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Good Morning! 9-1-12

This is our Daily Open Thread. Talk about whatever you like.

How can it be September already?

The Quote of the Day is from Billy Graham

“The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless”

145 thoughts on “Good Morning! 9-1-12”

  1. Whooo hoooo! I get to be first. I’ll be out for most of the day, but I did want to pop in and say hello. It was quite the going away party last night. And I haven’t even checked over there to see how it all ended. Have a great day everyone, and be blessed. 🙂

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  2. Oh, one question before I leave—does anyone know what happened to the whirled views NW Juliana set up on facebook? I was commenting on it a couple of days ago, then suddenly it wasn’t there.

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  4. Good morning folks. Hope everyone is having a good day. As to your question Debra, I do not use facebook. The reason is pretty simple, your employer can dismiss you if you complain about them in a post and given all the hacking along with identity theft, I chose not to have a page like that. That is why I have a Bible Study Site. Right now, it does not seem to be being used a lot other than me, but time will tell. Take care guys. I have to do a bit of grocery shopping and then maybe on Monday, I will go to the range and site in the new scope I bought for my Rifle. Deer season will be upon us soon.

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  5. drivesguy,
    I’ve been reading your Bible study page, but haven’t thought of any comments to make. If you include some questions for reflection, or something like that, I’ll take a stab at answering.

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  6. The Billy Graham quote reminds me of the saying that we may be the only Bible some people ever read. I have tried to get that across to a couple of really legalistic Christians I have experienced but to no avail.

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  8. That’s a good reminder, Kim. The problem I have with the way the Billy Graham quote is worded is that it seems to require the existence of lost people in order for there to be the “highest form of worship.” In heaven there won’t be lost people, but we will be worshiping God forever. I can’t agree that such worship would not be at least as “high” as Christian service here on earth.

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  9. KBells, I saw that you got 200 and I got 201. Then, shortly after that I typed a fairly short comment, hit post, and Poof!, I was whisked away to the new site! I imagine Kare could have gotten something in between my 201 and my lost post, if her internet wasn’t giving her trouble just then as it had been for her earlier. Anyone see any number past 201?

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  10. Have a nice Saturday, all. I’ll be offline for a good part of the day today…lots to do at home to get ready for our new school routine starting Tuesday. Be blessed! 🙂

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  11. Saturday. Since there will be no Rants and Raves thread anymore (and the old one wasn’t getting much use), I’ll just post them here:
    🙂 RAIN!! 2 inches of leftover Isaac have fallen since 10AM yesterday with a lot more due today.
    🙂 College football!!
    😦 But I won’t get to watch much today, as it is the last weekend of caving, so I’ll be there until 8PM.

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  13. Good September Morn! The grandkids will be here in an hour and life as I know it will come to a screeching halt…but, it will be adventurous and fun with those three!
    I didn’t see the end yesterday…were there fireworks…or did a big ball fall from the sky as it does in Times Square?
    I couldn’t find NW Juliana’s page either Pauline…perhaps she deleted it, defaulting to this site?
    I love that quote of Billy Graham, and it, too, brings to mind what you said Kim…that is how I try to live my life…an open book to His goodness and sacrifice. I do find myself stating a disclaimer many times…”I am not perfect…He is perfect”
    Joe, I do read your studies, and as Pauline, I haven’t commented…I like her suggestion of reflective questions though…
    Well, I pray you all have a most blessed day…I may have enough strength to drag myself over here after the kids leave later 🙂

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  14. I love the sound of college football. I have stumbled across another Alabama fan so he has told me it is important to him for me to share this with him. I suppose I will be watching tonight when Alabama kicks off against Michigan. (Hey, aren’t you impressed I know that?)
    I suppose I will let him watch the game at my house since he left two of the nicest, thickest rib eye steaks I have seen in a while at my house last night. Gotta love a man who thinks ahead and goes to the grocery store all by himself. 😉

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  16. As mentioned, the new World looks very pretty. But I have not yet found any comments or any place to put comments. I have counted on you people to help guide me through the masses of news so I may just stick with my paper copy which is easier for me to read in my current life. I can live with dated news.

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  18. Good Morning folks

    College football returns — this has to make many a household happy and grumpy.

    so my qod: favorite college team and why?

    Mine’s UCLA because I went to school there. But as they’ve hit a bit of a, let’s say, lull in football, LSU would be the secondary choice because they are fun to watch.

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  19. Are there going to be more WV wedding bells, Kim? I mean, for a guy to leave the steaks at your place rather than taking them home, grilling them and eating them himself says something, doesn’t it?

    And since I never was able to get back on the old WV last night before it got obliterated, did you get the flowers I left you? You sounded like you missed getting flowers, so I left you a half dozen of your favorites.

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  22. CB – like the Arizona Wildcats because I grew up in Tucson and went to several of their games. But they too have fallen on hard times (not that they were ever a power house). These days I root for Mizzou, which is now a part of the SEC and a rival to those Tigers from down South.

    I see by the preseason rankings that AP has USC #1 with Alabama and LSU 2 and 3 (though very close in “points”); while USAToday has LSU #1, Bama 2 and USC 3, thought the voting (or whatever they base their points on) are close. The ESPN.com power rankings have USC and LSU in a virtual tie for #1, with Bama not far behind. Should make for some interesting games this year.

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  23. Peter, thank you. I did receive the flowers. I decided they were a mix of daffodils, tullips, and irises even though those are Spring flowers they were virtual and I could make them anything I wanted them to be.

    I cannot answer the first question at this time. 😉

    Right now several of my friends have met him, my child has met him, my ex-husband has met him, my priest has met him–they all like him. Since the joke among my friends was that I was not allowed to pick the next guy I dated I had told him early on that he would be selected by committee and if anyone on the committee objected he was history, and no one has objected yet- I think I will keep him around another month or so.

    One of my friend’s husband used to be in mental health in DC back in the 80’s and another friend’s husband is an attorney. The joke was “Kim you’ve introduced him to a shrink and a lawyer so far, if he doesn’t run screaming away from YOU perhaps he has potential.” I had a long conversation with my priest about him and whether or not Baby Girl liked him.

    I had lunch with another friend not too long ago and she was asking about Paul. Before I could answer BG piped up and informed her that he was really nice and she liked him.

    With the potential for the hurricane here and him needing to be able to mobilize for volunteer medical care I had his cat (actually I still have his cat). I told him Wednesday that we might have to reconsider our relationship since our “children” fought like cats and dogs. 😉

    Enough gushing….

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  24. CoyoteBlue there isn’t a more fun team to watch live than LSU and there isn’t a better place to watch a game than Death Valley in Baton Rouge. Those coon-@$$ know how to throw a football game.

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  25. Kim – sounds like you’re having fun!
    6 Arrows – I’m thinking you got the last post as my last one was 198. Congratulations.

    28 years ago today, I married my high school sweetheart. We’re going canoeing today to celebrate (if the weather cooperates).

    Fave college football team? What’s that? I watch the CFL! Go Stamps!

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  27. Favorite college team? Well, that’s a tough one. My husband went to Georgia Tech, so Go Yellowjackets! My brother and some friends went to Georgia, so Go Dogs! And my husband and I went to Georgia State, so Go Panthers! Just trying not to offend anyone but y’all! 😉

    We currently have an underground yellowjacket nest by our mailbox. Not sure if that plays into support of the football team though.

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  30. Morning! The USC Trojans play today! Of course they should handle the Rainbow Warriors pretty well. We are SC fans cause my granddaddy taught there, my dad went there and both my folks grew up in South Central. I was raised on Trojan football. We are also Boise State fans because hubby hails from Boise. And Bama fans by way of a SIL. But we can be game by game fans too, then usually for the underdog.

    I am Adios, btw. my WMB moniker was taken on WordPress 😦 was was my real name, Wendy. But you can still call me by either since what I had to take to find a name already taken is a bit much.

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  33. Well, Joe having been there I can personally tell you there is nothing so riveting (or cold!) as a Navy/Yale Game!
    I came out of Veteran’s Memorial Stadium one year with a Midshipman on one arm and a Cadet on the other. The Philidelphia cop looked at me and laughed, “Whotsamatta honey, can’t make up your mind?” “No sir, we all went to high school together.”

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  34. I think I knew there were two of us UCLA folks on this blog. (Three generations of five graduates in my family)

    And of course I knew of the fan for “the other school.”

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  35. In Baton Rouge if kickoff is at anytime up to and including midnight, the tailgaiting starts at 6 or 7 am. You can roam the streets and be offered beer, wine, crawfish, boudan, whatever. I was going to say “religion” but cult works

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  38. Adios, I had to register as “Cheryl and Misten” (no caps and no spaces), but on the bottom of this page I put in Misten and that is what showed up. Click on my gravatar and you will see the cherylandmisten. But I show up as Cheryl on the site.

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  39. If your employee quit and moved her license to another company would you call her at 7pm on a Friday night and again at 9:45 on a Saturday morning?
    Did I tell you what he is looking for in my replacement? He figures he needs two commercial guys, a condo person, and a licensed assistant. Will I please put an ad on Craigslist for him?

    In other news I have a friend who has not had a car since I have known her. She has helped me out and I have helped her out. For the past two weeks the girls have ridden the bus to her school and I have gone and picked all three of them up at 3:45 taking mother and daughter home. I start my new job next week so I told her that the only solution I could see right now was for her husband to carpool with me and leave her their car since he and I will be working in the same town and the same hours and it is 25 miles from here. Do you want to take a guess at his response??????? He asked her why I couldn’t carpool with him and leave MY vehicle here for her to use. I just looked at her and said, “Now, why would I do that?”
    I figure after two days of riding with me and my attitude (I am thinking last minute stops at traffic lights to really throw him into the seatbelt) he will be begging me to drop him off at a car dealership. 😉

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  40. Good morning everyone.

    Favorite college team would have to be the Wisconsin Badgers. Randall Stadium is a great place to watch a game, but my easy chair is still the best place to watch any game.

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  41. BTW, I didn’t register as Cheryl and Misten because somehow my dog is more important than my husband, but because I don’t use his name on the site and didn’t want to use my last name. So, since I use her photo I also used her name. I’d have just used my last name except for privacy concerns.

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  42. Favorite college team for what sport? I don’t have one, but my husband and his family like IU basketball. At Christmas everyone else got some T-shirt or sweatshirt for a sports team of some sort, and my father-in-law teased me because I didn’t get one. I told him I don’t want one, and I wouldn’t wear one anyway. (I don’t even own a shirt for my own college, why would I wear one for a college I’ve never attended? I do own a Suns T-shirt and a Bulls T-shirt, but that’s different. I got the Suns shirt since I was living in Chicago when the Suns played the Bulls, so I asked Mom to send me a Suns shirt for my birthday, and I got the Bulls shirt when the Bulls won their first three-peat.)

    This spring my in-laws told my husband they had something for me, so we should drop by sometime. It turned out to be a long-sleeved IU shirt. My FIL laughed when I opened it, but I didn’t know if he considered it a gag gift. (Misten is the only one who has worn it, and she wasn’t amused. And I had to carry her out to the living room so my hubby could see, since she refused to try to walk in it.)

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  43. Is that snow on Misten’s nose? 🙂 It’s kitchen reorganization & cleaning day for me today. I have a couple of drawers that I never open … In other words, filled with things I obviously don’t use while I have trouble finding space for things I DO use and those things too often wind up cluttering the counter tops. Ugh.

    Debra’s right, the FB page seems to be gone.

    I enjoy FB and it has largely taken the place of blogs on the Internet (as for using FB unwisely, that’s more typical among younger people — those of us who are old enough understand the potential consequences; sometimes I’ll see something a young person has posted and think to myself “ouch, not a smart thing to put out there”).

    Typically I’ll post links on FB to my pet blog posts (also our newspaper stories) — and that’s where people more typically leave comments as opposed to on the blog or newspaper site itself.

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  44. Good Saturday morning to you all!

    Kim – My hubby does most of the shopping for our household. And yes, I am very grateful for that.

    AJ – Thanks again for hosting this blog for all of us exiles. 🙂

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  45. Hey, AJ, would you mind if I informed our old friend Random Name about this site? I still keep up with his infrequent blog posts, & I have his email address.

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  46. That’s Michelle. I have to log in every time I comment?

    No. I think there is a radial button that allows you to stay logged on, just as there was at WMB.

    Photo Guy- Are you new to our community or did you move over from WMB and change your name?

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  47. Donna, yes, that is snow on Misten’s nose. It’s probably my favorite photo of her. I had to crop it to a square for this use, but the whole photo shows her standing in snow, with the white feathers on her front legs just barely visible against the white of the snow–to me it has kind of an oil-painting effect, or that of a studio portrait in which the background is deliberately a similar shade to the subject’s clothing, very subtle. (I can e-mail you the photo uncropped.)

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  52. I tried to log into the new World site using my old World Magazine login (which was different than my worldmagblog login) and it didn’t work. That’s the login I had to use to download the pdf version if I wanted to access it before my print edition came usually 1 week after advertised on the site.

    My guess is that others are having trouble with the site as well. Part of the problem is that the new login is using email addresses while the old one used usernames. I emailed them to find out how I now access the site but expect no reply until Tuesday.

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  53. I miss the numbers on the comments. I see a big red ‘comments’ on WM, but cannot seem to get anything to work. I reset a password and it seems to make no difference. Sigh… I hate dealing with new stuff. I guess it is supposed to ward off Alzheimers, though, to tackle new challenges. I think that may just be wishful thinking though.

    No football fans in this household, so I will leave you all to that discussion. 🙂

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  55. For folks asking about inviting others, sure, go ahead. Just remind them, no cussing, and try to be nice, even if you disagree. Snarky’s fine, hey I am. But mean is not OK. Anyone who can follow these simple rules is welcome.

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  56. Thanks Cheryl for the heads up on using the name. Not sure how I missed that feature.

    CB, we Trojan fans prefer to call it the University of South Central 😉 Oh and I forgot that I now have to be a Crimson fan. My nephew is playing football for Harvard.

    Kim, too funny on the guy you used to work with. I am assuming you didn’t answer the calls.

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  57. I had to ask for my password again at WM and they sent it to me — but I haven’t tried to log on yet to the new site. Sounds like it won’t work if I do! Is there a way simply to re-register somewhere on the site?

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  58. cheryl, I think I may have used that pic of Misten on the pets blog a couple years ago, when we were asking for ‘winter/holiday pet’ picture submissions?

    OK, I have light in the kitchen again. The first job of the day was to replace several of the overhead recessed flood lights that had been, one by one, burning out over the past couple months. It finally got so dark in there — with maybe only 3 out of 12 lights working — that cooking or doing anything at night in there was pretty dicey.

    Now I’m 2 bulbs short (but you already knew that) so I’ll have to buy a couple more at the store today. But it’s nice a bright in there now.

    Unfortunately, that’s the bad news.

    I have a lot of organizing and de-cluttering work ahead of me!

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  62. Donna I am really upset with you. You just had to go and say something about cleaning the kitchen didn’t you???? I have now got the oven self cleaning, shelves out of the refridgerator going through the rinse cycle in the dishwasher, my bathroom has been torn apart and the white tile bleached and steam mopped, my bedroom is torn apart and all the linens are going through the wash, I have vacuumed and cleaned the ceiling fan, I have dusted and used orange oil on all the wood pieces. I can’t figure out how to use the carpet cleaner so I can’t clean the carpets. It is only noon here and I am exhausted.

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  63. CB’s QOD: The Texas A&M Aggies. A&M is 80% Christian, 90% conservative and 100% Texan.

    Texas high school football report: The El Campo Rice Bird swamp Waller, 31 -0. The Mason Punchers destroy the Winters Blizzards, 62-20. The Itasca Wampus Cats fall to Rio Vista, 27-13.

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  64. Kim, you’ve sailed right on past me.

    I’m still working on the same baker’s rack that is filled with assorted mixing bowls, the big enamel Lodge Logic casserole baking dish, 3 family wooden rolling pins (which I never use but the oldest is from the 1800s from my mom’s stuff and I can’t figure out how to display it well ? Suggestions??), and a vintage Quaker Oats cookie jar. And 2 Paul Revere tea kettles, one vintage. And 3 (empty) glass containers with lids.

    Good grief. No wonder it looked chaotic.

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  66. School is starting soon, Tuesday. And I am trying to get things in order. Just learned that hub will have to be gone most of the day, leaving me to handle it. Should not be too tough but it could be challenging with some.

    He has taken all of them to a nearby town for the free barbecue and other fun activities of the day.

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  67. Kathaleena (love that name, BTW!), I had to laugh at your reference to GYUTWF! 🙂

    Mumsee, we’re starting school Tuesday, too, and I’ve got so much stuff to get in order. Not just school stuff, either, but clothes and other things because the four youngest arrows switched to different bedrooms after 2nd Arrow moved out. Don’t ask me why the big bedroom switch, but a whole bunch of people just wanted a change, so we just went with it!

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  68. OK my bedroom is put back together. Some things still left in BG’s room but she won’t be back for a while. I am washing another load of refridgerator things and the crock I use to store kitchen utensils. I have steam mopped the kitchen and cleaned all the cabinet doors. Now I shall take out trash that I dumped in the living room.
    On the one hand I am thankful this house is only 1100 sf but on the other I do wish I had some more room to store stuff.

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  74. Kim, when you’re finished could you come do mine? Thanks.

    I did make five kinds of cookies today, if we want to compete in the baking area.

    OK, technically only two recipes, one batch each, but with a total of five variations. (Chocolate cake mix cookies with chocolate chips, and in the last batch I added maraschino cherries; and oatmeal with three different varieties of “stuff.”) We have a church dinner tomorrow and I’ll take a couple varieties, and some will be for family. My hubby doesn’t like maraschino cherries, so he will miss the two best kinds. (I made an oatmeal with chocolate chips and cherries as well.)

    Meanwhile my husband was in the library painting a picture, with Misten lying near him. The girls are with friends. A very cozy household setting.

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  76. What? Well…

    I don’t bake in the summer. The oven is off limits but it is almost time to start thinking about putting it to use.

    The handle has been broken off of it twice in the past month. Odd, since it is not being used…

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  77. I have been able to post at WORLD. They had changed my name from Toobizy to Janice G and it was tied to my e-mail. I have made three little posts. Not seeing any others posting on the artlicles I have posted on though. I guess it will be slow to start as people discover what it takes to post. It was simple for me. I think I did have to log-in with my old password which I have had to use a lot since I alternate between home and office computers.

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  78. I tried to log in to World last night, but it didn’t accept my password from my subscription. In trying to make a new account, it asks for my magazine account number.

    Too bad I gave my last issue of World to my friend just hours before needing that number.

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  79. You guys laugh but when I was a “stay at home mother” and BG when to pre-school/play school a couple of days a week I had a few houses I cleaned. It is easier to clean someone elses house than your own. It’s also pretty good money around here. Maybe I should pick up a few houses in my “spare time”.

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  81. 6 Arrows: “Don’t ask me why the big bedroom switch, but a whole bunch of people just wanted a change, so we just went with it!” 🙂 🙂

    I wish I could change bedrooms and leave my old one behind. The spare bedroom is in worse shape than my present one! Aiyayai.

    OK, the baker’s rack is newly (and much better) organized, now I’m moving on to the next surface or shelf space, haven’t decided which to tackle yet. Meanwhile, I broke one of the old floodlight bulbs I’d removed, so there was broken glass everywhere; I think I got it all swept up. I’ll know if I don’t wind up with an animal who gets a slivery-shard in a paw.

    And I (finally!) hung the pegboard near the front door that’s been sitting there for a month now waiting to get installed. I love to procrastinate and I am really quite good at it. I even think I got it hung (mostly) straight. Although I doubt it would past a Monk inspection. 😉 And there is a little “monk” in me so I’ll probably be staring at it for a while, determining if it might be just a teeny-weeny-little-tiny-bit (gasp) crooked. Oh no!

    Mumsee, School! Yay! I can almost smell the new notebooks and sharpened pencils.

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  82. Donna a friend taught me a trick about folding up a little square of paper and wedging it it to straighten up something that wasn’t hung correctly.

    Donna is the perfect example of why it is easier to clean someone elses house than it is your own. See? She got sidetracked with all those other projects. So have I today but I did find BG’s missing iPod. It was shoved down in the crack of one of the club chairs in the living room so when I took the cushions off to vacuum in the cracks I found it.

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  84. So pencils go fast in the School of Mumsee, I guess?

    Kim, yep, I am getting totally sidetracked. But I am determined. A new refrigerator will likely be delivered sometime late next week and I really want everything else in the kitchen to be all perfect!

    Otherwise, the refrigerator might just run away.

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  87. Donna, that’s the way I felt when I was waiting for my new oven & cook top to be installed last month. Unfortunately, when you clean a room, it just gets messy again and you have to do it all over. Maybe that’s why it’s easier to clean someone else’s house, you know their mess isn’t your fault. 🙂

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  89. Remember to check prayer requests @ Something New. I am not sure if everyone knows there is a prayer thread. Also, the poll is up for another name for this thread instead of “Good Morning.” So go vote; be a good citizen of the blog!

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  90. Donna you wouldn’t believe what all I have trown away today plus a garbage bag full of papers the other day. I have a box of files to give Guy. I still have a stack of stuff to go through.

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  91. Mumsee, it’s September. Your poor children don’t get cookies (or pies, or meatloaf, or baked chicken, etc.) in September?

    At lunchtime we had house sparrows on our sunflower-seed feeder again, and my hubby doesn’t like birds that encroach on bluebird nests taking advantage of free sunflower seeds. (They’re welcome to the mixed seed, which is cheaper.) So anyway, I said, “Where’s the sparrow hawk when you need one?” and we joked about “installing” a kestrel (but making sure it stays away from the other birds).

    Minutes later, he said with whispered excitement, “Honey, look over there!” Just a few feet away on the ground was a red-tailed hawk with its prey, presumably one of those same sparrows. He saw it come in, but I didn’t.

    The feeders are rather quiet now, near the scene of the recent murder. . . .

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  92. Kim, don’t let anyone start driving your car. Be hard nosed about it. Tell them that insurance doesn’t permit it. That is most likely true. Somebody can get you into trouble when you’re 25 miles away.

    Gamecocks and Boilermakers. I like both, but Purdue hasn’t been very competitive in the Big 10 lately.

    It has been a very busy day. Chas is tired, I mean really tired.

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  93. A gorgeous day for a canoe up here. Explored ‘our’ lake and saw a kingfisher of some sort – didn’t know we had them up here. We also saw the obligatory beaver and listened to the loon calling and echoing so beautifully.

    Cheryl, I initially thought you had house sparrows for LUNCH !! Glad I read that wrong.

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  94. Pauline @ around 8.

    I think you are correct in supposing that a higher (or at least more pure) form of worship will be–and even is presently–experienced when face to face with God in heavenly realms. My guess is that Billy Graham, in making comment, probably meant here on earth in this present age.

    Peace to all!

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  95. One big bag of stuff to toss, a partially filled bag of stuff to give away, some things relocated, and 1 of 3 drawers cleared out along with hutch shelves cleared off and cleaned, ready for repurposing.

    Whew.

    Making my way around the kitchen methodically, starting at the front along the back wall.

    And, yeah, it does almost look worse now than it did before. But nice to get so much stuff tossed that I no longer could use.

    Amid it all I uncovered 2 small Consumer Reports books: “How to De-Clutter.” And “How To Clean Almost Anything.” 😉

    Cheryl’s bird story reminded me of a photo someone posted on FB this morning of a long-haired farm cat resting — and waiting — inside one of those hand-made wooden bird houses on a post in a garden.

    No birds were anywhere in sight, of course.

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  96. Yes, we go through a lot of pencils. It is fun to hear the ones who have been here longer look up when they hear one and say, “I used to do that all the time, you will get over it”. They go through a lot of glasses too.

    Nope, they don’t get those things until mid September or later usually. But they are kind of like locusts setting in, there is nothing left when they leave the table. I suspect they don’t really care what it is as long as they can eat it. Two times in the past few weeks, they have been to help other people and the other people offered to feed them. We let them. The other people commented, “wow, your food bill must be enormous” and hastened to make more food.

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  97. I, too have been pondering the quote for the day and what Pauline and davidap had to say about it. I guess the word unselfish is important because I kept thinking God said He wanted obedience, not sacrifice and I can see how it could be easy for Christians to get all caught up in service even if it is not the service to which they are called. The unselfish part would indicate it is the service He has called them to.

    The praise would be our response to salvation, get out and reach the people. But are we not to praise Him beyond the gift of salvation, just for Who He is? It is a good quote though.

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  98. Mumsee

    Unselfish service is the kind that would have a person give their life for another; it is unconditional. I think Rev Graham was speaking to the better angels of Christians with the use of the word unselfish.

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  99. Donna, I sometimes come across those two books in the midst of our clutter! 🙂

    I think the best advice that I have used is in order to clean rust stains use a mix of vinegar and salt. The other is if you get anything greasy on your clothes you can put some flour or cornstarch or talc powder on the spot and let it absorb the grease. Then you wipe away the powder. If there is still grease then you do the powder treatment again. Then you launder and usually all the grease is gone.

    I have been to Dollar General getting some supplies for Sunday School tomorrow.They have a good sale on the left over summer children’s clothes so it is a good time to get things to put in the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.

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  100. CB, it seems to me that there are levels of unselfish service and that the giving of one’s life for another is the ultimate. I have given an easy unselfish service today in getting some items for the Christmas Child shoeboxes. Actually, it is quite fun to buy those clothes especially since I did not ever have a girl to buy for.

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  101. Donna, I think I have mentioned Flylady dot net to you before. I don’t know what I did before I knew about Flylady.

    Please pray for Kathy’s family. Kathy and I were in Rainbow Girls together. I was born in January, she was born in May. She had a brain tumor that was cancerous. She died this afternoon. She leaves behind a husband, two sons and a daughter.
    This is actually harder for me than I thought it would be.

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  103. Chas, I already have to pay higher insurance rates because I drive people around in my car. My other thought is why would I make a payment on a vehicle, pay the insurance, put gas in it, AND LET SOMEONE ELSE DRIVE IT and me be stranded without my own transportation?????

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  104. Kim, have you ever checked out Camp Mor (I think that is the name of it). I use to get their catalogs when my son was in scouting and they seemed to have good prices. Also, REI has some good buys at their outlet which I think you can view online. I don’t know what you would find that would come even close to what BG has in mind, but you could take a glance. She probably wants the latest and not one of the closeout items. That brand is so expensive.

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  105. Thanks. I looked at both those sites. I think I might convince Nana to buy it. She also wants some perfume and her second holes in her ears. I am not allowing second holes so I will do the other to keep from doing the third.

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  106. Ouch, 2nd holes I never understood, let alone 3rd or 4th holes going all the way up the ear. Or the nose thing.

    I do know about flylady, was bombarded with emails from them for a while, but haven’t checked their website. Thanks for the rust advice, Janice, it just so happens that I noticed some rust along the rim of my casserole pot as I was putting it away.

    OK, so things are coming along but I’m far from finished. Still, the bakers rack looks great, very uncluttered, as does the yellow secretary desk w/hutch right next to it. The desk was a piece my mom and I bought at an unfurnished furniture place across the border in Mexico the year I started college. Somehow we hauled it back to the US and together painted it (yellow with a black antique wash over it).

    It was my college desk initially, then wound up in the living room of the first apartment I shared with a friend & later in another apartment I had alone.

    Now, it’s in my kitchen (funny, because I remembered my mom saying it would be cute in a kitchen someday when we were painting it).

    I have some cookbooks on the top shelf and some yellow ware & Rowe pottery pieces that really show up nice on the shelves now that I’ve redone it and cleared away the hodgepodge of “stuff” that had landed there over the past year.

    Although if we have a good earthquake, the really big pieces on the very top of the hutch (a couple large Rowe pottery crocks inherited from my mom that I’ve never found good places for) will come a tumbling down and probably kill me.

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  110. Donna, regarding bold and italic, I tried it the other day the same way I used to on WMB and it worked. For bold, precede with left angle bracket – b – right angle bracket, close it out with left angle bracket – slash (/) – b – right angle bracket. Italics the same except for i instead of b. If that works, then this should be bold and this should be italics and this should be both.

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  113. Yep, and it’s still possible to show up without saying anything at all, like I used to do at WMB sometimes. 🙂 Only there I would sometimes make the “report comment to moderator” line on my own post bold and italic. As far as I know, no one ever took the hint and did. Oh well.

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  116. Regarding CB’s QOD, it’s Michigan since I’ve lived in Ann Arbor 17 years. Raised in LA, I used to root for UCLA. But neither tie is very strong.

    I’m rooting for Michigan more than usual tonight because I like underdogs. But it doesn’t look very hopeful. Kim, I hope you and your friend are enjoying the game.

    I was amazed when I moved here at how much the town’s sense of identity and well-being rises and falls with Michigan football. The university is big and the city is small, so the university kind of dominates everything here. In LA there were multiple schools and, though they were big, the city was huge, so the schools didn’t dominate in the same way.

    Kim, I hope you feel very affirmed that GYUTWW feels he needs four people to replace you.

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  120. No, it wasn’t Cowboy, thankfully. That would have been total disrespect.

    Some random black Lab was trotting by as I was talking to someone. He stopped. He lifted his leg. Then he ran on.

    I was still talking when the person I was talking to says, “Um, that dog just peed on you.”

    And I was right in the middle making such an important point, too.

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  121. How rude!
    I enjoy hearing about your border collies. I have a soft spot in my heart for border collies. My first dog was a border collie. I had begged and begged for a dog and one day when I was visiting my Grandpa at his farm, he told me I could have Joe for my dog but he needed to stay at the farm because he was needed to herd the cows. I was thrilled! He was such a gentle loveable dog. I went home and bragged to all my friends that I had a dog.

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  122. Donna, my husband and I took a walk in town again tonight, and I was thinking about the last time we did that when we saw that dog that looked just like Tess. Didn’t see the Tess look-alike tonight, though.

    You mentioned (or asked, maybe?) on a previous thread about whether it was a border collie. I’ll confess I do not know dog breeds very well! My Arrow #2, who doesn’t live here now, would know, I’m sure, as she worked for a veterinarian for two years before going away to study to be a Vet Tech. But I’m guessing you’re correct that the dog I saw was a border collie. If I lived in LA, I might have asked the owner, “Is your name Donna by any chance?” 🙂

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  123. Kare, what a sweet story. 🙂 I wanted a dog, too, but my dad — who was raised on a farm — always thought dogs shouldn’t really live in the city or in suburbia. (We did always have a cat.)

    But when I was about 15, my parents were putting up some outdoor Christmas lights when a little fuzzy black puppy ran up. He was wearing a red collar with a jingle bell on it (no ID tag), and my mom searched throughout the neighborhood for where he might belong (and took out ads in the newspaper), but no owner ever turned up.

    My dad was kind of grumpy about it, but agreed we could keep him while we searched for the owner. Pretty soon, of course, he was ours and we then hoped no owner would turn up!

    6 Arrows, I remember you said one of your Arrows was an animal person, probably the one who worked for the vet? And she’s the one who just moved out, right?

    Border collies come in a few different coat collars, but the black and white are a classic look and often look very much alike. Medium size, they walk sometimes in a crouch, tail low & head low.

    Watching them herd is really awesome — I’ve taken Tess sheepherding twice, but out here it’s not real convenient and they charge owners a lot of money (at least I think it’s fairly pricey). So it’s not really a practical “hobby,” unfortunately.

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  124. And the little black dog lived a good long life in our home, he was about 15-16 years old, long after I’d moved out, when he died. 😦

    My mom went on (after she was widowed) to acquire dogs after that, but she also still loved cats (though never had another one after she became more of a dog person in her later years).

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  125. Joe was a black & white rough coat. After he got too old to work, they got a black, white & tan smooth coat – she was amazing to watch. My uncle trained cutting horses and used her a lot during his training sessions. Great fun to watch.

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  126. Hi guys. Has anyone who has print subscription to World tried to log in since they changed the site? When I log in using the email and password that always gave me access to the print edition articles, it logs me in and then in about a half second it gives me a message that my session has timed out and I have to log in again. Is this happening to anyone else?

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  127. Though I have a subscription, I have not tried to log in, but did finally find some comments. Perhaps they were always there and I did not look down far enough. Perhaps they are still working out the bugs.

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  128. Hi Mumsee. I can’t even see the comments. I see where it says comments, but I don’t actually see any comments there. I assumed I’d see them when I logged in, but I can’t stay logged in long enough to find out. Can you actually view the comments without logging in?

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  130. Ree, I’m not a subscriber and I’m not logged in, but I do see comments. You might not see any because a lot of the articles don’t have any yet. The one called Mentioning Mormonism has three comments at the bottom. Can you see those?

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  133. Thanks, Kevin. I do see those comments. That’s one of the things I was trying to see by logging in–whether comments carried over. I guess that question is answered anyway.

    I guess if the same thing is happening to Donna, then I’ll just wait for them to fix the bugs. I wonder how those people who did comment were able to do so, though. Either they can stay logged in for more than .5 of a second or they type really, really fast!

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  135. Ree and Mumsee, I have a mobile subscription to WV and made a few comments to WV just to see if I could. At first, my comments appeared in triplicate. Later, this was corrected. I believe they are getting the bugs out of the system.

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  136. Donna, yes, 2nd Arrow, the one who worked for a vet and has now moved out and is studying to be a Vet Tech, is the original animal person from our family. It was she who was along with my husband when he visited a friend who, while they were standing together talking, asked if he wanted one of the kittens on his farm. Now my husband is not an animal person, never was, and never will be (and if you knew him, you would know what an understatement that is!), but my daughter who was with him, well, different story. Her heart just melted seeing that kitten, and the rest, as they say, is history. 😉

    …and over the years, three stray cats showed up here, and daughter had pity on them, and the rest, as they say, is history…

    So, we wound up with four cats. A fifth cat showed up here recently, while my daughter was still living at home, and, believe it or not, she would not take in that cat. 😯 There’s more to the story, but I should be getting ready for church now, so I’ll leave it for another time.

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  138. Interesting. I went to see if I could figure anything out on the World site and saw the store. Decided to check it out. I found a book in my shopping cart, kind of odd since I did not know the store existed. Maybe some time in the distant past, beyond my memory. Not a book I think I would have selected. Does that happen in stores? Things just get put in your cart?

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  142. 6 Arrows, interesting how there are “animal people” and “not” animal people. 🙂 I’ve often wondered what the difference is, nature or nurture.

    In my dad’s case, he grew up on a farm and I think he’s explanation was always “what’s the big deal” about animals. He was eager to escape to a life in Los Angeles when he was old enough. (Although catching him talking sweetly to one of our cats or later the dog in an unguarded moment — when he thought no one was around — always gave us a chuckle.)

    My mom grew up in a small Iowa town and, according to her 2nd cousin (which reminds me I owe her a letter), you’d walk into their house and there was bound to be a cat most anywhere you looked (not in today’s ‘hoarding’ sense, but just that cats were welcome inside, probably 2-3 at a time, and were quite at home there).

    I think she imparted a real tenderness toward animals to me as I was growing up, but perhaps there was something innate in me as well that made me very aware of animals’ existence and of my duty to make sure I always treated them kindly and even should go out of my way for their welfare from time to time.

    I know other people who are “really” into animals in a way I’m not. But I’ve always carried that “animal person” gene or childhood lesson — or whatever it is.

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  143. Chas, I’ll mention it to him, and we’ll see what becomes of that. 😉

    Donna, it’s funny that my husband doesn’t care much for cats, as his mom has always had cats and loved (still loves) them so. In fact, my kids, whenever we go to visit hubby’s parents, say, “We’re going to Grandma’s Kitties.” 🙂

    Even funnier is that my MIL’s mother reportedly couldn’t stand cats! The cat lovers/loathers seem to keep alternating generations!

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