Bob would call dove-tailing, ‘splicing’ … and
they are basically the same thing ;-)
A few days ago, I was rummaging around in the table desk in the bedroom when I came across some disks with Bob’s handwriting
on them – so I swallowed past the lump in my throat and opened the baggie with
shaky hands. Then I whooped with delight and started viewing them:
THANK YOU BABE!
I slipped a disk into the laptop player
Wednesday evening after Supper and watched the pictures play out; I did not cry
…
BLESSINGS. I did not know Bob had done this ... like kisses from Heaven!
The disks hold 8 years of pictures Bob had
saved from my previous computers – all the way back to the first one! There
were pictures of Bob, our granddaughter, Alyna; our Pomeranian, Tyson, and my
wolf, Precious. There were daytrip & vacation pictures – there were home
remodeling pictures from our 2 Longview homes before this one. There were
pictures of my homesteading years with my nice big garden area … and the chickens
I finally got to have :-D Pictures of the elk heard that crossed our back yard
and stripped the plum tree of every single plum – we caught them in the act!
There were pictures of the racoon family that sat in the sugar pine shadowing
my Hen Pen and drooled over my chickens.
I never hoped to see these pictures again,
but Bob was always thinking and planning ahead; I wondered when he burned
these disks off.
And I smiled – a lot :-)
My heart is healing.
18 months/13 days/14 hrs. & 55 mins.
without Bob: I miss him like mad, but the tears are not falling every hour
anymore, and I can look at his handsome face and not feel like I am having a
heart attack with the missingness of him. Elohim is faithful, and the peace Yeshua
gives is a soothing balm. I am blessed; greatly loved, and highly favored.
Because the way the pictures were downloaded
to disk, I was able to select and save the pictures I wanted. Finding these picture
disks made my heart sing – I was able to save more pictures of Bob.
From Wednesday morning, until today’s morning;
I have been dovetailing the past with the present, and smiling nonstop.
Wednesday morning after finding and viewing the 1st disk, I went to
bed happy to have spent the entire day with Bob’s presence all around me – remembering
the moments each picture captured. I woke up Thursday … and this morning … anticipating
watching another disk and spending time with my husband: even if only in
memory. Those were GREAT memories :-D
Yesterday I woke up excited to see what other
memories would wrap love around me; but before I settled into Bob’s recliner to
view the 2nd disk, I went outside to water my garden before I lost
track of time and the sun got too high in the sky. I have been saving coffee
grounds all year for my garden; so, while watering yesterday, I put a ring of
coffee grounds around all my cabbage family plants:
I noticed ripening tomatoes on my hanging-basket-tomato
plant …
And I placed sunshades on my lettuce patches.
It was nearly 90-degrees yesterday, the lettuce needed the sunshades:
Lettuce sunshade. Broken pin - cheap from $ store; I have more.
I ordered a pizza for pickup after I finished
watering the garden area: Bob loved pizza, so pizza seemed like the perfect
Supper fare to view the 2nd disk: dovetailing happened on every
level yesterday ;-)
This morning I viewed the 3rd – and
final – disk. And early afternoon, heart and thoughts full of Bob and
missing the hikes we’d done together for decades; I got itchy feet; so, I crossed
the river to Oregon and scoped out a Park there, because I want to walk the
hiking trail. I was in for a surprise – the Park is not as small as it appears
to be! I assumed from glancing at it in passing, that it was a Day-Use-Park
where families could have picnic fun and walk a family-friendly trail – I was
surprised to see tents and RV’s everywhere this afternoon.
I took a cross-over-backroad into Rainier from the park, and will not be doing that again! Bob had driven that road in the truck, but things are different in a car - even a car designed for off-road travel: the pot holes were deep enough to fall into, and the road was poorly maintained - I seriously worried about the car's chassis!
I took a cross-over-backroad into Rainier from the park, and will not be doing that again! Bob had driven that road in the truck, but things are different in a car - even a car designed for off-road travel: the pot holes were deep enough to fall into, and the road was poorly maintained - I seriously worried about the car's chassis!
Back in WA, I decided to stop at Winco and grab
a couple cases of water. When I saw the store had restocked their shelves with
actual ‘worth going to the store’ items again (instead of the slap-dash and over-priced
items that had previously greeted my eyes since inslee’s decrees), I was delighted
… and I also bought food stuffs and TP, to restock at home – I’m not really
running low; but since there seems no real end to inslee’s demoncrat
party-line-mandates, I figured I’d better get what I can get while it’s
available so I can eat healthy, and wipe my butt, if at some time in the
future months stores are closed to the unmasked people like me. The obamanite puppets
are determined to have a prolonged perpetual ‘shutdown mandate’ forever. I don’t
think they ever plan to reopen the States until they can permanently reign with
an iron fist, and control the pliant masses:
Restocking my pantry. I didn’t need anything specific, so I bought food stuffs that appealed to me and looked interesting. As you can see – I like color! Even with my food ;-)
While I was shopping, I got a text from the grandkids
asking if there was anywhere to set off fireworks: they were hoping for Willow
Grove beachfront – I said I’d check it out (no go). The 4th
of July celebration at Lake Sacajawea has been canceled due to the coronavirus,
and places to set off fireworks is practically nonexistent in Longview – there would
be no problem if I still lived in the country; but I don’t, so now there is a
problem.
But, we’ll find somewhere …
New sign at Willow Grove.
Obviously 1 Park Rule concerning trail is are not being obeyed.
2 ships waiting to dock at Longview’s Port. I noticed when I crossed the Bridge that there were 2 or 3 anchored ships on the upper end of the river too.
Can’t read the name on this ship – and zooming the pic up at home wasn’t helpful either.
Hammock loungers look settled in for a cozy afternoon.
Tomorrow I will be hiking in Oregon.
Maybe the walk will help me think of someplace
to set off fireworks to celebrate the birth of our Nation.
Dovetailing the past with the present ;-)
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