Saturday, August 24, 2024

Monday, August 12 through Monday, August 26, 2024: Family, Friends, Appointments, More of Jamie's PT, Pickleball

The August sunsets are so very beautiful!
 
The Bernstein family is all together in Alaska. Meghan's boyfriend, Teddy, is also there.
 
 
 
These are the last two picture posts that I will have in my blog of the Bernstein family. There has been a falling out. Almost two years ago, I had a conversation with Donna about Covid-19 and the vaccines. I shared with her my thoughts and opinion. Donna vehemently disagreed. Somehow my tone disturbed her greatly. She currently does not want me in the life of the Bernstein family.

Tom came up to the Manley Racquet Courts to drill with Jon. It was nice to see him on the pickleball courts.
 
It was also a nice time to take some "family" photos.
 
 There was also a photo taken of me and Tom.

I was able to take a walk over to Cataract Lake. Lovely!
 
 
 
On Wednesday, Colleen came to service our house. She always does an excellent job!
 
That evening, we had another gorgeous sunset. 
 
Tom worked on cleaning his boat that is listed for sale. A fellow contacted him and wanted to drive up to Williams and see it on Friday.
 
 
 
Unfortunately, the fellow never showed up. But, the boat is pristine clean.

On Friday, I took Jamie to his physical therapy session at Canyon Pet Hospital.
 
 
 
 
One of my Highland Meadows ladies saw a doe with her two fawns. Precious!
On Saturday, I went to Cataract Lake to join a walking group. The only other people who showed up was the organizer, Diane King, and her husband, Greg.
Too bad, as it was a very pretty day.
 
Later in the afternoon, I went to pick up several more caches. The first cache I found was a Mystery Cache. I had to answer eight questions to determine the GPS coordinates of the container.
The other three caches were over near the housing community of Sherwood Forest. I found "Bear stump," Yellow Pillar," and Stone Cold Rock Garden.
 
 
 
 
August 17 is the wedding anniversary of Tom's sister Pat Warner and her husband Frank Ruggieri. It is their 22nd anniversary. They went to dinner at the Capital Grille in Ft Myers..
On Sunday, August 18, my grandnephew Colter was in Bend celebrating his 6 month birthday with his mom and his grandparents --- Carrie and Brent.
August 18 is also the first birthday of my grandniece, Lily. My sister Wendy loves granddaughter Lily.
 
Of course, Lily's parents, Katelyn and Dan, enjoyed the celebration as well.
 
 
 
On Monday, Jon and I played pickleball with Kelly and Sivert Fogerlie. Kelly and Sivert live down in the Phoenix area and are staying in Williams for a month.
The Grand Canyon Railway takes the steam engines to the Grand Canyon the first Saturday of every month and on special days like Earth Day. I can never get enough of those steam engines!!! 💕💕💕

 That evening, we enjoyed the August Sturgeon Moon.
 Tuesday, Tom and I had an appointment with Dr. Figueroa at noon.
 
We decided to have "Taco Tuesday" lunch in Flagstaff. We selected La Fonda Mexican Restaurant.
 
 
 
Wednesday, Jamie had his weekly physical therapy session at Canyon Pet Hospital. He loves his "movie star" sun glasses. 
The sunflowers and the blue skies of August can't be beat!
Friday, I walked across Country Club Road --- into the forest --- to look for lobster mushrooms. The mushrooms were there --- just somewhat buried under pine needles.
 
I brought the lobster mushrooms home.
 
 
 
Later that evening, President Trump had a rally in Glendale, Arizona. Earlier in the day, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that he was suspending his candidacy for president. At the Trump Rally, Bobby Kennedy showed up and endorsed President Trump. It was amazing!  
 
 
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Saturday afternoon, there was a nice group of pickleball players (from left to right --- Sivert, Robbie, Kelly, me, Phil, Karen, and Jon).
After pickleball, Jon came over to our house. He went into the nearby forest and picked some lobster mushrooms.
That evening, we had some rain. One of my neighbors caught a photo of the rainbow.
 
On Sunday, Tom joined me to look for lobster mushrooms. We both were successful.

Jon brought over his dehydrator machine. We cut up the mushrooms and placed them on the racks. They are then cooked for ten hours.
That evening, we had some lobster mushrooms with dinner. Unfortunately, the mushrooms did not agree with me. Tom read that sometimes people become allergic to the mushrooms. Jon was the beneficiary of the jar of dehydrated lobster mushrooms!

Di and Greg Jonsen were back in Williams for several days. Greg is having surgery on his neck in  September. But Di played some pickleball with us!
 
Monday, Tom and I had late afternoon appointments in Flagstaff. So, we decided to have an early dinner at Josephine's Modern American Bistro.

 
Roland and Kristine Manahan are in Williams for a week. We played pickleball with Roland on Tuesday and Thursday.



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1 comment:

  1. David BAugust 28, 2024 at 1:36 PM

    I wish that you had not shared this publicy and, quite frankly, think it is sad that you felt the need. But since you did, I will clearly explain to you and your readers the real reasons that led to Donna's decision.

    First, for you or perhaps those readers who do not know her well, Donna is very far from the easily "disturbed" delicate flower that you imply her to be. This "falling out," has little to do with your tone (although it was patronizing and insulting), and has much to do with your actions, words, and what appears to be an unwavering belief in politics over science, public health and, most importantly, the well being of family.

    In these conversations you reference in your blog post, you belittled Donna — who, as you know, has a compromised immune system as a result of her multiple sclerosis medications — over her decision to get vaccinated against a virus that, in the absence of vaccination, held a high likelihood of killing her. As you should also know, COVID claimed the lives of our family members, friends, and more than a million other Americans, many of whom had similarly compromised immune systems. Those are facts, not beliefs, so excuse me for asking but how dare you belittle someone you claim to love so much over something so deadly serious? Despite that, and perhaps displaying a moment of stupidity, loyalty, or both, we still considered having you in our home for Thanksgiving. In response, you argued against the reasonable precautions we put in place to protect our family’s health, and followed up with a statement that still defies common sense: you claimed that swabbing one's nose for a COVID test is a way that people contract the virus. Compounding these affronts, when we heard that you prioritized your fringe beliefs over attending your niece Katelyn's wedding, and when we saw that you also publicly belittled her choice here on your blog (note that Donna posted a loving and respectful response to that blog post here as well), it was just one more example that led to our decision.

    In your most recent email to Donna you implied that she should forget all of this out of gratitude or recompense for your 33 year relationship with her father. In response, she told you that while she is grateful for the love, happiness, companionship, and support you gave her dad, she can neither ignore these offenses nor forget other times in the past when you’ve let your self-interest take precedence over the well-being of family. It took her four decades of putting up with these things to finally reach the point where she could no longer accept such negativity in her life, even knowing that such a decision would have hurt her dad, someone she loved and respected immensely.

    Our values are and always have been centered around the health and well-being of our family, both physically and emotionally, and this separation is in support of those values. Neither Donna nor I wish to air this matter publicly or to continue back-and-forth communications on this topic either publicly or privately, so we are not interested in and will not consider a further response. We are tired of having this negativity living rent free in our home and in our lives. If this is difficult for you to understand, then, as you said, "so be it..."

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