South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is married to a captain in the Army reserves. He is
being deployed to Afghanistan.
Haley is using that in her campaign ads.
SC loves it’s military. It has Fort Jackson, Shaw AFB and Charleston AF and Coast Guard bases. Charleston used to be a large naval base.
She will be re-elected.
🙂 It’s time change weekend, and we get to sleep an extra hour!
😦 My husband got his days mixed up, and woke me for church this morning–25 hours before I need to get up. 😉
😦 It’s November, and there is a scattering of snow out there. Winter just ended, and we never did have a summer. I’m not ready to see winter again! (This past winter, we had snow in every month from October to April, and we had a snowfall January 1, snows literally every weekend for the rest of winter, and the last of the snow drifts did not melt until April 1. Three solid months of looking at snow. I know, for Alaska and parts of Canada that’s nothing. For the Midwest, that’s unheard of.)
🙂 Cheryl, we had snow on the ground for 8 months last winter – it was NOT fun 😦
🙂 Good trip shopping and reconnecting with old friends
🙂 Heading home today
🙂 Great visit with son and his girlfriend – she’s such a sweetie 🙂
😦 Jeep seems to be burning oil – it’s almost 10 years old with 340,000km on it – it’s been a great sturdy vehicle with very, very few repairs. (That’s over 211,000 miles!!)
😦 We had snow forever last winter, too. Even I tired of it. We have a trace now in a very shaded area. That means it will soon come and stay. I am now ready for it. It is cold enough and with all the leaves off the trees it will brighten things up. Also, it is a good insulator for when the real cold comes. I would much rather have it snow, than have freezing drizzle.
🙂 Opportunities for my husband to play his music. The joy of playing with those who also enjoy it, as well as the audience members who may not get a chance to hear live music otherwise. I know the lady, who will turn 105 tomorrow, sure enjoyed the group. They will be playing for the home again in December for a Christmas program.
🙂 Fun bluegrass group, Monroe Crossing, will be playing tonight. My husband’s group will open for them. It should be a fun evening. They all did this last year and ended up playing by candlelight. There was a storm and the electricity went out for almost the whole show. It was just more fun. No storm predicted for tonight.
😦 Spammers. Right now I rate them somewhere around pond scum on the comparison list. We have a couple persistent ones for the last 10 days. 200-300 a day. I suspect a bot. It’s annoying, I’ve even gone to just looking at the first page of ’em and then just deleting them all. Why waste my time?
So if I delete something accidently sent to spam, I apologize in advance.
I’m sending WordPress an email to see what I can do about it. 😦
In the early sixties, Elvera’s sister went to nursing school. There she formed a friendship with five girls. They, through the years have married, moved away and gone on with their lives.
But they get together for a week every year since then. This has happened for over fifty years.
Her husband was telling me yesterday that of the 12 people involved, all are still alive, married to the original spouse, and able to come to the meeting (at Myrtle Beach this year). Quite a nice outcome for this group.
The years are beginning to affect some, mentally and physically. He doubts that everyone will be there next year. But it’s quite good that it has happened so long.
Six women, six days together. Each woman is assigned the dinner for a specific day.
🙂 Very busy at work, with a school controversy and elections to cover — along with looming deadlines on two special projects.
🙂 I’ve been assigned two more Zamperini stories for a Rose Parade magazine we’re publishing, but my deadline is the 6th (next week) so it’ll have to get done fast. I put requests in to both the Billy Graham organization and the pastor of Zamperini’s home church, Hollywood Pres, to see if someone can call for an interview that will put more light on the central role his faith played in his story (since that sounds like that aspect might get short shrift in the film version?).
🙂 My little caterpillar — lodged next to the outside of my front door — is still encased, but it looks like there have been some subtle changes in recent days. So there may be a butterfly coming soon. I would love to see it emerge.
🙂 One hour of extra sleep! I love this time change. And the added benefit for me is that it will be somewhat lighter, earlier in the mornings — which makes me (a little bit) more prone to getting up earlier. For a while, anyway. 😉
🙂 Looking forward to a series of Sunday night classes we’re launching this week on taking a more in-depth look at our denomination’s secondary standard, the Westminster Confession of Faith. Classes also will be live streamed on our church website if anyone’s interested.
Donna, you are definitely not yet in winter in your part of the world, but you might be interested to know that butterflies can spend the winter in any of four forms: as egg, as hibernating caterpillar, as chrysalis (which would mean you wouldn’t see your butterfly till spring), or as hibernating or migrating butterfly. Which form they overwinter in depends on the species. (Locally, the comma hibernates in butterfly form, but the monarch migrates in butterfly form. Meanwhile, the “wooly worm” or “wooly bear” moth caterpillar hibernates in caterpillar form.) I’m assuming that climates that never get below freezing have a slightly different effect on butterflies, but I suspect that even in southern California you’re unlikely to see a butterfly flying in the winter months, right?
Linda, I was thinking of you and Buster the other day and wanted to send a note of encouragement. We have cats who wander and we live in dangerous territory with coyotes and owls and all. But we have had several cats who wander far and long. One black cat, we got him as a four week old kitten with his siblings about five years ago, has always wandered. Even went wandering the day of his vet appt to become an it. Anyway, we often see him at a farm about three miles from and then he shows up back here again. They do wander. Sometimes it is months between visits. Just because Buster is missing does not mean he is not enjoying good meals at a neighbor’s. It is hard though, when they disappear.
🙂 Emily wrote on Facebook (about Forrest’s trick-or-treating last night)…
“Forrest had to explain at every house that he was Bumblebee the transformer, the Rescue Bot kind, not the shooting kind, and that transformers don’t sleep….”
One house was giving out pencils, & he told them they are supposed to give out candy. 🙂
Forrest really is usually a polite little guy, so I’m sure he didn’t mean to be rude about the pencils.
(Those of you who read this on Facebook may notice that on Facebook I said it was pretzels those people were giving out. Emily informed me I misheard her, & it was pencils they were giving out.)
😦 R was supposed to take Forrest trick-or-treating, but didn’t make it in time. They met up at his mom’s house when trick-or-treating was done, & R told Forrest he would pick him up this morning.
He didn’t, & he didn’t call, either. Forrest was upset.
Praying this sweet little boy does not fall into bondage to anger & bitterness due to his father’s behavior towards him. Praying God radically saves & delivers R.
Thanks cheryl, I’ve been reading up on the process and looking at internet sites to try to identify what kind of caterpillar he is/was (Mourning Cloak??). But the caterpillar appears to be changing some lately, bulging more in some places, I’ve been taking pics of it and posting them on FB. We have a pretty moderate climate. There are quite a few monarch butterflies in my yard right now.
😦 Found out that my friend Carol, who is in an assisted living facility, is getting evicted (she has spending problems so her rent has been short for a couple months).
🙂 But the good news is her social worker has her set up with another facility a couple towns to the northeast where an arrangement can be made to take the rent money out of her government check first so her rent will be guaranteed to be paid off the top of her monthly checks.
I picked her up and we drove by the place today, also did some exploring in the new town, stopping at the local county library where she applied for a card (it’s just a few blocks from the new home). And it looks like there’s a church that will work out for her nearby, too.
🙂 Not the optimum situation, to be sure, but this move will (finally!) get her out of a situation with a live-in boyfriend, at long last. She’s a believer but was hard-pressed to resist temptation when someone of the opposite sex showed an interest in her a few years ago (nothing wrong with that, I was really happy for her — but then the next thing I knew, he’d moved into her room with her). 😦
🙂 Nice and brisk at the dog park late today where I hung out with the regulars I see usually (realized tonight they’re all male except me, though 1 or 2 women are sometimes also in the group as well). The guy who complained the most about being cold, though, came to California from NY some years ago. “I hate winter,” he grumbled tonight, a frown on his face and his hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky jacket. “How can you be cold?” I asked. “You’re from Buffalo.”
🙂 Meanwhile, the other surfer dude in the group was in the usual cold-weather Cali-surfer uniform — hiking boots, long shorts, flannel shirt over a T-shirt, and a multi-colored knit cap.
When I was growing up, we had a scrappy grey tom cat (named Tom) who would vanish for days on end. Of course, this was before the days when cats were normally neutered and spayed which pretty much explained his long absences — and his appearance upon returning home, which was pretty beat up and tired.
😦 I can’t find week 10 in the NCAA bracket. I wanted to comment that the Gamecocks deserved to lose that game. Not that the Vols deserved to win, Carolina deserved to lose.
When you score 42 points, you’re supposed to win.
I’ve never seen a “prevent defense” work. The best pass defense is six big linemen charging the quarterback.
Question: How can you lose a game when you’re 14 points ahead with less than three minutes to go?
Answer: You go into a prevent defense.
🙂 Ah, my butterfly has flown the chrysalis. It was bulging this morning as I left for church, but no movement (I think if there had been, I would have stayed on the porch and just watched it all morning!).
By the time I came home, the encasement was empty and in tatters, hanging in shreds, its transformed life form now *something* beautiful and fluttering in someone’s garden (I hope it’s mine!). 🙂 Sweet.
The unfolding of a tiny part of God’s amazing creation that He let me watch over the past few weeks (even though I missed the big finale!).
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South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is married to a captain in the Army reserves. He is
being deployed to Afghanistan.
Haley is using that in her campaign ads.
SC loves it’s military. It has Fort Jackson, Shaw AFB and Charleston AF and Coast Guard bases. Charleston used to be a large naval base.
She will be re-elected.
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🙂 Sgt. Tahmoresse (?) is home!
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🙂 It’s time change weekend, and we get to sleep an extra hour!
😦 My husband got his days mixed up, and woke me for church this morning–25 hours before I need to get up. 😉
😦 It’s November, and there is a scattering of snow out there. Winter just ended, and we never did have a summer. I’m not ready to see winter again! (This past winter, we had snow in every month from October to April, and we had a snowfall January 1, snows literally every weekend for the rest of winter, and the last of the snow drifts did not melt until April 1. Three solid months of looking at snow. I know, for Alaska and parts of Canada that’s nothing. For the Midwest, that’s unheard of.)
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🙂 Cheryl, we had snow on the ground for 8 months last winter – it was NOT fun 😦
🙂 Good trip shopping and reconnecting with old friends
🙂 Heading home today
🙂 Great visit with son and his girlfriend – she’s such a sweetie 🙂
😦 Jeep seems to be burning oil – it’s almost 10 years old with 340,000km on it – it’s been a great sturdy vehicle with very, very few repairs. (That’s over 211,000 miles!!)
🙂 No time change for me
😦 No extra hour of sleep
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😦 We had snow forever last winter, too. Even I tired of it. We have a trace now in a very shaded area. That means it will soon come and stay. I am now ready for it. It is cold enough and with all the leaves off the trees it will brighten things up. Also, it is a good insulator for when the real cold comes. I would much rather have it snow, than have freezing drizzle.
🙂 Opportunities for my husband to play his music. The joy of playing with those who also enjoy it, as well as the audience members who may not get a chance to hear live music otherwise. I know the lady, who will turn 105 tomorrow, sure enjoyed the group. They will be playing for the home again in December for a Christmas program.
🙂 Fun bluegrass group, Monroe Crossing, will be playing tonight. My husband’s group will open for them. It should be a fun evening. They all did this last year and ended up playing by candlelight. There was a storm and the electricity went out for almost the whole show. It was just more fun. No storm predicted for tonight.
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Good thing it was bluegrass Kathleena, everyone else uses electric instruments now..
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🙂 Vacation with Cheryl and ‘Liz! 🙂
Since I’ve already ranted on the “walking dead”, I’ve got nothin’ to complain about at the moment, but it is early. 😆
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See that…..
Didn’t take long at all… 😦
😦 Spammers. Right now I rate them somewhere around pond scum on the comparison list. We have a couple persistent ones for the last 10 days. 200-300 a day. I suspect a bot. It’s annoying, I’ve even gone to just looking at the first page of ’em and then just deleting them all. Why waste my time?
So if I delete something accidently sent to spam, I apologize in advance.
I’m sending WordPress an email to see what I can do about it. 😦
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In the early sixties, Elvera’s sister went to nursing school. There she formed a friendship with five girls. They, through the years have married, moved away and gone on with their lives.
But they get together for a week every year since then. This has happened for over fifty years.
Her husband was telling me yesterday that of the 12 people involved, all are still alive, married to the original spouse, and able to come to the meeting (at Myrtle Beach this year). Quite a nice outcome for this group.
The years are beginning to affect some, mentally and physically. He doubts that everyone will be there next year. But it’s quite good that it has happened so long.
Six women, six days together. Each woman is assigned the dinner for a specific day.
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Snow, I think I felt a few flakes on the walk this morning, but I still have peppers and eggplants on the vines. No snow on the ground yet.
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🙂 RAIN 🙂
🙂 Hey. Maybe my front lawn will reappear!
😦 Or probably not.
🙂 Very busy at work, with a school controversy and elections to cover — along with looming deadlines on two special projects.
🙂 I’ve been assigned two more Zamperini stories for a Rose Parade magazine we’re publishing, but my deadline is the 6th (next week) so it’ll have to get done fast. I put requests in to both the Billy Graham organization and the pastor of Zamperini’s home church, Hollywood Pres, to see if someone can call for an interview that will put more light on the central role his faith played in his story (since that sounds like that aspect might get short shrift in the film version?).
🙂 My little caterpillar — lodged next to the outside of my front door — is still encased, but it looks like there have been some subtle changes in recent days. So there may be a butterfly coming soon. I would love to see it emerge.
🙂 One hour of extra sleep! I love this time change. And the added benefit for me is that it will be somewhat lighter, earlier in the mornings — which makes me (a little bit) more prone to getting up earlier. For a while, anyway. 😉
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🙂 Looking forward to a series of Sunday night classes we’re launching this week on taking a more in-depth look at our denomination’s secondary standard, the Westminster Confession of Faith. Classes also will be live streamed on our church website if anyone’s interested.
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The link is http://www.branchofhope.org
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😦 Buster is still missing.
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Donna, you are definitely not yet in winter in your part of the world, but you might be interested to know that butterflies can spend the winter in any of four forms: as egg, as hibernating caterpillar, as chrysalis (which would mean you wouldn’t see your butterfly till spring), or as hibernating or migrating butterfly. Which form they overwinter in depends on the species. (Locally, the comma hibernates in butterfly form, but the monarch migrates in butterfly form. Meanwhile, the “wooly worm” or “wooly bear” moth caterpillar hibernates in caterpillar form.) I’m assuming that climates that never get below freezing have a slightly different effect on butterflies, but I suspect that even in southern California you’re unlikely to see a butterfly flying in the winter months, right?
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Linda, I was thinking of you and Buster the other day and wanted to send a note of encouragement. We have cats who wander and we live in dangerous territory with coyotes and owls and all. But we have had several cats who wander far and long. One black cat, we got him as a four week old kitten with his siblings about five years ago, has always wandered. Even went wandering the day of his vet appt to become an it. Anyway, we often see him at a farm about three miles from and then he shows up back here again. They do wander. Sometimes it is months between visits. Just because Buster is missing does not mean he is not enjoying good meals at a neighbor’s. It is hard though, when they disappear.
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🙂 Emily wrote on Facebook (about Forrest’s trick-or-treating last night)…
“Forrest had to explain at every house that he was Bumblebee the transformer, the Rescue Bot kind, not the shooting kind, and that transformers don’t sleep….”
One house was giving out pencils, & he told them they are supposed to give out candy. 🙂
Forrest really is usually a polite little guy, so I’m sure he didn’t mean to be rude about the pencils.
(Those of you who read this on Facebook may notice that on Facebook I said it was pretzels those people were giving out. Emily informed me I misheard her, & it was pencils they were giving out.)
😦 R was supposed to take Forrest trick-or-treating, but didn’t make it in time. They met up at his mom’s house when trick-or-treating was done, & R told Forrest he would pick him up this morning.
He didn’t, & he didn’t call, either. Forrest was upset.
Praying this sweet little boy does not fall into bondage to anger & bitterness due to his father’s behavior towards him. Praying God radically saves & delivers R.
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Thanks cheryl, I’ve been reading up on the process and looking at internet sites to try to identify what kind of caterpillar he is/was (Mourning Cloak??). But the caterpillar appears to be changing some lately, bulging more in some places, I’ve been taking pics of it and posting them on FB. We have a pretty moderate climate. There are quite a few monarch butterflies in my yard right now.
😦 Found out that my friend Carol, who is in an assisted living facility, is getting evicted (she has spending problems so her rent has been short for a couple months).
🙂 But the good news is her social worker has her set up with another facility a couple towns to the northeast where an arrangement can be made to take the rent money out of her government check first so her rent will be guaranteed to be paid off the top of her monthly checks.
I picked her up and we drove by the place today, also did some exploring in the new town, stopping at the local county library where she applied for a card (it’s just a few blocks from the new home). And it looks like there’s a church that will work out for her nearby, too.
🙂 Not the optimum situation, to be sure, but this move will (finally!) get her out of a situation with a live-in boyfriend, at long last. She’s a believer but was hard-pressed to resist temptation when someone of the opposite sex showed an interest in her a few years ago (nothing wrong with that, I was really happy for her — but then the next thing I knew, he’d moved into her room with her). 😦
🙂 Nice and brisk at the dog park late today where I hung out with the regulars I see usually (realized tonight they’re all male except me, though 1 or 2 women are sometimes also in the group as well). The guy who complained the most about being cold, though, came to California from NY some years ago. “I hate winter,” he grumbled tonight, a frown on his face and his hands shoved into the pockets of a bulky jacket. “How can you be cold?” I asked. “You’re from Buffalo.”
🙂 Meanwhile, the other surfer dude in the group was in the usual cold-weather Cali-surfer uniform — hiking boots, long shorts, flannel shirt over a T-shirt, and a multi-colored knit cap.
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When I was growing up, we had a scrappy grey tom cat (named Tom) who would vanish for days on end. Of course, this was before the days when cats were normally neutered and spayed which pretty much explained his long absences — and his appearance upon returning home, which was pretty beat up and tired.
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😦 I can’t find week 10 in the NCAA bracket. I wanted to comment that the Gamecocks deserved to lose that game. Not that the Vols deserved to win, Carolina deserved to lose.
When you score 42 points, you’re supposed to win.
I’ve never seen a “prevent defense” work. The best pass defense is six big linemen charging the quarterback.
Question: How can you lose a game when you’re 14 points ahead with less than three minutes to go?
Answer: You go into a prevent defense.
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🙂 We have heat again!
😦 Buster is still missing.
😦 I hear Bosley throwing up. I gave her a few bites of hamburger. It seems her system can only deal with dried kitten food.
😦 I missed church this morning.
🙂 Husband is not smoking!
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🙂 Ah, my butterfly has flown the chrysalis. It was bulging this morning as I left for church, but no movement (I think if there had been, I would have stayed on the porch and just watched it all morning!).
By the time I came home, the encasement was empty and in tatters, hanging in shreds, its transformed life form now *something* beautiful and fluttering in someone’s garden (I hope it’s mine!). 🙂 Sweet.
The unfolding of a tiny part of God’s amazing creation that He let me watch over the past few weeks (even though I missed the big finale!).
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🙂 Beautiful huge flakes coming down
🙂 Short grocery trip after church – means we were home early enough to start our big bonfire of wood scraps and then go for a walk
🙂 Jehovah – Rophe – our healer. Another name for God.
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Actually, Chas, the bluegrass group has all acoustic except fot the bass. Fortunately, our bass man had an acoustic he could loan theirs.
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