Before I brought him home, I had no idea how long he'd be in the hospital.  I bought a fish and named him "Flipper".   Here Tomasi is in a seat that I borrowed from some rental company.   I was able to go and be with Tomasi in the hospital because I'd say that he has dementia.   and that is true.  Here I''d ask him to stay in this seat and he'd want to get up, fall on the floor and I'd have to figure how to get him up again.   this was not working well and I needed some help.   The first to my rescue was Sarina Ruby Brown.    She was able to come and I'm forever grateful for her coming so quickly.  Harrah for her airline job that she was on hold to go back to work for the airlines. May 2020

 When I took Tomasi to the doctor in Burlington, Iowa, it was to find out why he had such a hard time walking.  I had to borrow a walker and a wheel chair.   He fell 4 times in one day and this was not normal.  I went to go get him from 2 days in the hospital and they said they were going to have him put in a nursing home so they could teach him how to walk again.   I asked if I could visit him and they said, "NO".   sooooooooooo I said, then if they want to teach him how to walk again, then they can come to our house.   The doctors there said he had ATAXIA.   That for Tomasi, he has in his mind to walk somewhere, and the legs didn't obey him.  massive tingling in his right hand also had me taking him another time.   GREAT RIVER MEDICAL SYSTEM is what I had our plans switched to and I'm very grateful that I did that.  

TELL TALE SUNSETS.

I have the most beautiful sunsets here at my home.   When we go anywhere, and then come home....here's some of the beautiful sunsets.  I have a phone of SUNSETS.   But something told me when we got on the plane to leave Hawaii on 9 March 2020 that it was Tomasi's last trip to the Islands.  My sunsets with him were beginning to tell me that there were not many sunsets to share with him while on this earth together.   

 

WHEN TO WEAR A MASK AND WHEN NOT TO WEAR A MASK

Now this is where to wear a mask and most of the time get away with it.   Mitzi Tukuafu called it "Victoria Secret Mask".   That's what I'll call it.  I'm writing this a little more then a year later and I've made quite a few of these for friends and relatives.   Until I got on a plane in 2021, I used this everywhere.   All I did was cut out a square in a store bought mask, put in lace and now I can breath.   When there used to be lines getting into Walmart, I wore this.   I can breath with this mask.  THERE IS NO STUDY THAT PROVES THAT ANY MASK CAN KEEP OUT STUPID COVID STUFFS.  Many many studies that proves masks DON'T WORK....and that are harmful to folks who wear them.  harmful to folks that can't hear well, harmful to children.   Harmful to most everyone.   I've got a lot more to say here, but not now.   May 22, 2021. 

 I rebelled right away to this stupid mask wearing stuffs.   In a dusty shop where I work at home is where to wear a mask.   Glasses to keep other flying debree out of eyeballs.  hat on head to keep my hair looking nice. 

GETTING BACK INTO POSTING ON MY BLOG SITE.

 These wonderful young folks came to my house from Rutledge, Missouri.   I had gone there to get my  new sewing machine fixed by one of the Auntie's of these folks.   I joined their sing along in the little school house there and I invited them to come to my house and I'd show them instruments that are mentioned in the Bible and also instrument's that have originated in Germany.   After I gave them a tour of my instruments, they sang for me and I was blessed to have them in my home.   

 count the goslings.  this is one of the beautiful things I see in Nauvoo right by my place.   

Here Tomasi and I are singing at Alani Violeti's wedding in 1998...... I hope I can make this work. 

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   Irene Tukuafu shared Al A Ni's video.

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   folks, this was 16 years ago .....sigh. how time flies. I love this song and we've done it at a lot of weddings. Thanks Alani for posting this. got me singing this song all day today.

   hi auntie! just thought I'd share with you... since it's You! from 16 years ago. :) love you guys!

   

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Christmas 2013

 My mother's little band of "Christmas elfs".   Here also is the little log cabin that Tomasi carved for me in our first year of marriage.  I thought these went well together.

 Harp #48.  I put gold levers on this harp.  When taking this photo, I could see many Christmas's here.  The grass shack that Tomasi and I lived in for 2 years with our 5 little ones ages 6 and under in 1970 about.  The Jewel Tea big bowl was my Aunt Vernie's and I spent many happy Christmas's in her home with Aunt Myrtle. When this bowl got broken several moves ago, I saved the pieces and made this planter out of it.  Then there's the now frozen Mississippi through the window....and real logs on my walls....surely a White Christmas for us this year.

 Enter with a happy heart wreathe that Vicki Andrus made for me a few years back...and oh we are soooooooooooo happy in this house of my dreams.  And can you see my "dream man" tending the fire in the house?   I always wanted a rounded door like this all my life with a square window....

Now here's our little tree....with a few of the ornaments that I've saved for over 50 years.  I have 3 bands of singing angles...and two small Nativity sets....and my Christmas Cacti that has not bloomed yet.  

 I can't have a Christmas without one Kerosene lamp...and now two violet plants.  My mother cared for violets in her house.  and Sarina, see, I still have your little thing you made for me too.  I have a butterfly night light that helps those that go up and down the stairs when folks come to visit.  Who will come to visit soon?

 This hanging bells hold special memories for me.  These were Aunt Myrtle's and she always had them in the house at this time...on the other side it says HAPPY NEW YEAR.  Aunt Myrtle was a collector of bells.

Here is the Minora....one fun blue fish that when I put water in it....gurgles when I pour from it.  you can see a star and another log cabin here....and red cardinals.  I have a special love for cardinals as they lived all around us when we lived in our place in Hawaii.  and if you look closely you'll see a photo of Tomasi and I before we had any children. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL............