Good Morning!
And Happy Saturday! 🙂
On this day in 1801 a 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
In 1861 the Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, VA.
In 1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
In 1917 the draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
In 1942 the first detachment of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
In 1944 an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler’s Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
In 1944 U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He still votes in Chicago to this day. 😯 Kidding, mostly.
In 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
And in 1976 America’s Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.
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Quote of the Day
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
Thomas Jefferson
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First up today, in honor of Mr. Armstrong and Aldrin’s accomplishment……
Next, one of my favorites has a birthday today. A master of his craft, Mr. Santana.
And Chris Cornell has a birthday today as well.
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Anyone have a QoD for us?
Wandering Views 
I watched the moon landing on TV that Sunday evening.
I was working in the Extraterrestrial Branch of the Army Map Service at the time. We made the maps for the Apollo 11 landing site. -And all the others too.
I became chief of that branch in 1972. It was called the Astrotopography Branch then. The Air Force’s ACIC (Aerial Chart and Information ) made some landing site maps also. But, just by chance, they never landed at any ot their sites. Several potential landing sites were selected and mapped. They used the maps to train for their approach to the Lunar landing site.
We also mapped the Surveyor III site. It landed in a crator. I still have a copy of those maps.
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Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
I pray that we never lose our respect for those who are called to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. That we come to a full understanding that they are there to equip is for the Work of Ministry and to help us to avoid false teaching that leads people away from God. That speaking the truth in love is the hardest thing for us to do, but we must speak the truth and not be silence by society. That we are to work together and grow together as one body.
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That’s pretty cool Chas.
That’s what I love about you folks, you’re an interesting bunch. 🙂
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Your worst days are never so bad that they are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that they are beyond the need of God’s grace. –Jerry Bridges
I read this in an email devotional from Warren Peel this morning. The subject was good days and bad days, and how we feel less acceptable to God when we sleep in, skip our quiet time or just make a quick fix of it, get all grouchy with others and basically are in a slump, versus when we get an early start, read and pray for a long time, enjoy our families and get a lot done for the Lord. How do we pray at the end of the day? Either way, we should pray: “Father, how glad I am that my standing before you doesn’t depend on my performance today, but on Christ’s performance for me.”
So, my fellow Wanderers, whether today is the best day of your life, or you have “one of those days” remember that God looks at “Jesus in us, the hope of glory.”
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Note to Pastor Roy: I enjoy your scripture posts with commentary, but I wonder if you are not getting them from a source and not citing it. There are copyright laws, so please give us a hint as to where you got them. I say this because you have admitted in the past that you have a hard time with spelling and grammar, and while most of your posts reveal that problem, these are written in a different style than you usual.
Please take no offense in my request, brother. I just don’t want you or AJ getting in trouble with the copyright police.
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Good night all. I agree with AJ, what a cool job Chas. I love maps, but can’t imagine making one of the moon.
I was so tired tonight after working in my classroom all day and then going to the weight room that I couldn’t stay up til 9 for AJ to post. But I woke up and had to check in.
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Good Saturday Morning all…and evening to you Jo!
Thanks for sharing that word with us Peter…you don’t know how I needed that this morning! Distractions of life seem to be the bane of my existence much of the time…and my soul longs to sit long stretches of time…alone…with Him….and then the guilt floods in….words such as you have shared centers me once again…God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world….and His Word is true…
Have a blessed day everyone…
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Good Morning all.
I safely arrived home about 2 am this morning. Amos was “twitterpated” when I walked in the house. He isn’t used to people stumbling into his house at that hour. He jumped and ran around and wiggled and did everything to show his happiness.
It struck me this morning that with all the airport security we have now, you just can’t have a good old fashioned welcome home. It used to be that your loved ones were waiting at the gate for you and you could get a big hug and kiss and a show that you had been missed.
Today you text from the plane that you have landed. You head to baggage claim, grab your bags, receive a text that your husband is circling the parking lot again, stand around waiting for him to show back up, throw your bags in the back, hop in the truck, and leave so that the car behind you can pick up their person.
Just in case anyone is wondering, I haven’t given a thought as to what is for lunch!
Mumsee, please tell IdahoMike I can see my dining room. While I was gone somebody got busy going through boxes and cleared my house up. I assume everything is in storage.
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i will let him know.
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Chas, how fun that must have been for you to watch the landing — I’ll ask that age-old reporter question, how did that make you feel? 😉
My grandmother was visiting us from Iowa — and she couldn’t understand why everyone was so excited about it all. I was a teen-ager and couldn’t understand how anyone could NOT be excited by it.
Loved Santana.
And Jerry Bridges has long been a favorite of mine. I’ve been slowly making my way through one of his books, “Trusting God Even When Life Hurts,” on my Kindle.
So Amos was happy to see you Kim? 😉 No one can carry off a deliriously happy greeting quite like a dog.
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I was thinking that.Jefferson must have thought that was the cheesiest day of his life. 🙂
Thanks, Peter L, I needed that devotional thought for today.
Chas, you have virtually walked on the moon, and we never knew 🙂
You’ve been hiding your moonlight under a basket! Keeping all that cheese for you and Elvira; better watch out or Drill will steal your cheese. He is ptobably lurking in space waiting for an opportune moment.
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Hey Chas, is your pet rock really … a … MOON rock??
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I people watch. I also talk to random strangers.
Recently, I carried on a conversation with someone who asked me if I was from LA. I responded that yes, I was from Lower Alabama. It was the answer he was looking for.
In Idaho I met a charming gentleman who was the local flirt/WWII veteran. We talked about his experiences in the war. He had quite the fascinating story. Someone had escorted him to the grocery store/coffee club. BG and I escorted him home. He trusted me with his secret that he didn’t need his walking cane, but the local widows wouldn’t leave him alone so he used it to fight them off.
I also met 10 children with various backgrounds. Each of them has a story. It’s their story, not mine so I will leave it to them to one day share and hopefully help someone else.
This morning as I was examining myself and thinking of the people I have met over the last week, I thought about how kind and accepting of me everyone was. I have to admit that I am not always so kind and accepting. This led me to the thought that when someone really gets on my nerves and irritates me what I am really reacting to is the “me” I see in them. What I don’t like in others is what I don’t like in myself.
When I realize this, I can accept them more easily. Every one of us is flawed to some degree. As I have grown older I have become less judgemental and more accepting. Perhaps by the time I die I will be almost perfect!
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I’ll leave the comments for another time. I came here to say this:
I’m reading Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy. Its fiction, of course, but Clancy has good research and insight and his situations accurately reflect the conditions. You can learn lots from Clancy. Joel Rosenberg too, BTW.
Anyhow; I came across a paragraph that reflects the situations on the ground in both Afghanistan and Mexico. P. 130.
“In some of the more rural towns in the southeast portions of the country, the cartel was the only group the citizens could rely on to provide them with jobs and protection……..
Moore had seen the Taliban engage in the same tactics and behavior as the cartels did. Both the Taliban and the drug cartels became much more trusted than the government and certainly more trusted than the foreign invaders. Both the Taliban and the cartels understood the power that drug trafficking brought them, and they used that power to enlist the aid of innocent civilians who were simply not supported are were even ignored by their government. For Moore, it was difficult to remain apolitical when you saw first hand a government that was more corrupt than the enemies you were tasked with killing.”
The main customers who support this are Americans who think they hurt no one but themselves.
Ask some of Mumsee’s kids.
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Now this is a dog greeting.
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Oh Donna that is precious…Babe did that exact same thing with me a couple of months ago and we were only gone 5 days! She “talked” the entire drive home and kept her head on my shoulder as I drove (she was in the backseat)….did I mention I love my dog! Fly of course sat in the front and “navigated” smiling the entire way home…which is only one mile from the kennel 🙂
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Peter L – I am writing the commentary from my heart. I am not using any outside source, but God’s Word.
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Re dog welcomes: When we go out of town, generally my pastor and wife care for Misten (and my pastor’s wife thanks us for the privilege). When we went for my brother-in-law’s funeral, we left her at home; both girls were going to be home, and they were OK with watching her. But we still got a fairly casual welcome, compared to what we get when we pick her up from being “boarded.”
But recently my in-laws came over for an hour or so, and Misten was happy to have “guests” and well-behaved but excited. After they left, we went to the store and went out to eat. When we returned, Misten didn’t bother to come into the kitchen to greet us. It was like she had put in her “greeting” shift for the day and “Oh, it’s just you.” But I’d had a burger and had brought her a bite, so I had to call her and then she came. But really, how lazy can a dog get? 🙂 (That’s the only time I remember her doing that. Greeting is her job, and though she doesn’t jump around–I trained her in a way that she wouldn’t greet me like that–she does come into the room and wag her tail, and sometimes she wags it quite hard and wants to dance. (She goes between your legs and pumps her back feet up and down while you scratch her rump. She’ll do it just for fun sometimes, but if she’s extra happy she’s likely to want to do it more than once, or with more than one person.)
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The dogs last night were confined to the kitchen/computer room with the doggie door to the backyard open (I usually close it off, but often that only results in Tess waking me up a couple times during the night so they can be let out; they love being outside at night).
But I like keeping the cat indoors at night so sometimes I’ll let the dogs just have the back part of the house with the yard access.
This morning when I got up and opened the kitchen door, Tess was beside herself, I guess she “missed” me. 🙂 She was dancing and jumping, jumped up onto the bed (I was going straight back there since it was Saturday) where she was all over me. Try going back to sleep when there’s a 50-pound border collie on your head smothering you.
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My father-in-law was an aerospace engineer and he worked on the electrical panels for the Apollo missions. When we took him to see Apollo 13 he complained that some of the switches were in the wrong spot. “Why didn’t they just go to the Smithsonian Institute and copy what is there?”
I, personally, didn’t notice a thing amiss. 🙂
I stayed up and watched it on television, working a jigsaw puzzle.
And what did those two astronauts do? http://www.ericmetaxas.com/blog/communion-on-the-moon-july-20th-1969/
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Michelle, thanks for that link.
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How did it make me feel?
Just like everyone else.
I was concerned about their return. That is, getting the Lunar Module back to the Command Module. That takes lots of technical smarts and coordination. Michelle’s FIL will verify that it’s a tricky operation. And it takes almost two seconds for a command from Huston to reach the moon. Once they got back to the command module, I felt that they were safe.
Elvera had an aunt who never believed they walked on the Moon. “If God wasn’t going to let them build the Tower of Babel, he certainly isn’t going to let men go to the moon!”
The same lady said that all the strange weather we were having (this was the early seventies) was caused by those rockets poking holes in the atmosphere.
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Elvera’s aunt reminds me of a James Thurber story (“The Car We Had to Push”) and a funny illustration (pg. 16 on the link):
Click to access My%20Life%20and%20Hard%20Times.pdf
“… Her greatest dread, however, was the Victrola—we had a very early one, back in the ‘Come Josephine in My Flying Machine’ days. She had an idea that the Victrola might blow up. It alarmed her, rather than reassured her, to explain that the photograph was run neither by gasoline nor by electricity. She could only suppose that it was propelled by some newfan- gled and untested apparatus which was likely to let go at any minute, making us all the victims and martyrs of the wild-eyed Edison’s dangerous experiments …
“She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up she would hastily and fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson’s or Everybody’s, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but a dangerous leakage. Nothing could ever clear this up for her.”
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The print was too small for me to read. But I told you before, that for my 25th BD, my friends got together and bought me a battery because they were tired of pushing my car. I remember when cars did have cranks. I even saw a man crank one once.
Elvera also had an aunt who would play the radio so low, they could hardly hear it. She thought she was saving electricity. I don’t think they were the same person, the first one was married to a Citadel graduate. I’m sure he wouldn’t put up with such nonsense.
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Chas, hover over the bottom of the page on that link, there should be a tool bar that appears with a magnifying glass and a + “plus” sign (and one with a minus sign) where you can make the print bigger or smaller.
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My pet rockis not a lunar rock. It is a green frog with two orange pebbles for eyes. Elvera picked it up at at a vendor of some sort.
It jumps up on me and licks my face every time I want it to.
She bought one for Chuck too. It was a guy with a guitar. It was called “Rock Band”. It was too fragile, contained too many parts, and it broke. Mine has five parts, including the two eyes.
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Actually, it would seem reasonable that if you played something on low it would save electricity. I guess. All of this stuff must have seemed so magical at the time, I’m sure it spawned all kinds of paranoia.
Why sometimes I will still look at my blinking wifi modem and it gives me pause. 🙂
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Gasp. Your pet rock has a face? !!!! You never told us that before. Wow. And here I’ve been imagining just a plain old rock all this time.
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The key that was working in the garage yesterday is not working today.
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NoNo Donna. Some artist created it. There is a smoothe rock about 3″ long 2.75″ wide and about 1.5″ high. It is painted green and has two identical smaller rocks as legs and two pebbles painted orange for eyes. It has a smiley face drawn on the front.
On the bottom is printed “Hamrocks #”
There was a fad in the mid seventies. It took some doing to make this.
It has been with me longer than any other pet. Very easy to train and clean up after.
It remembers all the tricks I’ve taught it. And has fit into the family very well.
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Someone changed the lock, Mumsee?
Nobody is talking about drugs, not even me. But I’m reading about drugs in my Clancy book.
When I was in high school, I had a good friend who attended a church that didn’t believe in doctors or medicine. Their reasoning was, the Greek word for “sorceries” in Acts 8:11, Rev. 9:21 and 18:23 is pharmikia, “medicine” in English.
I never believed that. I always thought it had to do with magic, as in Rev. 13:15. However, in considering the present day drug culture, I’m beginning to think they may have been onto something. I still think that it has to do with spells and deception, but I will not rule out the possibility that narcotics might have something to do with the “sorceries” mentioned in those places.
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I am wondering about wifi and the effects it may have on all of us at some point. I remember reading about high voltage power lines being linked to some things. Just wondering you know? So I use an ethernet cable.
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Pastor Roy- Let me just say then that your writing has improved! Keep up the good work.
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I am doing the best I can. I got an email about a job working at Farmers Insurance. Nicholas told me no, I can not get a job. I have to stay at home with him.
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Are you sitting down? I have a cell phone. Mike thought it best, as long as we are in this situation, to be able to have contact. He is right of course. He put the numbers I need in it, as well as some I don’t need, but I don’t know how to see them yet so don’t know what they are.
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So you’re texting?
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Ephesians 4:17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of[the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
I pray we listen to the warning found here. That we come to this understand of what it means to have futility of the mind and the danger of it. It seems that Society’s views on what is moral right and moral wrong are having a huge influences on many in the Christian Church. The only way to overcome such influences is to understand God’s Word and the warning found in the passages about in other passages. When we listen to the warns and we look at our lives through the eyes of God’s Word is reveals the influences that are in lives, which leads us to repenting of our sins and changing of our lives. As seen in the following passages
Ephesians 4: 20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
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Donna! 🙂
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Re – Fear of technology: My family decided not to get Wi-Fi because my mother and siblings were worried about the health effects. I have lived in several different places that have had wireless installed and never had an issue so I mildly disagreed with the decision. However, my parents were recently visiting family and they slept in the room where the wireless transmitter was. My father has SVT – a minor heart condition that causes episodes of racing heart (he has had to have his heart stopped and restarted when it went on for too long) – and he had repeated episodes at night during the visit. Was it the Wi-Fi? We don’t know.
Cell phone waves certainly worry me a little. I was loaned the use of a smartphone for a few months while away from home. I would call my mother and talk for a while (an hour or so). The phone would heat up so much after about 15 minutes that it was uncomfortable to hold against my ear (which would get hot too), so I took to putting the phone on speaker and laying it down somewhere while I talked. I could surf the internet or play games on the phone for much longer without it heating up like that, so I know it was the cell signal that was causing the heating. It makes one wonder what they do to your brain!
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Mumsee don’t give out your number or you will never have privacy again. People will always want to know where you are and why you didn’t answer.
Please remember the family I am with today as the go through the finer a l of a 25 year old. He leaves behind a son who is less than a year old. Lots of issues to be handled concerning the child and an unfit mother.
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I’ll remember them Kim.
Mumsee, you’ve posted some things I don’t understand. If the key worked yesterday and doesn’t today, that could mean several things.
1. You have the wrong key. Infinity is defined as the number of times I’ve tried to start the car with my truck key.
2. Somebody is messing with your garage. If they did it without your approval, they have committed a crime. Even the government is supposed to notify you. And changing a lock is not a trivial task. (Unless it’s one of those lock-on-a handle you can buy at Lowes.) Someone here suggested you get a lawyer. Sounds like good advice.
I’ve been praying for you. But your situation is so convoluted that I simply ask the Lord to rebuke the devil and straighten things out again.
Phos, I have WiFi. I haven’t noticed any difference. Radio waves of every frequency are everywhere. TV, AM &FM, Radar, WiFi, etc. How do you think GPS works? If radio waves were harmful, we would all be raving maniacs.
WOW, Maybe we’ve hit on something. That’s what happened to us?
But I wouldn’t want to hold a cell phone close to my head for hours at a time. That could be too much.
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I didn’t want to post this on the Prayer Thread, but just to reassure 6 Arrows and others that Elvera is the only woman I know who has the perfect husband.
So, don’t expect too much.
😉
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oh, what a lucky woman! 🙄
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Jo! Aren’t you supposed to be fast asleep about now?
It’s already Monday there. So get to it.
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Even though Emily & R often have their disagreements, she has had a good relationship with his family, often attending family events with Forrest.
Today they are having a big family brunch. Emily was “uninvited” by R’s Mom, with whom she’s gotten along well previously. Emily is “hurtin’ bad” over this. She went ahead & made the coffeecake she’d offered to bake when she was initially invited, hoping they’d feel guilty when they ate it.
With Forrest away with his other family, it’s quiet around here. A nice change every now & then. (But not too often or too long!)
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head cold kept me awake, and I couldn’t resist commenting. Heading off for staff meetings soon, I’ve already been to market and soaked the lettuce, green peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, broccoli, cucumbers, and avocados in bleach water.
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Jo, head colds are the worst. They can really wipe you out for a couple days. Take it easy if you can.
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I have a cold, too. Glad I don’t have to babysit for the next few days, although I do have some other stuff I have to work on.
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Fifty!
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Elvera is the only woman I know who has the perfect husband.
LOL, Chas! I thought as much. Thanks…I feel a lot better. 🙂
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Heat from cell phones isn’t the problem, but there is a little bit of radiation. Plus, will mumsee have a good enough signal out there in the sticks?
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The signals are weak from a comment I saw from Kim.
Probably just as well.
We don’t want to hear about mumsee getting cited for texting while mowing.
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