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[DollyCali]

Tomorrow Kate of Spice Island will be sharing
her stories of the “Sixth Sense”



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THE HAUNTED PALACE
BY E. A. POE, ESQ.

In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace —
Snow-white palace — reared its head.
In the monarch thought's dominion —
It stood there!

Never Seraph spread his pinion
Over fabric half so fair.
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow —
This — all this — was in the olden
Time long ago —

And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the rampart plumed and pallid,
A winged odour went away.
All wanderers in that happy valley,

Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving musically
To a lute's well tuned law,
Round about a throne where sitting (Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,

The sovereign of the realm was seen.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door ;
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,
And sparkling evermore,

A troop of echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate!

Ah, let us mourn — for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate!
And round about his home the glory,
That blushed and bloomed,
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.

And travelers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows, see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;

While, like a rapid ghastly river,
Through the pale door;
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh — but smile no more.<

Ghost (1990) PG13; Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg ; rotten tomato rating: 78; Romantic, suspense, ghost story. 2 hours; 5 min

Ghostbusters (1984) PG, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd,Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts; ; rotten tomato rating 100% Classic Comedy Ghost story. 3 hrs; 20 min

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) PG13; Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley ,Geoffrey Rush; Rotten Tomatoes rating 80% Historic Humor Action w/Ghosts who are heroes; 3 hrs. 32 minutes

Pirates of Caribbean- Dead Man’s Chest (2006); same cast. Same excitement; Rotten Tomatoes Rating 54%; PG13; 2 hrs. 30 min;

Halloween, (1978) R, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis ; Rotten Tomatoes Rating 100%; Horror, suspense - best of the group; 1 hour; 44 minutes

The Addams Family (1991) pg13; Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci; Rotten Tomaotoes Rating 71% Creepy Black Comedy/Horror spoof; 2 hours

6th Sense (1999) PG13; Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, , Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg, ; Rotten Tomaotes Rating 85% Mystery suspense 1 hr; 45 minutes

The Others (2001) PG13; Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston ; Rotten Tomatoes Rating 81%; Spooky thriller ; 1 hr; 43 Min

An American Haunting(2006) PG13; Sissy Spacek & Donald Suttherland; Rotten Tomatoes Rating 13%; based on true story from 1800s in Tennessee. 1 hr 31 min.

Pet Sematary (1989) R Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby ; Rotten Tomatoes rating 44; Thriller w/not so nice ghosts; 1 hr 43 min

Haunted( 2001) PG13 Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews , ; rotten Tomatoes Rating 80%’ spooky horror suspense; 1 hr 43 minutes

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir( 1947) Not Rated Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders ; Rotten Tomatoes Rating 100% ; Romantic ghost story. 1 hours 47 min

Blackbeard’s Ghost (1968) G; Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette ; Rotten tomatoes Rating 75% Comedy Ghost story; 1 hour 48 minutes

The Haunting (1963) G; Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson ; ; Rotten Tomaotes Rating Rating 90%; spooky horror suspense; 1 hour 52 Minutes

[Kate of Spice Island]

Hey, there!

I hoep you are stil around and that the storm stays under control. Just remember to tell the storm how big your God is and that if He has a Message and if I got some of it out...

[sunvalley]

Thanks!

I checked out the page. I didn't know it existed before you mentioned it.

Greg was a FReeper since 2002, I believe. He was one of the smartest people I have ever met. He was truly my soulmate.

I'm doing better. It has been two months now. But still worry that I will never be that happy again, that I'll never meet quite so great a guy.

I'm really glad to be here. I've learned a lot and this site has kept me company on many a lonely night!

[snugs]

More info on Guy Fawkes

http://www.novareinna.com/festive/guy.html

My favourite site on the net Woodlands Junior School in Kent. They have a wonderful website all about English traditions etc. It came about because they were looking for something like this on French schools and customs and that lead them to thinking we could do with something about England. So they created this excellent site.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Guy.html



http://www.bonefire.org/guy/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

[DollyCali]

we survived (and so did power & DSL) for the latest attack from mother nature

[DollyCali]

2 months is not a very long time.. grief work normally takes longer. And true you may never meet someone as great as he was.. many people never marry or never marry again because the one lost was so powerfully special. But maybe someone else will cross your path that wont be exactly what Greg was but will still be a wonderful person & a good match for you.

If your friend is NOT on the memorial wall, you can let JimRobinson know.. give him name & screen name so that the memorial can be in place. If he was a frequent poster, we can do a tribute thread.

I can help you with all this let me know. I am going out in a few hours so might not get to it until later

[DollyCali]

thanks snugs.. interesting stuff there. Love learning about your country.

I mentioned Patient Appreciation Day at our chiropractor's today.. Here is the pix from today and the one I did last year of the same three doctors. They are in Stow/Kent vacinity if any NE Ohio folk are interested & want their great services

[DollyCali]

My Sixth Sense

by Kate of Spice Island

Last night I posted a few of my first visions and promised more.

The first really significant and rather life altering sixth sense episode was very intense in lots of ways.

I was at basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC and had been there less than a month. We were outside and I don't recall what we were doing at the time, but I got a sense that something was wrong back home in Phoenix, AZ and the reason I sensed this was I could see in my head that our company commander was on a phone call in his office and that someone from my family was giving him bad news to deliver to me.

Captain Moore came out and managed to go up to the wrong trainee and although I ran towards where the two of them were, I was not able to stop him in time from telling her what he was supposed to tell me. By the time I reached them, another trainee was trying to console her.

I walked up to Captain Moore with blatant disregard for any military respect I had learned over the past three weeks and change and basically confronted him with his error and went as far as telling him what I saw in my head and that he needed to double-check who he was supposed to be speaking to.

I was right and my life in the army changed very radically over the next few days. Let's just say that there were no legal violations on a federal level for me to do what God put me on this earth to do. I still actively do it, I still volunteer to do it and in the end, God couldn't have chosen anyone that was designed so perfectly as to get the job done.

Back in 1983, our government had officially given up on forcing people to have visions and had clandestine operations (Ft. Meade was one location) where those that were mildly to moderately capable were trained to hone in their skills and they pretty much remote viewed to get the job done.

As for what was going on back home...my sister was in a motorcycle accident and by the end of the week, she had her left leg amputated below the knee. It was strange that I couldn't see that specifically (thank goodness) but I could see my dad on the phone with a dark sport jacket and could see both ends of the conversation but not hear the words.

A few months after that, I was in Tucson, AZ and I heard my name being called and at the same time I saw an eye in a triangle, like what is on top of the pyramid on the back of a one dollar bill. I couldn't remember where I had seen the image and then later noticed it there and chose to go to the Catholic school where I attended as a high school student.

My favorite priest was there and I showed him the symbol an dasked if he knew what it meant and I told him why. He told me to just not worry about it and much later I learned that the symbol was the "Eye of God".

The next strange thing for me was that we were waiting to hear where my boyfriend was going to be stationed, because we planned on me going there and getting married. My grandma asked me about it one day and I told her that he was going to be stationed in NYC. A few weeks later, he found out that his orders were for NYC and was stationed at Ft. Totten in Queens.

So I packed up and went to NY and (still) had my sights set on becoming a doctor. One day while hubby was at work I rode the bus to St. John's University and applied and did all of the happy hoops and was accepted. But as I was walking up towards the building where I would start the application process, I heard "psychology" and there was nobody around to have said that. Being the stubborn tard that I was, I ignored the voice, but I was a good little wife and stayed home as my husband asked, rather than try to attend college. (We both kick ourselves in the pants now for him being too insecure to let me go to school. I later filed for divorce so that I could go to college and got extra helpings of psychology courses through the college of education.)

A few years later I looked at the winning lottery numbers in the AZ newspaper and got a funny feeling to play the numbers, but then I rationalized with myself that the numbers just won and that it would be a stupid waste of money to use the numbers.

The next week they picked the exact same numbers, including the powerball.

Meanwhile, I was just doing what I was told and following those little voices that didn't have much to say that week...

Right now the whole vision thing seems to be opening up like Pandora's Box and it has been hard for me to remain patient, but the bottom line is that the message is that we are here to love and help one another and that nobody has the right to abuse another human for any reason.

At this point, I am not extremely comfortable with putting everything over the past 10+ years into words, but I can tell you that both of my sons and my daughter see things before they happen. It occurs in both daydreams and night dreams and my sons helped make the whole thing so much easier to deal with, but there has been some fun and/or unusual stuff...

I did have a very specific dream about a year or so ago and then woke up to find that everything I dreamed was happening. It was all about my dental appointment and I was to get two teeth ready for crowns instead of just one. Everything from what color scrubs the dental assistant was wearing to the dialog to the specific gloved finger she used to point to the specific tooth that also needed a crown.

I described a picture in specific detail that hadn't been taken yet and then about three months later the picture was actually taken in Qatar.

A few months back I told my husband that the fire trucks that were zooming by were going to put out a fire at Wal-Mart and it turned out to be one of the two Wal-Mart fires where they manged to get video footage of the Serial Shooter that had been terrorizing the valley for over a year.

Around that same time I told hubby that they were going to announce that there were only two and not three serial predators and managed to beat the AP by a few hours on that announcement.

[trussell]

That is great! I would love to have such a special gift.

[DollyCali]

I was at basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC and had been there less than a month. We were outside and I don't recall what we were doing at the time, but I got a sense that something was wrong back home in Phoenix, AZ and the reason I sensed this was I could see in my head that our company commander was on a phone call in his office and that someone from my family was giving him bad news to deliver to me.

It was strange that I couldn't see that specifically (thank goodness) but I could see my dad on the phone with a dark sport jacket and could see both ends of the conversation but not hear the words.

The rest of Kate of Spice Island's
stories are at post 247

[MEG33]

WOO HOO! I now have cable internet..This is my first post since the cable guys left...My daughter is coming to visit while they reroof and re-side their house so I had incentive..
I just haven't watched TV that much because of all my house and yard projects but it was time to get off of dial up, and get my cable reconnected to my TVs..I got the triple..cable for tv, internet and the phone package.
....Send money :)
Glad you had a good session at the drs..I know a bit about backaches.PAIN!

[DollyCali]

Oh Meg..how wonderful. As much as you love graphics etc you will be in hog heaven (know I was). Now you can go to NordP's site & see the treasures she has!

whoopie! Know you are thrilled!

Even with DSL,big/powerful comuter & a gig of RAM,I still reboot frequently to have best performance. People say I shouldn't have to .. but I do.

After transferring a few gig of pix around & doing graphic work it is VERY SLUGGISH

Now if I didn't have this tiny OLD monitor I would have a much bigger smile on my face

[DollyCali]

We are getting hammered again. Tree limbs down, rain going sideways, lightening & thunder. As Toby doesn't like "boom boom" he is shaking under my chair, trying to get on my lap ..not easy for a golden retriever.

So again, if I disappear, carry on & have fun sharing the stories

[MEG33]

Oh, gee,Dolly..take care. I hate bad storms...Little ones are kind of interesting but when limbs come down I don't like it.

[Kate of Spice Island]

You are blessed with the gift of just having an ordinary and happy life to live.

[snugs]

Congratulations on getting broadband enjoy

[snugs]

As promised the Treacle Toffee recipe

Treacle Toffee

4oz Golden Syrup
4oz Black Treacle
8 Tablespoons water
2oz butter
1lb Soft Brown Sugar
One teaspoon vinegar

Brush an 8 x 6 inch tine with melted butter.

Pour syrup, treacle and water into a heavy based deep pan. Add butter, sugar and vinegar. Stir until butter and sugar have melted.

Bring to boil. Cover for 30 seconds as this helps to prevent crystallization. Uncover. Increase heat slightly.

Boil toffee fairly briskly, uncovered, for about 12 to 18 minutes or until a little of the mixture forms hard threads which are flexible. To do this pour a little of the boiling mixture into a cup of cold water. If it forms hard threads, which bend without snapping, then the mixture has cooked for long enough. On sugar thermometer the temperature should be 280F or 138C.

Remove from heat and pour into prepared tin and leave until set. Tip out on to a board and break into pieces with a small hammer.

When I was a child there was a little shop at the end of our street that made homemade treacle toffee and they sold is mixed with lemonade powder. We used to buy extra lemonade powder and scoop it up with the toffee.

[MEG33]

Thanks,snugs..It's been 5 months now since I left cable behind and came home to dial up..I so glad I finally had them come install.

[cibco]

"Greg was a FReeper since 2002, I believe. He was one of the smartest people I have ever met. He was truly my soulmate."

I am so sorry for your loss. I know it must be really hard to bare. FRiends will be there for you.

I recently met my own soulmate and can't imagine life without her. You have my sympathy.

[snugs]

Another favourite recipe around this time of year in England is bread pudding (well anytime of year really but it seems to be like an autumn/winter recipe)

Today I discovered I had rather a lot of stale bread in the house and immediately I remembered I had posted one of my favourite recipes on the dose the other evening bread pudding.

I have just made a batch and here is the recipe

Bread Pudding

This packed with fruit, spices and peel. It can be served warm as a pudding and any left overs can be served cold as you would a coffee cake or of course you could warm it up either in the oven or the microwave.

Prep time: 35 mins
Cooking time: 2 hours

Ingredients
8oz stale white bread
10 fluid oz milk
2oz candied peel
Peel of orange
peel of a lemon
4oz currants
2oz sultanas
3oz shredded beef suet
2oz Demerara sugar
2 level teaspoon mixed spice such a pumpkin spice
1 large egg
Milk
Butter
Gated nutmeg
Caster sugar

Cut away all the crust from the bread. Break the bread into small pieces. Place in a large mixing bowl and pour over the milk; leave to soak for 20 mins.

Finely chop the candied peel or if not already chopped, grate the orange and lemon peel add to the bread and mix in.

Add the dried fruit, suet, sugar, and spice; blend well. Beat the egg and stir it into the mixture, which should have a dropping consistency. If necessary, add milk.

Spoon the bread mixture into a well greased 2 pint pie dish (remember British pints are 20oz so probably an American quart and half dish). Grate nutmeg over the top of the mixture.

Bake on the middle shelf of an oven heated to 350F mark 4 for 1 3/4 - 2 hours or until browned.

Serve hot or cold liberally sprinkled with caster sugar.

[sunvalley]

Thanks. Everyone here has been really kind. As I said before, sometimes the only thing that keeps me from being completely alone is this site.

Good luck with your relationship!