Good Morning!
I can’t believe it’s March 1st already.
And since it’s Justin Bieber’s birthday, some music………… 😯
No. I wouldn’t do that to you. 🙂
Quote of the Day
“Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn’t be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.”
Roger Daltrey
I picked the quote because just yesterday I viewed a video where he made similar statements. It was about the teen cancer center at UCLA, and it’s his reasoning for doing what he does with them. Here it is.
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So………
Roger and his boys get the nod. It’s his birthday too.
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Who has a QoD?
Wandering Views 
Good Morning…cannot sleep…so I’m jumping at the chance for FIRST on the FIRST!! 🙂
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Doesn’t work
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OK, so it works now. I tried twice before with brilliant and insightful statements, but they didn’t take.
Maybe because it’s Friday.
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We used to have a saying about March in South Carolina:
“In like a Lion
Out like a Lamb”
It frels like February in Hendersonville. But we are scheduled for Myrtle Beach at the end of the month. So I hope that’s true.
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Another Friday routine I’ve never told you about.
My shoes always get put where they belong.
I walk all over the house on Friday morning and can’t find them until a voice inside my head says< "Look in the closet nuthead! Elvera put them in the closet."
What happens is that Elvera vacuums the whole house (except my room) on Thursdays, and when she comes to my shoes, she puts them where they belong.
I never think to look where they belong until I realize it's Friday.
You'd think that, given it happens 52 times a year, I would learn after a while.
You'd also have to think that my mind is not on autopilot at six in the am.
But it alswys works out.
Off to the Y.
Ya'll have fun.
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Our March is coming in like a lamb…and I am in the hopes that it does not go out like a lion!
I actually collect antique sheep figures and paintings. Sheep remind me of my of my need for the Good Shepherd in my life…and His sacrifice for me.
Qod…do you “collect” anything? And why?
Have a good time at the Y Chas…hope you have your shoes on! 🙂
That Elvera..she certainly keeps you on your toes doesn’t she?!
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I grew hearing the “In like a lion, out like a lamb” saying – Canada’s March’s seemed to both enter and exit lionlike most years. March here promises to be unvarying – dry, sunny, windy, hot in the day, cool at night. What is amazing to me is that although it has been dry for four months now, the mangos are ripening and the cashews are blooming – their roots must go deep. I knew the cashew for its nut, but it also produces a fruit and they tell me it is more nutritious than an orange.
Nancy’s QoD: I collect music, books and memories. With the wandering life I’ve led since I reached adulthood, nothing else can travel with me (and I don’t like to make my parents store a lot of extra stuff for me). My books are pretty compact now, since I caved in and got an e-reader 😉
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Let’s see I am now up to four sets of china and two sets of silver. I am back to two sets of crystal as well along with some odds and ends. I got rid of a lot of my books. I also have 70-something Madame Alexander Dolls that my parents collected for me. They were supposed to be worth something one day buy a quick spin through eBay shows that not to be true. My dad brough the first one “Meg” from little women to the hospital when I was born. Many years later he brough Elizabeth Taylor in Father of the Bride to the hospital when Baby Girl was born. I immediately transferred ownership to her although I really don’t think she cares.
March seems to calmly be entering the Sunny South but February left like some sort of beast.
It is FRIDAY. I am hoping to catch up on sleep tomorrow and start to feel better. I have looked in the mirror and I know the truth—I look liked death warmed over.
Havve a great day.
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Good morning all!
The first of march here in NOVA looks about the same as the 28th of Feb. Cold and overcast and may rain some. Blech!
Collections: It occurred to me that I collect music. Digital and on CDs. I have a very ecclectic collection of music.
I have a collection of about 275 (at last count) antique period hatpins. It started as my grandmother’s collection and she gave it to me. I have added close to 50 since I’ve owned it. I think they are beautiful. I have them arranged in different vases like bouquets of flowers, but I keep them in a glass cabinet. I also have some in hatpin holders. I always try to find a new one when I have an opportunity to travel and go to an antique store. They are getting more and more expensive, but I can always find a bargain. I always barter down the price on the tag. Bartering is fun sport. And I have walked away from many hatpins when i could not get to the price I was willing to pay. I don’t shop for them often, because they are usually part of a travel budget. I buy them when I’m traveling in another place in the country. (I bought several in the Brandywine River Valley last spring.) And because I have so many, I an very picky about the ones I buy. I like silver ones the best. I also like the kind that have been made out of buttons. They are usually Civil War and WWI buttons given to sweethearts by their soldier husbands or suitors. I like collecting them because they are unique.
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I collect costume hats, not the kind of hat you can wear in public. The only things I inherited from my father were his cowboy hat and his railroad hat. My latest acquisition was a Bear Bryant style hounds tooth fedora. I am current looking out for a roaring 20’s flapper hat and an aviator cap.
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Good Morning Y’all!
The Who!
I collect every possible different version of Hot Wheel Mustang that I can find…it’s cheaper than the real thing!
I also have a lot of stringed instruments…
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Hats,
I don’t really collect them. When I see a new one I like I buy it, and I wear them all.
Giants, Yankees, and Army. That’s it, but I am thinking of getting a fedora. But not til I’m old, like 50. I look good in a cowboy hat, but I don’t like ’em.
I just realized 50 is 3 years away. 😦
OK, 60, when I’m old. 🙂
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QoD: Apparently I collect children 😉
We are in the middle of a Santa Ana thanks to the Great Basin of Nevada. The high is suppose to be 82. And the offshore winds make wonderful waves (hanging lips that curl into nice barrels). Is that lamblike?
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Come to think of it, I do have quite a hat collection. I have at least one from every country I have been to.
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Hats – my son has a top hat he wears everywhere. It never fails to garner some remark whenever he leaves the house, usually in the form of, “Nice hat!” It has become his trademark. There are lots of stories surounding his hat.
He bought it for $12.00 at Spencer’s. Best investment he ever made.
One time we were in a parking lot and some lady waved us down frantically and we thought she was having car trouble and needed help or something. No, she just wanted to tell him that she *really* liked his hat.
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And thank you, AJ for giving us the Who and not Justin Bieber. 🙂
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🙂
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I don’t collect anything and don’t have a hobby. I read a lot. Always have.
I started collecting Noah cartoons once. Have you noticed how many Noah cartoons there are?
But i didn’t have time for it and don’t have any now.
I wish I had started collecting books signed by the author in college. I would have quite a few. I only have about half a dozen. I once had a chance to have Merle Travis sign a couple of LP albums, but didn’t wait arount for it.
I now wish I had.
When we discovered that Elvera was pregnant, we didn’t have insurance and no money. So, to pay for him, we started collecting half-dllars.
Most of you don’t remember. But we used to get change in silver half dollars. We collected a big can, probably five pounds of silver half dollars. But when he came, we paid for him and still had our halves.
We spent them
It still bugs me. I could have five pounds of silver halves around. But I bought gas with them. The service station attendant -we had them then- thought I had been playing poker.
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AJ,
Just acquired a nice cowboy hat in San Antonio. It was a gift from my wife.
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I wore my derby sometimes when I was younger and I had a fedora I wore when I went out on a video shoots. It made a good viewfinder shade.
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I just posted about Noah jokes, and turned on the internet and saw one about Noah and woodpeckers.
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I seem to collect friends and calories . . . I did all the dusting as a child. I don’t like collections.
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you go to work happy come home without a job..
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What?! What happened Pastor Roy?
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the Company decide the man at the front desk position is no longer needed.
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Chas’ Noah collection reminded me that I used to collect missing link articles when I homeschooled my kids. I used the, then, Column Right, Column Left in the LA Times to teach them critical thinking and I would clip every article on a newly found missing link. I would have them read the article and then I would put it away until the article refuting that particular missing link came out, which never failed. Wish I knew where that file is now. It helped my kids think well when dealing with infalable science.
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the hire another mamanger and are hiring another services tech. The office need to cut cost ot hire these people and I was the one let go. The good side is they are giving me 8 weeks worth of pay, The sad part is I am with out a job, my wife who works on the post has been told that they will mostly go to 4 days a week with one day with out pay.. So it is going to be very hard.
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Sorry to hear that Roy, praying for you and yours.
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AJ, I could sent you an O’s cap.
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Sorry to hear about your trouble, Pastor Roy. May God bless you with an even better job to fit with your wives and is best for your family. He knows we need to make a living. I know many of us will be praying about it.
I collect angels that are playing violins. I know that they are not real representation of angels, but they remind me of God’s gracious provision for His children. I started collecting those I thought were beautiful, but found there were way too many. Since my daughter plays the fiddle and we are a musical family (other than me!) I decided to restrict to those playing a violin.
My mother once bought me many angel ornaments in the after Christmas sales, since my birthday is around that time. I will buy these sometimes when on vacation. They, along with my other tree ornaments, have meaning to me.
We have lots of books and cds, but those we don’t buy to collect, but to enjoy and/or learn from.
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I always joked that my seat was the seat that everyone got fire from….the last 2 people in that seat were fire also.
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Lol! That is to fit your “wife’s” job. Wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong impression. 🙂
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I was concerned.
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Nancyjill, I have several little sheep, too — Can’t say I actually “collect” them as I haven’t bought one in ages, but I’ll admit when I see one at a craft fair or antique shop — and they’re not too expensive — I tend to pick them up. I might have, I don’t know, maybe 8-10 of them? Sitting in old wooden bookcases that have window-pane framed glass doors so they don’t need “dusting.” 🙂
My favorite is a small carved wooden mama sheep with a black sheep baby underneath her that I bought probably 15 years ago at a harvest craft festival … I also have a couple small border collies next to them. 🙂
Yay for the Who. I went to a couple of their concerts when I was in college, they put on a very good show. And I still have some of their music in my digital library.
Pastor Roy, I’m so sorry about the job loss. We’ve had another couple layoffs where I am, too (not in our department — yet). It can be so unsettling, a lot more so when you’re the one leaving, of course. Glad you received 8 weeks of pay, I’ll pray that you find something else quickly.
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I find many of those sheep adorable, too. They are a good reminder of our being sheep and the kind of shepherd we need and have, if we are a believer.
My grandson recently asked my daughter, “What is a sheep without legs called?” The answer was, “a sheep”. I found that amusing. It made me want to look up to the sky and see how many ‘sheep’ were grazing. 🙂
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I am trying to take this as a blessing. Nicholas was crying this morning about how he did not want to go to the daycare after school but wanting me to pick him up. SO God must have heard my little guy crying so I now can pick him up.
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Yikes! that was supposed to be “a cloud”! I think my head IS in the clouds this morning. Must go on the treadmill and hope it clears out the cobwebs. 😉
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Sheep are a very appropriate symbol for Christians.
And Noah …
I have a framed folk art print of Edward Hicks’ “Noah’s Ark” in my living room.
Actually, anything Noah’s Ark is pretty appropriate for my house.
They came two by two …
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QoD: Like Adios, I collect arrows 😉
Pastor Roy, I’m sorry about your job situation, but yes, what a blessing it will be that you will be able to be with Nicholas more at this time. God is working all things for the good of your family, and I pray His blessings on all of you in this time of transition.
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Linda,
Sure, you could. But you probably won’t like what I’d do with it.
🙂
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Chas- Though you don’t collect Noah cartoons, I know you like to “collect” the Friday Funnies. And this week a few are funny.
I used to collect Matchbox®, Hotwheels® and other miniature cars. I still have over 150 of them. I collected old license plates as well. I have them form several years and a few of the states.
Now I just collect pounds and try to lose them.
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AJ- I thought you’d like to know that when D3 was building a snowman the other day, the only hat she could find was an old Red Sox helmet we have.
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I’ve had lots of collections through the years, some more “active” than others. I’ve collected post cards since I was nine, and have about two thousand of them. They’re inexpensive and don’t take up much room, but unfortunately I never “specialized,” I just got cards I liked, and so it’s rather a random collection. And no one but me would ever care about it.
I also seem to collect books, and I (sort of) collect rocks and shells–basically I just keep the ones I collected as a child, not a huge collection but pretty. I used to collect stuffed raccoons, but that collection wasn’t really compatible with combining two households, so I only kept a few favorites when I got married. (I had about 25 of them. After the first few, I looked to get only ones that were “unique” in some way, like a blue one and one that’s a bookmark, a puppet, one that has more realistic “hands,” etc.)
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BTW, AJ, my husband has several fedoras. He’s past 50, though. His favorite is a beaver felt. He bought up matching Tilly hats for our honeymoon, and we have several photos of us wearing them. He said that several years ago he decided to stop waiting till they were in style, and just get one, and he’s glad he did. He gets quite a few compliments.
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Thanks as always for the funnies link, Peter!
Why all this talk about all these Junior Circuit baseball teams? Go Braves!
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Thanks for the funnies Peter.
Reading through your comments reminded me that Elvera used to collect salt and pepper shakers. Wherever she went, she would go into one of those “Junk” stores and buy a salt & pepper shaker set. She had them spread out, in pairs, over a shelf of some sort. (Women know what that is, I think.) Anyhow, when we moved from Annandale, we had a big yard sale and was going to sell them for about fifty cents a pair. A man came by and bought the whole smash.
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By “Junk store”, I’m thinking of places like the Gay Dolphin in MB, NancyJill.
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I collect wood. I have to say, though, that most the wood I collect isn’t very collectable. Nor is it very durable when it sits outside on the ground in high temps and humidity.
I’m not much of a collector am I?
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Cheryl,
I like fedoras, so maybe I’ll give one a try.
Peter,
And just like the Red Sox, I hope the snow man has a melt down. 🙂
I once received a Red Soxs cap from a church in Mass. on Fathers Day. The Pastor, a friend of ours, thought it amusing. I gave it to my Pastor as soon as we got home. I wanted to burn it, but my conscience said no, give it to Doug.
That decision haunts me to this day.
🙂
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I remember having a straw “fedora” style hat in college which was pretty cute, I remember wearing it to a James Taylor concert — this was way back when I was younger and hipper and had really long hair and a thinner body and was much more stylish. 😉
I have a couple wide-brimmed hats, Aussie styles, that I use when I’m going to be in the sun for any length of time.
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I just realized that D1 and SIL are coming tomorrow. I found a Cardinals helmet I could put on the snowman, since he is a big St. Louis fan. But, a few years back it was against the Cardinals that the Red Sox broke the curse of Babe Ruth. So I’ll leave the Red Sox helmet out there to tease him. Besides, D1 is a Cubs fan.
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Irony: When the Red Sox won in 1918, it was the Cubs who lost.
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Roy,
Prayers for you and your family. If you have any specific prayer needs in the coming days, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Allen
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It’s quiet here tonight. How about a little peaceful music to end the day (or help combat insomnia if that’s an issue for anyone tonight — and I’m hoping it’s not) 😉
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