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Reeeeckie - is looking for someone who knows Farsi, I guess, That link was on the Finest thread, asking WTF?

I backed out all the letters till I had whatever.com/ and it's some sort of Islamic site with OBL and letters that are NOT english.

I'm surely going to miss our PaloVerde during this fundraiser - I miss her with or without the fundraiser. ;-(

Good afternoon, or I guess I should say good evening....for its almost evening here as well...sure am a lazy gal today, just puttering around playing with my dolls, and trying to get out my Halloween, and Thanksgiving decorations and dollies out of storage, and contemplate setting them up for their respective holiday times, coming soon...

Tho we will not be here for Halloween...we plan to head out the end of Oct. for a visit to Ukiah California, to visit Aunt Helen, and the rest of my relatives who live down that way...with side trips through the redwoods, along the Pacific Ocean, and of course a visit to San Francisco...
And we plan to do major wine tasting in all the wineries, and take some tours of the local breweries...

But I will still decorate the house for fall time, and put up a few Halloween decorations, early, so that we can enjoy them before we leave for California...

We were down in Ukiah three years ago, just before Halloween...the people there sure do go all out in decorating the outside of their homes for Halloween and the kids...Ukiah is really one of the nicest and prettiest and friendliest little towns in northern California...

I guess the only really bad thing about Ukiah, is that the famous, or should I say the infamous Jim Jones had an office there....

My mom and dad, and previously Aunt Helen, lived in Redwood Valley, which is just 7 miles north of Ukiah....and it is in Redwood Valley, where Jim Jones set up his infamous church....Aunt Helen lived just up the hill from his cbuch, in 1977, and I remember well, when we visiting California that year, she kept complaining about this church, and warning us that something was really, really wrong, and to keep our eyes out, that something bad someday would happen with this church...

I remember thinking at the time, that she was probably just over worried about things that were going on around there...Redwood Valley is a really small town of only 2000 people at most, so when things happened around there, everyone knew...

But in 1977, Aunt Helen lived all the way up one of the hills off the main road, and Jones church was smack dab on the main road...by 1978, Jones had moved on to Guyana, tho the church was still his property...but in 1978, is when the 900+ church members drank the kool aid, or were shot to death...When we first heard of it, I did not at all connect it in my mind, till my mom called and said remember Aunt Helens warning about that minister? Well, she was right, that Jim Jones with the mess in Guyana, is the same Jim Jones that lived just down the hill from her...

And it was so odd, because we had just been stationed at Ft. Bragg N.C., and it was Graves Registration units from Ft. Bragg N.C., that went down to Guyana to identify the bodies....

Today, the former Jim Jones church is now a Community Center, for the youngsters at daycare, and for the elderly, who need daytime watching and care...so at least the building itself, is now serving the community...

And when I was going down to Redwood Valley to take care of my mom and dad, one of the guys who was one of the higher up people in Jones organization, but was not there, when the Kool aid went around, thus ensuring his survival, was running for public political office...thankfully the folks in Ukiah still remembered him, and did not elect him, thinking him a nitwit, and a jerk for having followed JIm JOnes and his awful church...

Jim Jones lesson of the day...

I miss Palo Verde as well..