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October 5, 2026 · 9:02 pm

Tuesday 10-6-2026

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We will leave to go visit Harvey at the nursing home soon. I hope we can brighten his day a bit. I’ve been to the gym, washed out and hung my undies on the balcony, done some other chores around my place, shared breakfast with Brian. We had our favorite breakfast burrito with papaya and some other fruit neither of us cared for on the side. I’m feeling good.

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Latest sketch –

I have another sketch base-painted and another one I’m working on to take to the cafe later today.

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I’m really enjoying J.D.Robb’s “Fury in Death” with my one chapter a day rationing. Today is exercises with the water bottles and funky music day, plus I’ll practice my guitar and work on my puzzle. Speaking of the puzzle, here’s the latest image of it –

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I’ve been finding some really talented folks on Substack. I’m more than proud to share the planet with these people! I’ll be sharing some of their work as I can. I’m working on another article on entrepreneurship in Chiang Mai.

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Women’s Health

Shout-out to my friend, Lisa, who shared some beautiful pictures of her yard on a wonderful whole day spent outside, cleaning things up, puttering in her plants, enjoying her family and life in general.

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Carol

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October 3, 2026 · 1:06 am

Saturday 10-3-2026

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We are just back from visiting my husband in the nursing home. To be honest, since he has been so antsy lately and insisted that his nurse help him call Brian, etc., we were dreading a possible confrontation. We talked about how we would try to handle it, try to calm his down. Thankfully, he was totally engrossed in making elaborate plans to leave, writing in the notebook we got for him, making scrawls that even he can’t decipher. He has decided he wants to go to Tate.

Tate is a private community on top of a mountain in Northern Georgia. Relatives went together years ago and bought acreage around a lake and built the community year by year, with a lot of the families building homes to vacation in, some actually living there almost year round. It’s a beautiful place we got to visit, fish, swim, spend time in a home there, and showed Brian all around when he was about 5.

Harvey wanted to know if Tate was in Thailand now. And things went downhill from there. But he stayed calm, even when we had to tell him again that we didn’t have our Honda here and that you couldn’t drive from here to the States. He continued to add to his plans, both telling us and trying to write them down, even with the answers we gave him. We left him watching some TV, but he was still planning in his head. Brian ordered him a pizza. His nurse sent us a picture and then a video of Harvey enjoying the pizza. He actually thanked Brian for having it delivered to him, so that was good. It was such a relief not to have rampant frustration, upset, and more today. His nurse wanted to know if he was confused today. Brian wrote back to tell her that he was VERY confused, but seemed calm about things while we were there. Whew!

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I have base painted 4 sketches I did yesterday and will take my sketchbook to the cafe in about 45 minutes to work on them. The cafe is my calm, happy place where I can leave all cares behind for a while while I work on details of sketches or start new sketches. I’m so lucky to have this.

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My guitar sits in its spot during the week (except when the housekeeper is due) so that I can just sit down and practice a short time several times a day. I’m loving trying to get smoother on the chord changes and strumming techniques, while the frog continues to croak along with it. 🎸🎶

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Donna, this is particularly for you, since you have been encouraging my excrutiatingly slow efforts to put the jigsaw puzzle together. I AM making progress…

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Loopis World

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September 22, 2026 · 8:56 pm

Wednesday 9-23-2026

This was posted a bit late, but it IS the official beginning of fall, and I love it so much I wanted to share it.

Lady Caroline – @a lady’s substack

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Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird – Chiang Mai – Instagram

Brian and I were on our way home from the gym yesterday and saw what looked like a hummingbird drinking nectar from a whole row of long red blossomed flowers. We stopped and admired him for a minute or two. I had read before that Thailand doesn’t have hummingbirds, as such, but have Sunbirds and a moth that imitates the hovering of a hummingbird.

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Speaking of the gym, we saw Ugly American jogging ahead of us as we walked. I thought, ‘Oh, no.’ but he didn’t come into the gym today. Later Brian told me he had his phone out and that he seemed to be watching a movie where a lady was screaming. (One reason to be happy I don’t wear my hearing aids to the gym!) I can’t believe the stupidity of a guy running in public down a street with the sounds of someone screaming coming from him.

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I have a normal, wonderful day today. Rain chances are low today. The sun is shining brightly now and it is already feeling quite warm. I’m enjoying my J.D. Robb, “Fury in Death” book, but I’m limiting myself to one chapter a day in order to get other things done. 📖

As I told you, the puzzle is coming along extremely slowly, but I AM making a bit of progress. Meanwhile, this colorful guy is brightening up one side of my living area with his gorgeous body.

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I’m looking forward to going to the cafe this afternoon. I have one sketch in process, and a couple I would like to get started. I’m having such a good time with this!

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Marieke Luiten

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July 11, 2026 · 11:06 pm

Sunday 7-12-2026

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Yesterday when Brian and I were on our way to the gym I heard a bird song that somehow reminded me of a kookaburra. And THAT reminded me of when I was a Bluebird (a baby Camp Fire Girl) and we sang two ’rounds’ that I remember and can hear them now.

Total Voice Studio

A ’round’ in music is “a type of vocal composition where two or more singers sing the exact same melody, but start at staggered times. Because the singers overlap, their different parts harmonize to create a continuous loop of beautiful music.”

“Le Carillon de Vendôme”

Orléans, Beaugency,

Notre-Dame de Cléry,

Vendôme, Vendôme !

This is the first one I remember. When we sang, it sounded like bells were ringing. The first group would start the song. The second group started right after “Orle’ans”. The sound we made, even though we weren’t great singers, was breathtaking.

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Kookabyrra

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Merry merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop, Kookaburra, Stop, Kookaburra
Leave some there for me.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop, Kookaburra, Stop, Kookaburra,
That’s no monkey, that’s me.

This is the second one, and was mainly just fun. The first group would sing the first line, and the second one would start after that. I can remember singing those, delight on our faces, the whole time we were members of the Blue Birds. I don’t hear anyone singing rounds anymore. I miss them.

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This is my latest sketch. I took photos of the lizard at the top and then going up the tree while I was sitting at the window in the cafe. One of the servers told me they could fly. I looked it up and found that they can glide up to 60 feet to get away from a predator. I didn’t actually see the ‘wings’ on this one, but I drew the one I found on the net. I think it’s amazing how fast they move without having to fly, and that their tails are at least twice as long as their bodies…

I have two sketches base painted that I’ll take to the cafe this afternoon. I want to try to draw the axolotl that I found on the net soon. I also have an idea rattling around in my head with a ‘keep moving’ theme I was to start on.

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Puzzle

I’m not making much progress at all with my jigsaw puzzle of the chameleon. The border is done, and I have a small group of pieces that is part of the branch, but that’s it. This one will definitely take a while. Brian is thrilled. 😁

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I hope you’re having a great weekend.

Pamela Schifano – Substack

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