July 2021 – Author Artist

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 by lindameckler9

See See Rigney Nurse Retires at 96

Florence “SeeSee” Rigney from Tacoma, Washington retired after over 70 years as a nurse

July 23, 2021 10:09 AM

CREDIT: MULTICARE TACOMA GENERAL HOSPITAL

A 96-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest working nurse in the country, has retired from a Tacoma, Washington, hospital.

Last week, Florence “SeeSee” Rigney retired as a nurse at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital after over 70 years, according to a press release from the hospital. Throughout her career — which began as a student nurse at the Tacoma General School of Nursing in Washington — Rigney worked consistently, only taking a “break” from nursing to raise her two children.

According to the hospital, working as a nurse has kept Rigney very active. She’s traveled across the country as an operating nurse and even logs up to three miles on her Fitbit from walking during her shifts.

“I don’t like to sit around – I’ve always got to have something to do. That’s my nature,” Rigney said in a statement, adding that she always wanted to become a nurse. “I love to interact with patients and give them the help that I can.”

Posted on July 23, 2021August 3, 2021 by lindameckler9 — 2 Comments

Carolyn Kloss

When you make a friend, you take on the responsibility of being happy when they are happy-sad you are sad. You spend time together and you share your life with your friend. When they get sick you are there for them as they are for you. When that friend is taken out of your life suddenly it’s as if a part of you was ripped from you.

My friend Carolyn died suddenly a few days ago. She was an amazing woman I was honored to call her a friend for twenty years. She has a large family and many, many friends. She was involved in so many things I don’t know how she kept everything straight. She was a professional cook and baker and she sewed amazingly. She was a five-time cancer survivor and she had her two shots and she didn’t die of Covid. It was just her time and she went to our Lord. I miss you Carolyn Kloss.

Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 by lindameckler9

Little House on the Prarie

I absolutely loved that television show. I wish we could recreate it or something like it today. I think it would be a big hit. It would be a time to fall in love with the characters and bring family and good healthy wisdom back into the world.

Television shows and movies have a huge effect on how our culture moves. Why do you think there is so much violence on the streets today?

Let’s go back a little way and put some new kind of television show back on the air something like Little House on the Prairie. Or what do think?

Posted on July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 by lindameckler9

What is the 4th of July and Declaration of Independence

What is the 4^th of July? Declaration of Independence?

Are you ready for the family barbecue followed by fireworks? How did all this start. Let’s go back to the beginning.

Think back in 1776 when the original thirteen colonies were surrounded by the British the Red Coats. Of course, you would fight to get the Red Coats off of your land and out of your life.

King George III must have been on drugs to think that the people of the colonies would subject themselves to people from over the ocean with strange clothing and customs trying to control the colonies.

The people of that era did a great job fighting these Red Coats with everything they had to save themselves and their families.

Wouldn’t you have. If they wouldn’t have done that we might still be under British rule, there might never have been individual states and we wouldn’t have had the Declaration of Independence.

We wanted the Red Coats off our land and we got them running back to England with their tails between their legs.

Congress had declared Independence Day on July 2 but it became official on July 4th a time for family to get together and veg out.

The United States Declaration of Independence is the adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.

Originally published: July 4, 1776

Authors: Thomas Jefferson

Created: June–July 1776

Signatories: 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress

and Mary Katherine Goddard — At the bottom of the document is written “Baltimore, in Maryland: Printed by Mary Katherine Goddard.” Goddard, who was working as printer at the time, voluntarily inscribed her full name on the document.

Location: Engrossed copy: National Archives Building; Rough draft: Library of Congress

Purpose: To announce and explain separation from Great Britain

Four parts

There are four parts to the Declaration of Independence which include the:

Preamble
A Declaration of Rights
A Bill of Indictment
A Statement of Independence.