How's it goin' ?

 I've absolutely nothing to write about. I see I last visited in 2017 I believe. I don't know where the time has gone, where the years have gone. I know for a fact that with the advent of social media, I've for all intent and purposes, forgotten about this blog. I can't believe it's been almost 20 years since I started it. Then, as I said, social media popped up. 

First Friendster, then MySpace, then, and still, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Yes, I'm on them all. Love and hate Facebook. I love Instagram. I think it's what you follow that makes something great or terrible. Twitter (or X as it's now known, because of the scum Musk) still gives me up to the moment information. It will be interesting to see if it lasts long now that Musk has it. 

I could write in detail about my life since I last blogged but nah, some privacy is best. 

So cheers to you, cheers to life. Blessed are we that still awake every morning. Blessed is each breath we take.  

Seasons

I come from a State without seasons so perhaps this is why, even though I've lived in Minnesota half of my life, I never cease to be amazed as seasons change. The first leave of color in Autumn. The first snow flake in Winter. The first bud on the tree in Spring.

Each season I keep thinking I shall become immune to the beauty, the changing of seasons, the passage of time they represent to me. They have not, and I hope I never do. I'm so fortunate to have had the opportunity to live in two such opposite States. I'm happy my youth was spent where I was on the beach (as in Ocean beach) on Christmas Day.

I look forward to retiring and enjoying the snow days, without the rush hour traffic. God willing in 6.5 years.

A Phone call

I wrote a week or so ago about a job opening at a company near my house. I had a short phone interview yesterdayd with their recruiter. She wasn't clear if I would be hearing "late next week" only if I am to move 'on'  in the interview process or not.

Finger crossed and prayers being said I can indeed move on and get this job. It would be heaven. I just need something for 6.5 years....my retirement.

Duluth Vacation..a p.s.

I obviously don't know how to upload photos (yet) on the blog site. My reason, and I'm sticking to the story, is because it has been so many years and the blogspot website has changed so much.

So please forgive my lack of knowing how to center my pictures. I'm still learning.

DULUTH VACATION

October 7th through October 10th I traveled to Duluth Minnesota with a friend of mine to see the fall colors. Did I mention I also LOVE Duluth and Two Harbors. We arrived Wednesday evening and I had, with trepidation, booked at a Motel 6. Yes, you heard me correctly. A Motel 6. It was the least expensive (by over half) and I thought, well, I just need a place to sleep. Still, I admit to being leery of what we both would find. We had rooms next to each other so that was a bit of comfort...maybe the old saying of "misery loves company"?

Perhaps because of my low expectations, this place more than exceeded my expectations. Even thougth they were still undergoing renovations, it was quiet when we were there.

Two Harbors...Split Rock Lighthouse

Gooseberry Falls

Glensheen Mansion

Grandma's Restaurant

Me at Grandma's (above)

Canal Street

Me beside Lift Bridge (above)

Duluth Grill. Next to Motel 6. Great Breakfast. Highly recommend.

Betty's Pies. (below)




And let us not forget TOBIES's restaurant! A must stop on the way to and from Duluth when coming from the Twin Cities.

The above are must see's (and do's in the restaurant catagory).

The beauty of Lake Superior is beyond words. The feeling of being in God's hands

I'm hoping to get up to Duluth in the dead of Winter. Maybe next year for the annual anniversay of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Memories...it's what life is all about.

2015.... THE YEAR OF CHANGE UPDATE

I posted at the beginning of 2015 that this would be the year of change, and change it has been. Some I felt, I knew would take place, others unexpected...yet that is what life is, right? "Expect the Unexpected" as they say.

The company I'd been working for had been bought out, moving to Texas. I found a new job, on my first interview, this past March. I'm still at the new job, however this company is in the hospitality business and is not doing well.

I did interview a couple of weeks ago at a company my recuiter sent me too. Have I a bit PTSD? I say that as while the company had two major things I was looking for, after stressing and consulting others for their thoughts/opinions, I went with my gut and turned the company down.

Yesterday I saw a job posting at a company very near my house. I have always wanted something very near my house. I still have the hesitation. Is it because I've had to change companies so often? Because the people I work with now are so awesome? The laid back, jeans environment? The come and go as you like?

We got a new Senior Pastor at our church, replacing the one who retired a year ago June. He's very very nice, and on social media.  If all goes according to my other Pastor/friends plans, he'll be leaving our church in the next couple of months to be a Senior Pastor in Buffalo MN.

Change.....

HEADING TO DULUTH

In all my years, decades of living in Minnesota, I'm heading up to Duluth. October 7-10th. This will be the 4th time I've been up there. How can this be? How pathetic is that? I've lived in the Twin Cities of Minnesota over 30 years yet cannot drive 2.5 hours?

I hear the fall colors will be at their peak, yet if this is like it was in 2012, it is to be overcast most of the time.

Trying to get back to blogging. We'll see. Another vacation is coming up in November. One I'm so excited for .

Stay tuned.....................

2015~~~ THE YEAR OF CHANGE

Do you ever get that feeling. Deep within you. The feeling your world is about to change in almost every single way?

That is the feeling I have had for the past couple of months.

I feel 2015 is my 'year of change".

For good and/or bad.

some examples that I 'feel' I'll see.

Job upheaval

Two if not three important people in my life leaving.

others I'll mention at a later date....this weekend......

stay tuned....

Goodbye my friend

My friend Kitty is now with the angels. How sad that while she was cured of cancer, the treatment literally killed her. The radiation fried her lungs, to use my own terminology. My last visit with her was this past Monday when I went to the nursing home she had been moved too. I, and I know she, knew it would be the last time we'd see one another, in this life anyhow.

Until we meet again, thank you Kitty for the joy and happiness you brought to so many of us. You are greatly missed.

My friend

Beat the odds and is now cancer free! Miracles DO occur!