Sentences using the word LOST !!!!

The next thing I knew, he was calling for help because he had lost his balance and fallen into the water.

We watched a 30-minute scene from the Indiana Jones Stunt show in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

We lost Madison in the crowd.

A group of six toured the Lost Sea Cave.

I had lost twenty-five pounds.

Sierra had a softball game, and they lost.

I replied that he lost both legs.

We met a couple from Oregon who had lost their little girl to kidney failure and had come back to the Ronald McDonald House to bury her. 

We met a family from Oregon, who had just lost their seven-week-old daughter to kidney failure. 

So we lost them; neither Ron nor I had brought our cell phones.

Finally, they arrived, and Dakota gave Ron his cell phone, just in case they got lost again.

We walked through the mystery maze, got lost, and had to ask for directions to get out.

Madison got lost, and we went to look for her.  

We lost Madison for about 45 minutes. 

We exited Desoto Caverns and went to the parking area, where there were rides, archery, a cave crawl, and a mine for gemstones. We walked through a maze of lost trails.

I had been in the field of an electrical storm and had lost my short-term memory.

I thanked him and went in search of my lost sisters.

I lost the forty dollars in my shorts pocket and had to go back to the car for more cash.

We met a US Coast Guard member who was on his way to catch the bus home. He asked if we were lost and if he could help.

The Patriots lost by one point, 30-31.

I thought I was lost!

My friend had lost a son in an auto accident the year before, and her husband was having a hard time dealing with his grief.

The lost spaceship. 

Hubby lost his job at the end of January 2002, so we drove our RV home to Alabama.

We saw the memorial for the seven crew members who lost their lives when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.

🚙Getting lost leaving Chicago

We spent the weekend at the Westin Hotel for The Magic Foundation Convention in Wheeling, IL. 
We checked out of our room at around 12 P.M. 

We called for a bellhop to help us with the luggage. 

We checked out, loaded the truck with all our belongings, and rode to Burger King for lunch.

The Magic Foundation had arranged for everyone who had attended the conference to have a free day of fun at the Wheeling Aquatic Park Center. 

Lora and the kids went down the tube, and Meadow and I played in the swimming pool.

Wheeling Aquatic Park Center is an outdoor aquatic center with amenities:

Volcano Valley has tube and body slides, and Paradise Falls has two drop falls.

Willie the Whale has a toddler slide, and the swimming pool has lap lanes.

Kana Courts have sand volleyball, a Grassy area for tanning, 

Willies Coconut Café for food, a picnic area for eating, and a diving board, and Aloha Beach has zero depth in the entry of the main pool.

Karki Island has a sand play area, locker rooms, and lockers for storing valuables.

Tsunami Splash has a water playground with tipping buckets.

Lilypad Lagoon has a splash pool, water basketball, and monkey bar activity pad. 

We stayed at the aquatic center until 4:30 P.M.

Lora then drove us to downtown Chicago to tour the Sears Tower "sky deck."

The Sears Tower, completed on May 3, 1973, was the tallest skyscraper in the World until 1996.

It is still the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. What a view!

We walked to Giordano's Pizzeria, across the street from the Sears Tower. 

We had to wait 40 minutes for a table and another 40 minutes for our food. 

We ordered a deep-dish stuffed medium pizza with sausage, pepperoni, and mozzarella cheese. It was covered with Marinara sauce and as thick as a medium cake. 

Madison enjoyed the stinging mozzarella cheese.

Lora drove us out of downtown Chicago, leaving at about 9:00 P.M. 

I took over driving for several hours. 

Everyone fell asleep except me, and when I got sleepy, we stopped at a Motel 8 somewhere in Louisville, Indiana, off I-70E. 

We were so sleepy that we did not even inspect the room, which we should have because the beds were falling apart. 

That does not matter when you are too sleepy to drive.

It was late, I was very sleepy, and I drove seven miles in the wrong direction.

The first clue was our location because the following day, I had taken a wrong turn about seven miles off during the night.

I remember going through a lot of construction, with orange cones everywhere. I am sure that is where I got lost.

We had to do a lot of backtracking.

Anyone could get lost by leaving late, getting sleepy, and traveling with kids. 

It is strange how a sermon can trigger your thoughts about something that happened in the past.

Have you ever been lost or gotten lost driving? Ask yourself and tell your story.

Engulfed by Darkness

 Jonah was swallowed by a whale for disobedience.
I was engulfed in darkness, heavy traffic, and blinding rain.

I loaded my grandson, Justin (age five), and my granddaughter, Hannah (age seven), into the car, and we began our journey to Pell City.
We traveled I-65 South all the way to Birmingham.
From Birmingham, we took I-20 to Pell City, which took about 2.5 hours.

I did not have my grandson's exact address, as he had moved from his old one.
Now, I was depending on a five-year-old to get us to his new address.

We rode up and down the same highway for over an hour before I could reach his dad.

By the time we left for home, it was getting dark, and it had started to rain.
On the Interstate, we got behind a large truck, and I couldn't see around it, so we missed our turn.

All I remember was that we were headed north on a very rough highway. (79)
Several times, I almost stopped because I thought my tires were going flat, but I was afraid since it was very dark and there was not much traffic.

Thank God I had a cell phone that worked, so I called Hubby, who was working in St Louis at that time.
I told him what happened, and he said, What highway are you on? This was before we had GPS on our phones or our vehicles.

Hubby said I will call you back when I locate you on the map.
Hubby called and said you will have to go over the mountain to get back to I-65.

The darkness and rain did not help to see along the winding roads we took over the mountains.

We almost rammed into a stalled car on a dark bridge.
It took us twice as long to get home, but we made it safe and sound.

God was in control in both cases.

Getting Lost in Miami

In church today, our minister asked if anyone had taken a wrong turn. 
He told the story of  God choosing Jonah to preach to the wicked people in Nineveh. 
Jonah hated the people of Nineveh and chose instead to go in another direction.

It got me thinking about some of the wrong turns that I have made in my life.

The first wrong turn was during my trip to Miami.
I flew to Miami to be with my daughter during her surgery and recovery.
I sat in the waiting room while my daughter was having her surgery. The nurse came out and gave me a prescription for my daughter for painkillers and antibiotics.
She said I should get the prescription filled at the nearby Publix Pharmacy, which was within walking distance.
We had taken a taxi to the surgery center (keep in mind, we did not have a car to drive).

A couple from Rochester, New York, was going to the pharmacy to get their prescription filled, and the nurse asked if I could accompany them.

The couple was polite and said I could go.

The woman was getting breast implants on Friday. 

The nurse gave directions to the Publix Pharmacy to the husband.

We walked to the parking deck and loaded into their rented red mini car. 

Their luggage was still in the car, and they had not yet checked into their hotel.

The red mini car had two doors that opened from the outside and two more that opened from the inside only.

Off we went in search of the Publix Pharmacy. 

We went to Flager, then NW, on Forty-second Avenue.

Next, we went SW on Forty-second Avenue, where we stopped at Publix.

The woman and I got out of the car and went inside the store. I asked one of the women working at the checkout where your pharmacy is.

The woman replied, "We have no pharmacy." 

The woman from Rochester, NY, and I started to laugh. 

Then, we went on to explain our search for a Publix Pharmacy.

The woman at the checkout register drew us a map to the nearest Publix (which I later found out was the wrong pharmacy). 

We took so many turns that I was completely lost when we finally found the pharmacy.

We gave our prescriptions to the pharmacist, and he said it was going to take at least one and a half hours to get the prescription filled. We asked why it was going to take so long, and they replied that one of the prescriptions was a narcotic drug and only pharmacists had access to the drug. 

We rode back to the surgery center, where I was dropped off.

I thanked the couple for letting me tag along with them. 

I never saw them again.

I went to the lobby to wait. There, I met a couple from Charlotte, North Carolina.

They said that they both worked for the US Post Office in Charlotte. 

They said that they had four children, two boys and a set of twin girls.  

She was having breast implants done that day.  

I told her husband that he had better get her prescription filled before she came out of surgery because they had told us it would take an hour and a half to fill. 

The Hubby dropped off her prescriptions.

His wife went back to surgery before my daughter came out of surgery.

My daughter came out of surgery around 5:30 P.M. She was in a lot of pain. She kept saying Just shoot me!

We had to wait until 6 P.M. to leave because the owner was going to give us a ride to the hotel, and the surgery center did not close until 6 P.M.

We rode to Publix Pharmacy to get my daughter's prescription 

What we thought was a quick stop turned into stopping at two different Publix.

We arrived at the first Publix, and as I was going up the escalator, I met Mural. (Man from Charlotte, NC)

We walked to the pharmacy together, and I said to him, "This place does not look familiar."

I was next in line. I gave my daughter's name to the pharmacist, and she tried to look up my daughter's prescription.

The pharmacist said you must have left the prescription at another Publix Pharmacy.

So, I walked back to the car and told my daughter and our driver that it was the wrong pharmacy. 

My daughter was not happy about that at all. 

We went several miles in the wrong direction when I said, We are going in the wrong direction.

I told the driver that the Publix we need to go to is not far from the first one, because I remember coming back down West Flagler St.

The driver said, "Now I know the correct location; it is a new Publix Pharmacy."

We arrived at the correct Publix pharmacy, and I got in line to pick up my daughter's prescription.

The woman in front of me kept asking questions about the prescription she had just filled. 

 I did not think she would ever shut up!

Finally, I got my daughter's medicine; the cost was $2.00 I paid and left.

On the way home, the driver said, "I have not eaten all day. Do you mind if I stop at Wendy's?"

He ordered a Coke, fries, and a large hamburger. He asked if we wanted anything to eat, and we said yes, so we ordered a junior cheeseburger and fries. 

I offered to pay, but he paid for everything.

My daughter was sitting in the backseat.

When she opened her pill bottle, she dropped one.

I was sitting in the front seat, and I had to unbuckle my seat belt, lean my head toward the back, and put my butt up in the air to look for that pill. 

Never found it!

We arrived at the hotel, got out, and thanked the driver.

The driver had to pull the seat out to reach the pill. 

He said I have two small children, and I don't need a loose pill floating around for my kids to get their hands on.

You can get lost by disobeying God, 

You can get lost in your mind, 

You can get lost by not paying attention

You can get lost anywhere!!!

Growing up in the Shoals

Earline in Story-Land was enjoyed by many children in the Shoals Area, including myself, for over 22 years.
All I remember about Earline Burns was her television show and where she lived.
Both my grandparents lived in Sheffield, and one of my grandparents went to Church not too far from Earline's house.
We moved to Florence in 1962. Sometimes, when we would travel to Sheffield, we would go by  Earline's house on Hatch Blvd., but most of the time, we would travel down Second Street.
I remember seeing her blue Cadillac Convertible sitting in front of her small pink house, which had been torn down.
My parents lived in downtown Sheffield when they married and moved to Tuscumbia when I was about 2 1/2.
Entertainment was watching a movie on the big screen, either at the Theater or a Drive-in.
I saw many movies at the Colbert Theater, Tuscumbia Theater, Norwood Theater, Shoals Theater, Wilson Drive-In, and Joy-Land Drive-In.
My siblings and I would walk to the Shoals Theater during the summer months and watch a movie for ten cents.
I was always small for my age and could get into the theater for the child rate long after I had outgrown it.
I remember Buck's night at the Drive-In.
We would go around the neighborhood, filling the car full of neighborhood kids.
We could all get into the movies for $1 per carload.

I don't remember listening to the radio, but we did own a black-and-white TV.
Dad worked for Mr. Hensley Jarrett, hauling large power poles. Our TV Antenna was atop one of those tall poles. I remember the pole had spikes, and Dad climbed to the top to install the antenna, with wires running into the house to the rabbit ears on top of the TV.
We could pick up all the local channels.

We watched shows like Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Bob Hope Show, Calling All Cars, The Cisco Kid, Death Valley Days, Dragnet,  & The Lone Ranger.
Since I never listened to the radio, I did not know that many of the television shows that I watched were once live radio shows.

Many famous people came to the Shoals in those early years, but growing up there, they were just another face in the crowd.

When I was a teenager, just turned sixteen, I worked at Shockley's Pancake House, which was across the street from the Holiday Inn, where many famous entertainers stayed when they were in town.

I served the Four Seasons, and I  had no clue who they were.
As a working girl who never listened to the radio, I had no clue who came into our restaurant.

Now that I am older, I am learning so much about the Shoals Area that I have been a part of.

I walked the streets of Florence, Sheffield, & Tuscumbia, and  I spent many hours at Spring Park.

I remember Dad bringing home a trunk he had gotten from the Helen Keller Home, which had been thrown away.
It had several books inside the trunk; one was a Blue Hardback Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tale Book.
I read that book many times.
When we moved to Florence in the early 1960s, the Fairy Tale Book must have been thrown away because I never saw it again.

I remember going to Spring Park, riding the train, and playing on all the playground equipment, which was like an amusement park.
There was a swimming pool just up the street, and inside the park was a large wading pool.
The park fell into disarray for many years, and its glory days are gone forever.

I remember the Liberty's & A & P Supermarkets where mom shopped, they gave S & H Green Trading Stamps, Plaid Stamps, and Top Value Stamps just for shopping at their stores.
When collected into multiple books, we would take them to the Trading Stamp store to redeem for merchandise.

So many things we no longer have as time changes.
We now have cell phones, no sharing party lines, and phones hanging on the wall.
We no longer use an outhouse; we now have portlets.
We no longer have to heat the house up to cook; we have a microwave and convection ovens.
We no longer use glass; everything comes in plastic.

Gasoline is no longer 100% and costs 25 cents a gallon.
A new Corvette, fully loaded, costs over $ 80,000.

In the next twenty years, many will be living in Space.

One hundred years sounds like a lifetime.
When I was a kid, I thought 30 was old. Now, one hundred doesn't sound that old.

2017 June 17, Saturday, RC Moon Pie Festival Bell Buckle, Tenessee🌝🍰

Cooked waffles for breakfast, topped with walnuts and Cool Whip.
Loaded the van, programmed the GPS, and began our trip.
We traveled north on hwy 43, turning right onto hwy 64 East, traveling through Giles County, Pulaski, TN, crossing I-65
to 244 northeast, traveling through Lincoln and Marshall counties, Petersburg, & Bedford County, Shelbyville.

Town of Petersburg Library

The Town of Petersburg, located in Lincoln and Marshall Counties, has a population of 580.

Our next stop was Shelbyville, TN, in Bedford County, home to the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration.

Walking Horse National Celebration (Horse farms)
The historic Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration Grounds in Shelbyville, TN, hosts the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration each year in late summer for 11 days, concluding on the Saturday night before Labor Day.

Veterans Memorial Plaza in front of the Bedford County Courthouse

Shelbyville is the county seat of Bedford County, "Courthouse"

Arrived at Bell Buckle around 10:00 A.M.
We found a closed park, walked up to the stage, and found seats on bales of hay. We sat and listened to music, watching a group of young girls and women clog.

Cloggers (stepping high)

Milking Machine

Railroad Town (several trains came through while we were in Bell Buckle)

We walked around checking out the vendors, where we saw giant corn dogs, funnel cakes, deep-fried Oreos, Snickers, and Twinkies.
We visited Everybody's Antiques and More, Bluebirds Antiques, and the Ice Cream Parlor.
We visited the Livery Stable, now an Antique shop with many rooms of antiques.

The livery stable is now an Antique Shop. 

We saw boxes of strawberry, banana, chocolate, mint, & salted caramel moon pies.
There were Moon Pies and RC Colas for sale everywhere we looked, and prices varied.

Ice Cold RC Colas 

Boxes of Fresh Moon Pies

Uncle Sam is greeting the crowd at the  Parade.

We met a couple from North Carolina who had been to softball tournaments in Birmingham.
We met an older couple who had visited the festival many times.
There were people from everywhere who were still coming when we left.

We ate lunch at Bell Buckle Cafe, where we both ordered a barbecue sandwich and a glass of iced tea.
It was almost time for the parade, so we gobbled down our lunch.
It was the only cafe in the entire area, so the wait was long just to eat lunch.

Standing in front of the Mural of Moon Pies and RC Colas 

We came outside to watch the parade, and afterward, we started home.

Moon Pie Girl in the parade

We took a different route home, riding through Tullahoma, Lynchburg, and Pulaski.
We stopped in Lawrenceburg for gas and to-go meals from Long John Silver's.
We stopped at the fruit stand in Lawrenceburg for vegetables and were home by 5:00 P.M.
We were home for about an hour when my husband got a call from work, so we loaded into the van and headed to Huntsville.
As we were entering the gate, we were in a Jurassic Park jeep with a dinosaur in the back.
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When the Jeep moved, so did the dinosaur
The Jurassic period relates to or denotes the second period of the Mesozoic era, between the Triassic and Cretaceous periods.

The sun was setting as we traveled home. (around 8:30 P.M.)