Meikle Magic 55 and More

My Video - The Eagle Feeds Her Eaglets

2011-04-07T17:41:00.000-04:00

I uploaded the video I did of the Bald Eagle feeding her babies to my You-Tube account as Blogger won't upload it to this blog.

Please click HERE to see the once-in-a-lifetime view of mama feeding her baby eaglets. You shouldn't have to sign in or anything.

Take Care on the Journey,
Your friend in life
~Linda

Photos of the Nesting Eagle

2011-04-06T20:27:00.000-04:00

For those who might not can watch the streaming video (or if you missed it), I took photos with my iPhone to post here.

The third egg hatched this afternoon, we think. Mama only lets us have brief glimpses of her newborns! But, for a few seconds we saw the tiny beek inside poking at the egg shell!

We saw daddy drop off a big fish. He didn't stay long, but one photo shows the two heads as he landed and took off.

Hope these come out for the Internet. Maybe I can get some more later on.

Daddy Eagle lands briefly next to Mommy Eagle on the nest.
He leaves a big fish for supper!

Three babies keeping warm.

Mama fed the babies fresh fish - really fresh!

I'm watching you!

Take Care on the Journey,

Your friend in life,

~Linda

Denver Adds More 55's

2010-08-16T12:06:00.004-04:00

When we decided to move from Columbus, OH to Denver, CO in early 2010, we had many questions and often talked long into the night mulling the pros and cons! Foremost, was the fact that we actually loved our Ohio apartment home at the edge of a little forest where the ducks came for food several times a day, and the deer forged on our storebought corn every evening.

But, we were also ready for a change! I had recently gotten my RN, and hubby was laid off from his state job. I was looking for a new job, and he was collecting unemployment, so it didn't matter where we lived. The world was ours for the taking.

A former instructor at my college of nursing, urged me to apply for a RN position at a new Psych unit that she was helping to set up in Denver.

So, I did!

The doors were open a crack, and I made a trip out there to peek in.

I didn't get that job because the unit didn't fill up fast enough to hire new nurses, it did start us on a journey that found us a nice apartment north of Denver - and opportunities for jobs and adventure we never thought possible.

At first, I wondered why I didn't "see" any 55's in our address. Not even in the last four numbers that one doesn't always see. But, suddenly as I entered our building number 9 (of about 35 apartments), there is was. ~ 2455 ~

All the other apartment buildings have different last four numbers!

There are many other 55's we have discovered. I will take time to sit down and make a list that I will add to this posting a little later.

This is just a start...

Take Care on the Journey,
~Linda

55 - Does It Follow Us or Do We Follow It?

2010-07-18T17:04:00.001-04:00

Real Magic

(Scroll past this introduction for most recent posting.)

A few months after we got married back in 1997, Jim and I noticed that number 55 is often attached in some way to the significant events, people, things and places in our life!

I have opened this website to keep track of, and make a record of, this unusual and often eerie occurrence - as the mysterious number 55 keeps tagging along with us on our journey.

Thank-you, Bonnie and All My Friends

2010-01-21T14:20:00.003-05:00

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One of my faithful blog readers (and good friend) left a beautiful message on the comment section of my website that most of you who get this by e-mail may not see. I just want Bonnie to know I found the note, and send thanks for such a sweet, thoughtful gesture. Many others have sent affectionate messages of congratulations by e-mail and via my Facebook. What a gift of friends I have. Thanks to each of you.

Take Care on the Journey,

Your Friend in Life,
~Linda

The Number 55 and Dimes

2009-07-17T12:56:00.003-04:00

Now we're finding dimes! Dozens of dimes in unexpected places. ...Just asking to be picked up.

Beside our chair at the restaurant...(twice at least)

On the ground next to the car...(several times)

Laying in plain sight on the table when it wasn't there last time we noticed...

On the carpet under the coffee table...

On the floor next to the chair at the ATT store..

On the sidewalk leading to our house...

In car under our feet, in the back seat (where no one was sitting), and between the seats - right in the middle!

There are really too many places to recall, but it's getting our attention.

Now it has become TWO dimes in unusual places!

My husband is putting the dimes he finds 'just lying there' in a special change purse in his briefcase. That change-purse is getting pretty heavy!

We don't know what it means, but we know that the number 55 had special meaning before the meaning was ever in place. So, we're just making a note of it and like the number 55...We don't know what it means, but we believe it has meaning.

~Linda

The Mystery of 55

2009-02-14T10:08:00.001-05:00

We made it.

55 Coming and Going

2008-08-18T21:49:00.000-04:00

We met on Match.com
Neither of us had ever used an online dating service, but each of us posted our Profile on Match.com at the same time in October 1997. I was not wanting to spend another cold winter all alone in Berrien Springs, Michigan; and he was looking for someone to share his life in Columbus, Ohio.

"The geese are ready for winter and I am not," I wrote.

"I'm willing to come and sit a spell by your fire," he responded.

55 days later "The Highlander Hawk" married his "99 Percent Angel" in a sunrise wedding on the shores on Lake Michigan in Bridgeman, Michigan. We hadn't planned it that way, but once I was sure he was the light of my life, I wasn't satisfied to reach out and touch via the Internet cyberwaves another day!

Soon we realized that we had more than the number 55 in common! Between the two of us, we were able to unravel the mystery of a strange dream he had a few months before we met. It was the universe foretelling the merging of each other and our children!

In my book, "Dusty Angels and Old Diaries", chapter 55 (by the way) describes the dream and how we realized its meaning after we were married. He told me about the strange numbers as we drove to Ohio after our wedding.

A few weeks before we met on the Internet, he had fallen asleep while waiting for the evening news. Suddenly it was like someone had touched him on the shoulder. He noticed the time was 11:55. He had missed the news, so he went to bed. Later he woke up again with a feeling like a touch on his shoulder. It was 12:55. Then later again, with a feeling of urgency he woke up again and again. 1:55, 2:55, 3:55 and then 5:55. During the next few days, he was flooded with the number 55 in his accounting work.

Several nights later he woke up several times with the same urgent feeling. As he sometimes does when numbers seem meaningful, he started writing down the times he woke up not having a clue what it meant! 1:07, 2:19, 3:20 and 5:04. He placed the piece of paper in his billfold.

Later, on our honeymoon when I told him we had gotten married 55 days after we started writing, he let out a gasp and told me about the strange dreams. Then he pulled out the paper and showed me the numbers that still did not make any sense at all.

After studying the numbers for a few minutes, I felt lightheaded as I realized the meaning. Our four children's birthdays! My oldest is January 7 (1:07). My youngest is February 19 (2:19). His youngest is March 20 (3:20) and his oldest is May 4 (5:04). His dream happened before we even met!

In the same way, we have been mystified with the continuing repetition of the number 55 in our life. Without knowing it, every house we've lived in has the number 55 someplace in the address or zip code. So far, that is eight places!

When I wrote my book, it ended up with 55 chapters (without me planning it) when I was 55 years old.

There's more than we can ever write down! We still ask ourselves why the number 55 seems to impose itself on us so often and with such meaning! Mostly, we let it remind us that no matter what happens, we have our love and it's a reminder to say, "I love you".

Sometimes I'll wake up and turn over to look at the clock hoping I can sleep for a few more minutes. Often it's 5:55. Sometimes that happens several days in a row! It reminds me to treat Jim a little extra special that day!

Or, I'll be driving and feeling a little low. You can bet that several cars will go by with 55 in the license plate! I mean more than 5 or 6 cars. One day I decided to notice and count them. (We usually try not to think of it on purpose.) In the 20 minutes it took me to drive home, I counted 28 cars with 55 in the license plate number.

Just yesterday, as I signed in to have some x-rays done, I noticed that the ID of my doctor has 555 in it. The family I work for has 55 in their phone number. The phone number of the college I plan to attend has 55 in the phone number. (Not the prefix number!) And, wouldn't you know, the Federal Student Aid ID number assigned to me has the number 55 in it!

The house we live in is 5514 and there are at least six cars in the parking lot each day with 55 in the license number. The office address has 55 in it. The prefixes of phone numbers in our town have 55 in them. The address where Jim works now has 55 AS the address. His job before that had 55 in his desk phone number (not the prefix). That's close enough for me!

My nursing licenses (both my original and current: Ohio and Florida) have 55 in the four different ID numbers spanning 38 years.

By the way, many of our friends and relatives have 55 someplace in their address or phone number too! Right now I can think of several: Bobby, Neil, Barb, Johnnie...

This is the beginning of our story. In the next few days, I'll post the other 55's as I think of them.

Stay with us and become part of our 'magical' family!

Take Care on the Journey,
~Linda

55 Snowballs of Rhododendron

2008-08-02T12:47:00.002-04:00

Yep, as I sat outside with my dog, Sheba this morning, I counted the 'snowballs" on the Rhododendron bush - and to my surprise, what do you know? There were 55 of those beautiful pink-lavender blooms guarding the doorway to our home. It may be different tomorrow and may have been less yesterday, but on the day I stopped to count them - it was our perfect number!

Take Care on the Journey,

~Linda