Dunn in Filer

Dunn in Filer Rick and Connie-just living life here in Filer. Hopefully I will do a better job of keeping it up. Hi. This is Connie. There have been good times and rough times.

I started this page almost 4 years ago with the idea that could somehow connect with people in our town, Filer, ID. At that time, my husband was newly elected as the new Mayor of our great little town. It has been an adventure, an education and a good 4 years. In 3 days, there will be an election and Rick's successor will be chosen. When he ran for Mayor 4 years ago, it was just to give Filer a ch

oice for Mayor, which hadn't happened for a decade or more. He said he would only serve one term and then give somebody else an opportunity to serve our town as Mayor. It's interesting to me that there is so much more interest in the city government, now. Rick has served with integrity, compassion and a heart for protecting the people from harm. We always understood that those in leadership in any organization have more facts available than those they serve, but that fact has been made ever so much clearer this past four years. Rick has been misunderstood because he is privy to information that is not public. B that as it may, it has been a good experience overall and he leaves office in January happy to have increased awareness and interest in city government. Our prayers are with those who are soon to be elected. Serving as Mayor or Council Member is a noble thing. Each citizen who cares about the community in which he or she lives has an obligation to be aware of the issues the community is facing. Best wishes for those who serve their community in any form.

04/14/2025

Came back to Facebook today. Jeremy was shopping for a sofa for me and found one he thought I might like.
Browsing through notifications, I saw that this page was going to be removed for some sort of marketing violations.
Well, if inactivity is a violation, I plead guilty as charged.

Silly me, I clicked on the link. Who knows what will happen now?

It’s been one year , two months and 13 days since Rick graduated to heave, but who’s counting , right?

Last Sunday was the second time we celebrated his birthday without him. I thought at the end of one year , that would be the end of all the ‘firsts’ without him. I was wrong.

Danny and Sarah got me a plane ticket to come see them and meet our first great grandson , Callahan.
He’s Audrey’s and Matt’s second child His 3 year old sister, Eleanor, is our first great grandchild.

It was a great trip , but full of new ‘firsts’.
First flight after his graduation , first time looking at clouds below me and wondering if he sees them from above all the time. First solo trip since he’s gone , etc…

I am surrounded by great friends and family. They (you ) have made this season of life easier. Thank you all for that.

Still, I do miss hanging around him. After 50 years and 4-1/2 months together, that’s not surprising. But who’s counting , right?

Not me. He was just considerate enough to die on the last day of January, which makes it easy to calculate.
Miss you , Rick.
So glad you’re not in pain, anymore.

06/22/2023

Easy mini chicken pot pies:
2 cans of refrigerated biscuits (8 count each can)
1/2 pound of boneless, skinless chicken breast (approximately 1 large breast)
1 bag frozen peas and carrots
1 can cream of chicken soup
Cooking spray for pan
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and spray muffin tin with cooking spray
Chop chicken into small bite sized pieces. Cook over med-high heat until no longer pink. Add any spices desired (I use garlic powder, onion powder, and a pinch of salt but you can use whatever you like) remove from heat
Stir veggies and soup into pan with chicken. Set aside.
Open biscuits and flatten to make thin enough to fit into cups. Fill biscuits with chicken mix and bake at 350 for 30-35 min or until biscuits are golden brown.
If you only use 1 can of biscuits, keep recipe the same and the unused portion of chicken mix can be frozen for up to 2 months to use as a second meal.

06/16/2023

Okay, new cottage industry coming from today's activities:
Dunn's Poppin's Pinecones
Purt' near perfect in every way.
All natural, organic, gluten free (but please don't try to eat them!)
come in many varieties-sizes from ~2"to~4":
1. unbroken, unsorted
2.unbroken, mostly symmetrical- no comment needed
3. hillside-significantly lean
4. unique-'nuff said
5. broken, smashed to various degrees
COST: Free to family and friends. Otherwise, $.50/grocery bag + shipping for folks that are not yet friend or family.
Free delivery for family and friends if you're willing to wait until we're traveling near your place. Otherwise, $5.00/bag for shipping.
After years of picking up pinecones in the front yard and thinking there has to be some way to use them, it occurred to me that maybe somebody else would like some.
By the way, we are traveling east to Kirksville next week, with stops in Wyoming, Dad and Evie's in Ogallala, NE, Mike and Jayne's near North Platte, NE and Lincoln, NE. If interested in pinecones or just face-to-face conversation over beverage of your choice, please let me know. We will see if arrangements can be made.

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02/19/2023

Wow, it's been over a year since our last post. Let's see if I cn recap this past 13-ish months. Here goes:
Rick obviously got over Covid last year. We were recovering nicely and planning to attend the Amazing Grace Fellowship couple's breakfast-an annual event just before Valentine's Day. That's when Rick fell on the ice and broke his leg. Yes, the right leg-again!
Another surgery by a gifted surgeon who was impressed with all the hardware already in that leg. Several months later, healed up enough to start walking again, he developed several blood clots, then complications-a nasty, red-streaked rash that came, went, came back again-you get the picture.
Currently, we are both well and regaining strength lost by inactivity over the year. God is so kind to us. We have reasonably good health, some amazing friends and great family, both near and far. There's more, but I will finish this off, for now.

01/31/2022

Well, I have heard that if you're gonna get Covid, this is the one you'll get if you've avoided it so far. And I have heard that the medical community has learned a lot in the past 2 years and can treat it so much better. While i agree with those statements, I would just have soon avoided it, altogether.
Technically, I tested negative, but what I had I got from Rick, who tested positive last Thursday. We've been dealing with it for about 2 weeks, now, and consider ourselves reasonably fortunate. I am pretty much past it with a lingering cough that's no fun. Rick is still sick, but not in hospital and beginning to improve.
It's not something I would have chosen-we have been pretty cautious and still uncertain how Rick got it.
I did have pneumonia, but symptoms indicate lungs are clear and responded well to treatment.
Rick has pneumonia in both lungs and tests show high risk for blood clots, but none showed up on CT scan.
He had a pulmonary embolism years ago. We know what that looked and felt like-well, at least he knows how it felt. None of those things are present for him now.
We consider ourselves very fortunate. This is not a fun 'valley' we are walking through right now. It's unfun and uncomfortable, but God is walking it with us.
We are surrounded by some awesome family and friends. I can whine, but can't complain. We are improving day by day and can sense the prayers that have been surrounding us. Thank you!

08/03/2021

It's been awhile, so I think an update on nephew, Thad Torix is way overdue. Not that I have a lot of info, If you know Thad, you already probably know more than I do.

Thad has recovered from his extensive injuries. It was a long and difficult recovery, but he has a great attitude most of the time-who has a great attitude all the time? not me. Wish I did, but gotta be truthful, here.

Anyway, Thad and Courtney came to Idaho just to touch base with family and friends here. Near death experiences have a way of clarifying life priorities, he said.

With all that was going on, we missed the chance to see them on this trip, but he promised that this is not their last trip here. We're looking forward to their next Idaho trip.

08/03/2021

Well, it was a big weekend for changes. A few months ago, Rick was approached by folks from the Reformed Church of Twin Falls. They have an event called Summer Serve that they have done the past 3 years, including this year, in 3 different towns in the area. This year, they prayerfully chose Filer, was given a couple of streets to consider and they chose our street!

Saturday was the day they closed off our street, brought in drink stations and satellites and flooded our street with about 200 volunteers, here to help with projects. It finished up at the end of the day with an amazing barbecue dinner held at In His Name Fellowship over on HWY 30, just a block or so away.

There was a lot of prep work done beforehand and most of the folks on our street had professionals and non professionals do projects like fix leaky patios and carports, roofs completely reroofed, fences replaced, houses and garages painted, yards cleaned up, weeded, treated with fertilizer and pesticides, and trash and weeds hauled off. I'm sure I missed some of the things they did because they did so much here for all of us.

We are blessed beyond measure. They asked us for a list of projects we needed done. One of the projects was replacing the clear panels in our carport that allows filtered sunlight into our south facing windows. We had replaced them a few years back, but they had deteriorated and needed to be replaced again.

They looked at it and decided the carport needed more than that and got to work tearing off the entire sheeting, adding structural beams, straightening and reinforcing the entire carport. They then replaced that old corrugate tin with new sheeting that actually matches the house roof. No clear panels were available, so they ordered them and will be finishing the project when the panels come.

We gained more than a few overwhelming projects being done. We gained several new friends. It is so good to see that God uses His people in so many practical ways to serve communities.

We were fortunate to be part of our own church, Amazing Grace Fellowship, handing out USDA food boxes to folks this past winter.

There was a back to school bash also last Saturday, where over 400 hot dogs were served and school supplies, including backpacks, were given out. There was face painting, bounce houses and cotton candy, as well as the park's usual attractions and other things too numerous for me to mention here.

Everybody has an opinion about the relevance of churches in our culture today. Many have had negative experiences with different churches and that breaks my heart. Churches are not perfect because they are made up of people and people are imperfect. Even so, I would hate to see what this world would be without the presence of churches, filled or not so full, with imperfect people just trying to make a positive difference for others in this world.

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