Think I'll sit down here for a bit... (9)

[Flipper]

Sorry, I only stomp on one toe at a time. Poor things - I hope you both get to feeling better, and I pray you can get a good settlement on your car and injuries.

 

[Flipper]

I've been following this closely since it happened. Columbia, IL is parrallel across the Mississippi from where I live, and I know people who lived in his neighborhood, whose kids played with his kids, and people close to the investigation. We were so wanting to hope it wasn't him, but at the same time wanted the person who did it to be caught.

05/19/2009 - Christopher Coleman charged in murders of wife, young sons - STLtoday.com

How can someone do that to their family??? (redundant question, I know the answer - sin).

 

[seajoy]

Can I have some of that tea, Stude? I'm lookin' for a bit of tea 'n sympathy as well.

Was in a car accident with Mike on Saturday. I took the brunt of the impact and, as God is SOO AWESOME, I've only bruising and some pain and a probable cracked rib. Mike is fine with just a few powder burns from the air bags. The other driver was at fault. She's 17 and failed to stop at a stop sign, failed to yield, left the scene and was found 1/4 mile away when her car stopped.

Ow.

Oh, Kae.....so glad it wasn't worse. You rest, my dear.

 

[LutheranChick]

And yo-se-my-tee too (LOL)! Eureka is two hundred miles north of Santa Rosa on CA 101. Yreka is three hundred miles north and two hundred miles east off of I-5.

Yes, many of the drive-through trees fell over. Most of those groves are now gone. In fact, most of the groves from Santa Rosa north to Scotia (about a hundred seventy-five miles) are gone as well. We lost three hundred miles of Redwoods before it was stopped. A hundred-fifty in just five years. A British investor bought one of the largest of the private reserves and started clear cutting in the late seventies. The family that owned it before him figured that with selective cutting, it would last them for three hundred years. The investor figured maybe thirty, at best. He actually had barges off the coast from China to cut the timber as the mills here couldn't handle the volume. The reaction was to stop all lumbering in this state. Now, it's so expensive, small property owners (less than a thousand acres) don't want to bother with it. The taxes take all the profit from the trees.

George pointed out to me that when the Redwoods were cut, it opened land for the Wineries to expand. That at least, was good for the state's economy.

Silly ME! I had the wrong name of the town. I meant Ukiah! Ukiah-Yreka-Ureka- they're all the same to me LOL

 

[LutheranChick]

Can I have some of that tea, Stude? I'm lookin' for a bit of tea 'n sympathy as well.

Was in a car accident with Mike on Saturday. I took the brunt of the impact and, as God is SOO AWESOME, I've only bruising and some pain and a probable cracked rib. Mike is fine with just a few powder burns from the air bags. The other driver was at fault. She's 17 and failed to stop at a stop sign, failed to yield, left the scene and was found 1/4 mile away when her car stopped.

Ow.

Oh dear- glad to hear you are all ok. Thank you God! Sounds like that gal will be in big trouble.

 

[Jim47]

Can I have some of that tea, Stude? I'm lookin' for a bit of tea 'n sympathy as well.

Was in a car accident with Mike on Saturday. I took the brunt of the impact and, as God is SOO AWESOME, I've only bruising and some pain and a probable cracked rib. Mike is fine with just a few powder burns from the air bags. The other driver was at fault. She's 17 and failed to stop at a stop sign, failed to yield, left the scene and was found 1/4 mile away when her car stopped.

Ow.

Glad to hear that you will be alright. Might nice of you to protect your hubby and take the worse yourself

 

[RadMan]

Glad to hear that you will be alright. Might nice of you to protect your hubby and take the worse yourself

LOL

 

[LutheranChick]

I just HAVE to share this pic with you all- this is my granddaughter, at her mom's wedding on Mother's Day: (gee I hope this works..)


If you click on the pic you get a bigger image. She's wearing a dress her mother wore in a wedding exactly 20 years ago. (well, 20 yrs ago in April)

 

[seajoy]

Very cute, LC.

 

[porterross]

I just HAVE to share this pic with you all- this is my granddaughter, at her mom's wedding on Mother's Day: (gee I hope this works..)

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If you click on the pic you get a bigger image. She's wearing a dress her mother wore in a wedding exactly 20 years ago. (well, 20 yrs ago in April)

What a little angel.



Kae, I'm grateful to know you're OK, but I know from experience that both of you will be very sore for a while. Your angels sure have a hard job, don't they?

 

[ctay]

I just HAVE to share this pic with you all- this is my granddaughter, at her mom's wedding on Mother's Day: (gee I hope this works..)

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If you click on the pic you get a bigger image. She's wearing a dress her mother wore in a wedding exactly 20 years ago. (well, 20 yrs ago in April)

She's adorable

 

[Flipper]

I just HAVE to share this pic with you all- this is my granddaughter, at her mom's wedding on Mother's Day: (gee I hope this works..)

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If you click on the pic you get a bigger image. She's wearing a dress her mother wore in a wedding exactly 20 years ago. (well, 20 yrs ago in April)

Awwww

 

[WildStrawberry]

The pic is adorable LC!

Thanks everyone for your prayers and well wishes! I swear I can't catch a break! LOL C'est la vie though.

More xrays tomorrow and Mike's going to be seen for his wrist. Now that the burns don't hurt anymore, he's noticed pain in a couple of spots where he thinks his wrist smacked the steering wheel.

I, however, keep discovering new bruises everyday. LOL I'm going to be black 'n blue (and green and yellow) for quite sometime I guess. *G*

Bloomer, we're praying for everyone! May God give little Tiger the strength to battle these bugs!!! And mucho strength to Mom, Dad and Big Brother!

::hugs::

Kae

 

[LutheranChick]

The pic is adorable LC!

Thanks everyone for your prayers and well wishes! I swear I can't catch a break! LOL C'est la vie though.

More xrays tomorrow and Mike's going to be seen for his wrist. Now that the burns don't hurt anymore, he's noticed pain in a couple of spots where he thinks his wrist smacked the steering wheel.

I, however, keep discovering new bruises everyday. LOL I'm going to be black 'n blue (and green and yellow) for quite sometime I guess. *G*

Bloomer, we're praying for everyone! May God give little Tiger the strength to battle these bugs!!! And mucho strength to Mom, Dad and Big Brother!

::hugs::

Kae

Ouch- you'll be sore for awhile I am sure. Hopefully you will both heal quickly.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments on the pic- I hate to be one of 'those' grandmas, but sometimes I just can't help it!

 

[Studeclunker]

I'm glad to hear you and Mike are doing okay, Strawberry. Seems like lately, people just aren't attending to their driving like they should. Sadly, they seem to be hitting other people, not things like walls and trees. You pamper yourself and Mike, hear? No pushing to get back to normal. Just take your time, okay?


A couple of Thursdays ago George and I were on our way to Weaverville to see the premere (in Trinity County) of the new Star Trek movie. We got to Indian Creek, about seven miles out of town, and were stopped by an accident. There's a frontage road there, and I decided to try going around. It was a no, go as there were parts of the cars scattered around the opposite end where it returned to the highway. One of the cars, a silver one, was sitting on the shoulder of the West bound lane adjacent to us. It was so mangled we couldn't tell what it was, let alone which make. Disapointed, we went home. I said a quick prayer for the victims on the way home.

The next day, a friend of mine returned a call I'd made on Thursday. Whilst we were talking, he mentioned that a Ford Tarus had been in a serious accident on Hwy. 299 on Thursday. That was when I found out that my friends Anthony, and his wife Heather had been in the car. I've seen that car a hundred times. It was a very familliar sight with Anthony or Heather tooling along the road with a friendly wave for everyone. Blessedly, neither was seriously hurt. Heather's seat broke loose from the floor, which had warped and torn, and she ended up in Anthony's lap. This gave Anthony some serious bruises, but no serious injuries. They're both okay, sore to be sure, but okay praise God!

There were two other cars involved in the crash. One was an elderly couple in a three year old Lincoln. The car's right front wheel was torn off and it was totaled. However, the safety devices did their jobs and the couple are alright. Due to their age (both in their eighties) they were taken to the local hospital and kept overnight for observation. The car that caused the trouble by rear-ending Anthony and Heather at sixty-plus miles-per-hour, was a Ford Crewcab pickup. It had very little damage. The woman driver and her four children were completely unharmed.

All this trouble, pain, and angst, was caused because the driver of the Pickup was going ten miles-an-hour (at least) faster than the speed limit and not paying attention on a curve. Thank God no one was killed!

 

[LutheranChick]

Thanks to God that no one was seriously injured in that wreck, Stude. It sounded really really bad.

 

[Studeclunker]

I need everyone to pray that all the that's drowning the mid-west would drop it's wet goodness on the West Coast first. We're really parched up here in No. Cal. I'd go out and do a Rain Dance, except that it just might irritate the Lord. See, Rain Dances were a pagan thing... I need to get on the Lord's good side, so I guess I'll do my dancing on my knees.

On the up-side, we had fresh snap-peas for dinner last night. The first I've grown for many a moon. The bush beans and potatoes are up too. Now, all I have to do is keep them alive.

 

[porterross]

Sorry bout the drought, Stude. So far, that's not been an issue here.

I cooked fresh green beans last night, too, only to be the only one eating them! My daughter claims she'll only eat them cold and my husband insists that they're french (gasp!) beans and because they smelled funny to him when he was a kid, he still won't eat them. What a couple of warts!!!!!

 

[QuiltAngel]

Stude, I would be more than happy to share some our rain with you!

LC, enjoyed the pic of the adorable grand daughter.

Well, I am outta here for the weekend. This is the big weekend, daughter's wedding. Need to finish packing the car and head out. Pray for no rain on Sunday.

 

[LutheranChick]

Stude, I would be more than happy to share some our rain with you!

LC, enjoyed the pic of the adorable grand daughter.

Well, I am outta here for the weekend. This is the big weekend, daughter's wedding. Need to finish packing the car and head out. Pray for no rain on Sunday.

Thanks QA- have a wonderful wonderful time this weekend! May Sunday be a sunny day! (Lord willing of course )