30 thoughts on “Rants and Raves 3-9-13”

  1. 😦 6:35 is too early to be up on a Saturday. But I woke up at six and realized that tomorrow this time it would be seven AM. So, get used it Chas.
    So I rolled out.
    WTZQ has a country music program from 5-7 on Saturdays. I’ve herad three Marty Robbins songs in sequence.
    🙂
    Now four.

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  2. Chas, I see you got here before I did. I thought I was first when I saw “Leave a comment” at the top of the page for the daily thread, but now I’ll have to concede you beat me. 🙂

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  3. The table at our Lions club seats eight people. Usually, it’s full. But yesterday everyone was somewhere else. I ate alone at a table for eight. When Fred came in late, as usual, he sat at another table. About forty were there, but I was all alone.
    Our guest speaker yesterday was a young lady, Christi, who had been there before. She came yesterday to talk to us about facebook.
    Mel, Elvera’s Bro-in-law, who usually sits to my left, was at the head table to introduce her.
    While we were having lunch, Mel said to Christi, “Charlie didn’t take a bath today”. Said it deliberately, so I could hear it.
    So, I finished chewing my fish, then went up to Christi and said, “It wasn’t that I didn’t shower that drove everyone off, it’s my personality.”
    She thought that was funny.
    She must have giggled several minutes.
    😆

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  4. 🙂 😦 A roller coaster ride of a week. Bad day Monday (very bad). Good day Tuesday. Bad day Wednesday (though not as bad as Monday). Good day Thursday (even better than Tuesday). So…yesterday when I woke up, I wondered if the pattern would continue: bad, good, bad, good… I didn’t want another hard day.

    God was merciful and the morning was great! Then I got tired in the afternoon, took a small nap, and woke up…grumpy. Sigh. Don’t know what that was all about, but I know God’s got a purpose in it all.

    Maybe to remind me to Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

    🙂 Having a God in heaven Who loves me.

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  5. Hi, Chas. I’m talking to myself over on the Daily Thread, so I’ll come sit down at your table here and talk to you. 🙂

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  7. 😦 Finding out this week about the death of a friend / former neighbor. (She died less than a month after diagnosis; I knew about the diagnosis, but not the death.)

    🙂 My husband has been extra romantic this week.

    🙂 A good project to work on, and some good plans for the future.

    🙂 I got to mail out several homemade cards and a large care package (which included some homemade cookies), and take a homemade bookmark to my mother-in-law.

    🙂 A nice big snowfall that was pretty but is now mostly melted. Spring has to be just around the corner, right?

    🙂 Our bird feeder is now drawing an occasional titmouse. The cardinals are coming fairly regularly, and so is the hairy woodpecker. Also a new sparrow-like bird I haven’t definitively identified. (The pamphlet of “birds in Indiana” has two that are nearly identical, including both being six inches long.) Those are in addition to 15-20 species we’ve already been getting.No indigo bunting yet, though–that’s what my husband wants. And he says past winters have brought in several rose-breasted grosbeaks, a bird I’ve never seen. For ten minutes or so this week, a redtailed hawk sat on the fence right outside our kitchen window (below the “feeder” tree).

    🙂 🙂 God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.

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  8. I love rose-breasted grosbeaks. We don’t get them in the winter, though. I wish they were around here longer. They usually arrive the last week of April or the first couple days of May (the daddies first, then the mamas a day or two or three later) in my neck of the woods.

    My MIL and I are avid bird watchers. We live in different states, but are at about the same latitude, so our grosbeaks arrive around the same time. Every year it’s a race to see which of us gets a grosbeak first. In recent years, I’ve been winning, and enjoy rubbing it in a little. 😉

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  9. I forgot to say that our grosbeaks disappear usually in August, so they are not here long. One year, though, there was one still hanging around on my birthday (September 9), so that was a nice and unexpected birthday gift! 🙂

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  10. 🙂 A snow day on Wed.

    🙂 Mr. Klasko’s contract was renewed for 5 years and finalized.

    🙂 I got rid of another Bradford Pear Tree. (two down (two and a gum tree to go! 😉

    😦 Homeowner Nazis are making us pave our pipestem – our share will be about $2000. (Grrr!)

    🙂 My son has 3 new opportunities, one at his current job. But none of them are guaranteed.

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  11. 🙂 Saturday

    😦 The time change. This one’s hard for me to adjust to, I’m afraid; mornings are just not my favorite time of day — and now they’ll seem so much earlier.

    😦 Ran into an older friend/former co-worker last night at the store who recently lost her husband to cancer. We chatted for some time in the parking lot after we’d both checked out. So many tough transitions we all have to go through in this life.

    😦 My former editor also has been diagnosed with cancer. And there are several terminal cases within our church, including our associate pastor.

    🙂 A “possible” freelance writing project that could be profitable for me, though it’s all quite tenuous and likely won’t happen. Still …

    🙂 Looking forward to getting some things done around the house today, including clearing out a pantry cupboard that’s become really disorganized and possibly grabbing some things from the closet I no longer wear to pick up again on that Salvation Army bag I have in the works. I may even go out and pull a couple weeds. The birds are singing and the sun is out this morning, following a couple of cold rainy days.

    🙂 Knowing I belong to God. I am His and He is mine. No matter what comes.

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  12. I work and go to church about an hour from where I now live. A wonderful couple from church realized that and (without me even mentioning it) invited me to have dinner with them every Thursday so that I’d have some place to go between getting off work and going to choir practice. They are older – in their 70s (which is looking younger and younger to me these days) and are on a very tight budget.

    Anyhow, three weeks ago, she mentioned that she’d dropped her wedding ring in the bedroom. Since then, she’s told me about the great lengths they’ve gone to trying to find it, to no avail. They even had their neighbor go down the basement and open the heating ducts to see if it had fallen there. She took the opportunity to take her engagement ring to the local jeweler to be cleaned and have the prongs tighten. Well, he went back down to the jeweler by himself and asked if he had a wedding ring that matched the engagement ring. The original had five tiny diamonds in it and amazingly, the jeweler had one from an estate sale years ago that was almost identical but with six tiny diamonds in it. He cleaned it up, resized it, and soldered it to the engagement ring (all for about half of what the ring was worth). They went to pick it up this Thursday morning and, of course, she was totally surprised. All she could talk about at dinner was how happy she was, how awesome that he’d done that, and that even the jeweler was excited to participate in the surprise. I told her it was just about the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard.

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  14. Chas, she did empty the vacuum bag (because everyone kept telling her to, even though she was sure she hadn’t vacuumed it up) and it wasn’t there. They also have a mesh filter over the washer hose, so it didn’t wash down the drain. I know it is there somewhere and every week I resist the temptation to ask if I can go in and look for it. p.s. they have a cat – that might be a clue!

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  17. 🙂 Chas’s wit.

    🙂 Hand surgery went well. Can’t wait to get this soft cast off later today.
    🙂 Because of the surgery, my students have been nicer to me.

    🙂 Found out my oldest niece (33) expecting her first child after 2 years of marriage.

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  18. 🙂 The sun is shining brightly today

    😦 Still have at least 3 foot snowpack

    🙂 Work on the kitchen floor is going well

    🙂 Time to go and cut a few more boards

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  19. The clouds are heavy and ominous today.
    The snow is gone and weeds and grass are growing.
    We flew kites again yesterday.
    The best kite fliers were the youngest two with their simplest kites.

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  22. 🙂 It’s kite weather out here today, beautiful, bright blue skies and a cool, almost chilly wind.

    🙂 But for us, of course, it’s dog park weather instead. Time for the regular Saturday jaunt to let Cowboy get his romping in with all the other doggies.

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  23. No matter what the clock says, it’s too early to be up.
    Elvera says they took an hour from her life. She’s convinced that if she dies before Nov. 3, she will have lost an hour of her life.
    When I was a kid in SC, they used to call it “fast time”.
    I told you before, Elvera says that when she was a girl, she knew a family that didn’t own a clock.

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  28. Cool, Karen! And glad to hear Emily & Forrest got safely home. 🙂

    🙂 Listened to the entire recording of Handel’s Messiah yesterday that I checked out of the library last week. I pulled out my piano/vocal score of the work and sang the alto parts on every chorus and some of the recitatives and arias. Some of the pieces I had sung in college, others I had never sung before.

    🙂 I was very invigorated after all that singing, and had one of the best days I’ve had in a long time!

    🙂 It looks like we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel WRT hubby’s work schedule. If all goes according to plan, two new people start tomorrow, another one starts a week from tomorrow, and the one gone for military training returns two weeks from tomorrow, March 25. If all of that happens as expected (and we are cautiously optimistic that it will this time), then March 25 will be the first day that hubby will be working normal hours without the overnights. Only two more weeks of overnights and I get my hubby back — yay! 🙂

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  29. 🙂 Yay for Karen. And 6 arrows, so glad your schedule looks like it’ll soon stabilize.

    😦 I don’t know why this particular time change throws me the way it does. But every year it just sort of puts me out of whack for sometimes several days. I took a 2+ hour nap today after church.

    🙂 Got caught up on my Bible reading this evening, I had fallen behind a couple days.

    😦 We begin a new computer operating system at work this week which should add to our already chaotic existence. 😦

    🙂 Working on a new project story about WWII vets (students and faculty from ucla who never came home from the war). Reading through some of the handwritten letters from parents regarding burial instructions & the government documents that list the effects of the deceased or missing being sent back home, I can hardly get through it without crying.

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