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2025 02 25 – A Day in the Life

I got the apple trees put in the ground!
I’ve been needing to bury them into our backyard since I saved them from the “garden” area where it appeared the rabbits were eating the leaves (c) 2022.

One of the Kiwis are planted in it’s place. One left in the pot. I had a visit from a wonderful neighbor, Roy “The Painter.” He needed a kind friend, as we say.

Aimee, Daniel, Ashley on departure day for Ashley while it appears to be a TRAIN STATION day for Aimee.

Aimee, Daniel and Ashley on departure day – 2025-02-25:0900

Day 14. *cries*

I started “waterworks” waiting on the 501 US Hwy light at University Drive.

Dinner was chicken thighs in egg noodles, cream of mushroom with Lipton Onion Soup mix and two pieces of “Dried Black Fungus” from the Far Eastern shop in Myrtle. Those fungi last forever if dried correctly. *wink* Aimee was very pleased with supper.

Then Viva began ringing the phone off the hook. *roll eyes* She, once again, ruined dinner with her insistence on getting a pair of shorts and a tee-shirt to her this night with it being 20:00 and I was still eating since I had finally sat down with my wife to discuss our days out “at work.”

So we drive to Murrell’s Inlet, then to Conway to have this wonderful woman tell us it wasn’t important, and why couldn’t she get through on the phone after the several phone calls? Aimee explained she cut the phone off to get some peace.

It only got better at that point. *Prayers of Peace*

Pray you never have to deal with a mental patient that is being mis-diagnosed and ignored by the medical team caring for your patient. After a hour of abuse, we departed to return home. I got to finish my supper. It was rather tasty even cold. Thank God.

It’s now 23:38 and I’ma close with the verse I was given to read at Timothy’s Celebration of Life this last Saturday (February 22 at 2pm).

Matthew 6 NKJV
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Jenni Lynn, Piper, Aimee, and Molly on Saturday February 22, 2025

Jenni, Piper, Aimee, and Molly on February 22, 2025

Timothy Virgil Cochran September 10, 1967 - February 10, 2025

Timothy Virgil Cochran

Timothy’s Celebration of Life

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2025 02 19 18:11 A Day in the life…

November 6, 2004 11:18 @ Stacey and Susan's Wedding

The last month has been, well wait a second this has been happening since Christmas 2024 as we celebrated Donald J. Trump Presidential win in November. Then in horror we watched as Sen. Lindsey Graham and his Demoncraps “buddies,” Biden and Obama, raped the hell out of the citizens of the United States of America with reckless spending. Some folks refer to these last few months of the Democrat controlled Obama’s 3rd term as, “They were throwing gold bars off the Titanic while not wearing a life jacket.”

Since Trump has been in office the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has become operational, their actions for “We the people” has given them the insight into the spending’s how and where billions (in some cases accumulated up to trillions) of taxpayer dollars that has been controlled by the Democrat House and RINO Senate during the Obama 3rd terms. All dollars pathway have been found that Sen. Lindsey Graham and his Democrat compadres have spent to only have it come back to their “purses (election fund),”. Great job if you can snag it.

February 14 – 15, 2024 are days that I pray stay in my mind forever. The pain of a one-way conversation with your brother of fifty-seven (57) years belongs to a select collection of humans whom really and truly understand the “kick-in-the-balls” of the news about a death in the family, and experience the process of the final goodbye. At death, we will meet each other again. I am so $%*@ing happy he did not have to go through Chemo, or have his chest busted open, or go through the waning days/hours till you have that fateful meeting with death. No fucking pain, the way to go.

Now it is the time of your journey in Heaven. You beat me to it. *wink* Always wanting to best your older brother. So many times, so many things, so many experiences you have beaten the pooh out of me.

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2025 02 14-16 A Day in the life

Conway, South Carolina – 05:00 – it’s coffee time. 06:00 – it’s departure time.

Once arriving in Boone’s Mill, I began to see residual snow on the North face hills/woods, then after a few more hills, the mountain tops showed signs of the previous winter storm. The downed trees due to God’s pruning were all along the highway.

Lexington, Virginia has a massive amount of real History in it that I had totally missed out upon prior to this visit. Due to the nature of this visit, no visiting and/or exploration was done to any real extent. (More to come…)

The trip back was very rough to start with due to the winter storm blowing in from the West. Water was coming down as if an Ark had been built. *wink* Having Tractor-trailers on the roadways in bunches was a pain when some “numbnut” wasn’t passing with ‘authority.’ Come’on ppl its deadly out here an you are running at 50mph in a 70mph, ignore the warning signs of weather it’s only rain. “What you haven’t driven in hurricanes before?”
After Greensboro, the weather eased up and the ride was rather relaxing till Horry County.

Sunday we worshipped and got the lawn done once the rains moved on. The temperatures are going to drop for Monday and the rest of next week.

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2025 02 10 A day in the life

Ashley and Jacob's wedding: Timothy, Tracey, Molly and Piper Cochran

Goodbye Timothy. We love(d) you so much and so many laughs and cries along the way.

September 10, 1967 – February 10, 2025

I love you. We love you. Jesus loves you. Thank you.

*The last week of my brother’s life*

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Timothy’s reply to my bible verse: ” (thumbs up)(heart) this world needs more Jesus’s love for sure (heart)” 07:29 Hours

https://www.thenews-gazette.com/obituaries/1841,timothy-cochran

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2025 02 09 A day in the life

Well got to talk to Timothy today. While he sounds a bit like Nancy from San Fran, his content was a enormous amount of more substantive.

It was a huge blessing to be able to share.

God bless.

Of note the hamburgers were a hit and Dad commented, I could eat that everyday if you want to cook it. He loved the bacon condiment made with the press Aimee (Santa) got me this past Christmas.

Because of the coffees drunk at the game Saturday night, I didn’t finally get to sleep till approaching 06:30 this morning. Three hours of nap and the day begins. 😉 *wink*

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2025 02 06 20:01 A Day in the Life.

Word about Timothy was very hopeful and promising with his progress. Tracey has done an amazing job with the website entries: https://www.caringbridge.org/site/9ac1d169-e1bf-11ef-a3c0-e3b0215c5121

Thursday, February 6, 2025

12:30pm **For those of you have inquired about how I am doing, I’ll briefly let you know that although physically I am tired and my knees are sore – all the walking, lifting, etc is good therapy! Thank goodness that I was progressing well and am as far out from knee replacement surgery as I am (5 weeks tomorrow). I finally slept 7 hours last night so I feel much more rested and…I guess, peaceful, able to emotionally handle the day. I am trying to be obedient to Matthew 6:34 & taking one day at a time. Look how far Timothy has come! It is because of the prayers of so many of you and the hope and grace God gives that I am feeling this way. I feel your prayers empower and support me in ways I cannot put into words. Thank you again for investing in our family through your words and deeds!!**

A very good morning! Timothy has been awake and aware and holding a conversation with me for the past two hours. It is the first time he seemed to understand why he is where he is. He responded, “That’s not good!” when I explained that I found him unconscious and “Oh, no!” when I told him he had surgery to remove a mass from his brain. I re-read comments listed here as well as texts received since his hospitalization, and he said, “Tell them, ‘Thank you! Keep going [with prayers]’.” His speech is still slow and garbled but understandable. For our neighbors, he responded, “That’s a good thing about a small community” when I shared your well-wishes and so many offers of help and meals. I had to smile when he remarked, “They do that anyway” when I told her that our AHG troop friends were praying for our family. Roberta, he let out a big belly laugh when I read your note about picking out the menu for the next staff meeting! When his day nurse Cindy asked about how high schoolers were nowadays, he just said, “Drama.” (A very Timothy answer!) He did get very emotional all of a sudden with concerns about his diagnosis (especially how it affects the girls), and so we had to focus on today and our blessings. We are currently waiting for rounds from Neurology.

At a place that will not be named
*writing a “concern” request from an “unnamed” vendor* We got a reply that someone was reviewing our information and formulating a plan of action. [Never heard from them again for the next 5 work hours]

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Mid-summer dream

The garden is coming along rather nicely this year, I must say. Cantaloupes, tomatoes, pole beans, yellow squash, asparagus, basil, cilantro, green peppers, oregano, and a few other herbal plants.

I do find it “funny” that all the rain seems to avoid the sky above my dirt hole of plants. Finally after almost two months of no real rain it has come from the sky, but seems to avoid watering my little plot of dirt.

I gave up on the weeds and submitted to non-organic products to blast the darn invaders. The vinegar/salt/dish-detergent mixture works on a lot, but there are some weeds in South Carolina that just look up from that spray and say thanks for the growth hormones.

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Precinct Re-Org 2019

Vote

Howdy all,

The biennial election of officers for the Horry County Republican Party is this week. It is on Thursday at 6:30pm (arrive 30 minutes early to sign-in), and for our neighborhood (Wild Wing) it is held at the Grand Strand Baptist Church beside Tanger Outlet Mall down Hwy 501 towards the beach, on the left before Hwy 31 junction.

It has been a great pleasure, most the time, to be your elected Executive Committee representative since 2009. We moved by home in 2006 from a seven-year chapter of our lives in Oro Valley, Arizona –(Tucson). While in Arizona I was a principal in a software company that provided County Governments with a revenue collection and distribution system that worked with all aspects of County government. During those years, I could not pick a party, though I voted primarily Republican in every election. We could not appear biased towards a particular party, and Arizona is a Party Registration State where you cannot vote in the primaries, or party conventions without proper registration, which is unlike South Carolina where you can vote in any primary or claim to represent any party when registering to run for office. That changed with the move back to South Carolina, finally, I could actively work for paleoconservative principals in the Republican party again.

It has been my practice to also run for State Delegate which requires up to three meetings in the State Capital and one U.S. House District “local” meeting, or more as required for the position. State Delegates are elected at the County Convention during the re-org years, so our Convention is in April, 2019. However, to attend the County Convention, there is a Party Membership Fee. This fee is not required by State Code law for the Precinct elections, only that you are a registered voter, voted Republican in the last election, and present a voter registration card at the meeting on Thursday. Bring you Driver’s License or S.C. ID Card to the meeting if you cannot find your voter registration card mailed to you “ages ago.” With a valid S.C. License, we can look up your voter registration information, but that takes a bit longer.

During my tenure, we have nominated Sen. John McCain, Gov. Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump; I only supported one – Mr. Trump. I didn’t vote to censor Sen. Lindsey Graham when Horry County ECs voted on the motion because I had not received enough replies to my inquires in Wild Wing on the matter. I personally wanted to vote to censor him; however, my respect of our republic form of government wouldn’t allow me to set personal before principle desires. Over the last three terms, I have fought hard to keep our republic representation principles alive when repeated attempts, using the County By-Laws, were presented to our party. I ran as your District 8 County Council Member in 2016, but lost to Councilman Johnny Vaught. I did win one Precinct with my door-to-door campaign that my family of four and I are proud of for those votes.

I hope you will join me and many others this Thursday to get our Horry County Republican Party back on track with representing our republican form of State and National government. See you there.

If you have any questions, then send me a tweet
@DanielSCochran or https://twitter.com/DanielSCochran .

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