I saw you Friday night
The smile that lit up your face
Your pudgy hands reaching out
to be taken from your mother’s arms
I saw your fine, gold hair
your sparkling eyes
that spelled love –
for the one reaching back for you
It was a fleeting moment in time
The arms reaching were not mine
not allowed to be mine
You are growing up much too quickly
That is the way with babies
Baby today – adult tomorrow
I hope to get to know you
have your eyes light up for me
Until then – GROW! Strong!
Healthy – happy loved
yours always,
GG <3
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October 24th, 2020 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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Allow me to introduce you to Kenai’s own mermaid, AnnMeridia.
I was privileged to go with her to Seward last week to deliver a check to the Alaska SeaLiife Center. Her “featherfins” friends donated $550.30 to help keep the center open.
We had a great time there and hope to go again soon.
If you make it up to Alaska for a visit, be sure to stop by the center – and, give our mermaid a jingle, too.
September 29th, 2020 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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What a spring and summer we have had, folks. As we enter autumn many of us are still confined to our homes or, if we have been welcomed back to work, working part time hours. How are you all doing?
Hubby and I are weathering it just fine for the most part. We are blessed to have a daughter who does our weekly shop. We are blessed to have a son-in-love who takes our trash to the dump whenever he goes with theirs.
I am blessed to have a job that allows me to work from home and pays me even for my down time. I know without a doubt that I am very fortunate to be in this position.
My church is meeting again, but I am staying home and participating through facebook. I’m delighted to see friends – even if it is just the backs of their heads. 🙂
ZOOM is my newest best friend – as I am sure it is for you also. Who would have ever believed this was how we would conduct meetings?
Indeed, if this had to happen at any time, what better time than this – in this age of wonderment and social platforms.
And, in this election season hubby and I are grateful to be able to vote by mail. Our city and borough ballots have been returned. We are waiting to receive our state and federal ballots. What a world. What a world. My grandma would be shaking her head in disbelief.
Hope y’all are well. Drop a note and let me know how you’re doing.
the more they stay the same
It has been very quiet in my town the past couple of weeks. There is much less traffic on the highway behind my house. Much of that is due to people hunkering down and staying home. Ahhh Covid-19. Many people have lost their jobs.
I am more fortunate in my workplace. I was sent home, but I am drawing administrative leave pay for the hours I am not actively involved in work. I am not sure how long the agency can afford to do that, however. I can do limited things at home – check email, check court records, etc. But all of my files are in my office and I cannot access them. We have not gotten rid of paper files.
But what adds to the quiet in the ‘hood is the lack of airplanes flying over my house. We are on the flight path and generally have flyovers every hour. No longer. The major airline – the one that serves the entire state – recently has filed bankruptcy. They first reduced their flights by 90%, parking most of their fleet. A week or so later they parked all of them.
the same . . . I am reminded of 9-11. The week following I would sit in my home office and blog about how quiet the world outside my window was. As now, there were no planes flying overhead. We were all hunkered down in front of our televisions wondering what was next. Would Alaska, with its major military bases, be on the list for an attack? We were quietly waiting.
Then, as now, people were reaching out to do whatever they could to help. Many of us lined up at the blood bank willing to donate a life source. I spent several days there registering the many people who came through.
Today, we are again looking for ways to help. The blood bank is in Anchorage and we cannot drive out of the community, so that is out until the blood mobile comes back into our area.
But my neighbors!!!! They are rock stars. Neighbors reaching out to others and doing a weekly shop, going to the pharmacy, writing encouraging notes, checking in. Sewers and non-sewers are making masks for everyone to use if they need to go out on those runs – or go to work. We are crocheting bands with buttons to relieve the ears of those who are masked. We are making contributions to the food bank and other agencies in need. We are ordering take out to help our neighbors who own restaurants. We are attending worship virtually.
We are in this for the long haul. This is our new normal. This type of thing will bring out the best in people . . . or the worst in people. (It’s what inside us that comes out)
To those who might be reading this, I say thank you for being who you are. Thank you for the efforts you are making. Thanks for befriending me. Thanks for keeping me smiling even when I don’t feel like it. Thanks for not unfriending me when I send you the latest pun that has tickled my funny bone. 🙂
Stay safe, y’all. Stay home. And, when you must go out, stay covered. We’re all in this together.
August 19th, 2019 / Categories: Moose Nuggets /
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lol well, missing the days before FaceBook when all of my internet friends were bloggers. It was so hard to explain to people I knew . . . including family members . . . that, yes, they were REAL people. I miss those days of blogging and chatting. I went on a blog walk tonight and found that several of my friends were no longer posting . . . some of the sites no longer exist. Others are still there, but not posting.
Facebook just doesn’t cut it sometimes. A lot of these friends are there and I am thankful for that. I do consider you – them friends. So, if they are not posting I wonder why and worry a bit.
Our world today . . . it in and of itself is worrisome. On the local front we have politicians doing – shall we say – interesting things. On a state level it is even more so. In fact we are in a signature campaign to recall the governor. On a national level I can only shake my head. (don’t get me started)
The best thing about blogging was that I flexed my writing skills and took part in different writing prompts and challenges. These days most of my writing is in the technical realm – work calls ya know?
These days I dink around on FB, and get my peaceful times down by the river at the boat harbor during lunch hours. I also stand taller and fight back so to speak. All of those political issues I mentioned above? Yup, coming into my own at age 69 . . . quickly approaching 70. I have walked in protest – walked in honor – walked in memory – I’ve signed petitions – I’ve written my representatives locally and nationally – I’ve spoken face to face with them as well.
My grandmother was a “gray panther”. I followed hers and my mother’s footsteps in writing and now I follow them in this manner also.
Life goes on. Life changes. And, apparently I just ramble on. laughing.
have a great night, friends.