25 May 2023, Thursday

25 May 2023, Thursday

Prioritized Daily Task

11 AM - Debbie's eye doctor's appointment

11:30 AM - text President David and Sister Judith Grant about getting Bojana some appointments to talk to a specialist in sports psychology 

1 PM - Call David and Judith Grant 

1:45 PM - Debbie's appointment with Brad Gale P.A. about cough 

Elain doing well but Ora was not well; she could only talk for a few seconds

Amanda in bookkeeping at Excel Eye Center in Provo, Dr. Jame Hatch; another bill for $452.  I thought I had this settled with them and Humana HMO Insurance on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, for an eye exam and refraction on June 6, 2022.  The original bill was for $577, the current bill was for $452, and she gave me more discounts and I paid $158 today with a Citi Visa card.  Now I am pretty sure the account is settled.  

I went through the rest of the mail that came while I was gone.  I filed the tax and bank material, the rest I threw away.

Note: The parable of the treadmill: If the speed increases, you have to keep up or it will spit you out in the rear.

Called and checked on Max Kimball; he is doing better today.  He read to me the name of the dairy-free cheese I bought and left in their refrigerator, Cheese Alemative, plant base made by Babyvled.  

Note: The history of heart pine begins in the south where virgin forests of Longleaf Pine covered nearly 70 million acres of the southeastern coastal plain.  Heart Pine was almost timbered to extinction by 1900. What remains of the once vast virgin forest are protected meaning Old Growth Heart Pine is no longer commercially available as a timber crop.   Our inherent busyness slows when we encounter ancient things, at least for a moment. Big old trees reach through the veil and rekindle our sense of wonder, and we react with awe and reflection. We ponder, if these trees could talk, what has this silent sentinel borne witness to over the centuries?                         In the lobby of the TR. Miller Mill Company office in Brewton, Alabama, is a display of a cross-section of a virgin longleaf, displayed to honor and tell the story of a very well-traveled tree. While this tree never moved, history swirled all around it. During its 300-year lifespan, not terribly old for a longleaf, it was resident in the territory of at least six nations (Muscogee Creek, Spain, France, England, U.S.A., C.S.A. (the Confederacy), and then again U.S.A.), shifting between four states (Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama), and three counties (Washington in Mississippi, Monroe and Conecuh in Alabama). After it was felled in 1958, the resulting timber traveled to Amsterdam, Holland and was manufactured into moulding and paneling for railway dining cars. Knowing the durability of heart pine, it was most likely remanufactured and put to other uses - perhaps traveling still, though the trail is lost beyond this point.                         A follow up to a book and documentary movie.  "Longleaf: The Heart of Pine, a Documentary movie about the way it was 400 years ago in the Southeast (there was once over 90 million acres of Longleaf Heart Pine). 

 The YouTube address is      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fH7DqZtKsU 

much of it parallels Bartram, Travels and Other Writings, book written in the 1770s. 

Debbie slept in.  I went last night and got her some cough syrup.  She is going to the doctor today.  We had prayer.  I showered. and shaved; got ready and worked some more on all the mail and bills that came in while I was gone.  Debbie went to see the eye doctor.  I started to work on one of the two Gardener's planter boxes that came while I was gone.  There are supposed to be two planter boxes that have to be assembled.  We only received part of the material needed.  Debbie contacted Amazon and they are contacting Gardner's who will be in touch with Debbie within 24 hours.  I put the 4 planter boxes that came yesterday (I think, they were on the front porch when I arrived) in the garage.  Debbie went to see Brad and he said she has an ear infection and gave her a prescription.  He did an X-ray of her lungs and she has a pocket of water that is causing her constant cough.  On her way home from Laura's she picked up her two prescriptions at Costco pharmacy. Our neighbor, Dan Hammond,  across the street at 662, was putting dirt from the hole for his window well.  He had a window put in his daughter's bedroom.  We talked, about Mirko and Ljubica who are coming from Serbia for a few months.  The topic of a humanitarian mission and temples came up.   He told me the nearest temple when his dad was born was Washington DC.  I ask where his dad who is on a mission in Washington .C. is from.  When he told me Georgia but did not know where in Georgia.  He said he does not ever being to Georgia.  I asked him if he knew his father, Ron, father's name?  He told me, Gary.  I told him his father's family lived in Douglasville and Gary was one of my best friends before he passed away.  I told him all this is not coincidental.  I know now why he is such a nice guy.  I told Debbie before she left for her doctor's appointment.  I called and told Max who spoke at Gary Hammond's funeral in Perry Georgia,  Later Dan was back in his yard as I was going to pick up the mail.  I talked to him some more and he called and got his dad, Ron Hammond, on the phone.  He remembered me.  I asked if he remembered Max Kimball.  He told me that after his dad's funeral, Max gave him a father's blessing because his dad, Gary, passed away before he could.  In the blessing, he was told to organize his life to serve in the temple.  He said he and his wife served 9 years working in the temple.  Debbie took two of our crackpots to Laura's ear. ker she is cooking a big dinner Sunday.  We drove up to Tony and Jody's in Twin Falls.  I called Beth on the way up.  She had taken Tucker to the DMV to  get ready to take his test for a CA driving permit.  Debbie and I listened to an audiobook on our way to Jody's and Tony's.  Kenna was there and she and Jody were getting things ready for tomorrow.  Debbie and I went to Smith's Grocery Store and picked up some things for tomorrow.  We got back and Debbie helped Jody in the kitchen.  Tony went uo to his brother's and borrowed some chocolate chips from Brenda.  Debbie and I forgot them.  Later Debbie and I had prayer before going to bed.

                             

This cross-section is on display at the TRO. Miller Mill Company office in Brewton, Alabama, of a tree born in 1658 where it lived and grew until harvested in 1958. Its square timber was exported to Holland and manufactured into moulding and paneling for railroad dining cars.

       

 

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