What If We All Cared?: 2019

Monday, June 24, 2019

Urbex at Mansfield Reformatory

Such beautiful staircases in the Warden's family quarters!!

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Trying Something New

Hey there . .

I wanted to let you know where I am and what's up right now ..

I'm not sure why but I've had an exceedingly huge drop-off in blog traffic to all my blogs on blogger recently.

So . .

I am copying all the posts to my Patreon blog ..

All that has been free (no cost) here will continue to be free there.

I've been updating that site and adding a lot of content . .

There is also, for those who want to pay $1.00+/month, the added benefit of seeing random photos of what my day looks like!! You'll see random neighborhoods in in/around Toledo, Ohio as well as inside my apartment!! These photos are only available to patrons and expire after 24 hours. ..

Please, stop by www.patreon.com/karenjoyce . .

Look through all the free posts . .

Then check out the titles on the pay-per-view posts... there may be posts of interest to you . .

See you on Patreon!!

P.S.

I'd love to hear your comments over there on my posts and how the site looks/functions!!

Friday, June 21, 2019

Urbex at Mansfield Reformatory

This seems to be the favored flooring . .

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Urbex in Richland County

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Mansfield Reformatory

Yes, I took Matt and three (3) of his friends to Mansfield, OH for a self-guided tour of the reformatory and we had a blast!! The drive each way was 'interesting' and wandering through the old reformatory was so kool. I will be posting a photo daily either on this blog or at www.patreon.com/karenjoyce (back and forth between). Some photos will available to the public and some will only be for select tiers of patrons. Please keep an eye between both blogs so you don't miss out . . I have so many photos to post!!

Monday, June 17, 2019

A Sense of Community

Sometimes a small fire can bring people closer . . huddling close, whether to toast marshmallows or chase off mosquitoes with the smoke, a fire is fun . . it brings a sense of adventure . . an opportunity to tell tall tales and ghost stories . .

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Who Did It?

Starting over . . a new beginning . . that's where I am again . . like a bizarre broken record . . So much is changing again . . things I counted on weren't as purported .. people disappointed .. and sometimes ya just need a complete change of scenery! I am so tired of lies and manipulation . . wanting peace and quiet . . solitude deep in the woods sometimes sounds so so good I'd happily wander off . . but then there is this sweet boy/man/critter who calls me Mom . . yeah, he keeps me grounded in a totally kool Autism way that makes wading through the neverending crap seem plausible . . so, what am I talking about? You? Them? If ya feel guilty change your behavior .. beyond that . . too much up in the air . . too many odd unnecessary comments . . some things here are quite stable and others are so fluid water is jealous!!

🧑Joy Dare📝 June 8- 15, 2019✝️

~8th~ 3 gifts empty . .
💟heart waiting
📝 other's plans
😒 apologies
~9th~ 3 gifts that made you really smile ..
🧑🏽Matt w/kits 🐇
📚class options
🍃breeze
~10th~ a gift at 8, 12 and 2 . .
🧑🏽Matt
🥪lunch
🌳fresh air
~11th~ 3 gifts painted . .
💄Avon order
🛌quilt
💗heart
~12th~ 3 gifts full . .
⛈️rivers
💪arm
🐰 fluffle
~13th~ 3 gifts smelled . .
☕ fresh hot coffee
🍳 scrambled eggs
🍞toast
~14th~ a gift unexpected, unwanted, unlikely ..
💰lottery tickets
🍭treat
🌳acceptance
~15th~ 3 gifts in His Word . .
👨‍🏫instruction
💖Agape Love
✝️ salvation

Urbex in Richland County

You never know what you'll find when you go out exploring!! 🚶🚶‍♀️

Spiral Hope Quilt is Finished!!

I can't believe I finally finished this quilt! I started it several years ago for someone special to me and I had a whole plan for it's creation. Something happened, as things just seem to, so I shelved it. Last year I took it back out with a new plan. Now countless hours, tears and prayers later, it is finished.

Next stop?

The county Fair to see if I can win a ribbon . .

#whatif Prompts are Moving!!

Hey, there! So glad you stopped by!!
I wanted to give you a quick update.
Although I've loved posting my #whatif prompts, I am finding I have no one utilizing these from this blog. As I'm writing these to inspire other writers, I have been pondering what to do . .
Drop #whatif?
Somehow revamp it?
Some kind of incentives?
Nothing seemed to sound right .. then I saw a post about a woman who has her prompts on a paid tier on Patreon!! And she's doing well there!!!
Sweet . . a possibility . .
But, first I need to switch to posting my #whatif prompts to Patreon .. I started that today . . You can view today's prompt free at www.patreon.com/karenjoyce
These prompts will remain free in Patreon until I have more of a following/linkups on the prompts as well as more of a paid following . .
Also, I am considering some sort of themed prompts down the line . . Maybe a monthly prompt challenges!!
Please, stop by and linkup!

Saturday, June 15, 2019

Urbex in Maumee, Ohio

Can you find this?

List the location in the comments below and I'll let you know if you're correct . .

😋Joy Dare 🛌 June 1-7, 2019 📚

1st~ 3 gifts orange . .
😋dried apricots (I ate 4)
*:*
2nd~ 3 gifts funny ..
🐰 Penelope, Cupid and Dahlia playing chase
/*\
3rd~ 3 gifts from today's conversation . .
🙏reason to pray
🙌reason to praise
📚 knowledge
•|•
4th~ 3 gifts found in Christ ..
⛪ sacrifice
⛪ salvation
⛪Agape Love
#"#
5th~ a gift of peace, of hope, of love . .
🙏quiet private prayer
📖truth in His Word
💍remembering what I promised
°=°
6th~ 3 gifts ugly-beautiful ..
🛌having to wake up
🤨grouchy people
🙄bossy people
°+°
7th~ 3 gifts in what you are reading . .
📚understanding
📚His plan
📚growth
:':

Friday, June 14, 2019

Photo Clips of My Day!!

Just a quick heads-up to all my sweet followers . . I am going to be adding quick snapshots of my day . . random photos of what I'm doing and what I see . . These will be on my Patreon blog for patrons only and each snapshot will only be visible for 24 hours. If you'd like more up to the minute pics of my day, stop by www.patreon.com/karenjoyce and become a monthly patron!!

Don't You just Love a Clean Floor?!!

This was taken as we were prepping the smaller cage for Dahlia to kindle in. I think I about steamed the life out of this floor but doesn't it shine so pretty!??!

Monday, June 3, 2019

🐰#whatif Prompt for 6.3.19 🚀

Today's prompt:

Purple Plutonian bunnies

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Sunday, June 2, 2019

🍳Omelettes!! 🍳

Diced steak, summer squash and green peppers slowly browned in garlic-infused honey.

Then add eggs, mix thoroughly.

Top with your favorite cheese.

When it's time to flip, turn off the heat so it stays moist as it finishes cooking.

Enjoy!! 🍳

Friday, May 31, 2019

Joy Dare May 13-31, 2019

13th~ 3 gifts found in your mother . .
📚love of learning
👩‍🏫love of teaching
🌸love of gardening
*0*
14th~ a gift picked up, put away, put back ..
👕shirts
👖pants
👞shoes
=∆=
15th~ 3 gifts about you ..
💓 compassion
🙏 prayers
🍳cooking
"¿"
16th~ 3 gifts found in His Word ..
💖 unconditional love
✝️ salvation
⏳forever
^~^
17th~ a gift in a box, a bag, a book ..
📿baby bracelet
🛒 groceries
📖hope
~~•~
18th~ 3 gifts unexpected ..
🙂 having 2 real friends
💄Avon income
(@)
19th~ 3 gifts from your childhood. ..
🐔farm life
🚲riding my bike
🌳 climbing trees/playing in the woods
#.#
20th~ a gift sweet, sour, salty ..
🙏hope in prayer
⏳waiting
📖truth in His Word
+°+
21st~ 3 gifts found in little people . .
⏳our future
🤔open minds
💖agape love
_$_
22nd~ 3 gifts that made you laugh ..
🐇 3 crazy bunnies
~@~
23rd~ 3 gifts found in community . .
🗣️ someone to talk to
💡 sharing ideas
🆘helping each other
}°{
24th~ a gift in a plate, pot, package ..
🍳nice breakfast
🍜clam chowder
🍣 blueberry danish
|^|
25th~ 3 gifts hard giving thanks for . .
👨‍⚖️mistaken judgement
😳exhaustion
🔊loud neighbors
×•×
26th~ a gift worn, white, whispered ..
🖇️hair clips (paperclips in a pinch!!)
☣️sins washed clean
📖His quiet answer/redirection
/¡\
27th~ 3 gifts found in church . .
🙌a place to praise together
🙏prayer time
🏘️ community
*|*
28th~ 3 gifts in today's work ..
🤣 joking
😊 friendship
🍳 a home cooked supper
•°•
29th~ a gift @ 8am, 12pm and 8pm . .
🕣nice chat
⏱️drive and fresh air
🕣snuggling and brushing bunnies
~^~
30th~ 3 gifts blue . .
👗new dress
☁️sky behind storm clouds
🍧 blueberries on ice cream
°✓°
31st~ 3 gifts you made today . .
👨🏾Matt grin
👴🏾client smile
🕜good time driving

Blogger Glitchy

Hey there .. just wanted to let all my friends who follow me on this blog know of a glitch and a change . .

Blogger is not accepting my posts via email (mailbox full) so I have posted a lot to my blog on Patreon. Some of these posts are for paid tiers but will be released to the public for free in a few days. The more interesting will remain as paid/subscription only.

Please stop by www.patreon.com/karenjoyce periodically to see what's posted there and but not here.

I don't post everything that's free on both sites.

Stop by so you don't miss out!!

#whatif Prompt for 5.31.19

Today's prompt:

What do you choose?

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Couponless Haul at Kroger!

I just bought all of this for $44+ change!! Seriously ..

Bread $0.84 each

Salami 4/$1

Oikos 10/$10

Lala $3.99

Bagged produce was from discount shelf $0.99/bag

Flavored seltzer water $0.19 each

Welch's juice $1.99 each

Seasoned chicken $0.99/lb ($3.61 total)

Braunschweiger $2.50

There are definitely some deals to be had if you know where to look!!

#whatif Prompt for 5.30.19

Today's prompt:

Popsicle Promises

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

¿Dondé Esta?

Today's prompt:

Shivaree

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Friday, May 24, 2019

Can We Adapt/Change to Keep up with Planet Changes??!

Our world is changing.
Did you see where a huge fissure is splitting Africa and so part will be drifting away? Remember how we were all one continent before EQs etc split us into what we have now? Our continents are "mobile" so can/will continue drifting as the earth changes.
How wow is that?!!
For the US there is an old Navy map and a new Navy map. Both are well worth studying and cross referencing. In comparing these with IMHO a well researched article on the effects of plate shifting I feel 100% confident with their accuracy.
From there check out the flood maps Thor News produces on YouTube. How are the flooding rivers so consistently concentrated in the new ocean in the middle of the US as seen on the Navy maps?!?!!!?
Do you live in those areas? What is your plan for the next big overdue 9.0+ EQ at the New Madrid fault?? That EQ is supposed to trigger major changes.
How do you see that all playing out? In looking at that last huge EQ at that site I can say it was a violent EQ in a fairly unpopulated area. The Mississippi ran backwards and changed it's course! As the majority of Illinois and some of Indiana is sitting on limestone, which disintegrates over time to sand, this next Huge New Madrid EQ will in effect finish off the process thereby causing that entire area to become one massive spontaneous sinkhole. Instantly the ocean will rush up from the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Michigan will rush down. A new ocean will be formed. The US will become two (2) continents. Countless lives lives lost in split seconds. Absolutely nowhere to run for safety. Nowhere. If you're there you're dead. I really did sit in Joliet and try to figure out how we could buy a boat and live there . . but it just seems to me that a boat would be tossed, flipped, swallowed up. . . it wouldn't have a chance.
Why isn't our government preparing to move those people? We could make a swap~ turn the area to become sea back over to nature and move all those people to the National Parks out west. Yes, this is huge and radical. So is the coming 50+ years overdue 9.0+ EQ at the New Madrid!! It would be a huge prospect to build so many new homes, relocate major corporations and relocate huge numbers of people and wildlife.
It would both save lives and create such a huge bumper crop of jobs as to completely change the economy!!
Add to all this the sea level rise, which, for now, is worrisome. I say "for now" because this is a cycle and the ice caps will refreeze eventually.
As sea level rises, are people/cities/governments inland ready to evacuate shorelines as needed? Rather I see governments trying to find ways to keep out the inevitably rising waters. Hasn't Hurricane Katrina proven you cannot barricade out the sea??! IMHO this is simply putting lives at risk . . especially since the risk of hurricanes to areas like New York City seem to be rising.

I am way more aware of changes in the US as I live there~ please check out info for your own area so you can also prepare!

#whatif Prompt for 5.24.19

101 Things in 1001 Days

My latest updates to my Day Zero List . redone yet again. I do love this list. It is the ultimate list!!

And now that you've had a peek at my plans I must admit that I still have more to add .. 🤣😌🙃

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Me~ 20,287 Days Young!!

Day 143/365

Making the Grade!!

Makes a momma proud. Not all his classes looked like this but he's still a work in progress . . An award like this is highly motivational!!

Day 143/365

#whatif Prompt for 5.23.19

Today's prompt:

Collywobbles

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Monday, May 20, 2019

Day 140/365

Spiral Hope Quilt

I'm working my way through blanket stitching the binding then I'll need to work on embroidering the label. Soo close to finished, then I can donate it to Akron Restoration Home and they can auction it!!

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Urbex @ Toledo Hospital 🏨

Have you ever done any urbex in a hospital that's still in use?

This photo was a minor lite urbex and was the result of the information desk giving faulty directions. We were visiting a good friend and ended up in a blind stairwell.

I'm wondering how much really kool fun urbex could be done while looking nonchalant?

How many really interesting photos could be taken without tipping off security?

Please, add a link in the comments if you've done this!!

🐒#whatif Prompt for 5.18.19👾

Today's prompt:

if monkeys married martians

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Friday, May 17, 2019

🥗My Bedtime Snack

Sometimes a salad is all ya need!!

L4C

🛶#whatif Prompt for 5.17.19

Today's prompt:

drifting down a river

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Thursday, May 16, 2019

Great Northern Beans

Slow simmered . . I didn't have any ham so I cut up chopped steak and browned that first, then added beans, seasonings and simmered slowly ..

So Yummy!!

Are You Invisible?

Even Pokemon has taken to saying I don't exist.
LOL 🤣
Good thing I know better!!
Isn't it sad how people can make others feel insignificant? As though being or looking a certain way makes one person better than another. So glad that's not true . . .

☕Fluid Intake Log🍶

11th~ 16oz coffee ☕
16.9oz DejaBlue water bottle 🍶
16.9oz DejaBlue water w/lemon 🍋
16.9oz DejaBlue water 🍶
2oz Ice Mountain water 🍶
68.7oz
12th~ 2oz Ice Mountain water 🍶
11oz Kedem Grape Juice 🍇
6.75oz Honest Kids organic juice 🍹
12.9oz Ice Mountain water 🍶
6.75oz Honest Kids organic juice 🍹
10oz tap water 🍶😝
1oz Mandarin orange water 🍊
6oz 2% milk 🥛
43.75oz

Sunday, May 12, 2019

⚖️Joy Dare 🗃️ May 1-12, 2019 🤐

1st~ 3 gifts tasted . .
☕ fresh, hot coffee
🍳 breakfast
💄 strawberry lip glaze
'°'

2nd~ 3 gifts flat ..
🌍LOL
💬language
⚖️rules
\*/

3rd~ 3 gifts found in difficult people . .
🤔learning
🤐silence when falsely accused
🙏praying even more
÷|÷

4th~ 3 gifts before 9am . .
💤client snoozing
👵gentle smile
⏰early morning
~🌞~
5th~ a gift in a sign, a smile, a sack ..
🤕rest
👨 hanging with Matt
🗃️sorting bags and boxes to move
*^*
6th~ 3 gifts found in Christ . .
✝️ salvation
🕊️peace
📖life instructions
}°{
7th~ 3 gifts about your home . .
😶quiet
🔐secure
🤗love lives there
_+_
8th~ 3 gifts inside a closet . .
🙏war room
📖 relationship with God
💭dreams
=°=
9th~ 3 gifts found in the dark . .
🙏new ways to pray
📖time to seek Him
🕊️peace and quiet
•÷•
10th~ a gift outside, inside, upside down..
🌦️light rain
🐇bunny snuggles
🚃plans
#:#
11th~ 3 gifts about your parents . .
👨‍🎓 education in the blood
🚜farming in the blood
😣 perseverance
$-$
12th~ 3 gifts held in hand today . .
👵time w/Mom for Mother's day
🛌sleeping in at Mom's
💤a nice nap at home
🤗💤🤗

👀#whatif Prompt for 5.13.19 👀

Today's prompt:

Flashing Eyes

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Saturday, May 11, 2019

#whatif Prompt for 5.12.19

Today's prompt:

ice water wakeup call

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Friday, May 10, 2019

Changes Coming!

Hey there! Welcome back. Yes, I know, I've been AWOL yet again .. took a spill a couple weeks ago and it threw me for a loop.

Now I'm almost 100% me again . . I've taken the time away to step back and really look at all my blogs . . keeping four (4) going can be tricky but I can do it as long as I stay focused. And I can see that, pre-face plant, I was extremely focused and making crazy progress.

With the fall came what appears to have been a dislocated shoulder and now problems with the rotator cuff (I'll know more Monday and will update you all then).

So, as I've been sitting looking at my blogs I can see that it has become 1) more of a job than fun; 2) I've almost completely quit sharing what I really think/feel.

So, I'm going to change how I do this. For the posts on Blogger and Patreon it will mean going back and looking at what really interests me then sharing that.

I do think a lot of the reason I stopped sharing was out of fear for what others would think/say. That has to stop.

I would also like to include more journalistic posts down the road as I have time to do the necessary research.

On Patreon I am also going to "fix" the tiers. I am very displeased with how those are set up right now. What's available at each price level is extremely unclear and replicated. Although I won't be going back and switching posts to different tiers (at least not in the near future) I will be looking at what I love to write/make videos about and planning what should logically go on each tier.

If you have particular topics you'd like to know more about, please let me know in the comments below.

Stay tuned and let's have fun with this!!

😂🤣🙃

#whatif Prompt for 5.10.19

Today's prompt:

whispering windows

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Domestic Violence Awareness

Avon has a cute domestic violence bracelet! If you, like myself, are a survivor of domestic violence . . or if your simply want to support survivors . . this is the bracelet for you.

Stop by www.youravon.com/karenjoyce and get one for yourself and one for a friend!!