Elfrieda's suitcase

 

page 25 The Orchard Walk El Dueck

"... walked... with suitcases..."

I took this photo. The black, shiny 'Elle' suitcase belongs to Elfrieda... it is still, currently, at 225... I always had it ready and packed for any emergency.

I'm trying remember if my 700 UPC's, of my novel, are in that suitcase or if I put them in my briefcase, in my armoire. My bag also has a 'lawyers' collar box in it.

My old bag is a shiny, patent vinyl, cracked and used well, with a very stubborn zipper that is very heavy- duty but also almost impossible to use easily.

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So, this strange, over- priced apartment, where I have been forced to live since September is a very frightening place. I have requested a much less expensive option but nobody has reached out to me about this.

It is not possible to turn the heat off, completely, in this 'boiler' heat place... so, it is stiflingly hot almost every day and I can't imagine how terrible this will be in summer (where I do not plan to be),... without air conditioning.

I am, patiently, waiting for all my 'life belongings' from 225 5th Avenue, N.E., in Dauphin, Manitoba.

I was going to write about page 17... "'Nathan's Gate,'" but that is a reference to the Old Testament prophet Nathan who had a rather unpleasant task assigned to him, by God... and the reference, in my novel, refers to marriage counselling after the sin of adultery. If you don't know your Bible, you won't really understand my novel.

This is a 'new' bag I purchased to represent the scarves in 'The Red Dust Healers' novella... 

I wrote that before I wrote 'The Orchard Walk.' El Dueck (Elfrieda)

These old dark grey and light grey European cushion cover, (I still have three of them), are always in use... I have had them so many years but I never tire of them... I purchased them at Sears... maybe in 2012 or 2013.

That denim 'holes' blanket is still in my inventory.

This is a piece of fabric I have in my, approximately, $5,000 dollars (cost- not worth- I bargain shop) of fabric, at 225.

This is some of my fabric, before a 'finished product' made my Elfrieda, myself.

This is the finished product I have at 225, in Dauphin... I gifted myself with my own work after visiting this country and am using it wherever I live.

I made (sewed) this in 2016.

As I have stated, many, many times, my novel project is at least a 16 year project and is still alive and well.

My denim jacket is in my bedroom closet, at 225... I have had this little jacket for 20 years... I remember wearing it to Cross Church when I first attended there.

This is a 4- page card I created for a specific person.

This is a photo at 3 Donegal Bay... before Bruce died.

This is a photo of my Dad, in my photo boxes, at 225 5th Avenue, N.E., in Dauphin, Manitoba. There would, of course, be a huge lawsuit, if any of my photos or belongings have been stolen, or destroyed. Warren would know that.

One other caution to the entire surrounding area... Warren had a very bad relationship, with a woman, before I met him... who threatened to harm me... when she came to 225, in 2022. I am sure Warren would never be in collusion with any mentally compromised criminal such as this woman who worked at Norwex. So that company can follow up on any criminal behaviours that their staff has engaged in... should it be pertinent to 'harm done' by theft or 'hiding of goods,' etcetera. 

Elfrieda's wedding anniversary today

So, I just checked to see which vehicle is in the driveway of my 225 5th Avenue, N.E., Dauphin, Manitoba, house. My blue Dodge Ram 1500 is still in that 'search' but, I can assure you, my truck was written off, by Autopac, two years ago. 

The license plates, for my truck, were purchased at an Autopac outlet in Winnipeg... I still have both license plates in my big, heavy leather bag with my journals, at my 225 house. I chose a King James M, (any M book in the Bible) with 412. The reason I kept my license plates, after Autopac wrote off my truck, is because I am allowed to keep my license plates.

The day after we got back from Great Britain... this is us at the Jane Austen museum... 

Warren and Elfrieda bought three pieces of furniture, at a discount store, on Notre Dame. My truck was our logistics vehicle that transported our furniture to our house at 225. That truck was my workhorse.

We stayed at the Canad Inn, at Polo Park and then went shopping in the morning... in Winnipeg... 

This is what we purchased... one chocolate grey button- tufted sofa... Costco used to carry the set; one light grey upholstery chair- teak framed- it was damaged- if you're sitting in the chair, there is a large, wood splinter on the right ride which I tried to glue and sand a little after we got it home. My leather chair, a chair my husband didn't like but I simply said,... well, I am purchasing it for myself. I like it. One of the legs had been turned and it looked a little wonky, on the warehouse floor. When I got it home, I fixed it so it looks okay. That has been my chair, at the dinner table, since the day my truck brought it to my 225 home. 

Because we only purchased a few souvenir items, (a mug, socks, a toque, my Christmas ornaments)  

while in England and Bath, we decided leather furniture would be my wedding present because I was not used to 'dogs in the house' and I really like a clean house. So, that was my wedding present... furniture I could keep clean. 

One gazebo present was another piece of furniture... a 'Palliser discounted' leather sectional that had a been upholstered badly (also purchased at the same discount store, in Winnipeg) This might have been bought after my cataract surgery... the timeline is hard to recall precisely. My truck transported that gazebo sectional out to 225, in Dauphin, as well.

I kept my old dining set because it holds my memories since April 1, 1993. 

The Christmas tree, in the photo, is Warren's. My Christmas tree, only purchased last Christmas, is the large Fraiche tree...

So, after begging Autopac to fix my truck... they wouldn't... I even asked if I could pay the extra $1500.00 that 'they said' was over the value of my 2014 Dodge Ram 1500... I was finally just agreed to the amount they were offering because I had been without a vehicle for almost two months already. 

My paperwork, for my next 2014 vehicle purchase, from a local dealership, is safely stored in my belongings, at 225, where only Warren and Elfrieda are allowed to enter.

My winter tires are in the garage, at 225, so I really shouldn't do highway driving without those. 

I wonder what my husband will be giving me today... I hope it's good! 

 

"I'll stand by you"

 

Have you ever wondered what words a man has to say to get a woman to agree to marry him?

Well, this man said to this woman, (in the photo) "I'll stand by you." 

So, I like the lyrics, 'I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you...' I've always liked those two lines of that song. It's by the Pretenders.

We were at Clear Lake. It was cold that day. You know that ice cream store everybody likes up there? We bought food from that place. I had a quesadilla, and Warren had french fries and a burger, I think.

We took my son and grandson up here, once, as well.

So, I need this man, whom I married, to send me house money, food, and all my stuff from 225. He has such a hard time understanding what 'I'll stand by you,' means.

I hope Warren is making sure no strangers come into 225 while I am away; I want all my life belongings to be safe.

You can't imagine how many clothes I purchased at Gloria Gayle's and Super Thrifty. Wow! Boots... I bought boots and sandals at Gloria Gayle's. I purchased little lace- up boots, there, for going to Handel's Messiah. 

So, most people wouldn't know that Elfrieda and Warren went to England together, (we each paid for our own holiday), right after they were married. This is the airplane wing coming in over London. 

P.S. Warren, don't forget to pack my London Christmas ornaments, that I purchased, when you pack all my glass collection from my 46 years of memories.

When we got to our bed and breakfast, we were trying to decide which 'sights' to go to. Warren got so excited when he saw that Herschel's museum was open. Warren loves to stare at the night sky. He knows so much about the planets. 

That's his favourite subject.

Mine is much more 'music.'

 

Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, a German- British astronomer and composer, is credited with the discovery of Uranus.

My photo, above, is in the house (museum) where Herschel lived, in Bath.

P.S. My small collection of Elle jewelry, purchased at the local jewelry store, is in the basket by my side of the bed and in the bathroom. I really like what I bought so make sure it is safe. Mr. A. would have all my purchases recorded.

Oh, my lamp, in the bathroom, the heavy metal one, black and gold, make sure it gets on the moving truck to my storage unit, as well. 

On another note of safety- My winter tires, for my vehicle, are still in the garage. After the treacherous drive from Winnipeg back to Dauphin, December 27, 2024... all by myself... I am so happy to have those winter tires for the second year now... please get them to me before October 12, 2026. I certainly can't highway drive without those. 

I do know 'Riverbend' contacted yesterday to make sure all my belongings are at 225... my leather chair, at Grace, can be one extra stop. 

If you have a less costly way of transporting all my furniture and belongings... quilts, books, lamps, etcetera...

Maybe Eastside Bergen can be asked. I thought I saw him working at the Pawn shop but that would be something very recent. 

Four year anniversary... coming up

 

There was no food at the wedding... oh wait, Elfrieda had a yummy butter tart square, made by herself, at 225, that was devoured by the guests... as the happy couple drove off.

I need to send someone to get all my household belongings from 225 to my Winnipeg address. Whom can I send?

Human Rights Novelist

Dear Elfrieda,

My friend had to defend herself when her husband attacked her, in their bedroom. She had awakened, before midnight, as her husband was shuffling around in bed. She got up to take a pee, like old people tend to do, at night. Her elbow knocked one of her perfume bottles off the Scott McGillivray vanity. (She likes to brag about her bathroom renovation so I had to mention that for her interior design job search.) Her husband yelled from the bedroom... "You didn't close the windows, did you?" No, I didn't close the window, she said in her I am so tired of your OCD problems voice. Then he said... I just opened all the windows and turned off your air conditioner. She was laying down, back in their bed, when he leapt out of his side and she quickly jumped up to avoid being attacked while laying down. She faced him at the end of the bed beside her armoire. He had tape over his mouth, length-wise, a new habit he was into, saying he needed to develop his sinuses. His snoring, with his mouth hanging open, had created a very bad problem with his loose throat. Then he growled at her saying, 'I'm going to punch you in the face.' She jumped back and his punch glanced off her chest and she started yelling, and yelling and yelling... 'You hit me, you hit me, you hit me.' She was hoping the neighbours would call the police on her behalf. He snickered, in a demented way, and she left the bedroom for the purposes of self- defense. When he didn't leave the bedroom, she went back to bed but he initiated a further attack which she then held up a frying pan and his overly long fingernail cut his forehead instead of being able to hit her again. 

My question is... Shouldn't he have been arrested for attacking his wife?

I have also been told that he put a restraining order against his wife so he could steal all her belongings. 

                                                  Concerned law abiding human rights society citizen

Dear 'Concerned law abiding human rights society citizen,'

I am sure you are contacting me because of my human rights novel... The Orchard Walk by            El Dueck. I do deal with many day to day infractions of human rights in my novel but I certainly do not have any experience with a man who punches his wife.

Let me try to apply all the principles of 'right and wrong' from my very basic lifestyle of living on the right side of the law... which has always been my personal style. 

I think where you have to start with any fight is... who started it. 

From this description, the husband most definitely started the fight.

Okay, that has been established.

Why the husband wasn't arrested is a very serious question. Maybe we don't know what the husband did or said to avoid admitting to his 'crime.' Did he lie? Did he create a false situation which he only admitted to someone later? Does he have children? You said the wife is old so I'm assuming the husband is old as well? Is the situation resolved or what has happened to make sure the husband admits to his 'crime?' 

There is no way a lying husband can get away with this type of 'crime' and steal all her belongings with a restraining order. This will all be revealed and the husband will be going to jail if he steals even one of his wifes' things... that is a law he will not squeak out of.

Continue contacting and I will address the information as I receive it.

                                                                                        Respectfully,

                                                                                         Human Rights Novelist  

                                                                                         The Orchard Walk 

                                                                                          El Dueck    

Two Addresses

 So, here it is... Sunday.

My sermon, for today, is called 'Two Addresses.'

I'll write it like a story... J likes to sermonize that way.

A pastor I have listened to, once said... You only have influence while you're in your earthly tent. When your lifes' work is done, God pulls up the tent pegs, folds up your tent and everyone is packed away in a box and then you find out which address you belong at.

A pastor said... after earthly life, there are only two addresses... heaven or hell.

The determination for where we get to live, for all eternity, is made by the god whom we serve while still on earth. 

If we serve ourselves, well, you have to ask... did you manage to build a house in your heavenly realm so you can live in it when you have to live there? What kind of materials do we need there? What is the currency we need to buy building materials for the heavenly realm?

Many people who say... I'm just going to hell because that's where all my friends are... have a very grandiose idea that their evil friends are going to, somehow, provide for them, in hell, as they provided for them on earth. The way evil people provide for 'hell- bound' others is by stealing from honest people.

The people they steal from worked, owned all their own things and properties, and took great care of their living spaces. 

When he would come to my house, for Thanksgiving, I remember my Dad saying... your house doesn't even look like it has aged very much. The cabinets still look wonderful. Things look very well taken care of. Then Elmer would say, 'Elfrieda does all that.'

So, what do we get if we go to heaven? We get something there that nobody gets if they go to hell.

Any guesses?

                                                                    A crown.

How many people know where those words are found? In the Bible, those words are in a prayer, The Lord's Prayer. In my house, at 225, I put The Lord's Prayer, in the bathroom window... I purchased it at a thrift store. You know what I think is ironic about purchasing a machine- made Lord's prayer at the thrift store? Poor people shop at thrift stores and the kingdom of heaven includes poor people. So, what's really quite wonderful is that... if you don't like your address, on earth, and you chose to live in heaven (when it's time to go there), you will, eventually, have the most expensive address that will ever be.

The New Jerusalem coming down from heaven is described in Revelation 21:2- 8. 

In this passage, it details who will be in 'God's dwelling,' brought to humanity, and who will not be in this city. 

Some people believe the Bible, some people don't.

My first novel, The Orchard Walk- El Dueck, is a modern- day interpretation, a corollary of the Bible story, starting in Genesis.

The Orchard Walk El Dueck

Chapter 1

"Sam slowed the Hummer down to a dusty road crawl."

(In 2009, I purchased a Hummer H3 and it was demolished in an accident on August 19, 2019.)

Much of the inspiration for my novel came from my own life and the people I would meet.

"It was a good thing that they'd decided to travel in this rugged vehicle. These roads were raw gravel, pitted and dust driven by wind that is master of nature. The wrought iron gates of the winery...

Simmy rolled down her window to get a better view, taste, smell. "Hey Sam, maybe this is why I love flowers so much. Flowers are the depiction of Eden before the thistle entered on the back of the serpent.

I think you just found that artistic edge you were hoping would grow wings for your next novel."

My second novel, which I may have to re- write, starts out so dark and sinister because it has to have the warning of Revelation 21:8 written in layman's terms.

So, it starts out with some people meeting others, (people who should never be together) that creates the worst evil planners of destructive behaviour you can imagine.

The first and second chapters are, definitely, very bad people who should never have been together. They didn't all start out bad but, because they joined with really bad people, they made the worst partnerships. It's always the same story... a re- make of WWII which nobody wants to see happen.

Now, the first twelve chapters of book II are so depressing, I am unsure that a book that dark would be 'saleable.'

When I was working on the two or three volume novel, starting with The Orchard Walk- El Dueck, I was then already trying to figure out how to make the physical to metaphysical leap.

That was back in 2010, writing in my gazebo, at my 29 year house ownership.

So, the war on evil is what my writing is all about... on every front... let's say, three fronts:

the devil, supernatural temptation 

the world, external cultural pressures (my first novel dealt a lot with this)

the flesh, internal human sinful nature 

My second book starts with the flesh, internal human sinful nature, meeting the supernatural temptation of the domain of the devil.

Like I said... I'm not sure people want a Biblical corollary, number 2, especially those who didn't understand my first book but...

I continue writing.

Warren has been ensuring that every novel, of mine, and all my paperwork is being kept in pristine condition so I can keep my 15 year project going... as well as all my quilts and inventory.

Well, he's making sure everything I own is being protected, by him, so I can be secure in my working.

I am needing good people

 So, now I am looking for some good people in my life.

I need all my belongings from my address 225... It is possible that many of my things have been stashed under a small church. I hope not. Things can be less than tidy under a church.

Today, I would like to talk about what happens when a person... I'm not sure what the terminology is here... takes out a retraining order?

The basic purpose of a restraining order is to keep a person away from an address or individuals.

So, let's say a person threatens me... like in 2022 @ 225 where I was living. I had never met this person and the threat went like this... "I am a very ________ person. You have no idea what I am capable of." From the language of this person to the threatening look, I knew that was a serious threat to my personhood. Because it was an ex- employee of Norwex, I knew I could just make a quick phone call, to the police, if she acted out on her threat.

One time, while shopping with my husband, he turned in terror and fright and hid behind my vehicle. When I went in search of him, cowering there, I said, "What are you doing?"

He said, "That's the woman who threatened you. I do not want to see her."

So I braved the threatening atmosphere, by myself, bought my plants, and thought he might not be remembering correctly. This does not look like the same person.

I was rather fortunate in that I don't recall ever seeing this person, again, in the four years I resided at 225.

So, now I would like to talk about a restraining order.

Now, I don't even know how to procure one of these and I have only seen one, ever, in my lifetime, and it seemed really sketchy because there were so many different printings on it. I wondered if it had been a 'school project' exercise or something demanded of the person. 

So, if a person demands you stay away from where your belongings are, you know they might be trying to steal your belongings, right? I mean, what better way to make sure you have a lot of time to empty a house and stash someones' property items where they can't know where they are. Hey? Wouldn't that be a little premeditated theft or heist of someones' furniture, clothing... all kitchenware... 

My gold E... this was a gift from my son and his wife, in 2015. They bought it from Chapters. 

I am not likely to suffer such a theft because the telltale inventory I have created from my self- published novel, is never going to be seen anywhere without me (unless I sell some for outrageous prices to pay my rent). My inventory is all 'one- of- a- kind' and even Gerd can't find pillow cases like I gifted her and Paul (he was still with us then) for Christmas four years ago. I think I  also purchased one of my novels, and gave her that, for a gift, as well. I still have another set in my inventory. This cotton is such high quality, it's amazing.

 I hope I have, clearly, stated what I believe some people do to steal another persons' 'life belongings.' They take out a restraining order so the person who owns all their 'life work' isn't allowed to see where the devious rascals hide it, sell it, or try to send it to Nathan and his wife so they look guilty as heck. I don't believe for one minute that Nathan and his wife are hiding my dining room set at their house. They are Christians. Ana was a pastor at one time. Pastors do not get involved in theft of furniture that can be clearing traced back to Elfrieda. You're not going to get me to believe that. They're part of church that holds people accountable for all leadership positions. When I drove by, three years ago, the church was doing a huge new build for, either their private school for children or for their sanctuary. I can't quite remember what that big building project was for. I was so disappointed that we didn't attend church the Sunday I was there... I really missed that.

One caution I would really like to make to parents of children who are in a bind... when I removed my children from a private school and put them into the public school... that traumatized one of my sons so badly, he had a very hard time adjusting to his new environment. So, it is a very delicate matter to create upheaval for children... children suffer too, when parents are in a battle.

I really need all my belongings to bless my children who do not have much... it is my Biblical right to bless my children with the work of my hands.