Good Morning Ally..Hope all is well with you. I've been kind of busy getting tax things ready and then his mother needed some attention so I had to try and get her doctor to go see her which he does his visits outside his office on Fridays...I didn't know if he could until Thursday afternoon when I called again..Then Friday morning I got a call he would be there sometime in the afternoon..but could not give me a time..Usually when he went to her home it was between 12 and 1...so I was hoping ..Anyways...we went to be with her at noon..when it was time for her to go eat we went down to the first floor waiting for the dr but went back up a little after 1...He got there a little after 2 so it wasn't to bad..Her legs are really swollen and red and so dry and scaley..She needed someone to come in to do her toenails and they are soooo bad so that will be done!...I had called to let them know she was calling me to tell me so they had their nurse go in and told her she needed to see the dr,,,( I've been through this with her legs when she was living with us) It all turned out well because we were not sure of some things..The Dr went and talked to the head girl and the nurse...she will be put on a couple things..one would be like lasix to get some of the fluid out..They just have to be sure there is no seeping of fluid..Her memory is getting worse but she can still do everything on her own..But I'm glad we got that taken care of ..Now on to the taxes...Then my husband was not doing well...his BP was so high...over 190 top number and not sure of the bottom but he said it was really high..I could not get him to go in..but we worked on getting it down and now its pretty normal...Mentally I am exhausted but breathing some better not that he is better and she is going to be checked daily by the nurse..Wow.,..this is a book..I should have just written you...lol..Have a goid day and keep smiling..
Our Angels are ever present with us as we walk the course of each day. Constant companions and bearers of Love's own Grace, they guide us, inspire us, protect us and call us to connect with the One who created us all. This is their role and their purpose in our lives.
When we offer our heartfelt prayers to Angels, they bear them to the Source of Love, known by many names throughout this beautiful planet. So, whether you pray to God, Goddess, Allah, Spirit, Love, Holy One, Creator...your prayers are heard and Angels are activated to help you.
Morning Prayer
Sending Angels Before You
Angels, go before me to smooth my way. Draw to me those who can assist me in meeting this need in high and Loving ways. Protect me in this endeavor, and guide me in recognizing the path I should follow at this time. In Love I pray, so be it and so it is
A Ghost shipwreck has emerged in Newfoundland, and residents want to know its story
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The massive, overturned hull of a seemingly ancient ship has appeared without warning along the southwestern tip of Newfoundland, dazzling nearby residents eager to know who may have been aboard and how it met its fate.
Wanda Blackmore says her 21-year-old son, Gordon, came roaring into her house on the morning of Jan. 20 after spotting the long shadow beneath the water just off the beach near Cape Ray, N.L. As soon as the tide went out, she put on her jacket and set out to see it herself.
Since then, the wreck has attracted a steady stream of local admirers heading out to examine its long, curved planks and the wooden dowels holding them together.
"It's amazing, there is no other word for it," Blackmore said in an interview. "I'm just curious if they can name the ship, and how old it is and if there were any souls lost on her."
Gordon Blackmore was out hunting seabirds early in the morning when he first saw the wreck, his mother said. He'd been at the same spot just a few days before and there was no sign of it.
But the beaches along that corner of Newfoundland have eroded substantially in the past few years. As post-tropical storm Fiona tore through the area on Sept. 24, 2022, destroying about 100 homes and pounding away shorelines, it churned up the sand along Cape Ray Beach, said Neil Burgess, president of the Shipwreck Preservation Society of Newfoundland and Labrador.
If the ship was buried, Fiona may have dislodged it from its sandy grave, and each subsequent storm would have loosened it further, Burgess said. There were large swells there last week, and they may have finally unearthed the wreck enough to be discovered by someone out hunting birds.
Burgess said he figures the ship was built in the 1800s, noting a few different factors led him to that conclusion. The wooden dowels noted by Wanda Blackwood are called trunnels and they were used as nails in wooden ships from that era. There are also copper pegs in the wreck, each more than two centimetres wide, which were used to fasten the hull's planks together, which Burgess said are quite large.
The emerged hull is about 24 metres long, and it's not complete, which means the ship itself was even longer than that, he added.
"It was a fairly substantial sailing ship, bigger than a schooner, I think," Burgess said, adding that if its hull is made of oak, it wasn't built in North America.
He hasn't yet been out to see the wreck — he lives in St. John's, about 900 kilometres east by highway — but he's looking for an opportunity to get there.
The seabed around Newfoundland is littered with "thousands" of shipwrecks and they surface from time to time, he said. But that doesn't make the Cape Ray wreck any less exciting.
"This is perfect," Burgess said. "This is a great, great event."
Wanda Blackmore is also excited, and she spent much of the past week emailing anyone she could think of — the Maritime History Archive at Memorial University, even the premier — who might be able to dispatch experts to Cape Ray and make sure the wreck is protected.
She hopes they'll be able to determine the ship's story and perhaps even get part of it displayed at the museum at the Cape Ray lighthouse, which is a federally recognized heritage structure. The first lighthouse at the site was built in 1871 to guide ships from all over the world through the Cabot Strait, at the meeting of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the open Atlantic Ocean.
Cape Ray was part of a high-traffic route centuries ago, and the wreck could be from anywhere, she said. "We don't know!"
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 27, 2024.