This is the yearly trek to Greenwood for the Butler reunion. Their mother’s family.
This was bigger than Christmas when Elvera was a child.
She hasn’t missed many. She and her sister are leaving at about 10:00 and staying with their remaining sister in Greenwood. Then to the reunion tomorrow.
Then they’ll come home to their husbands.
🙂 Lions tested the eyes of 44 people Thursday. We have done as many as over 100, as few as 15. It was a fair day. Worth the NC Lions bringing their testing unit to Hendersonville.
Is it time for the reunion again already? Actually, why don’t spouses go to the reunion?
My family had three reunions this summer: one for my side of the family (it was several days, first one in fifteen years, and more than 35 people attended); one for my mother-in-law’s side of the family (a one-day event, out of state, third year in a row, and we ended up not attending because we had a lot going on that week and my husband was on his way out of town); and one for my husband’s late wife’s side of the family (the girls’ second set of grandparents)–that was a one-day event, local, and we went to it. So my father-in-law was the only one whose family wasn’t represented.
😦 Two health scares with an elderly family member this week, and one with Misten.
🙂 Everyone seems to be OK.
🙂 Daughter is training at a new job that looks like a good match for her gifts and for her future plans.
🙂 I’m finally making progress on a writing project I’ve been thinking of for some months.
Mumsee, that and because there’s nothing for a spouse to do but listen to tales about how it was. The stories you heard last year.
And you can’t remember their names and who belongs to who.
🙂 I’m teaching the fifth chapter of Daniel tomorrow.
The handwriting on the wall. This is one of an evangelist’s favorite sermons. right up there with Nicodemus, the woman at the well, lost son, and Lazarus and the rich man, etc.
This one outlines itself:
1. Whistle’s blown, games’ over.
2. You’re partying like a winner, but the scoreboard says you lose.
3. Time to pay up. And your vault is empty.
Or however you want to outline it. 🙂
But I’m also going to tell about chapter four, because it’s Nebuchadnezzar conversion experience. Few people know about the conversion of Nebuchadnezzar.
😦 The very worrisome state of the nation and world. The brutal deaths of so many. It seems like everything’s unraveling right now. It also seems like it’s “too late” for our country to awaken to what’s happening. We seem to have completely lost our way. But our God reigns.
😦 A friend had to have emergency surgery this week, but is stable though still hospitalized. I’m visiting her today, was able to contact her brother in NJ who is in touch with the doctors. Looks like this will lay her up for a while.
🙂 God’s faithfulness.
😦 Spent most of Friday working on a story about growing coyote conflicts in the greater LA area, including where I live. Sightings and incidents have seemingly skyrocketed this summer. Shudder. Many speculate the drought is making it worse, a theory that probably has some credence. They’re strolling down the middle of the streets in some neighborhoods.
😦 Found one man who had a coyote take up residence in their backyard. Their cat, Lucky, flipped out but survived it and now spends most of her time indoors, peering out the window. The coyote shredded to bits and pieces the cushions on their backyard furniture (where the cat liked to nap). And the coyote greeted them one morning when they opened their sliding glass door to the patio. He was just sitting there. Hi. They hired a professional trapper but the coyote managed to get the chicken leg bait without ever getting trapped. The guy gave up. Now he and his wife just make sure to rustle the bushes whenever they go outside, to scare him off if he’s there.
🙂 And I found a woman on FB (after I reached out for people to contact me if they wanted to be interviewed) who had some remarkable photographs of coyotes she took in her more rural neighborhood nearby. She was willing to share them with us to publish with the story. (We do pay for photos we use, but it’s not all that much and with the nightmare amount of paperwork the individuals have to fill out — which then has to be sent back and forth to San Jose, Denver and other offices within our chain — most people just skip applying for the $. But they do get photo credit, of course, and this should run on the front pages of at least several of our LA county papers.)
Some people, who have a Disneyland view of nature, have fed the coyotes in the past which authorities have said may have led to their growing numbers in city and suburban areas.
I still remember a man in my neighborhood who had a coyote as a pet, he’d walk it (and his dog, a smallish German shepherd if I remember right) every morning on leash and then he’d them both loose to race through part of the deep, wooded ravine 2 doors down before leashing them up again.
The coyote was not very friendly. He said he came upon him in New Mexico and just brought him to to California, figured he’d been domesticated by then. I’d wave and we’d chat briefly, but I’d always have to cross the street when we crossed paths on morning walks. One of my dogs at the time, Mercy, a tall Australian shepherd mix, didn’t like the coyote at all — and the feeling was mutual.
Donna, you can never be sure any naturally wild animal is domesticated. I told you before about the husband of a niece. He had a 3/4 wolf (1/2 wolf, 1/2 dog mates with a wolf. He was OK to be around. But when they had their child, he got vicious and they had to put him away. It was obvious that they could never lead the “dog” alone with the child.
Chas, agreed. Which is why wildlife authorities here, while they have a policy of coexistence when it comes to coyotes, advise people to use what are called “hazing” techniques — bang pots and pans together, shake cans filled with coins, yell, install flashing motion lights — to drive home the message to coyotes that may be wandering through your property or neighborhood that this is NOT friendly territory.
Coyotes are generally timid around humans but if they are not at least chased off in this way — and are allowed to roam at will, finding food sources in your yard, including fruit trees, they’ll become more and more comfortable around humans (though never domesticated, only emboldened and potentially more of a threat to your pets and even small children).
We have people who have wolf-dog hybrids around here, too, they are gorgeous animals but people are advised not to have them, they can never be completely trusted.
Wild animals should be allowed to remain wild. Better for them, better for us (and our domesticated pets).
🙂 Yesterday was a very nice, very pleasant day for me. F was with R for the day, so Chrissy & I hung out here, although in different rooms, except when we watched a show together on Netflix. We enjoyed our unexpected day off.
The day wrapped up with the five of us (F back home again) having a pasta dinner together, talking & laughing, & enjoying each other’s company.
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😦 My woman is leaving me today.
This is the yearly trek to Greenwood for the Butler reunion. Their mother’s family.
This was bigger than Christmas when Elvera was a child.
She hasn’t missed many. She and her sister are leaving at about 10:00 and staying with their remaining sister in Greenwood. Then to the reunion tomorrow.
Then they’ll come home to their husbands.
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🙂 Lions tested the eyes of 44 people Thursday. We have done as many as over 100, as few as 15. It was a fair day. Worth the NC Lions bringing their testing unit to Hendersonville.
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🙂 busy weekend. Off to Stinson Beach for a family reunion.
🙂 Weekend pass through guest arrives while we’re gone
🙂 Abandoning guest and husband and skipping church, I drive to Oakland for brunch with my two best friends from elementary school!
:-). :-(. Jury duty on Monday. I’m in the first group, so it looks likely for me.
🙂 Feading, reading, reading and catching up with life. Delightful!
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Reading. Apparently my eyes are not working with the IPad this morning!
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😦 Sure is lonesome around this place.
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🙂 Beauty of the header photo
🙂 People are not lonesome for long here
🙂 Son got to come home for a visit
🙂 Son is visiting friends from Covenant College days
😦 Husband has had no time off this year
😦 🙂 Too rainy to mow
🙂 Bosley
🙂 Church is off summer schedule
🙂 Good Christian books to read
🙂 AJ got to go fishing
😦 sad face for the fish. 🙂
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Is it time for the reunion again already? Actually, why don’t spouses go to the reunion?
My family had three reunions this summer: one for my side of the family (it was several days, first one in fifteen years, and more than 35 people attended); one for my mother-in-law’s side of the family (a one-day event, out of state, third year in a row, and we ended up not attending because we had a lot going on that week and my husband was on his way out of town); and one for my husband’s late wife’s side of the family (the girls’ second set of grandparents)–that was a one-day event, local, and we went to it. So my father-in-law was the only one whose family wasn’t represented.
😦 Two health scares with an elderly family member this week, and one with Misten.
🙂 Everyone seems to be OK.
🙂 Daughter is training at a new job that looks like a good match for her gifts and for her future plans.
🙂 I’m finally making progress on a writing project I’ve been thinking of for some months.
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Because spouse likes to stay home with a fridge full of prepared food and go out to eat forbidden foods.
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Mumsee, that and because there’s nothing for a spouse to do but listen to tales about how it was. The stories you heard last year.
And you can’t remember their names and who belongs to who.
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🙂 I’m teaching the fifth chapter of Daniel tomorrow.
The handwriting on the wall. This is one of an evangelist’s favorite sermons. right up there with Nicodemus, the woman at the well, lost son, and Lazarus and the rich man, etc.
This one outlines itself:
1. Whistle’s blown, games’ over.
2. You’re partying like a winner, but the scoreboard says you lose.
3. Time to pay up. And your vault is empty.
Or however you want to outline it. 🙂
But I’m also going to tell about chapter four, because it’s Nebuchadnezzar conversion experience. Few people know about the conversion of Nebuchadnezzar.
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🙂 Saturday.
😦 The very worrisome state of the nation and world. The brutal deaths of so many. It seems like everything’s unraveling right now. It also seems like it’s “too late” for our country to awaken to what’s happening. We seem to have completely lost our way. But our God reigns.
😦 A friend had to have emergency surgery this week, but is stable though still hospitalized. I’m visiting her today, was able to contact her brother in NJ who is in touch with the doctors. Looks like this will lay her up for a while.
🙂 God’s faithfulness.
😦 Spent most of Friday working on a story about growing coyote conflicts in the greater LA area, including where I live. Sightings and incidents have seemingly skyrocketed this summer. Shudder. Many speculate the drought is making it worse, a theory that probably has some credence. They’re strolling down the middle of the streets in some neighborhoods.
😦 Found one man who had a coyote take up residence in their backyard. Their cat, Lucky, flipped out but survived it and now spends most of her time indoors, peering out the window. The coyote shredded to bits and pieces the cushions on their backyard furniture (where the cat liked to nap). And the coyote greeted them one morning when they opened their sliding glass door to the patio. He was just sitting there. Hi. They hired a professional trapper but the coyote managed to get the chicken leg bait without ever getting trapped. The guy gave up. Now he and his wife just make sure to rustle the bushes whenever they go outside, to scare him off if he’s there.
🙂 And I found a woman on FB (after I reached out for people to contact me if they wanted to be interviewed) who had some remarkable photographs of coyotes she took in her more rural neighborhood nearby. She was willing to share them with us to publish with the story. (We do pay for photos we use, but it’s not all that much and with the nightmare amount of paperwork the individuals have to fill out — which then has to be sent back and forth to San Jose, Denver and other offices within our chain — most people just skip applying for the $. But they do get photo credit, of course, and this should run on the front pages of at least several of our LA county papers.)
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🙂 Son and his girlfriend are visiting for the weekend
🙂 Daughter came up last night, too, but she leaves again today
🙂 Girlfriend seems very sweet and funny
🙂 Happy for son
🙂 Husband is improving slowly
😦 Husband is improving slowly
🙂 Garden is producing abundant amounts of vegetables. I’ve got half a freezer full of beans and peas already (smaller freezer)
🙂 We might even get a few watermelons this year
🙂 Huge thunderstorm last night. No damage, just amazing lightning show
🙂 Heading to resort town to show girlfriend the park and to get some ice cream 🙂
🙂 Everyone but me went shooting this morning. I bet they had fun.
😦 I had to stay home and process beans and peas 🙂
Hope we see a bear or two today.
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Oh, shooting. I thought that said shopping at first. 🙂
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Rant; there is an easy and safe way to get rid of coyotes. Shoot them. Use a bow and arrows if the noise of a gun going off will get you in trouble.
Shoot, Shovel and Shut-up!
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😦 I think I’m OCD about picking beans and peas 🙂
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Some people, who have a Disneyland view of nature, have fed the coyotes in the past which authorities have said may have led to their growing numbers in city and suburban areas.
I still remember a man in my neighborhood who had a coyote as a pet, he’d walk it (and his dog, a smallish German shepherd if I remember right) every morning on leash and then he’d them both loose to race through part of the deep, wooded ravine 2 doors down before leashing them up again.
The coyote was not very friendly. He said he came upon him in New Mexico and just brought him to to California, figured he’d been domesticated by then. I’d wave and we’d chat briefly, but I’d always have to cross the street when we crossed paths on morning walks. One of my dogs at the time, Mercy, a tall Australian shepherd mix, didn’t like the coyote at all — and the feeling was mutual.
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Donna, you can never be sure any naturally wild animal is domesticated. I told you before about the husband of a niece. He had a 3/4 wolf (1/2 wolf, 1/2 dog mates with a wolf. He was OK to be around. But when they had their child, he got vicious and they had to put him away. It was obvious that they could never lead the “dog” alone with the child.
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Chas, agreed. Which is why wildlife authorities here, while they have a policy of coexistence when it comes to coyotes, advise people to use what are called “hazing” techniques — bang pots and pans together, shake cans filled with coins, yell, install flashing motion lights — to drive home the message to coyotes that may be wandering through your property or neighborhood that this is NOT friendly territory.
Coyotes are generally timid around humans but if they are not at least chased off in this way — and are allowed to roam at will, finding food sources in your yard, including fruit trees, they’ll become more and more comfortable around humans (though never domesticated, only emboldened and potentially more of a threat to your pets and even small children).
We have people who have wolf-dog hybrids around here, too, they are gorgeous animals but people are advised not to have them, they can never be completely trusted.
Wild animals should be allowed to remain wild. Better for them, better for us (and our domesticated pets).
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how do you pick peas? like blueberries???? 🙂
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Son was hauling peas the other days, the combine picked them up and dumped them in his truck.
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🙂
She came home to me.
Without the cat.
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🙂 Yesterday was a very nice, very pleasant day for me. F was with R for the day, so Chrissy & I hung out here, although in different rooms, except when we watched a show together on Netflix. We enjoyed our unexpected day off.
The day wrapped up with the five of us (F back home again) having a pasta dinner together, talking & laughing, & enjoying each other’s company.
🙂 So grateful for my family.
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