From Ann to me just now....
Maddie is home with the flu, they put her on the tramaflu or whatever and sent her home to get better. So they may not be able to make this weekend for Kaitlyn's birthday, she was really upset about that. She just started running a fever last night, will have to see how she does in the next couple of days.
To our family... Maybe won't be too sick, anyway, just remember to wash your hands and don't let people cough all over you.
remember... 5 days after fever goes to normal is the time to stay away from others...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
This is regarding our old neighbors to the east... used to buy feed from us...
This is what I know relayed from Pam Cartmell
Hello all....
I just spoke with Rocky (Malinda's mother). Malinda is in the end stages of her battle. Greg has taken her back to Tulsa because she did not want to pass away at home. They have said she only has a matter of days now. They have increased her pain medication and she is not responsive. Rocky said that the kids were supposed to come and visit tonight.
I'm writing this with a heavy heart and I know you have one as you are reading this. However, Malinda's faith is what has allowed her to fight as long as she has and has earned her a place in God's beautiful kingdom. It will be our faith that will take us forward in our lives and to heal. I ask that you pray now for all of Malinda's family as they prepare for this transition.
I will let you know of any more news that I hear.
Love in Christ,
Pam
I just spoke with Rocky (Malinda's mother). Malinda is in the end stages of her battle. Greg has taken her back to Tulsa because she did not want to pass away at home. They have said she only has a matter of days now. They have increased her pain medication and she is not responsive. Rocky said that the kids were supposed to come and visit tonight.
I'm writing this with a heavy heart and I know you have one as you are reading this. However, Malinda's faith is what has allowed her to fight as long as she has and has earned her a place in God's beautiful kingdom. It will be our faith that will take us forward in our lives and to heal. I ask that you pray now for all of Malinda's family as they prepare for this transition.
I will let you know of any more news that I hear.
Love in Christ,
Pam
Monday, October 19, 2009
hehe from Heather...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Two brooms were hanging in the closet and after a while they got to know each other so well, they decided to get married.
One broom was, of course, the bride broom, the other the groom broom.
The bride broom looked very beautiful in her white dress. The groom broom was handsome and suave in his tuxedo. The wedding was lovely.
After the wedding, at the wedding dinner, the bride-broom leaned over and said to the groom-broom, 'I think I am going to have a little whisk broom!'
'IMPOSSIBLE !' said the groom broom.
Are you ready for this?
'WE HAVEN'T EVEN SWEPT TOGETHER!'
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Oh for goodness sake...Laugh, or at least groan.
Life's too short.
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If you download music and like Lyle Lovett... here is a link to buy the new album
Lyle Lovett - 'Natural Forces" new record comes out today.
You can purchase the entire CD for 3.99 today at
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Forces/dp/B002SDSDEW/ref=dm_tw_lyle_lovett#productPromotions
enjoy!
This record rocks.. you can preview it before buying but it's only at this price for 24 hours, not sure how much longer.. shhhhh don't tell Ann I bought it.. she will kill me.. haha....
You can purchase the entire CD for 3.99 today at
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Forces/dp/B002SDSDEW/ref=dm_tw_lyle_lovett#productPromotions
enjoy!
This record rocks.. you can preview it before buying but it's only at this price for 24 hours, not sure how much longer.. shhhhh don't tell Ann I bought it.. she will kill me.. haha....
From my friend Ragan comes this review of the movie "Where the Wild Things Are"
Best little blurb to describe the best movie of the year (for me) "Where the Wild Things Are":
"It’s not a kid’s movie. It’s not a movie for kids. It’s a movie made from the mindset of a child. We’re not ever going to truly know the impact of this film, because it’s near impossible to understand the child’s mind. They think every is OK, awesome, or boring, and most can’t articulate beyond that. And if you’re sitting there thinking my kid is different it probably means you’ve fed them some answer to the question. The lessons learned are subtle and almost not worth stating … Don’t bite your mom, you can’t make everyone happy, be sorry for being mean. We know these things. Maybe kids need to hear them. A book that didn’t have much to say (it’s nine sentences long) might just be a movie that could speak volumes."
"It’s not a kid’s movie. It’s not a movie for kids. It’s a movie made from the mindset of a child. We’re not ever going to truly know the impact of this film, because it’s near impossible to understand the child’s mind. They think every is OK, awesome, or boring, and most can’t articulate beyond that. And if you’re sitting there thinking my kid is different it probably means you’ve fed them some answer to the question. The lessons learned are subtle and almost not worth stating … Don’t bite your mom, you can’t make everyone happy, be sorry for being mean. We know these things. Maybe kids need to hear them. A book that didn’t have much to say (it’s nine sentences long) might just be a movie that could speak volumes."
Richard and I went to school together.. a year or two ago.. haha
Time-tested tradition continues for Perkins family
Watchmakers have been in business 61 years, still love work
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BY AMANDA O'TOOLEPublished: October 19, 2009
PERKINS — Richard Coate works behind magnified lenses at his worn wooden desk, wielding a tiny magnetic tool inside the guts of a dainty watch face. Pieces of other watches scatter the desk’s surface, sacrificed for their spare parts.
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The vanishing trade of watchmaking is a Coate family tradition.
Richard Coate shares his workspace with his father, Burt Coate, and some of the tools he uses belonged to his late grandfather, Omer Coate.
He works in the shop his father opened on Perkins’ Main Street in 1958, where the younger Coate started helping out when he was in high school. The family business started 10 years earlier in the house next door, where Richard and his four sisters grew up.
Of all of his siblings and all their children, Richard Coate, 55, is the only one who has picked up the trade.
"It’s a sense of pride that we can do a service that not everyone can do,” he said.
Watching history
Their shared passion for fixing watches is evident in how the men talk about their work."When you open a watch, it’s like you’re opening a door to a room you’ve never been in,” Burt Coate, 85, said. "You know it’s going to have furniture, but every room looks different.”
Sometimes he ponders the journey each watch has taken, especially pocket watches, he said.
Burt Coate comes to the shop less and less as the years go on, but father and son still have coffee each day, and Richard Coate still seeks advice when a hard fix has him stumped.
The best lesson he’s learned from his father is to know when to walk away, Richard Coate said.
"When his father comes here and works on a watch, it’s like extra training for Richard,” Janice Coate, Richard’s wife, said. "(Burt) has had a little bit more experience than him.”
Richard and Janice Coate bought the business in 1998. They service watches from all over the state, a practice Burt Coate started in the 1970s.
A vanishing trade
Richard Coate trained at Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee, which continues to be one of a handful of schools in the country to teach watchmaking.The school, which teaches the prestigious Swiss American Watchmakers Training Alliance curriculum, enrolls a maximum of 12 students each year, said Jason Champion, one of the two faculty members who teach watchmaking at the institute.
Although the cell phone has reduced watches’ importance, he said heirloom timepieces are still being passed among families, and high quality watches still need regular service.
"It’s kind of interesting to be able to take a watch that may not be running and bringing it back to life,” he said. "We have to be in some instances a psychiatrist, in other in-stances a mechanic and at other times, an artist. It’s a very illustrious craft where you can combine different arts into one skill.”
He estimated the demand for professional watchmakers is 400 percent above the number of people learning the trade at a time when many people are preparing to exit the workforce.
"There’s not very many people in (the watchmaking profession) right now, and most of them who are doing it are in their 60s,” Champion said. "There’s a lot of information that people have got in terms of vintage timepieces and vintage brands, and a lot of skill sets that are not being passed down from generation to generation.”
Richard Coate is hoping that although watchmaking skipped a generation in his family, his 7- and 8-year-old granddaughters will take a deeper interest in the field.
They come to the shop from time to time and rubber stamp the company envelopes with the store’s mailing address.
"They’re amazed what their Papa works on,” Janice Coate said.
She said Richard Coate plans to run the family business for several years before passing Burt’s Jewelry to one of his daughters.
Although she’s unsure whether the store will always offer watch repair, the important thing is that the store stays in the family.
"I really don’t know how long the watch repair trade will last,” she said.
Read more: http://newsok.com/perkins-family-continues-tradition/article/3410261?custom_click=lead_story_title#ixzz0UOdFd7Ay
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