Ricky, I subscribed to Newsmax and American Spectator. Both are good conservative magazines. World, as you all know, is also good for current affairs. And Olasky for opinion.
🙂 Get to go to dinner theater tonight, have a wonderful meal with my husband and one daughter and watch another daughter in, “Steel Magnolias”.
🙂 Get to see six of the grandchildren.
🙂 My dad is home from the hospital again. Times like this I wish I lived close enough to just drop by. He doesn’t like to not be active and seems to think he should feel great, in spite of just having surgery. He is well enough to be cranky, which is a good thing—I think. 😉
🙂 We were warmer than most of you yesterday! 43F – it was nice to see the snow melting (still have several feet of it)
😦 Back to the deep freeze today
🙂 Selecting paint colour for our trim. Husband did not want painted trim, but we can’t afford the width in real wood so…. He has agreed to a grey colour – grey is very hard to choose as it changes drastically with light sources. So I got samples and am painting the trim of the three windows in our dining room different greys so we know which will work best.
🙂 Steel Magnolias ranks up there with one of my favorite movies of the ‘modern’ era (I still think it wasn’t all that long ago, but I guess it came out a while back now 😉 ). Time flies. Some great lines in that film.
🙂 I splurged and spent $6 last night to ‘rent’ “Captain Phillips” via the ‘demand’ channel. I’d wanted to see it in the theaters but never did (though I guess it’s still showing). Very intense.
🙂 Our strange, weeks-long winter “heat wave” of 80-degree, sunny weather finally broke and we’re back down in the 60s, overcast, with lots and lots of fog.
😦 But still no rain in sight.
🙂 Looking forward to our eschatology conference at our church next weekend. They’ve tongue-in-cheek billed it as “The End of the World as We Know It,” which does catch people’s attention. Looks like lots of good, Christian-academic speakers from different theological perspectives lined up.
😦 Very cold temperatures (Tuesday we’re supposed to have another sub-zero “high,” it has been a week and a half since we’ve been above freezing, and we aren’t expected to get above freezing again this month. If predictions hold, only six days this whole month will we have gotten above freezing.)
😦 Wind combined with the fore-mentioned conditions.
🙂 I have gotten some more lovely photos, and we’re warm and dry.
🙂 I’m making good progress on two photo books I’m making from the family photos I scanned in last week. (I’m getting copies of one for the whole family–and putting the scanned photos on flash drives so they can have copies of all the ones I didn’t include in the book–and a book of photos of my own childhood for myself.) Mom mostly used magnetic photo albums, so getting them scanned in will help preserve them, and getting them in book form makes them more “accessible” than they are now, scattered in various photo albums and loose in envelopes.
🙂 This week we signed up to go to an eagle watch next month. Hopefully conditions will allow us to and allow us some good sightings (and some good photographs). I’d love it if we can see a golden eagle or two (they say they sometimes do, and I’ve never seen one), but am of course mostly interested in the bald eagles.
One of my FB friends, a teacher at one of our local Catholic schools, studies eagles in the wild. We have a nesting pair of bald eagles on Catalina Island, just off our local coast, that are on “eagle cams” every year as their eggs hatch and the babies grow — looks like the season is about to begin.
😦 A red-bellied woodpecker hit our living room window hard yesterday.
🙂 He survived the impact, and we got him rescued before the cat came around the corner of the house.
🙂 Sixth Arrow was my helper. She stepped out onto the porch, barefoot and in her jammies, and held the door open for me as I brought the bird, which I had gently put in a cardboard box and covered it with 5th Arrow’s coat, into the house.
🙂 We found a warm, dark, quiet place in my bedroom to give him time to recuperate in his box. Sixth Arrow wanted to pet him, and I told her she could very lightly touch his back, but to be careful not to frighten him.
🙂 She very gently touched the feathers on his back, and then was content to let him be.
We occupied ourselves with other things, and went to check on him about an hour later. I was not sure in what condition we would find him. He had been much less responsive than most of the other birds who had hit that window in the past.
🙂 We walked in the bedroom and were greeted with noises of a bird trying to escape his confinement.
🙂 We carried the box back out to the porch, lifted the coat off the top, and away he flew!
🙂 Yay for rescuing small animals in distress! Bet the cat was bummed, though.
🙂 Busy chore morning for me, had to go to the vet’s to pick up some medication for Tess, then stopped at the UPS place to throw something in the mail, then to the shoe repair next door to get an extra hole poked in one of Cowboy’s older leather collars that always was just a smidgen too tight for my taste; then to the grocery store to pick up all the stuff I needed for a church casserole, chopped up the onions in advance and now the dishwasher’s running.
🙂 I actually remembered to bring bags into the grocery store with me. We’ve gone bag-less here in L.A. to save the sea life so unless we want to pay 10cents extra for a brown paper bag, we now need to bring our own bags into the stores with us. I almost always forget.
😦 Got a recall notice on the Jeep. I’d read that it was coming, but the notice says they don’t have the replacement parts so they’re going to send me another notice when I can bring the car in. I don’t think I’ve ever had a car that’s been recalled for anything before (I drove all VWs before getting the Jeep in ’08).
🙂 School began this week. Still waiting to see if the new girl arrives. and one of my other students hasn’t returned yet.
🙂 it was a nice, easy week. I gave them time and space to get reacquainted and used to the longer school day.
🙂 I gave myself a break too and drove everyday and didn’t go back to the weight room until Friday after six weeks off.
😦 so much rain!! The grass on the playground is quite soggy. Good thing we have kinder kids bring extra clothes, because it is easy to slip in the mud.
😦 Reports of lots of thievery going on around here. Bike locks cut and bikes taken etc.
🙂 My oldest brother and I are comparing notes and putting together pieces of our family puzzle. Would you believe neither of us knew the names of either of my father’s parents, he didn’t know the name of my mother’s dad, he wasn’t sure of the names of my dad’s siblings (I know the names, but not the birth order), and none of us owns a photo of my paternal grandfather?
I’ve known for a while that my maternal grandfather was born 99 years to the month before me; I didn’t realize Dad’s father was only three years younger, and thus 96 years older than me. (Add three years to those ages and you have their ages when my youngest brother was born!) We also have not one single photo of Dad before he met Mom (at age 35). Both sets of grandparents had more than ten years between the spouses, and all three families (Mom’s, Dad’s, and ours) had children “late in life.”
I found a photo online of my paternal grandparents’ grave (well, my husband found the photo, actually) and also one aunt in that same cemetery. My youngest brother lives close enough that he could visit them if he wanted!
Wandering Views 
Once upon a time, National Review was the only conservative magazine. Sadly, it is becoming The Wimpy Conservative magazine.
http://www.vdare.com/posts/hmm-are-they-coming-for-mark-steyn
My solution: Move the NR offices from Sodom (NYC) to Lubbock or Hattiesburg.
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Ricky, I subscribed to Newsmax and American Spectator. Both are good conservative magazines.
World, as you all know, is also good for current affairs. And Olasky for opinion.
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😦 It is cold
🙂 I was smart enough to buy my husband a thick fleese bath robe last year for Christmas. It is quite warm.
😦 We had icy road conditions last night and BG had her first baby sitting job that her dad allowed her to drive to. I was one worried Mama.
🙂 I sent her instructions on how to drive on ice and what not to do.
🙂 She made it home safely and I was able to relax.
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🙂 Get to go to dinner theater tonight, have a wonderful meal with my husband and one daughter and watch another daughter in, “Steel Magnolias”.
🙂 Get to see six of the grandchildren.
🙂 My dad is home from the hospital again. Times like this I wish I lived close enough to just drop by. He doesn’t like to not be active and seems to think he should feel great, in spite of just having surgery. He is well enough to be cranky, which is a good thing—I think. 😉
🙂 Having so many who pray with us!!!
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I watched Steel Magnolias again a few weeks ago. I love it. Being from the South, I know those people.
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🙂 Life is good in spite of the roller-coaster weather we’ve had- 0° or colder one day, near 40° above the next.
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It was 23 degrees this morning. A virtual heat wave.
Don’t laugh. That’s 20 degrees warmer than yesterday. I can handle 23 degrees.
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🙂 We were warmer than most of you yesterday! 43F – it was nice to see the snow melting (still have several feet of it)
😦 Back to the deep freeze today
🙂 Selecting paint colour for our trim. Husband did not want painted trim, but we can’t afford the width in real wood so…. He has agreed to a grey colour – grey is very hard to choose as it changes drastically with light sources. So I got samples and am painting the trim of the three windows in our dining room different greys so we know which will work best.
🙂 I love decorating
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🙂 Steel Magnolias ranks up there with one of my favorite movies of the ‘modern’ era (I still think it wasn’t all that long ago, but I guess it came out a while back now 😉 ). Time flies. Some great lines in that film.
🙂 I splurged and spent $6 last night to ‘rent’ “Captain Phillips” via the ‘demand’ channel. I’d wanted to see it in the theaters but never did (though I guess it’s still showing). Very intense.
🙂 Our strange, weeks-long winter “heat wave” of 80-degree, sunny weather finally broke and we’re back down in the 60s, overcast, with lots and lots of fog.
😦 But still no rain in sight.
🙂 Looking forward to our eschatology conference at our church next weekend. They’ve tongue-in-cheek billed it as “The End of the World as We Know It,” which does catch people’s attention. Looks like lots of good, Christian-academic speakers from different theological perspectives lined up.
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😦 Snow and more snow.
😦 Very cold temperatures (Tuesday we’re supposed to have another sub-zero “high,” it has been a week and a half since we’ve been above freezing, and we aren’t expected to get above freezing again this month. If predictions hold, only six days this whole month will we have gotten above freezing.)
😦 Wind combined with the fore-mentioned conditions.
🙂 I have gotten some more lovely photos, and we’re warm and dry.
🙂 I’m making good progress on two photo books I’m making from the family photos I scanned in last week. (I’m getting copies of one for the whole family–and putting the scanned photos on flash drives so they can have copies of all the ones I didn’t include in the book–and a book of photos of my own childhood for myself.) Mom mostly used magnetic photo albums, so getting them scanned in will help preserve them, and getting them in book form makes them more “accessible” than they are now, scattered in various photo albums and loose in envelopes.
🙂 This week we signed up to go to an eagle watch next month. Hopefully conditions will allow us to and allow us some good sightings (and some good photographs). I’d love it if we can see a golden eagle or two (they say they sometimes do, and I’ve never seen one), but am of course mostly interested in the bald eagles.
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One of my FB friends, a teacher at one of our local Catholic schools, studies eagles in the wild. We have a nesting pair of bald eagles on Catalina Island, just off our local coast, that are on “eagle cams” every year as their eggs hatch and the babies grow — looks like the season is about to begin.
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😦 A red-bellied woodpecker hit our living room window hard yesterday.
🙂 He survived the impact, and we got him rescued before the cat came around the corner of the house.
🙂 Sixth Arrow was my helper. She stepped out onto the porch, barefoot and in her jammies, and held the door open for me as I brought the bird, which I had gently put in a cardboard box and covered it with 5th Arrow’s coat, into the house.
🙂 We found a warm, dark, quiet place in my bedroom to give him time to recuperate in his box. Sixth Arrow wanted to pet him, and I told her she could very lightly touch his back, but to be careful not to frighten him.
🙂 She very gently touched the feathers on his back, and then was content to let him be.
We occupied ourselves with other things, and went to check on him about an hour later. I was not sure in what condition we would find him. He had been much less responsive than most of the other birds who had hit that window in the past.
🙂 We walked in the bedroom and were greeted with noises of a bird trying to escape his confinement.
🙂 We carried the box back out to the porch, lifted the coat off the top, and away he flew!
🙂 Mission accomplished!
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🙂 6arrows!
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🙂 Yay for rescuing small animals in distress! Bet the cat was bummed, though.
🙂 Busy chore morning for me, had to go to the vet’s to pick up some medication for Tess, then stopped at the UPS place to throw something in the mail, then to the shoe repair next door to get an extra hole poked in one of Cowboy’s older leather collars that always was just a smidgen too tight for my taste; then to the grocery store to pick up all the stuff I needed for a church casserole, chopped up the onions in advance and now the dishwasher’s running.
🙂 I actually remembered to bring bags into the grocery store with me. We’ve gone bag-less here in L.A. to save the sea life so unless we want to pay 10cents extra for a brown paper bag, we now need to bring our own bags into the stores with us. I almost always forget.
😦 Got a recall notice on the Jeep. I’d read that it was coming, but the notice says they don’t have the replacement parts so they’re going to send me another notice when I can bring the car in. I don’t think I’ve ever had a car that’s been recalled for anything before (I drove all VWs before getting the Jeep in ’08).
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🙂 School began this week. Still waiting to see if the new girl arrives. and one of my other students hasn’t returned yet.
🙂 it was a nice, easy week. I gave them time and space to get reacquainted and used to the longer school day.
🙂 I gave myself a break too and drove everyday and didn’t go back to the weight room until Friday after six weeks off.
😦 so much rain!! The grass on the playground is quite soggy. Good thing we have kinder kids bring extra clothes, because it is easy to slip in the mud.
😦 Reports of lots of thievery going on around here. Bike locks cut and bikes taken etc.
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🙂 My oldest brother and I are comparing notes and putting together pieces of our family puzzle. Would you believe neither of us knew the names of either of my father’s parents, he didn’t know the name of my mother’s dad, he wasn’t sure of the names of my dad’s siblings (I know the names, but not the birth order), and none of us owns a photo of my paternal grandfather?
I’ve known for a while that my maternal grandfather was born 99 years to the month before me; I didn’t realize Dad’s father was only three years younger, and thus 96 years older than me. (Add three years to those ages and you have their ages when my youngest brother was born!) We also have not one single photo of Dad before he met Mom (at age 35). Both sets of grandparents had more than ten years between the spouses, and all three families (Mom’s, Dad’s, and ours) had children “late in life.”
I found a photo online of my paternal grandparents’ grave (well, my husband found the photo, actually) and also one aunt in that same cemetery. My youngest brother lives close enough that he could visit them if he wanted!
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