 5x for purchases made before 5/15. Don’t know if that applies to all card holders, but that was in an email we recently received on our card.
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I started writing a couple posts yesterday, about some really strange things we encountered. After writing and reading, I would think ‘yes, that post will go poof, or could earn me a do not pass go’. So you all will just have to guess what still has me shaking my head. So probably best for in person conversations. Instead, I will share this story. Last night, Susan and I spent our Wednesday evening like we do every Wednesday evening. Packing bags of food for school age children to take home with them to make sure they have food to eat over the weekend. Our church sponsors this program, and we pack between 140 to 150 bags each week during the school year. Although we live in one of the wealthiest school districts in our county, most people would not think of the number of children who have food insecurities. We have been well aware, but probably because our daughter is a teacher in the district, and we have heard many stories since she began teaching. One of the teachers, who helps pack, had called during the week and asked if she could give out bags to four children who were not on the list to receive bags. They had approached her and told her they had not had a supper meal all week. Thankfully, the kids can get breakfast and lunch at school, but the numbers struggling with lack of food just seem to increase. I guess the purpose of my post is to make others aware of the problem if you are not already. It doesn’t matter where you live, the problem is there. Maybe look in to programs in your area and support them. I guarantee it will be appreciated. Ok, end of my thought for the day. And this is a better topic than the one that had me SMH.
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The Harry Potter theme party was a hit. Since we had a few items left over from my California grandson’s party last fall, they could be used for this one. Before last summer, I knew nothing of Harry Potter. Never read the books or saw any movies. That changed as we prepared for our Universal Studios trip. So, unless you are familiar with them, some of these decorations may not mean anything. My daughter went all out with this party. There were floating envelopes. And floating candles that were remotely controlled by a wand. And the cake table was set up with several wands, and an iPad streaming a train scene. Entertainment at the party was this kids magician. He did an excellent show, and kids and adults were thoroughly entertained. He had one bit, where he had three adults, then three kids shake a die in a cup. They would then look at the number that came up. He wanted to see how good they were at lies. They had to answer NO, as he would ask if it was 1, 2, etc., and he would then tell them what the number was. He was 6 for 6 in reading each adult and each kid, and guessed their number. Lots of other tricks, but the kids faces were like my granddaughter’s when he did this with her. IMG_0989.mp4
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Yesterday was the Harry Potter theme birthday for my granddaughter, so my task Friday night was to make chocolate wands. Some of the ingredients. A mall crock pot to melt some half price Easter bunnies, and sprinkles for the top of the wand. It takes a while for the pieces to melt. This part was easy, because I just got chocolate covered pretzel rods from our local specialty candy store. Next was to figure out how much melted chocolate and sprinkles for the tip. I dipped the first one and swirled it in sprinkles, and…… It looked remarkably like those lighthouse cookies. 😂😂 Ok, use a little less. The finished product.
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Reading all these moving posts, and my back is aching just thinking about it. Last time we moved was 39 years ago, and it was a short one with a rental truck and lots of friends. I did help my son with a couple of cross country moves, NY to California, then California to NY. Both of those, he used PODS. They set the pod in front of your place, and you pack it full of furniture and boxes. The trick to reduce the chance of damage is to pack things tight, with little room for shifting. Both of those moves came through with no damage. I was glad, that when he made the third cross country move from NY back to California, that his company paid for the move, plus they paid for the movers to pack things for them.