The Lost Wallet Lately, it seems I’ve been losing a lot of things—keys, hats, rings, and so on. Yesterday, it was my wallet. As you might imagine, that’s an important thing to misplace. Although I had been out running errands, I was reasonably sure it was somewhere in the house. My wife needed […]
Here I go again with yet another all-too-frequent story of lost items! I was sitting on the porch, smoking my pipe and watching an interesting video about Clint Eastwood representing himself in a court case, when my wife, Brenda, called for assistance. She was ready to tackle the big job of rearranging the bedroom.
Lost Rings in 2025: In a previous post I wrote about a ring I lost back in the 90s This story is about two rings lost and found recently. The big tourquise ring was purchased on our trip to see the Sequia forest in 2017. The Jerusalem cross ring is really a
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This story is about The Lost Ring. From the begging it doesn’t seem that humorous. However it turns out to be at the end. The ring in question is silver with three small turquoise stones. I purchased it years ago when my late wife, Lily and I lived in Arizona. It has been very meaningful”
Perhaps you have had Days like this. You know the ones filled with a variety of complicated, difficult and ultimately laughable happenings. A shock in the morning. I’ll begin with my usual routine. I imagine most of you have such a routine. Mine goes like this. I turned on the coffee. Then while it
Don’t pray for patience. This is a somewhat humorous word of spiritual advice. The point is to pray for the resolution of the problem. The idea is once the problem is gone you don’t. End patience. To pray for patience might mean it will be a lesson enduring as long as the problem exists
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Lost my keys. Yes, just this morning. I needed to go to town and I started looking for my keys. I looked in all the usual places; by my sink in the bathroom, in the pants pocket of the clothes, I wore yesterday, on the table next to my La-Z-Boy. Then I thought perhaps I
Transporting a car Recently, I was asked to help our son and his wife with their car. The last portion of the story involved transporting the car and our trailer. However, let me back up closer to the beginning. The story begins when we help them out by buying this old Mazda. I won’t say
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Sooner or later we all will need a New Battery! For me, living in Northern Louisiana, the time was now, in the middle of our annual 3-5 days of winter. The weather men call these episodes a Polar Vortex. After a balmy beginning to the New Year in January the cold moved in on a
Perhaps you have already read the IPhone Saga. This is My IPad Saga. Not quite so bad. However, convoluted enough to be interesting. Plus it followed quickly upon my IPhone adventure. It began when my old IPad, a first generation IPad Pro, died. I wasn’t really ready to spend another$1000 plus. However, People say