Good Morning!
Today’s header photo is from Donna.
On this day in 1776 France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.
In 1863 Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was wounded by his own men in the battle of Chancellorsville, VA. He died 8 days later.
In 1885 the magazine “Good Housekeeping” was first published.
In 1933 Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.
And in 1974 the filming of “Jaws” began in Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
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Quote of the Day
“The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.”
Manfred von Richthofen
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Bing says today is his birthday, but a search of his real name says tomorrow. We’ll take the man’s word for it, he was there after all. 🙂
And it’s Larry Gatlin’s too, so here he is with Johnny’s D-I-L.
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Wandering Views 
I’ll confess – I had to look up who Manfred von Richthofen was. And today was his birthday. I’m not quite sure why he thought that was a joke.
p.s. first?
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Ego mostly. Cocky, but with good reason. I’d guess it was because he was pretty much unbeatable for most of WWI. He was the most feared fighter pilot ever. 80 air combat victories, 1 or 2 losses. That last one killed him though.
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is that the Red Baron that Snoopy is always after???
A very rainy Friday night in Ukarumpa.
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Jo,
Yes.
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🙂 My woman is coming home to me today.
😦 No more sausage biscuits from McDonalds. She thinks I should eat Cheerios because they’re good for me.
Is it Friday yet?
I have to wash dishes and straighten up a bit. Also, Lions.
It won’t be bad, I pretty neat by nature.
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Good morning and evening and between. Nice to know God allows us to connect here. He is good!
The weather has turned out chilly here, again. Can’t believe I will be paying heating bills in the month of May. The heat is running right now. Weird considering Global Warming. But I guess it has to do with how in modern times bad means good and good means bad, etc. I think God is showing His sense of humor in making Global Warming be in reality Global Cooling.
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Is that a dolphin fin or…shudder…Jaws?
The water is such a beautiful color. It makes me miss the ocean.
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According to the bio. Harry Lillis Crosby was born on May 3, 1903.
It wasn’t God who made global warming, it was Al Gore and his ilk.
They made a fortune off it.
Like I said before, there was no money in the “coming ice age”.
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What’s with the green face today, Chas? Looks like you’ve gotten into some Green Eggs and Ham in addition to sausage biscuits. That green dye will tell on you every time.
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😦 My avatar has disappeared and I don’t know how to get it back.
Unlike Cheryl and others who change on a whim, I don’t even remember how I got it there in the first place. Nor do I recall where the picture came from.
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Bosley is birdwatching right now. A friend gave me another cat bed yesterday. So that makes three beds for her. When I told husband, he reminded me that she has four beds since she claimed our son’s bed, too. One of the beds will be at the office for when we are there.
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:)Husband comes home tomorrow, too! 😦 The house is a disaster, including a faint trail of muddy paw prints from the door to the bathtub. Keva was out playing in the slough last night – boy was he muddy! He’s too big to carry so he had to walk to the tub and get in himself – he didn’t even mind – guess he had so much fun in the mud 🙂 I also have not washed a single dish as every day I have come home so late from work 😦 Guess what I’m doing tonight? Ugh.
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Excuses, excuses! It’s the green eggs!
When I use to lose my gravatar there would be an area where I could enter my email address to get it back. Oh, I am thinking that is when I went Anon, but you are not Anon.
Maybe you can do a search for Gravitar and get info there to fix it.
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Dolphin or female Orca. I can’t tell.
Which is it Donna?
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Barbara Volk is the mayor of Hendersonville.
Barbara read a proclamation declaring a day of prayer for Hendersonville at yesterday’s meeting.
I told you about going to Mikes on Main for lunch and changing my mind.
As I was walking back, I noticed Barbara walking up the street from the courthouse. She saw a piece of trash and leaned over and picked it up and walked on.
I can’t vote in Hendersonville, but I wish I could. It’s little things like that that influence me.
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😕 I don’t know how it happened. At the last post, It went over to ask for my password, and when I entered it, the site returned to normal. I’m sure some of you have experienced similar things .
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Good morning everyone. I am in Arkansas this morning, then heading back to the OKC to see my beautiful Marine. Next week I have to go to Omaha Nebraska to teach a few days. Our Tom Cat ran off. We had him for 13 years. The other cat passed away and I figured that with me gone all the time and Cindi not at home, he just got bored and took off.
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Here is a QOD for you and perhaps a little fun. I love to decipher personalized license plates. This morning I am stumped.
NQRGRAZ
What do you think it means?
I have to clean house now whether I feel like it or not Aunt Lisee is coming to measure the house and take photos on Monday. Mr. P is not being pleasant over this recent turn of events and thinks I caused it because I mentioned that we might be interested in buying it. Now he has dug his heels in and won’t consider it at any price.
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Janice, Last week I bought a pretty little lined basket to keep by the door for my recycle grocery bags (to grab as I leave for the next trip). The three cats are taking turns napping in it. I said to hubby that if the tag had said “Cat bed” they wouldn’t go near it.
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Kim, could it be ENCOURAGE?
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Linda, that is funny.
Iget pretty annoyed with Bosley when I do the poop scoop and put droppings into a plastic garbage bag. Bosley thinks all bags are an invitation to jump in. So to make a yucky chore a bit more challenging I have to keep her out of the bag while putting things into it. Never realized how exciting cleaning a litter box could be. 🙂 😦
Bosley has taken to her beds more quickly than I thought she would. My friend had laundered the new one but it still had some of her cats’ hair on it. But since Bosley just boarded in a room with other cats I figured it was good timing for this new fragrance to enter our home. She hasn’t yet sleep in the new one but I had her jumping in to play in it to get use to it. At one point she hid under the pillow in it so I know she feels like it is a safe place.
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What was the brilliant QOD I thought of last night?
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Is that the question, to guess what you thought of last night?
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Here is a question. If you are married, where did you get married? If you are not married and got married, where would you choose to have the ceremony?
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My husband and I got married in the chapel across the street from the Georgia state capitol building. It was a small group and a few people were afraid to attend because it was in downtown Atlanta. That was out of their comfort zone.
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I thought of this because my friend and I spoke yesterday about how she and her husband got married in the back yard of her MIL’s home. Then they lived with her for awhile. That house was along the route my husband and I took to work daily. We were not friends at the time with this couple yet we drove by their house each day. We will both be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary within the next year. Also, we both spent our wedding nights at thr Peachtree Plaza and went to the Sundial restaurant. Then before we knew each other we had our only children about a month apart, friend’s in June and mine in July. Finally, friend and I met at our closest park when our children were four.
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We got married in our house (that we settled on just prior and got enough stuff moved in by the wedding date). We had only immediate family for the ceremony at 11:00 a.m. followed by an open house the rest of the day. That way, folks could come and go at their convenience without being tied down to a fixed-time reception. I highly recommend this approach. We lived in that house for 34 years until we moved to Pa. last year.
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Anotger connection with that friend is that the name of the road her mother lives on is the maiden name of my mother. We have many other similar things so that it seems more than just a coincidence that we became friends.
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Our heat wave is finally breaking up, thankfully. Not that I have much to complain about since I have a/c in the Jeep & a/c at the office and the nights cooled down sufficiently. The only day I had to “work” outdoors was when they sent me to the beach to do a weather story. It was 78 degrees and breezy, so I stretched that assignment out for about as long as I could.
Cats pretty much sleep where they want. Annie likes the dog beds though they’re ridiculously too big for her. She burrows down right in the center and claims it as her territory.
I’m having problems again with the dogs ripping up their dog beds leaving white puffs of stuffing all over the living room. Honestly, I’m not buying another one. Heathen animals.
At least it’s not my couch. I barricade the real furniture from them.
I’ve been sitting outside after work lately to read my Bible or just to enjoy the last part of the day (when I get home early enough; doesn’t always happen, I wasn’t home until almost 8 p.m. last night).
But the 2 wooden patio chairs I have are cute but aren’t the most comfortable — I have a chair pad (back and seat) that I use on the one which helps. But I think I might poke around to see if I can find a more comfortable (affordable) chair, something with a higher/more relaxed/slanted back (the chair I have has a short back and it’s very straight; fine for eating, not for ‘lounging’).
Probably best time to buy is the end of summer, of course — but even if it’s one of the plastic models they sell at the supermarkets it might be more comfortable that what I have.
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If I got married, I’d probably elope. 🙂
My mom and dad got married in a Presbyterian manse in Minnesota, she told me she never understood the allure of having a big, fussy wedding.
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Donna,
Nice job on the Prayer Breakfast story. 🙂
I bumped the HuffPo story I had up because yours was much better, with more detail. Well done. 🙂
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I think they were dolphins, there were a bunch of them all bobbing along right off the coast — this was the only one I was able to “catch” in a frame.
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Aw, thanks AJ — I’m only sorry I wasn’t able to reach the dobson people, they emailed me that someone would call, but of course this was very late in the day (5:30 or so) — I pestered them several times, but no one called, so we had to run it without. I saw Dobson on Megan Kelly’s show later, it was a pretty short segment though.
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Looks like dolphins to me.
And these look like cartoons. Some are not so funny.
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Everything is set. Dishes washed, vacuums that were in the middle of the floor put away, etc. But it isn’t only me. When she returns she’ll find that I’m almost out of underwear and socks, the bed hasn’t been changed on over a week, etc.
But if she gets home safely, everything else is trivial.
I tried, but can’t figure out Kim’s tag riddle. I have seen some tags that told a story, I just didn’t know what. (to make up an example: SURVVD)
I’ve told this before, but Elvera and I were married at noon in FBC Columbia. Right after the worship service. Dr. Ellis told the congregation that we would be married and everyone was invited to remain if they wished. Several hundred did.
Dr. Ellis shook hands after the service, someone came to the office where we had been locked in, and took us to the back. When Dr. Ellis was ready we walked down the aisle together. Elvera’s friend sang “Seal Us O’ Holy Spirit”, and He did. We made some promises to each other. Dr. Ellis said the magic words, we kissed and that was it. Both fathers cried.
I gave Dr. Ellis $10.00 (That’s about a dollar a minute!), the license cost $3.00. So she cost me $13.00, and it has been worth every penny.
When you see a couple of old codgers together, you can’t imagine how a man & woman in their eighties could be in love. But it happens. This evening, she will be in her LazyBoy, watching TV. That’s the way I want it to be.
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Chas 🙂
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NQRGRAZ- Inquiring raise? Encore graze? Just a bunch of random letters?
I have a college student whose plate says DES-10E. It’s her name: Destinee.
I’ve always wanted UNIQUE. Missouri has a specialized plate for the caves association. If I had an extra $100 I could join the group, then pay $50 for a plate that says IGUIDE.
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Considering the license plate. If it belongs to a person from the Middle East, they may be reading the letters from right to left. 🙂
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Mrs L and I were married in the church where she grew up, out in the middle of farm country south of Iowa City. We had Amish at our wedding, so it was interesting to see the buggies mixed in with the cars.
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I like that IGUIDE plate, Peter. At one time I was going to get a plate to support the Boy Scouts, but they did not have enough people to sign up for it. Now I am glad I did not get the plate with the current change to the organization.
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Good Morning…we have spring again…the winds are dying down and the sun feels so good to the bones! Do people get in the water and swim with those dolphins? When I was a kid, someone would bring in a big ol’ pool and set it up over at the plaza…they would bring in a dolphin and charge a dollar for the kids to look at it 🙂 I thought it was cruel to take that dolphin out of the ocean….
That makes my brain hurt trying to figure out that license plate Kim…!
Paul and I eloped 39 yrs ago this August. Blooming Grove Methodist Church, Rev.Malcolm B Greene (he looked just like Abe Lincoln) married us. What a kind man he was….it was a very stormy evening…torrential rains and flooding creeks…but we did it…and lived to tell the story 🙂
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I hope y’all got pictures of those Amish buggies. That is really cool. Do they tie cans and such to their buggies when they take off for their honeymoon?
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Chas reminds me that I don’t think I have ever told you about my Aunt Pat Pat and Uncle Sweetie Pie.
Volna was my grandfather’s older sister. When she was in her 80’s and long a widow she met her high school sweetheart in a parking lot. He had been a widower for some time. They started dated and married. If they were the sweetest thing you have ever seen. They would drive down from Meridian, MS and spent some time with us. The held hands all the time. Sat as close as they could on the sofa. She would pat his hand and call him her Sweetie Pie, thus we called them Aunt Pat Pat and Uncle Sweetie Pie—Just not to their faces.
The other adorable or gross thing she did is at bedtime she would ask him for his teeth and she would put them in the denture cleaning stuff. They really were cute and so in love.
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Internet site, Internetslang, defines NQR as Not Quite Right which leads me to wonder if Kim misread the C as G in which case it could be Not Quite Right, Crazy or maybe the G was not quite right because the tag office did not have a tag available (someone else already bought the C one) and the G was as close as possible for the saying.
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Aunt Pat Pat and Uncle Sweetie Pie!
Too funny AND too cute!
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I would appreciate your thoughts on this. I was talking to an agent here who’s husband owns a home inspection company. She has been in real estate a number of years longer than I have. She said that the landlord will be the one breaking the lease if she sells the house before our lease is up, so we are within our rights to ask for the rent x however many months we had on the lease at closing.
We all know that I am non confrontational and seldom stand up for myself so it makes me uncomfortable to do something like this.
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Hi all!
Love the wedding stories! We married in Kerrville, Texas fifteen years ago, in a ceremony arranged in six weeks by my mom and sister. There were about 250 guests at the ceremony and reception. My invitations were traditional but printed at Kinkos to save time. We had a band, wonderful food and lots of fun, though I missed the beginning of the reception because my mom couldn’t remember how to bustle my dress! I still don’t know how those two women pulled it all together in just six weeks, but I’m so grateful they did!
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I don’t think anyone took pictures of the buggies at the wedding since there are thousands of Amish in that part of Iowa (the largest concentration of Amish West of the Mississippi), so buggies at “English” weddings and funerals is a common sight.
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NQRGRAZ – could be someone’s initials, followed by where he/she is originally from. Graz is a city in southern Austria (where A. Schwarzenegger is from).
Annms – that’s nice that you got married in Kerrville. I’m from SA.
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Tychicus: I grew up in Bandera, but went to high school in San Antonio (St. Mary’s Hall).
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NQRGRAZ is initials for something. A is the only vowel in there and we need one between N & Q for anything to make sense.
Waiting for a call now.
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One of the cartoons isn’t correct. There are too many pipes in the money to politics line. It’s a direct line for money to policy in this administration. It’s railroad money vs oil pipeline. Money wins every time.
She is still two hours away. I called her cell phone.
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Annms: I went to Madison HS. It’s very different today. They just confiscated weapons from a student who brought them to school.
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Kim that seems to be what businesses do when you want out of a contract…she would have to pay however long was left on the lease…..
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Mr P handled it.
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Kim, I would check with others in the industry who you trust. Look for a consensus. Then if you feel the answer satisfies your understanding of God’s word about such things then go with it. (Proverbs is full of wisdom so look for guidance there) .If the industry answer conflicts with God’s word then ask Him for more help. Also, pray before you ask the people in the industry.
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Men come in handy at times.
With all their faults, they are good to have around.
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Amen, Chas, amen.
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She’s home. Things are going to get straight around here now. No more sausage biscuits. No more having lunch at my desk.
Dr. Jones called. He fell and broke his collarbone and wants me to teach for him Sunday.
The lesson is on Proverbs 5 & 6, “Live in Moral Purity”.
These men have been married for decades, some of them are widowers, most couldn’t carry on an illicit affair in any case. Kinda funny when you think about it.
But it presents a problem on how to handle it.
But I’ll think of something. I may not teach that lesson.
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I like the Not Quite Right Crazy theory, so far.
Yes, I would like to keep my man around. He likes those sausage biscuits, too.
We got married in the church I grew up in and that my parents still attended. It was in a school basement and originally just used for chapel time. The larger church the congregation had attended was closed. Last year the school closed.
Chas, perhaps you could encourage the older men to speak about moral purity to the younger men in their lives. It disturbs me to see things on fb or in conversation that are wrong and not have older men say a word. I know it can all be quite touchy, but I don’t think such things should be taken on by a woman. Yet, I seldom see or hear men speak up. How can older men be that right example and speak the truth in love?
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Good point Kathaleena. The only young man in my life has been married 34 years. I suspect that is true for all the guys.
I’ll pray about it and come up with something.
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I’m keeping my guy–I’d be a mess without him and everything in the house would be broken (or at least unfixed!).
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Kathaleena, I had the very same thought about the older men advising the younger men, and was remrbering how it says in the Bible that is how it is suppose to work with women. I don’t recall it saying that specifically for men like it does women, but Proverbs is all about an older man imparting wisdom to a younger man so from that I think it implies it is the right thing to do.
It might be nice for an activity for the older men to write out applications of the Proverbs scriptures and then put that in a church newsletter, Older Brothers in Christ Speak Wisdom to Younger Brothers in Christ. Sorry if I overstepped with my suggestion. I am just so used to coming up with ideas for Sunday School activities.
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I just finished mowing the lawn. A small bird got very close to me and the loud mower. It touched my mother’s heart to think she is a mother bird guarding her nest. She is so tiny and the mower is so big and noisy. She had the heart of a Mama Bear. So sweet. I needed my camera so I could ID the bird. I may go back out and see if I can see or hear the nest.
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Exactly. Welcome to my world michelle 🙂 🙂 🙂
Sweet story about the little bird, Janice
I think my daisy bush is dead. Are they hard to uproot or should I just ask the gardener to do it?
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We were married in a local Congregational church, because we didn’t have our “own” church at the time. The one Lee had been attending was too far away, & I hadn’t started attending church yet, but I was a new Christian.
The pastor of the Congregational church was a nice man, & he gave us the gospel message, which showed us that he truly knew the Lord, too. We chose to have communion during the ceremony (just Lee & me, not everybody), & I knelt on a pearl. Ouch.
Then we had a nice reception at a local beach club. (The “beach” was on a lake.) We had a band that played all kinds of music, including some Glenn Miller.
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Janice, if they have a lease and she is breaking it voluntarily to sell, it does seem fair to charge her, the same way she would charge them if they broke it.
Now, when my mother died a month into the lease on her mobile home court (which was charging something like $350/month just for a tiny little lot and water) and legally none of us children would have even been allowed to live in the mobile home (residents had to be 50 or older, and I guess my oldest brother was 50–he was a couple months past his 50th birthday–but the rest of us weren’t), it just seemed like taking advantage of a technicality. We moved the mobile home off the lot and sold it at a huge, huge loss. A fraction of what Mom had paid for the mobile home and the screened-in porch, and we even threw in the hospital bed (expensive!) and other furniture for free. And then she wanted us to turn around and give her money for a new lease. (As I recall, Mom hadn’t even signed a new lease yet, and the new year had barely started, but there was some sort of stipulation that if you stayed two weeks into the new lease it was considered to have been signed, so she waited till the two week point and then told us we were legally obligated, or some such nonsense.)
And the manager of the court wasn’t exactly cooperative when Mom died. We went to the office and introduced ourselves when we first got to town, but when she was driving around the court and she saw us cleaning out Mom’s stuff, she tried to insist we couldn’t touch anything until after the will had gone through probate or some such nonsense. As I recall, she threatened to call the police on us, and only calmed down when we pointed out that the police were the ones who had given us the key to Mom’s house! So when she tried to pull “That will be several thousand more dollars, payable up front” for land none of us was occupying, it really seemed ridiculous. Fortunately she backed down on that one.
So yeah, there could be times that insisting on one’s legal rights (technical legal rights) isn’t the right thing to do; but considering she would probably insist on full payment if they broke the lease, they are inconvenienced by her decision, and a lease is a binding contract, that does seem fair enough.
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I went out for a walk tonight, and confirmed what I have been telling my husband for two years about a property down the street from us: “There have to be muskrats living in there.” I bet I was ten feet from the creature, no more than fifteen, and it continued to eat without noticing me. So I snapped photo after photo (time stamps tell me I took photos for three minutes, and I was there a bit longer after the final photo) with this very silky looking animal almost close enough to pet, eating away and oblivious to my standing right there taking its photo.
I also got a photo of a redwing blackbird perched on last year’s cornstalks, displaying his wings and tail and singing. I’ve wanted such a photo for a long time. A few weeks ago I got photos of the bird (at a different location) displaying and photos of one singing, but not the same bird doing both. So that was cool.
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I misspoke when I said earlier that our heat wave was breaking. It’s very hot tonight, I sat out on the patio for a while but there’s no breeze. I have windows open and fans running, but it’s still 89 degrees in my house. 😦
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Sorry to hear about your heat wave, Donna. I broke a sweat when I mowed, but felt chilled in the house and have worn my fleece vest inside this evening.
Husband and I just watched a program about the Queen, the Monarchy, and Princess Diana. I did not keep up with the Royals when it was top news so much of the info was new to me. Very sad. The program was all about winning and losing their battles against each other with the final showdown being what would the queen do when Diana’s casket passed by. The queen did bow her head out of respect. I just kept thinking about how Diana was the mother of the Queen’s grandchildren so if for no other reason, the Queen should show respect for the future King’s mother. The program did not really focus at all on the mother and grandmother relationships. I thought it should have included more about that mutual bond.
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I know I am talking to myself tonight. I thought someone on the otherside of our nation might still be awake. Maybe Jo will at least read what I wrote. Good morning, Jo!
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Husband watches television to wind down. If I get interested enough to watch it then it keeps me wakeful thinking about what I watched. He snores while I think. Yes, that Royal family and its woes got me to thinking how much differently things could have turned out if Christ had been the priority. There was no mention of what part faith or religion played in the mix.
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Did you see the movie “The Queen”? As beautiful and as charismatic as Diana was (who didn’t love her?), it seems she was a “handful.” Although I also suspect she became a handful as a result of the royals … Oy. Not an easy bunch.
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I did not see “The Queen” movie. Is it partial to one side or the other?
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No, I thought it was a pretty sensitive portrayal, a realistic glimpse into the pressures and challenges of being ‘royalty’ in this modern age. Good film.
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It is actually only 4:30 in the afternoon here, so what would you like to talk about janice?
Just got back from a ladies tea as a way for the ladies here to Connect with each other.
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I am awake. Have been for a while.
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