Hi, Connie,
Wow, that's neat your friends used to live in a pedestrian city. Is
Burlington still that way or are there more cars now? I wonder if they have
good public transportation like Los Angeles used to have when I was a very
little girl. We had a street car line called the Pacific Electric. That's
how Mom used to take me to and from nursery school when I was 2 years old.
There were also stores in walking distance so you didn't have to worry about
how you'd get to a store. Giving away my age--hahahahahahahahaha.
Rosie
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Hi Kathleen,
I too want to wish you a happy birthday. Glad your Mom and you were able to
talk and that she is sending you the package. What part of Vermont are you
going to? I had friends that used to live in Burlington Vermont. It was
really cool. It was a pedestrian city with with hardly any cars. It was
small enough that people could walk any where. They didn't have a lot of
crime so people could feel safe to mingle at 10:00 or 11:00 at night without
worrying about something happening to them. They also have to die for maple
syrup. Anyway, happy birthday early.
Connie
P.S. If you do go to an Apple Store you might ask them if they have any
keyboards you could look at and maybe try out that are compatible with your
iPhone.
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On Feb 26, 2017, at 8:28 PM, Linda Gehres <ljgehres@xxxxxxx> wrote:beauty there.
Hey Kathleen, first off, an early happy birthday to you!! At least
you were lucky enough to be born on a February 28th and not on a leap
year on the 29th of the month. At least you actually have your
birthday come up each and every year!
I'm really glad your mom and you had a chance to have a good talk, and
also glad that she's sending you things like cookies, candy and things
like soap and deodorant and maybe toothpaste that we can all use. Sweet!
Your friend Allen sounds like a really nice guy. Is he blind also?
Hope you do get to go to Vermont soon. I hear it's really beautiful
there, though as blind people, we'd probably miss out on a lot of the
exercise you're interested in getting. Hope that might be of help.
Do you live near a YWCA? Or a YMCA? Those are usually places with
pools and they welcome people with disabilities. From what I
understand, the one closest to me in Oakland is very accommodating,
and they have specific classes which encourage those of us with
disabilities and with things like arthritis going on in our knees to
exercise them in the water. Hopefully the water is nice and warm too.
I gather the Y near me has an indoor pool. I wanted to go there but
things were progressively getting worse for me so had to not follow
through with my desires on that. Anyway, I was just thinking that
perhaps there's something like a Y near you which wouldn't be too
outlandishly expensive where you could take swim classes and get the
Goodness knows, I'll bet she'd love to see you again!
I can certainly see why you'd want to get away for awhile, especially
after all of the stuff you've been through with the apartment
reconstruction. Sure hope you can get away, and also hope that you'll
be able to do it in a time when the weather is best, not too hot, not
too cold. Is there any chance you might be able to see your mom?
in the "about" menu. I think the number has 16 digits or something like
If you have an Apple store near you, you'd probably be able to get the
help in figuring out how to set up the QVC app on your I-phone. They
might be able to help you with other things as well. Maybe you could
start making a list of the things you want to get help with. They
were very accommodating to me. However, if memory serves, I had to
make an appointment to go in before I went. I couldn't just walk or
be driven to the nearest Apple store and expect to be seen. My friend
Ann is thinking seriously about getting an I-phone and getting lessons
in how to work with it, including perhaps printing things by attaching
her phone to a printer. I am sure she'd be able to catch on to how to
use it, but like anything, she'd need help learning in the beginning.
The folks at the Apple store were extremely accommodating and helpful
to me when I did manage to get in there. Good luck getting an
appointment. You'd have to get a certain number off of your phone,
something like an I M E I number. It's sort of like your telephone's
serial number I think, and I was told where to get it from. I think it's
line; do not include quotation marks:
Linda G.
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