Share Your World – May 21, 2018
I’m glad to participate in Cee’s Share this week. I like the great questions and here are my responses:
What household chore do you absolutely enjoy doing? (can be indoor or outdoor)
I do the chores as a necessity, not as an enjoyment. The house is always dusty. I dust the house because I can’t stand seeing a layer of dust on any surface. We have Santa Ana wind and it’s gusty, so perhaps it’s one reason that the dust finds its way to get into the house. Another thing is that when the gardeners mow the lawns, they use the blower to blow the grass after mowing. The immediate house is clean, but the dust just goes from one house to another.
I don’t like pulling the weed, but they grow faster than my plants and flowers. I pull weed because I don’t want my flowers to get crowded.
Create a sentence with the words “neon green” and “train.”
If we take the train to Fairbank which is the northern terminus of the Alaska Railroad, we could see the neon northern lights – the Aurora.
Other than your cell phone what can you always be found with?
I found myself with the laptop more often than my cell phone. I use the laptop to pay bills, have a spreadsheet to categorize the expenses, have folders and subfolders of photos, research, have folders of writing projects, and manage my small business.
What did you appreciate or what made you smile this past week? Feel free to use a quote, a photo, a story, or even a combination.
We arrived at the hotel in Anchorage around 9:00 p.m. on May 18, 2018. After we checked into the hotel, Lynton went for a walk at the lakefront.
I was on the laptop checking emails. After an hour, I started to worry the whereabouts of my husband. I went to the lobby and the bar to see if he was relaxing there after 6 hours of 2 flights. There was no sign of him. I went back to the 4th floor of the hotel. I walked a zigzag hallway from rooms 4000 to 4045. When I got to room 4030 area, a housekeeper stopped me and said, “Are you in room 4045?”
“Yes,” I was puzzled by the question.
“Your son lost the key. I let him in. He is okay now.”
My husband doesn’t look like my son. What is she talking about? Whatever she referred to, I want to see whom she let into my room.
The room was quiet when I went in. Now I suspected that the housekeeper might have let someone else into the room. I checked the area of my bags, nothing was disturbed.
It was 10:30 p.m. when I looked at the clock. The sun would go down at 11:00 p.m. If my husband got lost, it would be harder to find his way back to the hotel after dark.
I prayed for his safe return to the hotel. Before I finished my thought, Lynton came in with his key. Oh, he has a key. Whoever claimed to have lost the key, he wasn’t my husband.
Lynton told me that he walked far away from the hotel, it was as far to turn around as to go around the lake. He chose to walk around the lake. Going around the lake turned out to be further than his estimation. As he walked further, it made him harder to turn around. He ended up going the complete circle of the lake. Even if he walked at my pace, the lake would be at least 6 miles.
I was so happy to see him!
Cee’s Share Your World – May 21, 2018
The Showers of Blessings 
So who did she let into your room? Glad your husband returned safely.
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We followed up. It was a 8-year-old boy from the room across the hall. The housekeeper didn’t let him in our room. It got me worried over the weekend though. I was glad he came back safely, I don’t fancy to image anything else.
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So glad for the safe return to the hotel. Experiences like makes me remember the gift of family and friends. Blessings to you and your family Miriam
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So glad for the safe return of your husband I meant.
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Yes, I know. Thank you, Adebisi. ❤
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Thank you so much, Adebisi. Yes, I’m so thankful for the safety of family and friends!
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I would have been concerned too, Miriam. About the lost husband and the stranger in my room. We also get a lot of dust here in South Africa, especially during the winter when it hardly rains at all.
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Yes, I watch many nature videos about Africa. I can imagine how hot and dusty it get in winter.
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a lovely post-and I am SO glad Lynton came in and all was well.
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Thank you, Michele. I don’t think I could handle any worse situation. I’m grateful for his return.
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Great story Miriam ma’am!
Thanks for sharing loved it 🙂
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Thank you for reading, Nisha! 🙂
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Your welcome ma’am.., please do read my latest blog post and do share your valuable comments! 🙂
Thank you
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Yes, I’ll do that some time today. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you 🙂
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I agree with you about housework, Miriam, but I am not so diligent about dusting. 🙂
That lake is glorious. I’m pleased Hub turned up safe, and that there wasn’t a stranger danger lurking in your room.
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I don’t do my housework regularly. Yes, I was glad he came back to the room safely. It’s unthinkable otherwise would happen. My friend in London lost her husband on the last day of their vacation in a country where they went skiing. She was tired so he went alone and went on the unpaved trail until dark. Was found by a hiker 5 days after the accident. 😦
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Oh my goodness, Miriam. That is such a sad tale. How tragic for your friend. You’d never want to go on a holiday again.
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She has a hard life in London, I think. I hope her husband left her some pension from work.
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So sad for her. 😦
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Yes, I wish she could talk about it. 😦
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It must be difficult.
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Yes, we’re so far away from each other. It’s hard to write about that in the email.
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It even difficult up close, let alone far away. 🙂
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This is why I enjoy my volunteer counseling work. I could see that some people pouring out to me because it’s hard for them to talk to anyone else. 🙂
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I think that must be something we have in common. So many people I meet tell me their whole life story in the first few minutes. It fascinates me. 🙂
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As busy as I am, I try to quit counseling for many years, but couldn’t help to think that I’ll miss helping a few people. 🙂
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It is difficult for people in caring professions to let go – there are too many people needing help.
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Yes, Norah. I may just keep one client at a time.
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Best wishes.
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Thank you, Norah.
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I love your story! That “short walk” around the lake sounds exactly like the sort of hike my husband tends to lead me on. I’ve lost track of how many times I promised myself never again! Now I let him go his way and I go my way and we usually manage to wind up in the same spot, lol.
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It would like good if you wind up in the same spot. I would worry that we didn’t. Some trails have short route and long route and meet in the same spot. I would feel better if I knew ahead of time and familiar with the trail. ❤
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That sounds creepy to me. Miriam. Why would a hotel employee let a stranger into your room? I would be very upset if I were you. Hopefully your personal info was not in your room at the time.
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I called the front desk to complain as soon as Lynton came back. They said I should call back on Monday to talk to the manager (it was Saturday night). By Monday, they had talked to the housekeeping director and got the story straighten out. The housekeeper gave me the wrong room number, it should be the one across from ours, and it was an 8 years old boy. They apologize for getting me worried. They offered free breakfast, but we already had breakfast came with the hotel price… So we didn’t pursue.
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I’m glad everything turned out ok, but the hotel should have offered more than that.
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I know. My husband usually is good at dealing with situation like this, but he didn’t say anything. Before we found out it was an 8 years old kid, I said, what if I were in the room and the house keeper let someone in. I guess he was in a vacation mood. The hotel room and breakfast were prepaid. We could have asked for dinner compensation, I guess.
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Well I wouldn’t stay there again ;.))
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That’s a good point. I said to the manager that they should train the housekeepers not to let anyone into the room but send them to the front desk. It should be a common sense.
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Exactly.
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🙂 ❤
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And an eight year old boy should never be wandering the hotel by himself.
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I don’t know what the situation was about the family. Sometimes they left the door open a crack, and we could hear the mom yelling. Perhaps the boy wanted to take a break and the mom didn’t care.
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Oh my dust is never ending, and not my favorite chore either but looking at the dust is more uncomfortable, so I dust haha. So happy your hubby was safe. I was on the edge of my seat reading it. Then sigh of relief when he returned 🙂
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Thank you, Margret. I was nervous for half an hour. I’m glad God knows about my worry. 🙂
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So glad you hubby had a nice adventure. 😀 Your photos are beautiful. 😀
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Thank you, Cee. I pretended to be calm for a while. I don’t know what I would have done if it was something worse. 🙂 🙂
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Alaska looks stunning Miriam. 6 miles was a long walk but I wonder who was pretending to be your son…
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Yes, it was, Brigid. I reported to the front desk. They did an “investigation.” The housekeeper gave me the wrong room number. It was the room across from ours. It was an 8 years old boy. They apologized for the confusion.
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May you always be happy, Miriam.
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Thank you so much!! ❤
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Great story to share Miriam. I’m glad it had a happy ending!
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Thank you, Kim. I had a great fear of “what if” moment. Thank God that it was a happy ending. Thank you for reading! ❤
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I enjoy reading your posts Miriam.
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Thank you, Kim, ❤
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It is a pleasure Miriam.
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Have a nice week, Kim! ❤
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👍I’m glad to hear that too. A fun share, Miriam!
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Thank you so much for reading! 🙂
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Always welcome!
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🙂 ❤
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