They open the doors for you when you arrive, and the warm welcome sets a nice tone. We had a double queen wheelchair accessible room; probably could change it now that the weekend is almost over, but won’t bother. The amenities, besides the golf course on-site, include a small conference center, a small but nicely arranged indoor pool, two jacuzzi tubs on the deck, and dining in a big lodge room with a 3-story river cobble fireplace. There’s screened deck seating and a deck bar when the weather is fine (and it has been). The food is very good although…
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So far, we’ve Flown from Chicago to Seattle had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with boats explored the Seattle Underground with tourons and alleged rats hiked on a beautiful forested trail by a remote beach had delicious beers with friends had circus with bread, which is a little different than having bread and circuses. avoided Seafair, but not the Seafair Pirates driven to Idaho hung out with family walked on a rails to trails route been licked by dogs eaten huckleberry ice cream (me only) eaten Vienna Sausages (again me only) seen 2 deer seen innumerable ground squirrels and chipmunks driven…
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Leah gets lei’d at Maui Kahului Airport in September, 2007 Leah Sharron Gibbs, nee Green, age 70, beloved wife for 50 years and best friend of Sheldon. Loving mother of David (Virginia), Daniel, Mitchell (Gloria) Gibbs. Cherished grandmother of Melissa, Joshua, Jennifer and Naomi. Dear sister of the late Seymour Green. Devoted daughter of the late Abrasha and Udasha. Fond sister-in-law of Norma and Bill Brown. Loving aunt of many nieces and nephews. Long time teacher at Serena Hills School in Chicago Heights, IL. Member of B’nai Yehuda Beth Sholom. Services Thursday, 11 A M. at B’nai Yehuda Beth Sholom,…
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Ho, well, I never post anymore, blah de blah. We had a wonderful time in Hawaii, pictures are all still on my laptop and need to be culled and copied to my desktop machine. However, I found a few on the card that was in my camera this morning when I took a picture of Father Manny in his purple Lenten poncho (okay, church purists, it’s a chausuble). Here’s one of his photo-op pictures, which will shortly be uploaded to the St Nicholas Facebook page and used on the website for the rest of Lent. I enjoy “Faddah” Manny’s sermons…
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Not our earliest start, the overnight in San Francisco took a bit of the edge off. It rained all night, it’s raining now; it’s a relaxing day in Paradise. It was snowing when we left Chicago, and currently it’s 27 degrees there. More snow expected this week. I’ll take the rain, thanks. The flight was delayed more than an hour, not bad once we got in the air. We arrived at the hotel via shuttle, and will stay in SFO again on our way back to avoid that deadly overnight flight. The flight to Maui pushed back on time, and…
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Barring any weird developments, this is the other place we’ll stay on our upcoming vacation. Visit Paradise, the ultimate true Hawaii vacation experience. Paradise Bay Resort offers the most beautiful natural setting and the best kept secret hide away on Oahu. We are the only B&B, resort hotel on the tropical Windward of Oahu. Enjoy panoramic views of the Ko’olau and Kualoa Mountains, magnificent Kaneohe Bay, Chinaman’s Hat Island, the Pacific Ocean and the neighboring Kahouna Fish Sanctuary. Link: Paradise Bay Resort Hawaii – Kailua Bed and Breakfast, Kailua Beach Hotel
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I know a little about the Mayan “calendar round,” and have an amateur-archeologist interest in Pre-Colombian cultures. I’ve had conversations with people who actually believe the movie and book hype, promulgated by people who’ve taken a distorted view of Mayan texts in order to sell more books or movie tickets. The Mayans believed that time was organized like a set of nested, revolving rings; they were trying to keep both lunar and solar time, and they were such keen astronomers that they worked out the cyclic nature of how the two sets of rings synced up in 52-year “short count”…
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Just another elk jam down at the Estes Park Conoco station…
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We stayed one night at the Holiday Inn Seattle-SeaTac International Airport. It was a really late check-in as our flight on United (boo) was late, but David had paid to get us Economy Plus seats so we were one of the first people off the plane (yay). Getting to the hotel was the hardest part of the evening, no small feat with brains partly shut down with travel stress and legs still getting used to working again after 4 hours in the air. Seatac has changed somewhat since my days of living in Seattle and flying in and out of…
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The Very Revd Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark Cathedral in London, died last week and his funeral service was today in the cathedral. The sermon was given by Dr Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, who was formerly the Theologian at Southwark, was nominated as Bishop, and in a scandalous turn, the nomination was rescinded because conservatives objected to John’s homosexuality. He noted that Slee said to him in the weeks before his death how “surprisingly un-scared” he was. I wish I’d known him; on my recent visit to London with David we actually walked past his house, where I…