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made bread downtown jewell has a gap toothed smile where i remember a thriving business district a grocery store james clothing callie s dry goods jewell variety belden s barber shop stapleton s cafe the legion hall that held poppy day lunches and unicef trick or treating bartsch s tv repair when tv s weren t considered disposable the lumber yard two gas stations and the mystery of ik s pool hall where i was never allowed to enter two churches are boarded up dr plowman s officer is abandoned many of the beautiful homes i remember have been demolished or are crumbling in some cases new homes have replaced the old but not always the schools are closed the lights on the football field are dark and grass grows long and thick on the track the outfield of the baseball park is now a residential area there are no ball games no rehearsing marching bands or school floats in the parade there is no variety store candy case to browse no window displays of school jackets and converse high tops even the playground equipment is gone likely considered too dangerous by today s standards the tornado took the tastee freeze and the south place the family homestead where i had dreams of a log cabin in my golden years there are still touches of the familiar the car wash is still in business but there are no lines of teenagers on a spring day ice cream is now served in the post office lobby where i bought air mail stamps for letters to penpals long before email and waited anxiously for a reply the park is refurbished better but still different the bank is in the same location updated and without the library and meeting rooms below the library has a beautiful new home but with less atmosphere and without the inescapable eye of mrs kelly most of all my parents are changing for that matter so am i aging declining forgetting over the past months while i have been spending extended time in jewell to help care for dad i have been mourning all of this loss i m tired of my childhood being torn down i want to cling to my memories resuscitate them actually squeeze them so hard in my mind that they come back to life but god says forget the former things do not dwell on the past see i am doing a new thing ironically even as i mourn this passing of time i m ready to put 2017 in the past i don t care to dwell there any longer welcome 2018 i can t wait to see the new things god has in store posted by tami at 9 13 pm 3 comments tuesday october 31 2017 hard pressed but not crushed a while back our son commented that he didn t read my blog anymore because i used to write funny things but no more where s the funny mom my answer was that he and his sister flew out of the nest and took my funny fuel i was half serious when they were home or in college it was therapeutic for me to take their teen age challenges and peculiarities and turn them into humor however life doesn t seem to be that funny these days the last few years have seen major changes for us we purchased a business both of our children moved to kansas city nearer us woo hoo our son got married our daughter entered grad school and my parents began to decline in our seven empty nest years i have made it a priority to be there for my adult children whether they needed a hand at moving recovering from surgery throwing a halloween party for fifty foster children or decorating a new home i finally have them both within 100 miles and had plans for frequent visits then in june my dad spent a couple weeks in the hospital due to kidney failure fortunately he has returned to his home and to moderately good health however the illness and hospital stays advanced his early stages of dementia and he is no longer able to live alone my two sisters who both live less than 20 miles from dad handled his care for several months until it became obvious that he was not going to return to totally independent living assisted living or nursing home care are still a ways in the future so we now have a rotating care schedule that has me traveling several days a week mom is slipping also a totally different form of memory loss but just as difficult in it s own way so far she is able to continue living alone just a mile away from dad with daily visits and assistance from one of her daughters my youngest sister has carried most of this load because she is only a few blocks away but the time is coming when we are all needed to allow her to stay in her home honor your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land the lord your god is giving you exodus 20 12 i feel blessed for the opportunity to honor my parents by caring for them and try not to look any further down the road god is in charge of the length and form of this period of honoring in the mean time i condense my other life home husband work church children into the remaining days and try to squeeze in some time for myself the sandwich generation pressed between the roles of parent and child we are hard pressed on every side but not crushed perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not abandoned struck down but not destroyed 2 corinthians 4 8 9 posted by tami at 10 34 pm 1 comment sunday october 22 2017 and the winner is my apologies life got in the way and i didn t get the winners of my dewey s readathon mini challenges announced as intended but here they are better late than never readathon memories mini challenge the winner is sarah reviews and readathons reading decades mini challenge the winner is tammy mug of moxie reading decades bonus challenge the winner is maggie wickham congratulations winners i will be in contact to deliver your prize thanks to everyone who entered i had so much fun reading through your entries especially the decades entries it is interesting to see what books have influenced people through the years and a special surprise as expected the majority of the entrants in the decades challenge were born in the 80 s or later only three readers began their decades with the 1960 s like me so to honor readers who have been book lovers for 50 years or more i am offering these three readathoners a 10 gift card from barnes and noble congratulations to jill l jill s journey s janet goddell jangoodell k olson introspective yarns i will be contacting you as well for prize delivery if you entered the reading decades mini challenge and listed 6 decades or more and i missed you please let me know here are the answers to the bonus round of the decades challenge readers were asked to identify the six books i chose based on these clues 1960 s a young girl writes down everything she knows about everyone even her classmates and her best friends when her notebook ends up in the wrong hands her friends read the always truthful sometimes awful things she s written about each of them 1970 s as the off season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel he ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing but as the harsh winter sets in the idyllic locations feels ever more remote and sinister 1980 s this book takes us back to the dawn of mankind and sweeps us up into the amazing and wonderful world of ayla 1990 s with cats koko and yum yum for company qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a family friend soon qwill enters into a game of cat and mouse with a killer identify the series or the specific book 2000 s in a garden surrounded by a tall fence tucked away behind a small quiet house in an even smaller town is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit this book tells the story of that enchanted tree and the extraordinary people who tend it 2010 s after twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement the main character realizes he doesn t need a steady job to prove himself then he s given one as for what it proves heaven only knows it s life as usual in this small town identify the series or the specific book the correct answers are harriet the spy by louise fitzhugh the shining by stephen king the clan of the cave bear by jane auel the cat who series specifically the cat who played brahms by lillian jackson braun garden spells by sarah addison allen the mitford serie s specifically to be where you are by jan karon thanks again to everyone who took the time to play along posted by tami at 8 27 pm 1 comment saturday october 21 2017 decades of reading mini challenge hello me again yes i m hosting a second mini challenge this time around we are celebrating our own reading decades for this challenge tell me a book that represents your reading from each decade in which you have been able to read decades on the calendar 1970 s 1980 s 1990 s etc for some of you this will only require two or three books since i m a more experienced reader i need six books the book can be your favorite one of a favorite series a sample of a genre you liked or whatever you feel describes your reading during that calendar decade for example if you were born in 1984 your reading for the 1980 s may be represented by the first book you read alone if you were born in 1987 chances are you didn t do any independent reading in the 80 s so you can skip that decade or you can include a favorite story someone read to you for clarification the book does not have to be published in the specific decade it just has to be what you read in that decade as in my previous challenge hour 4 there s still time to enter if you haven t your answer can be in the form of a list picture video poem interpretive dance or any other form you choose as long as you can leave it or a link to it in the comments below or in a tweet using the hashtag readingdecades the winner will be drawn randomly at the end of the readathon so be sure and leave me a way to get a hold of you the winner will receive a 15 barnes and noble gift card or a 15 credit at book depository this challenge is open internationally an additional winner w ill be drawn from those who correctly identify the six books i selected to represent my six decades of reading using the clues below the winner will receive the same prize as above and will also be drawn at the end of the readathon good luck 1960 s a young girl writes down everything she knows about everyone even her classmates and her best friends when her notebook ends up in the wrong hands her friends read the always truthful sometimes awful things she s written about each of them 1970 s as the off season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel he ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing but as the harsh winter sets in the idyllic locations feels ever more remote and sinister 1980 s this book takes us back to the dawn of mankind and sweeps us up into the amazing and wonderful world of ayla 1990 s with cats koko and yum yum for company qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a family friend soon qwill enters into a game of cat and mouse with a killer identify the series or the specific book 2000 s in a garden surrounded by a tall fence tucked away behind a small quiet house in an even smaller town is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit this book tells the story of that enchanted tree and the extraordinary people who tend it 2010 s after twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement the main character realizes he doesn t need a steady job to prove himself then he s given one as for what it proves heaven only knows it s life as usual in this small town identify the series or the specific book posted by tami at 7 45 pm 84 comments 10 books in 10 years as part of the 10th anniversary celebration dewey s 24 hour readathon is hosting a challenge to list one book published in each year since the inception of the readathon 2007 2017 that i would personally recommend some years i had so many to choose from that it was difficult to narrow down and some yetars i had to search for something i could recommend but here are some of the best of the past 10 years 2007 still me by lisa genova 2008 sugar queen by sarah addison allen 2009 under the dome by stephen king 2010 the scent of rain and lightning by nancy pickard 2011 night circus by erin morgenstern 2012 gone girl by gillian flynn 2013 looking for me by beth hoffman 2014 lost lake by sarah addison allen 2015 at the water s edge by sara gruen 2016 the wrong side of goodbye by michael connelly 2017 to be where you are by jan karon posted by tami at 6 58 pm no comments readathon memories challenge greetings readathoners welcome to just one more thing for the 8th mini challenge i ve hosted here in honor of the 10th anniversary of dewey s 24 hour readathon your challenge this hour is to do the impossible relax it shouldn t take more than a few minutes all you have to do to enter this mini challenge is tell me your favorite book i can hear you all groaning i know that is an impossible request so to make it easier i ve narrowed the field tell me the favorite book you read during each dewey s readathon in which you have participated please identify by month season and year example spring 2011 the illustrated tiddlywink handbook for those of you joining us for the first time just tell me a book you ve already completed or the one you re most looking forward to in the coming hours answers can be submitted as a simple list a list with pictures a video of you giving a synopsis of each book a poem interpretive dance whatever strikes you i ask only that you leave your entry or a link to your entry in the comments below or tweet your entry with the hashtag readathonmemories the winner will be drawn at random at the end of the readathon or as soon after as i wake up so be sure to leave me a way to find you the winner will receive a 15 barnes and noble gift card or 15 credit at book depository this challenge is open internationally have fun and thanks for the memories posted by tami at 9 45 am 118 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom faith labels blogging book events challenges book reviews books misc crafts 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