I gotta go for a while anad maybe I will be back soon. I have basically no house. Staight line winds at about 90-120mph SLAMMED the trees in my yard and now the trees are on my house. From the highway all you can see is tree and no house. It only got me in the area. My across the road neighbot watched the trees fall on the house and I was in the house. Electricity out so we had no warning. A lot of people in other places got some also but I took the prize in my commmunity. Not the kind of prize I wanted . All the flowers I had and all that were going to bloom are gone. It is like a death of my life as I knew it. NOt to sound morbid. But My circus (animals ) OK and I am OK but still shook but dis placed. Thanks for listening. Good Shopping and hope to join you again soon.

I am so sorry, Deech. I just came in from watering my beautiful flowers, seeing new things every day in the beds. Then I read about your loss, and got a reminder of what's important. I don't recall what state you live in, but in SC where I am we had severe weather overnight. I'll be thinking of you. Hopefully, you'll have help and support re-building and can keep us updated.

I'm so sorry to hear this Deech! I think we all wonder how we would ever get it back together and resume a normal life after such a disaster. Stay strong, stay focused on a bright future and when you get disheartened with slow progress or just with how tired you are from the effort, settle down and visit with us and let us know how it is (or isn't) going.

Wow. I am surprised you can be so positive after such a disheartening and scary event. Only the best for having somewhere you can call home soon, things returning to a sense of rhythm as soon as possible, and that you get everything settled and can return to that property, albeit "new and improved" in the shortest time frame possible.

Thanks guys. I am on the computer at work and it will not let me open the message from Mert. I apprecieate all you thoughts and strong works. I am with my son and great grandson and they do not have internet up on their mountain top. My yard us gone but the bulbs and basic plants are not and we are all in one piece, I will replant but maybe on a different mountain top but I am no done yet or at least I hope not. Thank you again for listening to me.

Deech, I am sorry to hear about your situation, how horrible. My prayers are with you. Good Luck. Mo

molittleton Wrote:
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> Deech, I am sorry to hear about your situation,
> how horrible. My prayers are with you. Good Luck.
> Mo


Thank you

Deech, You are so very welcome.

Hello, Deech - it's been a few weeks, and I'm wondering how it's going for you. Hopefully by now you've an idea of what's next. Fill us in if you have the time and are so inclined.

Mert Wrote:
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> Hello, Deech - it's been a few weeks, and I'm
> wondering how it's going for you. Hopefully by now
> you've an idea of what's next. Fill us in if you
> have the time and are so inclined.


What's next is a U-Haul early Saterday Morning. I am going to my son's house on a mountain on the other side of the county we live in. From a valley between two mountains to the top of a mountain.

It has been slow. I can only pack up the house early on Sat and Sun because the heat gets to me very fast. I go check on my animals (still there) three times a week. When I am there I pack some. I still have a lot of flowers the trees did not get so they will get dug up.

The house will take a lot of money to fix and the landlord will not do it so my new home will be on Billy Goat Mountain. It will either be a small mobil home behind his or an addition to his place.

I still shop a little but there is no good internet reception on the mountain so I pack up the laptop and printer and bring it to the hotel I work part time for. I do my shops they come back to the hotel and download the information. Get up and start all over.

It works. On my way to work the other day at 4:00AM I decided I was like the picture of the kitten hanging on the clother line and the caption was Hang Ten. Some days it is a Hang Ten and some days it is a Hang One. If I post a Hang One on this forum you will know I need a boost.

Everything is OK and will get better if we can get Hughes net up there. That will make shopping a lot easier. The one joy is my great grand son. My son and his wife are raising her grandson. He is three and a pleasure and he likes me especially when we play games on the computer.

Thank you for asking and hope all is well with you and the others.

Glad to hear things are moving along Deech. I certainly hear you about being limited how much you can do in the heat!

There are other choices for satellite than Hughes. We were using Wild Blue with decent success until a local wireless provider got a tower erected that they could shoot a signal to our tower. I assume that, like us, you can't get cable and therefore use a cable internet.

Flash Wrote:
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> Glad to hear things are moving along Deech. I
> certainly hear you about being limited how much
> you can do in the heat!
>
> There are other choices for satellite than Hughes.
> We were using Wild Blue with decent success until
> a local wireless provider got a tower erected that
> they could shoot a signal to our tower. I assume
> that, like us, you can't get cable and therefore
> use a cable internet.



Thanks for the information. The kids have AT&T cell service but the wireless card is super expensive when on line. I have Alltell or the new whatever it is and I can barely get service up there. I have never heard of Wild Blue. Can you tell me more about it.

Thanks again for your support and help.

[www.mybluedish.com]

You need to buy the dish and have their installer come out to set it up (probably no different than with Hughes). We got Wild Blue probably 6 years ago after a newly built building blocked our wireless internet connection to the wireless tower. They were running frequent specials at the time to get new users and initially there were so few users on our satellite 'node' that the speed and reliability were truly outstanding. But a problem with satellite is that when there is cloud cover you will lose connection.

There is also Starband [www.starband.com] We started with them about 10 years ago and the service was pretty awful (as were most satellite connections at the time) so we had moved up to the wireless. I feel sure that they have advanced in their technology as has everyone else.

If your son's family has interest in internet access as well, bring the internet connection in to a wireless transmitter and then both the house and the trailer can have access if they are fairly close together. Do not attempt to Skype with a satellite connection (Wild Blue used to forbid it anyway) because the packet handling is not seamless enough (though this may have changed, so if you want to try it, discuss it with a provider).

My son talked to Wild Blue and was told we were a mile farther than the signal. He has a 10th grader that needs the internet for school badly and I need it also. This come to the hotel everytime I need to report a shop got old very quickly.

We will have to have at least three connnctions because of me, the 10th grader and my kid. Reagan and I would probably be on it at the same time.

Where we live is on a mountain and there will be a bunch of houses for a area and then nothing for several miles then A group of houses again.
Thanks for the information. His wife and I were on him pretty hard yesterday to do something. Their daughter has been at a summer camp at a collage and she is in the Upward Bound so she really needs it. She is like a spong. She is soaking it up and wanting more. Off the subject I am really proud of her. So she needs access to the internet as soon as we can get it. Thanks for your information.

Another option is to check who the wireless folks are in your area. Wireless you need a transmitter/receiver that is aligned with the tower transmitter/receiver of the provider. Generally there is about a 10 mile distance max. That is what we are doing now and we have a 35' radio tower with the transmitter/receiver perched atop it aimed at the tower next to a fire station about 6 miles away.

The signal comes in to a wireless N router so I can be in the middle of the backyard with my laptop and still get a decent signal. We hooked the desktop machines into the router with a cable because they are old enough they do not have wireless function without adding on equipment. And once you have set up a wireless network any number can play.

Big update (: Hughes Net comes to the house Saturday. No more hauling the laptop and printer to the hotel to print papers the hotel business center will not let me print. THis hotel has a very limited internet access for the guest to use.

YAY!!!!

YAY YAY We got the Hughes Net and now I feel almost human again.

That is great, Deech. Any bit of getting things back to near what they used to be is a big help, ya?

It is amazing how the internet not being available leads to a sense of frustration because you need to check this or that or the other thing and suddenly you can't. I've become very dependent on the internet in so many ways!

When we moved back to Hi in Dec 2006, I had routinely been paying bills and conducting myself online for ever! We had a 21 day wait for internet installation and I didn't know how to do anything the old way any more. It was incredibly frustrating! :-)

Deech, it's great to hear that you're getting settled with the 'necessities'. When our household first got internet, about 13 years ago, our plan allowed 2000 minutes/month, or roughly an hour a day. I thought that was more than enough, as I'd never use it that much, and my kids then, were in elementary school. Plus, it was dial-up.

Not until five years ago did I splurge and get cable modem access. How our needs change. Everyone in my family now has their own computer and I've got two. Cannot imagine life without it.

One step at a time. Now at least I have a line to the world that I do not have to get up at 3:00AM to go the hotel to see what is going on before I go to work at 5AM. Tomorrow we will get all two of the computers and a printer set up for wireless and they assure us we can all play on it at the same time.

My old house is allmost empty (if it does not fall down first) and a lot of my flowers are up here just waiting for a bed. So slowly it beginning to come together.

It took a while but this storm move is finally over. I am all moved and settled for now. It is sad but the house I so enjoyed living in is falling down. At least it did do it all at once on top of me.

Now I get to watch a three old bounce all over the house and want to play Butterfly. That is not the correct name for the game he like to play but he is my best pal and we play it a lot. Thanks for you support and encouragement.

Hmmmm. Who is being spoiled here, Grandma or Grandchild? Enjoy! And glad that you are comfortably resettled.

As he would say "Boff us".

One door closes, and another opens. Happy that you've settled into your new digs, Deech. Are you doing shops in the same places, or has your location changed?

Picking out places to plant bulbs this fall?

My shops are pretty much in the same location because I shop mostly in LIttle Rock and Conway. I live 25 miles east of Conway now and I had lived 20 miles north of Conway then. I just changed side of the county. I did live on the north edge of the county and now it is the east edge. I also work in Conway so that is still my starting point since I have to be there 5 days a week.

I am not sure where I will put my plants and bulbs. We are still not sure if my place will be an add on to their mobil home in the back or a small house in the back of their home. ( the kids). I think for right now I am going to do a large enough raised bed to hold them all, for the winter, and by spring know where I will put them.

What ever I do I will have plenty of help. The great grandHe foklson has to have his hand in everything. He follows directions very well.