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Category: My Family

  • The Beginning

    The Beginning

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    The order things happened:At 3:55 everyone sang Happy birthday to Grandma Pike.At 4:00 Pastor Burgess led everyone in prayer for Grandma Pike. He later told me that he felt a very close and powerful presence of God that he couldn’t describe in words.At 4:15 they removed the ventilator tube and…

  • Blink-Blink

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    Herb

    Some doctors (And not all of them are, but definitely some) can be pompous jerks. Do they think that they are making an impression by using big words that they don’t think you’ll understand and acting like you are some thing beneath them, that you will be persuaded by them?…

  • Lesson Learned

    Lesson Learned

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    Herb

    It’s been a lot of non-stop with people coming and going and the waiting. It seems interminable, sometimes, being camped out in a waiting room but we have it to do. One lesson being learned is that we have to start using “religious” hospitals, rather than secular ones. The sanctity…

  • Thank You!

    Thank You!

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    Herb

    A big thanks to everyone who came to my party. And everyone who wanted to and wasn’t able to make it or had to leave early, because I know your heart was here. I have the best friends and family a man could wish for. And thank you to all…

  • This Blog Is Going to the Dogs

    This Blog Is Going to the Dogs

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    Herb

    Ever since I committed to putting something up here every single day, there have been days when I have had nothing to say and/or no time to say it. There are a couple of posts that are in the works, but I don’t want to rush them. If I rush…

  • Short About Pets

    Short About Pets

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    Herb

    It always makes me sad. One of our eighteen year old cats, Fee-Foe, The Gentle Giant, the smallest of the four we had, needed to be put down. She was one of the first two cats that daughter got when she was twelve, a brother and sister duo. She developed…

  • Invitation

    Invitation

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    Herb

    I spent some time yesterday working on and printing this invitation to family, friends, and acquaintances. It required some tweaking of printer setting and things, but I finally got it done. Her birthday is actually on the 18th. The Thiel Family requests the honor of your presence at the Celebration…

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