35 thoughts on “Rants! and Raves! 8-3-13”

  1. Yesterday was Becky’s birthday. 🙂 The Beck’s a grown woman now.
    A week ago, Chuck & Linda moved into a new house they had built. 🙂
    So, in just a few minutes, we’re going to Greensboro to celebrate. 🙂
    Since we’re leaving soon, and we’re having lunch in Hickory, I didn’t get my waffles and bacon this morning. It was the old cold cerial and wait for me. 😦

    🙂 I did get the backyard mowed after Lions yeaterday. It had been too wet all week and grass was getting high.

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  3. 😦 Went to bed last night, and woke up this morning, in a lot of pain. Tomatoes need to be only a rare part of my diet now . . . but what do you do when you ate chili for lunch and one of the girls made homemade pizza for supper?

    🙂 After a couple Pepto, some applesauce, and a nap, I’m feeling better now, and I actually did sleep OK (without pain) last night.

    🙂 This week I got good photos of a large gathering of wild turkeys (my husband estimated about 20), inclduing poults of two different ages (and my husband had never seen turkeys fly before), a kestrel, and several different species of butterflies landing on our coneflowers.

    🙂 And just now I got a highly unusual photo: from my window I could see a couple star-shaped yellow flowers, but could not see what they were. I went out with my camera to find they’re a pair of dandelions, but apparently the rain caused them to “clump” together in this very unusual formation. (They had grown extremely tall against the fence post, and the stem had weakened or broken to the point they were lying in the grass.)

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  4. 😦 Clothes shopping with the Kid today. My default plan is to find one outfit that satisfies him, me and the school and buy it in every color.
    🙂 Today is no tax day in Alabama. You don’t have to pay taxes on school supplies or children’s clothes.
    😦 He’s getting so big. I may have to move up to small adult sizes on some things. I know he out of the children’s sizes in shoes. I don’t think they will be covered under no tax day.

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  5. 🙂 Finally some nice weather again for working on the siding

    🙂 Hubby worked until 4:30am last night and has already gotten 2 phone calls this morning – he mumbled something about loving his job as he crawled into bed last night

    😦 2 phone calls waking up hubby – hope he gets some more sleep

    🙂 Made it through 1 1/2 weeks with my folks here. I feel closer to my stepmom after this visit as I see what she has to put up with re: my dad. We had a few shared moments and when I was grumpy and frustrated, she gracefully forgave me. I am very grateful to both of them for all their support and love. Thank you for praying for me.

    🙂 Lots to do today, painting window trim, picking peas, mowing lawn, painting windows again, shelling peas.

    🙂 A bear left his sign in our garden this week

    😦 Now I take the bear spray with me when I go picking and I keep looking around more often

    Cheryl, I’ve only ever seen 2 wild turkeys at one time, and I love kestrels!

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  6. kBells, my hunch is they will be covered under no-tax day. Tennessee had that one too, and I think they would include shopping for college–adult sizes would be included, as far as I know.

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  9. Mumsee, our whole yard is saskatoons, chokecherries, hazelnuts with an apple tree and 2 cherry trees thrown in by people! That’s how we could tell it was bear sign – all the pits!

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  12. Bears focused on food are easily surprised. Don’t surprise her. Make a lot of noise when you go out, sing alleluia to the Lord, and carry a big stick.

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  13. I don’t have a bear dog, but I do have a dog who is scared of everything and barks loudly. He’s also very fast, so I’m assuming he will be able to outrun a bear. I will use him as my warning system along with being very aware!

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  16. KBells,

    Sorry, but that made me 😆

    It happens. I had that happen to me a few a times. Go to the hardware store with Dad, come home grounded. My Dad would say to Mom, “we’ll everything was fine until your son decided to……” Fill in the blank. I was always her son at those times. 🙂

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  17. 🙂 Made some decisions this week that have given me some tentative peace. So much depends on the decisions some others have to make.

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  18. AJ, your post reminded me of the text I sent Hubby once in reply to “How’d the ball game go?” My answer, “My baby made a double play. That boy of yours lost his cap.” To clarify, we only have one child.

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  19. I had one child that I just quit taking shopping with me, this child always wanted everything in the store. Older sisters got to babysit while I shopped.

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  22. 🙂 Took my friend around today to get 3 estimates for eyeglasses (The Dept. of Mental Health is paying for them). Sears has a really good deal on prescription glasses right now and, of course, Walmart is always an affordable option too. Glasses are so expensive anymore, especially if you need progressive lenses.

    🙂 We had lunch afterward, so it was a nice day & I enjoyed the visit since I hadn’t seen her in a few months.

    😦 The cat is desperate — DESPERATE — to get out of the house. She tried escaping (unsuccessfully) as the dogs and I were coming and going on the walk tonight. Then I caught her scratching at one of the window screens seeing if maybe she could break out that way.

    🙂 I’m going to bed early tonight I think. After watching a very stressful mountain climbing movie (why do people do stuff like that when they’ll probably just die?) I’m beat. Mountain climbing is hard exercise, even when you’re sitting on the sofa just watching.

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  23. 😦 I need new glasses and am not looking forward to the cost without insurance. Sams Club helps. Progressive lens etc. add up. 🙂 However, I am so blessed to be able to get glasses. I would have hated to have to go through life, virtually blind!

    🙂 Wonderful visit with our grandson. He came alone for a few days. We made cereal bars together, bread (with a machine for the dough part) and blueberry muffins with mostly berries he picked. He was so excited to be able to bring most of that batch home for his family to enjoy.

    🙂 We also were able to bring him down the road to show him the lumber operation going on at a clear cutting site. We happened to be there at the right time, because we had a man there who could tell us where the lumber would eventually end up. It would be made into two types of paper, 2X4 lumber and rayon. One of the local paper companies spent over $800,000.00 to put in machines for the rayon. the paper industry is so down, they had to change what they made. The machines used to strip the branches off the trees were fun to watch. I wish he could have seen how the trees are felled, too. Can’t have everything. 😉

    🙂 My husband was nine when he first began going into the woods and peeling pulp for his own school clothes and any extras. That was only a year older than this grandson!

    🙂 Husband did well in the local fiddle contest. He moved into the championship round and came in fifth over all. It was good to see many of the former contestants again. This contest has been moved and taken over by new people. I hope it will keep going. It is good to see the children taking up fiddling.

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  24. Yes, congratulations on the new grandbaby. What a joy!

    Wild turkeys are fun to watch.

    Karen, it is so difficult when so many other’s decisions dictate much of what you can do. Praying all works out for the best.

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  25. kathaleena, do check out Sears (assuming the eyeglass lens sale in all their stores nationally). It’s 60% off the lenses if you buy a frame. Second pair with frame purchase is 75% off. Through Sept. 17 I think.

    Costco also is excellent for saving money on glasses, but I’ve let my annual membership there lapse so would have to buy that again ($50+?) on top of the glasses if I went there.

    I do have insurance to use, I forgot to ask Sears when we were there if you could apply that on top of their sale deal. Don’t see why not …

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  28. Our visit to Greensboro was the opposite from what Ann’s appears to be.
    Becky had a BD party. (She’s at the point where we no longer mention age.) There were 13 of us there. Fourteen if we count the one Mary’s carrying. But she/he/it doesn’t eat anything now and appears to be satisfied. It was interesting to hear Becky (she has 3) tell Mary how to tell when they start moving. Mary is scheduled for 9 January. So, it’s a while yet.
    Chuck’s pastor preached a good sermon from Rev. 1. You don’t hear many sermons from Revelation now days.

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  29. 🙂 I think it was Revelation our pastor was preaching through years ago when he stopped in the middle of the sermon. He had just quoted something from a popular commentary that suddenly struck him as inconsistent with the scriptural text. So that sermon series ended abruptly and unexpectedly (and apparently not too many people objected), leading him into a long period of personal study of the book and of eschatology in general.

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  32. He is, kathaleena. I so respected him for telling that story (which happened before my time at the church — and before the church joined our denomination).

    He was accused of leading a cult at one point because he didn’t automatically accept what was the popular view of eschatology at the time (in truth, of course, there are several positions on the end times that fall within the pale of orthodoxy; unfortunately, sometimes one of the positions becomes overwhelmingly popular in the culture and takes over — to the point that the other positions begin to sound heretical).

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