Hello to all this Thursday Morning.....

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Hello to all this Thursday Morning.....
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Thu, 04-24-2003 - 9:54am
My plans for today are the same...I have made some headway this week...it has been a slow process. Yesterday I worked in the linen closet...decided to wash all the sheets to freshen them up, some have been stacked there for quite awhile, you know how it is, you wash the sheets on the bed and put them right back on. I pulled some boxes out of the stack that I thought would be good to store on the top shelf and floor of the linen closet. Thought I would go through the boxes and see if I could condense them. Well two were my late DH's that he had things saved in...notes from his electricions classes when he was in the Navy in the 60s, ticket stubs from that time, little bits of paper with notes and phone numbers on them, every fishing and hunting license that he ever bought and every membership card that he was ever given. Then there were letters from friends he made in Cameroon, Africa from when he was there in the Peace Corps in the 70's. Notes from grad school that he went to after the Peace Corp. I did not know him during this part of his life so I looked through it all, read the letters and saved the things that I thought the kids would like later...his HS sports letters, sports medals, class pictures from school, the Navy etc., his 8th grade notebook, report cards, old pictures...you know. There are more boxes of his here yet...then I need to start ridding out my stuff. Though I have sorted the old stuff and condensed it long ago...I don't have the first canceled checks that I ever wrote like he did. So it was a slow progress yesterday but very revealing as these were his boxes and I never dug in them...only saw the things if he was looking and shared.

I have to finish washing somemore sheets and then that closet will be back in order. Now it will be doing the hall closet...the one that I am hoping will hold all the rest of the stuff in the livingroom after I get it sorted through.

Hope...good to see that you are home safely and that you had a relaxing time on your trip.

Shari...know you will be busy getting ready to leave on your trip tomorrow. Have a good time at the reunion.

Greetings to everyone and do hope y'all have an enjoyable day.

Pab

Pab

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Registered: 06-15-2002
Thu, 04-24-2003 - 11:45am
thank you, Pab, I have been running around this morning...YOU have REALLY been busy! Whew! I think I need a nap after reading that! LOL HAGD

Hugs,Shari

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Registered: 10-01-2002
Thu, 04-24-2003 - 3:00pm
Pab- You sure sound BUSY and that makes me want to get going too... Have a Great Day... wren love your fish
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 04-24-2003 - 7:37pm
Hi Pab. sounds like you've been a busy bee. It must have been fun going through your DH's stuff. Hope you continue to make good progress. Hugs Lynda
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Fri, 04-25-2003 - 1:31am
Pab, sounds like a real mixed emotion time. You have really been busy cleaning and organizing. I need to take a chapter from your book. I am praying that your dad does well in surgery. Pat