Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Dec 15, 2008
Dear Friends who follow this blog.
Psalm 16 is so Awesome!!! It says"
v.7 "You, O Lord, have assigned me my portion and my cup;
surely I have a delightful inheritance."
It's been two weeks now since surgery and I feel really pretty good. I am watching Lowell do the work on the house a n d the household duties I cannot do yet. He is a gem and I am so thankful to have his love and care. We are enjoying great Christmas music as we see the snow fall and the beauty of the mountains from our South window.
I thought, since we've received the 'great news' about the tumor being benign, that I could cancel the appointment with the oncologist. (I so often think I am my own doctor) Does anyone else ever do that?
After talking with Dr. about it, because I have so many other small tumors here and there - though small- and chances are very good they are not malignant,we should at least find out what we can about them. I guess the oncologist will be the expert in all types of tumors etc., I thought they only helped you decide on Chemo or Radiation treatments.
I had an MRI yesterday on an area (left leg) which has been painful, results will be a few days away I suppose. This should shed some light on the possibilities of future treatment (ie surgery) of these other little tumors.
We are confident that these are just fatty little pests. -
Thus accounting for, at least, some of my excess weight :)
Thank you all for your prayers and your encouragements.
I trust your family plans for a special Celebration of Jesus Birth and time together will be all you desire it to be.
We send our love and best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
Many hugs to all. I will update again in a few days.
Psalm 16 also says
"Apart from YOU (God) I have no good thing. As for the saints
who are in the land, they are the are glorious ones in whom
is my delight!!!"
"I delight in your friendship and am honored by your prayers"
Love you! Gloria
Psalm 16 is so Awesome!!! It says"
v.7 "You, O Lord, have assigned me my portion and my cup;
surely I have a delightful inheritance."
It's been two weeks now since surgery and I feel really pretty good. I am watching Lowell do the work on the house a n d the household duties I cannot do yet. He is a gem and I am so thankful to have his love and care. We are enjoying great Christmas music as we see the snow fall and the beauty of the mountains from our South window.
I thought, since we've received the 'great news' about the tumor being benign, that I could cancel the appointment with the oncologist. (I so often think I am my own doctor) Does anyone else ever do that?
After talking with Dr. about it, because I have so many other small tumors here and there - though small- and chances are very good they are not malignant,we should at least find out what we can about them. I guess the oncologist will be the expert in all types of tumors etc., I thought they only helped you decide on Chemo or Radiation treatments.
I had an MRI yesterday on an area (left leg) which has been painful, results will be a few days away I suppose. This should shed some light on the possibilities of future treatment (ie surgery) of these other little tumors.
We are confident that these are just fatty little pests. -
Thus accounting for, at least, some of my excess weight :)
Thank you all for your prayers and your encouragements.
I trust your family plans for a special Celebration of Jesus Birth and time together will be all you desire it to be.
We send our love and best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
Many hugs to all. I will update again in a few days.
Psalm 16 also says
"Apart from YOU (God) I have no good thing. As for the saints
who are in the land, they are the are glorious ones in whom
is my delight!!!"
"I delight in your friendship and am honored by your prayers"
Love you! Gloria
Friday, November 28, 2008
Nov 28, Friday
Hi Everyone,
We are at Jeff's family in Denver today. We returned after spending 3 days with
Laurie's family, The boys in MN are so full of fun and love, we enjoyed seeing them
so much, My sis Sue, & John picked us up and we spent the night there, it was so good to catch up and play with those sweet boys Dylan and Brayden,
I have been eating so much and have had no pain, just a bit of cramping now and then a n d - on the up-side, all my bloodwork and chest x-ray came back good.
Tomorrow we head for Cedaredge, 5 hours west. As I write this, Jeff and kids are decorating their tree and singing "have a holly - jolly Christmas"
I am not looking forward to Sunday, "prep day", lots of Antibiotics in 3 hours and on only a liquid diet, plus the bowel clean out process. UGH!
I am so thankful to be held up by your faithfulness in prayer.
Friends will be staying with Lowell at the Hospital during surgery, even the mom and
dad whose son was in a mine accident this week and narrowly excaped being paralyzed
He is doing well, the father of 3 but he has to wear a neck brace and endure much pain for the next 6 weeks. We are thankful for his miraculous recovery. His name is James if you wish to add him to your list, Hope you endured this long spot,
Hugs to all, Gloria
We are at Jeff's family in Denver today. We returned after spending 3 days with
Laurie's family, The boys in MN are so full of fun and love, we enjoyed seeing them
so much, My sis Sue, & John picked us up and we spent the night there, it was so good to catch up and play with those sweet boys Dylan and Brayden,
I have been eating so much and have had no pain, just a bit of cramping now and then a n d - on the up-side, all my bloodwork and chest x-ray came back good.
Tomorrow we head for Cedaredge, 5 hours west. As I write this, Jeff and kids are decorating their tree and singing "have a holly - jolly Christmas"
I am not looking forward to Sunday, "prep day", lots of Antibiotics in 3 hours and on only a liquid diet, plus the bowel clean out process. UGH!
I am so thankful to be held up by your faithfulness in prayer.
Friends will be staying with Lowell at the Hospital during surgery, even the mom and
dad whose son was in a mine accident this week and narrowly excaped being paralyzed
He is doing well, the father of 3 but he has to wear a neck brace and endure much pain for the next 6 weeks. We are thankful for his miraculous recovery. His name is James if you wish to add him to your list, Hope you endured this long spot,
Hugs to all, Gloria
Friday, August 31, 2007
To All The Great Folks Who Read This Blog
Hello again, All you blog readers!!
Someone is reading my blog!!!!
I had an email (I won't say who, to protect the innocent)
to tell me they looked on the blog and "WHAT" the blog
was not updated. Sooo. here it goes.
This is the last day of August. Where has the summer gone?
I have spent the last 2 days in Klagenfurt taking training on
Thermal Solar systems. I plan to put a complete system in
our new home to not only heat our domestic water but also
most of our HWH radiation (heat). I would guess almost
30% of the houses here in Austria have some sort of thermal
solar systems. In Germany 50% of all new homes are installing
thermal solar. IT IS NOT PV solar (Photovoltacis) electrical.
Europe is way ahead of the US in Solar not to mention diesel
fueled automobiles. that get better mpg then anything we have.
I see on the internet that diesels will be coming in the next few
years. And not to soon in my opinion. Hybrids are to complicated,
to expensive, to much to repair, and do not have the longevity or
enough power and economy compared to TURBO_DIESEL!!
Well, enough of that! cough! cough!! hmmmmm.Government Agency's
Hmmmmmm! Climbing off my soap box.
We are at max on our luggage weights.
With our stuff the plane will have all it can do to get off the ground!
Gloria has been busy cleaning and packing. With all our stuff you
would think we had moved over here.
We leave in 2 days. Drive accross upper Italy, avoiding the large
mountains in Switzerland to Annecy, France. (35 mi south of Geneva)
Will spend a day taking pictures there and head for the airport in
Geneva to fly out Wednesday morning Sept 5th. 22 hrs later
we will find ourselves back in Denver. One LONG day!!
If I don't send in any more blog updates. I want to thank everyone
who have kept up with us. It has ben fun doing the blog. telling little
stories and a few funnies. I wish they would have allowed larger images
but being I have taken about 10,000 images, it was always a question
which one I should post. The one this time shows that western Europe
(at least Austria and Germany) has gone color-crazy!
I thought when I first came over that it was wild!!
I now kind of LIKE it. Everybody is doing it. Yellow, red, blue, violet,
green and all shades in-between. I think I will miss it. The US will seem
sort of drab now. I'll have to re-train and have a culture-shift.
What? no more smoke filled restaurants, cars coming at me in my lane.
How will I cope?? Ahh, I babble on. I think I will be difficult for me to
drive in a straight line I have developed large steering wheel turning
muscles! Beware of me for a few weeks. I'll get better!
Well enough.
With my typing skills this has only taken an hour (speedy eh!)
Hope all is well with all who read this
Drop me an email if you have time.
I have lots of other stories
Lowell
Someone is reading my blog!!!!
I had an email (I won't say who, to protect the innocent)
to tell me they looked on the blog and "WHAT" the blog
was not updated. Sooo. here it goes.
This is the last day of August. Where has the summer gone?
I have spent the last 2 days in Klagenfurt taking training on
Thermal Solar systems. I plan to put a complete system in
our new home to not only heat our domestic water but also
most of our HWH radiation (heat). I would guess almost
30% of the houses here in Austria have some sort of thermal
solar systems. In Germany 50% of all new homes are installing
thermal solar. IT IS NOT PV solar (Photovoltacis) electrical.
Europe is way ahead of the US in Solar not to mention diesel
fueled automobiles. that get better mpg then anything we have.
I see on the internet that diesels will be coming in the next few
years. And not to soon in my opinion. Hybrids are to complicated,
to expensive, to much to repair, and do not have the longevity or
enough power and economy compared to TURBO_DIESEL!!
Well, enough of that! cough! cough!! hmmmmm.Government Agency's
Hmmmmmm! Climbing off my soap box.
We are at max on our luggage weights.
With our stuff the plane will have all it can do to get off the ground!
Gloria has been busy cleaning and packing. With all our stuff you
would think we had moved over here.
We leave in 2 days. Drive accross upper Italy, avoiding the large
mountains in Switzerland to Annecy, France. (35 mi south of Geneva)
Will spend a day taking pictures there and head for the airport in
Geneva to fly out Wednesday morning Sept 5th. 22 hrs later
we will find ourselves back in Denver. One LONG day!!
If I don't send in any more blog updates. I want to thank everyone
who have kept up with us. It has ben fun doing the blog. telling little
stories and a few funnies. I wish they would have allowed larger images
but being I have taken about 10,000 images, it was always a question
which one I should post. The one this time shows that western Europe
(at least Austria and Germany) has gone color-crazy!
I thought when I first came over that it was wild!!
I now kind of LIKE it. Everybody is doing it. Yellow, red, blue, violet,
green and all shades in-between. I think I will miss it. The US will seem
sort of drab now. I'll have to re-train and have a culture-shift.
What? no more smoke filled restaurants, cars coming at me in my lane.
How will I cope?? Ahh, I babble on. I think I will be difficult for me to
drive in a straight line I have developed large steering wheel turning
muscles! Beware of me for a few weeks. I'll get better!
Well enough.
With my typing skills this has only taken an hour (speedy eh!)
Hope all is well with all who read this
Drop me an email if you have time.
I have lots of other stories
Lowell
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
The Last days of Summer in Austria
Well the blog-a-roooo is running out steam.
2 weeks from today we leave for the states.
I can feel a little "autumn" creeping into this
area of Austria. A little more wood smoke in
the air. The days are getting shorter as well.
There's just about enough rubber left on our
tires to get us to the airport in Geneva. Don't
know about the brakes! We have seen and
done a lot of things since we came on May 1.
I have tried to document a lot of it with images.
I think I will have close to 9000-10000 pictures.
I have been trying to keep up the organizing on
my laptop each day and deleting as I can.
Wont have much time for that when we get back to
Colorado as the new house project will keep me
busy.
Lowell
'Glorio here'
It's funny how getting ready to go home is as
forward looking as the trip itself. We went to a
wonderful concert in another town last week
They have "Kirchetag" celebrations in every town
which is Church day in our language.They celebrate
a "Saint's" day. The concert was terrific!
Lowell will be taking training in a nearby town
regarding Thermal Solar and domestic hot water
heating the last two days we are here. We hope
to include this technology in our new home.
In Colorado it would be the most efficient and
fuel saving way to go with all the sun we enjoy.
On Sept. 1, we will head for Annecy, France before
getting on the plane Sept. 5th. It will be good to be
home for our 1st grandson's 12th birthday! Hugs
Gloria
2 weeks from today we leave for the states.
I can feel a little "autumn" creeping into this
area of Austria. A little more wood smoke in
the air. The days are getting shorter as well.
There's just about enough rubber left on our
tires to get us to the airport in Geneva. Don't
know about the brakes! We have seen and
done a lot of things since we came on May 1.
I have tried to document a lot of it with images.
I think I will have close to 9000-10000 pictures.
I have been trying to keep up the organizing on
my laptop each day and deleting as I can.
Wont have much time for that when we get back to
Colorado as the new house project will keep me
busy.
Lowell
'Glorio here'
It's funny how getting ready to go home is as
forward looking as the trip itself. We went to a
wonderful concert in another town last week
They have "Kirchetag" celebrations in every town
which is Church day in our language.They celebrate
a "Saint's" day. The concert was terrific!
Lowell will be taking training in a nearby town
regarding Thermal Solar and domestic hot water
heating the last two days we are here. We hope
to include this technology in our new home.
In Colorado it would be the most efficient and
fuel saving way to go with all the sun we enjoy.
On Sept. 1, we will head for Annecy, France before
getting on the plane Sept. 5th. It will be good to be
home for our 1st grandson's 12th birthday! Hugs
Gloria
Friday, August 3, 2007
The Blog Goes ON------------ and ON!!
Aug 3rd 2007
August already! Wow are time is winding down here in the old country.
We will be getting ready to head home in a month. We have just about
traveled every road and eye-balled every "dorf," I mean village, in the
the south of Austria. There must be a million villages and towns that
their name ends in burg,furt, stein or dorf. Ah! the culture. I will miss the bad
drivers, the narrow roads, the smoky restaurants, the me first!--- Oh I regress.
What I will miss:
The flowers, the pride of ownership, the wonderfull mountains, the
Austrian architecture, the turbo-diesel cars. This is our 11th trip to Europe
in 20 years. We have been blessed to have seen so much of Europe. We
have visited 19 country's, all are different. Actually we enjoyed the different
currancy's before the euro. As far as we can tell, the EU country's are proud
that their money is worth more than the US dollar. But the cost of living has risen
a lot and that has not helped the low or middle income worker.Well, enough
of my political insight. Maybe I've stayed over here too long. If and when we
travel again, it will be time for something new. Maybe a penguin safari in the Antarctic?
or how about a non-vaction. We haven't tried that . hmmmmm!
Well what ever we go-- there we'll be!!
Its time to----------------BUILD THAT HOUSE!!!!!!!
Chow
Lowell
Gloria's 22 cents:
I don't know how it became 22 cents.! Anyhow, I am getting used to the view,
the apartment and even the people. I remarked "I could live over here".
Well, you can see how far that got me! The people need the Lord here just like
everywhere. Right now I have put Austria and indeed all of Europe as high a
priority on my prayer list as the USA. I only wish I knew the language better and could
communicate more. So much has happened since we left, of course
I miss our family, especially those little ones who keep growing up without my
"Nana eyes" seeing their changes. I hope the folks that were on the bridge in Mpls.
were ready to enter eternity. Hugs from me. God willing, I think I'll be building
"that house" too...
Gloria
August already! Wow are time is winding down here in the old country.
We will be getting ready to head home in a month. We have just about
traveled every road and eye-balled every "dorf," I mean village, in the
the south of Austria. There must be a million villages and towns that
their name ends in burg,furt, stein or dorf. Ah! the culture. I will miss the bad
drivers, the narrow roads, the smoky restaurants, the me first!--- Oh I regress.
What I will miss:
The flowers, the pride of ownership, the wonderfull mountains, the
Austrian architecture, the turbo-diesel cars. This is our 11th trip to Europe
in 20 years. We have been blessed to have seen so much of Europe. We
have visited 19 country's, all are different. Actually we enjoyed the different
currancy's before the euro. As far as we can tell, the EU country's are proud
that their money is worth more than the US dollar. But the cost of living has risen
a lot and that has not helped the low or middle income worker.Well, enough
of my political insight. Maybe I've stayed over here too long. If and when we
travel again, it will be time for something new. Maybe a penguin safari in the Antarctic?
or how about a non-vaction. We haven't tried that . hmmmmm!
Well what ever we go-- there we'll be!!
Its time to----------------BUILD THAT HOUSE!!!!!!!
Chow
Lowell
Gloria's 22 cents:
I don't know how it became 22 cents.! Anyhow, I am getting used to the view,
the apartment and even the people. I remarked "I could live over here".
Well, you can see how far that got me! The people need the Lord here just like
everywhere. Right now I have put Austria and indeed all of Europe as high a
priority on my prayer list as the USA. I only wish I knew the language better and could
communicate more. So much has happened since we left, of course
I miss our family, especially those little ones who keep growing up without my
"Nana eyes" seeing their changes. I hope the folks that were on the bridge in Mpls.
were ready to enter eternity. Hugs from me. God willing, I think I'll be building
"that house" too...
Gloria
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Slovenia
July 22nd 2007
Wow, summer is slip-sliding away. In a month we
will be getting ready to head back to the good old
USA. Today we drove up and over and
into Slovenia for lunch. The Slovenian border is only
8 miles but takes about 20 minutes as it is has many
"hair-pins" Tomorrow we will drive down into Slovinia
to one of the oldest settled towns in Slovenia.
Ptuj -say 'P-tooee' quickly and you are close.
(kind of sounds like your spitting)
Ptuj begin life about 69 AD. A little older then some
of our towns in the USA. Should be quite interesting.
We may stay overnight, or we may not. Quite profound
right!! There is a small village close
to Ptuj named Jeruzalem. Its a small hilltop village so-
named after crusaders visiting there in the 13th century
became so enamoured with the wine and the people
that they decided to name the settlement after the
holy city. I guess they didnt go any further.
must have been crusading for wine??? or lost their map.
The weather here the last week has been quite warm
in the 30's (Not a typo) in the 90's F We are very glad
we have AC in our car. The apartment stays cool as
it has very thick walls.
If anyone wants to email me with any questions about
our trip or Europe just drop me a email at
lolson39@hotmail.com
God bless all of you
chow
Lowell
Wow, summer is slip-sliding away. In a month we
will be getting ready to head back to the good old
USA. Today we drove up and over and
into Slovenia for lunch. The Slovenian border is only
8 miles but takes about 20 minutes as it is has many
"hair-pins" Tomorrow we will drive down into Slovinia
to one of the oldest settled towns in Slovenia.
Ptuj -say 'P-tooee' quickly and you are close.
(kind of sounds like your spitting)
Ptuj begin life about 69 AD. A little older then some
of our towns in the USA. Should be quite interesting.
We may stay overnight, or we may not. Quite profound
right!! There is a small village close
to Ptuj named Jeruzalem. Its a small hilltop village so-
named after crusaders visiting there in the 13th century
became so enamoured with the wine and the people
that they decided to name the settlement after the
holy city. I guess they didnt go any further.
must have been crusading for wine??? or lost their map.
The weather here the last week has been quite warm
in the 30's (Not a typo) in the 90's F We are very glad
we have AC in our car. The apartment stays cool as
it has very thick walls.
If anyone wants to email me with any questions about
our trip or Europe just drop me a email at
lolson39@hotmail.com
God bless all of you
chow
Lowell
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