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Sunday Gratitude – 18.X.2026
Hi everyone! Glad to be back here. I’m still struggling with a lot, and there’s a lot that’s really overwhelming. However, I’m going to give it a shot as far as gratitude here.
Most importantly, probably, is that my son had a surgery on his ear a couple of weeks back, and everything went really, really well. Yes, he had the same surgery back in February on the other ear, and it went really well, but there’s still a good bit of nervousness attached to all these things.
Secondly, I recently took part in the Serbian Orthodox Choral Association’s annual choir festival. Because it was only a week after the surgery, I wasn’t going to go, but then there were people who had signed up who either couldn’t go or couldn’t sing, and I was asked if there might be some way that I could go. I managed to get things arranged, and I went. It was an amazing trip, and I hope to write about it separately. Most of us who went ended up driving, including the people I rode with, but everything went off without a hitch, there were no accidents or incidents with the driving, and the event was a lot of fun. I am very grateful for that, and for getting to see the city and experience the city a little.
If any of you are interested, our choir’s performance can be found here (our group starts at 45:15):
The weather has gotten cooler, and I’m grateful for that (St. Louis at over 90F was quite a shock to the system). This just seems to be one of those patches that is especially rough, so I’d appreciate your prayers for me and my kids.
Thank you ever so much for following; you are amazing!
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Don’t be alone
We all have our problems which might be obvious to others or not, and our worries, great or small. We want somebody to share them, not so much as to give us advice. Sharing them, mentioning them, brings relief to the soul. You feel as if you’re not alone, that you have someone, a Simon…
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Wordle #501
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Wordle explanations are posted a day late to ensure that no one accidentally sees the solution before playing.
Line 1: Wow! What a good start!
Line 2: Will this be a two-line game? Nope, unfortunately. I think maybe I’ll try to do a word that starts with the “IN”.
Line 3: “Inept!” Yay! 🙂
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Wordless Wednesday #5 – Berlin, Berlin
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Wordle #500
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Wordle 500! Amazing! According to my stats, I’ve done slightly over half of them. Let’s make this a good one!
Line 1: I’m not unhappy at all about this – the “Y” at the end is especially a treat.
Line 2: I was having a hard time thinking of a 5-letter word that ends in “Y” that has both “S” and “P” in it – most of the words I was thinking of were just too long or had an “A” or “T” in them, so I went with a 5-letter “P” word with “less common” letters, and I lucked out.
Line 3: “Piney”. Hmm. I suppose if Wordle accepts “talcy”, “piney” is also acceptable.
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WE Energy Cookie Books
For people who may be reading in Wisconsin (or just over the border with Michigan in the UP) – WE Energy starts distribution of its world-famous annual cookie book tomorrow.
The entire schedule can be found here: https://www.we-energies.com/recipes/cookie-book-distribution-list
A WE Energy customer enjoying last year’s cookie book.
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Wordle #499
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Line 1: “Waltz” did okay here. I was quite pleased here.
Line 2: Flailing around here trying to find where these letters go.
Line 3: The good news: even after 1am, I can think of words with these letters that move them all to new places. The bad news: The letters are still not in the right places.
Line 4: I figured that it was more likely that the “A” started the word than ended it. I couldn’t figure out how to squeeze in an “E” or “U” if the “A” was in the first place, and I started thinking of scenarios where the “T” and “L” were right next to each other. I thought of making it an “LY” word, and from that almost immediately thought of playing “aptly” – it reminded me a lot of “coyly“, and couldn’t hurt to try, right? I was pleasantly surprised that it was correct! 🙂
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Parry Gripp for Halloween
Just some silly music for the day.
Wienerina Spooky Fruit Cup Gyoza Bat Frankenturtle Watcha Gonna be for Halloween? Haunted Cupcake Ghost Hamster Zombies Want Your Candy Not really Halloween, but close enough:
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Wordle #498
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Line 1: “Libel” didn’t do great, but I got an “L” in the wrong place, at least.
Line 2: The “L” is still floating around, but at least I got an “A” to go with it.
Line 3: “Talcy” – as in “like talc”, right? “AL” is correct, at least, and we’ve now got a “T” floating around.
Line 4: I knew it couldn’t be “talon” because the “T” was in the wrong spot, but I was having such a hard time thinking of anything to play, and I wanted to play “O” and “N”, because I needed more letters here!
Line 5: I got frustrated (and busy) so there was about 20 minutes between lines 4 and 5 as I took a breather. I played “vault” without looking really well at the previous words… Of course, it wasn’t correct, but it made it clear that the “T” was in spot 4.
Line 6: I started going letter by letter to see what would go “ALT_”. “S” would be a candidate, but it had been played and wasn’t in the puzzle. I got through to “Z” and it finally clicked that the word “waltz” was a possibility, and thankfully, it was correct. (I don’t know what other words would have been available to play!) Very tough.
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Gratitude on Sunday (#5)
This week was really tough, physically, psychologically, and spiritually. It’s a really difficult time, and I’m hoping for a little more clarity this week.
I went to a church where every week the priest would ask, “Is anybody celebrating anything?” and usually people would raise their hands and let everyone know of birthdays and anniversaries and that sort of thing. The smart-aleck in me was so tempted for about a year or so to raise out and start singing this:
The mild-mannered mom side won out on this. However, there’s something about the song – it works when things are going good, of course, but I think it also works when times are rough; that every day that we get through should be celebrated because the way is so excruciating.
I’m grateful, most of all, for people that I can lean on through a hard time. I wish that I could just curl up in a ball and … I don’t know. Sleep for two weeks? Being as that is not an option though, so being able to connect with people even a little has been incredibly important.
Also, I am grateful that we finally made it back to church, and there were no major problems.
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Wordle #497
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Line 1: I would have hoped to have gotten a little bit more out of “sneak”, but, alas, just the “E” in the wrong place.
Line 2: Changing up letters here, but nothing more than the misplaced “E” again.
Line 3: More wrong letters, but at least the “E” is in the right place.
Line 4: Finally! Something more to work with!
Line 5: I guessed that the “BEL” might go together, so the trick was thinking of a word that would fit, and “libel” did the trick!
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